Usually means: Stay genuine, honest, and authentic.
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We found 6 dictionaries that define the word keep it real:

General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. keep it real: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep it real: Wiktionary
  3. keep it real: Dictionary.com
  4. Keep It Real (Jamal song), Keep It Real (Miilkbone song), Keep it real: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. keep it real: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Keep I.T. Real: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (keep it real)

verb:  (originally African-American Vernacular) To perform an individual’s experience of being black in the United States.
verb:  (originally African-American Vernacular, colloquial) To be authentic, to be true to oneself; to be cool.
verb:  (idiomatic, colloquial) In the imperative, an exhortation used as a departing salutation.

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