Wiktionary
street cred
n. (context slang English) credibility among young, hip urban dwellers; particularly important in the hip-hop and rap scenes.
WordNet
street cred
n. credibility among young fashionable urban individuals [syn: street credibility, cred]
Usage examples of "street cred".
His possibly negative IQ, complete absence of street cred and, above all, his permanent inclination to snort, suck, swallow or bite anything that promised to make his brain sparkle, meant that he had been turned down even by the Tenth Egg Street Can't- fink- of- aname Gang, rumoured to be so dense that one of their members was a lump of concrete on a piece of string.
But pretending he'd been wounded in a big gang shoot-out gave him a certain street cred he considered essential to the gathering of incidental information.