linguistics on the street

"she wasnt no good" isnt that the same as "she was good" (was not no good)
confused.

I would say that the piece was poetry - no one has a conversation in that form. This was story-telling. How can intelligence be measured by listening to commercialized street vernacular? Speaking incorrectly - according to whom? Who is the audience? What is the setting? Your "test" would have been better served by using a more appropriate subject.

Yeah it seems that the media focuses on dumb people more than the people that are trying to suceed. Like me, I come from the ghetto and Im on my way to a MA in Linguistics, why doesnt the media focus on that?

I love how they put culture and uneducated together, which is such an insult. There are many people who come from an educated background, and middle class society, and sound the same exact way. It's more culture than intelligence. It's not racist to say that African-American's have a different way of speaking, as do other people, whether accents or slang.

Ghetto grammar, is not the official "black"
language. Race, has nothing to do with one's
inner persona (i.e. if one is born "black",
does he/she automatically speak ghetto? No,
it depends on who that person is around, that
shapes his/her voice).

An upper-class "black" living in Beverly
Hills, has a totally different way of
speaking, than one raised in the
ghetto/lower-class streets of "Philly".

It's flawed grammar, embraced and popularized
by a lifestyle and culture, called Hip-Hop.

i wonder if they would say that to snoop dog himself

girl with the dog "grammatically incorrectly"

last guy said it best: a whole vernacular that works...pretty much

and 5:47 I don't think her grammar is correct there.

1:48 was he talking about himself?

I agree. The song wasn't really black English or African American Vernacular English. It was just slang.