Breh on twitter is posting news clips from the 80's crack era

[zayk35]

Ahh, gotta love revisionist musings.​

You, sir, don't know what you're talking about.​

The 80's had the BEST movies, the BEST parties, the BEST TV/radio, we had video game arcades that doubled as hook-up/party/gang fight spots, you could literally leave your house at sunrise with $5 and not be back in your house until midnight and it was all good......until the Crack Epidemic fukked everything up.

I'm speaking from a kid/teenager perspective. Adults dealt with stuff that didn't really affect us.​

Man I used to love getting a fresh $5 bill from my pops in those days even tho he was selling crack and moms was smoking it. The 80s were still somehow a great time as a youngster I was 7 in 85 and could walk the entire hood and then some. Ppl still looked out for you even the fiends but by 87 it was a wrap for many communities and this is where you start seeing ppl out there bad I mean really bad. I didn't even realize my mom was on that shyt till about 87-88 she was a high functioning addict for a long while

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Growing up in the crack era was so tough but it made victories feel that much sweeter. Imagine having to chain down your tv set so your cousin doesn't pawn it.

Or having to hide your Sega Genesis every morning before school every because you knew your uncle was on a geek spree and probably would snatch it while nobody was at the house....

 

[Waterproof]

Man I used to love getting a fresh $5 bill from my pops in those days even tho he was selling crack and moms was smoking it. The 80s were still somehow a great time as a youngster I was 7 in 85 and could walk the entire hood and then some. Ppl still looked out for you even the fiends but by 87 it was a wrap for many communities and this is where you start seeing ppl out there bad I mean really bad. I didn't even realize my mom was on that shyt till about 87-88 she was a high functioning addict for a long while

Your Mom and Pops was the 80's version of Cain parents from Menace instead of Heroin it was Crack

 

[Waterproof]

 

[Waterproof]

I remember when the world went crazy back in 1985
I remember when rock cocaine used to be rich man kind of high
'Til one day in my neighborhood motherfukkers started havin' fetti
They was hangin' on the corner yellin' "BASE ROCKS nikka!"
Bumpin' Too Short "Blowjob Betty"

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

this is also something people don't necessarily talk about, people in the 80's were just overall more intelligent and articulate

from the educated to uneducated...music lyrics were far more sophisticated too, and people understood them...but that's for another discussion don't get me started.

Yup... maybe even more so in the 60s

Your Mom and Pops was the 80's version of Cain parents from Menace instead of Heroin it was Crack

My partner used to sell crack to his mom when we were in jr. high.... just to keep her off the streets sucking and tucking for it

 

[truth2you]

In NYC crack changed shyt somewhat, but it was still fukked from heroin in the 70'S

What tripped me out was watching crack change the south. In the 80's, the south still had that family feel, but once the 90's hit, you can see, and feel the change. Rap music just helped the change more because it was like background music to gangsta shyt.

What killed me was the 90's had everyone thinking they were tough, and talking slang every fukking second, and the word "nikka" being used every sentence. Life started imitating art.

The 2000's just made it even worse. Y'all can shyt on skinny jeans wearing guys being soft, but it's better then every nikka thinking they Cain in menace 2 society or Nino Brown in a used benz

 

[Tupac in a Business Suit]

I wanna Rock right now, I’m Rob Base & I came to get down...

Rob Base & Dj Ez Rock...

 

[Waterproof]

My grandfather owned a juke joint in the central valley and I remember he had a sign that said No Hubba Heads allowed

They wasn't about to fukk up my grandpa money

 

[invalid]

Anita Baker didn't sing about it, because crack wasn't the only thing happening in Black America in the 1980s.

It was also a whole class of millions of Black Baby Boomers that were in their 20s and 30s that grew up in the Civil Rights era, that were witnessing going from Jim Crow to middle class lifestyles of integration (for good or bad), and were having children, buying new homes in suburbs, getting well paid professional jobs, even factory jobs and trades, but seeing and acquiring some additional levels of the fruits of America (for what it's worth).

Anita wasn't singing about crack epidemic.
She was singing a soundtrack for hope and love.

Didn't mean crack wasn't taking tolls, but it wasn't the full the story of 1980s Black America.

Exactly. I didn’t hear about the crack epidemic until a BSU meeting in college. And I had to debate every last person in that meeting that the crack epidemic didn’t affect every black family in America. Granted, I had no idea the largesse of the epidemic.

 

[YouMadd?]

80's were

I was born in 77 and I seen how crack and Gangs rocked our community...

Pimps, Gangsta, Hustlers, Playas, The Reverend, The Deacon, Local Sports Athletes, Doctors, Lawyers all rocked Jherri Curls

Hip Hop was what youngins did

Trash era, nail in the coffin for the black American community. Now it’s just the walking dead

 

[MostReal]

subs

 

[ZoeGod]

Can you imagine there was social media back in the crack era. Some of the stories I hear from old heads of 1970s/1980s Brooklyn haunts me. Crazy New York saw a thousand, 2k murders a year smh. The whole five boros was drenched with blood. Hope we never go through that again.

 

[zayk35]

Your Mom and Pops was the 80's version of Cain parents from Menace instead of Heroin it was Crack

Yep and in South Dallas at that time it wasn't even uncommon

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Trash era, nail in the coffin for the black American community. Now it’s just the walking dead

Wrong. Era was DOPE. There wasn't this huge disconnect between generations that is going on right now so it was nothing to see a cat in his 30's and up driving down the street blasting Eric B. is President, they actually looked-out for us while rocking WITH us. They were quick to tell you what you were doing wrong, but we understood where it was coming from as they fought for Civil Rights. Without them, we wouldn't have been able to enjoy life as much as we did.​