Is The THUG Image Worth It?
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- In todays video in light of recent events with Ja Morant. We will be discussing the "thug image" whether it is worth portraying yourself this way not just in basketball, but in any form of entertainment. The answer may shock you. (probably not)
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As a mf who grew up in the situation and is slowly getting away from it id honestly never want to go back
In the same situation as you, went from the pj's to the burbs (purely my mom's effort, I take no credit). I won't lie doe, there's deadass times I kinda think to myself that I wanna go back cuz I really don't fit in, then I go visit and rmr why we left. Kills me when I see niggas who not from that life being envious of it or trying to replicate it like that shit is something that we chose to be apart of.
@@DsgSleazy i love my boys from where i lived some of them genuinely funny and out going but most mfs just like to be a demon i remember days when no1 wanted that type of image
@@DsgSleazy do people welcome you in the suburbs?
These people would rather be a low life criminal thug than a high life criminal like a mob boss or ceo, I never get these kids back in middle school and now
Same bro it’s hella dumb. Like the house I’m staying at rn is deadass a trap and someone we got beef with tried breaking in last night, but when he realized we 5 deep in this house he ran off and tried to break into my homie sister house
As a kid from a suburban community where you either live a house with a chandelier or you’re classified as poor, most people are posers. They talk about “making it out the trap.” WHAT TRAP? YOU LIVE IN A TWO STORY HOUSE, JOHNNY!
Legit just Tomball Texas 😂
@Ushk fr I've met several people that claim they're hood (they live in Gleannloch)
Gold comment
Two story house *with a basement and attic 💯🎯💀💀
Oh and can’t forget the two car garage 💯💀
All these rappers tryna be ballers and all these ballers tryna be rappers.
people always want what they can’t have
@@travis1271 I’m hungry and i want a sandwich from my fridge which i have
This sounds like something Somone who's not from the hood would say
@@Mo_Real_Official that's not the way he meant
"I'll dunk on a nigga ass though" Starlito - Boomshakalaka
To those who aren't about it, it's a image.
To those who are, it's a reality most want to escape .
Both of these people have something the other doesn't got.
it's like that video how prisoners be making jail seem fun in this instance it's how people from the hood promote the life and hate on people not poverty stucken like them but would move out anytime 😂 it's a goofy world we live in
you say that but a lot of them dont. until its too late.
Facts💯💯
bruh i think y’all be so social media driven u guys really think ja morant wanna be hood.. who cares life about money in da end
it's an image to those about it too, don't kid yourself. If you have seen any videos or dcumentary's of those in the worst areas they are overblown with pride for the lifestyle they live. They wave their guns like they are trophies and shout their gang names out like they are degrees or acheivements of status. It's not hat hard to escape if you are not about that life, seriously it's still america and they have it better then 95% of the world.
I hate how it’s become “popular” to act thug. I go to a school where all the kids got a roof over thier head, at least 1 parents. And don’t have to worry about where their next meal is. I got out the hood and everyday I thank god for that. My aunties house got shot up, because they mistook her house for her neighbor’s. Luckily she was working night shift that day. Everyone I know from my town tryna get out, some even go into debt just to leave. But at my new school all the kids tryna act like their about that life. When thier actually face to face with that life. They turn their back and run
Exactly
This one kid who acts all hard at school showed us a video he thought was funny of his lil bro. Homie recorded the video in his front yard revealing a big ass nice house, this one guy goes “bro you’re house is nice Asf”! And dude says “ahh nah it’s a normal house man it’s ugly inside” you know damn well he cappin.. why these kids feel the need to be that way
@@Chris-iq5pr wow
"at least 1 parent" doofus quote. what do you think all the real hoods are fuckin orphans? lmao
@@Chris-iq5pr because it makes them seem more interesting and their life more interesting than it actually is
As someone that grew up around that environment and seen ppl I grew up with either in jail/prison or dead due to living that lifestyle, i strongly believe that most ppl (especially the non street niggas) glorify it because of the aesthetic.
If you wanna live that life so bad, play GTA.
Currently got a cousin who is heading down that route even though we both previously grew up pretty well off in a stable neighborhood, I really do believe that it’s becoming some sort of aesthetic to people who had it strict growing up. It’s all about the chase and adventure that they see
Which is ironic cause most people like CJ,Niko and Franklin want to escape that life badly
@@diegolaradiaz8948 this is why Saints Row 1 and 2 are the best options for the "life"
@@maddiehall5317 It’s so cringe 😭
bruh nobody wants to live that life 😂😂y’all be looking dumb preaching dat shi
The problem with celeberties is a lot of them have completely built their identity off of the hood, so I think people who have made it out and try not to go back in like NLE are not being praised enough
it’s cause their fans are mainly people from the hood
@@travis1271 hell nah dey frm the burbs
@@ZOOOOMali fym either way they shaping their brand completely by being from the hood
@@203PDiddy Also nle choppa was Neva a hood nigga he frm the burbs
This
The thug image is popular with people because a lot to people see themselves as the hero but like to imagine themselves as the villain. It's like Mafia guys, they commit crimes yeah BUT THEY LOOK SO GOOD DOING IT.
Or they just want to feel powerful because there weak.
@@dzy3030 weak like ur spellin
@Valer Which adds to my point. Well dressed monsters.
Its call a ppwer trip and blame the 304 cultre who are basically associates trying to crawl back like rats when shits hits the fans trying to act all brand new. Dont care for the reflection or forgiving but the it seems its more dependent on forgetting than forgiving.
I think it's also a maturity thing. As a teenager you look at what the older people are doing. And you emulate it. But as you grow older. If you're smart, you start to realize that there's repercussions to the shit you do. 1 time in jail was enough for me. Decided that's not how I want to live, shits not fun. Some people don't get the memo to knock the shit off and create a good life for themselves. And thus, the cycle continues.
Ja Morant grew up in the burbs has a 10 mil a year job and decided to take his 1 in a million life and go to the the hood 😂😂 😂😂
Lot of folks from the burbs act like this because they hung around the hood side of their family and they made them feel likt they had to be like that.I seen videos of ja in high school around bloods and I'm thinking that may be other side of family
There's a popular quote by snoop dog "You can take the man/woman/boy/girl outta the ‘hood, but you can’t take the ‘hood outta the man/woman/boy/girl,” 🙏🏽🤓 Stay safe yall
Top tier institutionalized verse
That was also said by Loc Dawg when Ashtray got the hood Thot pregnant in Don’t Be a Menace
All inclusive type verse
I’m starting to hate the internet now. Nigga is all inclusive just say that
Why you care about gender?
I grew up in public housing until I got locked up at 14 and got out at 18 for good behavior and didn't have to serve the last 3 years of my sentence.
I ain't never going back!!!
And I have never worn sagging pants, or talked like I'm a gangster, and all my tattoos are hidden by a t-shirt because I understand that you have to play the game no matter what but you get to minimize your involvement if you want. I'm white grew up being the only white guy and I was the only one who was actually about that life and I hated it and was relieved when I finally got sent up.
Don't judge a book by it's cover and honestly the real ones don't go around projecting their image of being a thug because they are in the game and don't want to go to prison.
Be blessed, find God while you can
You are proof that consciense has more power over decisions than culture.
if ur happy ur locked up ur rly not bout that life sorry fam
Don't judge a book by it's cover and honestly the real ones don't go around projecting their image of being a thug because they are in the game and don't want to go to prison. wait u contradicted urself the very next sentence
@@lilbpack2100???
@@Dragoncam13 idk bro i was lit that shit made sense when i wrote it
I honestly blame rap culture, it has made the standard of being cool being hood rich. It is hypnotizing our youth to believe black masculinity is being gangster. Women love hood niggas even suburban women who are not from that life or even experienced. They love the aesthetic and the hype around it. Going to a hbcu I have literally seen majority of the male students act hood to attract women or be deemed as cool. The black community has glorified the hood and street lifestyle and it got many youngins feeling like they missing out or not accepted. Some of these suburban kids will do Ridiculous things to prove they are down/cool. Shit really wicked out here. Our culture is destroying us
fr there’s literal wannabe mafia kids in my class
Wtf
@@thewinterwarriormane ikr
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Even tho I have Italian descent, I must give this order: say racial slurs about Italians to them. It must shake them out of it
This is a Xenophobia Pass, do not waste it
@@riograndedosulball248 idiot
I live in an old retirement community where folks here have money to take vacations yet their kids still talk about how they grew up in the hood or how it’s ghetto here like no tf it’s not 😂😂😂
ghetto is a state of mind wake up
the volume of the video is kinda quiet.
great video tho
🔥
Yea I need a new mic😒
Fr I have to max volume I still ain't hear him
why do you need to hear another mans voice loud and clear?
@@thescarecrow897 cuz there actually tryna listen nigga what?
Being a thug ain’t allat. I never been a thug or a gangster, but I’ve been mistaken for one which is crazy to me.
They youth are waking up...want to know what my father told me well Im old so Im 31 now but when I was younger and I hate to throw this out but " As a black man your image is more important than how much money you make, you put a target on your back"
As somebody who grew up in a middle class family in a middle class peaceful town, but has family that did grow up in slums, I always see guys in school always tryna be like their favourite rapper acting like thugs and im like bro you live in a coastal developed city, yo parents are literally like generic middle class parents from some sitcom, i'll have way more respect for you if you just be grateful for your life instead of tryna act like you live a hard life
Honestly I always felt like these people from relatively safe/secure middle class lives treat rappers in the same way as children treat super heroes. It's a costume they put on to show off how much of this subculture they know. They obsess about stories that probably never happened and about a life (heavily filtered) that they really would not do well in; mentally, physically, or emotionally.
However unlike children obsessed with super heroes generally they want to see themselves as "good people" however those who appropriate the rap aesthetic it is to seem tougher and harder than they really are. I think a lot of young (mostly men) go through this phase in their life as they start to enter adulthood; ultimately they want to separate from their childhood by exposing themselves to things that are really other people's trauma. I think other examples of this are the "edgy" kids who go out of their way to observe material that is explicit and shows destruction of human lives to those who volunteer under not the best of intentions to developing nations in a way that is more exploitative than actually helping anyone there.
I think people generally respect others who have gone through difficult times and were able to succeed; we generally respect Allied veterans of WWII, firefighters, construction workers, people who went through engineering, law and medical school, people who were accepted into Ivy League schools or won the Nobel Prize. However for young adolescents in safe middle class areas they most likely have not faced any challenges and feel that they are not a true adult. Instead of looking for challenging things facing their community or even their own life and looking at improving the situation it is better for them to appropriate some life that they really do not know anything about in an exploitative manner that doesn't really seek to help anyone.
I would have more respect if these people were actually interested in what is going on in these parts of their town, state, county, etc. and looked to actually listen to the people who lived there and worked together to make it actually a good place to live. I really do not care that these people like rap music or whatever; but it is the fact that they want to pretend to be something they really are not is what I think is not only cringey but also harmful as it separates the lived experiences of people in these situations into some costume that anyone can put on or take off.
@@gabrielgarcia7554 for real
Him playing that sonic adventure 2 soundtrack in the background was enough for me to subscribe
Crazy realization. You can be wealthy and be tough as nails. Look at Mike Tyson and MMA fighters.
My community gets mad at me for "acting white." and "Not talking or acting black." Like what do you want be to throw up some c's and act Ghetto?
On a topic relating to this comment and the video. I went to school with a bunch of South Asians that acted hood, and they loved telling me that I acted White because I wanted to break the Bengali Poverty Cycle.
It’s like white washed you mean act like a person from the suburbs because I am from the suburbs
But people would never admit there's a culture problem, and when you do you get called racist or a pick me
Cause it ain't what wrong with you
@@junebug7464 yeah millions of little boys looking up to drug addicted thugs ain't an issue whatsoever
@@lutymcshooty2556 bro the world all bad got nothing to do with the race
@@junebug7464 no he’s kinda right, the black community has some huge problem with glorifying violence and negativity. Yes the whole world is bad and any race can be apart of bs that the world goes through but for some reason, our culture is so used to normalizing it that nobody tries to mention anything about it. You don’t see other races normalizing violence as much as we do, especially in the music industry :/
@@maddiehall5317 I understand but violence is everywhere so miss me with that
I lived most of my life in the suburbs so maybe I can't speak on this, but it's like for some people the hood life is a badge of honor 🤨 why be proud of struggle and violence?
They feel as if struggle n violence is something as a street achievement something they have NEVER had or did as to look back n brag on. Rap became so stupid I can’t understand the thing about praising hood life back in the day the would talk bout wanting to get OUT not be or stay. Rappers talkin bout wanting to be in the hood n how it be they block n home. When nobody don’t know shit bout em mane. Like it us stupid. Then when they get killed I think to myself like “well damn, sucks for him”
I figure it's part of how black identity often exists for some people as opposition to whiteness, even when that's not a good idea. I've seen black people say doing well in school got them called "oreo" by their peers. White folks love their law and order and what can be less law and order than the thug life?
I went that way with my decisions in life it’s not worth it all my friends are gone I’m 45 living with my mom on disability because the drugs wrecked my mind not worth it I’d do everything different if I could
How did it mess up ur mind?
ur mind was already wrecked the drugs just help u cope
Thank you for sharing that ❤
"I didn't choose the Stug life . The Stug life choose me ". WW2 German tank destroyer commander.
love ur videos keep it up man u funny asf and u got a lot of potential to be a big content creator
As a mf who grew up in Atlanta I can see what people think life is like but it sucks I saw my neighbors die from being in gangs
Why does it suck? They were in a gang, it's bound to happen.
@@sucram1018 loser perspective. why do they have to die when they could be killing?
@@lilbpack2100?
watched all your videos today you drop a new video you is a legend
3:20 " You saw him, he attacked me."
0:56 essentially why I quit basketball in middle school I was tall made me play center. I’m still tall. But I’m 6’3 so I couldn’t dribble trash at perimeter defense. I was decent inside the paint, but wasn’t that good. Although I’ve been training to be a guard for a couple days I’m trying to get back into a Basketball.
just get boards
I saw in an interview with Ja Morant, they said that he doesn't need to act like hes in the streets since he's making money playing for the nba. With the "thug image" being brought up, I'm curious whats your thoughts Lil Mabu and his success in the drill scene while growing up a rich white prep school boy?
Another banger from sparky let's goooooo
My fav thug just dropped a banger ❤
My situation has always been weird. I live in a rough suburb in Australia where there is alot of gang violence, stabbings, armed robberies etc, although I have never claimed to be about that life most of my boys that I grew up with are and have been arrested several times. I smoke up with them and get invited to their parties every once in a while and they all fuck with me and have my back in shit. I have had a knife pulled out on me more than once and have even been chased by a bunch of drillers at 3am with one of them waving a gun around. In my area it's mostly middle easterners, pacific islanders, wogs, sudos and even regular white people😂 that are seen as dangerous and being middle eastern many people think I am apart of that shit. At the same time as me being surrounded by all that shit my life at home isn't hard and if I decided to stay at home most of the time my life would be much safer. I am seen as a good kid that hangs around with the wrong crowd at school but the truth is me and those boys have had similar upbringings
Lol dandenong?
I’m late Ik I used to live in Australia but isn’t it illegal to have guns and u can only get them at police bases and so
the pumpkin hill instrumental caught me off guard, subscribing
I love your style and your jokes Sparky!! Best wishes for you and your channel :)
I kinda feel cringe on those people at my high school trying the "Wanna be gangsta" type of thing.
I felt the intro. I was a 6"2 in high school with the rest of my team being shorter than me. I had to guard james Wiseman in a game against east high school. Mf made me forget I'm supposed to be a guard. Where can u find a hoop session where it's restricted to 6ft and up?
All the tall dudes go to like prep schools and lower house schools nowadays so it’s a bit of a hassle to play your true position
just gotta play ur game positions are suggestions
Short answer : no it isnt
Don’t even need to watch the video to say no. I’ve never grew up in a hood, never grew up with niggas in the hood, all I know is there’s a reason everyone who’s successful from the hood tries to get away from it. The image can’t be worth it for social shit.
Thuggin is not meant to be an image its a reality. Most people who face that reality want better opportunities.
Opportunites are not handed to you unless you are rich. You have to seize them.
@@user-kp3eq1uj8e average cliche advice
@@lilbpack2100 It's the best advice for the most people.
As a white boi who’s had friends of every skin color idk bro. I’ve never really understood glorifying the gang lifestyle. My experience is only tangential and the story’s I’ve heard from friends growing up in South Florida or Chicago it just sounds horrible. Dying at 18-22 doesn’t seem to make the hustle worth it. I understand that some people choose to sling but it seems people who idolize the gang lifestlye don’t understand people are actually out here dying in the street. I think my friends would rather have their brother, friend, or dad back in exchange for them to just be a regular person. You may be dead but you leave your friends and family behind who genuinely miss you and it changes their lives.
To be a thug or not to be a thug? That is the question. Great vid!
nice quote from the rabid koala.. NOT
btw why name yourself YT when you have no vids
lets goo new vid im expecting pure heat!
I always question people that say "they come from the mud." Because those that been through it don't brag about it because there's nothing sweet about it.
I grew up in a suburbs and I'm proud of my upbringing
I grew up partly In Miami and partly in new york city in both I lived in Section 8 and project housing. Guys like ja morant annoy me the most, with people who actually do grow up in that situation i get the idea of being so engrained into always having to hustle and worry about if youre gonna be alive tomorrow that even once youre out of it you can never leave it behind truly, but from everything we know about ja he lived a relatively normal middle class life with both parents and alot of support, guys like him think having friends who live a street life automatically makes you a part of it as well.
those guys everyday have to contemplate their own death cause its a very real thing that could be right around the corner, he'll never have to worry about that cause hes in a position he doesnt have to, i gurantee all the guys he pretends to be like would trade everything they have to have his life
Listen to this. Especially the last minute and a half. Some of the realest stuff I heard. People act like it’s fun. I just know the people who lived that life because they had no other choice looking at people like they crazy.
To me seeing people want to look and act like a thug is the same to me as a child wanting to be Spider-Man
Keep making great content, the money will start flowing. You got this 🎉
good vid but the audio is low
I escaped that life and move to NYC for a couple of years, but i had to come back to that life, the worst place in the world when i returned to attend my mom funeral.
Doing crazy shit, got jumped, drive by and all that shit...
As a former thug I think that the thug imagine is overrated (I’m not a thug)
Gimme the thug shaker
How tf u got those emojis in ur name
@@cmonbruh6636 is a app called fonts I think
You shorten the skit segment with the rich girl, you got a potential hit on your hands
“game is game” had me sleep 😂😂😂😂
there should be a reality show where a rich person switches the life of sbdy from the hood for an amount of time and like documenting everything
In some ways that's my life. I'm from a well off family but as a kid I had to spend a couple years with my grandma in the hood.
THE DAVINCI WATERMARK GOT ME DYINGGGGGG 😂😂 but great video! Really enjoyed it
Great video, keep going and more subs will come. I haven’t even finished the video while writing this but I already like you and so do others.
Hell naw it ain't worth it, people just be tryna put it out there cuz it look good but in the end of the day it ain't worth it, whtchu gon do when u fr kill smbdy u ain't getting outta tht situation and u finna face some time. Don't waste yo life boys and or girls, love yall❤
It's the love Sosa reference for me lmao
WHEN HE WENT TO BULLWORTH ACADEMY LMFAOOO!!! 😭😭😭😭💀💀
Yeah, anyone who had a crazy upbringing like this usually doesn’t glorify it. Like bruh, I’ve lost loved ones to this sh*t. It’s not fun
It’s the Sonic adventure 2 music for me. I wasn’t expecting it lol
it seems like people won't take you seriously unless you catch a body
Tbh no you ain't got shit to prove to people but at the same time don't let people punk you out here
This aged well
9:46 bro thank you for sayin this as a former street dude who listens to Chief Keef to this day i fallow what bro do i be in my crib makin beats for niggas playin GTA n Takin fit pics ion got no Illegal guns nothin all registered I’m glad I saw this b4 I turned 18 and can get into real trouble and make a life altering decision
Like, my family is just one black air force. But, alot of us dead or locked up too. I'm the nigga tryin to mix it up. It ain't worth it frfr.
4:22 u wild for that 😂😂😂
I don't shoot people. I don't wear bling, and I'm a metal head who's as white as a ghost, but make my enemies step on legos, and I take smelly dumps, don't flaush.
You or Jalen Rose? Definitely you, my guy.
Very lucky, I was born in a hardworking rural family. Father was a plumber, and Mother was a housewife. Didn’t have to worry about guns being used against me despite being around since childhood.
If you are old enough to know better, do better for yourself and children.
Finally someone who doesn’t talk about the same 5 topics
he did it again
Bro is doing everything in his power to defend bro
that pumpkin hill bg music got my sub. fire video bruhha
Can't be seen in public with anyone or near anyone that you care about and isn't w it
Can't be in front of or around windows
Can't work a job
Can't listen to music with both ear buds inside or outside
Can't post pictures
Can't be seen w certain people
Can't trust anyone or anything
You have to be on guard 24/7 365 and the second you aren't you die
Just to name a few
no windows? lmao you apple fanboys are fucking delusional
Yo bro I love watching ur vids it’s like u speaking exactly what I think of stuff
Perfect example of a dude that never got out of the 'highschool' mentality.
Like he has a chip on his shoulder ever since.
Edits got me fucking cryingggg 😂
The Knuckles SA2 music is top tier
Honestly, I’ll never understand why someone would want to be a “thug”. Why? Like, I actually want to know why. It makes no sense at all & you’re not getting anything out of it besides a criminal record, being sLiGhTly feared & going to jail REPEATEDLY. Makes no sense whatsoever.
is it just me or is the audio really low
It’s 2023 and 🥷🏾still wanna act all hard smh
😂
Ikr it's pathetic asf 😂
Frl
If I wanted to be a thug I'd dress like an 18th century highwaymen complete with frock coat, spade, and flintlock and tricorn hat. AVAST!
Dude how does your mic audio get lower and lower from video to video 🤣
Still love your content tho
We laugh at thugs in this small town. 3k ppl population and 2 gun stores locked n loaded. South central tx bby
Love the editing
Only fake thug I don’t hate is Lil Mabu that’s cause he’ll tell you it’s all fake and he just a regular kid that knows how to market himself anyone that has lived in the hood knows you not tryna stay in
Mabu respectable, but 🥷 keep calling him Eminem and goofy shi like that
The thug shaker is worth it 🎉
The THUG shaker do the thug shaker dude
SparkyThots: me or Jalen rose
Me: myself
People who have had no adversity in their life will seek the most meaningless tribulations and pretend that they have lived through it all, throwing away everything away just to chase that hood image
meanwhile thosee who have actually lived through it will actually apreciate life for what it is
Great vid ! i swear your vice reminds me of
Tunde
Man got that fully Cooley in the end I rarely see people talking about that or knowing it that’s good shit
the sonic adventure 2 halloween level was a good music choice
Make your voice louder but either way great vids man
Thugs have no respect or loyalty
This is an incredible video, I wish more young people could see this.