why are the urban youth obsessed with scarface?
DJPrestige
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just wondering. my boy and i were speaking on this today. he's from seattle, but visiting here, and asked me about it. said he sees dudes wearing 3xl scarface white leather jackets out there. i see tons of kids in my neighborhood rockin scarface jackets, tees, cell phones...what the dilly yo?
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I know but this is what they like, well for the most part. And 50 cent, g-unit, dipset.
i understand that this is what "they" like dee..but seriously, why? there are better heroes out there than scarface, seriously. i mean i liked the movie when it came out, but i didn't want to live the life. i was 14 years old, and the last thing i wanted to do was pick up an uzi because scarface said so. that and my parents would have kicked my ass.
my lil bro just graduated high school and is into this trend.
if they had scarface joints back when i first discoved the movie, i probably would've copped.
Tonight I was boxing day shopping at The Eaton Centre and a 50 year old dude bought a framed poster of scarface at one of the stores I was in.
Then I walked out the door to goto futureshop and walked into this 15 mins after it happened.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1135638541412&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
Shit is fukked up out there.
That it most definitely is, but we're not talking educated nor informed cinephiles here either... Brian De Palma = hack...
B -
I was gonna ask you about it; someone on another board posted that 2 are now dead?
I just got back from Ottawa late lastnight and thought I'd go do some boxing day shopping. Was in The Eaton Centre and thought I would head up to Futureshop to think about buying a new lcd, the cops were already there in full force 15 mins after it happened. I just got home a bit ago and I've just turned on the news. I walked around the block (Had part of yonge locked down) and went into Play De and talked to Nav for a minute. People all looked kinda all shocked out. I now see that one gurl was dead on the scene. Shit is sad... She was shopping with her mom.
Here's the most messed up thing. And now thinking about it, it almost makes me sick.
About 30 mins later, we went into Swiss Chalet across from Play and had dinner. And everyone working and eating was talking about it. But we all just ate food... Or went on with things, less than 100 feet away from where a girl just died. I didn't know anyone died til I got home, but still. Makes you really think about things...
fucking christ
First, what is Boxing Day? I've seen it on calendars but I have no idea what the meaning is behind it.
Second, at the end of the article they have
[i]There have been 78 murders in Toronto this year, including a record 52 by gunfire. The city set a record for murders in 1991, with 88./I>
That is really low for a city of 2 1/2 million people. Actually that's amazing. Cleveland frequently tops 100 and there are less than half a mil in the city limits these days.
damn
oh well, enjoy:
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Geto Boys - It Ain't Shit Lyrics
Scarface:
Nigg*s hangin' deep on the cut
Sippin' on a motherf**kin' 40 ounce of Gooden
Ain't shit changed in my hood since '86
And 1987 I was swore into the clique
All the triflin' bitches in my hood smoked moes
And all the gangsta ass nigg*s rode vogues
Drop Monty Carlos, El Dogs and Caddy Coups
Firin' up fry flaggin' hoes out the roof ?
Car down crush ? and fresh paint
Eight in the back you hear my Alpine crank
All of my nigg*s they had a truck load of dope
Cause back in the gang you can get it by the boat
It's 1993 new bounds are being broken
If you ain't bangin' then you gots to be smokin'
Cause I remember back when the nigg* had green
Seen him at the pipes and now the nigg* is just a dope fiend
Funny how a nigg*, sold a key or two
Is down on his ass and all of a sudden he remember you
Everythings cool I'm the nigg*s man
Reachin' out his arm tryin' to shake a nigg* hand
But I just walked away and left his shit to hang
Cause back in the game I had a motherf**kin' thang
And that's why I walk with my hands on my dick
A nigg* say 'what up?'
I look around and I say 'This!'
And I could give a f**k if the nigg* gets pissed
Cause if he wants a chunk I'm a get up in his shit
Scarface talking:
Huh like it ain't shit yeah. I thought you knew. It ain't shit.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Scarface:
Creepin' comin' up a yellow stonin'
Put my shit in park and drunk a St. Ises with my homey
Reminisced on fast times past times and shit
Smokin' on some bud I came acroos my nigg* Kick
I gave my boy some dap and asked him what's the haps
Chillin' with this girl and a gat across his laps
I knew he had some drama I didn't even have to ask it
Now where were them bitches at it's time to kick some asses
He told what had happened and now I'm thinkin' F**K
I'm callin' up south acres it's time to get 'em up
My motherf**kin' neighborhood is quick to get with static
Never showin' fear cause these nigg*s never had it
Everybody's trapped, quick to go to war
Quick to kill your ass quick to jack your car
So if you see some shit then I suggest you punch it
Cause what's about to happen you may not be able to stomach
Killers killers killers steady smokin' fry
So nigg* lay it down or die motherf**kers die
F**kin' with my family you dick is in the paint
So don't think that it's shit cause nigg*ro it ain't
Shit to brake 'em off I'm brakin' 'em off with chunks
Siggedy south iggedy acres ain't no motherf**kin' punks
And drive-by shootin' ain't the motherf**kin' shit
Cause nigg*s plot hits after motherf**kin' hits
Killin' you ass for kicks doin' shit for the murder
And since you want me to die you gots to die cause you deserve
ta
Now here take two motherf**kin' slugs (bang)
Cause f**kin' with the kid is the grounds of being drugged
Mister mister Face the hardest nigg* being heard
Cause all I have in this world is my balls and my word
I'm sick of motherf**kers thinkin' they run shit
Until you face to face wiith Scarface you ain't done shit
I'm killin' off you mark ass nigg*s with a slug from a glock
motherf**kers
I'm a born killer, I really thought you knew bitch
I'm slappin' hoes and cappin' fools
It ain't shit
It ain't shit you know what I'm sayin'? Yeah
you should be so lucky you hatter.
Boxing day is just a day of huge retail sales. Everyone goes shopping for year end deals. Something like 1/4 of all our adult population was out shoppin'.
The numbers may seem low, but they are talking about Canadian Stats. I mean, sure.. 2.5 million people... But I always think about how our country is bigger than the US and with 10 times smaller the population size.
It's a British tradition that's filtered down through the rest of the Commonwealth (e.g. Australia, New Zealand), dates back from the time of Queen Victoria when the underprivileged/impoverished would receive cash and/or other goods from the monied classes - it's also known as St. Stephen's Day...
As for 2005, it's just the day after Christmas sale - just heard on the BBC that retailers in the UK enjoyed one of the busiest/most profitable days of this past year on the 26th...
Exactly. Kids do deserve some credit, I think. Look back to the late '80s. For most of us, our obsession with NWA would have lead us into copping an NWA shirt rather than acting out their rhymes and copping a gun.
It's no different with today's youth and idolizing Scarface. Tony Montana was a bad ass cat who didn't take shit off nobody -- and its that sensationalism that kids are attracted to. Maybe by rocking a Scarface shirt they FEEL like a "gangsta" without actually having to BE a "gangsta."