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actually there are people (even blacks) born and raised in the deep south that sound a lot like spade. i don't know why people have this idea that everybody in this region has a super strong drawl. i've met people from the middle of georgia that had very mild accents
While true, it is not the norm.
This is what you will hear from the majority of blacks in East Texas.
YouTube - Big K.R.I.T. Interview with iHipHop
These are the norms in both these regions. I do not sound even close to this. In fact, I will make another video. I think I agree with eek on my accent.
YouTube - Big K.R.I.T. Interview with iHipHop
These are the norms in both these regions. I do not sound even close to this. In fact, I will make another video. I think I agree with eek on my accent.
hmmm, actually in my experience, many blacks in east texas sound like adrian peterson
and just as many blacks in the southeast sound like him. my only point is that not all and probably not even most blacks from the deep south have that extremely strong drawl
you have what sounds kind of like a new york/new jersey accent, very mild though
thanks i suppose. i think you might feel that way because its very light.
hmmm. i really dont think thats the case. honestly i think i have the smallest amount of southern accent possible for it to even be noticeable (which i didnt even think it really was). i kind of thought id get a mix of general american/southern accent responses.
Coming from a Texan, I think you have a discernable Southern accent. I wouldn't call it thick, but it's not light either.
hmmm, actually in my experience, many blacks in east texas sound like adrian peterson
and just as many blacks in the southeast sound like him. my only point is that not all and probably not even most blacks from the deep south have that extremely strong drawl
Actually, from my experience, many blacks in East Texas sound like Dez Bryant.
you have what sounds kind of like a new york/new jersey accent, very mild though
thanks i suppose. i think you might feel that way because its very light.
hmmm. i really dont think thats the case. honestly i think i have the smallest amount of southern accent possible for it to even be noticeable (which i didnt even think it really was). i kind of thought id get a mix of general american/southern accent responses.
I think you have a thick Southern accent. If you came to Memphis, people would think you sound country. No offense
no offense to va7cities, but he does NOT sound southern. hardly. he sounds like percy harvin. if he were to speak to people down south, i'm sure most would likely guess somewhere in the east coast before they would guess the south. because he doesn't sound like us, he sounds like he's from virginia
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as far as your accent goes, i'm sorry but i just heard way more east coast than i heard south .... what stuck out the most was the way you pronounced "water". many of those words you pronounced very similar to the way my aunt who is from new york would.
definitely have to agree. the word that stuck out most to me was "tour", that sounded VERY new yorkish. but his pronunciation of finger (fanguh) sounded southern, or at least chicagoan.
but he doesnt sound like percy harvin at all. percy harvin actually sounds southern. at least in this clip he does. very comparable to darren mcfadden
interesting enough, the people in this clip are supposedly from NC, but the guy pronounced "daughter" in a kind of new yorkish way too at 5:28, and they kind of sound like northern black dialect.
it seems to me that a lot of black people in the urban south talk similarly to blacks in chicago, st louis, etc. and dont really have much drawls. i know that mygdell and scott summers sounded to me like they were from the urban midwest/west, despite being southerners. so i think it can kind of vary person to person when you are in the southern cities. the first woman in that clip doesnt sound southern at all (at 1:29), but is from durham, nc
but he doesnt sound like percy harvin at all. percy harvin actually sounds southern. at least in this clip he does. very comparable to darren mcfadden
well i don't think so. percy still sounded very east coast in that video, but mcfadden sounds more southern than me and he's from little rock
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interesting enough, the people in this clip are supposedly from NC, but the guy pronounced "daughter" in a kind of new yorkish way too at 5:28, and they kind of sound like northern black dialect.
it seems to me that a lot of black people in the urban south talk similarly to blacks in chicago, st louis, etc. and dont really have much drawls. i know that mygdell and scott summers sounded to me like they were from the urban midwest/west, despite being southerners. so i think it can kind of vary person to person when you are in the southern cities.
it definitely varies, but i disagree with blacks in the urban south sounding like chicago or st louis. blacks in houston, dallas, and atlanta with accents sound very southern
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