What is Black British culture?

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Stop projecting. Name a Black Brit hotter than Stormzy?
The you posting in here ain't gonna fly.

Stormzy that nikka

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

The *man has never left his block/get a passport* shyt is old.
nikka we don't WANT to chill in that dreary, miserable rain island of bad tooth cacs.
Nobody
Knows
You.

statistically british people have better teeth than americans, but hey ill let you a guy that has never travelled tell it.

 

[Luken]

Ain’t nobody scared of you’ll silly wankers, go sip some jacking tea or something

Yung Berg
Dipset (nikkas literally got kidnapped)
ja rule
asap rocky (get some fit girls in your life, cuz!)
coolio
clipse
rick ross
dmx
fat joe
the game


How come UK nikkas dont get violated when they touch down in the states?

 

[Supreme365]

Yung Berg
Dipset (nikkas literally got kidnapped)
ja rule
asap rocky (get some fit girls in your life, cuz!)
coolio
clipse
rick ross
dmx
fat joe
the game


How come UK nikkas dont get violated when they touch down in the states?

Besides dipset all you did was list a bunch of names that to my knowledge have no merit
And yung berg gets robbed everywhere

You’ll blokes not as tough as you think

 

[IllmaticDelta]

What?!

Afro Swing = Afro pop

afroswing is afropop but afropop isn't 100% continental african

African popular music, like African traditional music, is vast and varied. Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music. Many genres of popular music like blues, jazz, salsa, zouk, and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa, taken to the Americas by enslaved Africans. These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock, and rhythm and blues. Likewise, African popular music has adopted elements, particularly the musical instruments and recording studio techniques of western music. The term "afropop" (also styled afro-pop or afro pop) is sometimes used to refer to contemporary African pop music. The term does not refer to a specific style or sound,[1] but is used as a general term for African popular music.

It’s purely African and hasn’t even touched the US beside Drake and Frenchy. It’s sourced in Africa.

“It’s a mix of different genres,” he tells me with purpose, in a baritone drawl, twiddling his fingers with as much ease as crafting his sound. “Dancehall, Afrobeats, you get a new jack swing vibe and RnB vibe mixed in as well. That’s the ‘swing’ part of it, and there’s no one else in the scene doing it except me. I’m not trying to be defined as an Afrobeats artist.”

Kojo Funds is the King of Afroswing

You describe your sound as “Afroswing,” can you give us your definition of this sound?

Afroswing is the mixture of African elements and other genres like dancehall, reggae, hip hop and R&B. Afro is the key part, then it swings from genre to genre.

Upfront: Kojo Funds wants to make more bangers — Acclaim Magazine

Grime is purely UK based, garage (road Garage) is purely UK based, etc.

You know the lineage of Grime?

I think guys in here literally making up points now

I only post truth

 

[Cadillac]

better food, African american food aint fukking with Carribean/African food , my opinion of course , i expect you to feel differntly

But in all seriousness , who are YOU to say which culture is better ....

im sorry my dude but you highlight my very point that Americans dont get , let me put it in terms maybe you will understand


The dominant culture in America is Eurocentric or white... now as an African American just because its dominant does it make it better to you ???

and thats the whole fukking point .... You can only say which culture is better fro YOU not for someone else


The shame of it is Black Brits have always given black America its props....... always .... but the respect has NEVER been reciprocated

y'all mfs always gotta turn to white folks "w-w-well white people..." when u lose these exchanges

Anyways the "dominate" culture that u claim is white, steals and borrows alot from Aframs.
Afram culture is the most influential we got y'all nikkas and others abroad trying to be like us. Worshipping our artist/stars , talking like us etc.

nikkas in the middle east worship Tupac, Asians worshipping MJ, everyone using our slang etc

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Lmao bruh, Highlife is derived from the AKAN tribe in Ghana



You're really typing paragraphs out here spouting nonsense

and afram jazz

 

[Cadillac]

Honestly, idc or even think about them.

Barely anyone gives these nikkas any thought

The only nikka they got in Idris, that is relevant. People think is AA and popular for playing as one.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

"americans get robbed"
That's why a bay area nikka out there pimping hoes and selling lean to you, rapping about it, and getting ukbrehs to pay for features while he does it?

 

[Luken]

Besides dipset all you did was list a bunch of names that to my knowledge have no merit
And yung berg gets robbed everywhere

You’ll blokes not as tough as you think

i listed names that were nikkas getting robbed, punked or violated.

who gets more accolades in the jungle, the violators or the violated?

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

i listed names that were nikkas getting robbed, punked or violated.

who gets more accolades in the jungle, the violators or the violated?

Ask the bay area nikkas LASHING out there, putting hoes on track, and helping goofy cacs form lean habits?
No stain on him, both chains on him.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It’s shameful that we get angrier about America’s problems than our own

This year was my third year marching in solidarity at the United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) Annual Remembrance Procession. The demonstration, which happens every year on the last Saturday of October, is organised by the friends and relatives of those who have been killed at the hands of the state. UFFC, which is chaired by Marcia Rigg, sister of Sean Rigg who died in police custody. She has been demanding justice for nine years now.

Despite the fact there have been multiple high-profile deaths in police custody in the UK – one of which led to muted so-called “riots” on the streets of Hackney – the turnout was disappointingly low. Weirdly, we seem to give more precedence to issues that are removed from us. This was something which Black Lives Matter UK helped to highlight last year alongside the high profile death of Mzee Mohammad. But, in reality, last year’s summer of activism was undoubtedly driven by events in the US. The killings of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Terence Crutcher (the list goes on) were rightly met with outrage, but I am yet to see the streets lined with thousands of protesters over black British issues.

Every major Black Lives Matter march that saw huge crowds was in aid of an American case, while our homegrown movements still fight for attention. Our obsession with the American plight overshadows our own

Why don’t people turn out for black British causes?

 

[EA]

I’m glad I never saw this thread. @MikeyC what did I miss?

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Most of these elements stems from the Griots in the Westside.

There's many forms of rapping. In Jamaica, its toasting (rhyming to a riddim). In Congo, they call it "animation" or "atalaku" (Atalaku in Kikongo me check me out. Some atalakus rap in a singing voice and some do the traditional, same as in Hip Hop.

in hip hop it comes from jive talking,dirty dozens etc traditions

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

*You're supposed to be better with English.

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