"If you not from the hood you didnt have it hard, even if you black"-Lil Boosie

[wingzboy]

True to an extent if were only talking about money,but alot of wealthy people have other issues,depression, health issues,etc everything not about money.

Lmao! As if poor folk don't have those issues? Nikka I'd take those issues and have money than having them while broke.

 

[wet landscapes]

ehhhh
your life can be hard outside the hood, just (mostly) not as immediately dangerous or hopeless feeling

 

[GoldTeef]

If Black America is to positively go anywhere the hood culture has to be fukking dropped immediately .

What do you define as hood culture? Also the "hood culture" isn't going to change if at least SOME of their conditions don't change.

 

[jwall123]

Life is hard all around. It's about how you play the hand that was dealt to you.

There's plenty of stories of people who had nothing and somehow "made it".

If you have library and internet access that's already a huge resource if used correctly. Someone already mentioned that you need to have the vision first however. And discipline is important, adherence to the goal.

But I haven't seen the conditions Boosie has lived in so I can't speak on specific strategies.

Best post in this thread.

It's a fact not everyone is dealt the same cards when they're born. You're a majority, you're a minority, you're rich, you're poor, you're smart, you're dumb, you're good looking, you're ugly. Whatever it is, hey, it's what you got. Now you gonna complain about how hard your situation is and let that shyt stop you? Or you gonna do something with your life.

This is true. There are varying degrees of poverty. But it sounds like your saying pull yourself up from the bootstraps... and that is literally impossible. Some people are able to play the hand they are dealt. But that isn't the majority. Like I said earlier, if you cannot imagine yourself in a different place, do not have the proper guidance/ role models, see alternative routes out of the situation your chances of making it decrease.

Sometimes people do not have the tools to recognize that they are in a hard situation, let alone strategize a way to get out. It starts as a kid. If you live in impoverished conditions and grew up around the wrong people (these are the same folks who didnt make it out the hood) what do you expect?

It's easy for you to say "do something with your life." I assume this is because you were exposed to opportunity at some point and had the wherewithal to internalize, synthesize, then create change. Some do not have those skills.

 

[Edub]

That's a ridiculous statement...every black child whether in the hood or in the burbs has to find there way in this world after the age of 18...meaning each generation has to make it back to that level of living or higher as African American adults...yes the hood does present certain challenges that are unique, but life presents challenges to everyone's lives in unique ways...in the hood we focus on our struggles too much, instead of focusing on growth. Nobody cares about our challenges because everyone is challenged, we just gotta win.

 

[Bledswole]

Lmao! As if poor folk don't have those issues? Nikka I'd take those issues and have money than having them while broke.

That's why I said true to an extent,money ain't everything breh,no matter how much money you have Terminal Cancer is sending you away for good.

 

[Blackout]

Basically Boosie is just fighting in the bucket against suburbs blacks instead of trying to help is all get out

This crabs in a barrel mentality many of our people have is poisonious.

 

[BillBanneker]

What if your family is middle class from the hood Boosie?

 

[wingzboy]

That's why I said true to an extent,money ain't everything breh,no matter how much money you have Terminal Cancer is sending you away for good.

True, but the the fact remains that having terminal cancer with money allows me to explore all the possible ways of reducing pain, possible cure, prolonging life etc, compared to being being on an average/low income with the disease.

As humans we all are going to potentially experience painful events in our life that are beyond our control, deaths of loved ones, diseases, natural disasters, etc.

So yes money can't prevent you from experiencing these painful events, however it makes getting over most of it considerably much easier. If you have a disease/condition, you don't have to worry as much about time off work and not getting paid for it, you can seek the best doctor around, you don't have to worry about paying for it, you never have to worry about being laid off, if an earthquake hits, no problem, by a new crib somewhere else, and so on and so forth.

Money is only dangerous in the hands of weak-willed individuals, and whenever you hear about depressed wealthy person becoming addicts, they are the type who would do molly and other random shyt when they were broke. You never hear of self made rich men who become addicts the same way you do with actors/athletes/kids who inherited fortune etc.

 

[Starski]

I'm sorry...Black people have it hard to varying degrees all over the world regardless of socio economic status? Why we trying to play this game when we're all pretty much losing?

Gotdamn....

Got dayum this is so embarressing...White supremacy have ya'll "conscious" nikkas SO fukked up without even realizing....


....Like it would actually kill you to realize...maybe, just maybe....We ain't shyt....just maybe we arn't the lowest on the totem poll...


But nope, the white man w/ his glorious white skin COULD NEVER take an L

NJo matter what they go through we at the bottom and we aint sh!t...

I swear, it's like a cac can go live in a black hood, single parent home where the moms/dads a drunk/addict, food staps, welfare the whole 9, poverty stricken....and someone black in a white suburb, nice two home family making 100k+ year, great school system w/ great opportunities in college ect. but nope, cause that cac got a e.u name in a hypothetical world he might be able to get a job interview over me even if we had similar resumes....So hes still got it eay..

It's like you guys want hood nickas to abandon the whole " i come from a bad place ,i hard it the hardest" act...when you got nickas from the suburbs who wont even drop it and admit, just maybe we got some black middle class suburbs where we dont have it as hard as other people, taking everything into consideration....


I understand white supremacy, but got dayum ya'll are weak, have some pride.


We even got nickas on here saying we are worst off then illegal mexican immigrants


to OP...accounting for all variables in life...yeah, a black dude from the middle class surburs w/ 2 family home, nice income, ect., will have to easier in life then some trailer trash steretypical hood conditions cac.

 

[Another Man]

dont agree with the wording but he is right. if you didnt grow up poor i dont give a fukk about your struggles.



i have seen kids that didnt know where there next meal was coming from.

Then following his logic, no one should give a fukk about his struggles either, considering he came up in the hood, became rich enough to get the fukk out of there, STILL kept fukking with the hood and eventually got hemmed up....so to be real, I'd rather not listen to what some stupid fukk nikka like that has to say about adversity in life when he willingly fukked his up cuz he wanted to be hood. Monkey ass nikka Guess everyone else who left the hood, stayed out of there and decided to raise their families there are doing the wrong thing cuz Boosies backwards thinkin ass says so, nikkas are fukking idiots I swear

 

[Remote]

Who gives a shyt what Lil Boosie thinks about anything?

 

[IceManJones]

What do you define as hood culture? Also the "hood culture" isn't going to change if at least SOME of their conditions don't change.

AAVE first and foremost

 

[GoldTeef]

AAVE first and foremost

AAVE predates what most consider "hood culture"(which you still havent defined")

 

[IceManJones]

AAVE predates what most consider "hood culture"(which you still havent defined")

Hood culture as I see it goes like this , a unwavering support for the clown that get locked up for doing dumb shyt. Rampant promotion of drugs and selling drugs to friends and neighbors . Glorification of violence and being a "real one" . Hyping up clownish behavior . Consumerism of corporate brands like Nike and Addias that will shyt on Black people the first chance they get . Blaming everybody else but ever looking at themselves . Gaudy and flashy jewelry .