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To End it all in the Hip Hop world DC rappers are in the east coast bucket insted of the southren bucket. East Coast bucket is NYC,Philly, B-more, NJ, Pitts, D.C, VA Beach, Cleveland, and even Chi-town and Detroit are thrown in also.
To End it all in the Hip Hop world DC rappers are in the east coast bucket insted of the southren bucket. East Coast bucket is NYC,Philly, B-more, NJ, Pitts, D.C, VA Beach, Cleveland, and even Chi-town and Detroit are thrown in also.
DC is alot like Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Baltimore in a sense that they are both firmly Midwestern/Northeastern while also having some Southern influence.
You don't get a real southern influence until you pass Fredericksburg, VA on I-95.
DC is alot like Cincinnati, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Baltimore in a sense that they are both firmly Midwestern/Northeastern while also having some Southern influence.
You don't get a real southern influence until you pass Fredericksburg, VA on I-95.
Having grown up in Ohio, I see almost no midwestern influence in DC whatsoever. Baltimore is very similar to Cincinnati and St. Louis, but Baltimore and DC are very different cities. DC has a definite east coast vibe to it; its southern qualities are slowly being left behind.
DC is a mid-atlantic city. Nothing more or less honestly but would probably lean more towards the north due to its location. The culture and accent is unique. I think the accent is a combination of northern and southern. Some DC residents due have a certain twang in there speech (not really a drawl) that separates them from places further north as far as accents. I can not really explain the twang really well but it can be heard in many words like down, town, stamp, etc. Also the r slurs that actually prob originates from southern VA since many people all over VA pronounce words such as berry, erica, etc similar to burry, urica. Dc people also have the northern pronunciations such as mova, fava, bruva as mentioned earlier which you won't find in most of va or nc.
Here are some examples I found on youtube of some strong AA dc accents.
Delonte West (crazy a$$) has a thick DC accent. Martin's character Sha Ney-Ney is also based on a DC accent. DC people stretch their R's forever. Instead of saying alright they say ahiiight. Carry = Currry; Current = Cuurrent. The whole brova, farva thing is definitely east coast all day.
The NY dude wrote that you can tell. The DC dude just went off the top of his dome. Now whose the winner in that
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