Is Joey Bad NY's last hope?

[ogc163]

Unless you live on the far east side from Lex on east, it's a lot harder to afford to live in Harlem than it used. Go through Convent Ave and tell me you don't feel like you're on the Upper West Side. I know Harlem more than you think. It's not the way it was even 5-7 years ago. And the tastes in music, it's less than that. Like homie earlier said, he heard Ocho Cinco blasting outta a car. That's what these kids fukk with. I was chillin one time and if you heard the discussions these kids was having over who was poppin or who was nice or "this nikka got swag" you'd wanna stab your ears. The kids in my age group, the ones that came up on Dipset during high school and shyt, yeah we don't fukk with the styles as far as dressing and shyt is concerned but these youngins copy these other dudes now.

Same shyt with French. You think kids were out here saying HANH and wearing these ridiculous expensive ass shirts with crazy ass designs and pyramids and shyt in the front when French and A$AP and these other kids were coming up? No. They were too busy wearing Stop Snitching shirts and baggy jeans that showed your ass crack. It's recently now that kids are out here with high top fades and skinny jeans with the foams and all that shyt. Older cats like you and I, we may look a little more like Meek and dress like a little less assuming. There's plenty of people who dress like that and still keep it kinda normal, but that's not what these kids are doing.

That shyt looks like the west side on a brick evening when everyone rocks hoodies regardless. That's one that won't die, the hoodie. That's damn near a uniform.

Yo Tremont you the homie and all but this is just false, I'm 26 I started college in 06' I went to college in NYC with these dudes and I can tell you that baggy ish was already completely dead by mid 07' especially West Harlem cats and some BK heads who started going hard with the Nudies and other high end ish they spent their financial aid checks on. Me and this dude rocky are only 1 year apart so I can tell you there was already a shift going on when I was a sophmore. These young fly cats aint buying clothes from Jimmy Jazz son, thats where you buy SNEAKERS ONLY East Harlem folks NEVER dressed likes Juelz they are known for being fly but not flashy. Harlem folks don't dress like Rocky he on some extra ish... but they do dress like Yamz.

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

They DO though. You think the typical Harlem kid is living, dressing, and talking like the A-Mafia's of the world? The Cam's of the world? HELL NO. They're too busy getting uprooted outta their neighborhood to be living that dusty. Kids running around with their SoHo gear, skinny jeans, french braids, listening to nothing but MMG and some southern trap shyt. Maybe when A$AP was coming up they were the black sheep of the hood, but nowadays that's what these kids wanna run around like. They're not outcasts anymore amongst what kids are doing.

Go to any party here and try, just try to play a Joey Bada$$ track, a Slaughterhouse track, a Prodigy /Alchemist track, a Uncle Murda track and you will see the most disinterested motherfukkers out here. But play that Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana, and you would think they took the party back where it belonged.

I was weirded out by it too initially, but these kids LOVE these new NY dudes. They just do. The closest thing to a typical NY nikka is someone like Meek Mill and he's not from here.

most of the nikkas i see out here are still rocking bucket hats and nauti polos

harlem ain't changed.

 

[Rominati]

@ogc163 @2manyFCKNrappers

Im glad ya nikkas came thru n let nikkas know tha deal. I dont want Megatron or any of these otha bamas having any more false information n fake ammo on whats what in NY

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

@ogc163 @2manyFCKNrappers

Im glad ya nikkas came thru n let nikkas know tha deal. I dont want Megatron or any of these otha bamas having any more false information n fake ammo on whats what in NY

i was posted in front of Jimbos for about 20 minutes and i didn't see a single nikka with leather shorts, rick owens, pyrex vision or any of that other soho weirdo shyt nikkas like to put on . nobody in harlem dresses like rocky. i'm in wagner all the time and i never saw one person even get close....nor do i think they want to.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Yo Tremont you the homie and all but this is just false, I'm 26 I started college in 06' I went to college in NYC with these dudes and I can tell you that baggy ish was already completely dead by mid 07' especially West Harlem cats and some BK heads who started going hard with the Nudies and other high end ish they spent their financial aid checks on. Me and this dude rocky are only 1 year apart so I can tell you there was already a shift going on when I was a sophmore. These young fly cats aint buying clothes from Jimmy Jazz son, thats where you buy SNEAKERS ONLY East Harlem folks NEVER dressed likes Juelz they are known for being fly but not flashy. Harlem folks don't dress like Rocky he on some extra ish... but they do dress like Yamz.

I'm 26 too. I'm also not referring to you and I and people like us. I'm talking about the kids that are 10 years younger than us. People like us aren't gonna look like Meek and Vado and more like French if you swear you got funds.

Juelz now dresses like he did 10 years ago, just not as flashy. He still try to do that rock star shyt with his belts and all that but it's not the same.

And go Jimmy Jazz now. They still sell sneakers, but now people go there to buy checkered shirts and jeans and sweaters and all that. Quite frankly Jimmy Jazz has fallen off in terms of buying sneakers. Lord knows this ain't getting copped at Jeans Plus anymore (RIP the Jeans Plus on Burnside and Grand Concourse. Many a time I went there )

 

[tremonthustler1]

most of the nikkas i see out here are still rocking bucket hats and nauti polos

harlem ain't changed.

I could go to Harlem right now and sit in the middle on 145th and Broadway the rest of the weekend and never see ONE guy with a bucket hat. Mostly still snapbacks and some fitteds.

 

[tremonthustler1]

You like half right and half wrong.

What the other guy said in this thread was the perfect description of NY in 2013. We just DONT CARE. The youth dont care about the 90s or that that "lets bring it back!" shyt like that, so they will bump a Chief Keef or a Rich Homie Quan with no qualms. You right bout that. HOWEVER, when it comes to the hood and the fashion sense of the youth. They still mostly on that ACG, Polo, hoodie ish. Even the younger generation.

Im actually one of the few ASAP defenders in Harlem. Most of harlem dont even fukk with them like that. Let alone be influenced by them

Taking it further. NOBODY even knows about Joey like that out in the streets. If I was to walk up to a young nikka right now and say what you bumpin he'll prolly tell me Lil Durk, Future, n Drake


As for gentrification, the prices havent gone up for almost everyone I know. To my knowledge the prices dont effect natives, only ppl who are trying to move in. Like I said in another thread, my aunt only pays 800 a month for her crib that she has been living in for almost 10 years. N she make waay more than that. Thats why most young nikkas who grew up in Harlem move to the South bronx when they are of age, cuz they aint trying to live in they momma crib n cant afford a spot on their own.

Hoodies will never go anywhere. We have no choice but to wear hoodies at this time.

As for gentrification (I don't wanna derail the thread; it's about the music and we're in agreement as far as what these kids would rather hear), Castle Hill and Parkchester, those areas are now filled with Harlem dudes that either wanted to go there (no offense to my Parkchester /Castle Hill peoples but I don't know why you would) or had no choice but to go there since it's more affordable A$AP Twelvy is one of those people that wound up moving (and Rocky lived here for a little bit and hustled on Webster Ave). Everyone else from what I know stayed in Harlem

 

[g-ice]

After that Wild n Out performance man

 

[JYoung24]

now people are hating on Joey Badass now this site is so predictable. they like to call every good rapper boring

 

[villain]

Hol up dawg

Jus stick to talking bout ya borough


Rocky is my mans 100 grand n all. But them ASAP nikkas DO NOT represent the typical harlem nikka in 2013. They themselves will tell you that.

Rocky does embody the quintessential Harlem nikka in terms of overall personality, but in terms of dress not really. Only the real young high school nikkas do I see on that hipster style type shyt. Most of the older dudes keep it NY still.

Maybe he was talking about the young crowd. I know young Brooklyn nikkas have been affected the worst by the A$AP style of dress though.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Rocky does embody the quintessential Harlem nikka in terms of overall personality, but in terms of dress not really. Only the real young high school nikkas do I see on that hipster style type shyt. Most of the older dudes keep it NY still.

Maybe he was talking about the young crowd. I know young Brooklyn nikkas have been affected the worst by the A$AP style of dress though.

I was. I made it clear enough to where I saying "kids"

 

[Zach Lowe]

All these "new NY" rappers doing retro boombap should study



and see how their careers have been at the same level (more or less) for 5+ years

or look up Sha Stimuli, or see what Saigon and Little Brother are doing now

 

[villain]

this how I see a lot of the young nikkas these days

 

[Rominati]

this how I see a lot of the young nikkas these days

Thats the NY that the hipster media portrays to the people.

Thats like me saying. This is how I see alot of Chi-town nikkas




Nobody dressess or acts like Vinny Chase or Ken Rebel round here. Regulars in harlem are more like this (youngins included) (particularly the kid on the right)

 

[villain]

Well, I'll just say it's two sides to the city

you can't deny the presence of the hipster style in the young nikkas these days. Tim Vocals and those dudes still from the ACG/Marmot/Tru Religion era so it's not the same.

I go to my old high schools and see nikkas dressed like Rocky and Vinny Chase