>First of all, RZA got the knowledge from a Southerner,
>Clarence 13X not public school. 2nd, I'm from Mississippi and
>I learned about the 5% in 7th grade (that doesn't make you
>smarter, but if we're debating accessibility).

I never said reading that shit made you smarter, I personally find most of that shit as pointless or more so than the Catholicism I was raised with, my only point was that his point about accessibility is actually correct in terms of where those things would be available in your proximity compared to the average spot in the south.

Third I'm
>actually in Texas and they consider themselves Southerners,
>when the fuck was that ever a debate. Just quit man.
>
Blame Pimp C, not me.

But fuck it, y'all can have Texas for the purposes of that sidebar & it still wouldn't change a damn thing I said or he did.

>Dude isn't a hit dog, he isn't even a Southerner, he's just
>calling you out on nonsense.
>
>Have you been to New York?

Yeah, have you?

It's little pockets of knowledge
>amongst rampant ignorance just like everywhere else.
so your point is there's idiots everywhere? thanks, I never knew that.

are we really going to pretend like I'm going to meet & have the same opportunities in Bilouxi as I would New York City or Los Angeles in terms of the amount of different cultures/ethnicities I'll come into contact with on a regular basis, or levels of income, etc?

Just as
>many dropouts if not more than anywhere else.

percentagewise, no actually but don't let that stop you.

So let's not
>exaggerate things to fit our agenda.
>
let's not act like I pulled 8 of the 10 poorest & lowest-rated states educationally being from the South (including yours I'm pretty sure being dead last in both) out of my ass.

I don't have an agenda outside of thinking that y'all got hyped up over nothing here but if you want to take it there we can.

>>I have no problem with what he said in this clip because it
>>really is just one man's opnion with a few truths thrown in,
>>the 5% shit he was talking was/is more accessible to a New
>>Yorker than a Mississipi cat (as are lots of things, like
>>people from somewhere other than your region), and hip-hop
>did
>>'evolve' in an East Coast/West Coast/South chronoligal order
>>in terms of what area was "hot" and becoming highly
>profitable
>>for their artists....sorry.
>>
>>As for Texas being considered the South, most Texans look at
>>themselves as their own entity & see as little in common
>with
>>South Carolina or Georgia as they do Southern California.
>RIP
>>Pimp C, #kanyeshrug.
>>
>>But I'm sure they'll be happy to known your New York ass is
>>hit-dogging on their behalf & using them as an
>>exception-that-proves-the-rule example for this discussion.
>