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2001 · Scarborough

BaKardi Slang

Kardinal Offishall

We don't say 'you know what I'm saying' — t'ings kinda different here

The annotation

The founding document of Toronto slang on record. Kardi built an entire song out of the gap between US hip-hop vocabulary and how the city actually talks — Patois-inflected 'tings', dropped consonants, T-dot instead of Toronto. Two decades before the 6ix wave, this is where the accent got its flag planted.

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