"You ain't from the hood, you from the burbs!!"
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Started by R-Tistic
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Jul 2004
R-Tistic
Los Angeles, CA
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?
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I stay in the south suburbs of Chicago and that is nothin to brag about, b/c most of the suburbs arent the typical suburb... They just lil extensions of the city. Ion have a big, nice house... a quiet street... whateva else makes a suburb a suburb. We got currency exchanges and liquor stores all over, prostitutes, strip clubs, etc. The south suburbs are basically all black and most, besides a few areas, are nice with manicured lawns and fences and ish... BASICALLY they aint nothin to brag about.
I use to stay in Hyde Park (in the middle of tha city), and there was a better class of people there than out here...
The mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, has been destroying projects and replacing then with homes for upperclass white folks. So as housing in the city becomes more expensive, the people who once stayed in the projects are moving to the south suburbs in large numbers. They cant afford to move up north with the rich white folks, so they all move south.
All our communities are changing and becoming more urbanized by the second. Our school's test scores are plummeting.
So I wouldnt say living out here is anything special, but thas jus me. My parents are moving back to the city when I leave in August, so ma lil brother can go to a better high school.
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Cold-Blooded1919 wrote:AggieWarrior wrote:well you can keep that St. Louis to yourself :roll:Cold-Blooded1919 wrote: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.
