Rich Money Says Dave East Isn't From Harlem

[AMcV'88]

n one hand you can see why locals are perturbed and don't believe him.
Dave's Harlem history sounds like J Reid spinning a yarn.

but he cool enough with his peers that nobody going to care and an elder like Cam fukks wit him through Duke. its clearly been a topic of conversation though because remember Cam hit Jim with the "Jim, tell Dave how he's not really from Harlem" comments a few years back.



then Cam did the same to Jim.

 

[murksiderock]

Count me in to the group that looks at East a lil funny. I was on his wave early (early for a non-New Yotker anyway), probably four or five years ago. But I never bought the street shyt. It doesn't emanate naturally from him and too many people with knowledge of his situation shoot that image down...

As far as the imagery and posturing he like his idol Nas, and they both from Queens lol...

East also used to live in Richmond, VA. Either he did a year of high school there or a year of college, but he spent a year there and there's a few heads floating around who knew him/were in proximity or had contact with him in Richmond...

The two things I can identify with East about. 1)some of us do grow up in a lot of different places, for different reasons. I believe he lived in Harlem at some point, i don't think he just made it up without ever having lived there. Myself, I'm from California and grew up all over the place because of a fukked up family background, but i still represent myself as being from California. Everybody not just born and raised in one or two places. I can relate to that, and he probably was told everywhere he lived he wasnt from there lol...

2)I went to grade/elementary school in the Harlems in LA, so its nostalgic watching his videos in LA with the Harlems at parks and on streets I used to walk down/around...

But the street stories, never bought em!

I've never deliberately went back and played his music, so I'm not a fan at all but I saw his documentary and it prortrayed "a regular nikka" he may have even said "I'm just a regular nikka". Music is fukking music. I'm a regular nikka but I've thought and said "I will kill you" and I even though I didn't do it I meant it and if I was a rapper I could said it on a song. I've also hustled even though I'm not"a hustler". Just saying.

Saying "I'll kill you" and meaning it is different than portraying the image of a shooter; having messed with drugs at some point is different than having actually been someone who made theh livelihood and reputation from being a dealer...

East's lyrics portray a specific imagery that in all likelihood isn't realistic. He could say he messed around before (Cole has mentioned him trying to deal briefly) or if somebody caught him wrong he'd shoot them (Kendrick has mentioned this) without portraying the image of someone who is of that cloth. There's a big difference...

I think nikkas of that cloth recognize that East isn't one of them anyway...

 

[Redwing80]

If East came out just being the "regular dude" rapper like Cole or Kendrick I'd respect it...because in reality East is just a regular dude.

Getting tatted up, claiming a gang and spitting about coke on the scale is so lame and unconvincing...his whole steez is trying WAY too hard.

Fam East didn't even publicly claim Crip till a couple years ago. He was rapping and doing his thing for YEARS sounding and looking the same.

Nothing he says is spectacular. He says all the time he raps about regular shyt

 

[ISO]

Spanish Harlem

Same thing my boy

 

[spliz]

Count me in to the group that looks at East a lil funny. I was on his wave early (early for a non-New Yotker anyway), probably four or five years ago. But I never bought the street shyt. It doesn't emanate naturally from him and too many people with knowledge of his situation shoot that image down...

As far as the imagery and posturing he like his idol Nas, and they both from Queens lol...

East also used to live in Richmond, VA. Either he did a year of high school there or a year of college, but he spent a year there and there's a few heads floating around who knew him/were in proximity or had contact with him in Richmond...

The two things I can identify with East about. 1)some of us do grow up in a lot of different places, for different reasons. I believe he lived in Harlem at some point, i don't think he just made it up without ever having lived there. Myself, I'm from California and grew up all over the place because of a fukked up family background, but i still represent myself as being from California. Everybody not just born and raised in one or two places. I can relate to that, and he probably was told everywhere he lived he wasnt from there lol...

2)I went to grade/elementary school in the Harlems in LA, so its nostalgic watching his videos in LA with the Harlems at parks and on streets I used to walk down/around...

But the street stories, never bought em!



Saying "I'll kill you" and meaning it is different than portraying the image of a shooter; having messed with drugs at some point is different than having actually been someone who made theh livelihood and reputation from being a dealer...

East's lyrics portray a specific imagery that in all likelihood isn't realistic. He could say he messed around before (Cole has mentioned him trying to deal briefly) or if somebody caught him wrong he'd shoot them (Kendrick has mentioned this) without portraying the image of someone who is of that cloth. There's a big difference...

I think nikkas of that cloth recognize that East isn't one of them anyway...

Nas didnt have no imagery posturing. No more than the next nikka. Nas was really in the streets and def bust his gun on more than one occasion.

 

[sidenikkagawd]

Matter fact there’s prolly people out there who still dont know Dave East is crip.

Anybody who don't know it must not follow him on IG.

He not a real Crip anyway, he admitted in a song before he blew up that he never banged.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Nas didnt have no imagery posturing. No more than the next nikka. Nas was really in the streets and def bust his gun on more than one occasion.

Nas was around guys but that was never the situation

E Money
Mega
Lakey
Stretch

Etc

 

[murksiderock]

Nas didnt have no imagery posturing. No more than the next nikka. Nas was really in the streets and def bust his gun on more than one occasion.

I've heard mixed stories about Nas. When I lived in Albany I hung with some cats in his age group who were from The City. The general impression I got was that Nas from the turf, grew up and hung around shooters, but he wasnt no dealer himself and didn't have the reputation of knocking shyt down like other QB nikkas of his era...

Just my impression, plus his raps always came across as a nikka who was "around" but not with the shyts himself. I could be wrong but I think at the very least, when you think about street rappers from NY, Nas ain't one of the nikkas you really think of...

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

I've heard mixed stories about Nas. When I lived in Albany I hung with some cats in his age group who were from The City. The general impression I got was that Nas from the turf, grew up and hung around shooters, but he wasnt no dealer himself and didn't have the reputation of knocking shyt down like other QB nikkas of his era...

Just my impression, plus his raps always came across as a nikka who was "around" but not with the shyts himself. I could be wrong but I think at the very least, when you think about street rappers from NY, Nas ain't one of the nikkas you really think of...

And it certainly doesn’t take away from the fact he is one greatest black authors of the 20th Century

 

[murksiderock]

^^^^that's definitely a fact!

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Same thing my boy

I know this.... but like i stated when we talking about Harlem you and I know it starts from East to West past 110th Street...

Back in the day you was guaranteed a seat on the 1,2,3,4,5,A,B,C,D Train after 96th Street, we all knew that was the last stop for cacs

 

[FromBillionsCameOne]

Count me in to the group that looks at East a lil funny. I was on his wave early (early for a non-New Yotker anyway), probably four or five years ago. But I never bought the street shyt. It doesn't emanate naturally from him and too many people with knowledge of his situation shoot that image down...

As far as the imagery and posturing he like his idol Nas, and they both from Queens lol...

East also used to live in Richmond, VA. Either he did a year of high school there or a year of college, but he spent a year there and there's a few heads floating around who knew him/were in proximity or had contact with him in Richmond...

The two things I can identify with East about. 1)some of us do grow up in a lot of different places, for different reasons. I believe he lived in Harlem at some point, i don't think he just made it up without ever having lived there. Myself, I'm from California and grew up all over the place because of a fukked up family background, but i still represent myself as being from California. Everybody not just born and raised in one or two places. I can relate to that, and he probably was told everywhere he lived he wasnt from there lol...

2)I went to grade/elementary school in the Harlems in LA, so its nostalgic watching his videos in LA with the Harlems at parks and on streets I used to walk down/around...

But the street stories, never bought em!



Saying "I'll kill you" and meaning it is different than portraying the image of a shooter; having messed with drugs at some point is different than having actually been someone who made theh livelihood and reputation from being a dealer...

East's lyrics portray a specific imagery that in all likelihood isn't realistic. He could say he messed around before (Cole has mentioned him trying to deal briefly) or if somebody caught him wrong he'd shoot them (Kendrick has mentioned this) without portraying the image of someone who is of that cloth. There's a big difference...

I think nikkas of that cloth recognize that East isn't one of them anyway...

Fair enough I haven't heard his music like that cause what I did hear is was wild boring. If you're right that's corny cause like I said he seemed like a cool humble regular dude in the mass appeal doc.

 

[DeuceZ]

Brehs writing dissertations bout where he from

 

[Kool Kitty Kat]

I've heard mixed stories about Nas. When I lived in Albany I hung with some cats in his age group who were from The City. The general impression I got was that Nas from the turf, grew up and hung around shooters, but he wasnt no dealer himself and didn't have the reputation of knocking shyt down like other QB nikkas of his era...

Just my impression, plus his raps always came across as a nikka who was "around" but not with the shyts himself. I could be wrong but I think at the very least, when you think about street rappers from NY, Nas ain't one of the nikkas you really think of...

True. I remember seeing this though, but it could be just another story though.

 

[LevelUp]

I seen another dude that use to associate with Dave name Relly saying the same thing recently on a tik tok