I've never been impressed with gangbangers, especially the neuvo-hard whiteboy types. I live out in the burbs now, with guys in old Chevy pickup trucks with "REDNECK" stickers on them, blaring that "screwed/chopped" rap. For those of you who haven't heard this marvel of audio presentation, it's where they slow the original rap down so slow that it drags. It's very popular among the codeine/cough syrup abusing crowd, I hear. I still don't understand why any self respecting redneck would be into that. It's even more amusing to hear them talk about thier "hood" or "ghetto." It has never ceased to amaze me how people who have never been to the ghetto romanticize it. It's not fun, and it sure as hell isn't a great place to hang out.
I got bussed into one of the worst ghettos in Houston (South Park) to go to Jesse H. Jones Magnet program, located at the Corner of MLK Blvd. and St. Lo. As Chris Rock says, anytime you find yourself on MLK, "RUN!!!" The school was 99.9% black (they literally HAD to bus white/hispanic/asian kids in to meet racial quotas for the school) and I NEVER had a problem there. We had 4 homicides on or near school grounds my freshman year. People left me alone. But back in my rural hometown, I got threatened by some white boy who thought he was a gangsta and told me he was going to shoot me. I got beat by 12 black kids walking home the last day of school because I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I had been sent back to my home school district because I failed a class, though I went back to the magnet program the next year.
These gangbangers talk about "putting in work" and "earning stripes." Well, if you want stripes, take your ass to the service and enlist. The only good gangbanger is either reformed or dead.
God Bless Texas