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3001451, nieghborhoods you know used in songs
Posted by mistermaxxx08, Sun Feb-11-18 09:07 PM
ever hear a song where an artist mentions or says an area or place you been or lived and thought ding ding that is around my way?
3001479, The Bristol Hotel - "where dat at?"
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-12-18 02:14 PM
"Jamaica Queens!!!!!!!!"
3001480, "Baisley, Merrick -Queens wack? step back, I don't want to hear it "
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-12-18 02:17 PM
I'm from...

SOUTHSIDE!!!!! SOUTHSIDE!!!!
3001481, "kings from Queens, from Queens come kings...."
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-12-18 02:18 PM
we're raisin' hell like a class when the school bell rings
3001482, "stay away from Crown because I ain't no criminal"
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-12-18 02:20 PM
(Born in Brooklyn, but spent several years - different eras - in Jamaica Queens)
3001617, I thought he said "...stay away from Crime"
Posted by tully_blanchard, Thu Feb-15-18 02:03 PM

Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr
3001618, I always thought it was "Crown" - as in Crown Heights
Posted by c71, Thu Feb-15-18 02:10 PM
heh heh
3001483, "waited years for a premiere and did it from here - Harlem"
Posted by c71, Mon Feb-12-18 02:21 PM
(yup, a long history in Harlem for me too)
3001619, "Pressing my luck slanging right by the Hill Castle" (c) Yukmouth
Posted by mrhood75, Thu Feb-15-18 02:37 PM
The Hill Castle Apartments were in the Lakeside neighborhood of Oakland. Even in pre-gentrified Oakland of the mid-'90s, it was NOT a place to be selling crack. You would get busted.
3001620, "You're about as fly as Piedmont. Why you claming Oakland...
Posted by mrhood75, Thu Feb-15-18 02:42 PM
"...when you're stroking them from Fremont?" (c) Dres dissing MC Hammer.

Piedmont was a really rich neighborhood inside the Oakland city limits that basically split off and became its own city so it wouldn't have to deal with the "riff-raff." Definitely not "fly" by any stretch of the imagination.

Fremont was a suburb about 20 miles south of Oakland where Hammer bought his infamous mansion. Another way Dres was saying that Hammer wasn't real.
3001622, Did he maybe mean (now defunct) Piedmont Air?
Posted by Overqualified, Thu Feb-15-18 03:17 PM
3001627, I’m from the berry, roxberry, but not the fruit y’all ed o.g.
Posted by FunkyBoss, Thu Feb-15-18 04:54 PM
Sticking like them Lincolns in piedmont park - goodie mobb

And Marcus Garvey village. - Bunch of thirstin howl songs, a neighborhood within a neighborhood I guess.

3001660, Broadripple is Burning
Posted by ToeJam, Fri Feb-16-18 04:48 PM