Old heads, what were some things you HATED about the 90s?
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Having to go to library to type papers and do reports.
Extra baggy clothes....I liked baggy to somewhat baggy but when u have a 28-30w and u wearing 38-40w jeans and they can't stay above or on ur azz even with a belt....too big and some people looked ridiculous in them
No cell phones for emergencies...good that everyone wasn't always on their phone but phones come in handy when u really in need
Can't think of a lot off hand because 90s had best sitcoms, music, and cartoons.
I even heard from a friend who uses substances that drugs were the shyt back in the day and cheeper and more pure form.
Extra baggy clothes....I liked baggy to somewhat baggy but when u have a 28-30w and u wearing 38-40w jeans and they can't stay above or on ur azz even with a belt....too big and some people looked ridiculous in them
No cell phones for emergencies...good that everyone wasn't always on their phone but phones come in handy when u really in need
Can't think of a lot off hand because 90s had best sitcoms, music, and cartoons.
I even heard from a friend who uses substances that drugs were the shyt back in the day and cheeper and more pure form.
I had summer job and I spent my school clothes money on Cross-Colors...
Cross Colors were only in style for one school year. I learned my lesson to never buy "trendy" shyt. I remember how everybody had to meet up at someone's house before going out. Cell phones made it a lot easier to coordinate b/w multiple groups of people. If the club was whack or didn't want to let you in you couldn't just leave unless everyone in the group was right there.
Did you have one of these hairstyles?
I remember I had one of these chains in school when I was like 14 or 15. Paid a shyt load of money (at the time) for it.
I was soo stupid with my lil money
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.
Paradise
Too tired to think of something witty to say...
I either had my hair like thisDid you have one of these hairstyles?
I remember I had one of these chains in school when I was like 14 or 15. Paid a shyt load of money (at the time) for it.
I was soo stupid with my lil money
like this
and when I got to high school like this
Yeah the violence. Jamaica avenue in the 90's
notPsychosiz
I started this gangsta sh-
If you missed an episode of a show, that was it. You were fukked. No dvd boxsets... no netflix... no hulu.
And if a show you wanted to see came on in the morning at say 7:00am... but you needed to leave at 7:15 to be at the bus stop to get to school on time, you might go all year watching the first 15 minutes of a show with no recolection of any conclussions whatsoever.
Thats almost torture for a young breh.
And if a show you wanted to see came on in the morning at say 7:00am... but you needed to leave at 7:15 to be at the bus stop to get to school on time, you might go all year watching the first 15 minutes of a show with no recolection of any conclussions whatsoever.
Thats almost torture for a young breh.
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Cave Savage
Feminist
did people talk about the 70s like this back in the 90s?
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Superstar
Yes! All the old folks use to talk about the late 60's early 70's
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!
People were tripping when theaters wanted to beef up security for Straight Outta Compton talking about
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.
Yeah you are right about that. Man I used to always hear stories about how cats was acting a fool on opening night during those movies. It got so bad in my little town we would go to the neighboring town that was majority white to see the more popular movies when they first came out cause in my hometown it would be too much craziness, fights, shooting etc.
Cave Savage
Feminist
did they talk about Marvin Gaye and Sly Stone?
