No. But it's good. Used to go to the one next to Putt-Putt by the skating rink and Dixie Queen. Across the street from the Hamlets. Used to be laser tag place called Q-Zar right there too.
Rate This City: Day 29 - Memphis
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Black Haven
We will find another road to glory!!!
Their rib tips are tough as hell to eat but, they have some of the best brisket sandwiches I ever tasted. My personal fav bbq spot is big bills on Elvis Presley though.
Tennessee Ninja
Rookie
shyt I used to live at Coventry Village too and went to Graves when I was little so you were just down the street
My cousin still at Valley Forge...told her: girl, "if you don't git cho' azz outta thur..." (For them real Memphis folks!)
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Wish I was going this weekend instead of next. I know folks gonna show out with ESPN coming to the Liberty Bowl. Also, folks sleep on Midsouth Wrestling from back in the day. Lawler at the Midsouth Coliseum was a perk my folks used to hold over me to do well in school. Lawler throwing that fireball used to have a young nikka geeked. We had Cornette and Jim Ross before anybody. Them in studio wrestling matches use to be part of my Saturday morning routine. Gotdamn I’m old
Tennessee Ninja
Rookie
Tennessee Ninja
Rookie
Memphis Mayberry, mane...Oh shyt....... what year?
and I think that @OliviaTwist person said she went there as well. Damn it’s a small world lol
Tennessee Ninja
Rookie
Tennessee Ninja
Rookie
Dude, College Gameday is going to be lit on Beale St.! Tailgating on Tiger Lane...I'm happy for the city to be on showcase!
Black Haven
We will find another road to glory!!!
Anyone go to the soulsville festival that just pass a couple Saturdays ago? They had some nice smooth jazz,gospel and , r&b from local musicians had me like
We have some talented brothers and sisters in this city man I wish we supported them more.
We have some talented brothers and sisters in this city man I wish we supported them more.
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Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Desmond Howard already looking for spots to eat and cop vinyl. He guaranteed to hit up Shangri-La since it’s got all the Memphis old school shyt you could ever wantDude, College Gameday is going to be lit on Beale St.! Tailgating on Tiger Lane...I'm happy for the city to be on showcase!
Tennessee Ninja
Rookie
I leave this for ya!
murksiderock
Superstar
You on point can definitely tell you used to live Memphis. Three 6 Mafia and Project was hot around that time. Banger after banger
I stayed in North Memphis and Frayser during them years
I can't image what the clubs was like when 3 6 played
My family is from South Memphis but we went to a church off Hollywood Blvd in Frayser. There's a Church's Chicken somewhere off Hollywood we used to hit religiously after church almost every Sunday lol...
I lived in Southaven but all of my family was in the city and we really only went to school in Southaven, majority of my time there was spent in South Memphis. My uncle used to do security for Grizzlies games and we got into several free of charge at The Pyramid. We stayed floating thru Peabody Place and I had an aunt who worked at Oak Court Mall, and we used to hang out at Central Library in Midtown on the weekends...
I had fun the year I lived there, it was different. I was a Californian-turned-Virginian and lotta cats picked on our accents there. It was tough to fit in. My mom grew up in Riverview/The Belts off South Third when she was in high school, and that to this day remains one of the toughest hoods I've ever spent time in anywhere...
But I smashed my first girl there on 3/1/2003 when I was 13, got decent play from the chicks and overall enjoyed my time there. As an adult I lost my taste for Memphis but I've gone back messing with a couple chicks and clubbing over the years, when i went to see my granny...
Lived across the river my sophomore year in high school and go back cause my daughter lives there but…
Pros
- real chill
- best bbq in the world. fukk Texas, fukk NC, KC is cool
- Gus’sand the dry spice wings at Central
- there (and you really gotta look for them) is a segment of upward bound black folks who don’t have their nose up in the sky
- down ass folks…my folks stay off in Blackhaven, Westwood, and Trigg. Seen plenty of first 48 trucks but ain’t never had a issue with anybody when I come round. Been to plenty of hole in the wall, one way in, one way out joints and it’s all about having a good time. Drankin some brews and vibin to blues or Memphis rap shyt. Sometimes warranted but the town gets a bad rap
- hood rats who got some education yet moved to Cordova and Germantown. Matter fact, anything East of Shelby Farms. If you know you know
Cons
- hood rats. Particularly if they got any kinda bright ass colored hair. p*ssy and mouth may be fire, but she is setting you up. Also, Memphis leads the country in hoes still rockin finger waves. It’s like they never got the memo
- them nikkas can’t drive for shyt. 6 outta 10 vehicles have some type of damage cause they don’t know how to drive AND they still drive slabs, cutlass, and any other car made out of metal that’s on its last leg....that leads to…
- fukked up roads. I get a river runs thru that mf but gotdamn. Roads will fukk your suspension all the way up. And it took like like 15 years to build the 40/240/Sam Cooper
- the food is so good you can’t help but be obese
- cac have raised midtown. fukked up the city wasn’t willing to fix it up for long time residents
all in all, if it wasn’t for the ungodly hot weather, I’d move there. My homegirl tried to get me to take this gig with Corps of Engineers there but even tho my child lives there, ain’t no way I could live in that city. Folks say move to Southaven but then nikkas just as crazy. I’d have to live out somewhere like millington or something. I give it a soft 8
fukk everybody else's BBQ, Memphis BBQ smashes everybody...
Went to Rendezvous a few years ago and that shyt was a 20 on a scale of 1-10...
Jack Pyrtle's chicken, oh my god...
Had family in both Westwood and Blackhaven. There are some quiet, livable areas in Whitehaven, but the bad blocks are really, really violent...
I lived and went to school in Southaven in 2002-03 and it's amazing to see how much that area has changed. That city is a quarter black now and the third largest city in Mississippi---->when we moved there it was like 12% black and only like 25,000 people. A lot of Southaven was rural and undeveloped 17 years ago, and it felt exactly like a racist Mississippi town. All of the black folk there were Memphians moving to the suburbs to get better education and lifestyle options for kids, but DeSoto was racist as fukk...
There were no "hoods" in Southaven back then, it's still quite well to do but there was no Section 8 housing back then, no projects or boarded up blocks...
First time I heard of BDs and GDs and VLs was in 8th grade. I went to elementary school in LA and while you had a passing familiarity with gangs, it's not like all the kids were gangbanging...
I went to middle school in Virginia and never saw anything gang related...
I got to Southaven Middle in 8th grade and it was a white school (its 48% black now, but 16-17 years ago it was like 15% black). First white person who called me the n-word was at Southaven Middle, and the first kids I was ever around heavy into gangbanging were all the transplanted black kids from Memphis. Half of them were gang related it seemed like and one of my best friends was a Vice Lord, and one of my classmates I was cool with was Lil Bling's brother/manager, they went to school in Southaven and his brother was already in the streets at that age and had a car at like 14. I know a couple of the main players behind WildLife...
One if the developments I noticed as an adult was the growing of Blood and Crio culture in Memphis, there was next to none back then, I never even heard the word Blood or Crip in Memphis and would have been familiar had I heard otherwise. All these Crip blocks in South Memphis and Piru gangs in the area were not there in the early '00s, most were unaffiliated turfs...
I would never live in Memphis again, but again it ain't because I hate it there. This website goes overboard with praising "black areas" while overlooking other factors. Memphis is one of the most rundown, impoverished areas for blacks in the country, of any city its size. It gies without saying that there is a black wealth there, but the middle class is very thin, and there is tremendous animosity between wealthy Black Memphis and working class Black Memphis. One of the worst large public school systems in the entire nation, which is really saying something and is even more of a red flag considering MPS is mostly black...
Violence is off the charts in the rough areas, Memphis is different and in a rare class on that level. And as bad as anything else, there is a stuck in the past mindset from native Memphians. It is growing in a positive direction but alot of cats see Memphis how it was in 1975, and change is slow. Memphians also live in this bubble where the outside world doesn't exist outside The M...
murksiderock
Superstar
Buff should be done next
Man you know I can't wait lmao. This probably sounds crazy to people not familiar, but there are some stark parallels between Memphis and Buffalo and I caught on to em while living in NY. It was wild but also kinda reassuring to see it, Buffalo was very, very familiar to me in some surprising ways. I've told people this before offline and people always get surprised hahaha...
If I miss that Buff thread make sure you call me in to it!
Black Haven
We will find another road to glory!!!
The state of Tennessee does everything in their power to keep it that way mainly because we're a predominantly black city, with black culture, removing the racist slave owning hunkies statue amplified their hate for us. That's why they call us "Memphrica" as their so called way of trying to dehumanize us
staticshock
Veteran
never been but I rated it a 10 cause its a chocolate city