Let me try to see what you getting at…
The South Bronx is like the last of the Mohicans as far as the old guard NYC in terms of look and demographics it’s not gentrified like parts of Brooklyn are and Queens has always been seen as the middle class borough and has many suburban type areas. While, Staten Island has always been clowned on and has a mostly suburban/towny feel although it has its urban areas too like where Wu is from.
The Bronx is hood throughout the South and West Bronx (which were the integral places to hip-hop genesis). Northeast Bronx or “Uptown” (Uptown within Uptown, because Bronx/Harlem/the Heights is all considered uptown) has hood pockets but is heavily middle class and has a good amount of multi and single family homes. The highest concentration of middle class hoods in the Bronx is in the far East Bronx which I have hardly ventured having grown up here all my life where you still some of that old school Italian/Irish energy. These are places like Morris Park, Country Club, City Island, Throggs Neck, Pelham Bay. Like spliz said Riverdale is prob the wealthiest neighborhood in the Bronx there’s mansions there and shyt. So yeah contrary to popular belief the Bronx isn’t just one big slum.
so it is an idea of segregation and pits of american instituted poverty all orchestrated by donald trump in that era.
more or less a mechanism of survival in the grips of instituted purposeful poverty and how to enhance your skillset to overcome.
while never showcasing you the full players.
or scope entirely of the landscape.
a lot of history in just speaking about nyc as a whole.
in just understanding the island.
let alone how it perceives the others inland in their own state.
i always felt that from relatives or just culturally.
especially when you get to the new school way of thought emcees in expression.
hiphop is battling that impoverished purposeful plan and overcoming via show and prove.
so...i get why things are the way they are.
plus things relate to simple slogans like keep it real and how we are all.
later affected from their discovery zone from as early as blondie.
to eventually the applied knowledge of tricknology in the prison industrial economy center.
from the degradation created from the communications act.
plus further legislature or non-legislature.
for why we are where we are.
plus how america was moved into the cul de sac model to take advantage of these variables in suburban america.
shyt wild.
hiphop and the prohibitive tale in new school way of thought rap has the history to beat this game and school you as a gateway.
if people continue to seek their history.
if they are bboy or bgirl.
art barr
