Why does Floyd always say "aks" instead of "ask"?

[No Ceiling]

i could of. you should of ax me

[Khalid X]

There are probably 40 million blacks living in the US alone. Unless you know every one of them, that's a ****** comment. I don't pronounce ask that way, and neither do any of the blacks I've been around including friends and family. I have heard plenty of other people who are not black consistently pronounce "wash" as "Worsh" along with other grammatical errors. It would be very easy for me to stereotype their race for that but I'm not going to stoop to that level. This thread is racist and insulting which was the intent.

Did you not read my post. I said all blacks in the area I live say it. I specifically said in my last response that I can't speak for others living in different regions of the US.

BTW I'm not gonna lie, I didn't really know the TS and just caught onto this being a racist bait thread. I think it had more to do with me giving people on here the benefit of the doubt when responding to questions asked on boxingscene. That and the fact I didn't read the whole thread and my response was to people saying it is ebonics (which I still disagree).

[TheSmash]

This thread is racist and insulting which was the intent.

Sure seems like it.

...my response was to people saying it is ebonics (which I still disagree).

...Im pretty sure this is just a sideways diss aimed at blacks. We say and pronounce things different....your point is?

I am curious as to how you reconcile these two ideas. How do you define "ebonics"? If you are of the belief that black people say and pronounce things differently, in a fairly consistent manner, isn't that the very definition of ebonics?

[them_apples]

watch at 1:04 and 1:14. why ? Is it slang? hip hop talk?

a lot of black people talk that way, but it just sounds like he's purposely talking like that. He says it to clean.

[Toney Loc]

a lot of black people talk that way, but it just sounds like he's purposely talking like that. He says it to clean.

Any black people in Canada? Do say aks instead of ask?