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I've walked around East Coast hoods and never got hassled...walked around LA hoods and got in way more trouble.
And that has what to do with anything? Of course you got hassled. That's what they're all about out there is getting big with people and being violent and grandstanding.
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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.
The Source is a disgrace. They haven't been real for years now. They hyped up Asher Roth for Christ's sakes! I also said that the East Coast invented gangsta rap so not sure what you're talking about. You need to lay off the recycled terms. It's continuing to make you look like somebody who's playing make believe. Allow me to explain it to you.. tough people don't need to act anything or grandstand. Philly is grit, so is NYC and every other real East Coast area. It's a hardness that hasn't existed out West for decades now, ever since the people who fought for Civil Rights and originally moved out there lost influence. The East Coast can't not be hard or gritty. It's what we are. You, on the other hand.. you don't grow up in concrete jungles or project towers, have no kind of order or proving ground, don't even remotely have our work ethic, I could go on and on really.
And yet that has zero to do with anything we're talking about. Rest assured though, that the only one being exposed constantly is you.
Rap was created in the Bronx. Gangsta Rap was created by Ice-T (Newark, NJ) and Schooly D (Philadelphia) but wasn't made popular (arguably mainstream) until NWA (Easy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Arabian Prince) that came out of Compton. IDK how you could argue which rappers are "harder." They both "rap" about some pretty volatile stuff. F*ck the Police? Straight out of Compton? Songs by NWA are probably the hardest, roughest, most "gangsta" rap songs ever made... ever.
The Source is a disgrace. They haven't been real for years now. They hyped up Asher Roth for Christ's sakes! I also said that the East Coast invented gangsta rap so not sure what you're talking about. You need to lay off the recycled terms. It's continuing to make you look like somebody who's playing make believe. Allow me to explain it to you.. tough people don't need to act anything or grandstand. Philly is grit, so is NYC and every other real East Coast area. It's a hardness that hasn't existed out West for decades now, ever since the people who fought for Civil Rights and originally moved out there lost influence. The East Coast can't not be hard or gritty. It's what we are. You, on the other hand.. you don't grow up in concrete jungles or project towers, have no kind of order or proving ground, don't even remotely have our work ethic, I could go on and on really.
And yet that has zero to do with anything we're talking about. Rest assured though, that the only one being exposed constantly is you.
Let's try this again.
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You, on the other hand.. you don't grow up in concrete jungles or project towers
Funny, could have sworn I saw some project towers in Acorn but I must have been hallucinating.
I clearly must have been hallucinating it when I took the picture.
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The Source is a disgrace. They haven't been real for years now. They hyped up Asher Roth for Christ's sakes! I also said that the East Coast invented gangsta rap so not sure what you're talking about. You need to lay off the recycled terms. It's continuing to make you look like somebody who's playing make believe.
Recycled terms for recycled people. You sound like someone who just woke up out of a coma you got in the mid 90's west-vs-east era.
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Allow me to explain it to you.. tough people don't need to act anything or grandstand
Precisely why your tough talk is going in one ear and out the other. Talk is cheap.
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Philly is grit, so is NYC and every other real East Coast area. It's a hardness that hasn't existed out West for decades now
And you would know that because...? LOL keep barking.
Rap was created in the Bronx. Gangsta Rap was created by Ice-T (Newark, NJ) and Schooly D (Philadelphia) but wasn't made popular (arguably mainstream) until NWA (Easy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Arabian Prince) that came out of Compton. IDK how you could argue which rappers are "harder." They both "rap" about some pretty volatile stuff. F*ck the Police? Straight out of Compton? Songs by NWA are probably the hardest, roughest, most "gangsta" rap songs ever made... ever.
couldntthinkofaclevername's whole schtick is that West Coast rappers are all about posturing like gangstas and east coast rappers would never do something like that, but the reality is that gangsta rap started in the east coast.
couldntthinkofaclevername's whole schtick is that West Coast rappers are all about posturing like gangstas and east coast rappers would never do something like that, but the reality is that gangsta rap started in the east coast.
Oh, makes sense now... yeah I was too lazy to read that far back lol. But yeah gangsta rap definitely started on the east coast, however it was made popular on the west coast.
Right, whatever. The West Coast is the hardest place on Earth because formerly wealthy neighborhoods of the East Coast have older houses that are falling down where the conditions are probably pretty damn awful.
You're so right. You're all so damn hard. Nobody from the East Coast could ever knock out anybody from the West Coast and we couldn't in a million years live in those so very ghetto single family homes or apartments you have out there. You're just too hardcore for us, really. You scare me. Your words alone intimidate me so much I want to crawl back to my working class hometown that you wouldn't have lasted in with your mouth or attitude and cry about how much tougher than me you are.
And that has what to do with anything? Of course you got hassled. That's what they're all about out there is getting big with people and being violent and grandstanding.
I didn't say hassled, I said trouble.
You are out of your mind, btw. Why is this all so personal to you?
couldntthinkofaclevername's whole schtick is that West Coast rappers are all about posturing like gangstas and east coast rappers would never do something like that, but the reality is that gangsta rap started in the east coast.
All gangsta rap is about posturing...that's all it is
You are out of your mind, btw. Why is this all so personal to you?
No, I'm not, sorry.
He has the nerve to talk ish on the East Coast's formerly wealthy neighborhoods when they have so many single family housing "ghettos" out there? None of those people could are on the level of those who grow up on the East Coast. I guarantee you I grew up harder than he did and I'm not even from the ghetto. He knows NOTHING about hard. He knows NOTHING about real ghettos (luckily, neither do I) and nothing about the reality that people in the worst parts of this metro deal with (again, luckily neither do I). I don't try to talk about things I don't personally understand or that I only read about in papers and he clearly does that constantly. That's not okay. On top of that, he has the nerve to try to JUDGE those places or talk like the West Coast is harder when guaranteed he's never been a part of the working class or anything else of either coast? No, I don't think so.
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All gangsta rap is about posturing...that's all it is
All gangsta rap is about posturing...that's all it is
That was exactly my point.
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