Eskidance

[Motorway to Roswell]

talking loosely yer that will boost me, you're just a big head like chris akabusi

[capo ultra]

imma big piece of meat
your just a bone and a leg
im a burger
your just the bread

[Motorway to Roswell]

I ain't got a gat in my car/I've got a baseball bat in my car/But I use it to play baseball/Or I play rounders

[capo ultra]

There ain't a club that you won't see me at
Cos I'm a street star
There's no set time I have my tea at

[Motorway to Roswell]

my hair needed waves and so i brushed it

[capo ultra]

http://elijahbr.tumblr.com/

Elijah review of the night, sounded like an amazing night, lots of classics, 'are you really from the endz'

http://kidsofgrime.com/2012/01/kogphoto ... otography/

[James Kofi]

lol northerners watching grime from afar.

[dreamizm]

lol northerners watching grime from afar.

[dreamizm]

Anyone that hasn't been to a grime rave or Eski dance shd exit thread left.

[LA_Boxers]

This thread went downhill quickly.

[magma]

The thing is though, the grime scene comes across as inarticulate and violent and if you are white then why talk like youre from jamaica. Plus its a joke so theres no need to get your knickers in a twist over it, blud.

Most Grime has a London accent... a fair few London dialects have bits of patois mixed in, but that doesn't make it Jamaican... a bit like the rest of our language has bits of French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, German... well, anything that ever seemed useful. You're not suddenly speaking French because you say "cliché" or German because you said "Doppelganger". The Jamaican immigration boom was over 40 years ago... it's pretty logical that 2 or 3 generations down the line, it's filtered into mainstream language for all Londoners, not just those 'fresh off the boat'.

On the flip, I sound like I was raised with plums in my mouth half the time... it doesn't mean shit. It's about what you're saying, not how you're saying it... and what you're saying currently makes you look like a bigotted fuck.

Odd thread.

[Pedro Sánchez]

It's about what you're saying, not how you're saying it..

Just as long everything you say doesn't sound like a question?
Even when it's a statement?
With an inflection on the end?
Like some Cali-stralien teen show?

[magma]

It's about what you're saying, not how you're saying it..

Just as long everything you say doesn't sound like a question?
Even when it's a statement?
With an inflection on the end?
Like some Cali-stralien teen show?

Or like people from Somerset? My brother does that.

Y'all* really are some fussy motherfuckers. Do you have to vet your friends in case they accidentally embarrass you in public with a badly chosen turn of phrase?




*this doesn't make me American.

[Pedro Sánchez]

It's about what you're saying, not how you're saying it..

Just as long everything you say doesn't sound like a question?
Even when it's a statement?
With an inflection on the end?
Like some Cali-stralien teen show?

Or like people from Somerset? My brother does that.

Y'all* really are some fussy motherfuckers. Do you have to vet your friends in case they accidentally embarrass you in public with a badly chosen turn of phrase?




*this doesn't make me American.

Yes

[JBoy]

@ Magma, The funny thing is ive got mates that are from london and of west african heritage and they dont speak with this pathetic gangsta talk. Its a recent thing.

And james kofi you were probably about ten when the grime scene started.

[capo ultra]

lol northerners watching grime from afar.

im watching grime from asia that's more than far

[magma]

@ Magma, The funny thing is ive got mates that are from london and of west african heritage and they dont speak with this pathetic gangsta talk. Its a recent thing.

And james kofi you were probably about ten when the grime scene started.

You live in Leeds, right?

You know how you can seperate the Yorkshire language into numerous different dialects? Sheffieldites speak differently to your neighbours who in turn speak differently to those in York, Bradford and almost unrecognisably differently to those in Middlesborough and Scarborough? The same is true of most areas. I can tell the difference between a Bristol accent and a Weston-Super-Mare one although only 25 miles seperates them.

Around 5 million people live in Yorkshire, an area of vastly larger than London.

Nearly 8 million people live in London in numerous distinct areas with distinct cultures. It's possible to grow up around enough people of a certain accent (whether cockney, posh, foreign or, most likely, a mixed dialect that's been percolating for generations) that you never even notice it's not the "standard" accent (as if there is such a thing!). I grew up around 'well spoken' people in Somerset, so I'm well spoken with a bit of a Somerset twang... if you grew up around people with Leeds dialects, you probably speak in a Leeds dialect. It means nothing about you.

You come across like you don't really understand city living and certainly don't understand London. Although millions of people are born and grow up here, it's main function for over a millennium has been to melt imported cultures and businesses together in order to make the best city in the world. It works. This place fucking RULES. There's a reason why London was the home of British jazz and blues. There's a reason why it was the home of punk. There's a reason why London was the home of house and rave. There's a reason why London was the home of Grime and Dubstep... we're not afraid of foreign culture. We find it exciting. We find bigots frustrating, which is good, because they tend to die out and never amount to anything anyway.

I'm amazed anyone can consider themselves a fan of urban music and not have the slightest bit of respect for city culture. The point of it is to mix with other cultures, not to develop one homogenous culture that we can all feel superior about.

[dreamizm]

^^ big up

[jigglypuff]

@ Magma, The funny thing is ive got mates that are from london and of west african heritage and they dont speak with this pathetic gangsta talk. Its a recent thing.

And james kofi you were probably about ten when the grime scene started.

Nearly 8 million blacks

you have shown such a ridiculous amount of disrespect towards the AFRO/CARIBBEAN community by referring to them in such a crass, casually racist and politically incorrect term.

[Blenky]

I speak broad yorkshire and I don't give a FUCK. Who cares what people speak like, if someone's a tnuc they're going to be a tnuc no matter how they talk.