Street Slang Leekin into Dubstep Culture?

fullyrecordingz · Post by **fullyrecordingz** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:38 am

is it?
coz this is funny
personally, ive seen the some of the LLEAST likely people using street slang in the dubstep scene.
Like you hear some posh people chattin bout nang, and rahh lol. Its terrible. Some of em dont even know how to use the words and they still try say em anyway.
Are they tryna get some street cred or suttin, or are they influenced by grime? do many dubsteppers listen to grime MCs aswell?

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:46 am

Better call the slang police and let em know.

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:30 am

thats what happens when you blow up a tiny scene on radio 1

& what u talkin about man about leaking in where u think this music comes from???

aems · Post by **aems** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:07 am

man dem wan know why street slang creep inna dubstep scene... mans been chattin bare yardie for time ya gets meh?
dub - music of jamican origin,
grime - "urban" music using london slang derived from yardie slang...
of course its gonna get used.... the slang has taken over...

geordies now say "safe" and shout "brrrrrrap" at raves for fucks sake... thats how much the terminologies have spread!!!! i suppose it was just a matter of time...

anyway its well early bredrins and i'm bare shatterred ya gets meh, this is long

brapizzle, i'm off to my crib to lay my choong yat doon on the bed and give her a good seeing to...

peace bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuddddddddd

blap blap blap brrrrrap...

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:54 am

you guys have the best slang

parson · Post by **parson** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:11 am

what does brap mean

masstronaut · Post by **masstronaut** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:05 am

Parson wrote:what does brap mean

It's to do with John Dee and Edward Kelly's system of Enochian ritual magic.

According to the Wikipedia entry Brap is "A minor angel, skilled at locating precious metals."

Pesonally I am dismayed that "street" slang is borrowing from 16th century occult traditions. Who do they think they are? Are they just doing it to try and gain some dark powers? Some of them don't even know how to perform a basic banishing ritual.

Blam!

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:40 am

Language is fluid; it penetrates and conquers. Colloquialisms enrich language and historically words have always been expropriated by different class / geographic groups. I’m not sure what your issue is. Transatlanticism and the black cultural diaspora has resulted in a linguistic exchange which has been especially evident within London for decades, with music subculture being a key proponent of this nexus.

mos dan · Post by **mos dan** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:10 am

boomnoise wrote:Language is fluid; it penetrates and conquers. Colloquialisms enrich language and historically words have always been expropriated by different class / geographic groups. I’m not sure what your issue is. Transatlanticism and the black cultural diaspora has resulted in a linguistic exchange which has been especially evident within London for decades, with music subculture being a key proponent of this nexus.

brrrap! // hear hear!

EXACTLY

hi-def · Post by **hi-def** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:40 am

So, within the current socio-linguistic climate, is it at all appropriate to describe one's favourite dubstep tune as "simply spiffing"

alex bk-bk · Post by **alex bk-bk** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:47 am

if you roll that way you can describe it as anything you want

stupid thread

poax · Post by **poax** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:48 am

man is up on slang but i aint got a danny what you lot are on abaht, sociolinguistic climate, colloquialism, transatlanticism

a wah de ras a man tark bout . ono no sey dem tink man a man is a eediat but me cyant really cater for dem kinda foolishness. ya see me?
tark ow ya tark and stey out a me blodklart buisness ya ear.

jahtao · Post by **jahtao** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:05 am

What Poax said.

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:24 am

Must admit I've had to check Urban Dictionary a few times to understand various terminology. I remember an episode of South Park where Chef was explaining how as black slang was gradually assimilated by white culture, black culture gradually changed the words so as to keep it their own. Seems to be some truth in that.

Had a friend from a fairly posh family who started dropping "innit" into every sentence, which with his still posh mockney accent made him sound somewhat of a prick. He was 28 at the time which was even more worrying.

Think the problem is that with a gradually growing middle-class listening to loads of music made by the urban poor (I think "underclass" is a pretty repulsive term to be honest), and the embarrassment of actually being brought up fairly priveliged (oh, the shame...), that dropping particular phrases somehow keeps them that little bit more street (or road or whatever the fuck it's called now). I think if you actually run with people that use the slang, its cool, but if not you do run the risk of sounding a bit of a twat.

Same thing's been happening with cockney throughout the south for years. Brighton, with it's well-to-do, predominantly middle-class population seems to be way too fond of affecting London slang when they've blatantly never lived there. When they do meet up with folks who use the language as natives, they often seem a bit worried. Always fascinating to notice how people's accents change depending on circumstances, like the difference in their voices in chatting to mates or their parents.

Seems funny to me as up until 20-30 years ago, a lot of working class folk were trying to sound more middle class to give themselves better prospects in life. Funny how things change. innit

fullyrecordingz · Post by **fullyrecordingz** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:24 am

aint got no issue alright boomnoise.

fullyrecordingz · Post by **fullyrecordingz** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:32 am

Shonky wrote:I think if you actually run with people that use the slang, its cool, but if not you do run the risk of sounding a bit of a twat.

yeh that was kinda my observation, its like people who have no connection with anyone who uses slang are usin it.
Its alright if you know what it means coz then its like a language 2 u. but when u have look it up on the internet den it jus becomes like.................................... yehhhh rite

j_j · Post by **j_j** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:46 am

stay shower !!

deapoh · Post by **deapoh** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:01 pm

showafication yasimeh! blap blap!

mos dan · Post by **mos dan** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:29 pm

personally i've been wanting to fuse jeeves and wooster type slang and london slang for a while now...

<i>what ho, brer! bally good merkage! it's not a bad-minded ting is it old chap?</i>

language is silly and fun and interesting, and you should enjoy its myriad possibilities rather than take its usage too seriously.

Steve AC23 · Post by **Steve AC23** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:31 pm

basically thers two types of people in this world

English people...
...and people who want and try to be English

nuff sed

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