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

[BO BARON]

Also alot gangsta rappers from atlanta grew up just like pusha but rather went into music or black colleges then music straight outta high school while drug dealing at the same time because it was more opportunities for middle class blacks (killer mike)

Its all working class in virginia so its easy to say fukk working a 9 to 5 & go cop a brick its the american way

Canadians cant relate

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

Ok? You gotta be poor to sell drugs now? Know how many rich white kids selling weed, molly, etc on their college campus?

Drake fans are disgraceful

Just take y’all L and move on. Stop throwing subs like ya boy

 

[Bickin Back Being Bool]

This is getting embarrassing

 

[Vandelay]

One of my homies I got cool with in college from a mutual job we had and started connecting off of music production, grew up in 6 bedroom house and had the bright idea to start robbing drug dealers in college.

It happens.

Hell, I basically grew up middle class, and my sister got caught in the drug game and has been a part of multiple...multiple murder trials and been to jail herself on and off in her 20's.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

And I thought nikkaz in the hood made bad decisions.Be privileged and still be a fukk up brehs.

 

[Uno]

Pusha grew up better than most cacs. The Coli hate for Drake is too strong that they are trying spin this

 

[10bandz]

OP is a fatherless fakkit

 

[10bandz]

So now Pusha grew up better than Drake...

the same Drake who said he never faced racism in Canada....

y'all nikkas are pathetic....

 

[Preach Jackson]

boi don’t how easy it is to get put on the drug game in the 7 cities

would this even be a thread had Pusha not dissed

really makes you think

I doubt it

 

[10bandz]

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.

you sound like a fukking idiot

 

[OJ Simpsom]

you sound like a fukking idiot

You sound like a fukking cac.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

Pusha grew up better than most cacs. The Coli hate for Drake is too strong that they are trying spin this

Facts.

If it was Drake's childhood home with a swimming pool in the backyard and a ball court out front the culture vulture posts would have been made by now. But because coli cacs live vicariously through black rappers like Push, they give him a pass.

 

[Fatboy_]

Middle Class is nothing but 3 blocks away from my hood and they have a hood mentality even though its technically NOT the hood so yeah it can be easy to get caught up.. especially if you all have the same school zones.

 

[KingHenrythe14th]

Ok. So let's say hypothetically, Pusha grew up a trust fund kid, shat in gold toilets and had maids....dont change shyt. ADIDON IS A GREAT DISS, AND DRAKE STILL TOOK THE L. Get over over it, stop making stupid threads and go to counseling or therapy.
you Drake fans are the MAGA supporters of hip hop. With your Whataboutisms.

 

[LunaticVillage415]

Hold this L if you actually thought Virginia Beach was turfed out like it was Deep East Oakland. And yes, this was the image Push and his brother were pushing back in 2002. Look at the "Grindin" video, they posted like they really deep in the trenches somewhere.

I'm in my 30's and I was a super senior in high school when Clipse first dropped. The early 2000's was what I call the Thugsploitation era of Rap music. Back then, everyone into Hip Hop was a wannabe thug regardless if you lived in the 'burbs or deep in the ghetto. Jay Z bragging about selling dope for years made that shyt the status quo. Rap in the early to mid 90's went from documenting the real ugliness, ups and downs of the dope game in the hood to portraying and idealized vision of glamorized commodified street life and ultimately the gold standard for black folk in Amerikkka thanks to the minstrel show of BET. The whole inspiration for Riley from Boondocks outlines this mindstate. Positive Hip Hop and being yourself that was popular in the early 90's was played out. Everyone was wearing 6XL Galaxy tees and throwback jerseys back then trying to be super thug. Kanye hadn't made it cool to be a regular square nig yet. Had the Clipse been a lil bit younger, their sound might have reflected more of a Kanye influence. Afterall, rappers in the 80's were often the opposite of studio gangsters but ironically rapped about not doing drugs and not committing crimes but ended up in prison for being about that life (i.e. Slick Rick).

And yes, I've lived in both the hood and the burbs and my homies from the burbs was more excited to hop in the dope game than lil nikkas from the hood who started slanging at age 9 because their moms was on dope and their pops was dead, locked up, strung out or not in the picture. Yes, some kids in the hood are practically forced to hustle before their balls even drop.

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• LunaticVillage415
• Nov 6, 2015
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• sandifer yummy

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But suburbia nikkas are influenced more by rap music than their environment. What do you think the concept of Thug Motivation is really about? It's a seminar to become a drug dealer written by folks who did miminal hustling in thee dope game at the most. My one homie from high school from the burbs hopped in the weed game at 18, graduated to selling coke through his big bro connections and been in and out of prison ever since. Won't lie, making fast money slanging seemed like the way to go when I was hella broke working part time in college. But I was raised in the trenches as a youth and never even sold a nickel bag. Where I grew up in Cali, you can't even come outside unless you bout that life, kill or be killed, so I never tried to be with the shyt. But money in the drug game don't last long wherever you at. The money, cars, clothes and hoes go as fast as they come. But lifelong problems like hardcore drug addiction, a long rap sheet, lack of education and work ethic, guilt for putting so much evil in the world through your willful actions and addiction to the thrill of the lifestyle will haunt you forever if you let it. Hella old man bums you see in the city begging in front of liquor stores and stoplights used to be high rollers and wheelers and dealers but never learned how to grow up and adapt to life.