How Do You Define Where You’re From?

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Born in Benin, lived in Akron, OH from 8 months old to 13 years old, lived in Columbus, OH from 13 to 20 years old, and I lived in San Diego from 20 years old to 23 years old, lived in LA from 23 to 26 years old, moved back to San Diego last year at 26 . Where am I from?
 
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It depends on if your software was already hard set.

If you are still "cooking", you might adopt other ways.


My go-to example of this is Prodigy.
Mobb reps QB, but supposedly there are QB niccas who never accepted him because he was from Lefrak.
But he comes off like a QB dude to me.
Akinyele and Nore are from Lefrak, and P seems less like them IMO and more like QB dudes.
 

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It depends on if your software was already hard set.

If you are still "cooking", you might adopt other ways.


My go-to example of this is Prodigy.
Mobb reps QB, but supposedly there are QB niccas who never accepted him because he was from Lefrak.
But he comes off like a QB dude to me.
Akinyele and Nore are from Lefrak, and P seems less like them IMO and more like QB dudes.



I always looked at P funny for not repping Hempstead.
 

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It was a joke!
In Miami, that means they're asking for your ethnicity, I just say Yank/AA

As to the OP: where you're born as a kid, where you been at as an adult
 

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You’re from the place that shaped you and where you spent most of your formative childhood years (ie before turning 18…maybe 21). Being born in a city and living there the first 2 years of your life where you wasn’t cognizant of shyt is not where you’re from, it’s where you were born. If you lived somewhere from 5-18 that’s where you’re from, that’s the place where you’re likely to adopt your culture and customs (aside from what your family does at home)
 

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Born in Benin, lived in Akron, OH from 8 months old to 13 years old, lived in Columbus, OH from 13 to 20 years old, and I now live in San Diego from 20 years old to 23 years old, lived in LA from 23 to 26 years old, moved back to San Diego last year at 26 . Where am I from?
Personally, I would say that you're from Ohio since that's where you grew up and spent your entire childhood and adolescence there.
 

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Born in Benin, lived in Akron, OH from 8 months old to 13 years old, lived in Columbus, OH from 13 to 20 years old, and I now live in San Diego from 20 years old to 23 years old, lived in LA from 23 to 26 years old, moved back to San Diego last year at 26 . Where am I from?
Youre from "Ohio"
Jim Jones is from New York City...

fukk all the other shyt lol

theres no once size fits all answer (i.e., You can claim a state, and Jim can claim a city)
 

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You’re from the place that shaped you and where you spent most of your formative childhood years (ie before turning 18…maybe 21). Being born in a city and living there the first 2 years of your life where you wasn’t cognizant of shyt is not where you’re from, it’s where you were born. If you lived somewhere from 5-18 that’s where you’re from, that’s the place where you’re likely to adopt your culture and customs (aside from what your family does at home)

I haven't lived in my hometown forever.....I don't claim it anymore :manny:
 

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It was a joke!
Born in Benin, lived in Akron, OH from 8 months old to 13 years old, lived in Columbus, OH from 13 to 20 years old, and I now live in San Diego from 20 years old to 23 years old, lived in LA from 23 to 26 years old, moved back to San Diego last year at 26 . Where am I from?
San Diego
 

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If I ever became a rapper I would have NO IDEA what hood to rep in my music :mjlol: I lived in multiple neighborhoods in Brooklyn growing up :pachaha:


I lived in Flatbush, Flatlands, Tompkins PJs, back to Flatbush and then Canarsie before I moved to Florida. I think I spent the most time living in Flatbush in my life overall.


If some random dusty nikka that don't like me got interviewed on Smack DVD trying to expose me would have me like :damn: Random Flatbush nikka that lived near Parkside Ave saying he never seen me in the hood :damn: I lived on the other side near the Junction! :damn: In my next interview I would be juezling trying to explain my living situation growing up like how Fivio Foreign was about his age in that Vlad interview :damn:



I remember Booth posters saying when the "This is why I'm hot" dude was poppin even though he was from NYC nobody knew who he was or where he was from :dead: He just popped in the rap game out of nowhere....

the answer for you is Flatbush......rappers gotta claim any neighborhood that has the most rep that they contributed nothing 2 :russ:


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