cred.

And all of his co-writing with Timbaland and posse has forced his music to leave behind a street of raucous, in-your-face stickball and hockey for one where he now has to gain a different kind of cred.

Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: U2 No Line On The Horizon / Chris Cornell Scream 2009

And someone who is very neutral in tone but doing devastating reporting, doesn't get the same kind of cred.

Bookslut 2009

In my world, it's not so unusual for people to have genuine beef with white folks who listen to rap music - when it's perceived that they're doing so just so that they can seem like they have "cred."

Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture 2008