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

[Thurgood Thurston III]

It never died, guys.

It just evolved.

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

 

[Goon for hire]

A lot of young black men still talk in a smooth rhythmic way it’s just different now.

 

[Cape Town JHB]

Plenty of speech patterns have come and gone.

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

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

 

[Uitomy]

English is the type of language that naturally changes generations to generations, just look up a video on how far back you can go in time and still understand the English spoken, at some point that shyt turns into straight gibberish.

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

They tricked everybody breh.

Even folks that look just like us.

fukk rice cacs

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Now we have blacks that barely speak syllables or words. Shameful how far we have fallen.

 

[Counter Racist Male]

Now, cats either sound like the cast of Saved By the Bell instead of Welcome Back, Kotter, or, like barely literate caricatures of what 'Black' people sound like.​

 

[Will Ross]

Also it was the way young dudes was talking at the time.

 

[Uitomy]

They tricked everybody breh.

Even folks that look just like us.

It's alot of Asians with our skin color and darker thinking that way and that always trips me out

 

[Dr. Hibbert's Revenge]

If you want to hear James Baldwin debate a demon, watch this. Baldwin castrates Buckley in this. They both have very interesting accents

 

[Tryna Makit]

Lol....for better or worse folks can tell im black over the phone.....it aint go nowhere

Its just comes from within ya dig

 

[Supper]

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.

You might actually be on to something, cuz peep this Larry Hoover prison interview with J prince.



You can hear the difference between a real southern black drawl(prince) and a chicago black twang(hoover).

I always thought J prince had one of the coolest ol skoo speech forms as well.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

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

Paul Robeson had some of it as well.

Many black male educators spoke this way all the way up to the 1980s.

 

[IrateMastermind]

Is Common the only celebrity that held on to that accent/cadence?

 

[O.Red]

I always listen to brothas from the 70s and admire that accent from afar too.

For instance the way Ali sounded when he talked. Theres just that cadence they had back then that was lost somewhere along the way.

I have a theory but it's kinda depressing to think about

Spit it out

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