Question about Ebonics?

I can understand what you're asking, but unfortunately there are no official grammatical rules to Ebonics. Ebonics is merely laziness, and is in no way it's own language, so there is no way of measuring what is "right" or "wrong" when Ebonics in and of itself is poor English.

I live in the deep south. I've run across enough Caucasian people with thick accents who say things like "wasn't you going to the store?" I've never heard *anyone* say "it's likes..."

Anyway, I would argue that "real Ebonics" isn't a correct statement. There's nothing real about it. It's just poor grammar and there are subcultures in a lot of races that use poor grammar.

nobody says "its likes 6am over there"....it wouldnt make sense to us, and that sentence itself doent make sense anyway because how can it be "like 6 am"

"Wasnt you goin to tha store?"

actually, that one IS real ebonics (i prefer the term black american vernacular). I say that (i'm not black american, im caribbean, but i was born in the US so i still talk like that)

And to the people who said that Ebonics is lazy english and doesnt have rules.....thats wholly untrue and actually quite ignorant. Ebonics might not have as many rules as "standard" english, but it DOES have rules. If you try to fake ebonics and say certain things, actual black people wont understand you.

like the first phrase the questioner used, that doesnt make sense in ebonics and if you talked like that to ANYONE, whether educated or not, people would look at you funny.

Black American English IS a legitimate dialect with its own logic, grammar and syntax. if we're gonna judge a language's validity based on its relation to other languages, then by following that train of thought English itself shouldnt exist either, since it arose from a corrupted, basilectal form of Old Germanic. We dont call English "Poor German"...we dont call French, Spanish and Italian "poor Latin"....so why call Ebonics "poor English". Its not poor, just different, and YES, you can speak it wrong.

look dude just rember that people who speak in ebonics are called we bees, cus they say we be doin dis and we be doin dat

Those are not correct.

"It's like 6 am over there."

"Weren't you going to the store?"

Yes, both of those are wrong.

"It's likes 6am over there." Is supposed to be "It is 6am over there"

"Wasn't you going to the store?" Is supposed to be "Aren't you going to the store?"