Toronto Accent and Dialect from the 1980s to mid 2000s
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Күн бұрынI solely made this video because of the slander that the city has gotten in the past few years, and just want people to see the real and not spread ignorance. The accent and dialect has existed in Black communities in Toronto for a LONG time, since the 1980s but social media pushed it and now people who have never really grown up in Caribbean/African neighbourhoods of the city have now turned turned it into the mockery that you're now seeing all over your social media.
This video is made to put an end to the ignorance regarding the way Black Canadians in certain neighbourhoods of Toronto speak
Ion know if I wanna drop personal socials at this moment but you can find me on the subreddit Torontology: u/telminnn
Chapters:
0:00 (1983) Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community - Jane and Finch documentary
3:45 (1990) Maestro Fresh Wes on Midday CBC
9:01 (1991) Cold Front Record Release Party - Much Music RAP CITY
13:51 (1991) Maestro Fresh Wes rap interview
16:04 (1994) Make Some Noise
41:22 (1995) Ghetto Concept - MuchMusic Interview
43:37 (1995) Pelham Park Bloodz: Blood Killa Boss & Young Thugz
47:51 (1997) MUCHMUSIC RAP CITY - CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK RAP FILE
48:21 (1997) Regent Park - Focus on CBC
50:46 (2001) Jane & Finch CBC National News Documentary: Tha Smugglaz
56:31 (2001) Toronto Murder Epidemic - A Deadly Silence Documentary
1:13:26 (2001) Ghetto Concept - Hotel Interview in Victoria BC*
1:15:15 (2003) Point Blank in Regent Park w/ Ed The Sock (City TV)
1:27:09 (2003) Point Blank on Ed The Sock's Big Wham Bam (MuchMusic '03)
1:28:12 (2005) Myths of Regent Park
1:28:38 (2005) The Real Toronto DVD Documentary
1:57:14 (2006) Empz for Lyfe Documentary
1:59:23 (2006) Lost in the Struggle - the fifth estate CBC News
2:02:14 (2006) Behind the scenes: CTV National News
2:14:43 BONUS CLIP of Tory Lanez when he was living in Toronto in 2012
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@tdotsblessing 29 күн бұрын
Everyone make sure to SHARE this video to anybody speaking ignorantly about how Black communities in Toronto talk‼ People in Toronto need to be proud of where they're from and rep it 🤧Outsiders can still say what they want about how we sound, but it's what's makes us, US and it's not going anywhere anytime soon💯
@jss1ca3 26 күн бұрын
💯💯💯💯💯
@DeandreXBennett 24 күн бұрын
T.O. STAND UPPPPP
@thephilosopher7173 24 күн бұрын
Ppl make fun of the accent because of those who stretch it and over compensate. None of the ppl in this video _try_ to have an accent, but I distinctly remember after Drake popped off and eyes were on Toronto, ppl started over exaggerating their speech similar to how the dudes from 4Yall Ent. talk during their skits. Toronto is full of over-compensators.
@Thuja814 23 күн бұрын
1986 Rub a Dub Style Inna Regent Park, from Juno Award Winner & creative writing teacher Lillian Allen …with the Jokerman font ;-) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7OEg8iVv83DYI0.html
@natalied5917 22 күн бұрын
Jamaica land we love they have nothing our us 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🔥🔥🔥.
@thecountess 21 күн бұрын
Torontonian here. I've always said "tings" and the actual way we pronounce TORONTO is the same way people be saying it on the clips in this video. I honestly dislike how these Tik Tokers exaggerate the Tdot accent. The influence of Caribbean/West Indies slang has been going on for decades, them kids these days did not come up with it. I grew up with a lot of Jamaicans or 1st generation Jamaicans or Trinidadians amongst other ethnicities, and it influenced how I express myself, it has stayed with me even though I now live in Europe. I am Hispanic from Toronto. Thanks for this video. Love it.
@tdotsblessing 20 күн бұрын
Real talk! As a man who also is not Yardie but grew up around them you're talking that realness💯💯💯💯
@rayang9929 17 күн бұрын
noone cares nerd
@davidbawtinheimer7762 16 күн бұрын
Dun know
@devongiguere3721 12 күн бұрын
@@tdotsblessingI'm from Oshawa and have Trinidian and Jamaican half-siblings as well as friends growing up. This video brought so much nostalgia man. This is some working-class history and I am really thankful for you uploading this. We need more of this shit
@thecountess 6 күн бұрын
@@devongiguere3721 Zeen.
@tin12ify 28 күн бұрын
this video just hit the algorithm, it gonna do numbers
@Vazo999 24 күн бұрын
🤣 It's true
@tin12ify 24 күн бұрын
@@Vazo999 just came back after 4 days I was right
@p0pov13 15 күн бұрын
Bro 2 whole hours is wild lol
@tin12ify 14 күн бұрын
@@p0pov13 its a documentary compilation what you expect
@davidbremang7557 29 күн бұрын
you can hear the jamaican influence in the whole accent from 83
@noahisuku5338 28 күн бұрын
It’s literally the Jamaican accent
@thunderthighs3450 28 күн бұрын
@@noahisuku5338 well no shit, those are jamaican black guys, obv everyone else won't sound like that
@bobzyurunkel 28 күн бұрын
They are literally from Jamaica lol
@swagmund_freud6669 27 күн бұрын
@@bobzyurunkel But it's not like a Jamaican accent purely. It's been watered down by the Canadian accent.
@rowanjun 26 күн бұрын
@@bobzyurunkel The 2 young men are not Jamaicans, influence yes, but not from Jamaica (one is Guyanese the other is from Dominica - not DR) hope this helps with your understanding. Bless
@TMBpk 23 күн бұрын
The actual Toronto accent is nothing like the fake “Tik Tok Toronto Accent” that’s going around online. People just deliberately exaggerate it and nobody in the city ever talks like that. This video is more reality of how people sound…and if you have a good ear, you’ll be able to differentiate the East End Scarborough accent from the West End Jane & Finch / Weston accent.
@thehandleishothott 22 күн бұрын
Time stamp the clear difference please
@boredguy5805 21 күн бұрын
People definitely talk like that dude, but it's mainly high school kids. I go to my local library sometimes and hear it all the time
@NickyPixar 21 күн бұрын
I live in Toronto and yes the accent is like the TikToks. Most people still speak normal here, but as you drive by young people without culture you can hear it
@WeTrustInBando 20 күн бұрын
@@NickyPixaryou kids are stupid Those are rich Children From nice homes 😂trying to copy yuh know
@Kj637- 9 күн бұрын
Excellent explanation! wish people understood this.
@BIGNEM 15 күн бұрын
Caribbean community brought it, African community influenced it, Canadian culture embraced it and other communities mixed into it from all corners of the earth that lived in those communities. The Toronto accent used to be healthy until social media warped it and turned it into a caricature of itself. With random suburban kids from Yukon to Ohio now influencing pop culture and recreating it into a nasally rat sound the original essence has been killed on a PR level. Little do they know the real "accent" is still alive and healthy in our communities. 💫
@starkgamescharmbracelet Күн бұрын
What African countries influenced it…?
@OrgasmicDeliciousLiving™ 28 күн бұрын
I was in Fresh Arts for two years with Kardinal, Solar, Socrates, Jully Black. I was in the dance program and this experience was life enhancing. It was created for black and native youth. We attended five days a week learning more about the arts you were passionate about. The best part we got paid. Its because of Fresh Arts I got the opportunity to dance and train with Collectives of Black Artists. Big up to whomever created this. I love this!!! Big up to Motion, Power and the Rappers in the early 90s.
@emjaydark2811 21 күн бұрын
So what are doing now?
@KardiFan2000 18 күн бұрын
Solitair*
@OrgasmicDeliciousLiving™ 18 күн бұрын
@@KardiFan2000 thanks for that!
@thecountess 6 күн бұрын
@@emjaydark2811 they still be making music and music projects. Jully not long ago sang O Canada and got mad props for her delivery of it.
@thecountess 6 күн бұрын
I grew up in North York, Jane & Sheppard and Keele & Sheppard, went to York Uni, and worked around Keele & Steele, so all the names your dropped I knew and although I was not involved in the community as much as my brothers were, I knew of them being around now and then and giving back to the community. I hear great things about Fresh Arts. Glad you got opportunities ♥
@ricardovalentine4199 23 күн бұрын
hearing "loafting" all the way back in 1983 at 2:35 is crazy. would've thought it to be more recent word
@Singforfun324 17 күн бұрын
Every thing you hear is from the older generation.
@Eiramilah 6 күн бұрын
I remember hearing that in the 90's
@hirosato1548 Күн бұрын
my god i keep saying it but people are like 'loafing'?
@JD-ny3vz 29 күн бұрын
Aye this was interesting to watch as a NYer of West Indian descent I have a lot of family in Toronto. You can hear the West Indian and Canadian mix with even a little NY/US East coast mixed in. I would think the hip hop influence from the 80 with NY being huge and probably similar demographics so family members etc.
@LOUD_army 28 күн бұрын
Exactly, a lot of people don't realize that Toronto was a part of the history of hip hop way before hip hop went to other cities.
@JD-ny3vz 28 күн бұрын
@@LOUD_army Main Source for example NYC/Toronto connection
@LOUD_army 28 күн бұрын
@@JD-ny3vz are you on instagram?
@headienutburn 25 күн бұрын
The primitives should have stayed on the US east coast. Toronto and the GTA are crime ridden cesspools now.
@unsub8924 24 күн бұрын
There are a lot of West Indian Caribbean people in Toronto, also Nigerian and Somalians Ethiopian Ghanaian...
@quietman208 29 күн бұрын
I really appreciate this video. I’m from Pittsburgh but for some reason the Toronto accent really fascinates me. I don’t like seeing all the hate it gets online, even though the modern accent does sound a lil “silly”, I find it disrespectful and ignorant. Especially coming from other black people, it’s like they don’t know that we’re a diaspora all with our own unique dialects.
@JericCamps 23 күн бұрын
It's just exaggerated for social media purposes. But the "Toronto" accent is a real thing as you can see here.
@knowheartbeats 21 күн бұрын
It's cool when I see people from other places fascinated. I've been to united states quite a few times, the south , nyc , LA and never had anyone make fun of my accent before, it's always the opposite to be honest
@SVPREME101 28 күн бұрын
Ed the Sock in the hood....this is Toronto Nostalgia
@sarahgordino6695 15 күн бұрын
Thank you to whoever put this together. Very very nostalgic. As someone who grew up in Jane Finch in the 80s/90s this hits different.
@catregime 24 күн бұрын
This is incredible…like whoooooo is logging all this footage???? The Blessed One this is amazing. Thanks for putting this up.
@joshi-toshi 24 күн бұрын
truly appreciate anyone who archives shit like this. and anyone who compiles things like this.
@tdotsblessing 24 күн бұрын
@catregime @joshi-toshi Thank you I greatly appreciate both of y’all’s comments🤧🙏🏾. Make sure the share the video anytime you hear ignorance on how we talk💯
@dev00008 23 күн бұрын
The people who were alive at the time...
@deepblue2 15 күн бұрын
As a Torontonian myself, I've learned and realized that the Jamaican accent has had a big influence on the Toronto accent over that period of time from the '80s. This is great footage by the way and thanks for uploading this.
@mikedenheyer6769 25 күн бұрын
This is RARE footage. Going back to wes and Michie mee going forward with the masterplan radio show on CIUT. Then Ghetto concept and the GRASSROOTS (best production team in toronto 90s hip hop). I never seen any of this specific footage. This is crazy. The Grassroots team were such a huge inspiration.
@beaner2907 23 күн бұрын
Fantastic video! I really appreciated this, thank you! This should win some kind of award. It's like a mini documentary.
@tdotsblessing 22 күн бұрын
🤧💯🙏🏾
@Thoumike 12 күн бұрын
Amazing work, and thank you for listing all your sources, i have so much to watch
@mimibynature 27 күн бұрын
Look at a young Maestro Fresh Wes ❤ he really put Toronto on the map!
@SomeDudeQC 27 күн бұрын
89 was mine
@BGambino1215 25 күн бұрын
Mitchie Mee too
@Brizza032 24 күн бұрын
@@BGambino1215she killed it with the leaders of the new school and Shabba ranks at varsity stadium to kardi to black eyed peas( on electric circus) no furges, to opera -government-Massey-multiple west venues. Project bounce, MORNING RIDE. If you know, you know. It’s been pleasure setting a scene for everyone through hospitality over the 25 years.
@moho472 24 күн бұрын
Thank you for this video. Its so frustrating to see the culture we have get over exaggerated to the point where it becomes a dog whistle for racism. The old ones do not talk like what you'd see on social media today. This is the real Toronto accent, and I'm glad we're pushing back. Edit: Grew up in Islington and Finch, then moved to Sauga; the culture still exists in parts of the suburbs where poverty is rough. However, nobody knows about this because its surrounded by million dollar homes.
@tdotsblessing 24 күн бұрын
Real talk you spittin real shit🙏🏾💯 I greatly appreciate you for watching. Make sure to spread the word
@knowheartbeats 21 күн бұрын
Fighting back, couldn't have said it better
@isadorabarrow594 19 күн бұрын
As a Caribbean migrant coming from Barbados in the early 2000s, i didn't understand what a major influence West Indian culture had on the fabric of Canadian society. Thank you soo much for this video! Fascinating 🙏🏾
@Diggi1027 18 күн бұрын
As a man from Compton/Watts/Long beach alike I am glad this popped up on my feed. I was always interested in the Toronto scene. With that being said I am visiting a friend there next year.
@tdotsblessing 17 күн бұрын
Say word? I hope you have a blessed time here👍🏾💯
@RafaelLopeztattoos 27 күн бұрын
proper🏆 theres a doc in Prime Vid, "Drop the Needle" that portrays the evolution of toronto sound and nightlife. Play De owner is a glaring representation of what toronto culture is. another revelation for me as an immigrant was getting into UK sound in the early 00's realizing were a commonwealth country to UK, we share a ton of similarities in culture including slang from patois to uk street slang. was blown away to hear this in Jungle/DnB Mcing which toronto was huge in during mid-late 90s rave scene
@CR416__ 22 күн бұрын
I grew up in Toronto and the accent has always been consistent lol.. we’ve been a melting pot of people from time. That’s why our accent is so unique
@KillahManjaro 25 күн бұрын
Jane and Finch was my old stomping ground back in the late 80's 215 Gosford Blvd. Thanks for the upload this brought back so many memories from back then. 1!
@omnipotentiq 24 күн бұрын
OG!!!!!
@stainerrr84 22 күн бұрын
Jane / Tretheway
@stainerrr84 22 күн бұрын
1555 Jane St
@jwillwork3683 20 күн бұрын
We locked in on reddit, Happy to see you doing number brother!
@tdotsblessing 20 күн бұрын
Appreciate you big dawg🫡 Numbers going up!
@brodiethegoaty849 15 күн бұрын
I grew up in Detroit so crossing the bridge to Canada to drink at 19 was the norm. I met a young rapper that eventually came to my studio to record and taught me the subtle differences in the dialect influences in Toronto. He now goes by Tory Lanez.
@shwntol 16 күн бұрын
This is iconic footage thank you for archiving Tdot history!!
@GPWYR 27 күн бұрын
55:57 that’s Bundawg, better know as Bunso. I used to play ball with him and his bro Pressa (Beenie) at this age, Raptor ball at Oakdale CC. #iykyk
@Brizza032 24 күн бұрын
I was raptorball coach of the year 2001
@eAddiction 24 күн бұрын
51:38 that little boy in blue was Jordan Manners. Miss him
@GankBott3M 23 күн бұрын
that's crazy lol I be listening to them same guys pretty regularly
@GPWYR 14 күн бұрын
Can’t forget Dada better know as Houdini , he used to ball at Oakdale CC too #llhou #raptorball
@Akil1998 28 күн бұрын
Seeing from the start of this film how the police treated young Blacks in Jane and Finch in 83 shows why things are the way they are now. It is by design.
@bushwacka5187 27 күн бұрын
By design? For what purpose and by whom?
@Akil1998 27 күн бұрын
@@bushwacka5187 You don't think the targeting of Black men(from the miseducation system to the incarceration of Black men)it is not by design. I can try to explain it to you, however who knows it feels it. Some in Canada think this is just a American problem, however it has been very prevalent in Canada as well. Hell the carding system we see today in Toronto is the equivalent of stop and frisk. Also again look at what is spoken about in the start of this film and fast forward to what we have going on today. It isn't a coincidence. Again whether you whether you call it the system as a whole, the government, the state etc. It is by design.
@CB-kc5ys 26 күн бұрын
Black people dont even make up the majority of demographics incarcerated in Canada its actually white ..stop trying to make Canada on the same level of issues as U.S wannabes
@Danyurism 26 күн бұрын
@@Akil1998 once you grow up you realize it has nothing to do with color and everything to do with class. toronto has always been divided into classes not colors.
@Danyurism 26 күн бұрын
@@Akil1998 in the 90s all you had to do was have a fitted on and baggy jeans and you were a target. Ask anyone on road in the 90's if the baseball caps hit the floor when you seen the boy. music down hats off. shit was no joke.
@sroberts00 19 күн бұрын
Thank you for this! I knew something was weird with the 'modern' Toronto accent but I couldn't put my finger on it. I moved here in 2000 and spent a lot of time in Black spaces (I'm non-Black POC) and don't remember anyone talking the cartoonish ways they do now. Of course there was always a Caribbean-infused accent, but not the forced caricature that's been making the rounds. I saw someone share a video of a young (probably suburban) non-Black woman doing the modern accent and they said she sounds like a "drunk moose" and I've been inconsolable. 😭
@knowheartbeats 21 күн бұрын
This is a perfect document , it showed so much more that just an accent man. Trust me this shit gonna go way viral. It gives alot if insight man. This is for all these people and there "fake accent" bullshit and this just started, nah , YALL are just hearing and being exposed to it because media OUTSIDE OF THE CULTURE is making it a mockery now. Big up yourself yute.
@tdotsblessing 20 күн бұрын
All love over here fam🤧 Don't worry I got yall💯
@lydianyakundi5749 28 күн бұрын
I love this …what a gem!💎
@boostmoose 27 күн бұрын
Sick video dude
@atriskyouthtv 2 ай бұрын
Best doc ive ever seen in my life fam nuff love and ratings
@tdotsblessing Ай бұрын
Love brother🙏🏾❤
@MikeStoan Ай бұрын
This is dope!!!
@kristianolliviere9045 Ай бұрын
Adam "Edge" Copeland has a Toronto accent
@KahinAhmed72 24 күн бұрын
That nickname hits harder now. LOL 😂 Edge = ✋🍆😛
@JHamTD 18 күн бұрын
Seeing this video is incredible as it puts to bed a lot of the misinformation regarding the origin of the accent and shows it was a natural development similar to what happened with the African influence on Portuguese from formerly enslaved Black people in 17 and 18th century Portugal. Another thing that I love to see documented is the mobilization of the state (police) against the black population in Canada but also specifically Toronto which is often denied even though it's documented in the stories from those that lived in Blackhurst (Bathurst and Bloor), Eglinton West and other early black neighbourhoods in the city. The stories of Andrew Evans, Sophia Cooks, Lester Donaldson, Marlon Neil, Andrew Loku and many others all speak to this long history of targeting black folks in this city. SO many that push mythology about Canada's liberal history could not tell you who one of those names are, or where Africville was, or why there is a black woman on their 10 dollar bill they bought a double double with. Thos same people will bob their head to a song with a bassline but deny relevant history and claim to be an ally or that their black adjacent because they used to sag their pants as a teenager. Documentation is how the lies are dispelled. Great compilation. You really did something with this.
@UnprofessionalAthlete 27 күн бұрын
The one man said "open like autopsy" loool that was hard
@LOUD_army 28 күн бұрын
I love this!
@SomeDudeQC 27 күн бұрын
Yet there was a very popular post on a popular Canadian subreddit the other day that claimed this accent didn't actually exist! Could it be that the post was bigoted? No, no, all the comments swore they weren't being hateful.
@somarvitor 27 күн бұрын
The people that claim this accent doesn't exist haven't been to the west end of the city (rexdale/Etobicoke) or the very east end (Scarborough).
@jas1565 25 күн бұрын
@@somarvitorthey also aren't Black, arent in Black spaces and don't interact with Black people.
@user-ro8ru4wz2o 24 күн бұрын
@somarvitor random boroughs does not equate a toronto accent. It's prevalent in some hoods among people who are involved in the gang life or are adjacent too it. Normal people (99% of toronto proper) do not speak like this. Literally only people who listen to hip hop. It's overdone and fake.
@jas1565 24 күн бұрын
@@user-ro8ru4wz2o attributing this accent to "gang life" is racism at its finest. The accent belongs to the Black immigrants and first generation Black Canadians who created it.
@joshwuzhere1 24 күн бұрын
@@user-ro8ru4wz2ookay yt boy 😂😂
@lonewolf7047 2 ай бұрын
Do you have the old Flemo documentary?
@bluehibiscus502 25 күн бұрын
Awwww! Young Maestro Fresh♥. His face hasn't changed much.
@swagmund_freud6669 27 күн бұрын
Great piece of history. I've always been uneasy about the hate that Toronto's accent has been getting on social media lately. I grew up in Calgary, and there's a unique accent there too but it never got bulled up on socials like Toronto's did and made fun of. The whole debacle stinks of covert racism.
@bigol9223 27 күн бұрын
Lol forgot only white people can be mocked for making obnoxious sounds
@tdotsblessing 27 күн бұрын
Real shit💯🙏🏾.
@SomeDudeQC 27 күн бұрын
The hate it's been getting is from bigots who don't acknowledge it even exists.
@bigol9223 27 күн бұрын
Canada's accent has been derided long before the modern squeaky Toronto yute version got attention.
@halfbasic2990 26 күн бұрын
If you notice, the toronto accents these kids put on is much more extreme and annoying. It's because it's objectively goofy. Also, Calgary accent was made fun of far longer (the Bob and Doug Mckenzy accent, and all hollywood depictions of the Canadian accent is basically the Alberta accent)
@tylerdurden7142 20 күн бұрын
Very interesting throwback. Who shot this video? Where are all the people in it today?
@donsilverson9927 13 күн бұрын
Most likely more than likely dead or in prison.
@NajashiProductions 24 күн бұрын
I don’t mind people tryna clown our Toronto accents… but I can’t stand it when they say we got it from London. The only British accent we heard growing up was the Queen’s tea and biscuits English 😂
@nuffaction5464 23 күн бұрын
Wrong.
@jaygrizzly2706 18 күн бұрын
Most your guys that are big rappers in Toronto now all was listening to uk rappers growing up themselves. Do you know how massive k koke is in Canada? We all influence each other in the world anyway so it’s no biggie but Toronto is hella multicultural in a good way 👍
@KardiFan2000 17 күн бұрын
@@jaygrizzly2706 He's talking about BEFORE the new generation. We were influenced by NYC and our Caribbean heritage, and that was it. The UK influence didn't come until the 2010s.
@jaygrizzly2706 15 күн бұрын
@@KardiFan2000 i was just referring to him saying “the only British accent we heard growing up was the queens tea and biscuits” I assumed the person writing was around my age or between 25-30 which means he would have known about tre mission/grime and Canada uk rap link ups but I’m guessing by yours and his comments that he’s way older like 50 if he’s saying he only knows the queens English…
@KardiFan2000 15 күн бұрын
@@jaygrizzly2706 I can't speak for the other guy, but I'm 36 (not 50 lol) and me and my bredrins, even in our 20s weren't influenced by y'all. It wasn't until grime, afrobeats, and dubstep really went mainstream over here 10-ish years ago when we started watching y'all.
@JinBrownSkrr Ай бұрын
Real history 🔥
@andrewmorrison3344 22 күн бұрын
I didn't realize the accent went back so far That's kinda cool
@Singforfun324 17 күн бұрын
Where the hell did you think It came from. White high schoolers?
@mmmghool 12 күн бұрын
History 🔥 amazing work
@asswipe-fl7hq 2 ай бұрын
Cool shit dude :p
@DanielKeithMorrison 18 күн бұрын
This video is more than the accent, its hip hop culture well documented.
@mirandapillsbury7885 23 күн бұрын
born in 1994. I remember almost all these eras. I feel really sad in some weird way because that time was very dark for some reason yet also really special. Everyone had some street cred (or pretended too)...everyone was tough and rough and the days seemed darker and shorter...now it's all a little brighter and more positive I think and a little bit better socially but idk...I still crave those dark days sometimes
@ronidanza1488 21 күн бұрын
Been a good while since I saw the real Toronto much appreciated for this
@veshaw. 24 күн бұрын
Toronto has a long history of racism
@nuffaction5464 23 күн бұрын
Yes..and it went both ways..I was jumped on the Finch bus by 20 Jamaicans...I'm white, and my first 5 girlfriends were of different races. Grew up in Scarborough, and it was a blessing. You can go anywhere in the world and find hate. The most multicultural society in the world.
@bluehibiscus502 23 күн бұрын
@@nuffaction5464 🤣🤣🙄
@SquirrelASMR 23 күн бұрын
Its so liberal here in toronto i could barf. I wish we had some good old fashion r
@SquirrelASMR 23 күн бұрын
@@nuffaction5464every crime done to me was done by one of those kinds
@TMBpk 22 күн бұрын
Toronto / Southern Ontario was literally the end of the underground railroad. There's general racism existent I agree, but it's not a defining feature. We all get along for the most part.
@chantillycolwilly 27 күн бұрын
My bf was telling me that Jamaican is a massive influence on our, Toronto accent. It makes a lot of sense.
@fiyamage 24 күн бұрын
London accents as well
@chantillycolwilly 24 күн бұрын
@@fiyamage I was saying that too, but he said that's because there's a lot of Jamaicans in Hackney (in England), so their slang is very similar to Toronto.
@insanedumpling123 21 күн бұрын
Yooo good looking fam
@TabancaQueen 24 күн бұрын
I just wanted to watch this, because i missed home but damn, i did not expect to be triggered. As someone who grew up in Rp, JNF, DMC and all the rough parts-- I strived and worked my butt off to make it out.. It really hurts my heart that the unfair struggles i thought were in my head, were really valid. The police & government do everything in their power to destroy any sense of confidence. I am grateful for the canadian school system, vut this broke my heart. I can't even watch anymore after 2001.
@joeytoribio2035 24 күн бұрын
Fam, that yute spittin bare facts in that last interview. 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔥🔥🔥🔥
@gotgrainslikerice5311 18 күн бұрын
This video is a gem
@curbantula 21 күн бұрын
It used to be real jamaican/caribbean accents. It has now evolved to white jamaican accents with a little taylor swift
@koisan5300 16 күн бұрын
😂
@Heiguiking1777 26 күн бұрын
back when gta was Caribbean influenced not african american influenced
@az6802 26 күн бұрын
Canada is in America genius
@KardiFan2000 25 күн бұрын
@@az6802 He brings up a valid point though...we were much more influenced by our Caribbean heritage and accent back in the day. Then around the time Drake started blowing up (early 2010s) there was a shift, with more Black American influence on Toronto.
@jacobisaac9934 25 күн бұрын
@KardiFan2000 you guys are so simple stop making everything about Drake.
@GanjaDaddi_ 24 күн бұрын
@@jacobisaac9934theses yutes are fan boys born after 95
@daowonimdee 24 күн бұрын
True.
@PristineReviews 23 күн бұрын
why so many people mad about this? i grew up in gta and things vary alot from community to community. this is merely showing that it has always been a piece of the identity. not everyone talks like this
@oldtalez9412 18 күн бұрын
Great video. Really appreciate the history lesson. I'm tryna find the video snippet at 1:28:36 Too short for shazam
@upnhere8513 23 күн бұрын
I remember hearing 'still' a lot growing up sorta as a replacement for 'know what i'm saying.' Not sure if that is distinctly Toronto or what? Suckin on teeth too. Some examples in this footage still.
@Official4KORNERS 18 күн бұрын
I rate this!
@CJMay-zt6wt 24 күн бұрын
The Real Toronto DVD....nuff mans are dead and locked up from that vid🤐
@TalentedTenth 20 күн бұрын
I think some people mix up the idea of accents with slang. Toronto slang used to just be Jamaican patois or slang mixed with our regular North Eastern Canadian/ US tone and grammar. If you were in Toronto in the 80's you listened to WBLK outta Buffalo and probably had friends and family in the states and UK. The early 'accent' was based on that Caribbean background with a very slight North East US inflection. When BET came to Toronto in the mid 90's some people started adopting a full on US slang and accent (which was weird). Eventually that morphed into the nonsense we hear today which i call 'Suburban Yawdie Slang' cuz it started in places like Brampton, Scarborough and Sauga. This is a byproduct of white black kids disconnected from their Caribbean roots by 2 generations mixed with white suburbanite kids who wanted to mimic the lingo. It has lead to the abomination we now call the "Toronto Accent"...
@WillisAmak 19 күн бұрын
Very on Point man, Im Toronto born and this is a fact
@thestatpow5 24 күн бұрын
"he has a gun right now, would you like to get shot" is craaazy LOL.
@Djbandit23 25 күн бұрын
This is so deep
@biaxcarr 13 күн бұрын
As a true Toronto shorty, this really did something for the soul! Thank you for putting this together and exposing me to an authentic, raw history🫶🏽✨
@tdotsblessing 13 күн бұрын
All love🫡🫡🫡
@buckeyefan05 29 күн бұрын
Do you believe that Drake in some ways put Toronto in a bad light in terms it’s contributions to Hip Hop? I ask because I’m from America and I remember artists from Toronto like Kardinall Offishall, Choclair, K-Os and Eternia, but Drake is the one that gets noticed when you talk about black Toronto.
@YouYewelz 29 күн бұрын
We look at that like it's Hanna Montana. Most of the Toronto stuff that we keep as music are dancehall guys. This whole city lives off rap, but it's yours. To my understanding, in Canada we don't have the law where we can rap crimes and say 'artistic expression' in court. To what I understand: no - they pull that shit right up in court in Canada.
@YouYewelz 29 күн бұрын
There are invisible legal differences between our countries. We can get violated for making rap, like how in England, you can get stop-and-frisk stopped for wearing a bubble coat. It makes differences for maneuvering.
@Akil1998 28 күн бұрын
@WaveQuakeTV They can use your lyrics against you in America as well. Look at the whole Young Thug, YSL situation. However yes in Canada we are different than America kind of where law is concerned.
@freddie5ive 28 күн бұрын
Toronto hiphop got absolutely no respect before drake lol who are you kidding
@lyric6656 27 күн бұрын
@@freddie5ive UR HIGH, who is Toronto face for hip hop if its not him, I get the hate train but stop the lying.
@lapoupee88 24 күн бұрын
thank you for this video loving this history... sad story though
@isthatreallywhathappened 21 күн бұрын
I really appreciate it. I hate when I see those disgusting Brown, White and Asian TikToks mocking our accents. This is how WE talk. I will always be proud of OUR community. "Toronto mans" trope is coded in racism. These people don't have a license to mock our lived experiences.
@broadwaye984 25 күн бұрын
I don’t hear a Toronto accent. I just hear Caribbean people that live in Toronto.
@KardiFan2000 25 күн бұрын
There is some of the local Canadian/Torontonian accent mixed in with Caribbean accent though, which makes it unique.
@catregime 24 күн бұрын
…whose Caribbean accents were affected by the local Toronto accent…which is more like a central Canadian accent.
@JTCFC1 24 күн бұрын
There is definitley a Toronto thing that doesn't exist in the Caribbean accent. Its like they raise their tone at the end of the sentance.
@daowonimdee 24 күн бұрын
Its a black Toronto accent. You've obviously never been to the Caribbean.
@KardiFan2000 23 күн бұрын
@@JTCFC1 That feature of the accent is known as "Canadian raising"... it's also noticable in the Midwest accents in America.
@dylanlavillain7173 16 күн бұрын
Gonna call it now, Drakes gonna start saying phrases from this put of nowhere 🤣 Side note, what a cool video
@highmedic2351 13 күн бұрын
I only heard of accents being made fun of today, and I spend a lot of time on social media. After watching this video, I am even more confused. This just sounds like people speaking with a Jamaican accent, which most people joke about in a playful/happy way. Yah mon! Anyway, I am glad to learn more.
@mhikeybalatbat Ай бұрын
curious if you can pinpoint when the accent changed into what it is now. how it exists now is almost like a caricature of what it was
@mhikeybalatbat Ай бұрын
just read your caption 😂
@quietman208 29 күн бұрын
I’m not from Toronto so my opinion don’t really mean shit, but I would guess the rise in drill music and Jamaican diaspora in general played a big part in it
@r.malcolmkr2052 28 күн бұрын
2005
@r.malcolmkr2052 28 күн бұрын
Jamaicans were the first black minority group to immigrate in large amounts to Canada. Sometime during the late 90's early 2000's other large groups immigrated, so the accent didnt get phased out but started to morph. This is just my guess, and from this video it seems to have transitioned well into 2005.
@Bandemic.Loot.Toronta 27 күн бұрын
The accent is still here. On the world stage Toronto is still a baby and ppl are witnessing it during its infancy pretty much. The accent that gets promoted on media has truth to it but it's more like a troll ting still. Gotta put shade on tdot in some type of way I guess
@m.al-h9108 25 күн бұрын
toronto accent is just a anglicized jamaican accent
@emilyleaf9857 21 күн бұрын
Love from JF 🤘
@starza22 25 күн бұрын
Idk why you guys keep wasting your time educating people that are committed to misunderstanding. There's nothing that people who discovered this on social media could ever tell me about my own accent
@melmcallister6293 24 күн бұрын
I can tell u y’all sound weird asl w all those scarbluff whimsical ass sayings y’all got 😅
@DeandreXBennett 24 күн бұрын
Ohhh brother get this guy out of here 🤦♂️
@tks4829 23 күн бұрын
They do it because they're begs looking for validation from the same people that disrespect them. Loser behaviour. From when you see what kind of videos go viral "representing" the toronto accent it should be obvious that most of this discourse is just the blind leading the blind
@psyche4867 23 күн бұрын
Uh..uh..uh nobody’s implying that you should be happy people are learning your own background?! Sad augmented view on it
@OlObuffalo 22 күн бұрын
@@melmcallister6293 LOL
@xXlegitx46Xx Ай бұрын
T h a n k y o u. For this
@ningus223 29 күн бұрын
Fuck u beat me to it. Agreed tho
@brasilcr4962 28 күн бұрын
🔥🔥
@Oldjongcrow416 26 күн бұрын
👀...footage like this, i can only imagine how much of a blessedman u/r foo...
@buckets3628 23 күн бұрын
beautiful
@user-hg6vd2iz7m 18 күн бұрын
aside from some people being too enthusiastic about emulating the accent, i suggest you should feel happy that people admire your community so much that they like to talk like you talk.
@shusmitgully792 3 күн бұрын
Holy fam how did you get this much info
@tdotsblessing 3 сағат бұрын
I'm like that🫡
@mrburnz22 28 күн бұрын
🔥
@ZebbMassiv 23 күн бұрын
I grew up on Driftwood and Grandravine in the early 1980s.
@user-hu7yt2ft1g 25 күн бұрын
T dot era alot dont realize there was a list that went platinum 90s early 2000s before Toronto was known as the 6ix. Alot to young to realize drake didn't put Toronto on the map he just continued to keep Toronto relevant commercially.
@GanjaDaddi_ 24 күн бұрын
Big facts, gotta understand the history.
@Hopper622 25 күн бұрын
These are who Drake think he is.
@chuck1804 6 күн бұрын
Back when Toronto was Canadian. Now it's just an Indian colony.
@sharkysplash1415 18 күн бұрын
Honestly I went to Jamaica recently and heard the exact same lingo even “crodie”
@brianfraser-cy4iy 27 күн бұрын
big up vern sides and boro crew
@Singforfun324 17 күн бұрын
Only real ones from Toronto know bout vern.
@macthaiguy55 24 күн бұрын
jellestone!!!! reps up the passion runs deep TDOT
@edmundo2dot0 27 күн бұрын
Can't make a video like this without Dwayne DeRosario
@cronstrubzo 25 күн бұрын
drake watched this vid and took notes
@Gatsu_Gambino 20 күн бұрын
This is why Drake has that accent bro... hes from the 1980s bruh
@_416_ Ай бұрын
I looked the ghetto profit dude, died in custody R.I.P
@nicolumens3311 23 күн бұрын
Maestro hairline was fvcked up when I was damn near a baby lol
@pistolpete8231 19 күн бұрын
Never understood grown men always commenting on other men's hairlines and looks. Very strange. Women don't even do that.
@cherisallen 27 күн бұрын
Ahhhh.. pure memories.. nuff nuff memories ❤ miss these mans.
@alwaysonroad-365 19 күн бұрын
Torontonian ebonics. And then the Somalis came and put their dialect in it, and now you got a Jamaican/Somali influence in the culture of today.
@WillisAmak 19 күн бұрын
Youre so wrong its disgusting. The only influence Somalis have is "Walahi". I grew up in Jane/Driftwood to Lawrence Heights which has alot of somalians. The MAIN influence is Jamaican dialect, "Blessed", "true", "ting", "cyattie", "alie", I can go on for DAYS. Even the lingo and how Torontonians speak is PURELY a Jamaican accent that is speaking "proper".
@alwaysonroad-365 17 күн бұрын
@WillisAmak that's really not Somali's only word, nor did I say Jamaicans weren't the main influence. Chill out fam, it ain't dat serious crodi. Two twos ur movin kinda dess, still. Should probably nize dat before the mali's hear you and fawad to ur ends wit da habad and give you a hot leggaz. Funny thing is, no real Toronto cat talks like that full out, super exaggerated. I've been around and I know a one two about the culture and who brought what to the table. And it's Somali's not Somalians, I'd figure they would have told you as much seeing as you grew up with them.
@mmmghool 12 күн бұрын
There's def a more recent trend of somali/arabic/islamic slang being mixed in. Walahi, bismilah, habibi, miskeen, etc.
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