Hip-Hop and Accents

[DJ Harris]

i like the Puerto Rican accent like LM and Krome Magnus flows nicely

 

[Preach]

^^
aye. i don't like accents in hiphop but i agree with harris, that's my exception. but yeah, i don't really like accents. but see, when it comes to "faking" accents and whatever.. and this doesnt apply to rukas, this applies to the general non-american rapper who wants to sound american in order to be accepted by a broader audience - why is it wrong to "fake" an accept? 50 cent does a good job at faking gangsta. dude rolls around in probably a $1,000,000 car and lives in a mansion that would make your rich grandparents' big house look like a woodshack. yet he claims that he is gangsta, gun-toting, and so on. he got shot and now he uses that. the average joe is gonna think "okay he got shot, so he's one of those gang-member dudes. so the stuff he raps about is true then? cool." a very valid point that i picked up somewhere (can't remember where) is that being shot does not make you gangsta. my 50-year-old uncle could get shot and that doesn't make him a gangsta. yet 50 cent rides on the whole gangsta and pimp image and people worship his music solely because it's branded with "50 cent" or "g-unit". if that is acceptable by the mainstream music industry, i for the life of me can't understand why putting on a fake accent shouldn't be. that's just my opinion though.

 

[DJ Harris]

:thumb: so tru