“BaKardi Slang” (2001)
Kardinal’s breakthrough hit was a Torontonian answer to Big L’s Harlem slang breakdown “Ebonics,” with the rapper illustrating the differences between his home city’s pan-Caribbean patois dialect, and more widely used hoodspeak: So when we singin about the girls, we singin about di gal dem/Y’all talkin about, ‘say that one more time’/We talkin about ‘yo, come again’/ Y’all talkin about ‘that n***a’s a punk’/ We talkin about ‘dat yute’s a fosse’…You’re talkin about ‘yo, that girl’s hype’/We like ‘she’s the bundown’/ Y’all say ‘a DJ battle’/We say ‘clash with two sounds.’