Wasup wit Noo Zeeln rap?

Here is NZ rapper Tommy Ill's new single - it's called 'Come Home Mr Ill' and it's pretty good. Give it a watch if you haven't seen it yet...

I really like the mixture of old and new technology, the hand-made/home-made look and the sampled & recycled materials - audio and visual. It is, in many ways, very original and very Kiwi. There's one thing though that spoils it for me, and it seems to be common to most (if not all) NZ rap and hip-hop:

"Th' lyric is reel clevah and the images are pretty, but 
why he gotta taawk like he come from noo york city?"