London 'Blackspeak' and 'Black' Grime/Rap Music

Respond properly.

I understand it, I just think that the scum are poorly educated. I just feel sorry for them and their future lives in prison.

I'm not going to debate the validity of the word "dench". That's my cut off.

@OP your just a prick really. what race someone is doesn't matter. London slang is more of a class thing, not a racial thing.

O dear

The introduction of an English dialect other than "proper" Oxfordian English among the lower classes!

How AWFUL.

Because this has NEVER occurred in the UK, or anywhere else before!

/Sarcasm

Pick up an English book (Chaucer is a good one) and see if you understand half of the twaddle that's written in there. I'll wait.

I'm not going to debate the validity of the word "dench". That's my cut off.

I read that as, "My indisputably superior opponent, whyumadtho, has again bested me in debate. I must conjure another pathetic excuse to justify my discontinuation instead of nobly accepting my defeat."



Debate the fundamental argument, not the examples used to instantiate the argument.

lol, really? I read that as whyumadtho has no human contact and is therefore forced to seek it from a person that actively despises them.

Why would a digital entity need human contact? You know you're my best friend... you're just in denial.

It was an example, Bonged. My fundamental point is that the majority of the slang terms used in London were produced in London by Londoners; hence, they are native to Britain.

No, but it is an all-pervading label on young black people. It saddens me that many inner city young black people are not trying to appear different from these types of stereotypes.

Let me put it into perspective:

If the Prime Minister spoke in this type of speech, he would lose all credibility - in fact, he would never have been elected, let alone climbed so high up!

Who here detests the stereotypical London 'Blackspeak', that stereotypical accent that pervades many black boys and girls in London from about ten years old to their early twenties?

Of course I generalise here, but this irritating accent has now become a signature label for young black people - one can simply hop on a bus at 3.30pm in an area with a large black population and see the groups of young black kids speaking in this low manner with all sorts of slangs and many even playing all of this 'cool' Grime music (mostly dotted with Black 'artists'). (If you can't do this experiment, just watch something like 'My Murder' on BBC 3 or Adulthood/Kidulthood.)

And the Grime/Rap music (British) is also part of this debilitating culture. It further fuels a materialist culture and turns the young peoples' brains into mush. I have a cousin who is being slowly degraded to this low place in life; squandering his money on Nike trainers and his accent has considerably degraded yet he attends a Grammar but it seems to me that he feels the need to be 'Black' (as it were) and he dresses in the 'street' fashion and speaks in such a manner.

Does this culture not degrade the image of young black people?

(Seriously, just hop on a London bus shortly after school closing times and you'll see...)