Fabolous & T.I. debate using the word ‘country’

[ThaBronxBully]

I’m From NY So My Opinion On It Don’t Matter But I Trust What TI Is Saying Cause I’ve Heard Southern Folks Use “Country” As A Put Down

 

[Amsterdayumn]

Still slaps

 

[calixprynce]

C‘’mom Tipster. You literally sound like a farm hand.

thats why he play his role in American Gangsta perfectly

 

[NZA]

i understand ti is urban, so he is right that he is not really country, but people outside the south dont always mean something negative by saying country. sometimes it is just synonymous with southern.

 

[010101]

what is he ashamed of¿*

 

[Geode]

A New Yorker will call places like upstate ny and parts of long island “country”

so it’s all relative

but yea mostly it’s derogatory and aimed at southerners

That's because some of those people in both places, especially older folks, really are country because they were born in the south. Growing up I had a few country-sounding friends who went down south for the summer (or longer when they acted up). There's still a few young people that sound country there because of this.

 

[Stir Fry]

My wife's nickname for me is CountryTime. Don't even ask

 

[IslandG]

I’m from countryside and proud of it. I look down on city folk

 

[Buddy]

For the longest as a kid, I mistook being "country" as being loud. Has anyone else ever understood that way. My cousins would always say it if were playing video games when we were supposed to be asleep and I figured that's what they meant. I started using it that way for some years too. Maybe my accent was coming out, idk.

 

[Firefly]

You can have a southern accent and it not be country. Spent half of if not most my life in the south (Atlanta, Memphis, Miami). TI doesn’t just have a southern accent, TI is country.

Facts 2001 ATL wasn't the metropolis it is now and he from Bankhead. Now think about Bankhead in the 80's...........