![]() ![]() This has got to be some of the worst patois in any song. Elliott in Need You Bad by Jazmine Sullivan So I decided to dedicate this post to bad examples of “fake patois” spoken in popular media.ġ1 Examples of Fake Patwa in Popular Mediaġ. In fact, there is a Jamaica in Queens in New York City. ![]() Jamaicans have resided in New York for more than 100 years creating a huge cultural influence. Which after some evaluation, I realized that it is not so difficult for non-Jamaicans to learn Patois especially if they live in urban cosmopolitan centres of North America and England. ![]() Hence Das Racist “fake patois”-ed through this song. There were also Cuban schools in Jamaica for several years. In Cuba, Jamaicans have worked as labourers (including my great grandmother). Indians have lived in Jamaica for generations arriving as indentured workers post-slavery in the 1800s. Two members are of Indian decent and the other is Afro-Cuban and Italian. As convincing as their lyrics sound, imagine how dooped I felt when I learned that none of the members of Das Racist is Jamaican. Das Racist- looks like a hipster band to meĭepicted in a low budget, vintage-style video footage of a dance show, Fake Patois is a song about just that.
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