You have to be funny to some degree growing up in NYC. Too many people got jokes ready to unload on whoever for absolutely no reason. There were so many times at lunch in Jr HS and HS when we would have snapping contests and take turns roasting each other. If you got in the ring you better be ready with the ha ha's or else someone is gonna bomb you in front of an audience that you gotta finish out the day with.
In NYC humor is a sword and a shield.
I figured it had to be like this. When I was in the Navy the New York brehs refused to fit in. They stuck to NY above all else. Lingo. Clothes. Etc.
We are in Florida and a Floridian will be talking some southern shyt and a New Yorker will be

clowning the fukk out of brehs in they hometown

The shyt used to be so funny you could not even hate on it.
I can crack jokes with the best of them but shyt.. After 5 minutes or so I’m out of snaps. NY brehs are just getting started.
I would be like alright breh chill!!
