Rate This City: Day 157 - Baton Rouge Louisiana

[GoAggieGo.]

One of my aunts stays in B-Aruh (BR), so I’ve been quite a few times. It was 90 mins from where I stayed in Gulfport, Miss.

Southern has some of the baddest women I’ve ever seen in my life. LSU games get lit. I used to crack up at seeing the middle aged white soccer moms annihilated off that liquor on game days lol. City aesthetics isn’t all that, but the culture in the city is great.

Giving the city a 6.

 

[ISO]

Place bred nikkas like Lil Boosie and NBA YoungBoy so all I can think of is

 

[Numpsay]

I'll be generous and give it a 4. But this is a rundown, shyt hole of a city. Only thing that saves it is the colleges and food.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

@BrehWyatt @Silkk

how good is Raising Canes?

always wanted to try it, but we dont have it in GA and didnt get the chance to try it when we went to New Orleans last year

I enjoy Raising Canes more than I do Zaxbys people think I’m crazy with that opinion, though. When I’m on the gulf, I have to stop for them tenders

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

What was so bad about it?

shyt let me write a list:

1) Antebellum culture- that era of american history is celebratee way tpo much there for my liking

2) No diversity- the only people you see is literally white and black people, which is cool, but im used to seeing all different types of black people. There are people in BR who has never heard a jamaican accent irl before

3) POVERTY- This is the big one. It seems like the black experience there is synonymous with being impoverished. It seemed like every single black person i saw was struggling, and the ones who obviously weren't were either pastors or had to completely assimilate with white people (live in their spaces, work with them almost exclusively, etc). I pride myself in being good in every hood, but you them rural projects is something different. That level of resource deprivation just doesn't happen in larger cities.

4)Nothing to do-if u don't like LSU football or not an outdoorsy type person (hunting, fishing, etc), you're gonna run out of shyt to do. FAST. If you like that alternative,artsy shyt or an everyday turn up, you're as out.

And of course...

5) The women- Now I saw some decent looking homegrown woman. But if you looking for a young, bad bish who is NOT a complete thot or has a few kids, you're SOL. Like I said there's no diversity so you'll be fighting over the few asians and latinas you can find. And for you pawgers Godspeed my boy, because them BR cacs give me them Emmit Till vibes. I ain't see NO brehs walking around with a white girl unless they were starting on a LSU sports team lol.

All that being said, I'm not used to country/rural living so maybe other posters can give a more positive critique, but as someone who grew up in a somewhat fast paced environment, I didn't enjoy it very much.

 

[Child_Of_God]

shyt let me write a list:

1) Antebellum culture- that era of american history is celebratee way tpo much there for my liking

2) No diversity- the only people you see is literally white and black people, which is cool, but im used to seeing all different types of black people. There are people in BR who has never heard a jamaican accent irl before

3) POVERTY- This is the big one. It seems like the black experience there is synonymous with being impoverished. It seemed like every single black person i saw was struggling, and the ones who obviously weren't were either pastors or had to completely assimilate with white people (live in their spaces, work with them almost exclusively, etc). I pride myself in being good in every hood, but you them rural projects is something different. That level of resource deprivation just doesn't happen in larger cities.

4)Nothing to do-if u don't like LSU football or not an outdoorsy type person (hunting, fishing, etc), you're gonna run out of shyt to do. FAST. If you like that alternative,artsy shyt or an everyday turn up, you're as out.

And of course...

5) The women- Now I saw some decent looking homegrown woman. But if you looking for a young, bad bish who is NOT a complete thot or has a few kids, you're SOL. Like I said there's no diversity so you'll be fighting over the few asians and latinas you can find. And for you pawgers Godspeed my boy, because them BR cacs give me them Emmit Till vibes. I ain't see NO brehs walking around with a white girl unless they were starting on a LSU sports team lol.

All that being said, I'm not used to country/rural living so maybe other posters can give a more positive critique, but as someone who grew up in a somewhat fast paced environment, I didn't enjoy it very much.

I see. Thanks for the in depth review, here’s a rep.

 

[Objection]

I have lived here since going to LSU. I like living here for the most part. I am not one for large cities. It's the right size and if I want to do something I can take the hour ride to New Orleans. Its definitely not for everyone. I give it a 7 but I'm biased.

 

[BrehWyatt]

Its good but overrated like a mofo

Given where you buy it from ... it has no business being that good.

 

[Theolodius_Black]

BR straight

6

 

[horizon]

Worst city in America

 

[staticshock]

Nah Bro B.R. definitely closer to Augusta

Ill take your word for it bruh..never been to Augusta or had any desire to

 

[Child_Of_God]

@murksiderock my bad breh I forgot to tag you.

 

[TNOT]

Lafayette is a better place to visit hands down

better food
Better women
It used to have a better night life.

 

[ConPHIdential]

Lafayette is a better place to visit hands down

better food
Better women
It used to have a better night life.

Agreed on all above.

I live in Baton Rouge and it’s not a bad place to live at all, but night life is trash. 7.

 

[murksiderock]

@murksiderock my bad breh I forgot to tag you.

I've never actually been to Louisiana, but I plan on making a real trip, like a monthlong backpack around the state, at some point to learn and get in tune with the culture...

In 2015 I took a DNA test and among the big surprises was it showed that I was of Louisiana Creole descent. I knew some of my family traced back to Arkansas, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that there was some migration into Louisiana, but still, I didn't know a single person I was related to from there. That company showed me literally hundreds of DNA relatives in Louisiana, a place I never been and don't have any family...

In 2017 I took another test with a different company and it explicitly told me a pathway of ancestry into the US, the biggest one saying explicitly that I'm of Louisiana Creole ancestry. Again threw me for a loop, so I started asking questions that I shoulda asked after the first test...

So in 2018 talking to my grandma (my mom's mom, who is currently 70), and tell her about the tests and she casually says "well you know my dad was from Louisiana", as if she ever told me that before lol. That combo unlocked a bunch of stuff from my grandma, only bad thing being that she doesn't remember the parish her dad was from. My grandma was born and raised in Arkansas, her dad migrated to Arkansas but they went to Louisiana a few times in her youth to visit her dad's siblings and relatives, she just can't remember where they were at. But she told me out her own mouth we're Creole and she was raised with the knowledge that she's Creole, through her dad...

For added context, my grandma has been living in Sacramento since 1982, the last 38 years. At this point, she's lived over half her life in Sac, so the years have blurred and gotten away from her memory of some things pre-California is foggy...

So I've researched and learned a little about Creole history the last few years, but I'm looking forward to actually traveling the state and being able to firsthand watch and learn about it from up close. I don't know that I'd particularly care for Baton Rouge, but I plan on spending time in all the "big" cities down there and touring some historic sites and places that are important to the history of Creole people of color...