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When Abi Atanda, aka Necaras of the Edinburgh hip-hop outfit the Yard MCs, holds an under-18s night on Fridays, he sees a lot of white teenagers "well into their hip-hop fashion". The collective affection for hip-hop - both the music and its diverse culture - manifests itself in the way the crowd talks, he says, but white kids seem to use vocabulary that signifies their affection "when they're trying to be funny".
"It's parody, rather than how they would actually speak all the time, but you know how these things go. It starts off as having a joke, but then eventually it becomes the normal way to talk for them."See the full content of this document
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