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

[mag357]

.... im done

Ur done with what my guy.?

What was the point u were making?
U brought up the other poster Nicole too.

U good, bro?

 

[EndDomination]

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.

This is on point. Some Gen X talked like that, a huge chunk of them have lost it since (those 80s-college and videos in different Black areas carry the same accent).

 

[Consigliere]

My great uncles in Mississippi, Chicago & Raleigh still sound like that. Was always under the impression it was a church thing.

interesting thread.

 

[MoneyTron]

Plenty of speech patterns have come and gone.

There was that "Black Aristocratic" accent that Roscoe Lee Browne, James Baldwin and others spoke with.

I have a 2nd cousin on my mom's side that speaks with this accent and grew up in Charleston, SC. My dad probably grew up 10 miles away from her and spoke super Geechie up until he was in his late 20's.

 

[tuckgod]

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

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.

Yes, their cadence is very, very specific to the late 60s/early 70s.

Influences of the South, jazz, 60s Beat poets like Amiri Baraka, and Cultural Revolutionaries like the Last Poets.

 

[DaRealness]

Interesting video. I don't understand why the third dude was being like that with the interviewer though.

 

[tuckgod]

Interesting video. I don't understand why the third dude was being like that with the interviewer though.

Because he was already hip to the games cacs play.

The game is always divide and conquer, and he set them straight real quick.

“Didn’t you hear what I said?

(After the other breh was already asked, and answered the same question)

We are one.”

 

[Kwabena]

I was thinking that too. I guess this cadence went out of style during the 1990s

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Off topic he was talking that real talk

I think it's a mix of things. Integration with more kids getting white teachers, kids being made fun of for talking that way by white people, monoculture due to the rise of the internet and TV.

The two WORST vocal affects that people take on in modern life are vocal fry and upper inflections. Examples

 

[3rd Ward Swangin]

That old Texas slang, Houston to be specific.
Skating ring potnah!!!!


You nikka's try to call that country.

 

[The Message]

amazing thread breh. this is why i stay coming to this site.

my uncle STILL talks like this till this day. lol hes in his mid sixties and still just a regular hood dude from syracuse new york. he talks with a stammer so it makes it even more colorful.

"see, see, lemme tell you, lemme tell you, lil young nikka."

a lot of pimps still carry that cadence, bc they never had to assimilate into white society. pimpin bradley is a younger cat and still carries it

 

[MikelArteta]

That dude had swag

 

[Third Kind]

That dap in the background 18 seconds in

 

[HarlemHottie]

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

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

It never died, guys.

It just evolved.

Do you guys actually think that we went out of our way to NOT speak like that?

yall acting like you wouldn't clown a breh talking like this

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+.

A variant of this accent still exists in NYC, in the ados heavy areas. What happened was, the center of rap moved, from Harlem/ uptown to Brooklyn, ie Mase flow vs Jay Z, and therefore yall elsewhere hear it less. (I can easily find more recent examples but im not near my phone/ spotify rn.)

When i first met my man, me from Harlem, him from Brooklyn, he thought i sounded country. We still have that slow, meandering cadence.

Btw, @ThatTruth777 Mase did get clowned for sounding 'slow'.

And, @mag357, i think he was making a reference to your location. You naturally wouldn't hear it as much.