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Don't ever compare LA's hoods to ours. Ever. Seriously, just no.
You live in single-family houses or house-like projects and you want to talk about slums like you know something. Go to parts of New York or Philly or Camden, Chester, Wilmington, etc sometime and get educated.
Don't ever compare LA's hoods to ours. Ever. Seriously, just no.
You live in single-family houses or house-like projects and you want to talk about slums like you know something. Go to parts of New York or Philly or Camden, Chester, Wilmington, etc sometime and get educated.
"Hood bragging rights" is unbelievably lame.
Hood is hood. Having a yard and a living room may make it more physically comfortable but it's still a psychologically trying experience.
Don't ever compare LA's hoods to ours. Ever. Seriously, just no.
You live in single-family houses or house-like projects and you want to talk about slums like you know something. Go to parts of New York or Philly or Camden, Chester, Wilmington, etc sometime and get educated.
Hood is hood. Having a yard and a living room may make it more physically comfortable but it's still a psychologically trying experience.
Who the hell is bragging?
And no.. sorry. Don't think so. Go ask somebody in one of the many project towers that exist in NY if they think LA or anywhere else on the West Coast is as physically trying to live in.
You know nothing about project towers, which were all over parts of Philly and elsewhere before recently.
You know nothing about crumbling streets and rowhouse-lined blocks that are semi reclaimed by nature. You know nothing about a REAL concrete jungle that swallows you up.
You have the NERVE to talk ish on Philly and the East Coast for houses that were big in the early 20th Century at the latest when they were built and mostly a lot older than that, houses that were NOT built for poor people, when you all know NOTHING about real ghettos. Your worst ghettos look like some of our nicer neighborhoods. You mess up nice areas and that makes you hard? No, it makes you somebody who doesn't appreciate what so many people on the East Coast flat out don't have. Nothing to be proud of at all.
And no.. sorry. Don't think so. Go ask somebody in one of the many project towers that exist in NY if they think LA or anywhere else on the West Coast is as physically trying to live in.
Exactly what I'm talking about.
You know nothing about project towers, which were all over parts of Philly and elsewhere before recently.
You know nothing about crumbling streets and rowhouse-lined blocks that are semi reclaimed by nature. You know nothing about a REAL concrete jungle that swallows you up.
You have the NERVE to talk ish on Philly and the East Coast for houses that were big in the early 20th Century at the latest when they were built and mostly a lot older than that, houses that were NOT built for poor people, when you all know NOTHING about real ghettos. Your worst ghettos look like some of our nicer neighborhoods. You mess up nice areas and that makes you hard? No, it makes you somebody who doesn't appreciate what so many people on the East Coast flat out don't have. Nothing to be proud of at all.
Hmm, interesting... those project towers in my city must be figments of my imagination
And lol at how much you think you know about me...
Hmm, interesting... those project towers in my city must be figments of my imagination
And lol at how much you think you know about me...
You mean how much I DO know about you.
For example, you spoke multiple untruths in that hip-hop thread, like saying conscious hip hop didn't start until the late 80s, early 90s, which the early 80s song called "The Message" would disagree with. I know you're not actually from San Francisco if I remember correctly. I know you know nothing about the East Coast or the harsh realities of it. That's where you and I differ.
You tried to talk ish on the East Coast based on your suburban looking ghettos. You tried to talk ish on neighborhoods that used to be wealthy. You never showed the rowhouses crumbling in North Philly and even in West and Southwest and elsewhere. You never showed the former Philly project towers or the bombed out neighborhoods all across the metro that make yours look like Disneyland. Most people in those neighborhoods would live in your worst ghettos in a heartbeat because sure they may have problems and violence but they aren't concrete jungles and things just flat out aren't the same out there as they are out here. Out here, people get kicked out of their dilapidated houses when they're deemed uninhabitable.
Check out the 1500 block of North 16th Street in Philadelphia between Oxford and Jefferson Sts. Very, very cool. There are old "mansions there." There are also a few on the corner of Broad and Jefferson Sts. Also check out the Divine Lorraine. There are also several mansions scattered throughout the area. North Philadelphia used to be where the "elitists" lived in Philly. Also some of the Northwest part of the city (I.E. Roxborough and Chestnut Hill) was built as an elitist "getaway" suburb until it was annexed by the city in the Act of Consolidation in 1854. When de-industrialization, the great depression, outsourcing and white-flight simultaneously hit Philadelphia along with pretty much every large American city of the time, North Philadelphia was hit HARD. The elitists left leaving cheap real estate and the poor moved in and the downfall of North Philadelphia began. Northwest Philadelphia is still in good shape and contains some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city (Chestnut Hill). The mansions that haven't been destroyed/demo'd are spread thinly throughout North Philly. The ones I mentioned earlier have been preserved by Temple University and local neighborhood groups being converted into apartments and such. It is quite amazing to see them in person. (Got to take pictures of one for a real estate group, quite amazing architecture in and out).
For example, you spoke multiple untruths in that hip-hop thread, like saying conscious hip hop didn't start until the late 80s, early 90s, which the early 80s song called "The Message" would disagree with. I know you're not actually from San Francisco if I remember correctly. I know you know nothing about the East Coast or the harsh realities of it. That's where you and I differ.
You tried to talk ish on the East Coast based on your suburban looking ghettos. You tried to talk ish on neighborhoods that used to be wealthy. You never showed the rowhouses crumbling in North Philly and even in West and Southwest and elsewhere. You never showed the former Philly project towers or the bombed out neighborhoods all across the metro that make yours look like Disneyland. Most people in those neighborhoods would live in your worst ghettos in a heartbeat because sure they may have problems and violence but they aren't concrete jungles and things just flat out aren't the same out there as they are out here. Out here, people get kicked out of their dilapidated houses when they're deemed uninhabitable.
Oh, that's right, you're still butthurt over being exposed for the Source-hugging backpacker you are that loves to overlook the fact that the east coast was where gangsta rap started. What I don't get though is how you manage to talk down on west coast gangsta rap in one breath and then argue that the east coast is realer/tougher than the west coast in another. You need to lay off the Haterade, it's starting to make you contradict yourself.
The rest of your post isn't even worth addressing. All that tough talk is for the birds... you don't know a damn thing about my background or where I have and have not been. All I will say is that clearly I've traveled around the country more than you.
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