1. "RE: How do you generalize people from Queens?" In response to Reply # 0 Wed Mar-25-15 12:10 PM by double 0
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
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5. "RE: Reckless drivers in riced out cars with pointy sideburns" In response to Reply # 2
Them good Gotti Boys blow outs with the fades..
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7. "Queens is Ja Rule and LL Cool J" In response to Reply # 0
Caught between trying to be tough and from the streets (BK) while fronting like they got money(Long Island)
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36. "that's how it is. weekends on the Ave was a rite of passage" In response to Reply # 27
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.
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13. "i don't, b/c a person's geographic location says nothing about them. " In response to Reply # 0
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
14. "as the only native to arrive yet" In response to Reply # 0
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.
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.
18. "Good point about Queens being too international for classification" In response to Reply # 14
>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.
29. "your experience is your experience" In response to Reply # 25
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
72. "i went to high school in bayside (cardozo)" In response to Reply # 29
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
80. "the first four hoods you named" In response to Reply # 72
>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.
64. "Whoa. You need to take it down a notch or two. For real. " In response to Reply # 49
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.
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65. "you could've just lulz'd it up with the rest of us" In response to Reply # 64
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.
~~~~ 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.
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...
51. "Don't know about the people" In response to Reply # 0
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...
53. "This is hilarious." In response to Reply # 51 Wed Mar-25-15 03:45 PM by Numba_33
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.
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75. "RE: Nah no hate...." In response to Reply # 70
>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.
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.
57. "as if i'm watching Coming to America" In response to Reply # 0
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.
78. "it wasn't always like that" In response to Reply # 68
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!
76. "Jamaica, Queens isn't named for the damn island" In response to Reply # 62
now IM getting irritated
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