That sinking feeling when you get older.....

[Elim Garak]

40

nikka what the hell you grown as fukk forget them streets.

 

[semicko82]

nikka what the hell you grown as fukk forget them streets.

Shyt is intoxicating

 

[MoneyTron]

I wish some of us would stop idolizing the streets like it is anything more than a dead end path to homelessness, poverty, prison, or death. Running the streets is a short-term means to excitement that eventually leads to long-term insolvency at best and death at worst.

 

[MoneyTron]

40

You 40 talking about the streets? Go home and be a family man.

 

[Elim Garak]

Shyt is intoxicating

Good luck lol that's all I can tell you.

 

[RaspberryFitted]

No they don't

yes they do. I’ve done or currently do everything on that list.

Because I've been around street dudes the majority of my life, and they get to have the "short-term" fun

why are you speaking for them? Also, regular people have “short-term” fun too.. you make it sound like it’s something only street dudes are privileged to do

40

I’d assume you were a teen during the late 90s/early 00s.. so I’d assume your viewpoint of squares/street dudes is based on that time period of Black Culture.

I’m half your age and I’m puzzled by what you consider is a square as well as your perception of these Men.

 

[semicko82]

yes they do. I’ve done or currently do everything on that list.

why are you speaking for them? Also, regular people have “short-term” fun too.. you make it sound like it’s something only street dudes are privileged to do

I’d assume you were a teen during the late 90s/early 00s.. so I’d assume your viewpoint of squares/street dudes is based on that time period of Black Culture.

I’m half your age and I’m puzzled by what you consider is a square as well as your perception of these Men.

Spot on
I don't have a negative connotation about "squares"
I admire squares as a matter of fact, but where I'm from they're looked down on

 

[Mac Brown]

Spot on
I don't have a negative connotation about "squares"
I admire squares as a matter of fact, but where I'm from they're looked down on

I’m around your age. I get it. But it’s time to grow the fukk up and realize that time period was bass ackwards for our mentality. Let that shyt go!

 

[RaspberryFitted]

Spot on
I don't have a negative connotation about "squares"
I admire squares as a matter of fact, but where I'm from they're looked down on

Indirectly, you are placing a negative connotation on them.

You are essentially putting those type of Men (you stated you are one of them) in boxes. So Men who handle their business can enjoy risky fun with Women? Men who about their paper can’t smoke a blunt or eat some edibles on their off day?

when you place these Men in boxes, you tell them they are not allowed to act like human beings. You tell them they have no room for error — that they have to be straight edged and not fall short of perfection.

 

[semicko82]

Indirectly, you are placing a negative connotation on them.

You are essentially putting those type of Men (you stated you are one of them) in boxes. So Men who handle their business can enjoy risky fun with Women? Men who about their paper can’t smoke a blunt or eat some edibles on their off day?

when you place these Men in boxes, you tell them they are not allowed to act like human beings. You tell them they have no room for error — that they have to be straight edged and not fall short of perfection.

Bookmark. I'll have to think on how will answer this

 

[MikelArteta]

count your blessings

 

[LunaticVillage415]

Making money(legally or illegally), drinking, smoking, doing drugs, chasing women preferably after hours

Been lived that life. Got sober at 32, now I’m 39. I feel like you can run the streets without doing any of those things. Running the streets is literally just that. And avoiding all responsibilities while doing it. But the effects of running the streets can haunt you long after you stopped slanging, smoking weed and drinking too much, hanging with the wrong crowd. You might be a felon as a result. Have a fukked up work history with no marketable skills. You don’t go from stopping running the streets to being comfortable suburban home owner overnight. Especially not for the younger generations Y and Z. Life is a gamble regardless.

My homies that didn’t give up the bar, the bottle, the pills, the drug game etc. been dying for years. From what I seen, old heads that don’t give up the streets just end up alone in a Section 8 apartment begging for change outside the liquor store. Sitting around all day taking about the NFL, the NBA, how rude kids are and how crazy they dress. The hardest drinkers/druggies die around 50 years old and it usually hits them fast. One day their healthy, the next they got a hole in their throat and lost 50 pounds walking with a cane looking 96 years olds at 53.

 

[WesCrook]

That fact that a good portion of our population dub normalcy as being "square" and "corny" shows how rampant mental illness is running in our community.

It's always been like this. Going back to elementary school.

Dumb kids mocking the smart kids for being smart.....to mask their insecurities

 

[ItsPeople]

Why does it have to be EXTREMES with black men?!?

Why can’t you be somewhere in the middle or closer to one end or the other?

 

[Shadow King]

Why does it have to be EXTREMES with black men?!?

Why can’t you be somewhere in the middle or closer to one end or the other?

Because struggle and the performative demeanor of surviving it have been assigned as synonymous with blackness.

If you didn't come up in certain environments or live to tell of an ordeal that made you "hard" or "real", you are lesser.