I'd say yes. Because by the time we were old enough crack was basically over. But we never lived in segregation, never got drafted into a major war, lived through arguably the golden age of American media and culture (the 90's), the internet hadn't ruined curiosity and interpersonal relationships. Technology was an interest not something that would take your job. Life was much more affordable. Like I think the last time I was truly HOPEFULL about the future was like 2013?
If you were born between like '84 and '88, I wouldn't really call you and 80's baby, but I think you got some of the best America ever had to offer. Earlier and you had some VIVID memories of heroin and crack in the community.
The mid to late 80's had some good culture and music but crack was WILD. Like some of ya'll really do NOT have context for how devastating that shyt was. Whole ass houses and apartment complexes turned into drug dens, unfed unclothed babies walking around crying in the streets, people walking around zombified damn near everywhere. That shyt stays with you. By the time I was a teenager in the late 90's early 2000's we were much more concerned with weed and drinking than crack...and that was way less viceral.
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when he snuck that name in there trying to pass him off as one of the GOAT athletes.
