His Album its not bad actually

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kQ7v_90Jck

is he rapping in english?

HAHAHAHAHA

i went into this link with an open mind, but oh man!
I couldn't help but laugh

this one sounds better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7pGqa3DfQ...feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_Im7dpvms...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPKtZzqc6Ug...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBZ5m9sn6s...feature=related

album: Militant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqSj0aBfhok...feature=related

rolf thats soo funny NOT what a annoying tranny grow up loser

Take it easy dude.
No need to call Mona a tranny and loser.

She deservs it for her attitude attuide

what did she do?

oh shut the f**k up

just because i don't like what u like

don't know which is funnier, the song or your response to me not liking the song LOL

wow that was uncalled for. what is he like your hero or something. his album may not be "that bad" but this song is NOT SO GOOD. the beat sounds like something from street fighter. and his rapping is unclear, the dude mumbles. and his chorus, every verse seems to end with his voice going higher, its weird. i cant even say anything about the lyrics cuz i cant understand what he said.

Exactly that is why i was laughing,LOL
I seen some other songs from the album and other songs he sing, i posted some above-I like them more than the song the poster chose to post. In fact i went as far as to download those songs. Someone else might not like them, but that is quite ok. I don't go around with a unrealistic expectation that everyone should
like what i like. LOL

He is singing in English but it took a while for me to work it out and what he was saying.

WTF G.I. JATT. Damn that is so clever.

My two cents:
-British rap only sounds good when it's pure grime rap because British accents sound incredibly goofy otherwise... I think that's why they think he's 'mumbling' though...
-Beat was ok... nothing wrong with 'street fighter' beats lol. Kind of needs a more bangin bassline but there's nothing 'bad' about it.

Seriously though.. what is this guy doing.. it could be like GRIME + BHANGRA which honestly sounds like the best combination on earth... but no. His rapping is so meh.

He's at about the same level as that Chuckiie Akenz guy. Ugh.

EDIT: BTW by "Militant Records" does he mean "Khalistani Militant" hahaha? Tsk tsk... hahahaha. And browns wonder why white ppl think they're all terrorists... lol juss playin

BLAH BLAH BLAH LOOK AT THE HATERZ TALK


LOSERS

Dude, not everyone is going to like the same things as you.
Mona was just giving her opnion and there is nothing wrong with that.

you really hate him dont you

ooh he's hot. he looks a tad pathan. i like paki/north indian type guys.

yes he is good looking

YAH what a disgrace he is

Malkit Singh is da bomb!

he's hot...hehe

British rap is so weird.

right side profile he looks indian. but then from from he looks turkish.

If you knew that you don't like other people's opinions then you should not have made this thread.

Moron.

i AGREE BABEE

I miss your rabbit sexy smooth hairless rabbit

Uh... that's only because English rap is too fast for you Americans (and you guys have a hard time understanding non-American accents).

I heard fast rap and no matter how fast rap is, i can understand, but that dude just mumbles.
My dad is British, he don't rap but he don't got an American accent hehe. And i do understand everything he says. LOL

It's not too fast. Your accent sounds awkward while rapping. It's funny lol

I wasn't really talking about G.I. Jatt... there's nothing special about him. There are plenty of better UK rappers like So Solid Crew, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Apache Indian, MIA, etc.


Which one? Britain has many different accents... and a lot of UK rappers mainly use Jamaican accents, which sound way cooler than your American accents, no offense.

LOL we can understand Twista and Busta Rhymes (sometimes). fast isnt an issue. its the weird accent terrible for rap. if its not a carribean accent, then its american. other than that....no thx...

Apache Indian does a Jamaican/Caribbean accent when he sings, he does not rap with a British accent. Even though he is not jamaican.

He mainly uses words such as gyal, bwoy, galang, dung, rahmp, dem, pan, passi, di etc, which are totally patois Jamaican words... Those words are never used in american rap. He does NOT rap in standard English or rarely.
I'm sure a lot of indian people or british people can't even understand what he is saying much less.
He put an Indian girl or guy singing in he's songs occasionally so it is Indian influence in that sense. But the rhythm was still produced in jamaica however and brought back to uk where he sings on that same rhythm in patois.


If you notice the language he uses in he's song sounds very much like shaggy songs.
If you are familiar with Jamaicans songs, you will notice that almost all the song which apache sings to- you will find that about 20 plus Jamaican singers are singing to that same rhythm. Traditional carribean style of several different artist singing to one same rhythm but with using a different song.




Such as this riddim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUK7MeLIcXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tzOFq5AiRQ...feature=related






So apache Indian does not represent how British rappers sounds at all, regardless that he was born in England.

Just as if- a jamaican who lives all her life in jamaica but lived around lots of indian who spoke hindi, so she start grasping the culture and goes to the studio and starts singing in hindi and put out that album. Are you going to say that she represents reggae music just because she is jamaican. Regardless that she is singing hindi to traditional hindi music?


It is just like this white dude called "snow" who sings "informer" and other reggae songs.
Although he is from Canada he lived in a community with lots of Jamaicans got influenced and sings just reggae songs in Jamaican patois.
He does not represent the Canadian rapping style.
Canadians can't even understand what he is saying.

informer video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8

Infact reggae/dancehall style of singing is not even called rap so it does not make much sense that I'm agreeing by classing apache as a rap artist, because it is not rap it is called "deejay " rarely called "toasting" , but I'm not gonna get so deep with you.


EDIT- oh, i only just red what you wrote to juicyfruit.
So sorry for my long essay, and sorry for misunderstanding(don't mind me) but i spend too long writing it to delete it now

Any. And America has many different accents as well...

Any accent can work in rap. Even a Chinese or Indian accent would work if the audience is open-minded enough... or at least in front of a Chinese or Indian audience.


Which British accent do you mean? Not everyone here speaks "standard English". And what do you mean by "UK style"? There are different kinds of styles here. Did you mean UK garage?

Those Jamaican words are always being used by British kids here in London, which should be kinda obvious considering how most black Brits are themselves of Jamaican descent. Don't you see Ali G using those words?

What's so difficult to understand about Apache Indian? Maybe many Americans might not understand him if they're not used to Jamaican slang, but most British kids (at least in London) do at least have some basic knowledge of Jamaican slang.

And technically, toasting was the predecessor of rap.

P.S. Apache Indian just came off the top of my head... there's no need to get so serious over him.


Uh... that's why I said "American accents".

Any non-American rap sounds strange to me.



I missed that.

LOL OMG I REMEMEBR SNOW USED TO BE SOOOO POPULAR HERE.

Most British kids DO NOT understand Jamaican patois. Ok so some know a few words here and there. Not enough to come to Jamaica and understand Jamaicans or pull off the accent properly without getting laughed at. Yes some jamaican descend kids there can speak patois. But Americans are more likely to understand patois than British people from my experience.

And when i say standard English i meant English good enough for all English speakers to understand even if it do have some slangs in it. Not totally broken English like patois which sometimes it sounds like a totally different language.

And if i should post you some real jamaican dancehall hits i assure you that you won't understand anything they are saying.
LOL
Apache does not go that deep and raw into patois.

disagree... most black ppl in america were born there, whereas the black ppl in canada and the UK were bon in africa orr the caribbean

i remember thiere was this one song i used to like and this guy said rassclat and it was censored in canada but not in america

They don't speak Jamaican Patois, but they'd certainly understand most of the Jamaican words you mentioned before, like gyal, bwoy, galang, dung, dem, passi, punani, pum-pum, etc.

All I'm saying is that Apache Indian isn't so hard to understand. He's just speaking Jamaican English with some Jamaican Patois words thrown in.


Is that a dare? I like!

Go ahead and give it your best shot, gyal!

Lol this thread is so awkward.

I am speaking from my experience.

When Americans vrs British people come to Jamaica, the Americans grasp the language faster.

The British people will stay in Jamaica their hold life and still can't adapt the Jamaican patois.
My dad for example been in Jamaica for 30 years, yet he just can't speak patois.

aite zeen bwoy! mek mi roun up sum ting fi yu an nu badda gu ask yu jamaican frend dem fi (h)elp

nuh uh man. we heard tai mai shu. no thx.

Jagger this is a slow song

but its quite deep patois, I'll send some faster ones later

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCuQZGG1VKA

Personal experience can be misleading at times, because it always just depends on what kind of people you've personally met. I assume most of the British tourists who go on holiday to Jamaica are probably rich and posh? And are you serious about your dad? He must really suck at learning new languages.

There weren't that many Jamaicans in Britain 30 years ago, but now there are lots of Jamaicans in the UK, especially in London. Obviously if someone grew up in an area full of Jamaicans (like certain places in the UK or Canada), then logically, it's more likely that they'd understand Jamaican better than someone who grew up in a non-Jamaican area (like in the US).


Translation: Alright then boy! Make me round up something for you and you better (not?) go ask your Jamaican friends and them for help

How did I do? Do I get a treat?


I haven't really heard much Chinese rap in English (besides Tai Mai Shu which is obviously exaggerated), but I've heard some Japanese rap in English and it sounds alright.


Sure, I can understand it... well, sort of... I think.

I knew full well that u understood what i said then.
That is why i spoke like that since you said gyal.
And if you can understand apache then obviously that would be simple enough for u to understand.
I was just telling u what i'd send u sum jamaican songs to see if you could understand by yourself without asking ur jamaican friends. Meaning how much patois you'd understand.

Edit, I like that you listen to all kinds of music. Shows ur open minded.




Yeh sure i believe you, 1000's wouldn't but i believe you

The girl deejaying, what is her first two sentence?

Iunno if I heard 'ask dem fi elp' I'd think "ask them to help" and not "ask them for help"

Lots of jamaicans tend to drop off the H off words.

for example instead of saying hospital, they say ospital, or instead of hat, they at.
Even if you hear the brick and lace song, you'll notice instead of them saying ina mi head, they "ina mi ead"

and instead of heart they they ina mi art


listen dem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrQ2SvjzIOk

Something like "Yeah, yo! Let's show you girls how it's done! For real! Work it! Work it! Work it! Work it!"

Do I get another treat?

No i'm saying that the people I know use 'fi' to mean 'to' and not 'for'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXMbs7e2Bs

Nah, I'm just an indecisive bwoy who can't make up is mind...


I like!

You don't have to make up ur mind, i listen to every type of music, even opera and country.
Don't care what people think as long as u enjoy urself.


And heres a link to a song for beginners who can barely understand patois, this is the simpliest to understand.


I'm not saying ur beginner, but she is singing slow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZaitywjgbk...feature=related


And here is munga, he aint so attractive but he does fantastic music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzMaI684GV4




Most Jamaican artist are from ghetto.