The word "Oi"

#24
L.C. said:
Like the engineer said, its a skinhead term. Punk and skinheads have been a love, hate relationship through the years. Weather we like it or not punk and skinhead culture are so far apart, but so close in other ways. Many times I've had blacks confuse punks with skinheads. I'm sure most of you have heard of "oi punk". Like others said its a part of the culture, and I personally no longer relate the word to skinheads.
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Lets not forget the true history of skinheads. There are "good" skins out there, traditional skins of every race. I know black, brown and white skinheads that listen to ska and are just working class traditional skins.
 
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slurricane said:
many of the first traditional skinheads were jamaican rudeboys, very dark.
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I don't think you could be further from the truth. I'm pretty well absorbed into Jamaican history and culture and I've never read or seen such a thing. The only reference I can think of you may be drawing this from is the song "Crazy Baldheads" by Bob or possibly searching Wikipedia for the word skinhead. Niether of which confirm what you're claiming. The Bob song isn't addressing skinheads by any means, more so those stiff necked fools, suits and ties, government, etc. The Wiki reference to skinheads and rudeboys was stating that in the earlier days skinheads were interested in the rudeboy style and culture, before reggae music itself became more focussed on black nationalism and the Rastafari movement(which basically boils down to- once it embraced color, they washed their hands of it). Maybe I'm all wrong, maybe you're citing many other references all together and I'm not as schooled on the subject as I thought, if so enlighten me please, because I had no idea rudeboys were some or "many of the first traditional skinheads"
 
#30
bryanpaul said:
nice.... kinda silly..kinda dumb.. but also a relevant thread........ yeah i guess it's just like any other "culturally exclusive"(?) word......on one hand it's like "oh god, these fuckin oogly crusttards wont stop OIing at me" but on the other handit kinda helps identify folks in our culture.... i dunno, i think it's kind of cool to have words and phrases that are sort of exclusive to us........ as much as the rainbow kid talk annoys me i think it's cool that folks have a verbal culture....and with the train riding community i think its cool to have words that can help let folks know that your "in the scene"... as much as i might crack jokes on "oi" and carharts and face tats and shit...when i see some travelin folk i'll say "oi....whats up"......it's nice to be a part of a scene/culture....... same with a rag on yer neck...it actually kinda sux tho..cuz wearin a rag seems to be pretty hip these days.... i'll see somebody witta backpack and bandana around their neck and be like "oh hey, you on the rails too dood?" and they look at me like im a idiot................................basically my dumb point is..... our culture is just that ...a culture... and as much as i like to poke fun at the crusty travelin kid stereotypes....it's nice to have our own terms and words and jokes and shit.... OI
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ya drunk right now?
 
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Engineer Jason Roseville said:
I don't think you could be further from the truth. I'm pretty well absorbed into Jamaican history and culture and I've never read or seen such a thing."
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i mean by this jamaican rude boys living in the united kingdom, atleast i think they were of jamaican origin as if they'd moved to the united kingdom. they still kept their accents i know this much, my mother growing up was a trojan 'skinbird', i was always around these goups of people including some directly from the bahamas and the uk so i'm just laying down my first hand experience, i'm not an encyclopedia.
 
#34
slurricane said:
i'm just laying down my first hand experience, i'm not an encyclopedia.
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No worries, not here to argue with ya, it was just news to me what you were stating. You look to be about mid to late 20's in age and your claim was "many of the first traditional skinheads were jamaican rudeboys". I guess when you put the word "first" in there I made the silly assumption you were talking about some of the first skinheads which were popping up in the 60's. I guess you meant the first ones you had a first hand experience in meeting, I don't know? Doesn't matter, silly topic is silly.
 
#35
Read this!!!!! I don't know this guy, but I know a lot of black and Mexican skinheads in Cali, One I went to high school with. He was a Mexican skin and he even had an Oi band called The Bombshell boys. I also went to see The Business once and met and older (late 40's) black skinhead. But I see a lot of skins of every race when I go to certain ska or Oi shows. They've all been super cool and nice.
http://www.afropunk.com/profiles/blogs/an-oxymorons-dream-the-black
 
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