Breh on twitter is posting news clips from the 80's crack era

[MaxBundles]

Thank The Lord my parents didn't succumb to this bullshyt in the 80s

 

[TNOT]

80's were

I was born in 77 and I seen how crack and Gangs rocked our community...

Pimps, Gangsta, Hustlers, Playas, The Reverend, The Deacon, Local Sports Athletes, Doctors, Lawyers all rocked Jherri Curls

Hip Hop was what youngins did

nikkas was really outside then too, Ride your bike through the hood during the day , by the time the sun went down the streets came alive. A lot of shyt we saw we didn’t know what we were looking at. Once we figured it out


It’s crazy cause my mom was a teacher, she taught a lot of the D boys, so they had a certain respect for her. “ Yo moms don’t play bruh”
I would try to hang out late, but them dudes basically told me to kick rocks, it was time to go home.

Some of my friends they didn’t warn, you know how that story ends

 

[The_Sheff]

I lived through that. I remember "Just say no". Its why when 20 somethings start saying this or that about a crime bill I ignore them because they don't understand what led to people of all backgrounds supporting it.

 

[NoMayo15]

This is why I always to people who bring up 90's crime bills as a knock on liberal politicians who voted and supported them.

Breh, nikkas were off the hook in the '80s/early 90s. Drugs and violence was out of control.

 

[invalid]

Those areas are haunted. Imagine if those psychics performed mediums and the energies they'd feel from all those that died in those areas and we talking about hundreds and thousands of murder victims because of crack and the drug trade. Folks wanna move in to be around that type of haunted energy? That shyt never goes away. shyt never feels right.

Southern whites living in the same areas where they put our ancestors in the ground. Ask them if they’re being haunted.

 

[YakSpiller]

Damn...Growing up in the Bay in the 90s you seen what that shyt did to the hoods.

It’s funny because we use to have a couple crack houses on the block. Now Mexican families own them and you wouldn’t even know that it was grimey as hell back in the day.

I remember being terrified of East Oakland growing up. But the Oakland cats was like us Richmond dudes is crazier.

 

[Pazzy]

Southern whites living in the same areas where they put our ancestors in the ground. Ask them if they’re being hunted.

You don't think that energy comes back around though? No wrong goes unpunished. Karma has no deadline.

 

[Originalman]

Ahh, gotta love revisionist musings.​

You, sir, don't know what you're talking about.​

The 80's had the BEST movies, the BEST parties, the BEST TV/radio, we had video game arcades that doubled as hook-up/party/gang fight spots, you could literally leave your house at sunrise with $5 and not be back in your house until midnight and it was all good......until the Crack Epidemic fukked everything up.

I'm speaking from a kid/teenager perspective. Adults dealt with stuff that didn't really affect us.​

Exactly these kats just talking. There was so much black excellence in the 80s.

 

[UpAndComing]

Anita Baker didn't sing about it, because crack wasn't the only thing happening in Black America in the 1980s.

It was also a whole class of millions of Black Baby Boomers that were in their 20s and 30s that grew up in the Civil Rights era, that were witnessing going from Jim Crow to middle class lifestyles of integration (for good or bad), and were having children, buying new homes in suburbs, getting well paid professional jobs, even factory jobs and trades, but seeing and acquiring some additional levels of the fruits of America (for what it's worth).

Anita wasn't singing about crack epidemic.
She was singing a soundtrack for hope and love.

Didn't mean crack wasn't taking tolls, but it wasn't the full the story of 1980s Black America.

Exactly, pretty sad people associate destruction, despair, and being poor with blackness

The whole genre of Quiet Storm symbolized what you said in your post

 

[Originalman]

80s was a dope decade...... nikkas finally getting to fully participate in the economy.... Uptick in HBCU enrollment... No political correctness.... and nikkas really did try to look after one another back then.....

Truth

 

[Pazzy]

This is why I always to people who bring up 90's crime bills as a knock on liberal politicians who voted and supported them.

Breh, nikkas were off the hook in the '80s/early 90s. Drugs and violence was out of control.

Folks in here really cosigning that crime bill. Are you fukking serious? The government wasnt interested in saving lives, more like taking them. They knew what they were doing with the crack era. Not saying guilty folks are innocent but yall really cosigning the government exploiting the problem instead of fixing it. Please.

 

[Kyle Barker]

Good channel on YouTube:

 

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Grew up In NY during Mayor Koch era, rough as hell but two sides to the coin. Always remember the sounds of vials under my feet going to school.

 

[Waterproof]

Damn...Growing up in the Bay in the 90s you seen what that shyt did to the hoods.

It’s funny because we use to have a couple crack houses on the block. Now Mexican families own them and you wouldn’t even know that it was grimey as hell back in the day.

I remember being terrified of East Oakland growing up. But the Oakland cats was like us Richmond dudes is crazier.

Y'all Richmond nikkaz were straight skitz in the early 90's

 

[Originalman]

This is why I when people say that times are wild now. Don’t get me wrong it’s some shyt out here but nothing compares to the 80s/early 90s. Shorties as young as 9 were on the corner, bussin guns, etc. Dope heads everywhere. Garbage repugnantican driven economy. Families irreversibly destroyed. That’s why shyt like the crime bill and Guilliani came along. And we also didn’t have well off families and resources like drug rehabs like the cacs and their “opioid” epidemic now. We just had Nancy(while her demented husband were cutting deals with “capitalist” in Latin America that flooded our streets with product) saying no and one music video

Yep I can remember growing up in chicago when gang members would literally call out a gang war in broad day light. Folks would pick up their kids early from school cause of the turf war and gangs would have literal shoot outs on the streets.

Also folks the last couple of generations don't know about the heroin flood in the 70s. Some say it was even worse than the crack epidemic. Cause you had even worst economical turmoil, civil unrest and war vets coming home with no work options.

So a lot of folks escaped in heroin and cocaine. My dad said heroin and cocaine use was so common. Folks would shoot up outside in public or even sniff coke outside stores and malls. Its just that unlike the 80s gangs and folks didn't have access to automatic weapons like in the 80s. Whoch helped increase the murder rates.