Check this old story out for the old heads who like to lie and say nikkas weren’t as wild as nikkas today

[Clayton Endicott]

Who even says that

 

[Ohene]

Check the murder rates, nikkas were wilder in the past.

Meh
Just cause they could get away with it

CCTV and forensic technology got dudes thinking twice

 

[Traveler]

Look at the crime stats

NYC
1993: 2007 Homicides
2022: 434 Homicides

DC
1993: 496
2022: 203

Baltimore
1993: 353
2022: 333

Philly
1993: 439
2022: 516

LA
1993: 1944
2022: 382

NYC and LA had the biggest drops, but that's where the money is at. DC dropped cause of polititians. Baltimore is consistent, cause no one really cares about Baltimore. Philly is just trash, so it actually increased.

I can't even imagine what social media would have looked like if we had it in the 90s.

 

[Traveler]

shyt was wilder and people were not 'nicer'(hear this corny bs all the time). Phones if anything have made a lot of folks tamer because they are more focused on the digital world than the real one. Increasingly more anti social people leads to less crime not more.

My favorite is people saying relationships were so much better. There was a ton of single mothers in the 80s and 90s. fukking and forgetting is as old as time. I did my fair share of it I know.

A lot of dudes were deadbeats in the 80s and 90s. They wore it like a badge of honor. Relationships were different because most people didn't get outside their circle. Everyone dated everyone in the same circle. People were "nicer" because they stayed in the same social circle for life. You would have beef for a year or two then squash it and be friends again cause you had no one else to hang with. You weren't having friends all over the city, much less the country or world.

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Hell, you don't even need to go that far back.

I remember people getting robbed for their cellphones and ipods in the early 2000s.

You couldn't go anywhere in public with those things.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

shyt was wilder and people were not 'nicer'(hear this corny bs all the time). Phones if anything have made a lot of folks tamer because they are more focused on the digital world than the real one. Increasingly more anti social people leads to less crime not more.

My favorite is people saying relationships were so much better. There was a ton of single mothers in the 80s and 90s. fukking and forgetting is as old as time. I did my fair share of it I know.

I'm on the older and even disputed other old heads on this site not acknowledging the level of fyckery in the 80s and 90s.

Finding out your uncle was kidnapping people back in the day and that your uncles and aunties cleaned up the story to make it seem like he only did it to drug dealers when that wasn’t even the worse he was doing

Lets just say whoever took him out the paint did the world a favor.

He died in 95 at age 26

 

[Canada Goose]

nikka I had to fight almost every day to get home from school when I was going to Hudde Junior High

This was 04 to 07


Flatbush Junction was no joke back then

I had no idea the Junction was crazy like that that recently... I went to I.S 33 in bed stuy due to a brief stint living with family in the Tompkins pjs (school is now closed due to poor performance). There was problems but nikkas was able to go to and from school without issue. 8th grade I moved back to Flatbush but still attended 33 because I didn't want to go to an new JHS for only one year.


remember the Wendy's at the Junction? I dined there many times after school




Crazy that Flatbush kids were more wild than Marcy/Tompkins/Sumner projects kids. I mean there was kids that gangbanged, smoked weed and had sex in my middle school but most times the non street kids were fine.

 

[Wild self]

This has been talked about over and over that the country used to be far more dangerous on this website.

Crack Epidemic, and the "real nikka" mentality done ravaged generations of black folks. Cats did dirt to get rep, so no one on their block picks on them. Crabs in a Barrel type shyt.

 

[Wild self]

I'm on the older and even disputed other old heads on this site not acknowledging the level of fyckery in the 80s and 90s.

Plus a lot of the oldheads now, participated in the destruction of the black intellectuals in school by beating them up constantly, or even killing them. They don't reveal 100% of the dirt they did that held back so many gifted black kids, just to look "real"

 

[MikelArteta]

Meh
Just cause they could get away with it

CCTV and forensic technology got dudes thinking twice

Exactly, everyone has a smart phone now as well. Not to mention it’s much harder to get away with murder now than it was back in the day.

All those old serial killers from years ago would have been caught nowadays

 

[Wild self]

A lot of dudes were deadbeats in the 80s and 90s. They wore it like a badge of honor. Relationships were different because most people didn't get outside their circle. Everyone dated everyone in the same circle. People were "nicer" because they stayed in the same social circle for life. You would have beef for a year or two then squash it and be friends again cause you had no one else to hang with. You weren't having friends all over the city, much less the country or world.

Yep.

If you were beefing with a lot of people, or was an actual outcast at your school, your social life was already shot.

 

[Elim Garak]

Crack Epidemic, and the "real nikka" mentality done ravaged generations of black folks. Cats did dirt to get rep, so no one on their block picks on them. Crabs in a Barrel type shyt.

I hear what you are saying but I don't think that's what it was exactly. Most experts agree that taking the lead out of many everyday products was probably the main contributing factor to those steep declines we eventually saw.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

My dad told me how wild the mid 80s- early 90s were. He said he was beyond disgusted with the behavior back then. I’m just glad I was still a child back then. I’ve grown up in less violent times despite what the media may portray.

 

[MJ Truth]

Check the murder rates, nikkas were wilder in the past.

Crime has continuously gotten lesser the longer time has gone on, but watching the news every day would have you thinking the whole thing was falling apart.

 

[Jaguar93]

We already know if social media and phones. Were more available back then like it is today. A lot of wild shyt would’ve been exposed. It trips me out when old heads be on some. “Back in my day we didn’t shoot instead we boxed it out.”