Oh please! Not this “Ebonics” BS again!?
Diversity? Were I to hear that crap coming from the car or IPOD of a potential employee - they could forget about working here.
Of course, I don’t think that the type of scientific expertise that we require is normally mated with music that shows positive indication of negative evolution.
Second Language? Hell for most yutes today it’s their primary language!..........
Fo Shizzle?
E Pluribus UnDone...
There is nothing more funny that seeing a bunch of white upper-middle class suburban teens try to act all gangsta. I just want to take pictures and mail them back to them in 20 years.
please.......please tell me this is a joke.
Seems we sink lower every day....God help us.
The ideal language for rap songs (or any songs, really) is one with natural rythmic patterns that make it easy to rhyme words of similar patterns and the same number of syllables.
One that fits this category is Arabic. It has 10 different verbal patterns and various other patterns for things like superlatives, ordinal numbers, etc. Sentences come off having an almost musical quality to them because they flow so easily. That’s why poetry has always been a pastime in the Middle East.
Take a simple phrase like “The bigger table and the smaller chair.” In English it has no apparent rhythm to it. In Arabic it reads “Al-tawila al-akbar wa al-kursi al-asghar.” Say it a few times. It has a rhyme to it.
Take the phrase “From two o’clock to four o’clock.” In Arabic, “Min al-sa’ah al-thaniyah ila al-sa’ah al-rab’iah.”
Take some verbs in English like “to go,” “to understand,” “to eat,” and “to study.” The singular 3rd person is “he goes,” “he understands,” he eats,” and “he studies.” They don’t rhyme at all. In Arabic they all fit a certain verb pattern, and are translated “thahaba,” “fahima,” “akala,” and “darasa” in the past, and “yathhabu,” “yafhamu,” “ya’akulu,” and “yadrusu” in the third person singular present. Same number of syllables, same sound.
So, as strange as it sounds, the ideal language for writing rap songs is indeed Arabic.
Why don’t they name it Ghetto Language. Obama will support his people won’t he.
Randy: Can I get you something?
Second Jive Dude: 'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!
Randy: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
First Jive Dude: Cutty say 'e can't HANG!
Jive Lady: Oh stewardess! I speak jive.
Randy: Oh, good.
Jive Lady: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?
Jive Lady: Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.
Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da' help!
First Jive Dude: Say 'e can't hang, say seven up!
Jive Lady: Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Hmmph!
Rap for nerds. Very funny video. Very funny indeed.
It's alright, steweardess, I speak jive.