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dennis roadman

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Oh I know...I'm not too far from Hyattsville myself (on the borderline of DC) and there are some nice parts of that area. Matter of fact, they been gentrifying like a muthafukka there now and it was already kinda nice lookin'. However, I remember my sister lived somewhere over in Hyattsville and it wasn't so nice. Like a small area so I could see Ace being from Hyattsville and getting into some shyt. I dunno. I feel like there's pockets of those areas where shyt gets crazy but its mostly in places like Congress Heights, Suitland, Forestville, certain parts of PG, and etc.
It's not deep PG like seat pleasant but there's plenty of things to get into around that way if you're interested
 

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Math got Method Man on his next episode of "My Expert Opinion". That's fire
i was just having a conversation about real fans of battle rap. and why i wasnt impressed with the guys who came back to battle rap when mook and lux returned. i respect the mainstream fans like jay pharoah, method man, kevin durant, llyod banks, gerald mccoy, omar epps, and guys like that who was fukkin with battle rap when nobody was messing with battle rap and it was just seen as the broke rappers who couldnt make good songs. method man one of the day one fans.
 

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i was just having a conversation about real fans of battle rap. and why i wasnt impressed with the guys who came back to battle rap when mook and lux returned. i respect the mainstream fans like jay pharoah, method man, kevin durant, llyod banks, gerald mccoy, omar epps, and guys like that who was fukkin with battle rap when nobody was messing with battle rap and it was just seen as the broke rappers who couldnt make good songs. method man one of the day one fans.

not to mention that Methods Man outright said that mainstream rappers shouldn't even try to come step into battle rap, that it's the battle rappers that built that shyt up from the ground so that they can make a living. I think it was at one of Smack's events did he say that.
 

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I’m from Maryland, granted the DC suburbs so I’m not an expert on the other side but

Roc is not from Baltimore

Not saying where he’s from is soft or even unaffiliated with bmore but I never even knew Harford County had rough areas before I heard of him

When Burke battled Ace and they were making fun of him for being from Hyattsville, if you’re from MD it was a huge :dwillhuh: angle because Ace’s ends are twice as known for activity than somewhere north of Annapolis where Cave is at

None of this is a big deal because i know what it’s like to be in NYC and people don’t know shyt about MD so you just say whatever but it’s different when you’re on cam yelling demanding folk come see you in a city you don’t live in
This is more or less true. Roc reps Baltimore but doesn't live here. I've seen him here on social media once or twice, with other nikkas like Surf, or filming videos. Maybe he did in his youth, but I could see how it looks a bit fraudulent. He's in some offbrand area 40-60 minutes north I haven't been to in forever, where I remember trash cacs and country ass nikkas being.
 

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This is more or less true. Roc reps Baltimore but doesn't live here. I've seen him here on social media once or twice, with other nikkas like Surf, or filming videos. Maybe he did in his youth, but I could see how it looks a bit fraudulent. He's in some offbrand area 40-60 minutes north I haven't been to in forever, where I remember trash cacs and country ass nikkas being.

That sounds like either Aberdeen or Dundalk. Am I right?
 

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This is more or less true. Roc reps Baltimore but doesn't live here. I've seen him here on social media once or twice, with other nikkas like Surf, or filming videos. Maybe he did in his youth, but I could see how it looks a bit fraudulent. He's in some offbrand area 40-60 minutes north I haven't been to in forever, where I remember trash cacs and country ass nikkas being.
Roc was in Baltimore plenty, was at pit fight events and battled in local leagues
People let him run with the Baltimore thing cause it the closest major city and he is down there enough
 

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This is more or less true. Roc reps Baltimore but doesn't live here. I've seen him here on social media once or twice, with other nikkas like Surf, or filming videos. Maybe he did in his youth, but I could see how it looks a bit fraudulent. He's in some offbrand area 40-60 minutes north I haven't been to in forever, where I remember trash cacs and country ass nikkas being.

@dennis roadman you know how Moco is to DC? That’s basically what Roc’s “hood” is to Bmore
It’s like Quban being from Waldorf. It’s not the hardest ends but it’s a place where a lotta people from the hood who went to college moved to so they could raise kids in peace. It’s not like these guys live in Bethesda. And I got cousins who actually live in like Anne Arundel or glen burnie or one of those outer bmore suburbs and all of em on govt assistance and deal with every day poor people shyt like that but aren’t busting guns just to do it. It’s not LIVE out there

And again, I live in Takoma park when I’m in the US and I’m not gonna be screaming at people to come find me out Northeast or Langley Park even if I’m 3-5mins away

All this to say: roc is believing his own bars these days
 
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