So AAVE is considered slang but Patois isn't, even though "toronto slang" has AAVE loanwords?
Do you even know what AAVE is, coming from a 2% black country?
My parents aren't from the Caribbean...I'm not from the Caribbean...their parents aren't from the caribbean..and so the fukk on all the way back to the 1600s.
Guess what Drake's doing in this thread?
RAPPING.
Where did rap come from?
New York City kids with Southern parents, NOT a Jamaican. Don't make me pull up that very same Jamaican admitting "he shed his culture" and "it's an American thing"
Where did Drill music come from?
Chicago nikkas...with southern roots...influenced by Southern rappers.
What is Drake doing?
Imitating British nikkas imitating Chicago nikkas influenced by down south nikkas.
Guess where my grandparents from? NEW ORLEANS.
My granny still says whoadie..."baybeh"..."cold drink" for a damn soda/pop..and other New Orleans words.
Let me help you, since you don't respect my culture, goofass Canada nikka...
African-American Vernacular English (
AAVE), known less precisely as
Black Vernacular,
Black English Vernacular (
BEV),
Black Vernacular English (
BVE), or colloquially
Ebonics (a
controversial term),
[1] is the
variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of English natively spoken by most
working- and
middle-class African Americans and
some Black Canadians,

particularly in urban communities.
[2] Having its own unique accent, grammar, and vocabulary features, African-American Vernacular English is employed by middle-class African Americans as the more informal and casual end of a sociolinguistic continuum; on the formal end of this continuum, middle-class African Americans
switch to more
standard English grammar and vocabulary, usually while retaining elements of the
nonstandard accent.
African-American English (
AAE), also known as
Black English in
North American linguistics, is the set of English dialects primarily spoken by most
black people in
North America;
[1] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from
African-American Vernacular English to a more
standard English.
[2] African-American English shows variation such as in vernacular versus standard forms, rural versus urban characteristics, features specific to singular cities or regions only, and other sociolinguistic criteria. There has also been a significant body of
African-American literature and
oral tradition for
centuries.
CENTURIES, nikka.