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

[Buddy]

What’s your thoughts? I get both sides, but I’ve lived in 40-60 cities all over in my lifetime.
I’d react exactly like T.I. if someone said I was “country” but Idk, they were in the south too. It’s all relative.

 

[boriquaking]

Ol’ hickory dikkory ass

 

[skylove4]

T.I is right. You’re trying to be on some slick shyt calling and southern cat country. You’re trying to say they’re stupid and less than

 

[Buddy]

Ol’ hickory dikkory ass

The fukk are you talking about

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

What’s your thoughts? I get both sides, but I’ve lived in 40-60 cities all over in my lifetime.
I’d react exactly like T.I. if someone said I was “country” but Idk, they were in the south too. It’s all relative.

funny thing calling people country is fighting words in most places

I seen Jamaicans do it and Africans do it. Same energy... it's slick talk

 

[boriquaking]

The fukk are you talking about

Just talking shyt

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Country is typically used as a light hearted jab or flat out diss. Fabulous gotta be being disingenuous

 

[invalid]

Being from the north we just call anything associated with the south “country“.

Like, all my family in the south, no matter where they live, are referred to as the “country cousins”. They can make more money than us, live in better homes, be better educated, don’t matter, still referred to as the “country cousins”.

But I can see TI’s perspective. It’s probably viewed the same way when in Africa someone says someone is from the “bush” or “the village”.

But a point should also be made with respect to dialect. To me, a Whitley Gilbert is “southern”. And using that as a reference, someone that sounds like TI would be country.

 

[TEH]

TI is a country bumpkin

 

[Sbp]

T.I. has a point his accent is Southern, BUT at the same time country is not derogatory.

 

[Freedman]

Maybe he in his feelings because he from a city but as a breh from the boondocks I have no problem with it. Mfs really be country like 2 weeks ago one of our bulls jumped a fence and I chased that mf for like an hour on a horse

 

[UpAndComing]

"I agree with Beyonce". Of course you do Fabolous. So scared to have discourse if it's a disagreement with a superstar artist

Anyway, County is derogatory. If TI is from the city, then he's actually not "Country"

Even if you grew up far away from the city, I would say they are from a Rural or Small town area

 

[Money Be Green]

 

[Buddy]

Legit country (rural) folks be proud as hell tho.
It don’t matter where your from… Atlanta. NYC.
You still can’t tell them shyt

TIP might have a bit of city inferiority complex

 

[boriquaking]

Maybe he in his feelings because he from a city but as a breh from the boondocks I have no problem with it. Mfs really be country like 2 weeks ago one of our bulls jumped a fence and I chased that mf for like an hour on a horse

Holy shyt