Old heads, what were some things you HATED about the 90s?
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Superstar
I remember they had the real cheap theaters that would show movies from 2 or 3 years old. And it was real cheap. And movies would come out on VHS a lot longer time than they come out on DVD today.
Cave Savage
Feminist
people are catchin buck fifties right now
true. i guess i was in the thick of it, plus i was taking the train to school. 96/97 when the bloods and crips hit nyc was a crazy time.
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Thinking back on it, the Internet Situation was really shytty (I mean it's still shytty where I'm at for the price we paying) with the dialup shyt but I had many adventures/good times with Dial up (Before the fukking bill came 
) so I can't even knock it that much.
However looking back I sorta really hated the fact that as a Caribbean territory alot of the youth got caught up in that whole ''East Coast Vs West Coast'' shyt 'cause we had access to BET. That's it. I mean dudes hated other dudes because of who they were, not where they were from and I most have forgot how retarded it was at school for a minute. Dudes that lived on the Western side of the Island started marking blocks for themselves, throwing up that WestSide sign so the Dudes on the Eastern side started marking territory on other parts of campus and made that East Only Zones.
I remember I was walking around, minding my own and I got pushed off a block 'cause I was ''From the East'' and like 5 East dudes rolled up and had my back almost Instantly like they was just waiting for the slightest to start throwing hands.
Then dudes started breaking down old chairs and walking to school with severed chains'n'shyt in their bags....one dude got his jaw broken after he got jumped on some bullshyt and that put the whole school into a lockdown 'cause this happened End of Term when dudes was allowed to come to school and fukk around since tests were over.
Looking back it was kinda sad 'cause we never had anything major like that happen before, I mean dudes didn't like dudes and fights were common enough, but they had merit. Luckily it never turned as bad as the USVI (St Thomas/St Croix) where dudes actually brought guns/knives to school and just 
and caught bodies over silly shyt.
As stupid as the generation below me who's currently caught up in the same bullshyt but on a more vapid level, I'm actually pleased ain't nobody got killed here yet and I hope it stays that way.
) so I can't even knock it that much.However looking back I sorta really hated the fact that as a Caribbean territory alot of the youth got caught up in that whole ''East Coast Vs West Coast'' shyt 'cause we had access to BET. That's it. I mean dudes hated other dudes because of who they were, not where they were from and I most have forgot how retarded it was at school for a minute. Dudes that lived on the Western side of the Island started marking blocks for themselves, throwing up that WestSide sign so the Dudes on the Eastern side started marking territory on other parts of campus and made that East Only Zones.
I remember I was walking around, minding my own and I got pushed off a block 'cause I was ''From the East'' and like 5 East dudes rolled up and had my back almost Instantly like they was just waiting for the slightest to start throwing hands.
Then dudes started breaking down old chairs and walking to school with severed chains'n'shyt in their bags....one dude got his jaw broken after he got jumped on some bullshyt and that put the whole school into a lockdown 'cause this happened End of Term when dudes was allowed to come to school and fukk around since tests were over. Looking back it was kinda sad 'cause we never had anything major like that happen before, I mean dudes didn't like dudes and fights were common enough, but they had merit. Luckily it never turned as bad as the USVI (St Thomas/St Croix) where dudes actually brought guns/knives to school and just and caught bodies over silly shyt.As stupid as the generation below me who's currently caught up in the same bullshyt but on a more vapid level, I'm actually pleased ain't nobody got killed here yet and I hope it stays that way.
Violence was bad back then. Brehs wanted to be super thugs and hardcore criminals because it was cool and got all the love back then.
Back then, cats got sent to the hospital because they got good grades in school and jumped after the last bell rang for the day. Being book smart was not only not cool, but you were made a constant target.
Crabs in a barrel was in full effect. Every black man had to get their
expression on to not look "soft" and any area you weren't familiar with, other brehs wanted to fight you. There was no "swag" back then to fall back on; you either were a comedian, or a thug. That's it. Or else your ass was food.
Black women who came up in that era, wanted Tupac and any street dude with a record. If you weren't doing work in the streets, most women in general passed by you. That's what I respect the 90s babies chick's for: growing up in the Kanye West era where black men actually smiled and we're human. The 70s and 80s chick's were the ones that wanted the ruffneck dudez.
Back then, cats got sent to the hospital because they got good grades in school and jumped after the last bell rang for the day.
Being book smart was not only not cool, but you were made a constant target. Crabs in a barrel was in full effect. Every black man had to get their
expression on to not look "soft" and any area you weren't familiar with, other brehs wanted to fight you. There was no "swag" back then to fall back on; you either were a comedian, or a thug. That's it. Or else your ass was food.Black women who came up in that era, wanted Tupac and any street dude with a record. If you weren't doing work in the streets, most women in general passed by you. That's what I respect the 90s babies chick's for: growing up in the Kanye West era where black men actually smiled and we're human. The 70s and 80s chick's were the ones that wanted the ruffneck dudez.
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
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.
Interesting cultural history lesson. I think the baby boom cohort and its echo also getting older had a lot to do with it. Also, they locked up A LOT of people in prison. Violent Criminal activities are only committed by a small portion of the male population. If most of them are locked up, violent crime goes down.
Lower crime rates are being seen across the West because our populations are getting older though. However, millennial in the US are the largest age cohort ever...
agnosticlady
AL loves da kids : )
Always filthy, drunks and crackheads always posted up by them.
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
Y'all can keep the 90's
I either had my hair like this
like this
and when I got to high school like this
Awww hair on fleek
Paradise
Too tired to think of something witty to say...
Awww hair on fleek
Back in the 90's when I had a relaxer I got a wash and style every 2 weeks and a relaxer every 8 weeks on the dot.
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
dark skin dudes only got the juice after Stella got her groove back
Sega not having a save feature 
