Being an early millennial (b. 1981-84) specifically, by far is the best time to have been born, imo...

[El Poyo Loco]

82. We've been through Reaganomics, crack era, high murder rates, mass incarceration. Seen Waco,OKC ,OJ, Clinton charged with lying about a blow job, Bush Jr stealing the election.

And that's just some of the bad shyt we seen and went through before the towers fell.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

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[Jaguar93]

Everybody says their generation was better. Nostalgia is hell of a drug.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Objectively false. If you were born in that timeline you'd have caught the recession head on early in your career and had a tough time recovering.

Although I will say, if you were somehow able to slip through the cracks during the recession you would have made out like a bandit.

Ehh…there was big money to be made a generally great job market from 2012-2021, there was time for your career to recover. Only issue is how fast home prices rose in many places, you could make good money and be stacking yet still not afford a home.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Everybody says their generation was better. Nostalgia is hell of a drug.

Objectively, I think Gen X was the dopest and probably the last generation to have had normal things be attainable without going into stupid debt for them. But as a music head, they did their thing across damn near every genre. I think they had to deal with some fukked up shyt during their childhoods, but they got to live life paced ahead of most of the fukked up events that are fukking up the world for millennials and younger.

 

[Phitz]

If you don't have any idea what the previous decade was like it's just nostalgia for your childhood not quantifiable by any logical metric,in other words, you can't miss what you've never experienced. My brothers were teenagers in the 70s and if you hear how they enjoyed life it sounds like a x rated movie with a funk soundtrack to boot. They ran through ridiculous amounts of p*ssy,did the best drugs, the get money schemes were plentiful,no HIV,no social media or smart phones around so none of the transgressions were captured. If you wanted to live life like it was supposed to, I'd disagree with this take wholeheartedly.

no kids?

 

[3rdWorld]

You couldn't have really experienced the 80s if you were born in the 80s

 

[Nigerianwonder]

If you don't have any idea what the previous decade was like it's just nostalgia for your childhood not quantifiable by any logical metric,in other words, you can't miss what you've never experienced. My brothers were teenagers in the 70s and if you hear how they enjoyed life it sounds like a x rated movie with a funk soundtrack to boot. They ran through ridiculous amounts of p*ssy,did the best drugs, the get money schemes were plentiful,no HIV,no social media or smart phones around so none of the transgressions were captured. If you wanted to live life like it was supposed to, I'd disagree with this take wholeheartedly.

Naw.It's not nostalgia. Some things are not subjective. Black entertainment peaked in the 90s. Hip hop, Rnb, sports etc.. It's just facts. We can measure these things objectively.

Plus the changes in technology were massive and changed how we live our lives. Going from landlines to cell phones, from cassettes to cds, to mp3's.. seeing the rise of the internet. I dont think there is any comparision to the size of the impacts 80s babies lived through from other time periods except for maybe when electricity was invented.

 

[Stuntone]

Nah, I was born in 81.

I feel like the 70s, 80s and 90s were the best times to be an young adult. Coming out of Civil Rights Movement, Black People were more united, a lot of optimism and the energy was positive and vibrant. Some of the best time to buy homes and build wealth and invest.

I did get a good taste of the 90s as a teen. Things were looking up, people seems more happier and connected before the internet and cellphones. I feel like our People and Culture Peak in the 90s as far as admiration and respect.

 

[Illuminatos]

Nah. Early to mid-90s kids had it the best. Caught the tail-end of the 90s and grew up with the rise of the internet in the 2000s.

 

[Canada Goose]

Naw, yall was teenagers during the early to mid 90s, being a teenager in that era in NYC was WOAT due to the high crime.


IDK about the rest of the country though.

 

[King Static X]

I was born in the late '90s. Growing up in the 2000s was fun


Anyway, most people think that their own generation is the best lol.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

The mafukkas raised in the 2000s and later had the worst childhood/life experience.


They weirdo anti-social. Most caucasian and Asian wannabe. Had far more restrictions, boring ass social media lame raised mafukkas.

The generation of hating the opposite gender and most gay while yey being the most conservative.

The mafukkas most separated from real cultural Black roots.


The mafukkas with a birth year after the 80s pathetic.

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

80s in general. I agree, 84 baby here. Not just saying it because I was born in that time, but for the reason you listed; we grew up in both an analog and a digital world. No one else can straddle that line but us. We're not young, but we're not old. We can talk to everyone. We got the edge and hardness of boomers and gen X, without going overboard on PC shyt, but we also get how society is trying to transition (no pun) and know how navigate that world better, and we can be as digitally savvy as the younger generations without being overly effected by it... sometimes...

This is well stated. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Pazzy]

87 was the magic yeah breh u over the hill

86 was that magic year. Get it right. Yall hear that slang with people getting 86'ed but not 85'ed or 87'ed. Yall work on that. Either yall are living before or after the apex. Much love to yall other 80 babies but 86 gang is running all yall 80s motherfukkers. Yall just the 86 gang little homies.