Something that's never talked about in the black community is middle class kids that

[CrimsonTider]

Never amount to shyt.

I had a lot of dudes in my High school that came from two parent homes in good neighborhoods that started selling drugs, banging etc.

Same with the girl's so many of them got knocked up in high school

You got nikkas at college that walk around a acting tough, trying to fight at parties and shyt

We always harp on the hood nikkas that are doing bad, but it's a large percentage of non hood dudes that start doing dirt.

From what I seen rap music does a lot to influence these guys negatively

 

[JBoy]

what do you define as middle class though, there is difference between working middle class and white collar middle class

 

[ClassyME]

fukk it, this isn't about the kids, parents or hip hop now that I think about it. The world is just a cold and crazy place, those people just happen to be in it.

 

[innocentdevil]

Being middle class parents doesn't mean they are good at being parents

 

[Da Jungles]

Being middle class parents doesn't mean they are good at being parents

Naw lets just blame hip hop

 

[DreadHead P]

I went to school wit Killa BH, him and his brother was always on some "holier than though" shyt cause it was well known that their parents had money

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

There was a shooting at my lil bro's high school, my parents' house costs half a mil

I remember I was playing ball at the park by them, and this dude got pissed and was like "you got guns we got guns too"... me and my lil bro still crack up about that shyt to this day

The great thing about thuggin is its an easy alternative. Why push to amount to something, when you can embrace a lifestyle that celebrates laziness and mediocrity? Couple that with the harsh economic realities kids are facing today, its simple physics.

But the OP makes a good point.

 

[CrimsonTider]

what do you define as middle class though, there is difference between working middle class and white collar middle class

I'm talking about black kids that didn't grow up in the hood and had both their parents

Being middle class parents doesn't mean they are good at being parents

They might not be good parents, but there is overwhelming data that promotes the benefits of growing up in a two parent household

 

[CrimsonTider]

Naw lets just blame hip hop

If you don't think hiphop factors into to this then you're playing your self

 

[innocentdevil]

They might not be good parents, but there is overwhelming data that promotes the benefits of growing up in a two parent household

I agree with this

 

[MoneyTron]

Yeah, but I think that goes on in white communities too. I grew up in predominantly white areas and many of those kids just sail through school not doing shyt despite their parents being fairly well-off.

 

[TheBigBopper]

I know a few guys like this. I blame low IQ and lack of work ethic

 

[The_Sheff]

I'm talking about black kids that didn't grow up in the hood and had both their parents


They might not be good parents, but there is overwhelming data that promotes the benefits of growing up in a two parent household

You falling for the same shyt black women fall for when they see a brotha with a white girl. That shyt immediately catches their eye and is logged into their memory so every one they see just reafirms to them that black guys are going for white chicks left and right when all the while they ignore the overwhelming majority of the black guys who walked past them with black women on their arms.

So for you when you see a black guy messing up and he has 2 parents and doesnt live in the hood you start questioning all those stories about how kids in 2 parent households in good neighborhoods are much better off. But then you ignore all the other kids who arent acting a fool. Go to an actual hood school then go to a black school in a better neighborhood, its fukkin night and day.

 

[Will Ross]

when you associate being black with being hood this is what you get. Most major drug dealers have been middle class dudes. A lot of hood dudes don't have the smarts to really do it.

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

I saw a lot of this growing up in the burbs, and it always left me

A lot of cats grew out of it, and you can chalk it up to youth and being stupid, but there are cats that got stuck in those ways and it didn't make much sense to me.