As a rider:

Dont assumer, just cause I'm a brother, that you have to change the radio to the "urban" station. Thats kinda...iono...prejudice of you to assume that you playing Tank "When We..." is gonna help you get a 5 star rating and "Awesome Music" badge from me.

As a driver:

If you live in a gated community, please text me the gate code before I get there...or be at the gate when I get there. I will leave you...and get the 3.75 cancellation fee.

I just finished Top Boy for the second time. Please Drake, don't bring it back. Yes, I want to see how DuShane got out of that jam, but I'd much rather it be left there than for someone to screw up those awesome two seasons.








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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

It’s like they get off on hearing you call to ask for the code.

“Oh, you’re here? I don’t see the car?”

Nah bish, I’m outside the gate you ass.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

And rider one is lookin at you like..

uhhh....dude...

..yup, consider yo'self left




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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

Being a back seat driver when I clearly have GPS and in a pretty congested area with over 5000 rides sit down and stfu.

Eating in my car without permission especially smelly food.

Racist Indians and white folks (no explanation needed)

Getting in my car without saying hello.

Asking me to turn my music down when it is in the single digits because you having a trash day.

You already named listed the gate thing so I agree.

Under 18 (high school kids and many college aged)

Uber pool people who complain because someone else is being picked up(look you cheap bastard do Uber X next time.)

People who leave trash in your car.

People who try to pack more than 4 into a car.

People who play their music off the phone while you playing your music or listen to shit on their phone without head phones.

People who roll your windows down without asking.

People who travel with children without having proper seat.

People who want to bring open drinks in your car.

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(HIP HOP)
http://aquil.bandcamp.com

Ridiculous. Get a different job.

>Being a back seat driver when I clearly have GPS and in a
>pretty congested area with over 5000 rides sit down and stfu.
>
>Eating in my car without permission especially smelly food.
>
>Racist Indians and white folks (no explanation needed)
>
>Getting in my car without saying hello.
>
>Asking me to turn my music down when it is in the single
>digits because you having a trash day.
>
>You already named listed the gate thing so I agree.
>
>Under 18 (high school kids and many college aged)
>
>Uber pool people who complain because someone else is being
>picked up(look you cheap bastard do Uber X next time.)
>
>People who leave trash in your car.
>
>People who try to pack more than 4 into a car.
>
>People who play their music off the phone while you playing
>your music or listen to shit on their phone without head
>phones.
>
>People who roll your windows down without asking.
>
>People who travel with children without having proper seat.
>
>People who want to bring open drinks in your car.

and understanding I am sharing my car with you. You ask you don't just assume.

You don't come in someone's house and start opening windows nor do you do it in someone's car without asking.

Also it's a compromise on both sides bad enough I'm playing low ambient and jazz music rather than rap and political radio that grills racist ass white people.

Have some manners.

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Soundcloud.com/aquil84

(HIP HOP)
http://aquil.bandcamp.com

You're not doing me a favor... I'm paying for a service. If I want that service to include quiet and an open window, it will include that. What in the world? Yeah... you need a different job. Good luck with that, though.

>and understanding I am sharing my car with you. You ask you
>don't just assume.
>
>You don't come in someone's house and start opening windows
>nor do you do it in someone's car without asking.
>
>Also it's a compromise on both sides bad enough I'm playing
>low ambient and jazz music rather than rap and political radio
>that grills racist ass white people.
>
>Have some manners.
>

sharing my vehicle putting your smelling shedding self in my seat you ain't doing no one a favor its a service and you get what you pay for and the key word is ride SHARE not ride and do what you want without permission.

<----

Soundcloud.com/aquil84

(HIP HOP)
http://aquil.bandcamp.com

YOU are putting mileage on your car by choosing to rent you car out. But your posture on this isn't surprising. Good luck with that.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

He's literally making money, carting around strangers but has the nerve to be precious about his car?! LMAO.

and the market that is about it.

<----

Soundcloud.com/aquil84

(HIP HOP)
http://aquil.bandcamp.com

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

don't touch my radio but shit, you want to open a window WTF do I care as long as it ain't raining.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

If it's freezing outside and your fat ass is hot yes.

and I don't even mind if you open the window honestly but you ask first.

<----

Soundcloud.com/aquil84

(HIP HOP)
http://aquil.bandcamp.com

I'm good.

I do have a "thing with folk sitting in the front seat tho if the car is empty.

I'll put my backpack in the front seat as a deterrent, lol.



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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

I rather people sit in the front. I also can't stand when people sit right in back of me cause then I think you are being sneaky.

<----

Soundcloud.com/aquil84

(HIP HOP)
http://aquil.bandcamp.com

it looked like I was creeping...

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

for the most - I don’t start conversation but once I get going I won’t stop until we reach my destination.

/
recently, I gave a driver my number
nice looking gentile fella
because we were discussing business
he wanted to connect me to financial advisor he knew
I didn’t think anything of it at the time...
when he called I never responded
couldn’t help thinking he might try to kill me
sad but true...

then I had a driver tell me how she sent her son away because he was smoking weed. It took everything in me to not say, “ain’t nothing wrong with a little weed”

I be ready tho...

Drivers talking on the phone. What in the whole fuck?! I *hate* that shit. Not only is it unprofessional, but this is my time. I don't wanna hear your conversation.

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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

Either they'll be wearing an earpiece or WORSE, will have the call on speaker.

Dickheads just stop in the middle of the street, huh? Just waiting for one to actually make eye contact and say something after I've rolled past yelling insults.

Glad they put those pink signs on the cars too, so I know who to intentionally fuck with.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

and if you're driving please know 95% of the route

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Everything looks like Oprah kissing Harvey Weinstein these days

And the dude had the audacity to try to have a convo with me while going 55mph on the freeway.

That was the only non-5 star rating I have ever given

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

dude had a red cup and said "don't worry, it's not alcohol"

I said " iont give a shit, it's the reason you take an uber"

dude says "interesting"

then they proceed to talk about over time and squad cars and I'm fuming

gotdamn pigs in my car!!

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

>As a rider:
>
>Dont assumer, just cause I'm a brother, that you have to
>change the radio to the "urban" station. Thats
>kinda...iono...prejudice of you to assume that you playing
>Tank "When We..." is gonna help you get a 5 star rating and
>"Awesome Music" badge from me.

At least in L.A., I notice that 90% of the non-Black drivers just like Hip Hop anyway. I always figured they changed it because of me, but I remember one driver asking us if we wanted to change the station from the Rock he was playing, and when we said no, he said "you sure? I only had it on because I had to pick up an old couple. I prefer 92.3 (Rap Station)." It does seem suspect when it happens almost every time, though.

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But if it's the classic rock station when I open the door, and you change it to Streets 94 by the time I close the door?

C'mon man...lol

Funny thing though.I gave an older lady a ride to church and "Confessions" was on the radio...I was stuck in that "If I change the station ow, it'll be super obvious, but If I leave it on, she'll prolly be offended.." about 2 miles down the street I lost the radio signal, so I switched it to gospel station, lol.

Plus she sat in the front...and beat on the window when the turn into the church parking lot came up..lol




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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

And I'm like, no, no, don't you realize you're saving me from the usual?


One of my favorite dudes who I haven't got a ride from in a while is a dude named James whose profile looks like an early 80s R&B cover art and he'd always pick up listening to some roots reggae, dub or wild obscure R&B I took notes off of.


There was this other dude that was Pakastani and listening to a native guitarist he considered the best who'd ever lived and every two minutes he'd ask if I wanted him to turn it off, and when I'd say no he'd give me more detail about how prolific this artist was in Pakistan only to eventually ask if I wanted it off again.

I was like, no, no, anything but whatever you THINK I listen to, 'cause it's probably not.



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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

I had a driver not talk once. It made me uncomfortable because he was white and I felt like maybe he didn’t want me in his truck..

So I pull out my go to uber question...
“You like ubering?”

..then I leave it be. Not trying to start a conversation that I can't keep up in Atlanta traffic.



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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

**rollls eyes**

If the passenger starts a convo, I'm all in..

But to be on some "so, you from Atlanta? What do you do? Is your group popular? How was your weekend?"...nah..I'll leave you alone





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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

Sometimes I'm in the mood, but sometimes I'm not. It's mostly weirdo young white people that are like "oh, you WORK on the WEEKEND?" like, yea, I just said I was a bartender, the fuck would I look like NOT? Those conversations usually wind up coded with all kinds of "I guess that makes sense" and "man am I glad I own this 2014 Buick already" type statements that I've just learned to curve quickly with short, uninteresting responses.


~~~~~~~~~
"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

that’s how you end up missing.

I was FADED coming from the studio at 5AM. I had like 3 jars of medical on me and was black out.

got me back to the hotel safe.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

had to catch one this am

and he tried...and I just gave him that 'not today' look...and he stopped


5 stars

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Coolin...

If not, I shets the fuck up



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




http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

he don’t want know smoke

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Coolin...

so Baltimore

and just sit there or call and ask where you are. I get it if there's no place for them to stop but I've had it happen where they could have easily pulled right up but I have to walk a block to get to them instead.

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http://www.soundcloud.com/sectachrome

don't look at me funny.

you chose to pick up random people.

this loud gotta get from point A to point B.

IG: amadu_me

"...Whateva, man..." (c) Redman

If you have an air freshener in your car, there's a 75% chance that it's making me want to puke in your back seat.

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I live on a weird off-street that's literally a single block long, but it is connected to literally the main artery of the city. So the GPS will always be doing wild shit to drivers like making them drive two minutes past that artery just to get onto the interstate and wrap us back around to that road but fifteen blocks up the street, or randomly send us nearly a mile in the opposite direction just to catch the interstate for 45 seconds on an awkward downtown loop.

The area I live in is one of the most highly trafficked in the city, let alone off its most driven street, so I have no idea why people are so unintuitive in these moments considering it's so obvious if you've lived in this city longer than a month: going downtown? Just take the street that cuts directly through the middle of it. If I don't pay complete attention and guide every bit of the ride's first three minutes, I can get stuck waiting at an intersection without a light for ten minutes, get charged one or two dollars more than I should due to a longer ride by mileage than time, or wind up in a situation where the driver gets completely flustered when the GPS malfunctions and acts like he can't complete the ride.

TAKE A RIGHT, GO UP TWO BLOCKS, TAKE A RIGHT, TAKE A LEFT, DRIVE STRAIGHT FOR TEN MINUTES AND LET ME OUT.


Other, smaller pet peeves:

Downtown roads are still brick roads. Some drivers will refuse to go the full route because they don't want to drive their cars on brick. WHAT?

Drivers who continue to express their political beliefs even when I'm clearly not engaged. I got a full refund on the afternoon of the Womens March because this dudebro finance guy couldn't stop laughing at all the women "wasting their time" holding dumb signs in the cold.

Drivers who clearly shouldn't be driving. Got picked up on a snowy day by some girl in a rundown whatever and ended up driving me halfway around the fucking world because her car couldn't get up any hills and she wouldn't accept any input on roads she might be able to get up due to traffic or incline or whatever.

Drivers that think its weird when you want to sit in the back. For a long time I felt pressured to get in the front after so many locked back doors, "you know you can sit up here" comments and general awkwardness over sitting in back. But then I mentioned this to a friend and they said, "oh, you're part of the problem!" and now, sometimes, I get in the front but I prefer having the option.

Drivers that accept a ride and then just sit wherever they are. That shit is plain unacceptable.

Drivers that drive in silence. I get that I'm 60% more likely to get into a car with conservative talk radio, pop country or mainstream pop than anything remotely interesting, but it's far better than just sitting in silence waiting for you to say something that gives away your political beliefs or boring lifestyle anyway. Just let me know up front, passively.


~~~~~~~~~
"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

I know you're just making conversation but I know you wouldn't do that with white folks.

DO NOT ASK ME FOR MY NUMBER AT THE END. I've reported guys for that. It isn't cute and is mad unprofessional. And more than likely you're picking me up or dropping me off at my house so it is creepy as fuck.

as drivers and passengers...

“Hello how is your day/evening going?” is fine but anything beyond that is none of your business, and I don’t really need to know shit about you just take me where I need to go.


I don’t mind the radio thing, most seem to ask if I prefer a particular station or type of music I usually say no.

I generally use car rides to catch up on texting/social media etc so I’m so engrossed with my phone I don’t really care about anything else.

On that note know your fucking city! Don’t ask me for directions you got the address learn how to use a fucking GPS. And I’m not talking about oscure areas I’m talking these soccer moms from the burbs or hillbillies from the country who don’t know their way around downtown or other major areas of the city.

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