How come black ppl don't talk like this anymore?

[Laidbackman]

To them, some off y'all sound just like the brother in the back seat

 

[Luken]

Our sisters really took the bait. Because somewhere along the line, they began calling you negative if you talked anything like this. An example would be that Ethiopian girl I mentioned earlier, and she wasn't even Black American, however this was going on with our own sisters here way before I met her. As you know, the White man moved our sisters up so much faster than us, that our sisters would also describe this kind of talk as sounding frustrated...something they picked up from being around White people on the job. I guess they bought in to the White people calling this kind of talk "whining". But look who's whining now. And look what happened to the Black family for allowing this out of order family structure to come into our community in the first place. I could see this trainwreck coming, although a lot of Black people still couldn't. All you had to do was understand the Bible, and not listen so much to those sold out pastors, and those new fake leaders back then.

Now you see how so many of our so-called classy sisters had/have so many brothers sounding almost like Carlton Banks today. Then they miss a real man so bad, that they'll bypass Will Smith, and jump all the way to Snoop Dogg or Tupac. And the Black father figure went from James Evans to Cliff Huxtable, instead of somewhere in between like it should have been. I've even seen some of these Black fathers today address their children as "you guys", like White men. I wouldn't be surprised if some of our brothers addressed other relatives, and friends that way too. I never got with this. Guess I'm still old school.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

old thread but:

That's some Gulf Coast/Mississippi type cadence & flow. Akeem Ali (Mississippian) has some of that cadence right now




especially when he on that pimp sh1t lol

 

[scotch]

My great uncle who’s 72 speaks like that and the first time I met him as an adult I thought he was putting on like he was prepping for some performance at a local theater that was never gonna happen. Clearly I was ignorant, barely off the block.

I appreciate the perspective.

 

[Black Man of the Nile]

AAVE is so beautiful

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Post in OP is butta

 

[Gritsngravy]

I don’t know, if people hear me talk especially non black folks you going to know hear something distinct, it’s probably not exactly like them dudes in the 70s but still distinct

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Dude was flowing. Someone could put some music behind that and make a hit.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

Go back and watch old Looney Tunes or Merry Melodies cartoons. Consider silver age entertainers like Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, or John Wayne.

All ethnic groups had a rhythmic drawl back in the early-mid 20th century that kinda changed with new generation.

But we still light blunts, talk shyt, and speak wit some poetry here in NYC.

 

[The_Truth]

what happened to that rhythmic cadence? only old nikkas still talk like that

"If you don't take it off before you come in the the-A-ter, you don't get in the-A-ter."