For the record, I too doubt the validity of IQ gradings, with relation to measuring interlect, but:
While I disaprove of people continually pointing to singer, actors or other people currently in the public eye, as being bad role models I also think it is slightly naive to think that young teens, looking for an identity will not look to people like 'Lady Sov', as points of reference, and when the people they are looking to, can barely string a sentance together without a swear word or a word they have made up on the spot, I begin to fear for the future of this country.
The notion that the image of the 'Chav' is something cooked up by middle class idiots as a way of looking down on the working class, is totally retarded. The fact is, I consider myself 'working' class and I suffer as much as anyone at the hands of Chavs. Prejudice and discrimination has nothing to do with it, the fact is that while I know one or two people who dress in tracksuits and baseball caps, who are nice people, generally they are a bunch of feckless, untrustworthy, work-shy filth, happy to mooch off welfare or steal, in order to sustain themselves. And don't tell me that I don't know what I am talking about, I am sourounded by the thieving little pikies, every day.
With regard to your comments about the evolution of the English language, you seem to be under the impresion that any change is for the better.
Are you honestly suggesting that words like; "gyal", "proppa-nah" and "finkin" should be added to the dictionary, simply because a certain demographic chooses to shun the English language, in favour of sounding like they have brain damage?
That is the same as eating your dinner off the floor, so that your dog feels he is part of the family.
Now down to the main point, as I see it:
Lady Sovereign is not talented.
There, I said it.
It has nothing to do with the fact that she looks like a crack addict, it is because she is completely without merit. She has nothing of any worth, to say and she is deeply, deeply stupid.
Genuinely great MCs have been able to rhyme well, without having to butcher the English language, to fit the sentence, to the point that it no longer means anything.
For the record, I too doubt the validity of IQ gradings, with relation to measuring interlect, but:
While I disaprove of people continually pointing to singer, actors or other people currently in the public eye, as being bad role models I also think it is slightly naive to think that young teens, looking for an identity will not look to people like 'Lady Sov', as points of reference, and when the people they are looking to, can barely string a sentance together without a swear word or a word they have made up on the spot, I begin to fear for the future of this country.
The notion that the image of the 'Chav' is something cooked up by middle class idiots as a way of looking down on the working class, is totally retarded. The fact is, I consider myself 'working' class and I suffer as much as anyone at the hands of Chavs. Prejudice and discrimination has nothing to do with it, the fact is that while I know one or two people who dress in tracksuits and baseball caps, who are nice people, generally they are a bunch of feckless, untrustworthy, work-shy filth, happy to mooch off welfare or steal, in order to sustain themselves. And don't tell me that I don't know what I am talking about, I am sourounded by the thieving little pikies, every day.
With regard to your comments about the evolution of the English language, you seem to be under the impresion that any change is for the better.
Are you honestly suggesting that words like; "gyal", "proppa-nah" and "finkin" should be added to the dictionary, simply because a certain demographic chooses to shun the English language, in favour of sounding like they have brain damage? That is the same as eating your dinner off the floor, so that your dog feels he is part of the family.
Now down to the main point, as I see it: Lady Sovereign is not talented. There, I said it. It has nothing to do with the fact that she looks like a crack addict, it is because she is completely without merit. She has nothing of any worth, to say and she is deeply, deeply stupid. Genuinely great MCs have been able to rhyme well, without having to butcher the English language, to fit the sentence, to the point that it no longer means anything.