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nyc in the early 90's was extra grimy. a scrawny, nerdy kid such as myself had a rep whenever i was out of town off the strength of being from nyc. off the strength of my accent.
what other city can say something like that???
i could just be chillin and ppl would say "oh don't mess with him, he's from ny" like i was gonna bully everyone just because i'm from ny, lol. i was always quiet too so its not like i gave off any bad vibes.
i still remember the first time i went down south and how fascinated ppl were just listening to me speak. some ppl wanted to fight me on like day one when i spent the summer with my cousins just because i was from ny and they wanted to prove themselves in their hood.
lol who does that tho??
anyway, all that is gone IMO. ny is mad soft now. we lost the character we had...i mean the "essence" of the city will hopefully never ever go away fully but that character that we had in the early 90's and back is gone because of (IMHO) gentrification.
on topic, i don't think nyc can be touched if you're talking about from like 1995 and back. chicago obviously, philly, dc...they need to be in this too. chicago today is no joke and neither is detroit. chicago back then was no joke lol. mad ppl died over petty stuff. its probably between chicago and ny, now that i think about it.
but philly is grimy too, even now. i don't know what it was like back then but yeah. i know nyc back then was crazy. all types of murders, trash everywhere, bums everywhere, squeegee men, ppl playing three card monte, prostitutes everywhere, drug dealers and drug addicts everywhere, ppl shooting places up with uzi's, nickel and dime bags with dirty syringes near the side walk/in the street/gutter areas, etc. etc.
couldn't trick or treat, nothing.
*edit* haitians in miami go hard too. street sweepers and everything.
Albany, NY is pretty tough. I lived in Troy (another honorable mention) and I remember seeing a full out brawl outside one of Albany's Cherry Hill neighborhood. Bar fights aren't out of the ordinary in Albany/Troy/Schenectady either.
As long as you're respectful and don't talk smack, you'll be fine. I love Albany!
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Newark used to be more of a fighting city prior to 1996. Shootings are the biggest issue here now.
Theres a lot of cities where you can see dudes fight that are better than some of these guys that have contracts. Almost like how the rap game works, hmm.
Theres a lot of cities where you can see dudes fight that are better than some of these guys that have contracts. Almost like how the rap game works, hmm.
They may look good in a street fight when they are going up against someone that doesn't know how to fight but I have seen too many going in with big looping rights and lefts, they would be knocked right out by a real fighter leaving themselves wide open like that.
Not saying there aren't some out there but most aren't.
But I know the broad street bullies would of taken care of bizness tonite, while we're on the subject of fighters and all
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