Rate This City: Day 29 - Memphis

[OliviaTwist]

Oh shyt....... what year?
and I think that @OliviaTwist person said she went there as well. Damn it’s a small world lol

Too damn small

 

[J.E.T.S]

Orange mound. Melrose nikka til I die.

 

[OliviaTwist]

The cost of living.
The culture

only thing I don’t like is that it was damn near 70 degrees today but supposed to snow Monday

All seriousness Memphis would be a dope city if they made it more attractive to young educated black millennials like myself. Everybody I know moves to Nashville Houston or Atlanta after graduation.

 

[brickfare]

any of y'all pulling up to Minglewood for tonight's KRIT show? I'm heading over in a bit

 

[calixprynce]

the housing prices are hella good . I never knew that

Would prolly need a remote job tho , cuz I bet they get paid peanuts in AR/TN/MS

 

[Originalman]

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’s and 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

No surprise with the finger waves. Memphis brothas was still rocking jeri curls into the mid 90s back in the day.

 

[Originalman]

Also Memphis area is unique in that it covers 3 states. Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas.

One of the most unique cities I ever visited and yes as someone said it is a very important city in black American history. It has its issues but it has a lot of black culture and history like N.O.

 

[bordeaux]

no mention of the civil rights museum and lorraine motel, i see.

its home and prob where ill ultimately settle down. theres just not alot of opportunity outside of factory jobs like fedex. ive moved around alot for my career but i miss the low cost living and a pred black city.

 

[DamienWayne]

Memphis getting luv surprisingly



Not a big city only place I’ve lived that everyone feels on the same level I think because the black community regulate the bullshyt from



High crime tho and getting higher

 

[Astroslik]

Where’s the best bbq at Memphis brehs? I have fam out there and I’m tired of central, Corkys, and rendezvous.

 

[Alvin]

I used to live in Memphis, folks moved there when I was 3, then we came back to Illinois when I was 17. Haven't been in Memphis for awhile though. My uncle stay strapped, not sure where he lives

From what I can say, Memphis has been on a decline ever since I left. Liberty Land, yes the city had it's own theme park, was torn down. Beal Street gets wild at night and not the good type of wild, see the First 48. All the apartment complexes I used to live at Kings Gate, James bridge, Coventry, etc. all went to shyt. Mall of Memphis gone.

I'll always represent Memphis and Chicago though

Side Note: San Diego only like 6% black, how'd it get so high?

Gangsta Boo used to live there

 

[Alvin]

From an AA perspective, having a strong culture, political, and demographic influence, presence, and importance IS important, though. It can also indirectly influence the amount of respect the AA community receives in the city even by racist.

Take Mexican ppls demeanor towards blacks in Houston TX or Oakland CA vs LA. They're a lot more bold, open, and blatantly disrespectful to blacks in LA. Part of the is because reason they see LA as *THEIR* city and blacks as guest or outsiders because their community is more established and foundational there. They overrate how much blacks in LA adopted their culture in reference to turf-banging, lowriders, and tattoos and throw that in their faces every chance they get

Whereas it's impossible for them to adopt that way of thinking about blacks in Houston or Oakland because the black communities are MUCH more influential and established than the mexican community in those places. Black people made those cities into what they are today, they fully adopt the local AA culture, while having little to no influence on the AA community themselves. They're guest and they know it no matter how large their population gets. And thus subconsciously have to give it up to AAs even if they hold racist views.

very well put

 

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

Imma be in Memphis this weekend, will report back

 

[Sterling Archer]

I used to live in Memphis, folks moved there when I was 3, then we came back to Illinois when I was 17. Haven't been in Memphis for awhile though. My uncle stay strapped, not sure where he lives

From what I can say, Memphis has been on a decline ever since I left. Liberty Land, yes the city had it's own theme park, was torn down. Beal Street gets wild at night and not the good type of wild, see the First 48. All the apartment complexes I used to live at Kings Gate, James bridge, Coventry, etc. all went to shyt. Mall of Memphis gone.

I'll always represent Memphis and Chicago though

Side Note: San Diego only like 6% black, how'd it get so high?

I used to live at Coventry Village when I was kid too. Right across from park/center.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Imma be in Memphis this weekend, will report back

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