Help with the nuances of English accentness, or Dizzy Rascal wha?!

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So how would the Englishers here place Dizzy Rascal's delivery in "I Love You", particularly the way he pronounces 'life' a lot like 'laugh'..."now she knows this, she's ending your life/laugh."

He sounds U.S. southern in a lot of ways (is this playaround thing, or an English dialect a yank wouldn't know?), and elastic in ways I can't even begin to place.

So help account for the base-level accent swirl and then talk of tweaks and stretches begins...

― Andy, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

U.S. southern = screwed English half-cousin, right? When I was in Atlanta this month I was reminded by the fact that a quarter of the 10 people I met who weren't Eritrean all sounded faux-English.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

TS: "daaahlin" vs. "daaarlin"

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I do so love a good southern aristocrat's seersucker drawl, but I can't say I'm on to what you're getting at exactly.

(And I grew up in Atlanta but regrettably met no Eritreans--drat.)

Re Rascal: Basically his voice is foreign to me by definition, but he definitely sounds pretty considerably singular compared to the garage MCs I've heard. So I wanna know what's attributable to specific accent (certain sections of London? particular racial swirl?) so I can get to know when he's playing around delivery-wise and being more/less singular than I might think.

― Andy, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

And can anyone transcribe all the lyrics of 'I Love You'?

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 08:36 (twenty-three years ago)

To me he just sounds contemporary "urban" means a synthesis of London and Black ... which itself in UK is derived from Carribean.

― phil jones (interstar), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

TS: "daaahlin" vs. "daaarlin"
< IRISH ACCENT >Daaahhrrrrlun!< /IRISH ACCENT >

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, its south London black - he has a hysterical tinge to his voice which throws his accent off a little and makes him sound very unusual, though. His flow reminds me of ODB, actually.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, so it is that clownish...good to know.

― Andy, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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