I feel like you kind of answered your own question. The american accent B-Live is doing is so immediately obviously forced that you can't help but feel embarassed for him, or laugh at him. (I'm pretty sure that) The classic Yardie grime MC's are all of Jamaican-Carribean background so they can kind of pull it off a lot more naturally while at the same time I don't think anyone in the road rap scene was raised in memphis.Talking about Jamakabi & Flowdan... I love yardie MC's over grime. Take the most aggy & energetic dance music of the last 30 years and add the likes of Godsgift, Riko and Badness- ie. people who have never lived in the Caribbean- it's such an amazing combo and is arguably Grime at it's best. But it raises two questions. Why do I love this kind of thing even though real JA dancehall jarrs me? And why is it kosher for someone who's lived their whole life in London to put on a Jamaican accent but inauthentic if say, B-Live does an American one. Lots of people love the former, but thousands of people are laughing to the bad American accent in this Road Rap classic
Food for thought
Talking about Jamakabi & Flowdan... I love yardie MC's over grime. Take the most aggy & energetic dance music of the last 30 years and add the likes of Godsgift, Riko and Badness- ie. people who have never lived in the Caribbean- it's such an amazing combo and is arguably Grime at it's best. But it raises two questions. Why do I love this kind of thing even though real JA dancehall jarrs me? And why is it kosher for someone who's lived their whole life in London to put on a Jamaican accent but inauthentic if say, B-Live does an American one. Lots of people love the former, but thousands of people are laughing to the bad American accent in this Road Rap classic
Food for thought