I still love that chick
Toni Braxton debut album set the bar high....
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dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
i was listening to her about 3-4 weeks ago, this and secrets were that 1-2 combo that doesn't happen too often. 90's toni was straight piff 
I'm guessing the eastern shore folks are country and pretty much similsr to the Geechie folks of coastal South Carolina. The coastal areas of these Mid-Atlantic states always have the deepest connections to Slavery and the history associated with the antebellum period. The relics are still there in those towns.
Not quite. I've met quite a few black people from the eastern shore, and I didn't detect a southern accent. Most of them sounded like they were from Northern Deleware, Philly Area. They don't sound like us (Baltimore) at all.
Philly folks also have that similar b'more accent. They say brother like "Bruhva". But Philly folks also pronounce words like beers like "Bez". "Pass me da Bez". "It's hot in Heh" as opposed to "It's hot in Here".
^^^and that I guess it's called "Non-Rhotic" accent is similar to how they speak in NYC. That's why as a youngin, Philly and NYC were one in the same to me.
That's true, but a Philly accent is very different from a NYC accent, and the Baltimore accent for that matter. I will say that Meek sounds just like a Baltimore nikka when he raps tho. The Baltimore accent is composed of front a lot of words, especially with the U sound. That's why two sounds like "t(ew) instead of T(oo). We pronounce words from the front of the throat instead of the back. It's very different from anywhere else. Baltimore and DC pronounce Maryland differently too, although people don't notice the difference. Baltimore is "Merlin," in DC it's "Murhlin," which sound different because they're speaking from the back of the throat and we're speaking from the front.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
so much passion in itThis joint right here though...Toni just does something to a nikka.
DC nikkas pretty much have the same mentality
..........I have always said as someone who has spent time and has fam/friends on both sides, NY and DC folks have a lot more in common than they want to think....I do notice DMV is becoming more regional than local even being stretched down to richmond and the tidewater area....
Biscayne
Ocean air
Richmond as part of the DMV?DC nikkas pretty much have the same mentality
I do notice DMV is becoming more regional than local even being stretched down to richmond and the tidewater area....
Makes sense to me. So much traveling between the two cities. Might as well. Most folks who pass through Richmond VA are on their way to DC and areas North of DC.
Richmond as part of the DMV?
Makes sense to me. So much traveling between the two cities. Might as well. Most folks who pass through Richmond VA are on their way to DC and areas North of DC.
No. The DC metropolitan area is the DMV. Richmond is separate, and Baltimore is separate. The traveling between the cities is mostly in he bordering metro counties Howard & Ann Arundel County in the Baltimore area, and Montgomery and PG county in the DC area. Only around 2-3k commute from city to city on a daily basis. basically the DMV starts at Laurel and ends at Fredericksburg, VA. It's a geographically smaller version of NYC and Philly, where some of the suburbs mesh between the two metros. Mercer county is just outside of Philly's city limits, but it's part of the NYC CSA.
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