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GAF-Hop |OT9/9/99| African Substitute Teachers Run NY

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siddx

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filler said:
plug tonight?



ps. siddx is going to become the real life version of that guy from Only God Forgives:
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haha, I actually asked around with some of my friends who work at bars here and know more about how shit works here and they all said if I walked in there and punched dude in the face, the cops probably wouldn't get called because anyone with even a tiny sliver of common sense never ever wants the cops involved here. The only people who win when cops get involved are the cops themselves as they walk away richer from bribes.
I went to the opening of a new bar/club last year and they had a band playing. Within 5 minutes of the doors opening two cops showed up to "shut it down because they didn't have a 'special permit' to have live bands." After the bribes were paid, another two cops showed up 10 minutes later to run the same scheme. By the time the 10th cop showed up, the club had had enough and just ended the live band's show early before they lost every dime they had made that night trying to pay off every cop in town.
Apparently it's a really common racket that both the cops and the mafia run here. Demanding a "fine" for not having the right permit for a live band. One bar near me run by an Aussie who was kind of a prick with an attitude refused to play ball and both the cops and the mafia blacklisted his bar and nearly put him out of business because nobody would go there anymore. They also threatened his employees until most quit. Finally dude gave in and paid his bribes and literally the next night he had a packed bar. Gotta play the game here to get anywhere.
They also love the vague alcohol laws that allow them to collect "fines" from bars for not serving booze in the exact right way. Some bullshit like "you can't have bottle service" or "you can't serve alcohol on the second floor". People who think the cops are bad in the US really have no idea. It's like living in a country where a legal gang just makes everyone's life miserable.

On a hip hop related note, making people look at you like a insane crackhead when you start singing along to odb's brooklyn zoo at a bar is one of the great joys in life. Trying to explain the genius of big baby jesus to a vietnamese girl with barely any english ability is amazing.

Sorry, im drunk and babbling at 6 in the morning after being up all night.
 
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filler

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siddx said:
haha, I actually asked around with some of my friends who work at bars here and know more about how shit works here and they all said if I walked in there and punched dude in the face, the cops probably wouldn't get called because anyone with even a tiny sliver of common sense never ever wants the cops involved here. The only people who win when cops get involved are the cops themselves as they walk away richer from bribes.
I went to the opening of a new bar/club last year and they had a band playing. Within 5 minutes of the doors opening two cops showed up to "shut it down because they didn't have a 'special permit' to have live bands." After the bribes were paid, another two cops showed up 10 minutes later to run the same scheme. By the time the 10th cop showed up, the club had had enough and just ended the live band's show early before they lost every dime they had made that night trying to pay off every cop in town.
Apparently it's a really common racket that both the cops and the mafia run here. Demanding a "fine" for not having the right permit for a live band. One bar near me run by an Aussie who was kind of a prick with an attitude refused to play ball and both the cops and the mafia blacklisted his bar and nearly put him out of business because nobody would go there anymore. They also threatened his employees until most quit. Finally dude gave in and paid his bribes and literally the next night he had a packed bar. Gotta play the game here to get anywhere.
They also love the vague alcohol laws that allow them to collect "fines" from bars for not serving booze in the exact right way. Some bullshit like "you can't have bottle service" or "you can't serve alcohol on the second floor". People who think the cops are bad in the US really have no idea. It's like living in a country where a legal gang just makes everyone's life miserable.

On a hip hop related note, making people look at you like a insane crackhead when you start singing along to odb's brooklyn zoo at a bar is one of the great joys in life. Trying to explain the genius of big baby jesus to a vietnamese girl with barely any english ability is amazing.

Sorry, im drunk and babbling at 6 in the morning after being up all night.
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Chop their arms off, all of them.
 
IrishNinja

IrishNinja

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to G or not to G, is the question
and like smith told wesson, i'm
shady with the three eighty-oh school diploma/i'll leave that ass in a coma

man this place aint the same without tokus
 
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siddx

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filler said:
Chop their arms off, all of them.
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That actually reminds me, the mafia here is quite fond of punishing bar owners who cross them by trying to hack off their arms with a machete. Almost never actually happens since you need to really go at an arm to cut it off, but there have been a few incidents where dudes got sliced up.
A few years ago some poor woman on a motorbike had her hand chopped off though when some assholes wanted to steal her bike late at night. The only thing worse than the cops here are the thieves. Thieving in general really pisses me off, motherfuckers who dont want to earn their own shit and would rather steal are complete pieces of shit. But they are ten times worse here because they almost always target only women, they drive by on motorbikes so they don't have to actually face the person they are stealing from. They often end up dragging these poor women down the street, seriously injuring them. I've had three different women suffer attempted purse snatching late at night while walking home with me. They failed to get their purse every time, because they aren't just cowards but also incompetent fuckheads who are weaker than an 8 year old girl. In every instance my drunk ass ended up chasing after them like an idiot while screaming obscenities and begging them to come back and face me man to man. Only to realize my stupid ass isn't going to catch up to a motorbike, and there is no way in hell their bitchasses would turn around and face an angry white guy twice their size who looks like a drunken buffalo flailing down the street.

Shit sorry again for babbling. I'm damn near delirious right now and I am enjoying the "sound" of my own voice as I go on a diatribe.
 
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Suburban_Nooblet

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siddx said:
That actually reminds me, the mafia here is quite fond of punishing bar owners who cross them by trying to hack off their arms with a machete. Almost never actually happens since you need to really go at an arm to cut it off, but there have been a few incidents where dudes got sliced up.
A few years ago some poor woman on a motorbike had her hand chopped off though when some assholes wanted to steal her bike late at night. The only thing worse than the cops here are the thieves. Thieving in general really pisses me off, motherfuckers who dont want to earn their own shit and would rather steal are complete pieces of shit. But they are ten times worse here because they almost always target only women, they drive by on motorbikes so they don't have to actually face the person they are stealing from. They often end up dragging these poor women down the street, seriously injuring them. I've had three different women suffer attempted purse snatching late at night while walking home with me. They failed to get their purse every time, because they aren't just cowards but also incompetent fuckheads who are weaker than an 8 year old girl. In every instance my drunk ass ended up chasing after them like an idiot while screaming obscenities and begging them to come back and face me man to man. Only to realize my stupid ass isn't going to catch up to a motorbike, and there is no way in hell their bitchasses would turn around and face an angry white guy twice their size who looks like a drunken buffalo flailing down the street.

Shit sorry again for babbling. I'm damn near delirious right now and I am enjoying the "sound" of my own voice as I go on a diatribe.
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You are seriously turning up aren't you? I'm proud of ya to say the least.
 
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CRS

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Killer Mike: Life Advice

"Don't have ambitions that are too high. Like it's weird to me when young black guys always say 'I'm going to be like Jay-Z.' No you're not cause there are 15 other black guys around Jay-Z who can't be Jay-Z."

haha.

No much truth in that video.
 
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PhoenixDark

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enzo_gt said:
Chance The Rapper - Social Experiment.
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Just dope shit. Not waiting for a label to do everything for him, not complaining about sales, just going out there and doing shit. Very impressive execution on his part, and his team.

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enzo_gt

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PhoenixDark said:
Just dope shit. Not waiting for a label to do everything for him, not complaining about sales, just going out there and doing shit. Very impressive execution on his part, and his team.

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I gained a LOT of respect for dude after listening to him talk on Real Late with Rosenberg. Setting up his own company in the right state, how he bought his RV and everything.

Nipsey Hussle too from his Breakfast Club appearance. These dudes have their business shit together and aren't throwing stones at other houses. No time when you're building your own.
 
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Jay Sosa

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has anyone an idea if the tripolar album by zro...mcd..whatever is an official release by him? meaning does that money go into his pockets or Jprinces? after the shit they pulled im not gonna support those assholes.
 
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Detox

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/15/macklemore-grammys-hip-hop-rap-stigma

At his core, Macklemore is a rapper, and a pretty good one at that. He's also a hard-working MC who has hustled for close to a decade to get where he is now, setting the stage for wildly successful (and rich) independent musicians going forward. However, thanks to anti-hip-hop posturing and shallow-minded generalizations, Macklemore is being used as an example of ground-breaking "civility" for rap. A pseudo-gentrification that undermines decades of artistry hip-hop culture has provided.
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It'll be interesting if he takes home the album of the year Grammy.
 
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PlayDat

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I just listened to Acid Rap for the first time today actually. Surprised how much I liked it.

I've seen Chance perform already too. I saw him open for Joey Badass and the rest of Pro Era back in April. That was my first time ever hearing of him but he already had a decent number of fans in the crowd. Never would have thought he'd get so big but I'm bad at predicting this sort of thing.

Joey wasn't all that though. They showed up super late (par for the course for raps shows I'm learning), only did maybe 3 songs off 1999 and he let his weed carries take over for the rest of the night. The concert was free so I didn't feel too bad about going.
 
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HiResDes

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PhoenixDark said:
It's the Larry Bird effect basically. I really think we're about to see a wave of similar white rappers and pop stars with a more anti-consumerism angle mixed with social commentary. We see the bubbling of it with Lorde and Macklemore.
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Which is why I found Lorde's collaboration with Rick Ross to be all the more puzzling
 
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Cudder

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Cudder

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is that a baskin robbins wrapper around the cone? fucking kanye, empowering the big ice cream corporations instead of some local shop.
 
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wenis

Registered for GAF on September 11, 2001.
Esch said:
nah. im pretty creeped out by dudes aged 25-50 counting down the days till they can have sex with someone without going to prison
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keep that shit to yourself like every other red blooded american looking to stick their prick in anything that moves I say.
 
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Rastafarian42

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enzo_gt said:
I gained a LOT of respect for dude after listening to him talk on Real Late with Rosenberg. Setting up his own company in the right state, how he bought his RV and everything.

Nipsey Hussle too from his Breakfast Club appearance. These dudes have their business shit together and aren't throwing stones at other houses. No time when you're building your own.
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Yeah I really enjoyed both of the interviews even went to check out the Nipsey Hussle Crenshaw mixtape afterward.
 
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wenis

Registered for GAF on September 11, 2001.
oh snap, that new B.O.B.

drip drip

i know some of you are secretly excited.
 
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