DEVIATIONS FROM THE

NORM IN ENGLISH HIP HOP

LYRICS

Oakland, 1996

Legitimize

African

American

Vernacular

English (AAVE)

Scholars

Baugh

Labov Rickford

Smitherman

Wolfram

Mufwene

Examples of AAVE

She bin had dat han'-made dress

Befo' you know it, he be done aced de tesses

Ah 'on know what homey be doin

She's had that hand-made dress for a long time, and still does

Before you know it, he will have already aced the tests

I don't know what my friend is usually doing

Hip Hop geography

2Pac - I Ain’t Mad At Cha

He's Mister local celebrity, addicted to

move a key

Most hated by enemy, escape in the Luxury

See, first you was our nigga but you made

it, so the choice is made

Now we gotta slay you why you faded, in the younger days

Missy Elliott – 4 Ma Man

I'm from a new era and I bring terror

To any chick who check my fella when we

together

So he treat me like a Cinderella

Protect me from the storm like he my umbrella

This fella deserve from a stella

He be a Rockefeller, not Jay-Z and Dame

But the charm on a chain

He platinum

Snoop Dogg – Snoop Bounce

It's alright ain't no room for wrong

Doggyland is the motherland, make yourself at

home

I got money loads by the barrels

I even got a few fans that's crazy like DeNiro

I'm international money maker, player hater

Shook up off the sake of spendin dollars and I always holler

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