Do y'all nikkas remember the 80s

[daemonova]

I’ll still take all that over now lol

You and me both

 

[richaveli83]

I was born in the 80s but barely remember. My earliest memory of the 80s was my mom having to hold off a crackhead with a knife who broke into our place until the police arrived.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

Question, for those who grew up in the 80s was the whole HIV/AIDS epidemic bigger than than COVID?

At it's Height, were times crazier than COVID? How long were people going crazy? What effects did it have on people, where people rushing to the stores to buy toilet paper

HIV ruled the 80s and much of the 90s. I think many have forgotten the hysteria related to it. On the face no comparison. Covid was/is crazy but it was contained more or less in about 2 years and that was with a lot of incompetence thrown in. AIDS cut up for well over 2 to 3 decades before there was even a light at the end of the tunnel.

For decades if you got diagnosed with it it was a death warrant zero question unless you were wealthy and even then you still got waxed. We just got to a point where that isn't true.

Edit : Magic Johnson never revealed his secret weapon so I can't include him. He must have spent a gang of cash to get whatever it was. I never remember him showing a single symptom once in public.

 

[richaveli83]

Question, for those who grew up in the 80s was the whole HIV/AIDS epidemic bigger than than COVID?

At it's Height, were times crazier than COVID? How long were people going crazy? What effects did it have on people, where people rushing to the stores to buy toilet paper

The HIV/AIDS epidemic was strictly a concern for the gay community. I remember we had a neighbor who got it and died quickly from it (this was in 1990 though). Pretty much back then if you got it, you were probably dead within a year or two.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

I was 5 in 1980.

I started rapping in 83

I was just getting off the porch in 89 or so and I was full fledged in the streets by 1990.

So I mostly remember kid stuff.

One thing that seems crazy to me now was Halloween. We were like 9-10 yeas old wandering the city streets til like 11pm searching for candy. We'd get lost.

Can you imagine parents allowing that now? Theyd be arrested.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

to me i feel there were more thick chicks
but it was natural thick

lots of asses and hair and earrings jingling

Pigeon toed and bow legged hoes was the move back in the 80's for some strange reason.
Crack. Crack was everywhere. You could not step outside without seeing

Spoiler

EVERYWHERE.
Only 13 channels on TV.
Neon everything just because.

Reaganomics.
AIDS
Famine in Ethiopia
Apartheid South Africa
US overthrowing mad governments in the Southern Hemisphere
Four finger rings and dookie gold chains
Shell Top Adidas

 

[GoFlipAPack]

I did a lof of coke while partying at studio 54 and had a bunch of wild orgys in the the back of my Cadillac in the 80s

 

[Lord_nikon]

just found this for my memphis tn brehs

 

[⠀X ⠀]

I agree with the poster that said that the early 90’s was a continuation of the 80’s. I was born in 87, and from what I remember as a kid, it felt like the 80’s.

It seems like it would have been a great time time to be a young adult, despite the cultural issues like drugs

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I did a lof of coke while partying at studio 54 and had a bunch of wild orgys in the the back of my Cadillac in the 80s

Yo, how old are you? I'm no spring chicken buy I am not old enuff to have rocked in Studio 54. You entering Boomer territory, breh...

 

[GoFlipAPack]

I was joking breh breh

Yo, how old are you? I'm no spring chicken buy I am not old enuff to have rocked in Studio 54. You entering Boomer territory, breh...

 

[The Pledge]

Very little before 1992, I do remember my pops dressing like LL Cool J with a big ass dookie chain.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

So COVID was a whole different beast

Oh hell yeah!!!

Don't get me wrong, AIDS was scary as HELL.

The way the government & media sold it to us was bullshyt (just like COVID), where they made it feel like EVERYBODY could catch that shyt, even though it was pretty obvious that mostly gay folks, drug addicts, and hoes were dying of that shyt.

The problem was that, in the early '80s, they didn't have ways to test blood, so a lot of people like Arthur Ashe got that shyt from a blood transfusion.

After a while though, we realized that if you weren't gay or a junkie, it was unlikely to get that shyt.

Until Magic Johnson

But still, we never shut down society over that shyt. Kids still went to school. Folks still went to work. It did make nikkaz wear condoms for a while though.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic was strictly a concern for the gay community. I remember we had a neighbor who got it and died quickly from it (this was in 1990 though). Pretty much back then if you got it, you were probably dead within a year or two.

I wouldn't call it a strictly gay disease as Magic and Eazy-E ended up with that shyt, but it was heavily gays, junkies, and hoes that had to be concerned.

The media did try to scare all of us with that shyt, thoth

 

[LezJepzin]

Surprisingly yes.

I was born in '81 but my earliest memories are from '84.

Born and raised in Sacramento but my parents are from the Bay Area. Most of my relatives stayed there in parts all over Oakland, Richmond and Berkeley. Saw a lot of Oakland during the 80s and 90s Had cousins all over the East Bay so it was never a dull moment.

Mom worked in a Mall where the social scene was huge . Also , I got to see the rise of the suburbs.

1987-1989 were golden years to be a kid . Dad was in the Military until I was six , but we still had Base visiting privileges until '89. There was more order on Halloween but trick or treating on the military base was piff .

Sac was ok during that time for the area didn't begin to blow up in size until the 90s .

I knew where I was when the Loma Prieta Earthquake happened. Also as for sports at the time , the A's were like the New York Yankees before the actual Yankees when Jeter came along. It's hard watching the team now for they were a large market like team before Moneyball

Fortunate to go on a lot of Summer Trips all over CA during the 80s . Also, the weddings, Birthday Parties, Thanksgiving and Summer BBQs

The Summer Blockbuster Movies

Memory is sharp on memories from 1984-1989

 

[LevelUp]

They had that whole "America Is Dying Slowly" record with Wu-Tang and all those people.