Rate This City: Day 58 - Richmond VA

[Phitz]

Gave it a 6.
Been twice, and drove through many times, and can’t really say much about it. Wasn’t very memorable, but I do rock with folks from the city.

Only major city in the state of VA that I felt still was southern.

Virginia has major cities?

 

[murksiderock]

Virginia has major cities?

It's the closest thing to a major city Virginia has...

 

[Apprentice]

It's the closest thing to a major city Virginia has...

U slighting Virginia too much broski

 

[Apprentice]

If im ranking VA cities
Top 5 gotta be

1) Arlington
2) VA Beach
3) Richmond
4) Norfolk
5) Woodbridge

 

[murksiderock]

If im ranking VA cities
Top 5 gotta be

1) Arlington
2) VA Beach
3) Richmond
4) Norfolk
5) Woodbridge

Nah!

There's nothing in Woodbridge and Arlington is just an office park lol...

1 Richmond
2 Virginia Beach
3 Alexandria
4 Norfolk
5 Roanoke

That 5 spot up for debate but the Top 4 are solid...

 

[Apprentice]

Nah!

There's nothing in Woodbridge and Arlington is just an office park lol...

1 Richmond
2 Virginia Beach
3 Alexandria
4 Norfolk
5 Roanoke

That 5 spot up for debate but the Top 4 are solid...

You fukking with Roanoke like that?

540 not my cup of tea

 

[murksiderock]

You fukking with Roanoke like that?

540 not my cup of tea

Nah not really, never been there but what other city can I put there? Hampton/NPN are trash, Chesapeake and Arlington and Fairfax are suburbs, Charlottesville too small...

 

[Voice of Reason]

Y’all haven’t done Honolulu yet?

 

[ISO]

I only passed through on a cloudy gloomy day and seen the minor league baseball stadium and bus terminal there

All ima say is ya gotta stop being so scary when you go to other places

 

[VirginiaSlim75]

Yeah idk about that one

Richmond nice but North VA cities still got it

You fukking with Roanoke like that?

540 not my cup of tea

Dont sleep o

You fukking with Roanoke like that?

540 not my cup of tea

Dont sleep on the 540 or the 434....it’s a lot of lil whole in the wall spots out there...my peoples from Halifax County so I’m out there a few times a year...idk how many of y’all VA nikkas really venture out that way tho...most folks stay towards the coast

 

[Osmosis]

Nah hell nah, I lived in Woodbridge and Fairfax and that shyt is all suburbia. There's some nice shopping for sure but the best part about Northern Virginia is you can hop the Metro to DC, everything else is regular shyt you see in suburbs of any big city...

Lmao I used to live in Woodbridge, it's not really popping but I went to high school there so I always knew what type of shyt to get in to.

I fukked with Richmond heavy but I would say Arlington is probably just as popping. Arlington got better lounges/hookah bars and it's proximity to DC makes it a better location. I don't think any other VA city is fukking with Richmond though. Although to be fair I don't know much about southern VA.

 

[murksiderock]

Lmao I used to live in Woodbridge, it's not really popping but I went to high school there so I always knew what type of shyt to get in to.

I fukked with Richmond heavy but I would say Arlington is probably just as popping. Arlington got better lounges/hookah bars and it's proximity to DC makes it a better location. I don't think any other VA city is fukking with Richmond though. Although to be fair I don't know much about southern VA.

I lived over at the Longview Apartments off Prince William Parkway. Arlington is cool, I don't really have anything against it. It and Alexandria I kind of look at as one and the same and I would say maybe both of them combined you can compare to Richmond. The best part about living there is the proximity to DC, the best part about living in Richmond is Richmond itself....

You get the same experience in Richmond as you get in Arlington at lower cost...

Hoodbridge is aiight, I still got love for it lol...

I don't know much about Southside VA either, but I know about Rich, Tidewater and NoVa, feel fortunate to have lived in all three. Kinda feel like I've gotten almost a full Virginia experience, just like I've gotten s chance to live in both Norcal and SoCal, and I've lived in both Charlotte and Raleigh, so I feel like I've gotten a full experience if those states too...

 

[TheAnointedOne]

 

[Dontay Flaco]

Richmond isn't big enough to sustain light rail, it would just be a net negative like it is in Norfolk. I think it coulda worked if it ran along Broad to Willow Lawn like Pulse does, because Pulse is successful, but now there really is nowhere else to put it...

Navy Hill gonna be a big deal and as soon as they confirm the new arena that area gonna change the game. The Navy Hill project is basically equivalent to how Southwest DC was redeveloped, its gonna work...



Richmond one of the wildest cities in America historically. There's places in Richmond today (where I hung out in The Ward, Carver, Church Hill) that still have plenty of black people but have been gentrified and were literal murder zones 15+ years ago. The stories I heard were epic...

Even today, the areas it still gets crazy are off the charts....

You know I been all over the country bro, I've been in different hoods and cities specifically involved in criminal interactions. Richmond one of the most raw I've been around, after Memphis and Baltimore there isn't anywhere else off the top of my head I'd say is above it, and that's saying something considering the areas I've parked in...



100%...

The crazy thing is online I hear these things, then I moved to Norfolk/Virginia Beach. Definitely a higher level of racism them, the black culture is not as sophisticated or impactful on local politics and social culture. It's not weak out here but is definitely weaker than Rich...

Cats really get twisted off that Capital of the Confederacy shyt and run with it lol. The only reason the Confederate memorials are even able to stay open is because of white people from the burbs and outside the city, I have never even seen a single white person in Richmomd who supports it...

Living in Richmond it never even was a topic of conversation until some racist shyt like the Charleston shooting or Charlottesville shyt happened. Like literally nobody talked about it...

It's the Confederate statues these muhfukkas have to protect that get habitually marked up lmao...

Only thing I will say is it did seen for the most part that whites and blacks operate in separate bubbles in the city. It isn't that integrated, and this is one of the things I appreciated when I moved to The Beach, larger level of diversity overall and much more integration, it didn't feel like whites and blacks just happened to be in the same venues together...

White Richmond is scared to death of Black Richmond...



This nikka Young Lan is good peoples and has a name in the city on the producing side:



The scene is really connected with DC's underground, a lot of inter-production and black marketing between the two. I can't remember the names of a lot of artists in Rich, most of them weren't that great to me, but the scene is healthy and supports itself...



Nah don't hit and run Chelsea, you gonna have to say where yall lived at, because it's hard to believe this was in the city of Richmond. Skinheads afraid to bop thru Rich and keep that shyt out in Ashland or the Tri-Cities...



100...

One of my homeboys intern at Yung Lan's studio. I went up there one time myself before this Covid shyt got too crazy. Real dope environment, good peoples over there too.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Very similar to DC, just not as crowded or hectic (I know this was during the winter but still).