Jim Jones: I Almost Got Robbed In Red Hook Projects In Brooklyn, For My Starter..

[Mʀ2ᴋDᴇᴇᴢ]

@ some of these stories, damn glad like a mf I never had to live in projects, let alone NY projects

 

[MisterMajesty]

When I was growing up, Nah, nikka ain't really ask you where you from, because nikkas knew you weren't from there and that's all that mattered. Only time you really got a pass is if you knew someone from that projects.

My friend told me about a time a nikka not from his projects, pressed him in his own projects, because the dude had just came home from jail and my friend didn't live there at the time. shyt had me crying.

I hated Linden Projects in East NY because the elevator never worked, and my friend lived on the 11th floor. . Stepping in piss with fresh Jays on is a no go my guy.

nikkas just got ready to come at you Elephant and castle is every bit like that. The elevator never worked, and my bro lived on the fourth floor. The one time it did work? it got stuck. For five hours.

 

[Canada Goose]

Redhook Projects eh


Its funny because it reminds me of this kid I knew of Freshman year in High School who always used to hype up Red Hook projects saying nikkas will jump you if you ain't from there Even the females, he told this story about how he went to Red Hook with his girl and he stepped away from her for a minute and when he came back a bunch of Red Hook girls were about to jump her


This dude also he claimed to have knew Lil Mama and said she be hanging out in Red Hook... This was in 07 when the Lil Mama was poppin' and Lip gloss was a huge hit, Lil Mama in early 07 was like current day Cardi B in terms of popularity.

 

[get these nets]

once upon in the projects ............yo

ICE CUBE

I NEVER understood the "visiting a girl in the projects" stories. On some real shyt.....WHY??? Y'all didn't know girls from other places?
I grew up in the 80s before this gang shyt infested the East Coast and even then it wasn't smart to go into the projects unless you were from there.
Prince Street? West Kinney? whaT? are you crazy?

 

[Tookalossfellbackcameback]

Reading these projects stories...


I remember moving to Detroit from Flint when I was 13...Flint didn't have projects, it was all just wild ass neighborhoods, but Detroit had the infamous Brewster projects.

I remember my homeboy June and his big bro Ennis scooped me up and we went to the Brewsters to pick up some work. It was hot as hell outside, shyt was like 80+ degrees in June and niccas was standing outside with big ass bubble coats and triple fat goose coats. Only reason we were good is because niccas knew Ennis...and even then you could tell some of them niccas wanted to move on us.

All goes back to what the homie Juvenile said..."if you're far away from your home you're an alien".

 

[nightpupil]

Nah but forreal. my hood was peace almost like a ghetto heaven, in that we had no guns just us smoking, selling weed. No fukking crack just apartments and little as town houses. smoking weed on top of roof tops running wild in the street playing b-ball in the courts. That's it.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Jones is hilarious. That part about chicks in the projects if fact

When you a kid growing up in NY, in the 90s, going to another projects was scary. bytches talking about come upstairs and there’s like mad gangmembers by the door, all staring at you like “The fukk is this nikka” and you gotta act like you not about to shyt your pants. I’d rather go to Iraq than visit my pops at work, right across the street from Walt Whitman projects.

Im pretty sure that’s every project in every city lol

 

[Guvnor]

As he should, the wolves were out there in Red Hood You don't go out there unless you have business out there.


Them folks are savages.

 

[Guvnor]

Nah but forreal. my hood was peace almost like a ghetto heaven, in that we had no guns just us smoking, selling weed. No fukking crack just apartments and little as town houses. smoking weed on top of roof tops running wild in the street playing b-ball in the courts. That's it.

You from Yonkers or up state?

 

[Canada Goose]

Reading though this thread... I had family that lived in the Tompkins PJ's and went to Marcy and Sumner PJ's to play Basketball and such and nothing never happened this was in the 2000s though. Things in the hood certainly got better in NYC after the 90s, as a 90s baby that grew up in NYC I can't relate to most of these stories

 

[nightpupil]

just imagine peace hood with big houses...ahhhhhh

nah son lets just keep going with these things....lol.......

 

[norfwestdc]

Nah but forreal. my hood was peace almost like a ghetto heaven, in that we had no guns just us smoking, selling weed. No fukking crack just apartments and little as town houses. smoking weed on top of roof tops running wild in the street playing b-ball in the courts. That's it.

My hood is pretty peaceful but a lot of people smoke pcp and crack though.

 

[nightpupil]

Miami man..lol.. I wish I lived in new York. My family moved down here cus they had my ass..but I loved my little hood.

 

[mson]

Going to Vandeveer for a bytch.

 

[YourMumsRoom]

Sounds a whole lot like London. Growing up in new cross, even going to other parts of lewisham was blasphemy, and I went school way out of the borough, so I was going through different estates all the time. Black/Red/Blue flags everywhere I looked, and I'm some feeble kid

Btw, to the NY'rs? do they ask you the question of "What projects you from?" down there too?

My G, London's BEEN like that.

Grew up in Theath, but have family in Burnt Oak and North.
Always kept a girl 'off the ends' cos it's easier to creep.

CR7's been like that since the 90's.
Down south heads will most likely test you on the bus, rather then on foot. (less escapes).

In my era we had the glass Lucozade bottles as weapon, the buses red 'glass-shatter' hammers or my favourite a metal rule from DT.
Ducking Brixton heads, 28's, younger 28's or Peckham boys.

You surviving off 'facial recognition' rather then rep. That or playing dumb humming to yourself into the distance like a psycho when those wolves got on.