murksiderock
Superstar
I just realized something about myself today, talking to a 44-year old brother here in Winston-Salem, NC, that I'm surprised I never realized prior...
I'm 5½ years removed from being an active street guy, but because I spent pretty much ages 15 thru 28 in that lifestyle, it's left an impact and influence on who I've become, and who I'm becoming, and it isn't all negative impact. Certain things stick with you forever, there are aspects of that experience that will always be a part of my personality, even as I continue to evolve further and further away from that time of my life...
But today I had a real understanding of part of the reason I have an emotional tie to it.....and it's because of the way the older eras of street culture are highlighted in relation to the most recent eras...
We're almost in 2023, we STILL here stories about 80s and 90s gangsters. Get movies and documentaries and podcasts about them. Relatively speaking, in the genre of "black street entertainment", you hear very little about the streets of the 2000s and 2010s; we're just beginning the 2020s so I'm not even counting this era yet...
Sure, we hear about how post-pandemic has led to a number of cities approaching 90s era violence, and we've been hearing about the violence in Baltimore and Chicago and St Louis and New Orleans for years while most cities violence plummeted in the 00s. But we don't 'see' 00s or 10s figures with the platforms to talk about what coming of age in those eras was like, or what living fully in those eras with no ties to earlier ones was like...
This is an annoyance to me, and I think it's something that has bothered me for well over 15 years, as I can remember going to jail and prison and hearing about the wild west 90s and 80s from older cats. Those of us who chose that road experienced the highs and lows just the same, but those eras of street culture are never highlighted. My guess is because of how low the scope of violence was after the 90s is why succeeding eras are overlooked, but it trips me out how we still hear 80s and 90s heads talking about their time in the field...
Whether one agrees with it or not, the lane of talking about the streets exists, I'm just saying it bothers me that so little is mentioned about the following eras even now years removed, we're a dozen years removed from the 00s and about the only 00s street shyt that gets talked about is Meech and BMF (who were older nikkas and children of the 80s and 90s themselves)...
It's just an annoyance I learned bothers me!
I'm 5½ years removed from being an active street guy, but because I spent pretty much ages 15 thru 28 in that lifestyle, it's left an impact and influence on who I've become, and who I'm becoming, and it isn't all negative impact. Certain things stick with you forever, there are aspects of that experience that will always be a part of my personality, even as I continue to evolve further and further away from that time of my life...
But today I had a real understanding of part of the reason I have an emotional tie to it.....and it's because of the way the older eras of street culture are highlighted in relation to the most recent eras...
We're almost in 2023, we STILL here stories about 80s and 90s gangsters. Get movies and documentaries and podcasts about them. Relatively speaking, in the genre of "black street entertainment", you hear very little about the streets of the 2000s and 2010s; we're just beginning the 2020s so I'm not even counting this era yet...
Sure, we hear about how post-pandemic has led to a number of cities approaching 90s era violence, and we've been hearing about the violence in Baltimore and Chicago and St Louis and New Orleans for years while most cities violence plummeted in the 00s. But we don't 'see' 00s or 10s figures with the platforms to talk about what coming of age in those eras was like, or what living fully in those eras with no ties to earlier ones was like...
This is an annoyance to me, and I think it's something that has bothered me for well over 15 years, as I can remember going to jail and prison and hearing about the wild west 90s and 80s from older cats. Those of us who chose that road experienced the highs and lows just the same, but those eras of street culture are never highlighted. My guess is because of how low the scope of violence was after the 90s is why succeeding eras are overlooked, but it trips me out how we still hear 80s and 90s heads talking about their time in the field...
Whether one agrees with it or not, the lane of talking about the streets exists, I'm just saying it bothers me that so little is mentioned about the following eras even now years removed, we're a dozen years removed from the 00s and about the only 00s street shyt that gets talked about is Meech and BMF (who were older nikkas and children of the 80s and 90s themselves)...
It's just an annoyance I learned bothers me!
