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| David Emmanuel aka Smiley Culture (10 February 1963 – 15 March 2011) |
As Kippers put it succinctly in a Tweet this week, it is the cruellest of ironies that a man famous for this record should die in what look to be deeply suspicious circumstances during a police 'drugs raid'.
What a sad, sad end.
Here's to happier times with a witty pioneer of British reggae/ragga MCing.
Smiley Culture - 'Cockney Translation' (1984)
Cockney Translation' translated...
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It's I Smiley Culture with the Mic in me hand
Me come to teach you the right and not the wrong
In a de Cockney translation
Cockney's not a language it is only a slang
And was originated ya so inna England
The first place it was used was over East London
It was respect for different style pronounciation
But it wasn't really used by any and any man
Me say strictly con-man also the villain
But through me full up of lyrics and education
Right here now you go get a little translation.
Cockney have names like Terry, Arthur and Del Boy
We have names like Winston, Lloyd and Leroy
We bawl out YOW while Cockneys say OI!
What Cockneys call a jacks we call a blue bwoy.
Say Cockney have mates while we have Spa
Cockney live in a drum, while we live in a yard
Say we get nyam, while Cockney get capture
Cockney say Guv'nor, we say Big bout ya
In de Cockney translation x2
Well watch a man.......
The translation of Cockney to understand is easy
So long as you ain't deaf and you listen me keenly
You should pick it up like a youth who find some money
Go tell it to your friends and also your family
No matter if a English or a Yardy
Ca' you never know when them might buck up a Cockney
Remember warn dem dem deh man dem don't easy
Dem no fire sling shot a me say strictly double B
Dem run protection racket and control 'nuff CID
Say Cockney fire shooter, we bus' gun
Cockney say tea leaf, we just say sticks man.
You know dem have wedge, while we have corn
Say Cockney say Be first my son! we just say Gwan!
Cockney say grass, we say informer man
When dem talk about iron, dem really mean batty man
Rope chain and choparita me say, Cockney call tom
Cockney say Old Bill we say dutty Babylon
In a de Cockney Translation x2
Well watch a man
Slam bam
Jah man
Hear dem
Fasion
Smiley
Culture
Organisation
But let me first tell you more about the Cockney
Who live comfortably and have a yacht by the sea
And when it come to money most of them have plenty
But where dem spent it? In de bookie
Lose it all on the dogs or on the gee gees
Or paying off fe dem bribes to the Sweeney
So dem nah get no time fe Armed Robbery
Or catching anything that fell off the back of a lorry
Slam bam
Jah man
Hear dem
Fasion
Me strong
Me long
Me at the mike stand
More time
In a dance
Me chat
'pon a sound
But sometimes me shake out and leave me home town
And that's when me travel a East London
Where I have to speak as a different man
So that the Cockney can understand
So black man and white man hear dem fashion
Cockney say scarper, we say scatter
Cockney say rabbit, we chatter
We say bleach, cockney knackered
Cockney say triffic, we say waaaacked!
Cockney say blokes, we say guys
Cockney say alright, we say Ites
We say pants, Cockney say strides
Sweet as a nut.... just level vibes, seen?
I feel like I'm learning a new language. I haven't yet learned properly all the others. Still, it's cool running vibe in the night. Yes I.
ReplyDeleteA terribly sad ending.
ReplyDeleteIs it okay to have a drink yet? I think I may be on the Appleton's tonight
It would be a tribute Drew, so I think, yes.
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend Mr H.
ReplyDeleteA glass of the usual is it?
Think I'll open proceedings with a pint of London Pride. Cheoz.
ReplyDeleteI may join you in one of those actually
ReplyDeleteEeh, it's like sitting at a virtual pub table.
ReplyDeleteI love many things about this record, but the bit where he says 'fell off the back of a lorry' is one of my favourites and best.
ReplyDeleteI've ran out of ice!
ReplyDeleteNightmare
ReplyDeleteAll okay again. Thank god for the local Spar.
ReplyDeleteWord verif is the spooky 'mettend'
ReplyDeleteI've just been drinking apple juice that looked like piss.
In fact my little boy said when offered some 'no, le wee wee'
Don't mind stuff that resembles a sample Simon, especially Hoegaarden.
ReplyDeleteI know Comic relief is for a good cause but don't you just hate all these worthy fuckers, especially that git Moyles. If you want to do something, donmate a month's salary to the charity instead of getting your name in the record books. git!
All get my coat, shall I?
Spar is an anagram of Raps - how spooky is that? I s'pect Smiley is er, smiling down on us. Nice day forecast tomorrow. May cut the grass. Then smoke it as a tribute.
ReplyDeleteCans of Draught Guinness left overs. Black not Red.
Meanwhile has anybody seen the Withnail/Star Wars mash up thingy:
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That is a work of GENIUS.
ReplyDeleteIsn't just? I was in hysterics afterwards.
ReplyDeleteC3P0 and Withnail - separated at birth. Level vibes, seen?
ReplyDeleteStabbed himself in the heart, eh?
ReplyDeleteCourse he did...
IPCC issues update on investigation.
ReplyDelete"Bad apples ... are seldom brought to justice: no policeman has ever been convicted of murder or manslaughter for a death following police contact, though there have been more than 400 such deaths in the past ten years alone. The IPCC is at best overworked and at worst does not deserve the “I” in its name." - The Economist April 2009
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