it still is... i just went there... go there all the time.. it's like 90% white people
I didn't realize that it had gone back above 50%. Props for posting those links. That's good news.
who's giving them passes?? other rappers?? hip hop community we see in the media??
Maybe DC was wild back during them Rayful years. Today, its too expensive, most the old residents got pushed out the city or over in SE DC.
There's so much money pouring into DC, cranes all over the city, new developments plopping up everywhere. $2 billion waterfront project in SW DC, building a second commercial/downtown area south of the mall, City Center, they restored the Howard Theater, new condo building over the Shaw/Howard metro, new condos on New York ave. Basically the entire north side of DC is safe.....like white people safeOutside of SE, ain't no hood nikkas here no more. Now in Philly.....where I'm from.....ain't no gentrification happening. Drive 10 blocks away from City Hall and......... :lawdeddie: South Street is Philly's equivalent of U Street and the feeling of general safety is night and day :lawdeddie: Only Baltimore is more fukked up. Thats the most fukked up city I've ever been to. You can smell the hopelessness getting off the freeway :lawdeddie:
real nikka shyt rite hereI grew up poor. Not american poor, where there are food stamps and housing projects. Poverty like not know what s tv was until I was 7, my main meal was a bread and cheese everyday except for sundays, and handling my business outside. And that was good. I dont drink, smoke, gamble, trick, my only vice is food. I make sure theres a million dollars of food in my refrigerator. I will never go hungry again.
thats in any major city in america. Blight and destitution isnt a phenomenon only for northeast american cities. Just more proof the system is broken, well, thats if youre capable of thinking like that
this nikka is not lyin........sum parts of that philly-camden-bmore stretch is like going thru a museum on the crack era
Today, cacs walk up and down Georgia Ave and aren't scared of shyt. Even white people live in Trinidad nowadays. 
Spice 1 never lived in Oakland, but you never hear Oakland nikkas screaming "Spice ain't from the Town!". 
Wale is the one of the only national reps for DC, so nikkas should embrace him. And Wale does represent the Uptown swag and mindstate well. I know being in DC every week of the year as a Maryland resident.
PG?The fact is Wale DID live in DC until he was in middle school. Wale lived in Murder Capital era DC in the early 90's off of Georgia Ave on Peabody. The DC of the last ten years is nothing compared to early 90's DC.
The thing about DC is that hella nikkas there is butthurt that DC never had a hardcore street rapper to tell their stories. DC never had a Nas or Pac. DC's main music movement was always Go-Go. But DC always wanted someone from the streets to put their city on the map like anywhere else. Wale didn't dropout of school in the eighth grade and sell crack to his mother. He moved to Montgomery County at a young age because his family wanted a better life than living in the murder capital of the United States. Can you really blame his parents for that?
The problem I see with DC being from the Bay is all the hate. Where I'm from in the Bay, we ain't no haters. In the Bay, nikkas in the hood will fukk with you, if you keep it 100. When Pac came to the Bay, nikkas fukked with him. All Pac's real friends (i.e. Spice 1, Rappin' 4Tay, Richie Rich etc.) were from the Bay. It wasn't until Pac started fukking up did nikkas have a problem with him (i.e. the shooting of a little kid in Marin City at festival in 92' that involved Pac's camp). But you never heard nikkas from the Bay screaming "Pac ain't from Oakland!", did you? Same thing with other outta towners like Messy Marv who was adopted by Fillmoe nikkas in Frisco. If it weren't for Mess trying to rep Blood (which nikkas don't bang B's or C's in the Bay), he would still be allowed to claim the Moe and The City despite not living there since his grandparents were born or some shyt.
Shooting a video with Cardoza high school in the background isn't violating on some street shyt; thinking like that is being a hater and reaching.
My nikka said until middle school, like he was any real danger in elementary, u ain't doing shyt in elementary, he didn't grow in DC so they probably dont feel he really DC like that.The fact is Wale DID live in DC until he was in middle school. Wale lived in Murder Capital era DC in the early 90's off of Georgia Ave on Peabody. The DC of the last ten years is nothing compared to early 90's DC.
The thing about DC is that hella nikkas there is butthurt that DC never had a hardcore street rapper to tell their stories. DC never had a Nas or Pac. DC's main music movement was always Go-Go. But DC always wanted someone from the streets to put their city on the map like anywhere else. Wale didn't dropout of school in the eighth grade and sell crack to his mother. He moved to Montgomery County at a young age because his family wanted a better life than living in the murder capital of the United States. Can you really blame his parents for that?
The problem I see with DC being from the Bay is all the hate. Where I'm from in the Bay, we ain't no haters. In the Bay, nikkas in the hood will fukk with you, if you keep it 100. When Pac came to the Bay, nikkas fukked with him. All Pac's real friends (i.e. Spice 1, Rappin' 4Tay, Richie Rich etc.) were from the Bay. It wasn't until Pac started fukking up did nikkas have a problem with him (i.e. the shooting of a little kid in Marin City at festival in 92' that involved Pac's camp). But you never heard nikkas from the Bay screaming "Pac ain't from Oakland!", did you? Same thing with other outta towners like Messy Marv who was adopted by Fillmoe nikkas in Frisco. If it weren't for Mess trying to rep Blood (which nikkas don't bang B's or C's in the Bay), he would still be allowed to claim the Moe and The City despite not living there since his grandparents were born or some shyt.
Shooting a video with Cardoza high school in the background isn't violating on some street shyt; thinking like that is being a hater and reaching.
