Since half of the stuff in the "ghetto" thread sounds like some suburb kids tryin to sound cool, here's checklist guide for you all. You are NOT ghetto/from the ghetto if....
...You've NEVER heard your neighborhoods name on the news in a negative way.
You've never seen a roach in your house
You've NEVER EVER EVER had cars parked in the grass for weeks at a time
You've never watched a drug bust while sitting on your own front porch.
You've never heard gunshots at nite
You've never seen the cops in your neighborhood after dark...
These are just a few of the minimal requirements. If haven't experienced at least 4 of the 6 listings....you are NOT from the ghetto.
if you make fun of people for gettin creative with their food when times was hard for them...
i.e. cereal with water... peanut butter and syrup sandwiches (a good bottle of syrup last forever yo lol)... ya know... lol
if you make fun of people for gettin creative with their food when times was hard for them...
i.e. cereal with water... peanut butter and syrup sandwiches (a good bottle of syrup last forever yo lol)... ya know... lol
Ya know, lol! I mean for some of us times were truly hard. I remember one of my creative foods back in the day actually got a little recognition aross the 'hood. It was called 'Bread Stuff,' which was basically cheese toast topped with cinnamon sugar, but it was good.
if you make fun of people for gettin creative with their food when times was hard for them...
i.e. cereal with water... peanut butter and syrup sandwiches (a good bottle of syrup last forever yo lol)... ya know... lol
my mommy used to make us syrup sandwiches... i hate them now.
but anyway, you know you're not ghetto when:
you see joggers every morning (they dont jog in the ghetto)...
you dont see broken glass in the streets...
you dont hear sirens (police, ambulance, fire truck) every night...
you leave your car and house doors unlocked...
if you make fun of people for gettin creative with their food when times was hard for them...
i.e. cereal with water... peanut butter and syrup sandwiches (a good bottle of syrup last forever yo lol)... ya know... lol
Ya know, lol! I mean for some of us times were truly hard. I remember one of my creative foods back in the day actually got a little recognition aross the 'hood. It was called 'Bread Stuff,' which was basically cheese toast topped with cinnamon sugar, but it was good.
Yea I used to hook it up...ramen noodles, fried bolonga w/ cheese, HOT DOGS AND PORK AND BEANS WAS THE HIIIIT, jelly sandwiches, peanut butter and syrup or bananas, crunchy peanut butter on toast
if you make fun of people for gettin creative with their food when times was hard for them...
i.e. cereal with water... peanut butter and syrup sandwiches (a good bottle of syrup last forever yo lol)... ya know... lol
Ya know, lol! I mean for some of us times were truly hard. I remember one of my creative foods back in the day actually got a little recognition aross the 'hood. It was called 'Bread Stuff,' which was basically cheese toast topped with cinnamon sugar, but it was good.
Yea I used to hook it up...ramen noodles, fried bolonga w/ cheese, HOT DOGS AND PORK AND BEANS WAS THE HIIIIT, jelly sandwiches, peanut butter and syrup or bananas, crunchy peanut butter on toast
AWWW MAN... them joints take me back to the days before we moved on up... lol the funny thing is even after we moved on up to a way better neighborhood mad habits still stuck (mostly because we struggling to stay in the new neighborhood lol... and mamadukes and i sure wasn't tryin to go back lol)...
you not ghetto if your not used to hearing names like pookie, Fundisha, Zeneta, Rayquan aka RayRay, Oranjello and Lemanjello aka Orange and LemonJello (and yes ya'll the last one is an actual name... they mama named her twins after jello.... sounds cool tho O-RAN-JHA-LO + LEMAN-JHA-LO... smh lol (i'm **** ****))
*You've seen guys in the neighborhood walking around in with blazers and jeans just for hell of it.
*No Mexicans in your neighborhood.
There was no mexicans in the hood where I grew up , and it was definitely ghetto :-D
#1 RULE, You are not from the ghetto if you have to TRY TO ACT LIKE YOU ARE FROM THE GHETTO!!! That was THE worst thing about rich kids that went to Hampton and tried to act like they grew up poor and they was hood... The cats that was really from the hood usually kept it low key.
you not ghetto if your not used to hearing names like pookie, Fundisha, Zeneta, Rayquan aka RayRay, Oranjello and Lemanjello aka Orange and LemonJello (and yes ya'll the last one is an actual name... they mama named her twins after jello.... sounds cool tho O-RAN-JHA-LO + LEMAN-JHA-LO... smh lol (i'm **** ****))
Haha that's true... My best friend to this day, guess what his name is?
"Pookie" haha. It's funny cause out of all my friends, only like 2 of us graduated or even went to college, but I'm still cool with all my old friends from the hood, so sometimes when we go on college tours for HBCU Connect Pookie rolls with us... And you know one of the funny things I heard that cat say? He saw the AKAs steppin' at Hampton's homecoming and he was like,
"Yea, see... If I had of went to college, I woulda had me one of them ... "
like they was some kind of objects or somethin hehe
You ain't ghetto if your parents bought you a new car when you was in high school... sh@t you was lucky if mom and pops let you drive the station wagon to the football games on Friday nights playa. hahaaa :?
*You've seen guys in the neighborhood walking around in with blazers and jeans just for hell of it.
*No Mexicans in your neighborhood.
There was no mexicans in the hood where I grew up , and it was definitely ghetto :-D
#1 RULE, You are not from the ghetto if you have to TRY TO ACT LIKE YOU ARE FROM THE GHETTO!!! That was THE worst thing about rich kids that went to Hampton and tried to act like they grew up poor and they was hood... The cats that was really from the hood usually kept it low key.
Omg..lol..are you serious...
In Dallas, Texas the hood is mostly Mexican now. How can illegal aliens move to the suburbs off back? If you not from Oak Cliff, you wouldn't know so how are you telling me what it's like and you never been.
Mr. Admin, don't make assumptions about people you know absolutely nothing about. I am no where near rich that's why I express much frustration on this board when people ASSume that all Hampton students are rich. When looking for a college I could have stayed in Texas, where it's cheaper, but I wanted a different experience and to get out of where I came from. I knew price would be an issue but my mom told me not to worry and to not let money get in the way of choosing a better education.
I'm on 100% loans and my mom, who is 53 and could have retired because she's been working the same job for 33 years, is still busting her **** for me to stay here at Hampton cause she knows I enjoy it and I'll recieve a quality education. We don't have home phone, the lights and water have been off many of times, and my mom had to give up her car all because of me being in college.
I grew up and continue to live in a neighborhood that hold so many people back but because of prayer and my mother raising me right, I was able to rise above that and unlimit myself and my dreams. Don't tell me who or what I am trying to be. Research and ask because you ASSume things about people you don't know.
^^^ 1. Chill, Megan! Of course Mexicans are in your ghetto. It's Texas!Every state doesn't have lots of Mexicans, you know.
2. Chill, Megan! Ain't nobody said anything about you being rich or ghetto. Admin graduated 10 years ago... he's clearly not talking about you. It's true you shouldn't prejudge people, but I get what he's saying too. I've seen people who either pretend to be hood or are desperately holding on to their distant ghetto roots. I'm not saying that's you tho, Megan. I don't know you enough to say that.
Me? I'm not from the ghetto. Never have been. Strangely, my family has ghetto tendencies here and there, even though my parents aren't even from America. I guess some of it comes more from being dirt poor than from living in the hood.
^^^ 1. Chill, Megan! Of course Mexicans are in your ghetto. It's Texas!Every state doesn't have lots of Mexicans, you know.
2. Chill, Megan! Ain't nobody said anything about you being rich or ghetto. Admin graduated 10 years ago... he's clearly not talking about you. It's true you shouldn't prejudge people, but I get what he's saying too. I've seen people who either pretend to be hood or are desperately holding on to their distant ghetto roots. I'm not saying that's you tho, Megan. I don't know you enough to say that.
Me? I'm not from the ghetto. Never have been. Strangely, my family has ghetto tendencies here and there, even though my parents aren't even from America. I guess some of it comes more from being dirt poor than from living in the hood.
I know that not every state has Mexicans, never recall ever saying that. I was speaking from what I know. Just like all ghetto people don't experience the same things as each other and how suburban people don't experience or do the same things as each other.
He responded to my message saying people pretending to be from the hood(like that's something to parade) so I have basis to assume he was referring to me. Unless you asked him yourself if he was.
You chill...I can respond however I like.
my mommy used to make us syrup sandwiches... i hate them now.
but anyway, you know you're not ghetto when:
you see joggers every morning (they dont jog in the ghetto)...
you dont see broken glass in the streets...
you dont hear sirens (police, ambulance, fire truck) every night...
you leave your car and house doors unlocked...
