shudder said:
holy shit! I never knew that's what bloodclaat referred to!!!! I mean, you hear it all the time, and it sounds so totally normal, but... wow.
though normal and commonplace in jungle/drum&bass and not infrequently used in dancehall, in jamaica it's seriously offensive (artists are fined if they use it at stage shows, for example), so it's not a word to be thrown around lightly really...
viktorvaughn said:
'Booyaka' is the mimicing of a gunshot i think?
indeed - the boo is the shot and the yaka is the ricochet... amazing (though perhaps unsurprising) how detailed and varied jamaican vocal impersonations of gunshots are - there's also bo/boo/buh, brap and rruh/rah... and i seem to remember one that specifically imitates a machine gun, but i've forgotten what it is..