in 1988, what were you doing?

[Flav]

i was getting laughed at by my older cousins cause i wasnt old enough too rap the song Teenage Love yet.they use to walk to me and sing "A teenage love" then say "Oh,Your not a teenager yet you cant sing that song" then laugh at me.i couldnt wait to turn 13 just so i could officialy sing that song. lol

 

[The Antagonist]

Enjoying being over a year old I would guess...

 

[MenacingMonk]

I was shytting in my diapers, son.

 

[Big Mel]

did anybody else simply assume the world was a crazy place? i truly thought adult behavior was erratic and violent. turns out, they were on crack. even the "good" folks got down occasionally. i have so many stories.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

did anybody else simply assume the world was a crazy place? i truly thought adult behavior was erratic and violent. turns out, they were on crack. even the "good" folks got down occasionally. i have so many stories.

we had cluckers down here..

but most of the good folks sipped syrup with gin n wine smoked js...snorted coke...

the men i know i had kinfolks n ol head around me ..take beedies n dip em or laced with dust..

they will be knocked out on their ass...

we took advantage of they loss n fukked with their women ..thats how me n a couple of my potnas was bein mannish with their gals n shyt...i done seen mo p*ssy than my pastor by time i was 12

 

[Big Mel]

Word. nah. I'm just thinking back. i got beat up by dudes 10 years my senior at least 8 times just by being out and about. then when i started actually serving i really saw how deep it was.

but i'm thinking back and seeing how crack influenced even the parents i loved and looked up to. let me stop though.

i could go on and on. my barber was a skinny heroin addicted pickpocket from harlem who lumped up anybody fukked with his twist. my man Musa.

 

[BlackZilla]

I was listening to BDP so closely and starting to grab on girls. I was also wearing Troops, building foul relationships with older dealers who saw a wise young man in the making and balling my ass off!


to this day there's a record i heard on KISS that went "why....why...does a brother kill another for the color of a rag"

i thought it must have been off the colors soundtrack but it aint.


anybody knows that record i'd appreciate it. real eerie joint. echoey joint. like PSK echoey. i thought it was 7A3 or some shyt.

I was born in 1988 actually

...so I guess I wasn't doing much?

 

[MouseTeeth]

i most def had those black snakeskin iceberg joints, fam. y'all Queens cats are the butt of all NYC jokes though...aside from us Staten cats. no hate bro. all love.

Dogs. let me tell you. FOR YEARS i've been trying to be the dude brings Bally's back. you ain't gonna find the Doug E Fresh cover joints....you're just not. i've scoured the globe.


i'm always thinking, fam.

I made a thread about the original slick Rick/Dana Dane ballys but it fell on deaf ears...you'd honestly b the freshest dude on planet earth if u could find one of those...nobody has them And its not like Bally ever reissued them like the OG white n pea soup green Gucci sneakers. I think those r the rarest hip hop shoe I can think of.

 

[BlackZilla]

my molester's name was Ronnie too....

You mean the_rhyme_king?

 

[Big Mel]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Big Mel]

I made a thread about the original slick Rick/Dana Dane ballys but it fell on deaf ears...you'd honestly b the freshest dude on planet earth if u could find one of those...nobody has them And its not like Bally ever reissued them like the OG white n pea soup green Gucci sneakers. I think those r the rarest hip hop shoe I can think of.

and it's such a basic shoe. i could make it myself.


Imagine stepping out in some Bllay's. No one has Bally's. Nas has ZERO bally's. i doubt nas ever had bally's. lottos, yes. diadoras, yes. ellesies, yes. ballys, hell no.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

nikka quit lyin yo bytch ass had a work out tape with mr wonderful

I WAS HELPING YOU GET BROLIC, BROTHER! ARE YOU TRYING TO KICK KNOWLEDGE, DUDE?

 

[mbewane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf_LizgLvT0

This joint was the first that got me addicted to hip-hop breh...my older cousin (RIP) kept playing it...I was 8

That's the year we left New-Rochelle to go to Central African republic tho

 

[Big Mel]

^^^^my good man. i have african friends that go back to the apartheid days. i have lifelong friends from the city of Cartoon in Ethiopia before USA for Africa.


i'm still not gonna plat sun city!


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[observe]

"In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)"