niccas in the street dont even wanna be in the streets, the fukk i'd wanna be there for
but...to answer your other question about living hip hop....i was just at a very underground hip hop show monday night with paul rosenberg and juan epstein and hung out with up and coming rapper shawn chystopher. i love hip hop....my parents were tastemakers in the early days of NY Hip Hop culture. Big Daddy Kane and Queen Latifah, whom my parents were good friends with came to parties that my parents threw in our backyard. Hip hop is so much apart of who I am and how I came up it's apart of my identity....and once you understand that hip hop is about telling your true story as it is, then the ideology of it being synonymous with being in the streets is an antiquated notion.
Well you got ya answers from the fact that hardly anybody wanted to give you a direct answer @Homeboy Runny-Ray
Basically this forum has a 90-95% suburbanite demographic.
The internet IS the streets now. People I talk to in real life get their information from the internet, radio shows talk about what's said on twitter. Everything is connected. One world.
i used to be in the streets to an extent
now i'm a hiphop dork with a wife and kid and career and don't hang with the losers of the past