I know that I can't be the only person who has noticed what seems to be a "trend" of topic among black people our age. It seems like black people, mainly dudes, are always braggin about who comes from the roughest neighborhood or went to the roughest school, and they will diss somebody who may be from a nicer neighborhood. I see this a lot at FAMU and probably every other school I know about. For example, people from NY will be arguin about somethin and then one will be like "you don't know anyway, you are from the burbs, I live in the middle of the hood" and I hear it a lot from people from L.A. It's people from Carson, which is a nice suburb in my opinion, who will always compare their "hood" to other cities and talk about how hard the people in their hood are and all else.
How long has it been better to be raised in a bad neighborhood? Where I grew up is somethin between good and bad, it isn't Watts but damn sure ain't Beverly Hills. But if I was from a nice suburb, I would definitely not be ashamed of it, and if I was from a bad hood, i definitely wouldn't go around braggin about it like it makes me hard just because I was from a hard hood. Are people actin like this because thas the same thing the rappers do?
How long do you have to live somewhere to be able to REP it? Cuz its one thing to live in a burb and never live in the city you are tryna claim, but if you've lived in both, then are you allowed to REP the major city?
F*ck a burb and the hood. I'm from St. Louis damnit and thats all that matters to me. Y'all can keep all that Eastside, Westside, Southside, SWATs, etc blah blah blah. I'm still a country, educated niggra. Ain't no need for me to be "hood" and prove myself.
Oh my goodness up in Seattle u have these fake **** wanna be thugs talkin bout "what up blood" and throwin up gang signs. These clowns are in front of the fuccin ballet doin this... I mean come on if you gonna throw somethin up then go do it someplace where it matter. :roll:
I didn't grow up in the hood, but i didn't grow up in a rich neighborhood either. Yeah, every once in a while they was something bad goin down, but it wasn't an everyday thing to where I would be like "Oh, Jay got shot...dang" and keep walkin. Anytime something happened around my way it was news to my ears. I dunno know why people have to brag on where there from. Where you are raised doesn't make you who you are unless you let it. One thing bad about where I grew up is very few people go to college much less high school. Girls always gettin pregnant and what not. I could have let that be me, but I decided not to let it. I grew above it and decided to do something wit my life.
Yeah there are parts of Fayetteville that if you come off wrong to some people you might get shot. And if I wanted to "sound hard" I could rep that part...but I ain't gon lie. I AIN'T hard. I live on a golf course..whats hard about that?
F*ck a burb and the hood. I'm from St. Louis damnit and thats all that matters to me. Y'all can keep all that Eastside, Westside, Southside, SWATs, etc blah blah blah. I'm still a country, educated niggra. Ain't no need for me to be "hood" and prove myself.
well you can keep that St. Louis to yourself :roll:
Hell i aint really from nowhere....BUT since i rep VA---ive been from the "hood"(u gotta be in before a certain "time" cuz they get to shootin...dont dare leave ya toys or bike on the patio/or balcolny-cuz they wont be there the next day-lol) ...to livin in the Suburbs (not jus white people, but a lot of blacks too) livin in big houses, nice neighborhoods, green lawns-ya know movie type sh*t......now im in the dingy @ss country-aint nothin pretty or nice out here. :? I can see how people say if they lived in the tough streets then that means ur "tough". But some cats take it too far. Yes ur environment has a role in ur life-but it will never be that serious when u call someone a punk cuz they aint never lived nowhere else than the suburbs. :roll:
Well um i was born and lived for a min i Nashville..and them times were not the best...i really never walked around the nieghborhood of my apartment cuz of to many ignorant folks and stray arse dogs. I remember hearing gunshots when in recess at school and having to go in.I seen alot of crazy things while in that urban situation. But my folks worked real hard even mutilple jobs whle I was being babysitted alot during late nights until they got enough money and we moved to the burbs of Chicago. Umm..I can say i do feel alot safer in my new area than where i was born but again crime and ignornce is everywhere.My burb is majority black and the ones near me are the same. And the closer you get to the CITy the worse the burbs get. A Suburb is not always what people think when they hear the word..its not going to always be full of friendly white people. plus in alot of the states people in the suburb are ones who moved from the inner city....its a pattern of migration going on..as they tear down different areas in the inner cities where people stayed.
Plus no matter where you from the end you BLACK in America ...lol thats hard enough. :!:
I didn't grow up in the hood, but i didn't grow up in a rich neighborhood either. Yeah, every once in a while they was something bad goin down, but it wasn't an everyday thing to where I would be like "Oh, Jay got shot...dang" and keep walkin. Anytime something happened around my way it was news to my ears. I dunno know why people have to brag on where there from. Where you are raised doesn't make you who you are unless you let it. One thing bad about where I grew up is very few people go to college much less high school. Girls always gettin pregnant and what not. I could have let that be me, but I decided not to let it. I grew above it and decided to do something wit my life.
EVERYONE STAND AND APPLAUD :lol: 8) :wink: :!: :idea:
F*ck a burb and the hood. I'm from St. Louis damnit and thats all that matters to me. Y'all can keep all that Eastside, Westside, Southside, SWATs, etc blah blah blah. I'm still a country, educated niggra. Ain't no need for me to be "hood" and prove myself.
well you can keep that St. Louis to yourself :roll:
you can keep that dumb arse look in ya sig to yourself as well :arrow:
:lol: 8) :wink: :!: :idea:
