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"Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« on: November 08, 2006, 01:40:27 PM »
A fellow LGM member and I were discussing the similarities of "The Hood" and came up with these...

1) Theres ALWAYS a Martin L King Blvd running through it.
2) The "black" High School is always Booker T or Washington Carver High
3) There is a Mt. Zion or Bethlehem Baptist somewhere around and...
4) A neighborhood store thats ran outta somebody's house where you can get cookies, candy, small bag of chips, or a small frozen cup a Kool-Aid in the summer!!! Mmmm Mmmm

I know y'all had them, so give in and reveal your "hood" truths here!!
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2006, 01:45:48 PM »
Now THIS is a trip!!! ;D

Down south there is always a neighborhood "Ju-lip lady" (summa yall know what Ju-lips are!!), and many times beside ju-lips she sells pickes, hot sausages, pickled eggs,  pickled pig's feet, Tom's potato chips, and Ne-Hi sodas (yall remember Nehi Strawberry, grape and peach sodas!!).

And don't forget about Mt. Carmel Primitive Baptist or New Jerusalem Baptist or Faith Temple COGIC. Also don't forget about Thurgood Marshall Community Center, and ABC Liquor Store!! :D ;D

Oh yeah and there's always a man on the side of the road with a huge BBQ grill selling BBQ Chicken and ribs, and someone on Friday Nights selling Fish Sammiches!! ;D LOL Thats the hood!
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2006, 01:49:33 PM »
Baltimore is a hood area cause I can find 3 out 4 right now lol

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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2006, 01:52:03 PM »
People hang out in the grass area next to the neighborhood store, drinking, smoking, and whatever other mischeif they can get themselves in.

There is always at least one shed tree mechanic on each block. In other words the garage, shed, or big tree at his house is the garage of his business. (He doesn't call you to tell you your car is ready because he need to use it to bring his wife to the grocery store first)

You can find someone to braid your hair just by riding up and down the street. The "beauticians" work on the porch steps.

Sidewalks are not for walking---that's what the street is for---so drive slow.

You won't be able to drive fast anyway, because Pookie n dem got a "new" 1988 Buick and they are leaning back cruisin'.

You will always see someone walking down the street holding a plate of food & eating. Why wait 'til you get home.

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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2006, 01:59:12 PM »
You right about that SisterT!! People be walking down the street eating, especially CHICKEN WINGS!!

Also in the hood you can't drive down the street without everybody breaking their necks tryna look in your car and see who you is!! And don't be in the car with one of us who grew up in the hood. By the time you get where you going you hoarse because every 2 seconds you yelling out the car at somebody you know (YO POOKIEEEEE!!! KEISHAAAAA!! WHAT UP RAY RAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

Also, every time you ride down MLK Blvd it takes forever to get where you are going because you are behind that car that is stopped in the midde of the road blocking traffic 'cause they talking to somebody or they "doing some bidness" (if ya know what I mean). LOL

You will also find BEAUTIFUL church edifices with bars on their windows because they are right in the middle of the ghetto!!!

Ahhhhh the beauty of the "hood"!  :D ;D
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2006, 02:00:35 PM »
You know you live in the hood if your street sign is layin' on the ground....next to the pole, and it's been there for months.

You know you live in the hood if your back yard is nothing but dirt... cause it used to be the neighborhood basketball court.

You know you live in the hood if there's a snack shop that only opens in the summertime, and only sell snow cones, and has a new owner every year.


Or was that just my neighborhood?
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« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2006, 02:07:29 PM »
You know you live in the hood if the ice cream truck man just got arrested for seeling more than just ice cream.....

You know you in the hood if every time you see a white person driving through, you KNOW what they ain't on they're way home!

Also if you see a white guy driving through the hood, and the next minute there is a large SWARM of young black men surrounding the car! (Sorry but that aint no joke. I see it all the time).
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2006, 02:07:40 PM »
A fellow LGM member and I were discussing the similarities of "The Hood" and came up with these...

1) Theres ALWAYS a Martin L King Blvd running through it.
2) The "black" High School is always Booker T or Washington Carver High
3) There is a Mt. Zion or Bethlehem Baptist somewhere around and...
4) A neighborhood store thats ran outta somebody's house where you can get cookies, candy, small bag of chips, or a small frozen cup a Kool-Aid in the summer!!! Mmmm Mmmm

I know y'all had them, so give in and reveal your "hood" truths here!!
I live in a small county...that consist of 1 high school and no M.L.K. Blvd...but can point out a FEW Mt. Zion and Bethlehem Baptist...and to top it off my wifes grandma has a store running outta her crib and she's loan shark.
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2006, 02:13:54 PM »
I live in a small county...that consist of 1 high school and no M.L.K. Blvd...but can point out a FEW Mt. Zion and Bethlehem Baptist...and to top it off my wifes grandma has a store running outta her crib and she's loan shark.

Yeah....but I'm sure that 25% interest (compounded daily)...goes to the "missionary fund"........bless her heart.
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2006, 02:17:26 PM »
I live in a small county...that consist of 1 high school and no M.L.K. Blvd...but can point out a FEW Mt. Zion and Bethlehem Baptist...and to top it off my wifes grandma has a store running outta her crib and she's loan shark.

Down south there is always a neighborhood "Ju-lip lady" (summa yall know what Ju-lips are!!), and many times beside ju-lips she sells pickes, hot sausages, pickled eggs,  pickled pig's feet, Tom's potato chips, and Ne-Hi sodas (yall remember Nehi Strawberry, grape and peach sodas!!).

Well, we had "Mrs. Maggie" and she didn't run outta NOTHING!!!! She had enough stuff to put the real corner store out of business, and the crazy part is NOBODY snitched on her.

Oh yeah, in the "hood" a football game wasn't a good football game unless it ended in a fight.  Thats why you have to leave early. lol
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2006, 02:21:55 PM »
Oh yeah, in the "hood" a football game wasn't a good football game unless it ended in a fight.  Thats why you have to leave early. lol

LOL!! Soooo true!! Them rival teams just can't handle loosing to each other!! you KNOW there has to be a fight!!
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« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2006, 02:26:21 PM »
LOL!! Soooo true!! Them rival teams just can't handle loosing to each other!! you KNOW there has to be a fight!!

Naaah...if ya really in the hood, nobody went to watch the actual game...they went to see the Bands at halftime, before the game, and when we marched out!
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2006, 02:35:56 PM »
Yall know tha deal.

In Brooklyn there's a bodega on every other block, and every one of 'em has either a Ahmed or a Jose (depending on if it's run by Arabs or Latinos)

We got those $2.00 Hamburgers in the plastic baggies.  Beef Patties wit cheese.  And about 20 different Little Debbie Products.

Every morning before they go to school, the kids will come in and by about $5.00 worth of candy, and it takes forever because all the candies are 5, 10, or 15 cents.   :D

"Let me get 10 Swedish Fish, 4 blow pops, 7 Gummi Worms, and a Pack 'o' Red Sour Power.   :D

And don't forget tha 50 cent Sodas.  I brought one to work one day and my boss was like "What's this?   ?/? "

I guess they don't sell those in the nice neighborhoods!   ::)

Then there's the Chinese Restaurant with the bulletproof glass up to make sure they don't get jacked for their Roast Pork Lo Mein.  lol.

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« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2006, 02:43:19 PM »

What about the First Baptist church for each subdivision of the hoods (First Baptist East End, First Baptist Southside)

Kids in the hood knew that if the street light came on and you weren't in the house, that you were catching a beatdown

The liquor stores are always positioned across the street from the church. (with the saints supporting them on Sunday)

Forget poker tournaments....but let a rousing game of marbles come up and everyone was there!

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« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2006, 02:46:42 PM »
Forget poker tournaments....but let a rousing game of marbles come up and everyone was there!



Hmm...What are these "marbles" you speak of?????
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2006, 02:54:07 PM »
Hmm...What are these "marbles" you speak of?????

Oh never mind. ::) :D :D
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I'd rather be imperfectly inspired, than to be perfectly entertained...

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« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2006, 03:14:51 PM »
Marbles? 

Spades and Dominoes dominate my hood.

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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2006, 03:22:04 PM »
Marbles? 

Spades and Dominoes dominate my hood.

What about those old men who play cards everyday under that same tree.  Don't worry about food because there is a grill envolved.
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Re: "Characteristics of 'The Hood'": Do you have them?
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2006, 03:37:02 PM »

Kids in the hood knew that if the street light came on and you weren't in the house, that you were catching a beatdown

Yeeeeeesssss Lawd, thats so true.  Some of us developed to be perfect sprinters!!  :D :D
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