They all had dreams of making it in America back then because UK rap wasn't selling, plus the hip hop fans in the UK weren't really really taking UK hiphop too seriously, so they felt like they needed to imitate Americans.
@@emil_rainbow How do you know he never set foot on an estate? For all you know he may have been gone grouse shooting on the Chatsworth Estate as a guest of the Duke of Devonshire? Or fox hunting on the Blenheim Palace estate of the Duke of Marlborough?
Solid shit for the nine 7. Keeping real dogs sober in their pyjamas sipping iced Bacardi, you feelin me? Tim Westwood bringing straight real flavour and stacking lyrical grind on the fields of concrete, that dope is real.
Oh get down you funky cat. Oh sorry Tim that won't be happening anymore now. More downtown Peckham than LA. One guy doing an impression of Shaggy while rapping -funny
Big Kwam and Lee Ramsay spitting some fire - the less said about Glamour Kid the better! Completely slowed down the flow - groans when he took over the mic.
That says more about your taste than it does his talent. If you don't like toasting you don't like toasting but don't hate on it. Just makes you look like a dick.
trying to sound so New York. glad the UK developed their own personality and styles throughout the years and now have their own hip hop culture that the US bites off of honestly
There always were British MCs that used their own accent, Demon Boyz for instance released an LP 1989, no idea why these guys felt the need to fake American nearly ten years later.
@Lawks Alordy it was very common for uk rappers to rap like that back then... not just these guys. People didn't think rapping in UK accents would ever be taken seriously and main stream media and record labels weren't interested back then. You had a few pioneers like the London Possse, Black Twang, Skinny Man, Rootz Manuva, Ty, etc and Tim was one of the few that gave them airplay. Things started to change in the early 2000s when the mainstream saw the success that so solid had and then Channel U came along and helped take it to another level as well. But I'd say the real game changer for the UK hiphop scene was definitely the internet.
yo yo yo its the main boy Tim West-Wood blastin' the mic in da 90s on bbcradio on the nine seven! ya'getme . big yup Mass-iiiiiive rep-re-zent fo'realz rez-pect ye-eaah!
'Tim Westwood, the Alan Partridge of Rap' - David Baddiel
The Jimmy Savile of rap more like😅😅🤣😂
Baddiel is a talentless moron. We all know how he got on TV 👃🏻
@@mjh5437 just focus on the music bruv
@@mjh5437now then now then
@@mjh5437u know nuthin. Line up with the rest of the lemmings
When most u.k rappers put on an American accent and used American slang luckily that changed a couple of years after this
They all had dreams of making it in America back then because UK rap wasn't selling, plus the hip hop fans in the UK weren't really really taking UK hiphop too seriously, so they felt like they needed to imitate Americans.
Yea big up Rodney P!!
They still pretend to be yanks,they`re all just wankers with no identity of their own.
Lowlife records birthed the UK hip-hop sound
Most British rappers still put an ali g accent on. Its not proper English accent
Still have this recorded from bk in the day on V H S
Yo yo, Tim always gave me the heebie-jeebies, for real 🖖👌
Ive always dound him quite funny
Middle class inspiration for Ali G
No mate
@@designatedpiledriver8216 Yes mate.
@@emil_rainbow again, no mate
@@designatedpiledriver8216 Is it coz i’m a pasty-faced public school educated son of a bishop who never set foot on the estate?
@@emil_rainbow How do you know he never set foot on an estate? For all you know he may have been gone grouse shooting on the Chatsworth Estate as a guest of the Duke of Devonshire? Or fox hunting on the Blenheim Palace estate of the Duke of Marlborough?
I videoed when it came on bbc2 back in the day. Classic! Thanks for sharing.
Same
Tim Westwood’s dad was the Bishop of Peterborough! 😂
Was he black ?
@@TheVideoLoungeyes!
Big kwam..Dope.
British with American accents lmao
ra this amazing young glamour u know
First guy really good, second sounds possessed 😂 but good talent 3rd pure talent theyre all really good
Can you imagine him talking like this in court? ''No no your honour i never touched her even ask my mother''
First guy sounds like Nas
When rappers had talent! First guy sounded amazing. The middle lad's voice I did not expect! Last bloke is from Nottingham?!
Yeh, last is Lee Ramsay from the group Out Da Ville
olixbob Nottingham Ney York lol
Sounds American
@@irena7777777 they were going with the flow. ... check the history of uk rap. Thank me later.
@@oneafrica4336 Me later, thanks
The American accent is crazy
I know, you peeped them since, they flipped their flow to British sound as sounding good too
Lol back when Uk rappers rapped in us accents
Still do,they`re pathetic
LEGEND
1:48 I didn’t expect that!
Yoooo was that BIG KWAM????? that's some super rare footage right there
20th September 1997
Solid shit for the nine 7. Keeping real dogs sober in their pyjamas sipping iced Bacardi, you feelin me? Tim Westwood bringing straight real flavour and stacking lyrical grind on the fields of concrete, that dope is real.
What's big kwams story?
Aiiiiiiiii!
Whats the song in background at 6.50 pls?
EPMD - Da Joint
Damn this was around the time BIG L was killin it wit da flows and you got kwame wit da similar flow
???what???
@@bensims7501 Kwame had a similar flow to the late legend rapper BIG L. Do you know of him?
Big Kwam's cousin was Twan..who was on Big L's first album. Same circles.
Everyone talking about the second guy being shit, but I rate it personally. Reminds me of krs one. Good Jamaican flow
Anyone know the track at around 6mins?
EPMD - Da Joint
That k solo and redman beat is The Shit!
You are correct - it certainly IS shit. Total shite
@@spunkletonspermaticus2415 enough about your mom,
@@spunkletonspermaticus2415Shut it u spunk sucka
anyone know who the first guy is he got some knowledge in his bars
Big Kwam
Nas
lol where the late night channel 4 show clip where they dis westwood and nearly beat him up i noticed that at on here
All great talent 👍👍
Surely the middle guy is just taking the piss?!
Nahhh. It’s Jamaican style. Like krs one
Love the leather jacket!
What on the back schwarzenegger?
kwarms is dope even the words r ovah americanised haha
'So many fakes in the game'........No shit 😂😂😂
Notice how no British rappers that used an American accent never made it big !
Last guy got used tango lotion
Oh get down you funky cat. Oh sorry Tim that won't be happening anymore now. More downtown Peckham than LA. One guy doing an impression of Shaggy while rapping -funny
Big Kwam and Lee Ramsay spitting some fire - the less said about Glamour Kid the better! Completely slowed down the flow - groans when he took over the mic.
That says more about your taste than it does his talent. If you don't like toasting you don't like toasting but don't hate on it. Just makes you look like a dick.
Gamma Kid is the only one not putting on a fake American accent
@@weltschmerz88 but it werent exhactly englesh haha
@Soca-Samuel The Red Indian Facts.
trying to sound so New York. glad the UK developed their own personality and styles throughout the years and now have their own hip hop culture that the US bites off of honestly
There always were British MCs that used their own accent, Demon Boyz for instance released an LP 1989, no idea why these guys felt the need to fake American nearly ten years later.
@Lawks Alordy it was very common for uk rappers to rap like that back then... not just these guys. People didn't think rapping in UK accents would ever be taken seriously and main stream media and record labels weren't interested back then. You had a few pioneers like the London Possse, Black Twang, Skinny Man, Rootz Manuva, Ty, etc and Tim was one of the few that gave them airplay. Things started to change in the early 2000s when the mainstream saw the success that so solid had and then Channel U came along and helped take it to another level as well. But I'd say the real game changer for the UK hiphop scene was definitely the internet.
@@nmorgan24Tony Bones was good back in the mid 90s. He gained some traction on underground radio but not mainstream
Decent
Good bars but is embarrassing listening back to that fake American accent, imagine how big uk rap would be if they just spit in their accents
So he faked that accent to suck up to the yanks?
@@epicfirsts888 well basically or he thought it wouldn't sound good In his accent not sure tbh
Black Twang, London Posse
@@southlondon86 yup definitely also jehst, chester p, mud fam, a lot of good uk old school rappers
Pure uk talent
Reprazentin da west side of Lowestoft
Bounty killer flow lol
Timmy G
Are they putting on American voices wtf 😂😂😂
That was the style then.
Lol cringe
First guy tried sounding like Nas.
Quality
BIG UP LEE RAMSEY BIG TREV OUT DA VILLE NOTTS CREW
Is it wrong for a man to cry?
westwood cold gettin' dumb
I didn't stop laughing at no.2
booyakasha
All so fake
Its still real to me damnit!
Big Kwan is a God MC
M......dot🇬🇭🇬🇭
what a bunch of crap!!!!! yo ya ba ....my bro eats snow..hee ya ho. ok to listen to once for comedy but never going to long lasting.
Why the U.K. dons rap in American 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's like an Alan Partridge sketch. Embarrassing!
That’s rap in a nutshell. It’s cringe and gae.
Lol
looks like no fun at all.
What a load of crap
yo yo yo its the main boy Tim West-Wood blastin' the mic in da 90s on bbcradio on the nine seven! ya'getme . big yup Mass-iiiiiive rep-re-zent fo'realz rez-pect ye-eaah!