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

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

The main man talking sounds like Gil Scott - Heron. That old school Chicago cadence, I wonder where he’s from. It’s not quite a southern drawl but it’s a slight twang to it with the drawn out words but you know it’s not an actual southern accent; like how a Chicago accent sounds.

Yea I was thinking he's from Chicago cause his accent sounded like Fred Hampton especially when Fred Hampton said "we are the people, we are not the pig", and the main one speaking said, "we are the people here now".

He also sounded like Richard Pryor when Pryor used to impersonate dudes from his neighborhood.

 

[The_Hillsta]

Pops and all his brothers used to talk/sound exactly like this...teens to early 20's. He had tapes he used to make and send back home during the war.

Southside Chi, Stateway Gardens, "Stone Luuuuuuuv..."

 

[Laidbackman]

All Black men kinda talked this way back then in America if they lived in the hood, regardless of what city.

 

[Jean Jacket]

Long term effects of integration and influences in technology, education, and sadly, like breh was saying... having to be non-threatening and somehow apologetic for
your culture and style to succeed in advancing corporate America in the 80s.

Add the mix - systemic repression of Black business, school to prison pipeline, and gentrification - You end up developing an almost Bi-Lingual Black person that has to heave themselves into white culture reluctantly at first...but over time it becomes accepted and normal.

Destruction of business and community is my answer.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

You know we don’t have to keep wishing and hoping and wondering.....


We could simply just bring that back. Just like we do with any other slang or way of talking.

 

[im_sleep]

The way he’s speaking was considered “rapping” back then, hence the cadence and rhythm to his speech. Smooth but intentional.

I also believe that back then we didn’t feel it necessary to separate our rhythm from articulation so it flowed a lot more naturally.

 

[Laidbackman]

Don't Snoop Dogg and 'em still sorta talk like that.

 

[bnew]

check out the Marion Stokes tapes. i immediately noticed a difference in speech by black speakers in those old footages.

Internet Archive Search: creator:"Marion Stokes"

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

What do yalls pop and Uncles sound like?

This how all my uncles sound except with a more creole twist

 

[Pazzy]

Im confused. What exactly are you asking? That's more of a language, accent, region where you're from, culture type of question. You cant just do an extensive analysis from one clip of a stranger you know nothing about. Where is he from? Where is his family from? You also have to consider the time period too. The 60s was a completely different era from now. Same issues but different time

 

[010101]

that's like someone breaking out the rappers delight flow in 2020

the way we move is in constant flux

respect to the old heads though

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[GoAggieGo.]

Eddie Murphy talks like that.

 

[EndGame]

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

fakkit with dumb c00n takes as usual. Cacs in America and Australia sound different, so which is the proper way of speaking? Or would you prefer we spoke queen's english?

 

[GoAggieGo.]

I know quite a few southern middle aged/elder brehs that still talk this way. Driving through northern Mississippi and near Memphis you hear it

 

[Luke Cage]

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

I know a guy at my church that talks like that. But he probably like 60
dresses like a pimp.

I think it was an old school midwest thing. people in ohio spoke like that heavy in the 70s.
My uncle talks like that now i think of it, but his voice is a different pitch.