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11-22-2008, 09:44 AM
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Location: Brooklyn NY
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Originally Posted by Kraftwerk
On that note, it is amazing the talent which has come out of housing projects around the city Biggie Smalls mary J. Blige etc.
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what talent is that? I haven't heard of either. Why would anyone with half a brain aspire to live in the projects? |
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11-22-2008, 10:04 AM
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Location: Bronx, NY
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Yeah, Biggie wasn't from no project.
Jay-Z is from Marcy.
Fat Joe is from Forrest.
Mobb Deep from Queensbridge.
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11-22-2008, 10:43 AM
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Back Again?
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Bronx, NY
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Originally Posted by SuperMario
Yeah, Biggie wasn't from no project.
Jay-Z is from Marcy.
Fat Joe is from Forrest.
Mobb Deep from Queensbridge.
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Welcome back SuperMario.
As for projects I keep my a** out. So I don't know which one is the worst, nor would I like to know. |
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11-22-2008, 11:03 AM
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Location: bronx - north
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperMario
Yeah, Biggie wasn't from no project.
Jay-Z is from Marcy.
Fat Joe is from Forrest.
Mobb Deep from Queensbridge.
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Well technically, Prodigy from the mobb is actually from Hempstead, moving to the bridge only when he was 9 or 10 I think.
He says it himself on the infamous album. Regardless, the guy is ill. |
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11-22-2008, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ecraw
what talent is that? I haven't heard of either. Why would anyone with half a brain aspire to live in the projects?
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I don't think they aspire(d) to live in the projects. I believe it's about the fact that they are from the projects, and that their talent is just a fact unto itself.
I guess it's like the entertainer or athlete that comes from a situation of poverty, and thankfully he/she gets a break and is able to capitalize on this talent. |
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11-23-2008, 12:42 AM
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I ♥ Affordable Housing - NYC Mod
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: "DA VERNE" aka Arverne, NY
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Originally Posted by inspiredva
Livonia and New Lots ave is ENY. I think that's under the New Lots ave train station. The three train. I grew up in linden houses on Van siclen and Wortman. Next I moved to Cypress houses where I currently live.
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yes, the intersection of livonia and new lots ave is eny, but livonia avenue also runs through brownsville.
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11-23-2008, 08:03 AM
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Location: Long Island, NY
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I believe Hunts Point, in the Bronx, and South Jamaica are not the greatest areas. I really am not an expert on the subject though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunts_P...ocial_problems |
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03-18-2009, 04:58 PM
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Im thinking of selecting Tompkins? how are those houses, I have family in Sumner next door...
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03-18-2009, 09:26 PM
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Location: Woodside, NY
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Yes, but at the same time in the late 70's to 80's the tenements in the Bronx were worse than a 3rd world country.
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03-18-2009, 09:29 PM
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barely, and we eat lots of soup.
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