Are regional accents dying out in the US?

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Philly has it's own scene and style, plus NY depended on POP ART for early record releases.
DC and Bmore are not rap cities.
Philly has a variation of Bmore club music. So does Jersey.
NYC doesn't.
Philly also used to play gogo on the radio. NYC did not.

Didn’t know that, that’s pretty dope.

Btw breh, is that a Universal Madness varsity you’re rocking in the avi?

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Onyx is one of his many influences lol. Did you know or just guess that? Lol

I guessed it lol, shyt that shouldn’t come as a surprise that’s one of his influences. I can hear some DMX in him too.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I guessed it lol, shyt that shouldn’t come as a surprise that’s one of his influences. I can hear some DMX in him too.

Yup a big fan of onyx and DMX. Especially DMx. One of the greatest to ever do it.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Southern accent declining? Wait what???? lol...

 

[Tommy Knocks]

We say our ERs proper for the most part. I think our (Syracuse) accents are pretty neutral.

edit: I know no accent is "neutral" but I just don't think it sounds like anywhere else

Our AR is also hard and proper. Mark, bark, park. hear it with a snoop voice

 

[Cave Savage]

Southern accent declining? Wait what???? lol...

Among non-blacks, I think so

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Great thread @Cave Savage

Another rugged accent that I’ve come in contact with is that “mid south” accent. Starts just north of Jackson, Miss and goes up to St Louis. Project Pat is the rapper I think of most who has this accent. Beer as Burr, here as hurr, and the extra r’s added on to words like ferw as few, and compurter as computer.

Nelly and Chingy talked like this as well

I know this bad light skinned conscious girl from Knoxville, TN who has this accent. I met her at the MET Museum up in NYC. That country drawl of hers be sounding like honey soothing the back of my mind She fukks with me too, so we tryna link up again one day

 

[IcemanCometh]

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[Afro]

There is a universal dudebro accent developing and it's

An amalgamation of slang from various regions and decades

 

[poppastoppa]

Charleston, SC is also a major relocation spot for Ohio retirees.

And they killing the culture

 

[poppastoppa]

if a Mofo says 'bubba'. jive, or Ova Dey they Geechie as hell lol

"Oh shyt Zeke, that bo be shytting. He fool up, I box him in he eye."

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

There seems to be a big Jewish influence on the New York accent.
When I lived there back in 2012, everyone sounded Jewish to me, even my cousins.

When I used to visit my family for summers in Virginia, my cousins would call me "Mayor Koch"
because of my supposed NYC accent (which I didn't know I had).

I would call my cousins "Beverly Hillbillies" in return.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

A lot of West Indians have a Caribbean twang.Many combine an AA NYC with a Carribean accent. Why this is overlooked is beyond me. And most AAs in NYC don't sound southern AT ALL

Their mothers (depending on the age) and grand mothers probably do have a southern twang.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

The Gullah culture is real interesting. The reason for there being so many similarities to the Caribbean is that South Carolina wasn’t heavily inhabited by white folks. Especially the SC islands. Some of SC is damn near tropical like in climate and European settlers had a hard time living there. At one point there were more slaves than white people and it was the only state like that. So slaves were able to maintain much of their original vernacular and customs. Just like in the Caribbean. The Spanish colonies were a different beast tho

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

If you heard this song on the radio would you think it was a DC artist rapping it?

Her DC/MD accent is heavy af in this song and she's a famous radio host in DC

Knock it off, nothing sounds NY about that song at all.