What Age Did You Outgrew The c00n Phase?

[MikelArteta]

I've always been militant minded

 

[jfkennedy]

My pops was born in the 50's southside chicago I never had a chance at a "c00n phase"

He was teaching me that #inherently shyt by kindergarten

Same, my old man is like 70-something now. Went through all that shyt, always told me what to watch out for.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

8 years old while sitting in the back seat of a police car after stabbing a 'White' kid for calling me a n1gger.​

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I can't outgrow what I am :brehwow:

 

[No_bammer_weed]

9th grade

 

[Diondon]

What c00n phase?

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

What is this said c00n phase

if you mean, when did I stop acting and thinking like a low level round the corner scumbag...I started to see the "light" Sophmore year of college but I was never a total knucklehead...i always went to school and got decent grades. I just wanted "fly nikka shyt" like gold chains and kicks and material nonense...but thats just being young to me

 

[Just like bruddas]

I never been a c00n, but I become awaken at the age of 23

 

[Chelsea Bridge]

I guess when I went to college. Before that I was somewhat white washed growing up with the music I listened to and the guys I had a crushes on but my mother was too militant for me to stay that way for long. I wouldn't call her prejudice but she definitely told me on numerous occasions to never bring a white man to her house, lol.

 

[Ohms Law]

I never liked white women and never had a c00n phase

My father was always on some "fukking crackers" shyt, he was in the military and got a healthy dose of how evil they can be.

You've never been with a pawg ?

 

[606onit]

8th grade. it's cuz i went to a 'few-at-a-time' Elementary Education for Pre-6th grade....7th Grade, I had the sammy sosa/malcom-x juice in my joint just flexing during the softball games. New school new 'tude.

It wasnt til 8th grade where I just flipped on em....Brown/Sosa brothers were coming in their own and shyt.

shyt, I just let that shyt go. I learned a lot about black history thru word-of-mouth. I learned about how we're going to be targeted no matter how "good" we act. I saw my brothers (not genetically, but in 'general' and especially on TV , at last! - 1998) Shine THROUGH that effort too!

5. Puff Daddy & The Family - "It's All About the Benjamins"
"It's All About the Benjamins," which features Lil Kim, The LOX & Notorious B.I.G., is one of Diddy's biggest hits ever. It climbed all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and took home a "Viewer's Choice" award at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards.

4. Nore - "Superthug"
This bit of braggadocio had a burbly rhythm and fierce strings that matched its title, not to mention lyrics great for answering the phone when trying to avoid a sticky situation.

3. Cam'ron - "Horse & Carriage"
Killa Cam joined forces with fellow Children of the Corn alum for this memorable party anthem. Remember the video with Cam'ron wildin' out at the pool party?

2. Big Pun - "Still Not a Player"
When Pun originally released "I'm Not a Player" from Capital Punishment it reached No. 57 on Billboard. When he tried again with the Joe-assisted remix "Still Not a Player" it soared to No. 24, becoming his biggest hit ever.

1. DMX - "Ruff Ryders Anthem"
"Ruff Ryders' Anthem," the fourth single from DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, invaded the streets and dominated radio in the summer of '98. X delivered the menacing rhymes, while Swizz Beatz dreamed up the sitar-powered soundscapes.

Inspired me to never c00n again!

 

[Malta]

You've never been with a pawg ?

Nope

It's been all Black women, Colombian, Dominican, Rican & Brazilian for me.

 

[Music Fiend]

It was hard not growing up with somewhat c00n thoughts. Where I'm from (mostly white), growing up in the suburbs and always had great friends who were on the other extreme end (black and poor), you end up placed in different bracket entirely. Too black for the white crowd, yet your black homies make sure you know you are different.

Anyway, once my homies started cutting school, getting arrested, hitting licks, and smashing women like crazy, I just kept to myself. Funny thing is they knew to miss me on that ish cuz they knew my parents didn't play that ish.

I'd say around 21 is when I started realizing I love my people regardless, after coming into some understanding. Before then i would be ashamed to invite my homies around my white friends and what not.

 

[Deluuxe]

It was hard not growing up with somewhat c00n thoughts. Where I'm from (mostly white), growing up in the suburbs and always had great friends who were on the other extreme end (black and poor), you end up placed in different bracket entirely. Too black for the white crowd, yet your black homies make sure you know you are different.

Anyway, once my homies started cutting school, getting arrested, hitting licks, and smashing women like crazy, I just kept to myself. Funny thing is they knew to miss me on that ish cuz they knew my parents didn't play that ish.

I'd say around 21 is when I started realizing I love my people regardless, after coming into some understanding. Before then i would be ashamed to invite my homies around my white friends and what not.

This is the truth. Seeing those extremes without putting them in context will give you that c00n outlook. This is why black folks are so confused. They see the contrasts and they don't understand what's going on and then you have these Fox newses reinforcing shyt, and black folks don't own any media to refute any of it on a wide scale so it seems like whats being said is truth.

When I was young I wouldn't say I was a c00n, but I didn't like ratchet shyt. Like, I liked hiphop music and all this shyt but I didnt want to hang in the hood or smoke blunts and do nikka shyt so I felt disconnected to some of the dudes who was living like that, not to mention many of the woman gravitated towards that which made the pressure to conform even realer.

 

[iBrowse]

Somewhere between 5 months to a year old I believe.