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It is a very interesting order of events. As I understand it, Toronto had an instant swell of clout and notoriety from Drake's fame. Drake stopped doing soft R&B rap and started aping off of "hardcore" rap, making his image more tough. Toronto was left looking like a bunch of squares and had to find a way to get instant recognition and look tough too, so they started copying the slang of Caribbean immigrants who already sound weird. Terms like "wagwan" are examples of Patois (Patwah) which is a creole language from Jamaica. This morphed every Toronto hip hop acolyte into a weird Canadian Caribbean hybrid who sounds like a goblin.What the fuck, is this just some kind of hatred for the English language?
Another one to look into is the instant sameification of UK rap, or drill rap. It became popular after Skepta and others reached the mainstream. The result is every single rap song sounding the same. The same reverb-y beat and exact same accent trying to emulate the popular artists:
Now most black kids in the UK use weird drill rap terms and have the same accent.
Notice how this "mashup" with several artists all sounds the same. I would argue that American rap sounds more diverse than this.
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