The Clipse grew up middle class, no struggle but gravitated to the drug game ... is this common?

[Booker T Garvey]

Kinda makes the angle that ppl get into the drug game because of poverty is some bullshyt. Sometimes it’s just greed to get money fast

And why do people in hip hop like to clown rappers for not really coming up from the bottom, being from the ghetto if it’s so common ?

nelly did a documentary on Vh1 where he openly said he sold dope to buy jordans

same for all the cats I grew up around...i'm sure they got some groceries and mcdonalds

i've never met anybody who sold drugs b.c if they didn't they'd be homeless and would starve to death

 

[YamakaSmacker]

Did ya'll even listen to Lord Willin??
It was a combination of factors: 1. When they got to VA their cousins were already heavily involved (John John and Jamal). 2. Their grandmother was moving weight similar Madame Queen in Hoodlum 3. Consuming violent media at a young age such as Yosemite Sam and Miami Vice pushed them over the edge

Do you fools listen to music etc etc...

Do you listen?

His extended family was simply dealing in bootleg ajax

 

[YamakaSmacker]

Nobody sells drugs because they have to

 

[BK The Great]

Apparently yes


One of my co-workers sells weed and shrooms.
I wont give out all of his info but he comes reaaaal money. Like.. shyt on ya life money. Like if you google him his family comes up money.

Dude already has 4 homes (his mom buys and sells homes as a side business and gave him 4, one of which is in Perth, Australia)

When he lost in car in Hurricane Harvey last year, his mom had an A5 shipped to him from Houston.
I'm positive he could retire today if he wanted to.


And yet, he sells drugs.

the people you least expect pushes weight, i've come across from some of them before.

 

[Jplaya2023]

real life tariq st patrick

 

[Gold]

the people you least expect pushes weight, i've come across from some of them before.

I'm sayin. I'm pretty sure he sells more than just weed and shrooms but i'm not really cool with him like that.

I just remember one of the first things he asked me was if I had ever tried cocaine

 

[revan]

I don't know which is more common but a lot of dudes from "the good side" of Baton Rouge got caught up trying to be something that they didn't have to be.

 

[Bigblackted4]

This is where these nikka from?

While they not really from the hood Atlanta can decisive you in this way those type of apartments in Clayton or Fulton county would be havens for drug dealing and ratchetness

 

[Bigblackted4]

Is middle class automatically suburbs?

Is this like white picket fences and shyt or a suburban area like hidden valley in Charlotte?

Because I grew up in a house with a yard and we damn sure weren’t middle class. My dad and uncles was robbing nikkas and selling work.

No in my hood their were people that had real middle class homes and others living in pure poverty.

 

[ThaEruditious]

Pussies to peer pressure smh

Niccas who grew up in the struggle victims of their circumstances. Smh @ those who thugs for the aesthetic

nikka, victims of their circumstance do it for the aesthetics too. foh

 

[Kenny West]

Anybody that hype to namedrop coke and associate himself with that shyt 24/7 has to have been a fraud. I felt this way about him the whole time.

Always got clown vibes from the over the top coke raps. Nice to see your gut be right

A lowkey suburban superthug poser...you could not pick a better rapper to capture the essence of this forum

 

[boskey]

Do you listen?

His extended family was simply dealing in bootleg ajax

True. Playing hide and seek young Terrance caught a peek

 

[R=G]

White girls grow up with every advantage in the world..some grow up in Beverly Hills or at least million dollar homes and they still deceive, lie, manipulate, have excuses, take free money like on the white collar criminal level, and don't want to work.

What's their excuse?

 

[BrothaZay]

Growing up middle class and deciding to run with a gang is one thing


But it's dumb to assume that someone, especially blacc ppl, who grew up middle class are trying to be something they not by selling drugs. You give any teenager a chance to make thousands a week and they'll most likely take it. Besides blacc middle class arent that much more well off then nikkas in thr hood.

 

[BK The Great]

guess OP never watched Paid In Full before