PBH

This goes for any accent in the world but I'm mainly directing it at England and America, which accent do you prefer when it comes to rapping, i know its obvious we're both most likely going to say our own, maybe because we're use to our own accents, but please give details on the accent you prefer and on the one you don't.
So my view on this is...i'm into both English and American just as much, as a kid i'd only heard American rap to begin with, and to be honest at first i thought i'd love to rap but how do you do it in an English accent, i didn't think it would sound right, but then i heard a few English mc's come into the mainstream, then i realised it can be done and sounds just as good, i know what we have in the charts here isn't hip hop it is grime, but what i mean is their vocals are similar to rap, I'm not a fan of most grime, most of what I've heard of it is $hit really, and if other countries here the words UK hip hop and think of grime that pisses me off, we have real hip hop underground, but if we don't have it on the TV and radio over here your not going to hear much of it elsewhere in the world.

I think rap sounds good in any accent as long as it's done properly, like you can get a $hit rapper from anywhere make their accent sound horrible, but get someone else who makes that accent sound brilliant.

My favourite accents are the American accent, (sorry i can't tell much of a difference between different American accents, most of them sound the same to me, good though)

And in England, Yorkshire and London accents i'd say sound best in rapping

Janszoon

Not so much accent as it is language, but I love the way rapping sounds in Spanish and Russian. Spanish is a musical, rhyming kind of language to begin with, and has a great natural cadence for hip hop. Russian seems (I don't speak it or know much about it) very consonant-heavy, which in the context of hip hop, translates as a nice variety of percussive mouth sounds that go very well with the music to me.

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What Yorkshire rappers do you listen to? Can only think of Tezz Kid I think his name is.

Manchester & Birmingham have the best accents imo. British anyway, I find it hard to distinguish between Americans unless it's something really obvious like Texas, Atlanta, New York, and even then the accents have to be really strong.

PBH

Yeah I've heard a bit of Spanish and Russian Rap, i wasn't right into the beats but yeah the vocals were good, as for the beats i know you can't go by just 1 or 2 groups i'll have to check some more of it out, i heard some German hip hop before as well which i quite liked, think i'll have to hear some of that again as well.

PBH

Yorkshire Rap - someone recently lent me a cd of a Yorkshire rapper called XYM, i haven't listened to all of it yet so i can't really comment, it was sounding good though, and other Yorkshire rappers i know of are myself and other people i knew when i lived there.

MikeMitchellsMusic

I think flow and lyrics will play a big part in this. ive just finished recording some of my stuff and im a british aspiring artist but grew up listening to American rappers so I understand how uk rappers are trying to diversify, only thing is if your rapping for Americans whilst living in the UK it doesn't tend to work out - and vice versa. Looking to get the right balance helps.