why is it that the media potrays parts of LA like compton ,southcentral , inglewood and watts as ghettos. when I went out to cali I had to drive through many of those so called ghettos and to me they looked like polished suburia. (wtf) I just wanna know why cali is so quick to throw out the word ghetto when they aint never even seen one which they should be proud of. now i aint say cali is some fairy land but killa kali tends to extend the truth alot. I have to ask yall have you ever been to places like midwestern cities such as chicago st.louis detroit or eastcoast cities. yall have it made compared to other cities around the country better yet the world. let me know if Im wrong
Cali (ghetto?)
- Thread starter samie
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because those areas used to be nice cookie-cutter white neighborhoods but over time white folks moved out into suburban areas further away from the city and blacks and mexicans moved in and they turned into the "ghetto". The houses may look nice but that doesnt mean the area is nice and safe. In fact im pretty sure Compton used to be a nice ass upperclass neighborhood.
1st off you're talking southern cali where all the houses are more spread out.....muthafuckas have lawns and shit.....they may have houses, but the neighborhood is all bad....you listening to rappers who are trying to portray themselves as superthugs so they gotta be from the worst place in the world.....but when you go there it looks hella normal......don't let looks fool you tho.....I mean, hell, they're even cleaning up dirty ass west oakland but that shit is still all bad, just the building you're getting shot in front of looks nicer
When I started going to LA I used to say the same shit. "LA ain't shit." Cuz if you take a look at the hoods in South Modesto and compare them to LA it looks 100x worse here. But as nice as it looks compared to other places, shit pops off like a muthafucka over there too.
It's like I always tell people, LA didn't invent gangs, guns or crime. I used to kick it down there all flamed up with a Modesto hat, and I never once got hit up. I thought I was all hard at the time, but now I realize that I just didn't run into the wrong muthafucka. I got a homie who used to live in the Avenues hood and he said he didn't even know it was a bad neighborhood until he saw it on Gangland.
I know people from down south who moved up here thinkin they're the shit and now they're dead. I know foos from up here who won't even go to LA because they're scared they'll get shot. I know a lady who moved from LA to South Modesto and hates it because there are too many gang members here. I know another person who moved from South Central to South Modesto and she likes it here. It all depends on who you ask.
In Modesto the areas that look the dirtiest, but at the same time calm and serene, even country, are the worst neighborhoods. They are on the outskirts of the city with no sidewalks, few streetlights, and a shitload of crime. Sometimes people might see a house in South Modesto that has sidewalks, lights etc, and think it's all good, until there's a shootout in the middle of the street right in front of you. I know a few people this has happened to.
To say LA ain't ghetto because it looks clean is wrong. Last time I went down there a homie took me on a hood tour, and places you wouldn't even think were bad were deep as fuck with gangsters. Just because they drive a sweeper through the street and water down the sidewalks doesn't mean you won't get shot walking through those streets...
It's like I always tell people, LA didn't invent gangs, guns or crime. I used to kick it down there all flamed up with a Modesto hat, and I never once got hit up. I thought I was all hard at the time, but now I realize that I just didn't run into the wrong muthafucka. I got a homie who used to live in the Avenues hood and he said he didn't even know it was a bad neighborhood until he saw it on Gangland.
I know people from down south who moved up here thinkin they're the shit and now they're dead. I know foos from up here who won't even go to LA because they're scared they'll get shot. I know a lady who moved from LA to South Modesto and hates it because there are too many gang members here. I know another person who moved from South Central to South Modesto and she likes it here. It all depends on who you ask.
In Modesto the areas that look the dirtiest, but at the same time calm and serene, even country, are the worst neighborhoods. They are on the outskirts of the city with no sidewalks, few streetlights, and a shitload of crime. Sometimes people might see a house in South Modesto that has sidewalks, lights etc, and think it's all good, until there's a shootout in the middle of the street right in front of you. I know a few people this has happened to.
To say LA ain't ghetto because it looks clean is wrong. Last time I went down there a homie took me on a hood tour, and places you wouldn't even think were bad were deep as fuck with gangsters. Just because they drive a sweeper through the street and water down the sidewalks doesn't mean you won't get shot walking through those streets...
Ghetto vs Projects are completly different. The East Coast had to build up. The West Coast was able to spread out due to being a newer state. Go there @ night and walk around with a flossy ass watch and a big ass chain, then come bacc here and tell us what happened to you. If you make it bacc to tell the tale...
first off i aint neva say it dont go down in la when we all know it does, and i wasnt basing nuttin off of looking clean i was basing it off of the fact that la has alot more intellignt people even gangbangers know how to speak proper compared to other cities and they have more of a chance to do good by themselves and turn they lives around. where as in other cities there might not be a place to go, you ghetto 4 good.
