Monday, June 06, 2005

This day in music history.

June 6, 2003, Judge Kim Lewison A High court judge in London ruled that rap lyrics should be treated as a foreign language. The judge had been asked to rule on a case brought by the band Ant'ill Mob against The Heartless Crew. Andrew Alcee, the writer of Ant'ill Mob's hit Burnin, was claiming that lyrics "laid over" the top of the Heartless Crew's remix of the song constituted "derogatory treatment" of the copyright.
He said terms like "shizzle my nizzle", "mish mish man" and "string dem up" referred to drugs and violence and so "distorted and mutilated" his original tune.
The Judge admitted that even after playing the record at half speed and referral to the Urban Dictionary he was unable to be sure of the meaning of the slang. He said that although the lyrics were written in a form of English, they were "for practical purposes a foreign language", and he had no expert evidence as to what they meant. He dismissed Mr Alcee's damages claim.
According to the urbandictionary.com...
Shizzle my nizzle - A bastardization of "fo' sheezy mah neezy", which is a bastardization of a phrase meaning "I concur with you wholeheartedly my African American brother".
Wacked out cracka - Rich white person who pretends to act like a black "gangsta".
Dang blang hang thang - Valuable gold necklace.
and DLAKs personal fave
Ga dunk a dunk - A big bottom.