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

Cape Town JHB

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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
 

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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.
 

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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.

 

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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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