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04-08-05, 12:27 PM
These days it seems as though it's cool to be a drug dealer or a pimp which is being glorified in the media (Snoop)giving off acertain status.
I see people driving around in BMW's and Mercedes when all they have done all their lives is mess around and be lazy. I have worked hard taking the academic route feeling that's the right way to get where I want to be. There are guys I know who are worthless but it seems they are living the high life is this fair?
The kids feel by doingthis they can make bigmoney fast apparently a drug dealer can make as much money as someone working on the stock market.
Has society become use to them and just accepted them?
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04-08-05, 12:34 PM
Even criminals work hard
And trsut me, the stigma has not been renoved from them, they are still first class lowlifes
You ever heard of the Golden Rule. He who has the gold makes the rules!
He who asks is a fool for five minutes. He who never asks remains a fool for ever.
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04-08-05, 12:43 PM
Trust me I look at them like the dirty dogs they are.Nobody I know would be looking up to them. Give me a honest days work man ANY day of the week I don't want to be shot in my head like Toni Ann Byfield in no revenge killing. That type of life leads to nothing but pain in the end, aint no black grandchildren of drug dealers at Eton or Oxford because they always lose the money in the end (I say black because the white one's are, look at the Kennedys and some of the others who made their money out of bootlegging back in the day but as doggish as they were at least they didn't spend all the cash on BMW's and gold ceilings, they invested that ish for the future).
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04-08-05, 12:52 PM
Sadly, drug drealers are treated like kings in the hood mainly because they have so much extra money to throw around. Hard working man would be less frivilous with his cash since he did work hard for it and has less. When it came to the ladies, the drug dealer is more flashy and the hard working man is looked at as a lame. Nowadays , you much better off taking the academic or legitimate business road because this is not the 80's or the 90's and 9 times out of 10 you will not get rich and will end up dead or locked up. Its hard though for the black community to completely cut ties with drug dealers because most feel since brothers have had such a hard time with the system, they don't want to hurt them more even though their poison has destroyed many black lives.
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04-08-05, 12:55 PM
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Trust me I look at them like the dirty dogs they are.Nobody I know would be looking up to them. Give me a honest days work man ANY day of the week I don't want to be shot in my head like Toni Ann Byfield in no revenge killing. That type of life leads to nothing but pain in the end, aint no black grandchildren of drug dealers at Eton or Oxford because they always lose the money in the end (I say black because the white one's are, look at the Kennedys and some of the others who made their money out of bootlegging back in the day but as doggish as they were at least they didn't spend all the cash on BMW's and gold ceilings, they invested that ish for the future).
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Sorry but you are reffering to dumb criminals/drug dealers... the lil small timers that just wants money.... but the wise onewell they spend it wisely and most of the time they will look as humble as the honest days workman, no gold bling or nothing.... just a nice slk or a big house...
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The big timers are really not dumb as what you may think, they are street smart and sharp....
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04-08-05, 01:12 PM
“Money covers all evil� this is the moto this society has fed to us. So when youths see the drug dealer they don’t see the guy destroying peoples lives for a living... they see the guy rolling in that fat ride or with bare girls etc, its very sad.
I once knew a black girl whose man was a drug dealer… which she openly said in a conversation me and her where having. First and foremost what a dumb thing to do, as we had only been speaking for about 2 weeks. Was it a status thing ? I mean this girl had mad doe, obviously off this guy and she used to say how she disapproved of his activities but that didn’t stop her from being with him ? She loved the drug money its sad, cos lives are destroyed through that sh*t and she was very attractive. What message is this sending the youth ?
and look at all they businesses especially in the US that have been started off drug money… it starts to make you think it’s a normal thing, and the Hiphop world aint helping the drug stigma… "Grinding" featuring the neptunes was all about f**king drugs…and we’re there sing that sh*t… its heart breaking for the honest legit ones.
Plus the amount of times I go to clubs and get approached by silly white girls asking for drugs…damn !
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04-08-05, 01:17 PM
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These days it seems as though it's cool to be a drug dealer or a pimp which is being glorified in the media (Snoop)giving off acertain status.
I see people driving around in BMW's and Mercedes when all they have done all their lives is mess around and be lazy. I have worked hard taking the academic route feeling that's the right way to get where I want to be. There are guys I know who are worthless but it seems they are living the high life is this fair?
The kids feel by doingthis they can make bigmoney fast apparently a drug dealer can make as much money as someone working on the stock market.
Has society become use to them and just accepted them?
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kudos Liono. It is indeed unfair. I mean im seeing manz(and their wifeys)between the ages of 18-30 pushing BMWs and Mercs knowing full well that they do not a qualification to their name. Believe i get VEX!!!! when im weaving through the traffic on my bruk down bike trying to get to a-b only to have some 'smart alex' cuttin eye at me when driving around in their luxury ride. Only a couple of days ago i saw the school hoe in some top class Merc who got dash out of school, looking at me likepoop on her shoe...fukking byatch!!!!. Its tempting, but i guess my morals and conscience are too strongtoallowme to venture into theunderworld.
ps and you know the majority of 'mr bigs 'are Asian
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04-08-05, 01:20 PM
@chubbymix exactly, Some guys I know had their good jobs working in insurance etc found that it wass too stressful andsuffered racism in the work place, saw that other people were making money selling drugs and did the same.
At uni some people were selling drugs to help them with their finances they found that by selling drugs they were making a fortune andstayed inuni just to sell drugs failing academically every year on purpose. They found that their was a huge market with students and they were in the inside making money. Some students have their lives ruined because they become addicted throwing away all that promise.
A few months back I was walking on the street late at night when a whitekid stopped and asked "hey mate you got any weed"I said no what you doing asking me if i've got any weed you look about ten and he replied "well there's nothing else to do is there".
when I go to night clubs white people always seem to ask if me or my freinds are weselling drugs, now when we see a white person approaching us in a night club we just put our hand up saying no don't approach us before they can even say anything it is very be-littling.
As a youngblack man I would feel embarrassed to drive a BMW or a Mrecedes just because people would think I was a drug dealer why should I be made to feel like that.
I drive a decent carand I get looks from certain blackpeople which makes me paranoid in Manchester especially when I pull up to traffic lights they break their neckstrying to work out who I am and if i'm any competition, didn't anyone tell them it is rude to stare.It's like you have to make news to people telling them what you do ie in the barber shop it should'nt have to be this way.
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04-08-05, 04:01 PM
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Trust me I look at them like the dirty dogs they are.Nobody I know would be looking up to them. Give me a honest days work man ANY day of the week I don't want to be shot in my head like Toni Ann Byfield in no revenge killing. That type of life leads to nothing but pain in the end, aint no black grandchildren of drug dealers at Eton or Oxford because they always lose the money in the end (I say black because the white one's are, look at the Kennedys and some of the others who made their money out of bootlegging back in the day but as doggish as they were at least they didn't spend all the cash on BMW's and gold ceilings, they invested that ish for the future).
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Sorry but you are reffering to dumb criminals/drug dealers... the lil small timers that just wants money.... but the wise onewell they spend it wisely and most of the time they will look as humble as the honest days workman, no gold bling or nothing.... just a nice slk or a big house...
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Trust me I look at them like the dirty dogs they are.Nobody I know would be looking up to them. Give me a honest days work man ANY day of the week I don't want to be shot in my head like Toni Ann Byfield in no revenge killing. That type of life leads to nothing but pain in the end, aint no black grandchildren of drug dealers at Eton or Oxford because they always lose the money in the end (I say black because the white one's are, look at the Kennedys and some of the others who made their money out of bootlegging back in the day but as doggish as they were at least they didn't spend all the cash on BMW's and gold ceilings, they invested that ish for the future).
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Sorry but you are reffering to dumb criminals/drug dealers... the lil small timers that just wants money.... but the wise onewell they spend it wisely and most of the time they will look as humble as the honest days workman, no gold bling or nothing.... just a nice slk or a big house...
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Try telling these drug dealers to give up hustling £10k a day and go do an ‘honest days job’ at Tescos packing shelves for £75 a week!
Like you Blackthought, I don’t really glorify in drug dealing but at least they don’t hassle anybody. OK they make their presence felt but they do not force anybody into taking drugs. If you no to a drug dealer, then no means no! Full stop!
Try telling these Jehovah’s Witnesses no every time they approach you! My goodness! They spend the entire day trying to persuade you to say yes.
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Trust me I look at them like the dirty dogs they are.Nobody I know would be looking up to them. Give me a honest days work man ANY day of the week I don't want to be shot in my head like Toni Ann Byfield in no revenge killing. That type of life leads to nothing but pain in the end, aint no black grandchildren of drug dealers at Eton or Oxford because they always lose the money in the end (I say black because the white one's are, look at the Kennedys and some of the others who made their money out of bootlegging back in the day but as doggish as they were at least they didn't spend all the cash on BMW's and gold ceilings, they invested that ish for the future).
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Sorry but you are reffering to dumb criminals/drug dealers... the lil small timers that just wants money.... but the wise onewell they spend it wisely and most of the time they will look as humble as the honest days workman, no gold bling or nothing.... just a nice slk or a big house...
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The big timers are really not dumb as what you may think, they are street smart and sharp....
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