Yeah zone right, kinda like how you cant teach an old dog new tricks, growin up around shit almost sets you in your ways, but not always, like where i live has alot of drugs, there are a few old heads pitchin crack but thats only a lil bit and its not talked about as much as everything else, alot alot of coke being sold around here but mainly weed, crime isnt bad here, we had like 1 shooting in the last 2 years, where someone died anyway, mostly robbery, assault, vandilism and drugs, oh and like 3 yrs ago the "town bank" got robbed, funniest shit ever, 2 dumb fuck robbers got lost on a dirt road and got busted

if your not in a real gang, your not a gangster.

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^- Rofl, son

Being in a gang dont make you a gangster

Thats like saying you gangsta by affiliation

but than again if being in a gang dont make you gangster, what does?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gangster
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yes it does

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^^^^I was born & raised in New York City an been to all five boroughs, all thru long island an upstate to yonkers an albany. Any New Yorkers mentalities vary. The way katz in my hood view things is a polar opposite to kids in Long Island. You find commonalities here an there...but there are damn near 13 million people in New York City alone, its impossible for all those people to have the same mentality.

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I hear you, i meant more in a general sense, Ny thinkin diff from Cali, im not talkin specifics cuz none of us think the same but the commonalities as you say is what makes us different from other states and places, New york has a depth that most states dont have n i dont mean population

^^^what are you talking about? what depth? what does New York have that other states dont? what is this train of thought that everyone in the state of New York shares? I know people in my own borough that the only thing we share is that we live in New York...there is no common mentality whatsoever. Maybe everyone in your part of NY think alike but in nyc there are as many mentalities as there are streets.

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New York has pride and passion, we have history, a deep history, square one for Hip Hop, from the basment parties with Djs and the master cermonies that would rock it. Almost like a swagger we have, maybe not everyone has it, well obviously but still, and some people have it but its not a conscious thing you would just think about like randomly its just who you are. New York has pain, its like a fuckin soul, Louisianna has that Soul but its different their, it bloomed in other ways. Im probably going over your head but its all good, i dont mean just daily life thinking, all humans are alike in nature to a certain extent, i could keep explainin but you wouldnt get it, suprised because you born n raised, im not saying were better than anyone else, were tougher, more "ghetto" richer or poorer but were different, and dont think on the basics of comprehension as you've been with all people are different because i know that, thats common sense

Maybe its just me but its way more than a nas song or a tshirt that says i heart ny, im proud to be a New Yorker

im a pinche vato spicca, gangsta az a mafucka, werd

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Triple N stop actin like a douche
its pretty damn obvious what he's talkin about.

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^^lmao, who da fuck says douche?

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haha
I thought about that after I posted it
lol

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Lmfao@ going over my head...man what u just said is all relevant to hip hop...does everyone in New York enjoy hip hop? You jus said because your proud to be from New York that everyone else from New York is proud to be from New York. Dude NYC has one of the highest rates of residents moving out in the country. Now, u trying to degeneralize it by saying we all dont have a New York swagger, again thats relative to New York Hip Hop....New York is a melting pot of all cultures of the world....u telling that me an abu at the 7/11 across town have the same NY swagger? You telling me that me an former mayor guilliani have the same swagger? You telling me that you an stephon marbury have the same swagger? All that pride in NY starting hip hop an djing u went on about is relative to New York ghettos cuz thats who really started it, when hip hop was being created in the south bronx in the late 70's the rest of New York was discoing they ass off. There is a New York style of rap...but their is no "one" New York persona....Black new yorkers from the ghetto rep NY differently than Italians from howard beach, Puericans from jackson heights/corona rep new york differently than asians in chinatown, arabians in bellrose rep new york differently than indonesians in long island city, I could go on an on. Dude get out of ya small NY town upstate an actually come down to the city then u will truly know what NY is about.

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Triple N, someone who's suppose to have common sense knows that on a site called "Rap Verse" primarily about hiphop the discussion in most topics have some twist with Hip Hop, hence the "Gangster" topic, its a part of HipHop, thats where i was going with the Ny shit, but youre just your run of the mill average joe people or you wouldnt even come at me like that, inside the box thinkin n shit, whatever though, everyone trying to bring new york back but its losin heart, cuz of people like you, its done with, you aint a new yorker youre just a resident son, go move to connecticut with 50

^^^So, now becuz this discussion happened on rapverse its limited to rap-related subject matter? your words was "New Yorkers." New York is made up of FARRRRRRRRRRRRRR more nonrappers than rappers my friend. As well as New York is made up of FARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR more nongangstas than gangstas. So, I lack common sense for thinking "New Yorkers" meant anyone who lived in the state of New York? I'm jus a run of the mill average joe thats ruining hip hip becuz I misinterpreted "New Yorkers" for "New York rappers & fans?" WTF are u talking about man? u on some children shit, when a child cant articulate his/her thoughts they resort to calling names. If u feel like returning to an adult level with your replies hollaback.

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