BAAAAAABY!!!!!! This video is a WHOLE WORD!!!!! We actually believe that we, as black folk, DO NOT DESERVE better!!! It boggles my mind! This conversation MUST keep going! Thank you sis!!!✊🏽✊🏽💪🏾💪🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾❤️❤️
Well black people really do not care about the well being, happiness or success of other ordinary black people. Every other race on the planet knows our collective success relies on our collective support of each other. And no I haven’t watched the video yet.
*I don't believe any of that stupid shit that I couldn't do better, and was never influenced by Hip Hop Rap.* They wasn't musicians, and their products wasn't music. *I Retired At Age 48 Due To Injuries, And Earned All Qualifications To Do So.* STILL LIVE IN THE HOOD. *Still no Hip Hoppers In My Life.* Don't allow it around me. Chicago, South Chicago. MOST BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE. THAT WAY! *What We See Is The Same Exact Propaganda Campaigns Used Against The Jews Of Europe!* AND YOU BELIEVE IT. *The woman who spoke of her sons?* WHERE DID THEY GET IT FROM? WHAT AGES ARE THE BOYS? *Teach A Child While He's Young That He'll Never Stray.* What are our children consuming as entertainment? *HOW MANY BLACK COUPLES DO YOU SEE IN VISUAL MEDIA?* *Why are all black girls and women mated with white guys and women only?* NO BLACK FATHERS AT HOME? ALL BLACK PEOPLE COLLECT WELFARE? *How many hip hop rapping drug dealers are on your street, in your community?* Those not teens have been consuming criminal/prostitution hip hop for 50 years! THERE'S SOME HOES IN THIS HOUSE. ? *YOU DOWN WITH OPP?* Something created packaged and sold to the population. *THEY HAD TO DESTROY BLACK MUSIC PRODUCTION, RADIO PLAY, AND DISTRIBUTION FIST! *Good-bye MOTOWN, Also shipped all the Car Production Companies Out Of The Country.* *MIND FUCK PROGRAMMING, BRAINWASHING THOSE WHO CONSUME THE ENTERTAINMENT THEY PRODUCE.* It's The Good Life Of The Rich And Famous, With Americas Top Models!
I was blessed to have two working parents that bust their ass and work to raise us in better neighborhoods and enjoy peace and quiet...I have nothing to complain about...my dad was raised in hood and didn't want that for his children and made that happen...Thank you mom and dad ❤❤❤
We as a community need to bring back the village & start dismantling all these negative stereotypes ASAP. It's what's killing our lineage of greatness, because people started to believe that all stereotypes & propaganda
@@HeeeyOhaji unfortunately stereotypes do have intersectionalities as well. Your mindset & perspective is effectively changed as well as influenced by the environment and the people who have raised you, grew up around, taught you, you have seen,and let's not forget about self identity.I'm stating these facts because beloved your dig at education may have come from a place of selective ignorance. And this is a learning lesson of compassion from an auntie or a cousin in the village
@@HeeeyOhaji idk how old or where your from. I'm speaking on my 45 plus yrs on this planet especially growing up in the states in a community as the only brown person growing in a neighborhood. because of the location of our home, I had two parents and I'm light skinned, there were also stereotypes of our own kind that are ingrained from slavery. That's why I stated it has to be dismantled because we are all brother & sisters in different shades of royalty. So it's truly both a right and wrong situation, in which education has nothing to do with its more moral decency or lack of. It's a way to make a person feel less than easier to invalidate manipulate so on.
@@HeeeyOhaji beloved the gist of my whole original text was banning together & dismantling negative stereotypes. To teach these children better & give better examples than what is currently being pushed by "the agenda over the last 25-30 yrs". Because if you check the comments of this amazing thread black people don't all live in the hood but for some reason everyone wants to claim/experience that life or assume it's every black person's experience. When once again dismantling comes into play because it's ancestral trauma, generation trauma that's instilled in the DNA of everyone. So until perpetrating forces minds are completely dismantled by them doing their internal work as a group, we as victims have to do ours. Since you constantly bring education into when you see that a problem exists, you find a solution to the problem. If not the problem is doomed to repeat itself.
I don't call it black culture. I called it hood culture. Every neighborhood is different. When you come from one area to another, bad to better, you have to change your mindset
Exactly. I'm not Black American, I'm Black British but grew up on Ebony magazine, Black American movies, sitcoms, artists like Babyface, Chante Moore, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker and all the soul greats and family in the states. One thing I noticed once I became a Hip Hop head as a young teen is that 'hood culture' is a separate culture to 'black aspirational culture.' That is why people were mad when Tamar Braxton invited Chrisean Rock to her concert and Toni was not impressed either. It's two separate cultures- or one is a subset of the other with things in common like food and customs but different behaviours and values.
@@user-dv3kq3rm4h Precisely! I grew up in aspirational blk culture in the suburbs. Connected to blk folks and our histories, while my brother grew up aspiring to hood culture. We've lived very different lives despite having the same parents and upbringing.
@@ladybluelotus Yep! I totally get it. I get how when some people are young, they want to be hood adjacent, but if you're from an aspirational background and haven't grown out of that once you become an adult, it's a problem.
I grew up in the hood & almost got caught up when my mom finally moved. Years later I went back to visit and one of my homies pulled me aside and told me another one of my homies we grew up with was looking to set me up. Him and I got in my car and left and he filled me in on everything and told me to fall back from this place, it ain’t the same anymore. I helped get him a job with me, and we’re very good friends today. And besides driving by we’ve never been back to visit. This was at least 20 years ago and we don’t plan on ever going back.
My son at 16 started talking funny and sagging. Acting like he was from the hood and getting in trouble. It hurt my heart because we worked hard to give him a nice life.
Take the door to of the hinge and take every stitch of clothing he has except two pair of pants and two shirts one pair of shoes and let him eat one meal and some oatmeal for an entire week. I did this to my son. I told him this is our hood life. Get you some hoochie gear from the thrift store and tell him you are ready to join him. Watch and see his reaction. Do it until he comes back apologizing and asking for you to stop. Don't just be hood be ratchet hood. He will be so embarrassed.
Surround him with men who do not follow the hood lifestyle. Introduce him to black male doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, school administrators, engineers, etc! Go the extra mile and expose him to something greater.
Y'all got it twisted. The suburbs is full of busy , fake and uppity people. Boys don't want to be around a bunch of masculine women and simp Ziggins who allow them to wear the pants. Matriarchy is what sends young black boys away almost anywhere searching for Alpha Male guidance. We recognize the chain of command early as kids. Finding good MALE role models isn't easy either. We take pieces from every one we get to spend even a little time with and try to piece it all together into our own concept of what a man should be. That's what I did but it's not easy at all. Y'all act like we get unlimited time to learn from top tier men in the suburbs. It's like I'm teaching English to an alien being in here.
I think these privileged kids like that sense of "community" most hoods possess. Everybody knows everybody and is related to everybody else. Usually these black rich kids are visiting family in the neighborhood and get hooked on the life style and really just want to fit in 🤷🏿♂️
I remember my mother got me with her and moved away from up Bronx NY because it was too much people causing drama wanting to jump,beat up you everytime you turned around. It was too many people getting shot hurt. People was always loud and want to always cause trouble. I glad my mother moved from Down there, my mother said she not going back to New York city or Bronx NY. I glad my mother raised me not to be like an animal like everyone else was. As a teenager i wasn't running the streets with friends and causing trouble, i was mostly staying in the house or walk around town by myself and go to the library to read some books. My mother and I will go to places together too. My mother said she is proud of me not doing that and not having sex and getting pregnant at a young age. Im 19 years old and i glad i listen to my mother. I am not having sex until marriage.
I’m 19 years old too! Are we living the same lives? 😂 But yes, it’s a shame that hookup culture and gang activity and drug dealing and all of these unstable things are still rampant in the black community
My auntie took me in after both of my parents died in poverty and hood culture. She lived in a rich white suburban area in New Jersey while I was in a bad spot in Atlanta Georgia. She and my uncle raised me to keep God first, speak with respect, an understanding of black culture ≠ hood culture, know that femininity doesn’t mean weak, and to get my college education. As a 19 year old, I need all of my younger black peers to realize that the media wants to fool you on what’s acceptable and not acceptable on how black people act and live. Why? Stereotypes.
This is true, I grew up in the hood and refused to raise my children in it. Nothing's cool about sleeping with one eye opened and the other closed, nothings cool about jumping to the floor every day to avoid being hit by stray bullets that aren't meant for you, nothings cool about gang violence, nothings cool about the struggle, nothings cool about finding a dead body in your school yard and nothings cool about seeing the zombie apocalypse walking around all day. The hood mentality is to never give AF because if you do, you get thrown to the wolves, you can't be a decent person. The hood is glamorized through music, TI put these thoughts in his son mind but didn't put nothing different in his heart
Thank you!! Say it again so our people in the back can hear you. These devils are causing more separation amongst our people and our people are still blind to that fact. It's called conquer and divid. And the next thing you know. These same people will be trying to leave OUR OWN LAND. That was promised to OUR forefathers. If they read the bible. The cities were made for OUR PEOPLE. Our people need to read OUR story and find out.
We were raised in what would be called the hood but the people there were very family oriented. My parents even then didn't allow certain language or friends because they wanted us to have a better life. Even when we moved to a middle class neighborhood, they continued to guard against certain things. I remained black in actions and thought but live my life to represent my God and parents. Thank God for good parents with principles.
I grow up in the "hood" and there were some problems but overall our neighborhood was very happy and safe We had block parties neighbors spokento each other. I think some of our neighborhoods changed with the negative rap music. There are numerous inner citites that are doimg very well with hard working people. No it is not as rampant as its being presented. The hood ifestile is a rap and media. There are meddle class families surviving very well in hood. I blame is on the negative rap.
This part. It kills me that people actually believe that we as a whole are representative of the minority bad actors. How? I grew up in both environments, though we were not well off or wealthy at all. And in both most people worked. This was true of single parents and couples. The only people that buy into this BS are people that can't separate reality from what they see in the media.
If OUR people did true research for themselves or study the bible. They would/will find out the cities are where we actually lived with designated areas for each and every tribe of OUR people. Like the Americas was beautiful until our forefathers agreed up. Got cursed and those curses got passed to us. And with that !! Our Father sent the palm people from the other side to the Americas. And now look at OUR once BEAUTIFUL land. F up right !!! Our people don't over stand what got us and the cities we are actually suppose to live in. Where we are at now and why. These people screwed our cities up to separate us. And they are still doing a good job of/for their agenda. OUR people truly need to wake up. Why do you think why they are getting people to go to Africa. Because they are trying to get US OFF of OUR "" Promise Land"" anyway they can. Because suburbs does not mean you are automatically safe !! More Easy to pick OUR people OFF. Our people need slot of discernment to see these evil people's agenda.
I live in a part of lagos that had cultist clashing all the time. My family will call each other to stay away from home or sleep wherever they are because home isn't safe. When its finally over , you come home to see bodies on butchered and riddled with bullets on tuesday😢. Till today I can't watch movies with cultists or hoodlums clashing. I start shaking like I'm back and reliving the experience. I want to call my family and check if everyone is okay.😢 I am working my ass off to make sure I take them away from there. God help me. 🤲
I think the "hood" life has been so overly popularized by yte movie moguls and music moguls that it has been coined"Black Culture". But if you look at our history post slavery we created communities where we thrived such as Black Wallstreet and many other towns that were based on work ethic, education, and faith. And that continued even when we migrated to the north for factory based job opportunities and we still had those same core values in tact. Until the government introduced drugs into Black communities which then created a breakdown of our moral and religious values. Coupled with the on set of a decline of Black family values. Because of the war on drugs by the government. It has become a snowball rolling down hill effect. The government instituted more policies against crime and instituted longer prison sentences that targeted Black males in particular. All resulted in the destruction of the True Black Culture which is to succeed and to further Black Excellence. That was Always our True Black Culture.
He’s so right! I grew up in the hood but was privileged enough to have black parents that took my siblings and I out the hood. Once we moved to the suburbs it was sooo quiet and peaceful. Everything he said was facts
It's definitely NOT Black culture and is Hood culture. This does not represent Black ppl in the US as a whole and some of us never lived in the "hood" and some of us were raised in the hood or lived there at some point because of our economic status at the time, but not all of us partake in what goes on in some of these poorer neighborhoods such as drug dealing and killing. & let's not get started on as to why these neighborhoods became hoods in the 1st place because we can start with the dishonest politicians that broke up Black families after WW2 when husbands had to leave the home so the women can get welfare to take care of the children and politicians putting drugs into our poorest most vulnerable communities, especially under a certain president in the 1980s. & I blame the record labels for allowing some of poison in hip hop, because for whatever reason, our children & young adults are drawn to this type of music & I'm not saying it's all hip hop/rap, because it's not.
Dumbei lea, u can sing go gurl! And this is so true it so frustrating meeting people who wanna be down so bad. I never glorified it i went through hell & back my bro 34 he always like im a gangsta blah ya we grew up there but dude no female wanna hear that u wonder why u single no car or house own nothing he always had a job though lol i love him he hard headed.
Grew up in Douglasville Ga, lived in East Point Ga..... I couldn't WAIT to get back to the burbs! My children will NEVER know anything about the hood life!
Gangster rap and hood culture are not Black culture in its entirety, just a subset created by desperate situations. Black culture is our music and dance, our family values and our history, how we adorn ourselves and present ourselves to the world, our spiritual and religious practices, beliefs, principles and values, how we celebrate and express joy, how we mourn and comfort one another, how we show up for each other and stand up against our enemies, how we communicate, our standards for excellence, ingenuity, and being good at what we do, and so, SO MUCH more. Poverty is the weapon that's been used to destroy our minds, hearts, and spirits, and hood culture is the result of that.
The thing about this. Is the people who grew up in it and knew you had the potential or an opportunity to get out the hood, they wouldn't allow you to hang with them
Black culture is all the above that you stated and all the things all of the world loves but being hood or from the hood is not black culture it’s just something a lot of us deal with I use to live in the hood I’m 34 by the grace of god me and my girlfriend moved upstate ny I’m from nyc but it true I don’t hear gunshots or cop cars or crackheads screaming
0:42 I’m from the same neighborhood as him in Milwaukee, right across the street from Sherman Park. But I wasn’t like the other boys growing up. While the other boys were playing football and basketball, I was inside drawing and studying Quantum Physics. I was raised to speak standard English, wear my pants around my waist with a belt, and be noble, even though my family was poor and my father abandoned my mother. Around my tweens, the boys and girls around started to tease me. They started to call me gay and asked me “why you talk like that”? So I caved to peer pressure, started sagging my pants, cursing, and acting “hood”, even though I was already literally from the hood. But I eventually rebelled against that pressure and went back to being my intelligent, introverted self. I went to college, studied in Japan, got my degree, and got a nice job as a graphic designer. This psyop almost got me but we can rebel against it. The hood is full of men like me who are intelligent, noble, and socially conscious. Thank God I made it out. 🙏🏾✝️💪🏾📖🧠
Your story is very inspiring… thanks for sharing with us. I believe it’s all in the mind, it’s really a psychological warfare and you came out victorious
I had to get in on these comments. An response to the sistah @about 14:30 in the video, who was saying she was from the bottom and talking about the Hip Hop demons. She isn't far off in her statement. What most people don't realize is that our children are being indoctrinated /Programmed to see orchestrated hood culture as Black Culture. But I digress. What most people don't know is that when certain kinds of music is made. The record labelbrings in 1948 Rabbis to pray over the masters for the songs, especially for "quote unquote" black music. You wonder why people like little nas-x, glorilla, simple red etc are so popular its the adgenda being pushed to destroy our people through what they know we love music. Why would a ISH Rabbsi need to pray over the masters for music, especially for music their community doesn't consume. Because simply that are getting demonic help mixed in with those high tempo hard hitting beats. The more our people listen to it thwy more ratchet they become. Yes deamons and spiritual wickedness in high places is real. Pray the the Most High for protection and covering for you and your family.
😮😩💔 This is so deep. Born and raised in NYC with 4 younger siblings. I loved growing up there, and definitely watched the circles I was in. I spent a lot of time doing after school activities, visiting museums, the piers. So many fun things to do.
Our people don't see that these palm people have an agenda. CONQUER and DIVIDE US ! they want OUR land and OUT of the US period !! Because going to the suburbs is not going to stop their agenda. Next thing you know, these same people, who moved out of the hood to the suburbs will be trying to go to Africa. There method to these people madness and evilness. Our people still need to wake UP !!!!
As a person from the hood, it's not fun at all like said in all other videos King could handle the hood .Living and seeing what I have seen is traumatizing
I rode my children like a race horse. Took they from one hood to another. Kept them in church. Best schools here. Gave them support. Prayed always. Did I say pray? They might go to church, but they still listen to the music, pray, work, school, etc. Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they get old, they will not depart from it. As parents, we have to realize that we've done our part. Now they have to live their life. I just keep on praying.
Kids still need parents even, as they mature. They just don't need the hands on stuff. But they still, ask for help or life advice from time to time about parenting, marriage, finances etc. But sure there comes a time to take off the training wheels. Parent & child is a symbiotic relationship until its not.
You don't need to be religious to be a good person stop saying that You can still be a good person, and follow your own beliefs without people telling you who to run to
Yessssss, and Thank you for saying that. I basically said the samethings. Look at my comment just above yours. They don't read or study. Because if they did. They would understand and you would have more than 10 thumbs up and this is sad. I will be very happy, when our people wake up. Our people don't realise what these people are still doing and that is again ""DIVID and CONQUER"" us !! They will continue do this to our people. Until these devilish people take their last breath. The nations that cleve to our people will alright. For those are the ones who know who we are and are trying to help us. Thank you again family !!!
When I say became 1. They say no, they are waiting on the son of david/messiah. I tell them no !!! Talking about themselves in the 3rd person. Their eyes are still closed tight
These people wanna claim they're from the hood so bad, "I started from the bottom now im up! Im came from the trenches!!" Why are we romatizing poverty?? 💀
Blk culture, hood culture and rap culture are all completely different things I wish people would go back to our roots! Negro spirituals, R&B and sticking together trying to lift each other up!
As a child who lived in a middle class neighborhood: Everyone from the hood need to NOT tell someone who doesn't have a hood mentality that they're "not real" (as in a real Black person), especially when they're trying to be friends.
People don't need to be religious and go to church to be good, Just teach your kid the right things and raise them right. You can still be a good person as a non religious person, do not let religious people tell you, how to live you choose your own path. Everyone has their own believes you have your own, tell them to respect it like you respect theirs!!!
And I with the girl talking about wearing certain colors still to this day I try not to wear those colors head to toe because of what is associated with To add to that I don't like when people walk behind me because in the hood people will sneak you and Rob you don't matter you a female
Can we circulate the videos of the rappers discussing the consortium that came together in the early 90s where record executives brought together most of the prominent rappers in the game and explained to them that the rap game was to be redirected to the "hood" mentality to facilitate the prison industrial complex. Because right before that, we were getting rappers coming together to make tracks like 'Self Destruction'(ua-cam.com/video/BwHbXSVZRhQ/v-deo.html). Conscious rap was on the rise. Some west coast gangsta rappers even took part in the track 'We All In the Same Gang.' I think the kids should be directed to these efforts and ideas to regain our control of the culture and use as the force it once was.
It’s crazy too because the kids at school will bully you for not acting like you’re from the hood if you’re black. They project stereotypes onto you and themselves about a life they never lived, and as much as it bothered me in school, I understand that somebody’s promoting that lifestyle, pushing that music, influence, and image more than the authentic variety of experiences. Let the “weird” kid shine and they’ll change the world for the better.
Man they gon mess around and find out. I use to live on the south and west side of Chicago growing up. Exprienced drive-bys, brawls, shootings, and sirens. Me flinching when cars pass, contantly on alert. I prayed to leave all the time and eventually my mom got a house in the suburbs such quiet. I see animals and nature, and people are plesant. Thawadah Ahba for thes blessings. I pray the lost sheep wake up.
I grew up in a household where there were no suggestions box. No House of Representatives. No Congress, no democrats or republicans, only 2 rules you do what they say or you get your a** kicked.... And the only time you had to figure this out was. Make sure it was before 10 o'clock and that you made your decision before you crossed their threshold.....lolololol
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There is a sense of community in a struggle. In terms of hood culture, while I dont agree with making bad choices, I am wary to not embrace people who are stuck in that place wether mentaly or physically. There is creativity that can come from that... and respectability politics shouldn't throw those people away...
My sons are adults now but their teachers told me to get them out of public schools when they were in first and fifth grade, I wish I would have listened. I did tell them they were only allowed one friend and couldn't hang out with more than one friend at a time. In which I was able to enforce till they were teens in highschool and after that I prayed a lot until they were way into adulthood... One of them in young adulthood hung out with cousins who were not correct. RIP to said cousins because the streets took their lives and after that my son did a turn around. The other acted up in highschool alot in which I didn't know until he testifys at his graduation ceremony celebrate at a church and cultural center. The center had adopted him, didn't know that either... He testified about loosing close friends to gun violence, gang activity in the neighborhood and feeling death chasing him. I was like WTH, how children hide so much. We know why they hide so much... I would have sent him to military school, if I've known... The teachers only use to say, mom I making sure he stay out of trouble. We all just clueless... I kept them learning, in sports, at many cultural events and only visiting family etc... Teachers admired my young men all the way to high school. If only we really knew how much more was required... As adults one son said mom I always heard you but I didn't understand until I moved an hour outside the city. Other son said mom I heard you but I am going to do it my way. So I asked why you gravitated to the mess and your brother ran from the mess, when I made sure I showed you a better way. He says, I like what I like, I remember all that other stuff you tried to interest me in, my heart wasn't in it... LoL that one there makes you fast with your prayers... MOST HIGH HELP US ALL...
This is truth! I remember a guy got mad at me for not buying his rap demi tape. He yelled at me that I didn't know that rap music is our culture. I told him it's our only culture. If anything, it's a small part of it. Hood culture is killing us.
My Roommate and I have this convo all the time. Though somethe hood has more community, its more of a survival mode. New Years eve we had a rude awakening its still the hood. Not same type of hood we grew up in in NYC, but 1am fights...yep the hood
The last stitch, the guy from Birmingham... that's where I'm from. Right now, I stay in a part of town where he's talking about Center Point. I just now heard sirens go by. Every once in a while, we'll hear gunshots a few streets away. Years ago, this area used to be upper middle class and safe. Now, it's still pretty upper middle class with beautiful houses and respectable families, but not quite as safe. This area has lots of upper middle class black families. I'm from "the trenches". Never wanted to be a part of it, nor have my kids. I'm trying to find a way out of this part of town, and it's really not the 'hood. We're in the dang suburbs! Being "from the hood" is not worth it. It's not "cool", it's not "wonderful", it's not... whatever the hell they think it is. It's a struggle, and it's scary! Back in 2009, my mom helped get my kids and me out of the 'hood when we told her the year before about a young man who was shot and killed across the street from me. Directly across the street! We heard the gunshots. The sad thing is, we heard them so much, at that point, we grew desensitized and paid them no mind. We didn't think anything of it. When I saw the blue and red flashing lights and heard the sirens, that was when I knew it was serious. The young lady who lived next door to me? She had bullet holes through her screen door! The 'hood is nothing to romanticize. People who grew up privileged should appreciate that privilege.
This hit me real. I'm from Dallas, TX. And the hood I grew up in and my kids is out of control. When I grew up it was bad but not as bad as it is now. I was one of parents that took my family out. But know this much I will never move back. I lost my youngest son and some of my other family members and friends in the hood. Staying in hood the is the survival of the fittest frfr.
I was one of the fortunate ones. Left the hood when I had the chance for college. A community college, but it was an opportunity to leave. My friends who stayed behind, 1 doing life for murder, my best friend was murdered, and the rest turned to addicts. I’m raising my kids in a different environment away from the phuckery that I grew up in.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video!!!!! I got my kids into better schools then better neighborhood. I was called white girl and bougie because of how I spoke. I loved to read. It helped me escape my daily life. My Dad and I went to the library and I would get so many books that my dad had to carry some. My mother would not tell me the definition of a word. We had to look it up in an actual book called a dictionary. I used to hate that. My children speak one way with their friends and different around me, and professional spaces. EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE RANGE. Be able to go from the board room to basement party.
My immediate family grew up in the burbs from the 80s-00s. One of my sibs was attracted to that lifestyle (maybe for acceptance and fun without restrictions 🤷🏽♀️) and ended spending the entirety of their 20s down bad. They've been out for a while now and doing pretty well, but that trauma/resentment is straining their happiness.
No, my Sister. He is not saying only AfAms are battling but that we are battling others confining us to hood mentality. Thank you for your channel and bridging cultures 🖤
I was a rude buoy, but the it shouldn't be glamorize, I had seen death around me since I was five years old. Throats being slashed from ear to ear, people being shot multiple times in the head, and the violence continues. Good life should be our culture.
I grew up in Brooklyn in the early 2000s and I have great memories from my neighborhood but I seen a lot of people die in them streets also. I'm making sure my kids don't go anywhere close to the hood.
Around the 4:00 where she say outside looking in and gave examples instantly remembering watching old anime and the way they would draw Americans or even watching k drama j drama the MC saving the girl from some thugs 😂
The thing is, we have lost or village. The neighborhood raised the children it just wasn't the parents. Everyone knew everyone, and you couldn't get away with anything . Our generation grew up to leave the hood. The kids don't realize that these hip hop star really don't live the life they rap. These kids today really need a reality check
FYI 🤔🤔🤔 What we know as ghetto culture today isn’t racially derived at all. It’s a fascinating case. Sowell says, in fact, that “black culture” comes from southern white culture, which came from the rural, underdeveloped areas of southwestern Great Britain where most poor southern whites immigrated from. You should watch "Where Current Black Culture Really Comes From "- Thomas Sowell
I think because their lives are boring. Hell, the suburbs are BORING!! So I beginning to wonder, they want to be hood; because is interesting. Wether it's good or bad, there's always something going on.
My family did live in the hood just because we lived in the hood didn't mean we where a part of the hood I have three sons who have never been to jail and attended church I also have a son that's Muslim that is his choice his preference and all three of my sons also graduated from college just because you're living in the hood does mean you have to be hood you can actually help your community I have no grandchildren living in the hood has afforded us to save a six-figure salary that allows us to help my people and my community😢
And one last thing when it comes to the music and the videos parents got to be vigilant and not let their children listen to certain things not look at certain videos certain music just does my need to be viewed or listen to by children and some adults The music itself is debauchery today and since the mid to late '90s
Firstly, every hood don’t have with crazy crime everyday. Some are infamous and have bed. Famous because movies. Secondly, like the second guy said a lot of our parents were restricted from participating in anything that would put us in a position to be involved in good behavior. But let’s be honest everybody’s parents aren’t around, if they work and kids come into trouble on the bus home, on the walk home. We know it’s not black culture but of course media keeps saying so and running the rhetoric. Let’s not forget this happened bc white people left the neighborhood and bankrupted the neighborhoods and turned them into ghettos and places that were made to survive. Then you have the issue of your child facing racism in the suburbs or becoming white washed because now this set of people want to keep their kids from their family period. Just because of where they live.
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Hood Culture and Black Culture are definitely different. 💯🌟
This!
I Agree, Black Culture is NOT....Hood/Ghetto Culture!
IMO.......Hood/Ghetto "Culture".....Is More reflective of European Cultures.
That part!!
Black Culture= Life and progress
Hood Culture= Death and Destruction.
Right.
BAAAAAABY!!!!!! This video is a WHOLE WORD!!!!! We actually believe that we, as black folk, DO NOT DESERVE better!!! It boggles my mind! This conversation MUST keep going! Thank you sis!!!✊🏽✊🏽💪🏾💪🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾❤️❤️
Well black people really do not care about the well being, happiness or success of other ordinary black people. Every other race on the planet knows our collective success relies on our collective support of each other. And no I haven’t watched the video yet.
*I don't believe any of that stupid shit that I couldn't do better, and was never influenced by Hip Hop Rap.*
They wasn't musicians, and their products wasn't music.
*I Retired At Age 48 Due To Injuries, And Earned All Qualifications To Do So.*
STILL LIVE IN THE HOOD.
*Still no Hip Hoppers In My Life.*
Don't allow it around me.
Chicago, South Chicago.
MOST BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE. THAT WAY!
*What We See Is The Same Exact Propaganda Campaigns Used Against The Jews Of Europe!*
AND YOU BELIEVE IT.
*The woman who spoke of her sons?*
WHERE DID THEY GET IT FROM? WHAT AGES ARE THE BOYS?
*Teach A Child While He's Young That He'll Never Stray.*
What are our children consuming as entertainment?
*HOW MANY BLACK COUPLES DO YOU SEE IN VISUAL MEDIA?*
*Why are all black girls and women mated with white guys and women only?*
NO BLACK FATHERS AT HOME?
ALL BLACK PEOPLE COLLECT WELFARE?
*How many hip hop rapping drug dealers are on your street, in your community?*
Those not teens have been consuming criminal/prostitution hip hop for 50 years!
THERE'S SOME HOES IN THIS HOUSE. ?
*YOU DOWN WITH OPP?*
Something created packaged and sold to the population.
*THEY HAD TO DESTROY BLACK MUSIC PRODUCTION, RADIO PLAY, AND DISTRIBUTION FIST!
*Good-bye MOTOWN, Also shipped all the Car Production Companies Out Of The Country.*
*MIND FUCK PROGRAMMING, BRAINWASHING THOSE WHO CONSUME THE ENTERTAINMENT THEY PRODUCE.*
It's The Good Life Of The Rich And Famous, With Americas Top Models!
This part here👆🏾
💯💯💯
I was blessed to have two working parents that bust their ass and work to raise us in better neighborhoods and enjoy peace and quiet...I have nothing to complain about...my dad was raised in hood and didn't want that for his children and made that happen...Thank you mom and dad ❤❤❤
"Cloning Tyrone", that movie is the stereotype that these young generations want to portray and some old heads out here still stuck on stupid too
We as a community need to bring back the village & start dismantling all these negative stereotypes ASAP. It's what's killing our lineage of greatness, because people started to believe that all stereotypes & propaganda
Can’t bring the village if we don’t bring back Jesus🙏🏾✝️🕊️
@@HeeeyOhaji unfortunately stereotypes do have intersectionalities as well. Your mindset & perspective is effectively changed as well as influenced by the environment and the people who have raised you, grew up around, taught you, you have seen,and let's not forget about self identity.I'm stating these facts because beloved your dig at education may have come from a place of selective ignorance. And this is a learning lesson of compassion from an auntie or a cousin in the village
@@HeeeyOhaji idk how old or where your from. I'm speaking on my 45 plus yrs on this planet especially growing up in the states in a community as the only brown person growing in a neighborhood. because of the location of our home, I had two parents and I'm light skinned, there were also stereotypes of our own kind that are ingrained from slavery. That's why I stated it has to be dismantled because we are all brother & sisters in different shades of royalty. So it's truly both a right and wrong situation, in which education has nothing to do with its more moral decency or lack of. It's a way to make a person feel less than easier to invalidate manipulate so on.
@@HeeeyOhaji beloved the gist of my whole original text was banning together & dismantling negative stereotypes. To teach these children better & give better examples than what is currently being pushed by "the agenda over the last 25-30 yrs". Because if you check the comments of this amazing thread black people don't all live in the hood but for some reason everyone wants to claim/experience that life or assume it's every black person's experience. When once again dismantling comes into play because it's ancestral trauma, generation trauma that's instilled in the DNA of everyone. So until perpetrating forces minds are completely dismantled by them doing their internal work as a group, we as victims have to do ours. Since you constantly bring education into when you see that a problem exists, you find a solution to the problem. If not the problem is doomed to repeat itself.
We separate the wheat from tare! Plain and simple!
I don't call it black culture. I called it hood culture. Every neighborhood is different. When you come from one area to another, bad to better, you have to change your mindset
I absolutely agree.
Exactly. I'm not Black American, I'm Black British but grew up on Ebony magazine, Black American movies, sitcoms, artists like Babyface, Chante Moore, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker and all the soul greats and family in the states. One thing I noticed once I became a Hip Hop head as a young teen is that 'hood culture' is a separate culture to 'black aspirational culture.' That is why people were mad when Tamar Braxton invited Chrisean Rock to her concert and Toni was not impressed either. It's two separate cultures- or one is a subset of the other with things in common like food and customs but different behaviours and values.
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Precisely! I grew up in aspirational blk culture in the suburbs. Connected to blk folks and our histories, while my brother grew up aspiring to hood culture. We've lived very different lives despite having the same parents and upbringing.
@@ladybluelotus Yep! I totally get it. I get how when some people are young, they want to be hood adjacent, but if you're from an aspirational background and haven't grown out of that once you become an adult, it's a problem.
This is the way!
I grew up in the hood & almost got caught up when my mom finally moved. Years later I went back to visit and one of my homies pulled me aside and told me another one of my homies we grew up with was looking to set me up. Him and I got in my car and left and he filled me in on everything and told me to fall back from this place, it ain’t the same anymore. I helped get him a job with me, and we’re very good friends today. And besides driving by we’ve never been back to visit. This was at least 20 years ago and we don’t plan on ever going back.
My son at 16 started talking funny and sagging. Acting like he was from the hood and getting in trouble. It hurt my heart because we worked hard to give him a nice life.
Where is his father?
Take the door to of the hinge and take every stitch of clothing he has except two pair of pants and two shirts one pair of shoes and let him eat one meal and some oatmeal for an entire week. I did this to my son. I told him this is our hood life. Get you some hoochie gear from the thrift store and tell him you are ready to join him. Watch and see his reaction. Do it until he comes back apologizing and asking for you to stop. Don't just be hood be ratchet hood. He will be so embarrassed.
@@MiguelDLewisshe said we soooo hopefully that means mom and dad .
@@Goddess_Infinity Hopefully...
Surround him with men who do not follow the hood lifestyle. Introduce him to black male doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, school administrators, engineers, etc! Go the extra mile and expose him to something greater.
The hood is hell. Some are trapped and some will never leave.
Facts I think they just think they look cool and not knowing you can dress and be like that without acting crazy
There are a lot of African-Americans who never lived in the so-called hood. The hood is not a badge of honor. Let
Y'all got it twisted. The suburbs is full of busy , fake and uppity people. Boys don't want to be around a bunch of masculine women and simp Ziggins who allow them to wear the pants. Matriarchy is what sends young black boys away almost anywhere searching for Alpha Male guidance. We recognize the chain of command early as kids. Finding good MALE role models isn't easy either. We take pieces from every one we get to spend even a little time with and try to piece it all together into our own concept of what a man should be. That's what I did but it's not easy at all. Y'all act like we get unlimited time to learn from top tier men in the suburbs. It's like I'm teaching English to an alien being in here.
I think these privileged kids like that sense of "community" most hoods possess. Everybody knows everybody and is related to everybody else. Usually these black rich kids are visiting family in the neighborhood and get hooked on the life style and really just want to fit in 🤷🏿♂️
You might be on to something here.
I am guilty.....
This is a REAL thing
It is definitely a wicked Spirit in this music.. capturing our communities ravaging our Children's.
I remember my mother got me with her and moved away from up Bronx NY because it was too much people causing drama wanting to jump,beat up you everytime you turned around. It was too many people getting shot hurt. People was always loud and want to always cause trouble. I glad my mother moved from Down there, my mother said she not going back to New York city or Bronx NY. I glad my mother raised me not to be like an animal like everyone else was. As a teenager i wasn't running the streets with friends and causing trouble, i was mostly staying in the house or walk around town by myself and go to the library to read some books. My mother and I will go to places together too. My mother said she is proud of me not doing that and not having sex and getting pregnant at a young age. Im 19 years old and i glad i listen to my mother. I am not having sex until marriage.
I’m 19 years old too! Are we living the same lives? 😂 But yes, it’s a shame that hookup culture and gang activity and drug dealing and all of these unstable things are still rampant in the black community
When my mom, made me leave the hood because I was in so much trouble, I didn't like it; as an adult, I embrace the peace not being in the hood.
This mess today is not hip hop.
This hit home especially as a Foundational Black American we really need to stick together in America we are a minority.😊
Caucasians are a minority most ethnicities fall under negroid
My auntie took me in after both of my parents died in poverty and hood culture. She lived in a rich white suburban area in New Jersey while I was in a bad spot in Atlanta Georgia. She and my uncle raised me to keep God first, speak with respect, an understanding of black culture ≠ hood culture, know that femininity doesn’t mean weak, and to get my college education. As a 19 year old, I need all of my younger black peers to realize that the media wants to fool you on what’s acceptable and not acceptable on how black people act and live.
Why? Stereotypes.
This is true, I grew up in the hood and refused to raise my children in it. Nothing's cool about sleeping with one eye opened and the other closed, nothings cool about jumping to the floor every day to avoid being hit by stray bullets that aren't meant for you, nothings cool about gang violence, nothings cool about the struggle, nothings cool about finding a dead body in your school yard and nothings cool about seeing the zombie apocalypse walking around all day. The hood mentality is to never give AF because if you do, you get thrown to the wolves, you can't be a decent person. The hood is glamorized through music, TI put these thoughts in his son mind but didn't put nothing different in his heart
We got a whole young culture who want to be hood so bad
Ghetto and hood is a mindset.
Thank you!! Say it again so our people in the back can hear you. These devils are causing more separation amongst our people and our people are still blind to that fact. It's called conquer and divid. And the next thing you know. These same people will be trying to leave OUR OWN LAND. That was promised to OUR forefathers. If they read the bible. The cities were made for OUR PEOPLE. Our people need to read OUR story and find out.
Diving to the ground dodging drive-by shootings is never fun. Losing friends you grew up with to gang violence isn't fun either.
We were raised in what would be called the hood but the people there were very family oriented. My parents even then didn't allow certain language or friends because they wanted us to have a better life. Even when we moved to a middle class neighborhood, they continued to guard against certain things. I remained black in actions and thought but live my life to represent my God and parents. Thank God for good parents with principles.
This is a much-needed conversation, I hope it keeps going. We need it.
I grow up in the "hood" and there were some problems but overall our neighborhood was very happy and safe We had block parties neighbors spokento each other. I think some of our neighborhoods changed with the negative rap music. There are numerous inner citites that are doimg very well with hard working people. No it is not as rampant as its being presented. The hood ifestile is a rap and media. There are meddle class families surviving very well in hood. I blame is on the negative rap.
This part. It kills me that people actually believe that we as a whole are representative of the minority bad actors. How? I grew up in both environments, though we were not well off or wealthy at all. And in both most people worked. This was true of single parents and couples. The only people that buy into this BS are people that can't separate reality from what they see in the media.
If OUR people did true research for themselves or study the bible. They would/will find out the cities are where we actually lived with designated areas for each and every tribe of OUR people. Like the Americas was beautiful until our forefathers agreed up. Got cursed and those curses got passed to us. And with that !! Our Father sent the palm people from the other side to the Americas. And now look at OUR once BEAUTIFUL land. F up right !!! Our people don't over stand what got us and the cities we are actually suppose to live in. Where we are at now and why. These people screwed our cities up to separate us. And they are still doing a good job of/for their agenda. OUR people truly need to wake up. Why do you think why they are getting people to go to Africa. Because they are trying to get US OFF of OUR "" Promise Land"" anyway they can. Because suburbs does not mean you are automatically safe !! More Easy to pick OUR people OFF. Our people need slot of discernment to see these evil people's agenda.
I live in a part of lagos that had cultist clashing all the time. My family will call each other to stay away from home or sleep wherever they are because home isn't safe. When its finally over , you come home to see bodies on butchered and riddled with bullets on tuesday😢. Till today I can't watch movies with cultists or hoodlums clashing. I start shaking like I'm back and reliving the experience. I want to call my family and check if everyone is okay.😢 I am working my ass off to make sure I take them away from there. God help me. 🤲
I think the "hood" life has been so overly popularized by yte movie moguls and music moguls that it has been coined"Black Culture". But if you look at our history post slavery we created communities where we thrived such as Black Wallstreet and many other towns that were based on work ethic, education, and faith. And that continued even when we migrated to the north for factory based job opportunities and we still had those same core values in tact. Until the government introduced drugs into Black communities which then created a breakdown of our moral and religious values. Coupled with the on set of a decline of Black family values. Because of the war on drugs by the government. It has become a snowball rolling down hill effect. The government instituted more policies against crime and instituted longer prison sentences that targeted Black males in particular. All resulted in the destruction of the True Black Culture which is to succeed and to further Black Excellence. That was Always our True Black Culture.
He’s so right! I grew up in the hood but was privileged enough to have black parents that took my siblings and I out the hood. Once we moved to the suburbs it was sooo quiet and peaceful. Everything he said was facts
It's definitely NOT Black culture and is Hood culture. This does not represent Black ppl in the US as a whole and some of us never lived in the "hood" and some of us were raised in the hood or lived there at some point because of our economic status at the time, but not all of us partake in what goes on in some of these poorer neighborhoods such as drug dealing and killing. & let's not get started on as to why these neighborhoods became hoods in the 1st place because we can start with the dishonest politicians that broke up Black families after WW2 when husbands had to leave the home so the women can get welfare to take care of the children and politicians putting drugs into our poorest most vulnerable communities, especially under a certain president in the 1980s. & I blame the record labels for allowing some of poison in hip hop, because for whatever reason, our children & young adults are drawn to this type of music & I'm not saying it's all hip hop/rap, because it's not.
Dumbei lea, u can sing go gurl! And this is so true it so frustrating meeting people who wanna be down so bad. I never glorified it i went through hell & back my bro 34 he always like im a gangsta blah ya we grew up there but dude no female wanna hear that u wonder why u single no car or house own nothing he always had a job though lol i love him he hard headed.
Their hood everywhere around the world,
My dear sister... This was one of your best. Zalute
Streets is SCARY 😟 ..not for me
Grew up in Douglasville Ga, lived in East Point Ga..... I couldn't WAIT to get back to the burbs! My children will NEVER know anything about the hood life!
Gangster rap and hood culture are not Black culture in its entirety, just a subset created by desperate situations. Black culture is our music and dance, our family values and our history, how we adorn ourselves and present ourselves to the world, our spiritual and religious practices, beliefs, principles and values, how we celebrate and express joy, how we mourn and comfort one another, how we show up for each other and stand up against our enemies, how we communicate, our standards for excellence, ingenuity, and being good at what we do, and so, SO MUCH more. Poverty is the weapon that's been used to destroy our minds, hearts, and spirits, and hood culture is the result of that.
The thing about this. Is the people who grew up in it and knew you had the potential or an opportunity to get out the hood, they wouldn't allow you to hang with them
Reminds me of the actor from Boyz N The Hood, he grew up suburban, well off, and became an actor, but embraced good mentality, and died.
I'll never understand privileged middle class/rich people cosplaying poverty. They want all the culture but none of the trauma.
Black culture is all the above that you stated and all the things all of the world loves but being hood or from the hood is not black culture it’s just something a lot of us deal with I use to live in the hood I’m 34 by the grace of god me and my girlfriend moved upstate ny I’m from nyc but it true I don’t hear gunshots or cop cars or crackheads screaming
Exactly 93% of black Americans are hardworking law abiding citizens, 7% are in gangs. They focus on the 7% and act as if it represents all 😂
0:42 I’m from the same neighborhood as him in Milwaukee, right across the street from Sherman Park. But I wasn’t like the other boys growing up. While the other boys were playing football and basketball, I was inside drawing and studying Quantum Physics. I was raised to speak standard English, wear my pants around my waist with a belt, and be noble, even though my family was poor and my father abandoned my mother. Around my tweens, the boys and girls around started to tease me. They started to call me gay and asked me “why you talk like that”? So I caved to peer pressure, started sagging my pants, cursing, and acting “hood”, even though I was already literally from the hood. But I eventually rebelled against that pressure and went back to being my intelligent, introverted self. I went to college, studied in Japan, got my degree, and got a nice job as a graphic designer. This psyop almost got me but we can rebel against it. The hood is full of men like me who are intelligent, noble, and socially conscious. Thank God I made it out. 🙏🏾✝️💪🏾📖🧠
Your story is very inspiring… thanks for sharing with us. I believe it’s all in the mind, it’s really a psychological warfare and you came out victorious
Gangster life is in the music, movies and the streets it's the image that America pushes onto the people and the world it's mind control.
I had to get in on these comments. An response to the sistah @about 14:30 in the video, who was saying she was from the bottom and talking about the Hip Hop demons. She isn't far off in her statement. What most people don't realize is that our children are being indoctrinated /Programmed to see orchestrated hood culture as Black Culture. But I digress. What most people don't know is that when certain kinds of music is made. The record labelbrings in 1948 Rabbis to pray over the masters for the songs, especially for "quote unquote" black music. You wonder why people like little nas-x, glorilla, simple red etc are so popular its the adgenda being pushed to destroy our people through what they know we love music. Why would a ISH Rabbsi need to pray over the masters for music, especially for music their community doesn't consume. Because simply that are getting demonic help mixed in with those high tempo hard hitting beats.
The more our people listen to it thwy more ratchet they become.
Yes deamons and spiritual wickedness in high places is real.
Pray the the Most High for protection and covering for you and your family.
😮😩💔 This is so deep. Born and raised in NYC with 4 younger siblings. I loved growing up there, and definitely watched the circles I was in. I spent a lot of time doing after school activities, visiting museums, the piers. So many fun things to do.
You and me both, sis.❤❤
Originally from the NYC myself,
I can vouch for that.
@@MsMookalate 😄🌹 My siblings are still there and are doing well indeed. We took different paths but all well. ❤
@@alsimmons1650 You know it! So many things to do! 😄🌹
Our people don't see that these palm people have an agenda. CONQUER and DIVIDE US ! they want OUR land and OUT of the US period !! Because going to the suburbs is not going to stop their agenda. Next thing you know, these same people, who moved out of the hood to the suburbs will be trying to go to Africa. There method to these people madness and evilness. Our people still need to wake UP !!!!
As a person from the hood, it's not fun at all like said in all other videos King could handle the hood
.Living and seeing what I have seen is traumatizing
I rode my children like a race horse. Took they from one hood to another. Kept them in church. Best schools here. Gave them support. Prayed always. Did I say pray? They might go to church, but they still listen to the music, pray, work, school, etc. Train up a child in the way they should go, and when they get old, they will not depart from it. As parents, we have to realize that we've done our part. Now they have to live their life. I just keep on praying.
Kids still need parents even, as they mature. They just don't need the hands on stuff. But they still, ask for help or life advice from time to time about parenting, marriage, finances etc. But sure there comes a time to take off the training wheels. Parent & child is a symbiotic relationship until its not.
You don't need to be religious to be a good person stop saying that You can still be a good person, and follow your own beliefs without people telling you who to run to
Think it is the sentiment, even if true, that "the more suffering, gives you most awareness and depth and once mastered"?
I beg to differ
I think suffering too much reduces the willingness to face reality.
🗣️📯And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.📖🙏🏿
Israelites unite into One Man again 👈🏿💯❤🔥
Yessssss, and Thank you for saying that. I basically said the samethings. Look at my comment just above yours. They don't read or study. Because if they did. They would understand and you would have more than 10 thumbs up and this is sad. I will be very happy, when our people wake up. Our people don't realise what these people are still doing and that is again ""DIVID and CONQUER"" us !! They will continue do this to our people. Until these devilish people take their last breath. The nations that cleve to our people will alright. For those are the ones who know who we are and are trying to help us. Thank you again family !!!
When I say became 1. They say no, they are waiting on the son of david/messiah. I tell them no !!! Talking about themselves in the 3rd person. Their eyes are still closed tight
These people wanna claim they're from the hood so bad, "I started from the bottom now im up! Im came from the trenches!!" Why are we romatizing poverty?? 💀
And it's crazy because even though a lot of these rappers came from the hood, they're living in million dollar houses now...they moved..
The ? That should be asked is What do other Nations think black culture is. And youll get negative conintations from the Other Nations
Blk culture, hood culture and rap culture are all completely different things I wish people would go back to our roots! Negro spirituals, R&B and sticking together trying to lift each other up!
As a child who lived in a middle class neighborhood:
Everyone from the hood need to NOT tell someone who doesn't have a hood mentality that they're "not real" (as in a real Black person), especially when they're trying to be friends.
Most love that culture tho and can’t stop won’t stop
This video is needed
Yeah, abot "tht spirit" .. we r wel studied after all thes years & generations .. so yeah it's Quite livid 2da❗❗
People don't need to be religious and go to church to be good, Just teach your kid the right things and raise them right. You can still be a good person as a non religious person, do not let religious people tell you, how to live you choose your own path. Everyone has their own believes you have your own, tell them to respect it like you respect theirs!!!
And I with the girl talking about wearing certain colors still to this day I try not to wear those colors head to toe because of what is associated with To add to that I don't like when people walk behind me because in the hood people will sneak you and Rob you don't matter you a female
Can we circulate the videos of the rappers discussing the consortium that came together in the early 90s where record executives brought together most of the prominent rappers in the game and explained to them that the rap game was to be redirected to the "hood" mentality to facilitate the prison industrial complex. Because right before that, we were getting rappers coming together to make tracks like 'Self Destruction'(ua-cam.com/video/BwHbXSVZRhQ/v-deo.html). Conscious rap was on the rise. Some west coast gangsta rappers even took part in the track 'We All In the Same Gang.' I think the kids should be directed to these efforts and ideas to regain our control of the culture and use as the force it once was.
My girl dumebi love your content ❤
Thanks so much! I appreciate your support 💜💜
Prayers ask for the father to open the eyes of the children to see the reality
As the saying goes, " You live by the sword, you *ie by it".
3:33 what he said, some of our people eat it up. As a so called black man my culture is AMERICANA.
It’s crazy too because the kids at school will bully you for not acting like you’re from the hood if you’re black. They project stereotypes onto you and themselves about a life they never lived, and as much as it bothered me in school, I understand that somebody’s promoting that lifestyle, pushing that music, influence, and image more than the authentic variety of experiences. Let the “weird” kid shine and they’ll change the world for the better.
For we are not at war with flesh and bone but with principalities
Man they gon mess around and find out. I use to live on the south and west side of Chicago growing up. Exprienced drive-bys, brawls, shootings, and sirens. Me flinching when cars pass, contantly on alert. I prayed to leave all the time and eventually my mom got a house in the suburbs such quiet. I see animals and nature, and people are plesant. Thawadah Ahba for thes blessings. I pray the lost sheep wake up.
The whole world is has followed melanted people and at the same time learning a lot from them...cant deny we are amazing people.
I grew up in a household where there were no suggestions box. No House of Representatives. No Congress, no democrats or republicans, only 2 rules you do what they say or you get your a** kicked....
And the only time you had to figure this out was. Make sure it was before 10 o'clock and that you made your decision before you crossed their threshold.....lolololol
Th Lord's way 2 burden hearts/minds/souls 2 be better n, maintain better His kingdom❗Amen❗❗👁🙏📯❗Tht Red.Yellow.Black.White.Olive.Brown BELIEV, "Njustice NEwher is a threat 2 justice evrywher"❗❗👁🙏📯❗
He want to get the eff out the hood, I want to get the eff out of Babylon/slavery/captivity, he wants too little‼️
Heeeeyyyy, pulled out the Destiny's Child for us! You have a nice voice! I wanted to hear more, lol.
Lol thanks… I’m in my church choir.
And I LOVE Destiny’s child 😂😂
There is a sense of community in a struggle. In terms of hood culture, while I dont agree with making bad choices, I am wary to not embrace people who are stuck in that place wether mentaly or physically. There is creativity that can come from that... and respectability politics shouldn't throw those people away...
My sons are adults now but their teachers told me to get them out of public schools when they were in first and fifth grade, I wish I would have listened. I did tell them they were only allowed one friend and couldn't hang out with more than one friend at a time. In which I was able to enforce till they were teens in highschool and after that I prayed a lot until they were way into adulthood... One of them in young adulthood hung out with cousins who were not correct. RIP to said cousins because the streets took their lives and after that my son did a turn around. The other acted up in highschool alot in which I didn't know until he testifys at his graduation ceremony celebrate at a church and cultural center. The center had adopted him, didn't know that either... He testified about loosing close friends to gun violence, gang activity in the neighborhood and feeling death chasing him. I was like WTH, how children hide so much. We know why they hide so much... I would have sent him to military school, if I've known... The teachers only use to say, mom I making sure he stay out of trouble. We all just clueless...
I kept them learning, in sports, at many cultural events and only visiting family etc...
Teachers admired my young men all the way to high school. If only we really knew how much more was required...
As adults one son said mom I always heard you but I didn't understand until I moved an hour outside the city.
Other son said mom I heard you but I am going to do it my way. So I asked why you gravitated to the mess and your brother ran from the mess, when I made sure I showed you a better way. He says, I like what I like, I remember all that other stuff you tried to interest me in, my heart wasn't in it...
LoL that one there makes you fast with your prayers...
MOST HIGH HELP US ALL...
This is truth! I remember a guy got mad at me for not buying his rap demi tape. He yelled at me that I didn't know that rap music is our culture. I told him it's our only culture. If anything, it's a small part of it. Hood culture is killing us.
My Roommate and I have this convo all the time. Though somethe hood has more community, its more of a survival mode. New Years eve we had a rude awakening its still the hood. Not same type of hood we grew up in in NYC, but 1am fights...yep the hood
The last stitch, the guy from Birmingham... that's where I'm from. Right now, I stay in a part of town where he's talking about Center Point. I just now heard sirens go by. Every once in a while, we'll hear gunshots a few streets away. Years ago, this area used to be upper middle class and safe. Now, it's still pretty upper middle class with beautiful houses and respectable families, but not quite as safe. This area has lots of upper middle class black families.
I'm from "the trenches". Never wanted to be a part of it, nor have my kids. I'm trying to find a way out of this part of town, and it's really not the 'hood. We're in the dang suburbs! Being "from the hood" is not worth it. It's not "cool", it's not "wonderful", it's not... whatever the hell they think it is. It's a struggle, and it's scary!
Back in 2009, my mom helped get my kids and me out of the 'hood when we told her the year before about a young man who was shot and killed across the street from me. Directly across the street! We heard the gunshots. The sad thing is, we heard them so much, at that point, we grew desensitized and paid them no mind.
We didn't think anything of it. When I saw the blue and red flashing lights and heard the sirens, that was when I knew it was serious. The young lady who lived next door to me? She had bullet holes through her screen door!
The 'hood is nothing to romanticize. People who grew up privileged should appreciate that privilege.
This hit me real. I'm from Dallas, TX. And the hood I grew up in and my kids is out of control. When I grew up it was bad but not as bad as it is now. I was one of parents that took my family out. But know this much I will never move back. I lost my youngest son and some of my other family members and friends in the hood. Staying in hood the is the survival of the fittest frfr.
So after all of this stop blaming most parents for their children’s actions.
I was one of the fortunate ones.
Left the hood when I had the chance for college. A community college, but it was an opportunity to leave.
My friends who stayed behind, 1 doing life for murder, my best friend was murdered, and the rest turned to addicts.
I’m raising my kids in a different environment away from the phuckery that I grew up in.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video!!!!! I got my kids into better schools then better neighborhood. I was called white girl and bougie because of how I spoke. I loved to read. It helped me escape my daily life. My Dad and I went to the library and I would get so many books that my dad had to carry some. My mother would not tell me the definition of a word. We had to look it up in an actual book called a dictionary. I used to hate that. My children speak one way with their friends and different around me, and professional spaces. EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE RANGE. Be able to go from the board room to basement party.
Truth be told, I find it scarier living in yt neighborhoods. I never felt safe in those areas. #NotMyCupOfTea
My immediate family grew up in the burbs from the 80s-00s. One of my sibs was attracted to that lifestyle (maybe for acceptance and fun without restrictions 🤷🏽♀️) and ended spending the entirety of their 20s down bad. They've been out for a while now and doing pretty well, but that trauma/resentment is straining their happiness.
The deer remind me of the movie Leave the World Behind.
This plot runs deep
Most definitely. Each one teaches one as well, we have to ban together & take back our communities
No, my Sister. He is not saying only AfAms are battling but that we are battling others confining us to hood mentality. Thank you for your channel and bridging cultures 🖤
The hood is mental. It's not a place.
I was a rude buoy, but the it shouldn't be glamorize, I had seen death around me since I was five years old. Throats being slashed from ear to ear, people being shot multiple times in the head, and the violence continues. Good life should be our culture.
I swear if you know, you know 😔
I grew up in Brooklyn in the early 2000s and I have great memories from my neighborhood but I seen a lot of people die in them streets also. I'm making sure my kids don't go anywhere close to the hood.
Around the 4:00 where she say outside looking in and gave examples instantly remembering watching old anime and the way they would draw Americans or even watching k drama j drama the MC saving the girl from some thugs 😂
I grew up in Birmingham. Glad I made it out
The thing is, we have lost or village. The neighborhood raised the children it just wasn't the parents. Everyone knew everyone, and you couldn't get away with anything . Our generation grew up to leave the hood. The kids don't realize that these hip hop star really don't live the life they rap. These kids today really need a reality check
FYI 🤔🤔🤔 What we know as ghetto culture today isn’t racially derived at all.
It’s a fascinating case. Sowell says, in fact, that “black culture” comes from southern white culture, which came from the rural, underdeveloped areas of southwestern Great Britain where most poor southern whites immigrated from.
You should watch "Where Current Black Culture Really Comes From "- Thomas Sowell
he is 100% right. been a care giver give us the experience of working in the Surbaugh the difference is clear..
I think because their lives are boring. Hell, the suburbs are BORING!! So I beginning to wonder, they want to be hood; because is interesting. Wether it's good or bad, there's always something going on.
Teach brothas and sistahs
My family did live in the hood just because we lived in the hood didn't mean we where a part of the hood I have three sons who have never been to jail and attended church I also have a son that's Muslim that is his choice his preference and all three of my sons also graduated from college just because you're living in the hood does mean you have to be hood you can actually help your community I have no grandchildren living in the hood has afforded us to save a six-figure salary that allows us to help my people and my community😢
Absolutely 💯 real talk
much needed video
*sigh* i believe it comes from a place of low self worth
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And one last thing when it comes to the music and the videos parents got to be vigilant and not let their children listen to certain things not look at certain videos certain music just does my need to be viewed or listen to by children and some adults The music itself is debauchery today and since the mid to late '90s
Firstly, every hood don’t have with crazy crime everyday. Some are infamous and have bed. Famous because movies. Secondly, like the second guy said a lot of our parents were restricted from participating in anything that would put us in a position to be involved in good behavior. But let’s be honest everybody’s parents aren’t around, if they work and kids come into trouble on the bus home, on the walk home. We know it’s not black culture but of course media keeps saying so and running the rhetoric. Let’s not forget this happened bc white people left the neighborhood and bankrupted the neighborhoods and turned them into ghettos and places that were made to survive. Then you have the issue of your child facing racism in the suburbs or becoming white washed because now this set of people want to keep their kids from their family period. Just because of where they live.
The bottom is she from West Philadelphia?