The Clipse grew up middle class, no struggle but gravitated to the drug game ... is this common?
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TheBoyDuddus
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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 fukk is he workin a 9-5 for?
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U can tell who grew up sheltered and who didnt on here.
His parents want him to show "maturity" before he can inherit his homes.
He's actually a former recording artist, signed with universal.
Got bored and quit.
Thread is full of people from Canada and the UK splitting hairs over what is or isn't considered "the bad parts" of America.
I don't get it.
Fred.
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Good point. If you're long time fans of them, this is common knowledge. They both referenced this a lot on Lord Willin. P
SleezyBigSlim
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Their middle class upbringing led them to be able to afford to invest in rap careers not the dope
Grizzly
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My biggest brick selling, gang banging ass homeboys came from two parent working class homes. shyt, my best friend growing up came from a middle class, two parent household and got caught up in the dope game. The nikka didn't have to sell drugs at all but somebody he knew put him on and the money was too much for him. He started moving weight, reached plug status but started getting high on his own product. When the shyt got too hectic and he wanted to get out the game he had that family structure and support system to fall back on. Now he's working a cool square job. Majority of people in the game don't have a cushion to fall back on they just gotta be ten toes down in this shyt.
OJ Simpsom
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Swimming pool in the backyard. Basketball court on the driveway.Leave it to cacs to call that the hood.
None of you crakkker ass cacs been to the hood in your life.
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I still don’t get the mentality of fans getting pissed that rappers grew up in a nice home, with both parents or had working regular jobs.
Using “suburb” as an insult has always been ridiculous to me.
Using “suburb” as an insult has always been ridiculous to me.
<<TheStandard>>
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You can grow up middle class and still not get all the material things that you want as a teen.
Some people think it's worth the risk to sell drugs to get sneakers, clothes, hoes......
I didn't understand it when I was young either. I saw a bunch of spoiled kids selling drugs when in reality all they had to do was focus on school and when you're in your mid 20s you'd be set. Some people just don't see it that way.
Some people think it's worth the risk to sell drugs to get sneakers, clothes, hoes......
I didn't understand it when I was young either. I saw a bunch of spoiled kids selling drugs when in reality all they had to do was focus on school and when you're in your mid 20s you'd be set. Some people just don't see it that way.
BO BARON
IT AIN'T $HIT!!!!
Push had a swimming pool in the back. Drake had to work to pay his single mothers medical bills
Drake uncle is larry graham & his father was in a known band dude was groomed to be in the entertainment business & had connection's his career was set before he was born
Pusha couldve went to college & be a regular working class guy sure but he chose fast money & eventually the rap game
The thing is drake moms was a single parent
Push had both parents so when time got hard push moms had help
Drake moms didnt have help to pay the mortgage
Pusha still was black & in america
Drake was half jew & leaving in canada so who actually had it harder
I started hustling in high school, lower middle class/working class. Like Jack In the Box was a big deal for me. I thought Applebees was a nice spot. That was for special occasions.
Three in a two bedroom apartment. I moved to what was middle class suburbs, and that is where I started at high school.
The lure of money, and seeing other people and families with more money is a powerful, powerful motivator.
Living where I was born, and then grew up, it was always two sides, right in the middle of poverty, and down the street from affluence.
For a 17 year old, I started with 8ths of weed, turned that $40 into $60 dollars and smoke for free was the intro, the basics.
Then you turn $400 into $800, and you have hundreds of dollars in your pockets, reup money, and coke to play with, buy all the weed you want. Then you turn 600 into 1200 and start getting investors.
It does things to you.
Mostly, privileged kids don't even think like that. they are groomed for serious, legit money from a young age, they don't have that insatiable desire for even a few hundred dollars. Made me feel confident, powerful, gave me a sense of identity. It gets really deep, the psychology of the game, the infection of longing for a better life.
Whenever I am out some where, West Hollywood, Bel Air, Upper East Side, high end $250 tasting meals, $750 a night hotels, "Sir would you like a water while you wait", type of places, I always think if these people only knew, could even imagine what me, and people I know did just to sit down in here....get a little table with a view.
Three in a two bedroom apartment. I moved to what was middle class suburbs, and that is where I started at high school.
The lure of money, and seeing other people and families with more money is a powerful, powerful motivator.
Living where I was born, and then grew up, it was always two sides, right in the middle of poverty, and down the street from affluence.
For a 17 year old, I started with 8ths of weed, turned that $40 into $60 dollars and smoke for free was the intro, the basics.
Then you turn $400 into $800, and you have hundreds of dollars in your pockets, reup money, and coke to play with, buy all the weed you want. Then you turn 600 into 1200 and start getting investors.
It does things to you.
Mostly, privileged kids don't even think like that. they are groomed for serious, legit money from a young age, they don't have that insatiable desire for even a few hundred dollars. Made me feel confident, powerful, gave me a sense of identity. It gets really deep, the psychology of the game, the infection of longing for a better life.
Whenever I am out some where, West Hollywood, Bel Air, Upper East Side, high end $250 tasting meals, $750 a night hotels, "Sir would you like a water while you wait", type of places, I always think if these people only knew, could even imagine what me, and people I know did just to sit down in here....get a little table with a view.
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