Yeah, I'm sorry. Most people don't understand anything until they've lived in a rough neighborhood. When I was a teen I had to play pick up games with ex-cons, gang members drug dealers, murderers that never got caught, the worst of the worst. These dudes were in their 20's and they would beat 14 year boys up that complained about fouls.
When I was 15 I got punched by an ex-con during a pick up game because I was on the winning team. After dude punched me he stood over me and told me that the only reason he did stomp me out with his timbs(this was back in the 90's where some dudes would go home and get their timberland boots just so they could scrap) that he had brought with him is because I was a kid. Then he told me that I should never eyeball my elders. When in reality he did what he did because his team was losing and he was mad.
So no, most people don't understand the hood. People that never lived in a bad neighborhood always want to pretend that they would be totally above it all. That they would never stoop to the level of the riffraff that surrounds them. I can tell you right now that those people are bullshitting themselves.
Hell yes a kid is better off hitting first against a kid that is going to try and swing on you. Everyone has to be ruthless on some scale at some point in the hood. I would rather sucker punch some shit head than roll with a crew of guys that are sticking up old people in a middle class neighborhood. You have to be prepared to stand up for yourself in the hood and some some heartless shit or roll with a crew. And you don't roll with a crew for free dude you gonna have to do some real dirt.
depending on where you are, it is
that's the disconnect right there.
and also, you don't see us starting up threads like "BRO. I went through some CRAZY shit back in the day like LOL". we bring it up because it happened. just like random guy brings up his story about going to a crappy bar because it happened.
And I'm not telling some 12 yr old to preemptively jump anyone that looks at him sideways either. At the same time, if a fight is GOING to happen - and that isn't a hard sign to read - then don't wait to fight with honor by letting someone bigger swing first.
"I don't condone it, but I understand"
You guys joke. When you grow up in a real bad neighborhood where people will try to run your shit if they think you're weak you would also be looking to build up you're rep. Better to scrap with a couple of guys and have people think twice about trying to son you than to join a gang where they would make you do some real terrible shit.
I feel no remorse for sucker punching and beating some guys ass that was trying to son me and probably would have tried to run my shit if I backed down. In the hood dudes will beat your ass and make you walk home in your underwear if you let them step up to you and you do nothing. Backing down might be an option for some of you based on where you live, but it isn't an option for everyone. If you live in the hood you're going to have to throw down at some point.
The only way you can avoid fighting is if you never leave your house. And by never leaving that would mean being home schooled.
You're out of touch. The bully rule in a much better area means that other kids in school will pick on you. The bully rule in a shitty neighborhood means that you become a target for people twice your age and that a goon will just sit at your bus stop waiting for you to get off to get a quick easy buck from a well known bitch.i dunno about individuals on this thread but thats the point i think most people are making here.
Lets not act like most beat downs and sometimes murders in the hood are not cuz of same petty Bullshit as in some white neighborhoods. The only difference is in the hood, people dont talk, people dont report, people dont care and people are poor. The Bully rule is the same everywhere.
Guarantee you if this bitch knocked on the door and 2 Girls opened it, we would not have a video to make a thread about, or maybe seen some other situation. Everything i've been through, people i know be through shooting and beatdowns i've seen were mostly from the same petty reasons.
Never gotten a beatdown for alot of reasons, but I can tell you can stay "Above It all" alot of ways.
It is a different world. I went to school with kids whose parents were both criminals. Those parents push their kids to be ruthless. Just like you have parents that want their kids to do well in school, their are parents that think doing well is being a fucking criminal that doesn't show weakness. Most of the teachers that have to deal with these type of kids aren't going to help you because they're scared of the kids too.Sounds like a stressful place to live. It feels like a game of king of the hill only more twisted.
This world is completely foreign to me. Growing up, I got respect and reputation in my neighborhood by mowing lawns, helping the older folks in the area and working hard. Now I know why my parents raised me in the midwest burbs.
I may not. I've always been a very large and very white person and while my little backwater town I grew up in was fucked up in the redneck hick meets hispanic norteno way, I never had to defend myself preemptively out of fear.
Don't let me stop you from telling stories. God knows you (DY and Chars and Mammoth) know better than me how fucked it is.
I just lashed out because I'm tired of the glorification of violence.
You're out of touch. The bully rule in a much better area means that other kids in school will pick on you. The bully rule in a shitty neighborhood means that you become a target for people twice your age and that a goon will just sit at your bus stop waiting for you to get off to get a quick easy buck from a well known bitch.
Staying above it all doesn't mean that grown ass men will all of a sudden not go to a middle school and start a fucking brawl in the parking lot.
It is a different world. I went to school with kids whose parents were both criminals. Those parents push their kids to be ruthless. Just like you have parents that want their kids to do well in school, their are parents that think doing well is being a fucking criminal that doesn't show weakness. Most of the teachers that have to deal with these type of kids aren't going to help you because they're scared of the kids too.
Honestly I grew up pretty sheltered but just listened to what I was being told and saw some of the places for myself on occasion. Richmond is not a place to get lost in, ever. You read about and recognized the Guy Code right? Imagine the Guy Code to its most extremes with violence at the core. If you don't put yourself on the top rungs you're getting the shit beat out of you constantly. And even being near the top of the totem pole doesn't guarantee safety because someone can just shoot you without provocation. And the exceptional people who say "hold up this is wrong", sometimes end up dead. This is not an exaggeration but a reality. If you are living in this constant fear, you will not come at most situations with a "let's talk about this" rational mind. All you know see and hear is violence and that's how you maintain a sense of self, and a sense of security however small.
When you act like the bullies or those who incite violence are not part of a larger problem, you get to just brush the issue aside and let it continue. You allow the assholes of the world who want to continue to view these people as animals rather than products (and people) of shitty economic plights and systematic racism do so with compunction. Everyone in that situation is a victim, not all of the victims are equivalent mind you, but there are no winners only losers.
The only problem I have with WSHH is the glorification and romanticism of violence.
Sucker punching someone because they call you a pussy isn't excusable as normal human behavior. It's just a symptom though, I know.
Dude who the heck is arguing with you about that point? Everyone is agreeing with you. We need that Jim Carrey gif right about now.
Being able to ignore certain things is a privilege that way too many people take for granted.
I would love to have been able to ignore some of the shit that I grew up around. Looking the other way is great until you're the neighborhood pussy and everyone who wants to boost their own ego just comes up to you whenever they need the morale boost.
Grow up in a fucked neighborhood, try and take a high road for a month or two... see where that gets you.
Yeah - in sane environments.
How about you just be happy about where you grew up? Some people had much tougher roads filled with a lot more bullshit that doesn't confine itself to your "right and wrong". You've never seen what its like to be the bitch in a community filled with people who aspire to be drug dealers and gang members. I've watched kids get mugged on a basketball court then have to walk home naked.
The high road doesn't go hand in hand with surviving in a gutter.
Black people aren't individuals WE ARE THE COLLECTIVE.I think the fact that a video of a black person looking bad as being representative of black people is showing some horrific racial bias on your part. When a white/asian/etc behaves horribly on a youtube video is there ANY mention of their race and how it makes their race look terrible?
No.
The fact that it magically does for blacks shows some deep seeded pre-judging going on.
I'm not your fucking Ambassador to Black people. Nor is anyone else. Anyone you see on TV/Youtube/WSHH/News...etc
Blame the individual. Hold the individual accountable.
In the end you were willing to resort to violence though and had physical confrontations. I also didn't go looking for trouble, but I wasn't as honorable as you were. I didn't wait for the guy to swing. If I thought someone was trying to pop off on me I would strike at any opening that I was given. So if I could bait a guy to step close to me attempt to say something I would steal his ass no problem. Dude wants to try and start a shoving match? Act like I'm going to play along and steal his ass. Why should I fight on some other dude's terms? Better off striking first and going for the kill. We aren't sparing or taking part in some sport. there's no rule that says I have to wait for someone to start swinging or that I shouldn't swing on a guy that's dumb enough to start shit then not pay attention.I did grow up in rough hood (it probably still is a shithole). I lived on a street that had numerous drive-by shootings. There were several competing gangs fighting on an area less than a few miles. People talked trash I ignored them. A group tried to jump me in a school bathroom, they started swinging, I went for the leader and put his face in the mirror..... repeatedly.
The school went easy on me because I claimed self defense (very short suspension) but people got the message in school. A few other kids and I had the same reputation. You could talk trash but if you tried to fight any one of us (especially jump) we were going to do our best to make sure at least one of the attackers, had trouble getting up after the fight was over. If they could get up at all.
I took last resort to heart, but if it went that far I had no qualms about trying to hurt someone as much as possible.
EDIT: Just to clarify, most of the schools I went to in south florida had a bad rep. But there are things, you simply don't have to accept. Rejecting the mentality of jumping first doesn't mean that you are a weaker person or people will understand you are less of a threat. After something happens, just make sure people get the point that you will finish anything that is started.
What's with with World Star Hip Hop?
Serious question, why do you guys have to have a warning for it in the title?
I'm curious about this as well (I've never even heard of the site until today)
Got DAMN! That was brutal.
In the end you were willing to resort to violence though and had physical confrontations. I also didn't go looking for trouble, but I wasn't as honorable as you were. I didn't wait for the guy to swing. If I thought someone was trying to pop off on me I would strike at any opening that I was given. So if I could bait a guy to step close to me attempt to say something I would steal his ass no problem. Dude wants to try and start a shoving match? Act like I'm going to play along and steal his ass. Why should I fight on some other dude's terms? Better off striking first and going for the kill. We aren't sparing or taking part in some sport. there's no rule that says I have to wait for someone to start swinging or that I shouldn't swing on a guy that's dumb enough to start shit then not pay attention.
Let me put it like this. I saw a guy's entire jaw blown off from Syria on liveleaks. By one of the syrian military, shot him right in the mouth. Liveleaks is a plethora of different shit. Violence is violence, yes. But that site has it from all over the damn world dude.
Youtube has rebecca black, poor as white kids fighting, blacks fighting, hockey fights, pop music videos, sports videos, and every other video imaginable.
WSHH is called World Star Hip Hop. People already have such a bad image of rap, when your site is called World Star Hip Hop and it just so happens that a MAJOR pull for the site's ad revenue is because people frequent the site because of these fight videos, yes I think it's very fair to say this can make the black community look bad.
Again when you have Hip Hop in your URL, and the site is best known for the fight videos it has (of poor black folks most of the time it seems), I don't think it's beyond reason to assume people will think it makes black folks look bad. The real truth is no community is like this in reality but it paints a bad image. I love Rap personally, but I sure as hell don't go to world star hip hop to listen to music.
And that's only acceptable if you believe it's acceptable to judge an entire race based off of the actions of a small amount of individuals. Which is made MUCH easier if you come from a background of having never personally interacted with them in the first place. We're not all what you see on WSHH/Fox News/BET/Youtube...etc
The burden is on them to cast aside their prejudice and judge the individual. Prejudice of any kind should NEVER be acceptable and it's pretty fucking disgusting that you'd think that WSHH needs to stop "making black people look bad" as opposed to people needing to stop judging the entirety of blackdom off of the occasional douchebag internet video.
We're not a fucking collective.
You didn't argue any of the individual reasons I gave for that notion, instead you just got more angry and defensive. You have to judge the individual, I agree. But you also need to realize the reality that people are going to think this. I am not calling black people a collective for gods sake, so over dramatic.
"Prejudice of any kind should NEVER be acceptable and it's pretty fucking disgusting that you'd think that WSHH needs to stop "making black people look bad" as opposed to people needing to stop judging the entirety of blackdom off of the occasional douchebag internet video."
It's not the occasional douche bag internet video, it is a constant stream of uploaded videos featuring mainly poor black people fighting. This is not some rarity, WSHH constantly has new videos of the above uploaded and served daily. Hell you hear the people watching the fights constantly saying "WORLD STAR HIP HOP". This is not really argueable.
So WSHH bares zero accountability for continually posting poor people fighting, who happen to be black. Yes it's the individuals in those video's faults to begin with, but the website is profiting off this. And while doing so, making everyone look bad. It just happens that most of the fights are of black folks. It's not disgusting that I am stating reality. For god sakes man, sometimes people have to take responsibility. Meaning the website should realize what it's doing, they probably do and just don't give a fuck.
And just so you stop with the drama, I do not think black people are bad or all fight like this. This just does not help ANYONES image.
Classy, I never said once it's up to you or black people. And you specifically said you are tired of all the WSHH hate compared to liveleak and youtube.
But ya call my opinion disgusting and don't argue anything specifically. Generalize everything I said to fit your world view, whatever works for you. Cheers.
I get what you're saying Riggs, but are you not generalizing by stating that "This makes black people look bad"? or that ethnic groups would view black people as such? How can you know for sure either way?
The reason Mammoth Jones is saying those things is because it is incredibly hurtful and something that black people have to face all the time. You, we, are never responsible for our actions or viewed as individuals. Everyone expects us to act, dress and talk a certain way. It's very damaging and ignorant to see a singular websites video's as something that could possibly represent an entire group of people. We are not a political party or something. We're individual people.
Riggs, the discussion will go better, if you stop speaking to what "people" will think, and just bring your own view. If you feel it makes black people look bad (going to be hard to argue that you don't at this point), just say it.
Also, referring to the black people you see on WSHH as poor is eventually going to bother someone.
It is a different world. I went to school with kids whose parents were both criminals. Those parents push their kids to be ruthless. Just like you have parents that want their kids to do well in school, their are parents that think doing well is being a fucking criminal that doesn't show weakness. Most of the teachers that have to deal with these type of kids aren't going to help you because they're scared of the kids too.
"By the way I LOVE fight videos but WSHH is a joke. It makes black people look bad as a community to your normal white person who understands what WSHH is. I am white, I am not fucking racist, but it's the truth. I know better and there is white fights on there too. But most of it's black and does not further any positivity. There is something inherently different about WSHH to me, when I hear a guy say in the background "this goin on world star hip hop" it makes me cringe."
My first comment. I am not some closet racist, if I had a problem with black's I would say it. I am not a pussy. I am actually capable of viewing things from more then one viewpoint. On one hand, yep it makes black people look bad. On the other I know I cannot group an entire race of people into 1 thought group based off WSHH or anything else for that matter.
It's not impossible to view things from more then one point of view, not everything is black and white (no horrible pun intended).
As far as your comment about me saying they are poor, sorry dude look at the people fighting on these video's they are not exactly fighting in the suburbs. Jesus christ. Most of the videos are ghetto ass brawls ...
The fact remains the site is a cesspool and it does nothing to shed a positive light on blacks, or any race. But in this case considering Hip Hop is predominantly performed by Blacks .... I don't think it's an insane reach to equate that this site could possibly be making black people look bad. Again before all the outrage, read what I just wrote in my first paragraph. I know you cannot group an entire race of people like that, but you have to at least see where I am coming from. I certainly see what you are all saying ...
Ironically, I feel the same way. It "makes black people look bad" but that's because of the mindset I have whereby people always say "Black people". Sucks big-time.