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

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Take Israel’s dikk out of your narrow ass before you address me sambo.

Flamed him. Damn. c00ns been getting that work these past few days

 

[blockburna420]

I'm not sure what u getting at brother...

But I'm from bed-stuy but lived all over bk

.... im done

 

[GMoney]

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

Black people before the 1940s never sounded like this. This is an era-specific cadence that got aged out in the mid to late 70s. Men from this era who came of age from the late 40s to the 60s also walked with a distinctive bop. The cadence and the bop were aged by the late 70s and became a parody (George Jefferson, Blaxploitation).
Late boomers and Gen X don't talk like this.

Look at Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and black people of the greatest generation and prior. They tend to speak clearly with proper diction, a flat American accent and if they have a Southern accent their speech will be still be clear.

I don't want to get into the self-conscious aspects of this or code-switching, but there's a number of reasons why that speech pattern became a thing. Youth culture movements of the 50s and 60s are distinct in a number ways, even in white culture whether we are talking about the greasers, The Beat Generation, or later the Hippies.

 

[Luke Cage]

Black people before the 1940s never sounded like this. This is an era-specific cadence that got aged out in the mid to late 70s. Men from this era who came of age from the late 40s to the 60s also walked with a distinctive bop. The cadence and the bop were aged by the late 70s and became a parody (George Jefferson, Blaxploitation).
Late boomers and Gen X don't talk like this.

Look at Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and black people of the greatest generation and prior. They tend to speak clearly with proper diction, a flat American accent and if they have a Southern accent their speech will be clear.

I agree, but you still see it today from younger people. Snoop dogg for example seems to be clearly influenced by the whole style. especially when he was younger.

 

[EBK String]

Black people before the 1940s never sounded like this. This is an era-specific cadence that got aged out in the mid to late 70s. Men from this era who came of age from the late 40s to the 60s also walked with a distinctive bop. The cadence and the bop were aged by the late 70s and became a parody (George Jefferson, Blaxploitation).
Late boomers and Gen X don't talk like this.

Look at Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and black people of the greatest generation and prior. They tend to speak clearly with proper diction, a flat American accent and if they have a Southern accent their speech will be clear.

I don't want to get into the self-conscious aspects of this or code-switching, but there's a number of reasons why that speech pattern became a thing.

idk street people like Iceberg slim are also from that era and have thag rhymatic cadence. I think it is an urban thing as all those different southern dialects melted together in the cities during the great migration.

 

[GMoney]

idk street people like Iceberg slim are also from that era and have thag rhymatic cadence. I think it is an urban thing as all those different southern dialects melted together in the cities during the great migration.

I agree, but you still see it today from younger people. Snoop dogg for example seems to be clearly influenced by the whole style. especially when he was younger.

This is a good point. The west coast and some regions maintained aspects of speech patterns and slang that died out in certain cities especially on the east coast.
In New York, everyone who still talks like this is like 70+.

 

[Asicz]

In the movie Malcom X they had that kinda lingo. I think alot if it derives from the Jazz era also.

 

[MoveForward]

We took education and speaking properly more seriously back in the 50s - 80s.

Notice how educated breh sounds. These days you get roasted for speaking proper and clear

Where?

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

The destruction crack had cannot be stressed enough! It affected multiple generations that we’re still suffering from today. These CACs are evil.

Its not the drugs, I've had this conversation millions of times. People take drugs for escape so what were black people escaping? The answer is that the root cause is something that happened in the 1960s and that is de-industrialization. Factories and jobs were shipped out and black people got fukked over disproportionally in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc all across the rust belt and beyond.

 

[Cat piss martini]

close my eyes and it sound like
my uncles sitting around shooting the shyt.
everything is rhythmic and poetic.

 

[Another Man]

My barber talks just like this

 

[Asicz]

I think the closest thing younhsbe to kinda talking like that are today people in their are in their mid 30s and 40s, Philly dudes like Beanie Sigel and various members of State Property. Like you'll hear that 70s lingo like calling everybody "cats" etc.

 

[Raiders]

Damn first dude sound just like my cousin I need to go bavk out to Chicago and see if he still speak like that.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

This man should read Audiobooks... This accent is also known as the translatlatic accent, white English South Africans had it too.
It was a way Anglo educated aristocratic people tried to sound more British/English without having to fake an Oxford /English accent.

So they developed this standardized way of speaking, letting certain words "roll".. Deliberate passes, even the gestures, the manner and tone in which they say "extraordinary" (Ex-Straw'd'nry).

I find all this stuff FASS'nate'n

Like when Cliff and Clair Huxtable would say agane instead of again

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I’m dead nikkas really think young people don’t have an accent over 25 people dapped that post

nikkas make threads about accents all the time. They stay talking about the accent in my city especially that Avenue dude. That dude might even be 21