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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

It’s Not All Good In The ‘Hood

On an interesting note, I was thinking of writing this over the weekend, only to find out a member or Jim Jones’ crew of, err, rappers was killed yesterday morning. Without giving my “thoughts” on the ordeal (it’s way too soon for that), I’d just like to send my condolences to the family, fans and friends of Stack Bundles.

Anyways, during the days of Cross Colours and African medallions, cities from South Central to Brooklyn and everywhere in between were some of the gulliest spots in the nation. While the ghettos made for fodder in some of your favorite “’hood movies,” the reality was that none of them ever came close to depicting to harsh realism of those cities.

A common mistake made by out-of-towners was rocking the “wrong colors” in the ‘hood. Whereas nowadays most hipsters can now roam freely with red laces in their shoes in Long Beach, lots of unfortunate people were either shot, stabbed or jabbed in their eye, alongside getting stuck up for their jewels for doing the same thing a good 20 years ago. Growing up raised by a ridiculously strict mother, I don’t even think the colors red and blue were allowed in my closet.

Eventually the TIs that run these cities had the great idea of purging some of these rougher spots of their criminal elements in order to attract other TIs’ businesses, thus inspiring cracka-ass hipsters all over to convene in spots like Williamsburg and Los Angeles whenever a Starbucks popped up. Not to say that I enjoy cruising through Downtown Long Beach and seeing a shitload of skinny jean-rocking quasi-homosexuals, but if cracka-ass crackas moving in keep crack moving out, who am I to judge?

I guess I’m a little salty because while other cities got bourgeoisie shit like Trader Joe’s and Red Lobster, mine just got stuck with a couple of random-ass Target stores, but whatever.

Unfortunately, now that the hipsters have cleared out the best weed spots, most of the hooligans have resorted to either thugging it out in square-ass cities like Pasadena, or they’ve taken to the Internets to cyber-bang for the fuck of it. I figure that they’ve been inspired by The Diplomats’ resident MySpace hackers/goon squad, because now most of these schmucks have taken to that site to throw up their sets. Ironically, I know someone who works for MySpace, and I’ve been told that some of those same people also like to post butt-ass naked pictures of themselves, which is just wrong on a shitload of levels. Meanwhile, I can’t even go to seemingly neutral spots like the City Walk in Hollywood without seeing some shit jump off, as it almost did last weekend.

I guess that with all these rappers running around barrel-chested and boasting about moving weight or turning somebody into Swiss cheese, many of their lemmings yearn to follow in their footsteps. Sadly, none of them want to “glorify” the repercussions that come with the territory. Whereas in Stack Bundles’ case there are those that will still take it there, I’d never envision the day where so-called thugs would try to flex their dominance on sites like this one of all places. Then again, I’ve been e-threatened countless times since I got here, so it’s not like I should be surprised.

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