Uptown is easy with the Diddy, Dame Dash and Nicky Barnes type flashy cats.

Brooklyn is easy too with the grimey Biggie, Boot Camp Clik type dudes.

But how do you generalize Queens cats who seem to have their own style and recognizable but I am having a hard time describing it.

What say you?

How about the Bronx?


**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

they smell like tsazkitititiii sauce

lol.. but nah I think Queens is big as shit.. imo its always been broken down by area's like QB, Jamaica etc.. different aesthetics

Them good Gotti Boys blow outs with the fades..

always thought Nas was 5'3" like Mobb Deep...

my friend was like nah, he's like 6'

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

to generalize really.

Caught between trying to be tough and from the streets (BK) while fronting like they got money(Long Island)

>Caught between trying to be tough and from the streets (BK)
>while fronting like they got money(Long Island)

lol

didn't know those 2 things were mutually exclusive.

go fig.

>Caught between trying to be tough and from the streets (BK)
>while fronting like they got money(Long Island)

rough but still stylish, slick talking and tryna hustle you, even if just for a cigarette

#QueensGetDaMoney

only new yorkers could do. being from the A, I'm not close enough to notice any distinguishing elements between boroughs.

I have no idea why I replied to this post. nothing to add.

#LongBeach

no comment on the girls

they also come off as the most 'nesty'-least likely to live on their own. thinks getting a car is more important.

this doesn't apply to all areas of course but that's my stereotype

___________________________________________________________


DJTB YOMM

Like I reluctantly got back into buying sneakers because these dudes always have fly sneakers and gear when I come around.


**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

getting fresh and cute

fulton street and grand concourse by 149th (am i right bronxies?) and 125th/village are the other borough equivalents but queens just to just seem more fancy w/ queens lol. it probably isn't but it just seems that way. especially since they seem more likely to have that disposable income b/c houses.

Music Factory turned into Metro PCS
Gertz is gone
it's a miracle the Coliseum is still standing

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150129/jamaica/jamaica-colosseum-mall-listed-for-sale-for-45-million-report

NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
I
CAN'T
DEAL!!!!!!!!!

i understand that in spite of what movies
and music videos tell me,

everybody from compton does not know gang bangers, everybody from the
middle east is not in a war torn neighborhood,
and everybody from the continent of africa
does not live in a jungle.


but if i did walk into
human relationships with an
explicit list of ridiculous assumptions
about ppl, i would generalize
that ppl from queens can get
me a good deal on whatever i want to buy
and will tell me i overpaid on
whatever i just bought.

i would also assume that if they are
somewhere other than new york,
they will complain about how something
they like in new york does not exist where
they currently are.

this person would be tolerable if they
are in new york, but an obnoxious bore
when they talk about how awesome
new york is to folks in other
parts of the country.





>Uptown is easy with the Diddy, Dame Dash and Nicky Barnes
>type flashy cats.
>
>Brooklyn is easy too with the grimey Biggie, Boot Camp Clik
>type dudes.
>
>But how do you generalize Queens cats who seem to have their
>own style and recognizable but I am having a hard time
>describing it.
>
>What say you?
>
>How about the Bronx?
>
>
>**********
>"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then
>they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson
>
>
>"One of the most important things in life is what Judge
>Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to
>whether you're

http://25.media.tumblr.com/51e87cc7bb9073f502c5b86365b8d0ba/tumblr_mlxakp15K61s0pj15o1_400.gif

**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

he basically called queens a borough of penny pinching immigrants

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/01/06/will_flushings_thousands_of_new_condos_all_look_this_bad.php

and Lefrak will still be standing

if you're gonna ask me what our signature look is...
I'd venture to tell you we have no one look
we're far too international for that
even when other people tell me who they think of when they think of Queens
it's usually beautiful women of different backgrounds.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/literock969.com/files/2014/03/Eye-roll-liz-lemon.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fc/aa/f5/fcaaf5398dd9edefc0b88e7549877706.jpg

I don't think of no DAMN beautiful women when I think of Queens. Queens doesn't really have a style really. It's more of a mish mosh of the flash of Manhattan and the grit of Brooklyn. Sort of a happy medium.

is very real.
I'll take that over the hipster rep that's been imposed on Brooklyn these days *shrug*

but don't make me come up in here with all that good visceral Queens hate in my heart

*takes another sip*


"i wanna hug all u idiotic bastards & then set you all on fire" -Bin

www.twitter.com/bedstuybetty
http://bedstuybetty.tumblr.com/
DROkayplayer: Giving you good puff since May '05

they trying it with Queens now
NOAP
NOT here for dis!

>if you're gonna ask me what our signature look is...
>I'd venture to tell you we have no one look
>we're far too international for that
>even when other people tell me who they think of when they
>think of Queens
>it's usually beautiful women of different backgrounds.



Let my love slide in and never slip out

no matter which part of queens they from
this is my observation as someone who spent a good portion
of my childhood and teenhood in queens

cant really call it with the dudes lol

the guys too to an extent. especially the ones w/ cars

but u live at home though.
can't do shit in a car but drive

you can do a whole lot in your own crib

I AM NOT THE ONLY TOMBOY OUTCHEA
MY LIL E-FEELINGS IS HURT.

i include myself in this btw
im a lil rough around the edges but its some things im bougie about
lol

and you spent it a good portion in an area that I'm not really familiar with at all (Far Rock) so I can't call that one
I don't know how to explain this but I'm gonna try
you see different levels of middle class in Queens
to me the bougieness comes into play in the middle class areas
I can see where you're coming from in certain hoods:
St. Albans
Cambria
Hollis
Forest Hills
oh yes definitely
I was the rare person who cared more about moving out of my mom's crib over getting a car.

but Southside, Ridgewood, QB?
no time for that
and Flushing is too fucking dirty to be on some bougie shit

and most of the (black) kids i knew were from mad diff places around queens: jamaica, hollis, laurelton, st albans, jackson heights, flushing, ozone park, etc
all bougie in their own way compared to other boro girls hell even a lil more bougie than rockland girls and rockland is the suburbs

>and most of the (black) kids i knew were from mad diff places
>around queens: jamaica, hollis, laurelton, st albans, jackson
>heights, flushing, ozone park, etc
>all bougie in their own way compared to other boro girls hell
>even a lil more bougie than rockland girls and rockland is the
>suburbs

those hoods were the ones I was referring to
yeah I definitely see it out there
I have a homegirl who stays out in Cambria
i love her to death but her friends?
o_O
in thinking about this post some more last night
I really think it's a new money/old money thing because growing up in Forest Hills, you didn't see the kind of flashing/bragging that you saw in say Laurelton. Girls would come to school with relatively recent model Lexuses, Beemers on some "oh that old thing? my parents just got a new car so I got the old one" and shrug it off.
Let it be a girl from Jamaica Estates or Cambria tho :(

The same mobility that led Queens to be the only county in the mid 2000s in the US where Black people had a higher median income than White people also helped mold that kind of bougie mentality I think.

Even me personally, I have both bougie and ratchet tendencies but I lean more towards ratchet because that's how I grew up and that's what I'm most comfortable with even with my mom moving us to Forest Hills and working her way up the corporate ladder throughout my childhood. Even living in a neighborhood with old money, I grew up so broke that I couldn't stunt on anybody even if I wanted to. This post has been enlightening for sure because this is the first that I've ever heard Queens girls EVER be categorized as bougie. No one I was close to coming up would ever be classified as bougie but I don't gravitate to people with that mentality to begin with.

Every Queens girl I know is stuckup a bit.

as much as I defend the X and you on this too???

Because it really isn't that serious. It will never ever be that serious. So calm down.

And honestly speaking, you didn't even come to mind when I made that comment. It was said in good fun. Anyone taking comments in this thread seriously needs to step away from the computer a bit and experience real life.

And for the record and so we're clear: please know that you don't EVER have to defend me or where I lay my head. Ever.

Somebody please let me know if we're not still commenting on an online message board. Because it REALLY ain't that serious, ma.

you weren't the only person I joked around with in this post
if we had real beef, trust me, you would already know it
I have no serious issues on my end if you don't
I just know not to joke with you like that again.

no harm, no foul.

___________________________________________________________


DJTB YOMM

~~~~
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

*stands on soapbox*




*waits with arms crossed*


I'm just waiting for the darts


"i wanna hug all u idiotic bastards & then set you all on fire" -Bin

www.twitter.com/bedstuybetty
http://bedstuybetty.tumblr.com/
DROkayplayer: Giving you good puff since May '05

you did it to yourself sis

We are some stylish cats who don't get all brolic, but we will scrap with the best of them. BK was always the rough side while Queens was smooth. The Foundation!

We had Hip Hop tho- from Run DMC to Salt-n-Pepa to Nas and (sigh) Nikki Minaj...

but for the place itself i noticed everything and everyone had a piss tint color to em. It was as if there was a filter on everything that was slightly yellow tinged...

don't know why.

I don't agree or disagree, but I applaud the creative hatred displayed here. Gave me a nice end of workday chuckle at my miserable desk here. Well played.

~~~~
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

just something I noticed. maybe its the artist eye in me. sometimes certain things register in hues to me.

but yeah. it was certainly piss colored.

Manhattan is was a greenish blue.

brooklyn was a dull burgandy.

queens was piss colored.

>just something I noticed. maybe its the artist eye in me.
>sometimes certain things register in hues to me.
>
>but yeah. it was certainly piss colored.
>
>Manhattan is was a greenish blue.
>
>brooklyn was a dull burgandy.
>
>queens was piss colored.

no...no hate
just not bloody burgundy
or dishwater greenish blue
just piss colored not yellow
sure guy
its the "artist" (asshole) in you
~~~~
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

if is fair to assume people from Queens are sensitive to folks not from Queens speaking about Queens?


Rabble rabble, rouse rouse?

then it got stupid
~~~~
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

wha...
~~~~
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.

This coming from a lifelong New Englander

The way he talks and acts reminds me of a ton of cats I grew up around on the NH/MA border

that's all I saw on Jamaica Ave/Van Wyck area

the last time I was up top years ago I stayed in Forest Hills and that was ok, a lot of Hasids sprinkled with others.

just full of immigrants.

>just full of immigrants.

**********
"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson


"One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're

It felt different in Queens. Like I was intruding. In my own country.

I stayed in Flushing my last time out there - that's a whole other level of Chinatown right there.

the Flushing my parents grew up in was much more balanced in terms of diversity but it was also a bad neighborhood. The block my mom grew up (Sanford Ave between College Point Boulevard and Frame Place) was infamous in her time, you couldn't walk down that block unless you were from there.
the Asians didn't start visibly taking over until the mid 90s, by the time the mid 2000s hit they took over everything.
I've learned to live with them peacefully, Asians generally only start trouble with their own. Plus I really can't complain about the variety of produce just a hop, skip and jump away from my door plus the prices, they got it 4 cheap!

now IM getting irritated

~~~~
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. Live so that when you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
~~~~
You cannot hate people for their own good.