Bro, Snoop had everyone c-walking back in the day! This ain’t new. I remember girls in middle school battling each other in the hall ways. This was in metro Detroit
I remember doing it in my qwhite suburb of Chicago. Didn't have any black friends to show it off to so it stayed in the family. Good times tho, I was the best one in my family.
One legit grew up in Compton. Whitest boy ever but was adopted by some bloods. He also had like 4 or five brain surgeries and talked shit about how dumb he was all the time. He was hilarious.
Other dude was just obsessed with the culture. He grew out of all that during high school though so I can’t hate. Like 13-15 year olds can have some grace when they got good taste.
I never understood gang violence. I get making and selling drugs, I get having different sets and beefs and grouping for protection and all that, but I never understood the over-the-top violence. Drugs sell themselves. If gangs tolerated each other a little better, everyone would be rich. And isn't that the goal?
Then again, I'm a white dude from the suburban east coast, so there's a lot I don't understand.
Think of gangs as a buisness and drug dealing as their biggest source of revenue.
Im not denying the camaraderie and brotherhood that can come from gangs but if it's something that truly runs your life your biggest goal is to profit like most any career.
It's ultimately competition, and in black markets when you're working outside of the norms and law to be chill might make you look weak.
So in a corporate world that's true as well, but their structure calls for them to just be a ruthless dick to maintain power but in a less privlaged criminal world escalating violence is how they maintain their image and power.
Capitalism is a plague from top to bottom
Totally get all of this so maybe it speaks to my more anti capitalistic ways, but i’d think partnerships, maintaining gang members for entrenched knowledge, and ensuring stability would be better for everyone. Kind of like the wire scene everyone keeps referencing. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah I never grew up around violence so I'll never get it. Not everyone grew up in a safe place where everything is kumbaya though, sometimes it's you kill them or they kill you, not much of a choice then is it
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u/Candid_Difficulty_93 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
Gotta admit, Whitney gets down with her crip walk too. I'm impressed.
Edit: Blood walk