classic said:
candian MC's are all over the place(no disrespect) i like cardinal but thats about it. Most of the other cats i heard try to hard...
Also i dont consider most candian MC's like cardinal offical canadians. cardinal dosent claim Toronto or CAN. His as claims jamica. All you see is jamican flags in his videos and u here him rhyming it patwa. thats how most of the MC's over their roll(that ive heard). The dont wanna rep canada, who does??? LOL(i know that was a low blow)
But i love the hoes at carabanna, and they love yankee's
Sorry, bro, but i gotta set it straight there... as you "African American" in the States have your own slang, we, in Canada have ours.
You actually gotta be here to understand it fully. When I speak in french, I use an Haitian slang when I speak to my peeps (actually,it's a mix of creole, french and english, if I want to be more precise) , when a jamaican speaks with his brigen (friends), same thing. It's part of our identity as Caribeans... So that's why he speaks in Patwa... get me...
Since most Blacks in Canada actually know where they are from, we represent our heritage by speaking our patwa and that's the biggest difference between blacks here and blacks in the US (you of all people should understand that, Class).
And most canadian mcs do rep Canada, actually, you havent heard his whole catalog, so you cant really say that we don't (listen to Bakardi Slang... very nice beat) Thing is, our commercial beats dont, so they can be more universal. We know that American folks wont relate to us talking about Canada, so we don't. Comments like the ones you just gave just proves that... it's a marketing strategy. So, when speaking in Patwa, and waving flags of our origins, the other west indians can relate to "our" rhythm and poetry...
Unfortunately, you dont speak french (I'm guessing) but still go and listen to the groups I posted, you'll hear what I'm saying...
get me?
**** Also, I dont see a problem with being original... Why would an MC be limited by a geograhical position? Someone in NY can put a lil jon track in his album if he wants and no one will say a thing (well most people wont if the track is good)