“You grew up in a gated community. Where is this coming from?” - Michael Irvin on his son :russ:

[Heavy_Handz]

Sadly it aint about where you from, its about what you are willing to do to get respect. Suburban kids are the most likely to crash out.


Songs kinda bumpin too.

 

[Heavy_Handz]

Raising Black boys today. Breh….my oldest son’s mom is an attorney and this dude at one point was trying to opt into being hood which he technically wasn’t

thnx breh. +rep

My son the same. Trying to start a rap career, some of the shyt he rapping about

Bruh, we live in a half million dollar house in one of the safest suburbs in America

 

[Rekkapryde]

One of my college homies would fukk around and make rap songs in college just for lolz. One time he made some joint to some sad sounding instrumental talking bout "and my dad he wasn't around". I looked at breh and told that nikka "man I'm gon call your Pops Right now so he can drive from SC to Atlanta to come fukk you up!!"

 

[Jean toomer]

Here I am thinking I was down bad because my son is PAWGing like it’s 1999…it’s all relative.
Tut Tarantino hurt that man

 

[Urbanmiracle]

Imma country breh, I'd be dammed if some bozo was telling me I wasn't black enough

Ironically it was some white dude that was a friend of a chick I was trying to get with. He said I wasn’t black cuz I didn’t curse a lot

 

[Morethan1]

Listen….Youre not black.

I know several well off parents dealing with this shyt. Had one whose son was a week away from going to Hampton, his dad a lawyer and his mom a nurse who got caught up in some Blicky shyt and clapped at someone along with a friend killing them amd

This is a crisis impacting a lot of Black families that is outside your lane, so clowning Irving is garbage.

This aint your lane to speak on this shyt white boy from Canada. You or that slick racist midget @Peruvian Connect

Link to the news story please

 

[The_Sheff]

It's the culture led by the music.

It's literal mental & spiritual poison that makes it harder as a parent to raise "square" black boys and girls.

I don't care what nobody else says....rap music has become one of the worse things that's ever happened to the black community.

Rap music has completely turned our image inside out by EXALTING the lowest aspects of society (gangbangers, drugdealers, thugs, thot whores).

I personally feel SUFFOCATED by this culture. I wish myself and all my fellow like-minded black people could segregate away from this culture and start brand new where hood/street/thot culture is left behind to rot.

This mufukka spittin!

You name the worst dregs of society and it's murderers, drug dealers, pimps, gang bangers, prostitutes, thieves, scammers, junkies, etc...... All of which is glorified in rap.

 

[Yehuda]

"Tut Tarantino".

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

This generation needs a cosby show and A different world.

 

[threattonature]

It’s not just the music but the bolded

There unfortunately isn’t a lot of variety on a major level. Before you had r&b playing a heavy role. It’s on parents to moderate? Yes

However, you can’t be around your kids 24/7. Those hours in school & outside the house are dangerously shaping a lot kids.

Hell you can see how excessive social media & reality tv changes how a lot of adults move

Just had this exact discussion yesterday with my homegirl who has no kids. She was judging some other parent who was dealing with a problem child. I was explaining to her that even if you're the perfect parent there are so many outside factors that can lead them estray. All you can do as a parent is try to instill values and prepare them for situations they may encounter and hope for the best. All it takes is that one wrong friend that drags them into some shyt, or for them to end up with a crush on the wrong person who leads them into bad situations. Kids are impressionable and dumb.

Me and my brother are prime examples. We both had a lot of freedom with my single mother working. He was more into the streets and ended up in a gang and getting in trouble. I was more on the nerd side all about my sports and video games and reading. So even though I was close as well with a lot of the gang members I stayed away from the drugs and alcohol and fights. Even though me and him was brought up the same way we ended up on two completely different paths.

 

[chief_keef_stan]

So he was actually punished and couldn't leave Mike's house.

nikka deadass bragged that he 24 on house arrest in his dads manshion, and even show the ankle monitor


yeah we might need to have a serious discussion

 

[Braman]

Just heard Marvin Harrison Jr speak for the first time and thought of this thread

He sounds sheltered, like he grew up in a gated community, like he don’t even listen to rap……….EXCELLENT.

 

[mag357]

A lot of y'all won't remember or gonna argue some shyt you don't know cause you wasn't really outside.

But Being a "rapper" or trying to rap used to be some goofy shyt.

Muthafukkaz be like "he in the house writing rhymes , trying to be a rapper and shyt"

Being a DJ in the hood. Having your own equipment and being able to turn out a block party out, or house party, made you the man back in the day in regards to hip hop

So it wasn't how it's been, with every nikka wanting to be a rapper.
maybe 1 or 2 dudes on your block was in their cribs writing rhymes.
they really loved the craft cause that type shyt was corny.
must other nikkaz just freestyled in the hallway or on the block, just bullshytting.

The nikkaz we looked up to and wanted to be like was the Hustler, the ball players and the toughest nikkaz in the hood. Cause getting money and being tough is what we respect.

Some how the rappers morphed into the "super hustlers", "super ballaz" , and "super thugz"
And for the past 20+ years they've been held up as the standard in our communities.
But the vast majority of them really still just goofies, doing dances and making words rhyme

 

[NYC Rebel]

It’s not just the music but the bolded

There unfortunately isn’t a lot of variety on a major level. Before you had r&b playing a heavy role. It’s on parents to moderate? Yes

However, you can’t be around your kids 24/7. Those hours in school & outside the house are dangerously shaping a lot kids.

Hell you can see how excessive social media & reality tv changes how a lot of adults move

That’s the difference. Back in the day. shyt stayed outside the home. Now the social media, you can’t turn that shyt off. whether its drill music, or outside beef, it doesn’t stop. That shyt is 24 seven and inside the homes.

 

[Heavy_Handz]

A lot of y'all won't remember or gonna argue some shyt you don't know cause you wasn't really outside.

But Being a "rapper" or trying to rap used to be some goofy shyt.

Muthafukkaz be like "he in the house writing rhymes , trying to be a rapper and shyt"

Being a DJ in the hood. Having your own equipment and being able to turn out a block party out, or house party, made you the man back in the day in regards to hip hop

So it wasn't how it's been, with every nikka wanting to be a rapper.
maybe 1 or 2 dudes on your block was in their cribs writing rhymes.
they really loved the craft cause that type shyt was corny.
must other nikkaz just freestyled in the hallway or on the block, just bullshytting.

The nikkaz we looked up to and wanted to be like was the Hustler, the ball players and the toughest nikkaz in the hood. Cause getting money and being tough is what we respect.

Some how the rappers morphed into the "super hustlers", "super ballaz" , and "super thugz"
And for the past 20+ years they've been held up as the standard in our communities.
But the vast majority of them really still just goofies, doing dances and making words rhyme

Bunch of pranksters. Studio wanksters. Wanna be gangsters. 2Pac forever influences a nation of try hards.