Where are you from in the 7-5, brodie? And how old are you?
I'm also much younger than them (34), and I'm not originally from the area. But for reference I lived in Northwest Virginia Beach in Thalia South...
Its plenty of hoods in The Beach: Baker, Bayside, Twin Canals, Green Run, Atlantis, Bow Creek, Atlantic Park, etc. Plenty of hoods, and where they from in Bridle Creek can be considered a hood area in The Beach too...
Virginia Beach is one of those cities where street-oriented cats are more on some, run the money up, kinda time, rather than a killing field. It's like how NYers describe Harlem in comparison to Brooklyn or Bronx, the old nickname "Money Making Manhattan". Not that nikkas don't get money in other boroughs, or that it's not killers in Harlem, because both are true. But the general atmosphere and aura of the streets in VB is money over bullshyt...
This is what makes it different from the other Tidewater cities, all of which are more about violence. Norfolk is right next door and is a much more violent city, but street dudes in Nfk who ever left they block know Beach dudes are hustlers first. And street dudes from Nfk who've left they block also know there's Beach dudes who are gravediggers too...
But your post proves something I've stated before, that every time someone "from the 757" says the Clipse weren't outside it always be nikkas not from The Beach. Because people from The 75 swear Beach cats are sweet or they up on game on Beach politics...
When nikkas from The Beach are asked about them, they either know, or say they don't know because they not from them dude's hood or era. Beach cats don't be like "nah them nikkas wasn't around"...
I'm sure I've shared this on here before, but I knew a brother once who used to run with Malice, brother born and raised in The Beach, when I used to live in the city. Also met a handful of other cats who knew them, knew of them, or were around in the era they grew up---->including a couple cats from Diggs Park, Berkley, Youngs Park. These guys I knew were credible, I have no reason to believe they needed to lie for Clipse...
As I said I also knew people who said they didn't know anything about them. But it always be people not from VB I met who swore vehemently "man them dudes not street!"