"I know you like the way I'm freakin' it/
I talk with slang and I'ma never stop speakin' it/
Speak with criminal slang/
That's just the way that I talk, yo/
Vocabulary spills I'm ill/"
~ Big L
Tha tight rhymes spit by the illest mc who han't dropped an album above ground are bond. Shit went down, an' Big L ain't around to hit us wit' the dil. His words is on the real. You ain't feelin' his shit, then you frontin'.
The words of the best rapper who never released a major label album ring true. Some things happened, and Big L is no longer with us to elaborate. His lyrics are truthful. If you don't agree with that, then you're lying.
I'll be straight with you. English is a language which is always out to be condensed. People are always telling you, "Be concise." "Don't use ten dollar words." Contractions are rampant. Would you rather read a clear-cut two page paper that got to the damn point or a flowery, roundabout ten page one on the same subject. Fuck the shotgun effect. I hate it. This is where ebonics comes in.
The "dialect" of Ebonics is a beautiful thing. It is the ultimate shorthand form of english. Through subject/verb switching (i.e. How are you? = How you be?) It gets to the point quicker and smoother. To the untrained ear it sounds like gibberish. But to someone who can swtich between the eloquent (grammatically correct english) and the minimal (ebonics), mainly me, there is a lil' sumtin' sumtin' (a certain je ne sais quoi (C'est francais, i.e It's french.)) about it.
Anyone who says ebonics is worthless and a sign of unintelligence is just jealous. They just don't want to bother getting to the point. People like that bother me. They can spend hours (well, a good long while anyways) talking around what they want to say. Shut the fuck up already. If you've found yourself talking for more than ten minutes while not telling a story and only receiving monosyllabic answers, you need to stop. Now. That is directed at certain people in particular (you and everyone else knows who you are) and the populace at large.
In any case, I hope you leave here with an appreciation for ebonics at the least. You don't need to love it and live it, but acknowledge the superiority to "normal" english. I'm out. One love.