What it's like to be poor in Baltimore.

[Diode]

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/too_poor_for_pop_culture/

Great article. For anyone on here who like to fake this lifestyle, please read this man's account of his daily life and understand what you are willingly trying to emulate.

Nobody wants to be this.

[veritas]

interesting. the idea of information being class-based. never thought about it like that. seems legit.

[Sharp]

interesting article, good read.

[...the Nagger]

sounds like a normal trap spot....

[...the Nagger]

and idk about the "nobody wants to be this" line

I mean, sure. its cool to be a fake rich person like you who reneges on bets and takes honeymoons in Tahiti

but some ppl rather just chill everyday with no responsibilities.

nickle and dime, pay for a fix, drink a beer and chill

not everybody wants to be a doctor

[Diode]

and idk about the "nobody wants to be this" line

I mean, sure. its cool to be a fake rich person like you who reneges on bets and takes honeymoons in Tahiti

but some ppl rather just chill everyday with no responsibilities.

nickle and dime, pay for a fix, drink a beer and chill

not everybody wants to be a doctor

Get the fuck out of this thread with that bullshit.

God I would love for you to talk that ignorant shit in person.

Fucking internet.

[dead man]

Fuck....

[Ghost1]

Seems like he could prolly find sufficient work based on his degrees and experience.

Shock article.

[Diode]

Seems like he could prolly find sufficient work based on his degrees and experience.

Shock article.

I take it you don't know many adjuncts.

[Hush]

Smh


This is normal shit sadly

[Hush]

Get the fuck out of this thread with that bullshit.

God I would love for you to talk that ignorant shit in person.

Fucking internet.

Wtf lol

This subject is closer to eddies heart than ur own I imagine



It's laughable to see u white night it

And I'm not here trolling or trying to argue


But what could u possibly know about the lifestyle described in the article bro?

[Ghost1]

I take it you don't know many adjuncts.

Hes also a published writer apparently.

And he has 3 degrees....


Hes not pidgeon holed into being an adjunct .....


He likes being poor.

Fuck him.

[Hush]

Lol at coat hanger abortion tho


Author obv lying

[Ghost1]

Lol at coat hanger abortion tho


Author obv lying

Worddd

At that point i was like......wow....this dude really will just say anything....

[Diode]

Wtf lol

This subject is closer to eddies heart than ur own I imagine



It's laughable to see u white night it

And I'm not here trolling or trying to argue


But what could u possibly know about the lifestyle described in the article bro?

You grow up eating bread and ketchup sandwiches, hush?

Here's where I grew up:

http://i.imgur.com/3MCTnLy.jpg?1


Kannon from PR can vouch for it.

My mom still lives there.

Fuck you.

[Masaii]

Aye but....that house looking cosy as fuck. Like a little igloo.

[Diode]

Aye but....that house looking cosy as fuck. Like a little igloo.

lmao it sucked ass growing up i couldnt really have more than like 3 people over at a time there was literally no room

shit was built in 1902

[Masaii]

Is that where the infamous couch resides?

It looks like one of those houses from that movie 'the town'.

You from Boston?

[Diode]

Is that where the infamous couch resides?

It looks like one of those houses from that movie 'the town'.

You from Boston?

lol no

nj

[Masaii]

WELL THEN, carry on.

[Wise Wiggles]

That's basically a yes.

[Hush]

That's a suburb diode

U grew upon a private house

If ya mom ain't cook dinner I'm sorry



But u can't relate to the black mans struggle

I hope ur trolling

[Diode]

That's a suburb diode

U grew upon a private house

If ya mom ain't cook dinner I'm sorry



But u can't relate to the black mans struggle

I hope ur trolling

lol @ this fucking guy

half the projects i been to had more space than that house

fuck yourself, huth

you ain't about that life and nobody should be proud of being about that life

hence the article

if you're on this site, you're a fake trying to talk about the black man's struggle

especially if you're eddie, i got pictures of his mom's house and suburb

come on now

[Hush]

Bout what life? Growing up poor? Nah I'm not bout it

Side bar;
Why do you have pics of eddies moms house? Lol


So many questions


Like uh yea project apartments are big if you have mad kids...are u implying a big project apartment is better than a private house?


Do u want to seriously have this convo
Again I'm not trolling or try a argue



U just seem full of "it" on this one

[Diode]

Bout what life? Growing up poor? Nah I'm not bout it

Side bar;
Why do you have pics of eddies moms house? Lol


So many questions


Like uh yea project apartments are big if you have mad kids...are u implying a big project apartment is better than a private house?


Do u want to seriously have this convo
Again I'm not trolling or try a argue



U just seem full of "it" on this one

i'm not full of anything. why would i create a thread showing the reality of being *real* poor and fake that life? i was never at that point, but i know for a fact i was closer to it than eddie's ever been - which is the argument you made. and i have dudes from these stupid rap text forums that can even vouch for it. so i mean..

your argument is dumb and anyone pretending they lived the life in the article is full of it.

[detour]

Get the fuck out of this thread with that bullshit.

God I would love for you to talk that ignorant shit in person.

Fucking internet.

not like u would do anything besides have an over emotional roid rage if he did...so what's ur point?

[Hush]

Well Eddie is black and portrays a super coon life style on this site


I was never trying to attack you for no reason


2 paragraphs in the article sounds like plenty of ppl in my neighborhood today

[Diode]

not like u would do anything besides have an over emotional roid rage if he did...so what's ur point?

on top of your parkinson's hasidic stutter rap skills you claim to be a grappling expert

so please be at naga in charlotte in june

open weight sound good? i don't think i could cut down to your 135 soaking with vakill's sweat weight.

gi or no gi?

cool. cool cool cool.

[Allen Knight]

You grow up eating bread and ketchup sandwiches, hush?

Here's where I grew up:

http://i.imgur.com/3MCTnLy.jpg?1


Kannon from PR can vouch for it.

My mom still lives there.

Fuck you.

Is laurance harbor???? N is that a gsr teggy

[Diode]

Well Eddie is black and portrays a super coon life style on this site


I was never trying to attack you for no reason


2 paragraphs in the article sounds like plenty of ppl in my neighborhood today

yeah i am going to defend myself when it comes to that faggot though

all good

[Diode]

Is laurance harbor???? N is that a gsr teggy

nah. head north about 5 minutes from rutgers.

and yeah that was my old geezer.. got stripped by the mexicans like 6 months after that

[detour]

on top of your parkinson's hasidic stutter rap skills you claim to be a grappling expert

so please be at naga in charlotte in june

open weight sound good? i don't think i could cut down to your 135 soaking with vakill's sweat weight.

gi or no gi?

cool. cool cool cool.

i trained for actual fighting, not contact sparring with rules in gi's designed to give u something to grab onto...not to mention i much prefer stand up, as i'd rather just knock someone out instead of aggressively cuddling them...a throat shot follow by a knee to the hernia region is a much more effective method of disabling someone, but who cares...

besides, i weigh 155, so it probably wouldn't be as hard to slim down as u think...that said, if i were into hugging other grown men while covered in sweat just to say i earned a couple points on a tally card, i'm confident i wouldn't have much difficulty in choking u out, or at the very least making u tap, but that's neither here nor there, is it...

fact remains, u wouldn't do shit to eddie if he were there in person...so i'm not sure what the whole "omg detour lets manhug each other in front of a bunch of people" thing has to do with that...ur a privileged white guido with an addiction to HGH an a serious attitude problem that only surfaces on the net due to ur fear of real life confrontation...

[Diode]

i trained for actual fighting, not contact sparring with rules in gi's designed to give u something to grab onto...not to mention i much prefer stand up, as i'd rather just knock someone out instead of aggressively cuddling them...a throat shot follow by a knee to the hernia region is a much more effective method of disabling someone, but who cares...

besides, i weigh 155, so it probably wouldn't be as hard to slim down as u think...that said, if i were into hugging other grown men while covered in sweat just to say i earned a couple points on a tally card, i'm confident i wouldn't have much difficulty in choking u out, or at the very least making u tap, but that's neither here nor there, is it...

fact remains, u wouldn't do shit to eddie if he were there in person...so i'm not sure what the whole "omg detour lets manhug each other in front of a bunch of people" thing has to do with that...ur a privileged white guido with an addiction to HGH an a serious attitude problem that only surfaces on the net due to ur fear of real life confrontation...

tl;dr

what i saw was:

"he-rr-t-llo i-i-i-i-i-i- don't kn-n-n-n-now wha-a-a-at i,i, i, i, .. am talk-k-k-king a.. a.. a.. b-bout"

you are scared. it's cool.

we can do a free expo at charleston mma over here instead. full octagon. since grappling isn't your thing (after you claimed to have 45 years of training).

how is that?

better yet, how about you prove you have any training or experience with anything besides stephen hawking's text to speech translator?

[Diode]

lol'd @ allen tag

prob

[Ghost1]

Cant we all just agree the guy who wrote this is an asshole?


Lol@it looked like a scene from the wire.....GREAT JOB

Thats like sum guy writing an article about being a mobster bein like.....

YEA IT WAS LIKE A SCENE OUT OF SOPRANOS


AT LEAST THATS HOW ITVWAS ON TV AND THOSE ARE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SHOWS NOTED FOR THEIR AUTHENTICITY SO THEY WILL BE AN APT DESCRIPTION FROM AN OUTSIDERS PERSPECTIVE....HELL THESE POOR FAGGOTS IN BALTIMORE WONT READ THIS HOW THEY GONNA REVEAL ME?

YEP....WAS LIKE THE WIRE.

SPEAKING OF WIRES .... AUNT JAMIMA PULLED A TODDLER OUT HER PUSSY WITH 1


YEP .... THATS GOIN IN THE ARTICLE TOO. NAILED IT.

TALK ABOUT ROACHES & SPADES NOW..... BLACK PEOPLE LOVE THESE!


I WAS QUESTIONING ON WHETHER OR NOT TO MENTION WHEN I WAS THE KINGPIN OF BALTIMORES CRACK SCENE.....BUT WHY NOT!?!? THEN ILL REALLY TURN THE TABLES AND TELL THEM ABOUT MY 3 DEGREES!!


THIS IS REALLY GOING TO SHOCK THE FUCK OUT OF THE WHITES.


FUCKFUCKFUCKYEAAAAAA


YEA AN DEFINITELY CALL MY DEAR FRIEND BUCKETHEAD. SHIT SOUNDS HOOD.

[Diode]

MY DEAR FRIEND BUCKETHEAD. SHIT SOUNDS HOOD.

http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/images/features/unsung-les-paul-legends/buckethead-corbis-630-80.jpg

does it tho?

[YDK]

Idk dudes just talkin shit bout a ghetto lol
Pretty sure everybody here has had a bottle an a cup on a curb, hung in the projects and knows some ppl that knows some ppl that caught some cases...jus sayin
Ain't gotta live it every day to understand it tbh shits rough either find a way out of it or learn to live wit it

[Witty]

Or shoot yourself in the face.

[YDK]

That too

[Ghost1]

Oh lawd.... the authority on gangsterisms, young david kuhn is here.

WELL THATS IT. A COSIGN FROM YDK IS LIKE A HANDWRITTEN G-PASS FROM MALCOM X

THIS STORIES THE REAL DEAL FOLKS. NOTHIN TO SEE HERE.

[YDK]

Oh lawd.... the authority on gangsterisms, young david kuhn is here.

WELL THATS IT. A COSIGN FROM YDK IS LIKE A HANDWRITTEN G-PASS FROM MALCOM X

THIS STORIES THE REAL DEAL FOLKS. NOTHIN TO SEE HERE.

The fuck you ramblin about now?
Never cosigned shit, just sayin half of wat he said is shit we've all prolly seen or done at some point.
Cmon bags Mr cocaine king you know all about it right?

[uh-oh]

i don't know whats more gross, bags thinking this is sensationalism or diode trying to compare his own upbringing to it

diode i know you grew up poor, i did too and i'm still poor, but there is a difference between getting by and EXISTING. you got by. like AMERICANS.

these people just exist.

although the writer is dumb. he's making good money he's just too retarded to realize it cuz it aint fast crack money. he's not too poor for pop culture. this niggas website is immaculate. he's up on twitter. he's worked internationally teaching and he does all that side shit too, photography, writing, and videos

thats the only part of the article i didnt like. was when he was comparing himself to them like he's hurting with all the work he's talking about getting. teaching 1000's of classes a year

niggas on that 2014 diode salary trying to act like he's just gettin by with fresh jordans and beats by dre headphones while a dude like me's transportation can't even get me to my job so i'm sitting here with my dirty knockoff jordans and ihome headphones i got from wallgreensssssssssssssss

[Ghost1]

So u question me......then cosign my point exactly.

Strong move, uhoh. Strong move.

[Diode]

i was explicitly not comparing myself to this dude. that was the whole point. nobody here can compare themselves to this situation.

hush tried to compare me to eddie, which was wrong.

[YDK]

i don't know whats more gross, bags thinking this is sensationalism or diode trying to compare his own upbringing to it

diode i know you grew up poor, i did too and i'm still poor, but there is a difference between getting by and EXISTING. you got by. like AMERICANS.

these people just exist.

although the writer is dumb. he's making good money he's just too retarded to realize it cuz it aint fast crack money. he's not too poor for pop culture. this niggas website is immaculate. he's up on twitter. he's worked internationally teaching and he does all that side shit too, photography, writing, and videos

thats the only part of the article i didnt like. was when he was comparing himself to them like he's hurting with all the work he's talking about getting. teaching 1000's of classes a year

niggas on that 2014 diode salary trying to act like he's just gettin by with fresh jordans and beats by dre headphones while a dude like me's transportation can't even get me to my job so i'm sitting here with my dirty knockoff jordans and ihome headphones i got from wallgreensssssssssssssss

Yo I'll trade you my one earphone with a speaker thingy cord I got with my phone and an old pair of filas from 08 for those I home headphones
Srs

[Hush]

Idk dudes just talkin shit bout a ghetto lol
Pretty sure everybody here has had a bottle an a cup on a curb, hung in the projects and knows some ppl that knows some ppl that caught some cases...jus sayin
Ain't gotta live it every day to understand it tbh shits rough either find a way out of it or learn to live wit it

Actually you do have to live it to understand it

[PancakeBrah]

Reading comprehension at an all time low itt

[YDK]

Actually you do have to live it to understand it

I understand it and I ain't lived it as bad as dude in the article....
My girl lived on 13th street in Covington and I stayed with her there for a min, crackhesds an broke down alcoholics are common as roaches, half her family got government everything an was lucky if they could find somebody ta bum a cig off of. Shit even I was homeless for a bit when my mom died an my dad dipped Cruz heroin an strippers was more important than a house.
I still ain't gonna say I lived it like dude say in but I understand it still....can't really argue somebody else's comprehension about shit, if somebody don't understand it that's on them but I assumed with the way everybody talks on here I wasn't the only one that could understand it

[detour]

tl;dr

what i saw was:

"he-rr-t-llo i-i-i-i-i-i- don't kn-n-n-n-now wha-a-a-at i,i, i, i, .. am talk-k-k-king a.. a.. a.. b-bout"

you are scared. it's cool.

we can do a free expo at charleston mma over here instead. full octagon. since grappling isn't your thing (after you claimed to have 45 years of training).

how is that?

better yet, how about you prove you have any training or experience with anything besides stephen hawking's text to speech translator?

smh I never said 45 years...an u've never heard me stutter...maybe there's something wrong with ur cognitive awareness if u hear stuttering where there isn't any...

aside from that, I never said I'm not good at ground fighting...I actually spent quite a bit of time training in shoot fighting an nihon jujitsu...I just don't LIKE doing it...