Considering their tiny population are Jamaicans the most influential people ever?

[BigMan]

I know about the creole part but definitely not Arab Haitians being called black and not Haitian Americans.

Look me call up my boy and ask him. He's Haitian American but he is hood/American as fukk with an American accent. Yet he been to Haiti many times. I'm gonna ask him.


I see.

from what i understand neg is better translated as "man/dude/guy" but etymologically it means black from the French negre

 

[ace416]

this is false.
The success AA's had in the late 19th-early 20th century. Had huge implications for the rest of the diaspora in pop culture

they had english labels/media behind them..this is how Jamaican music spread in the first place and then became pop/international

Not denying the impact that AAs have had worldwide but American media is second to none when it comes to marketing artists to a global audience.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Not denying the impact that AAs have had worldwide but American media is second to none when it comes to marketing artists to a global audience.

the thing is
AA have been marketing aa pop culture before The US was a media superpower

 

[K.O.N.Y]

I'm African American. It's news to me that Biggie's Jamaican. I know his parents are but, that's nationality. How can you be Jamaican if you're born and raised in America?

by ethnicity. You are what your parents are. His parents are jamaican thus he is jamaican

Or in this case jamaican-american, he is not AA

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Not denying the impact that AAs have had worldwide but American media is second to none when it comes to marketing artists to a global audience.

Afram culture was spreading globally before there was mass medias such as records and TV that we know today. Secondly, they did this under intense undermining, segregation, extreme jim crow etc..Take something like ragtime that was global in the late 1800's/early 1900's before TV/Records





shyt was global and the hiphop/jazz of it's time and before mass media

 

[IllmaticDelta]

When was the last time you were in Jamaica

I don't need to go there...you/we all know damn well Jamaicans are aware of what "afro-jamaicans" are and who aren't. Then again, jamaican were on somebefore afram black nationalism/power came through

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It does, if it's so poppin.

where them jamaican fried dumpling cookoffs at?

 

[BigMan]

I don't need to go there...you/we all know damn well Jamaicans are aware of what "afro-jamaicans" are and who aren't. Then again, jamaican were on somebefore afram black nationalism/power came through

Lol

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Lol

apparently many jamaicans were and are still stuck on their motto, 'Out of Many One People'

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Afram culture was spreading globally before there was mass medias such as records and TV that we know today. Secondly, they did this under intense undermining, segregation, extreme jim crow etc.

...almost forgot that negro spirituals were spread all over europe and in africa in the 1870s/1880's

 

[Poitier]

If only Jamaicans could make appreciation threads without the superlatives then we wouldn't have to do them nasty

 

[DarrynCobretti]

If only Jamaicans could make appreciation threads without the superlatives then we wouldn't have to do them nasty

I'm mad I'm late to this and just now reading this thread, but I'm about to hand out rep/dap accordingly. #AAGang

 

[Poitier]

I'm mad I'm late to this and just now reading this thread, but I'm about to hand out rep/dap accordingly. #AAGang

It was a typical bloody massacre with the opps on their knees reaching for anything to regain their balance only to be knocked down again and again and again

 

[IllmaticDelta]

It was a typical bloody massacre with the opps on their knees reaching for anything to regain their balance only to be knocked down again and again and again

 

[Lewis Black]

When you don't have to join the war because your comrades have destroyed the enemy =