Brehs who grew up in the inner city/ the hood....ain't it fukked up how shyt is once you grow up?

[Anerdyblackguy]

Yeah out here in Jamaica I had friends and we all rolled together. We were zoned to the same Jr. High school, and since we were all from the same neighborhood we were all cool with each other. Unfortunately it was during the same time everybody wanted to be a crip; So all of us joined to be cool and popular you know? So after we joined, we did what crips do, we jumped people who annoyed us and played spades and Crazy eights during lunch. It wasn't until 8th grade when one of our boys James got his ass whopped so badly ( By bloods), that we decided this ain't for us. Unfortunately some of them stayed in the set heavy; and the rest of us just bounced.


Fast forward our High school years and a decade after that. Me and my boy Jaquan ( Brooklyn college graduate), are the only one with college degrees and careers. Unfortunately we all didn't make it. I've lost three friends to murders, two are in jail, and the rest are just " Stuck in the hood". But I do want to give one of my guys (marcom) credit. He's trying to change his life now that He's having his first child.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Nothin like going back to the hood n seeing the same nikkas doin the same shyt as when you left.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

If the state forces you into ghettos, prevents you from accessing decent public goods, employment or capital, and then over-polices you - it's a matter of time before criminogenic conditions erupt.

 

[Turk]

Nothin like going back to the hood n seeing the same nikkas doin the same shyt as when you left.

It's the woat feeling

 

[FSP]

Getting used to people leaving your life for good like that

 

[Eczema]

Growing up in chicago this shyt is just a revolving door. lost a lot of guys man, this shyt keep me up at night, off some on bullshyt.

 

[DrX]

of course, the "hood" was created to systematically destroy minorities and make it seem like they only have themselves to blame for the conditions that they live in


all the ghetto is, is a big social experiment bu white supremacist

 

[EndDomination]

You can already see how things will turn out before you even get to high school
I see "free my nikka ---" everytime I go on Facebook.
Been to two funerals of friends since summer last year.
Most of the girls have babies now.
The ones who made it out are either in the military (Marines) or in college.
One has a burgeoning rap career, and the rest are wandering around, in prison, or dead.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

It's the woat feeling

Im glad all my main hs nikkas and i are all on our shyt tho, either in town workin bein productive, or away for college. Ironic cus the fukkery we did in hs and even alil after made US look like we were just gonna be some statistics no lie

 

[Turk]

Im glad all my main hs nikkas and i are all on our shyt tho, either in town workin bein productive, or away for college. Ironic cus the fukkery we did in hs and even alil after made US look like we were just gonna be some statistics no lie

for avoiding it

 

[Turk]

They really gave this nikka life

 

[TRFG]

of course, the "hood" was created to systematically destroy minorities and make it seem like they only have themselves to blame for the conditions that they live in


all the ghetto is, is a big social experiment bu white supremacist

I know right! I mean in the hood you got white people running about killing black people for drugs, guns and gold chains

Spoiler

oh wait

Spoiler

You can't blame everything on white supremacy when knuckle heads are running around murdering and stealing for petty BS

 

[@OffHalsted]

Honestly don't really miss them school days But I often reminiscent on '07, '06, summers tho

 

[Ol’Otis]

"life in the hood is all good for nobody"-2pac

 

[Hope]

Moved out when I was 17 with parents, then left NYC when I was 18. I still fukked up my life though with self-destructive behaviors, ans had to come back to NY. Some of the things I learned about living from friends and neighbors was extremely ignorant, and I was misinformed by the misinformed.

It's a complicated living situation. Health is important for anyone to be successful, and it involves so much more than psychical health. Unfortunately, you just can't get all aspects in certain environments. Then there's the case of not caring or being motivated to be well. Yes, there's inequity, but most people in the hood don't care about themselves or others.

I'm gonna have to move back and I'm not looking forward to it. I like my middle class, hard working, healthy neighborhood.