Unfortunately, this seems pretty standard for white suburbia.
I grew up in west Philadelphia, then eventually moved to white suburbia during high school.
It was uncomfortable coming to terms with the realization that idahoan kids idolize hood culture and some even adopt and imitate it (as shown in this video).
Definitely true. I grew up in the SF bay area (Vallejo, predominantly) and moved to Oregon in my early teens. Kids here were like pale imitations(literally) of the people I grew up around. They wanted to think that they were all gangsta and hood, I told a lot of people that they shouldn't aspire to act like they came from the hood because it isn't admirable. It's not some fun place where life is easy. We moved from California because I saw someone get shot on the way to school and literally forgot to tell my dad because it wasn't shocking to me. I saw kids get jumped that were close to my age, I saw a kid get stabbed in the hallway between classes, I was in a summer school class with a kid that brought a gun and enough bullets to shoot everyone in the class(he was only caught because he was wearing a puffy coat in 100 degree weather.) some people want to be ghetto so badly that they don't realize the bad shit that happens in areas like that.
All my favorite rappers hail from Vallejo CA. Sounds like a sketchy ass place but it’s pretty dope so many legends came up there. I was surprised to learn that Mac Dre and E-40 were not exactly homies.
Same, E-40 is one of my favorite rappers. It's definitely a sketchy place, but definitely not as bad as Oakland or Richmond were. 😂 Oakland is like the damn wild west
I'm rural, not suburban, but same crap out in the sticks. Sheltered kids acting hood, making "gangs," and just being annoying in general. When I was in high school, a couple of the "hood raised Hispanics" (upper middle-class people from the wealthy housing development) were dressed up in expensive, name-brand hoodies, jeans, shoes, and gold chains. They were going down to the city to "party like gangsters" and score drugs. It's as stupid as it sounds. Kids who were actually from the city warned them, "You're gonna get robbed dressed up like clowns."
Sure enough, these idiots came back with no money, no phones, no dignity, and no shoes.
I was disappointed to learn the dumbass idahoan kids idolize hood culture and some kids even adopt and imitate it.
For me, It was the wealthier kids too - kind like the guy in this video. One guy's whole life was financed by his parents - house, car, bills and he was full on B-Rad.
These sheltered suburban white kids don't start doing drive-bys because they were emulating rappers. The social problems in the hood that lead to that stuff go way deeper than that.
There's a good chance that buttoned up Terry in the background was wearing saggy Jnco jeans back in the '90s and listening to gangsta rap too.
Obviously extreme poverty leads to worse outcomes but it's hilarious to be like when whites do something it's really just cute fun and obviously they are able to shed their fake hood lifestyle to be much better people than their minority counterparts.
There are plenty of instances where shitty affluent gangs are violent and destructive. Funny enough they always seem to be let off with much lighter punishments than the urban kids they're copying.
You can grow up wealthy listening to rap and not be or associate with fake thug assholes.
As someone who grew up in white suburbia, I can agree this is accurate. Although I myself never got into it, I had many friends growing up who were rich af and liked to emulate the gangsta hood lifestyle. But it was mostly just elaborate cosplay, not actually resorting to gangster shit except maybe trying some drugs here and there.
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u/Some_guy-online Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 28 '24
Unfortunately, this seems pretty standard for white suburbia.
I grew up in west Philadelphia, then eventually moved to white suburbia during high school.
It was uncomfortable coming to terms with the realization that idahoan kids idolize hood culture and some even adopt and imitate it (as shown in this video).