@Erorblck I live in Long Island, so lots of kids wanna be hood like city new Yorkers and it's simple. They either wanna be tough or like rappers in the media
Right? They seem to have decent money to put him through school if he wanted to go to college, connections to get him a job. They're both neat and professional looking people- the mom has a great, expensive salon haircut- so I wouldn't be surprised if they both work good jobs. And they really seem to care about their kid. Meanwhile he's so utterly ungrateful, trying to go from the gated suburbs to... the hood? The streets over by the section 8 apartments? Man... I know kids have undeveloped frontal lobes but the fact that so many kids are like this these days is sad. My parents were immigrants who came to the US legally as kids; I'm a first generation American and I watched them work their asses off so me and my siblings could have a good life and we've all appreciated it so much. This kid is like "screw you guys, I'm gonna sell weed!"
As someone who came from that kind of backround, being friends with a bunch of wannabe gangsters, this video means a lot and really helps me know I made the right decision leaving everything in that life behind, even if me and my friends were a just bunch of wannabes. We were mostly into drugs and alcohol, not the guns, but even then, I didn't do much of the substance abuse the others did. I'm so glad I've matured a little bit to be past that stupid idea that gangs are cool. I lost some friends, but I've still have other friends and now I'm in a much better crowd and I feel how much I'm bettering myself. I don't know if you'll see this Pancho, but genuinly, thank you. I was worried I was an asshole for leaving my old friends behind, but now I know 100% that that's not the case.
Reminds me of an old friend i had; 6th grade he was a quiet kid with small talk, smart and kind. 7th he sagged his jeans, smoked weed and got charged with arson, even took vape hits in the bathroom. Obviously not talking to him no more
dude i literally have the same story but just with different grades, in 5th grade i had this friend (lets call her L) and L used to be so nice and so fun to hang out with until the end of 6th grade hit and here she goes talking about weed and how she wants to have a vape...and i even tried to talk her out of it because its just not right for someone her age. And she doesnt even have a hard life. Obviously she didnt listen and lied to me straight to my face. She said "okay ill stop" meanwhile here she goes getting a vape from one of her cousins. like this generation is something else man
i used to be like that .. even in high school arrested for exactly what he did in high school ... was doing oxy's , cocaine .. even smoked crack few times and turned heroin addict .. sold heroin to support my habit , was a loser .. even got my house raided by narcotic cops ... ended up doing a year in Rikers Island ... lemme tell you , i was not a gangster ... gave me ptsd or something .... just thinking about it now makes me start to sweat lol
Hope you're doing ok. I feel like the guy that came out to talk to the kid definitely has PTSD too. Even without him saying everything you can just look at him and tell he's seen so much shit and that there's so much he wishes he could change.
This is why expierience matters, no matter how cool being an gangster sounds, you wouldnt actually know how much risky it is, and this apply to almost anything, you wouldnt really understand anything if you dont have the right experience, and just jumping in conclusion with pure knowledge can lead to something conserning, and this also applies vise versa. Big respect to thst ex gangster since he gave that kid a good lesson by just telling him his experience
Some people are in gangs because they either don't have much of a choice or out of a sense of loyalty. But to do so just to be seen as cool, thats just downright pathetic.
The ex gangster's lecture tugged at my heart strings. Even the kid could tell that he was speaking from the heart. But he also brought up a good point: that the kid was being pushed from something inside. The kid's an idiot but I hope he got therapy for it, he'll have to fix his mentality.
I'm 19, and I recommend everyone below or above my age to listen to good ol' country music instead of modern rap sigma male songs nowadays. I guarantee you, it makes you have a better and a more attractive person with a better, and more positively attractive personality. Cowboys are also better than gangsters too. They're more matured, have attractive voices, charming personalities, they are fine gentleman as well as fine matured women with experiences. They also don't care what people say and just accept what people say about them. They don't usually sing about being cool, rich, smoking, sex, women, or homies like rap gangster songs, but when they do, they do it in style and with experience in a way it's not always idolized and it's either relatable, funny, or just depressing. Overall, country songs always have a story to tell and an emotion or experience to share.
I grew up with kids from the hood, they taught me how its not cool to be in a gang, it takes the life out of you. I had a friend commit suicide due to being in the hood.
Omg I live in the suburbs and SO many kids act like they are from the hood, like we all know your mom is a teacher and your dad’s a doctor. A lot of them throw up gang signs because they think it’s cool. We went to Chicago as a school art trip and stayed for 2 days and these kids acted like they where gangsters because they where in Chicago 🤦♂️
I live in Chicago too, but i never did that. They clearly live in a suburb or a gated neighborhood. I live as a street dude, and yet I have more common sense, then people younger OR older then me. it's really sad.
I pulled up to the gas station and in the car next to me there were three teenagers with those stupid masks and hoodies when it's almost 100 degrees out and I laughed as I got out of my car because they were staring me down I guess trying to be tough and then a lady who I'm assuming was one of thier moms came out and she drove them away they were leaning out the windows throwing up a bunch of fake gang signs and yelling lol
I’ve never held a gun, i don’t plan to. But i did grow up in the ghetto, full of drug addicts, abusers, and murderers. Now i ain’t a thug, never sold any substance, and i don’t think it’s cool the be a thug. Joseph, the guy who had to hold a gun. While also seeing his friends die, makes me really afraid to even talk to a gang.
when the father said he was giving pills to a girl, i thought he ment he was trying to give her a aphrodisiac, but it seems like it was just a drug deal.
And now he can be chilling, in a safe neighborhood, playing tag with your siblings in the backyard (If you’re a child) or playing with your dogs, join the club.
one point of my life i was 13 turning into 14 and my parents were kicked out by our crazy landlord and we had to move out of a good area and go to a ghetto ass area and ive seen shit thats things kids shouldn’t see and i coulda died once not gonna get to personal but it had nothing to do with me at all but 3 to 4 years of living in a ghetto ass area has made me learn why you get a good job and not get into a gang or anything because you’re just wasting your life being a horrible person to your community.
I have poor values but I am not a wannabe gangster. I have poor values because that is the only people I am surrounded by. I also have lots of problems, half of them are self inflicted. The worst of them caused me to self inflict those problems.
yall suburbian kids just remember this, i grew up in a neighbourhood in st. louis that was very gang afilliated and i always was a good kid, everyone wanted to be in the pillow gang basically disrespecting them gang members then they prolly got humbled
As a person who has been around a father who had a drug addiction I promised myself I’d never do nothing but nicotine and weed and yk prescribed pills. Even tho weed and nicotine are still bad it’s just not the same level of
my little brother is like this, bro is paper white, plays fortnite all day and talks mad slang and acts like this white ahh neighborhood is a hood in chicago
Here is a story I know a lot of people like this sometimes me and my dad go to the hood and I see some people like that once somebody tried to get in my dads car
I have lived in a bad neighborhood and was exposed to this stuff early on but I have both of my parents and they do there best to give me as many opportunities for a good life as they can
