.onelove. wrote:magma wrote:JBoy wrote: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...
I think you're exaggerating the truth a bit here. If that was the case why haven't the South Asian accents had just as much an influence?
Well, it could be for a million reasons, but likely the same as why posh english accents like mine, European accents and Australian ones haven't been hugely represented... they're not massively common in the social groups/areas that the music was founded - London is quite neatly seperated into unofficial cultural ghettos - it's possible for a postcode to have a distinct accent and music scene... Grime largely came out of areas with big Jamaican and Cockney populations, so it reflected that. It then became mainstream enough for people to adopt the slang - just like we all did with a lot of New York and Cali slang when Hip Hop got mainstream in the 90s. Language spreads. Slang spreads. It's natural; it's not a problem.
Some accents also lend themselves to certain styles of music better... I can't imagine Boris Johnson making a particularly good MC, but the chippy staccato syllables of Skinnyman's cockney mixed with patois, the menacing dread of Spaceape or the authoritative New Yorker of Chuck D suit it perfectly.
South Asians, like most Londoners, have had a huge of effect on London culture and life - don't make the mistake of assuming that grime/rapping is the be-all-and-end-all of art!
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