Hip hop identity in a township reality. - Poppunt

2) Omission of articles
How many people are listening to (the) radio? (Bad Luck)
It’s (a) different genre. (Bad Luck)
I think that’s (a) totally different case. (X)
3) Extensive use of resumptive pronouns
Then I linked up with them and when they went to this gigs of theirs I always
went along with them. (Full Stop)
So they motivate me in a way that I get motivated by them. (Shaun)
So during the time as it goes by…. (Shaun)
4) Gender conflation in pronouns
He got killed here in Gugs. (where referent is Amie Biehl) (El Nino)
He heard me on the radio. (where referent is granny) (El Nino)
She nodds his head. (where referent is his sister) (Bad Luck)
5) Noun phrases not always marked for number
There were many corner (corners) where people used to recite our rhymes.
(Mayja)
Most of the girl (girls) I’ve dated before… (Shaun)
6) Extension of the progressive (cfr examples above)
7) No singular third person indicative present
You have to pay for the venue, that cost (costs) about more than a thousand
bucks. (Bad Luck)
When he turns sixteen or something, start (starts) listening to rap music, he
wear (wears) some baggy jeans. (Shaun)
Then I had the chance to learn more about the culture itself, that the culture
consist (consists) of like four elements. (El Nino)
8) Idiosyncratic patterns of complementation
Most people in Cape Town know how to speak Afrikaans of which me I don’t
know how to speak Afrikaans. (Bad Luck)
But this female MC she’s featuring on the album that I was talking to you.
(Mayja)
9) Simplification of tense
A lot of times auxiliary verbs are left out in certain verbal constructions.
They believe in us, they (are) pushing us. (Shaun)
Let’s say we (are) doing hip hop. (Bad Luck)
It’s about considering the fact that you (are) doing music for the world. (Crosby)
They (are) new on the block. (Shaun)