Jamaican Patois

Bring it back a little bit.

I have many friends that speak Jamaican Patois, and it almost sounds like music when they start talking.

And it's a very distinct language.

And so to be able to have it pulled back a little bit, I wonder...

So I say I really get that, that misconception there from dancehall.

You have to expect the raw Patois authentic street life when you hear dancehall music.

Yeah.

So it feels, like, more, like, real, like, even when you, like, compare, like, within, like, hip hop and, like, R&B and all that too.

twang I've not got the

Do you know Do you know Patois

I know, I can understand it, but I can't speak

it.

But were they born here? No, they were born in Jamaica, but they came over here and then they just went all Western.

You know what

it is? I think Patois generally should be classified as a separate language.

Unbelievable.

When I was growing up, it's like you might doesn't matter what island you were from.

Everyone was, you know, would speak Jamaican Patois because that was kind of what recognized.

And at a time, I'm ashamed when I was growing up, it was a quite a lot of hostility between Caribbean and Africans.

Yeah.

And we look down on Africans.

And many Africans would speak Patois in order not to be seen as African.

So there's all this denying of who we are because we're trying to manage, you know, to get through in this racist society that just won't accept that, you know, everyone has something wonderful and beautiful to contribute to society and we're all valuable.

We're all made in God's image.

Wow.

Is it Jamaican patois?

There's an argument.

Or is it

God, if it was possible.

I drop it on whoever wrote this Bible.

That's the Jamaican.

That's crazy.

And it was the most beautiful version that I've ever heard of that song.

There was French, there was Belarusian, there was Tagalog, Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Farsi, Portuguese, Jamaican Creole.

It was epic.

Unfortunately, there was no Vietnamese in that song because my native tongue is actually broken English, so that doesn't count.

Tree and T.

Do you know that Jamaican Patois actually has some little bit of Irish.

It's called cork.

Cork Irish.

They, they made a song together, whatever.

He's trying to coach him on, like, how to speak Patois and do the song.

I think it was entertaining.

So for the listeners, uh, Sean Paul, he appeared with streamer Neon in Jamaica, bringing local culture and entertainment to a online audience.

I don't know, he, I guess he was doing a Neon track.

Um.

[sighs] [laughs] He wa- he had him speaking Patois in the song.

Like, literally.