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Reppin’ Time

A little while back an interesting thought popped into my head while I was writing another piece: despite the fact my “location” under that picture says I’m in a city known more for running Jerry Buss out of town – despite the fact he helmed one of the greatest ever teams in sports – by robbing him endlessly as he stepped out of his car in the Forum parking lot, I don’t claim it as my city, nor have I ever cared to “represent” each of the cities I lived in, as many other people I know and see.

While I do not have a problem with those that do the same, and I can actually appreciate the fact that despite of their town’s uglier sides they show love to it regardless, I’ve personally never been the one to do the same. My reason, however, primarily has to deal with the fact that a) as long as I make it to my one-room mansion without being shot, stabbed, snuffed, robbed and/or killed, I could give three-eighths of a shit about where it is and b) thanks to my somewhat nomadic lifestyle, I’ve spent the past five years in three different cities. Shit, I’m in the (very barren) planning stages of uprooting myself to New York as I write this shit now.

My particular qualm with this situation, though, is the intriguing trend where some people like to rep the fact that not only are they from the ‘hood, they are “hood” as well. While I’ve been fortunate enough not to live in some gully-out-the-ass neighborhood so far, I find it odd when some people take pride in their city’s violent aspects. Not to sound like an uppity asshole, but I never understood why anybody would be happy that his or her city has a ridiculously high murder rate. If anything, that fact would propel me out of that bitch quicker.

But perhaps that’s the ass-backward nature of hip-hop, where its denizens have been convinced that being a well-educated, non-poison-pushing individual makes you an undesirable square Charlie in rap. Well, excuse me if I call shenanigans on that false proclamation; I’d much rather boast about being able to correctly count the change in your wallet than about how much weight I move. On a semi-related topic, wouldn’t boasting about a drug-happy past constitute as snitching on yourself? Anybody who’s dumb enough to put their business out there like that in this day and age must be out of their fucking mind. But I digress.

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