Rate This City: Day 157 - Baton Rouge Louisiana

[Ricky Fontaine]

You from ny?

SoFlo

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

I think I came through BR from the wrong way bc the first thing that hit me was a bad strong ass odor crossing that bridge. It was chill but I will say I felt the northern part of the area was dirty as fukk and roads were pretty bad. Other than that it was chill...nothing great or bad about it I wasn't used to seeing.

oh shyt

I forgot all about that. That swamp water ain’t no joke and that bridge is long af.

Driving 45 minutes looking like this

 

[SwizzLake]

The issue with the city is the crime rate, and for that reason it deserves a 4.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

@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

Canes sucks, extremely overrated. The sauce is mayo and ketchup plus some black pepper and cacs act like it's a new age of discovery about it

 

[UberEatsDriver]

It’s pretty good, but i do miss the options from zaxbys




don’t believe what you heard, it’s soMe nice peaceful places to visit, and cool cities to hang in. I just visited Shreveport and it was a chill city

I’ve been to NOLA twice and will try to go once a year but next time I’ll take a little trip to Baton Rouge

 

[Lee_Land]

Voted 1

Lafayette >>>>>>>>

 

[Tee]

Going to visit at the end of March. Got an Airbnb 5 minutes from the stadium. I ain’t never been to the South before, I’m a breh from Maryland. I lowkey got a thing for ratchets. I already know they the women in general gonna fukk with me

 

[Crude]

BR is cool. Good eating, fine women, what more do you lose need?

Baton Rouge is a true representation of Louisiana culture, especially the jiggalatin music. From BR to Shreveport you hear a similar sound.

Baton Rouge is more like a bigger Shreveport than a smaller NOLA.

This is a very good comparison. BR and Shreveport actually remind me a lot of one another.

New Orleans might as well be a whole other state within the state.

BR is cool to me. Nice food, good weather, and Southern University has some of the nicest looking Black women you'll find anywhere in America and this is coming from a die hard Grambling man.

LSU football is big in BR as well.

I'd give it a 6.5-7

If you all think BR is a shythole I'd love to hear your thoughts on places like Jackson, MS, Memphis, TN, Birmingham, AL, just to name a few.

I think BR has much more going for it than those aforementioned cities.

 

[TNOT]

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...

Creole can be a confusing topic, especially depending on what part of the state you’re in. Generally speaking the further north you go in Louisiana the less likely a black persons is to self identify as Creole.

Once you get north of Alexandria you might as well be in Arkansas, because it’s so culturally different.

New Orleans is an “island” on to itself, you’ll see and hear things here you won’t any where else.

Go to Lafayette and you’ll get a whole new experience. Those two places are only two hours away.

 

[murksiderock]

Creole can be a confusing topic, especially depending on what part of the state you’re in. Generally speaking the further north you go in Louisiana the less likely a black persons is to self identify as Creole.

Once you get north of Alexandria you might as well be in Arkansas, because it’s so culturally different.

New Orleans is an “island” on to itself, you’ll see and hear things here you won’t any where else.

Go to Lafayette and you’ll get a whole new experience. Those two places are only two hours away.

Where in Louisiana would you see the largest representation of black Creoles?

 

[O.T.I.S.]

This is a very good comparison. BR and Shreveport actually remind me a lot of one another.

New Orleans might as well be a whole other state within the state.

BR is cool to me. Nice food, good weather, and Southern University has some of the nicest looking Black women you'll find anywhere in America and this is coming from a die hard Grambling man.

LSU football is big in BR as well.

I'd give it a 6.5-7

If you all think BR is a shythole I'd love to hear your thoughts on places like Jackson, MS, Memphis, TN, Birmingham, AL, just to name a few.

I think BR has much more going for it than those aforementioned cities.

Good take..
I gave it a 5 because its just ok to me. I lived in the HOOD when I was there and my grandparents still do.

But its OK... I used to hit up both LA Fitnesses, movie tavern with my sister, bars/clubs with my lil brother, Twin Peaks with my pops and watch him try to flirt with young bytches, etc.

found a dude that could really cut and was a regular

Dated a chick in Denham Springs but dropped her for too much ratchet shyt...

etc..

All this was like 2 years ago too. Wasn’t TOO bad... If i had found a legit IT gig I would’ve stayed there (just move into those condos on Perkins Rowe)..




Jackson and Memphis tho ...

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Good take..
I gave it a 5 because its just ok to me. I lived in the HOOD there and my grandparents still do.

But its OK... I used to hit up both LA Fitnesses, movie tavern with my sister, bars/clubs with my lil brother, Twin Peaks with my pops and watch him try to flirt with young bytches, etc.

Dated a chick in Denham Springs but dropped her for too much ratchet shyt...


All this was like 2 years ago too. Wasn’t TOO bad... If i had found a legit IT gig I would’ve stayed there (just move into those condos on Perkins Rowe)..

Jackson and Memphis tho ...

Where u from otis

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Where u from otis

Thats tough.. moved around a lot. Spent childhood in between homes in Louisiana, Ms., Atl, and Miami.

And whenever I’m back in the states I’m literally driving to all those places still (I fly to Miami though).

actually, the end of this year me and my girl (if she still my girl by then) flying to miami to spend time with fam/friends then driving to ATL and then all the way to NO and stopping at all those places to visit fam for like 2 weeks

 

[TNOT]

Where in Louisiana would you see the largest representation of black Creoles?

If your family is from anywhere other than New Orleans I would honestly start in Lafayette. It’s the heart of Acadiana. The Cajun and Creole way of life is strong there.

New Orleans is another animal. You’ll find a lot here, but’s it’s different, that’s the best way to put it.

TBH the best time to see how this shyt works, is to visit on the weekend leading up to Mardi Gras.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

All the love the south gets on this site it seems that a lot of cities other than ATL, Houston, Dallas, and Charlotte get poor scores