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

[Drake is God]

The music until Eminem came out in 99'

 

[The M.I.C.]

The violence.

Charlotte in the 90's was ridiculous.

When I visited NYC (E. New York) and Buffalo where some of my folk lived, they were RIGHT in the hood. Same thing with KCMO/KCKS...but funnily enough, I really enjoyed those times outside of the bullshyt.

 

[-DMP-]

Big Butt TVs (shyts was heavy as fukk)

If you didnt have cable, there was no other way to watch your fave shows (now its fukk cable )

Slow ass internet ( i have nightmares of the dial up sound :merchant)

Label obsession (I couldnt afford tommy, FuBu, Jordans, Nautica, etc)

Light Skin guys having the juice

No cellphones

Every body wanted to be in a gang

Having to go to the library to do reports (thank god for PCs)

Cursive writing (thank god for PCs)

Them big ass gamboys took a billion batteries, couldnt fit in your pocket, and wasnt packlit.

Southern rap got no respect

I wasnt old enough to go to freaknik

 

[whknorth]

these old ass coli nikkas cant remember. they have the als hi mars.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

All Eyez on Me was 24.99$. That was a lot of money, minimum wages was like 4$ then too.

A lot of violence and crime went on down here in the boot. Many places didn't have any type of surveillance. Dudes would shoot up a spot and be in no rush to leave. No on had cell to call the cops. You get caught up in wrong hood, they could be your azz for forever and no one would come help.

Traveling without a cellphone and having to write down horrible directions to go to someone house.

because of gps and cell phones these youngings have no idea how bad women were with directions.

"Drive down 2 or 3 blocks and you'll see a kinda crooked stop sign, you'll make a left there. Then you'll see a tall tree next to a much shorter one and my place is right next to it"

 

[Mr. Jiggy Fly]

Light Skin guys having the juice

I thought dark skin nikkas got the juice by the early 90s

I know light skin nikkas had the 80s on lock.....

EDIT: My bad, I forgot there was a transition period.....the NJS era still had light dudes with S-curl hair hot.....them Christopher Williams lookin' dudes. But by the mid-to-late 90s the transition was complete

 

[DrX]

the hood....it was pretty dangerous back then...u couldn't walk alone without getting jumped....it was pretty dangerous....the kids now are way more laid back...which is good....

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Always filthy, drunks and crackheads always posted up by them.

Forgot about this one too.

A lot of dealers would set up shop by a pay phone. By that I mean they would park nearby and just watch the pay phone bcuz crack heads would use it to get in touch with the dealers.

This sucked if you legitimately wanted to use a pay phone to page your boy because there have been times where I would get a callback on said pay phone and get told to roll the fukk out by a random ass dope boy or else they would "call up their nikkas to come wet me up"

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Always filthy, drunks and crackheads always posted up by them.

When I was a kid me and the homies use to prank call people with that 1 800 collect. We would act like we were there relatives and hang up, people always accept charges from a kid calling.

 

[richaveli83]

The violence. Everything else was lit! Probably the greatest decade for the majority of black people.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

The GOAT decade. Blessed to have lived thru it

Only thing I didn't like was class. Gym and lunch was the shyt

Class of 99

 

[Sassy]

Dial up internet

 

[KinksandCoils]

Mock turtlenecks with windsuit outfits

 

[Paradise]

Mock turtlenecks with windsuit outfits

Girl... LOL! I had one in every color!

 

[L0Qutus]

I've seen several posters above already say violence, violence, violence.

The violence was terrible in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Do you think these 3-Strike laws came out of nowhere in the 90's? White people were scared as fukk! Black people too.

People were tripping when theaters wanted to beef up security for Straight Outta Compton talking about
"Dem whiteboys boys and old disgruntled cacs be shooting up theaters not us!"

nikka, us old heads remember you couldn't go to black movie on opening weekend during the 90's b/c some dumbass was going to shoot the shyt up. Chris Rock talked about it in Bring the Pain.
Start at the :58 mark:


In the late 80's to early 90's Hollywood was making movies like Boyz N The Hood, New Jack City, Colors, Robocop, and Terminator.
White people thought society was falling apart.

White people were having fantasies about lashing out against the "filth" in "their' country:
Falling Down


The gang violence in SoCal was crazy. You really had to watch what you wore outside the house and be cognizant of what route you took on the way home. I've had to dive on the floor SEVERAL times b/c of driveby's in my neighborhood.

The shyt you saw in the Boyz in the Hood and Colors was really happening:


Violence just started dropping during the mid 90's and people thought it had to be b/c of the economy but that is bullshyt. Research shows that we had a lot of LEAD in our environment. The gov't started cracking down on lead in gas, the water, and paint.

Pray for those poor little brothers in sistahs in Flint b/c their brains have already been poisoned.