Old heads, what were some things you HATED about the 90s?

[Chef]

Yeah the violence. Jamaica avenue in the 90's

1. Crack - south Jamaica was damn near a war zone
2. Deceptagons - took me 3 hours to get home from school some days just trying to avoid the train stations where those evil b*stards were congregating
3. Girbaud jeans - just never fit me right

My brother told me the Coli block wasn't a place to be after dark. Even then you had to be strapped and still your head would be on a swivel.

My brother told me a story how they were the epitome of if you weren't getting robbed, you were getting knocked or going home with a buck 50.

It's why I love watching old NY films from the 80s and 90s for the memories. The Jamaica bus line, ugly yellow cabs, old E trains, tokens, , 50lb avirex and pelle pelle jackets.

 

[TEH]

It was like being a thug got a hoes p*ssy wet by default.

I had a natural mean mug that I learned from the mid 90s, that I didn't fully correct until a few years ago . It was traumatizing back then. Had to be "real" by being connecting something to be street.

I still have to self correct my mean mugging that I had to use during the 90's.

 

[Wild self]

I still have to self correct my mean mugging that I had to use during the 90's.

If you went to a hood Middle and HS, it was like going to Vietnam. Years after I graduated, I still had nightmares. Really didn't start to recover till like 4 years ago.

Yeah, thank god for the Internet and social media revealing that black people are more than just thugs.

These HS kids today go in with smiles and shyt like that. Wasn't no type of smiling when I went to HS.

 

[Jean toomer]

One more thing, taggin.
Lord knows I appreciate graffiti as an art form but damn near everybody had some taggin book with the same name over and over and was bombing the trains with the Brooklyn killers.
It was just so tedious.

 

[NYC Rebel]

The violence. I don't miss that. 2000 murders in NYC back in 92. I lost a lot of friends due to senseless violence. I don't miss that

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

i was under 18 in the 90s so i didnt get to see all of the R Rated movies.

I was under 18 too but that never stopped me.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

I was under 18 too but that never stopped me.

I saw shyt like Friday but some shyt my fam was like

Had to go over a friends to watch it

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I was under 18 too but that never stopped me.

half the time the kids working at the movie theatres weren't old enough to watch rated R movies they Damn self

I don't think any of them gave a fukk abt selling tickets to minors

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I saw shyt like Friday but some shyt my fam was like

Had to go over a friends to watch it

Oh my bad, it was your parents who restricted you.

I'm thinking like how it was back in the day, sneaking into the movies, buying tix to other shyt but sneaking into T2 and Pulp Fiction and shyt.

I was very lucky to have parents who didn't give a fukk what I watched. Hell they took us as kids in the 80s to r rated shyt all the time. Nasty movies and shyt like that they didn't want us watching but all that action, rated r shyt was game. I ate as a kid.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Niqqas gotta understand...those thugged out dudes who made it out the crack game in the late 80s were hardened gangsters by the 90s. It was as if thuggery got refined. And it was new jacks that had no business being on the streets, all star struck wanting to be like them niqqas that ended being food for those wolves. They were constantly getting caught out there by these hardened 80s made it into the 90s thugs. When I think about niqqas like Tutt who clapped Pac and niqqas like him who kept pressing on niqqas who had any change on them, shyt was just hard for no reason. It was just grimy as fukk.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

half the time the kids working at the movie theatres weren't old enough to watch rated R movies they Damn self

I don't think any of them gave a fukk abt selling tickets to minors

Some of those older theaters were creepy af. Seeing late movies, weirdos all up outside the lobby.

 

[egsteel]

Shaq-Fu

Did the developers ever give an explanation for that bullshyt?

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

90s nikkas really aint shyt

Yall were horrible parents, didnt build shyt, killed eachother at higher rates, went to jail at higher rates, ya females gassed up thugs, beat eachother up for getting good grades, yall were all crack babies n made crack babies yaselves. All yall pleasure comes from the media constantly reminiscing over cartoons, movies n shyt

Now yall sitting inthe 2010s all

 

[Wild self]

90s nikkas really aint shyt

Yall were horrible parents, didnt build shyt, killed eachother at higher rates, went to jail at higher rates, ya females gassed up thugs, beat eachother up for getting good grades, yall were all crack babies n made crack babies yaselves. All yall pleasure comes from the media constantly reminiscing over cartoons, movies n shyt

Now yall sitting inthe 2010s all

glad that I was a kid/early teen back then. Generation X dropped the ball something serious

 

[Wild self]

Niqqas gotta understand...those thugged out dudes who made it out the crack game in the late 80s were hardened gangsters by the 90s. It was as if thuggery got refined. And it was new jacks that had no business being on the streets, all star struck wanting to be like them niqqas that ended being food for those wolves. They were constantly getting caught out there by these hardened 80s made it into the 90s thugs. When I think about niqqas like Tutt who clapped Pac and niqqas like him who kept pressing on niqqas who had any change on them, shyt was just hard for no reason. It was just grimy as fukk.

It was a mess. Hell, some parts of the north BX was like Act III on East 241st. My God, that was a death trap for all the older dudes back then.