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He he, blazin the chung bro, I hear you, burn and relax bro. AND I back what you said. Cummon, theres more out there than pop...I just cant find the cutting edge....part from Dead Prez and our British hip hop soundz comin outta East London...real grimy stuff...musical armagedeon...mashed up beats to...

All this makes interesting reading, an education for me really...cos I'm in London Uk. Things are different here..same same but different. The initial thread of this discussion was the supposed link between drugs and gangs, that the assumption is that they go together. I was interested to learn that...

True. Homeboy Industries and Jobs for a Future represent hope and a future. Access to meaningful employment, access into counselling, and finding a path toward a life worth living. He is a good man who heads up a good organisation which saves lives.

This conversation is DULL, lively up yourselves! Is it cos we old boys and got boring?

Right, me got it. So is 50 a wanker and a wanksta? Does he think he's hard, act hard, try to look hard, but really he can't wait to go slap his thang?

I don't hate Emo as a real person, just the bollocks man, just the hype, I was messin too, ventin my spleen, yunno, its fun, 'specially when some geezer sets themselves up like Em, he's gotta expect a lashing - I'd expect a lashing if I were him. But seriously, I am a respecter of women, for example...

Rap isn't dead, its just a commercial smokescreen hiding the real stuff, as you said, 50, Jah Rule, blah blah etc. Under that there are real poets - Dead Prez for example. Listen, get on the net to find sounds comin from LOndon, UK...Dizzee Rascal, Wiley etc true grimy, with an apocalyptic sound, ch...

I've been reading about gang culture in Manchester. -was reading about an ongoing war for the last five years between the Gooch Close gang and the Pit Bull gang. Lots of fatalities in that time. Does anyone know more about these and other crews?, cos its second hand from me...just to carry on the th...

Could you imagine 50 Cent rhymin about social justice, social change...haha....all those false breasts and bling feckin bling just get in the way. Make way for new hip hop, make way for the new East London scene - grimy as it comes, conscious and feck the bling

Tatta, I hear you. Your right of course, i know this. But, I can't help believing in change, I can't stop hoping for the future. We human beings and all are capable of the worst and the best acts. What would it take to galvanize a new sense of unity between groups toward the purpose of freedom, cos ...

Hey peeps, i'm thinkin, the gang wars of the last decades are a political construction - a way of keeping the poor killing each other for dirt, a way to keep the poor from fighting the real war - not the wars on the streets between whatever sets, not the wars stared by the government in Iraq, but th...

Who gives a flying f*ck. F8ckin' loosers, the lot of them. Get radical, thats all.

Cummon peeps, think about it, this is a really stupid question, really dumb. Who cares?I dont wanna waste my time with stupid questions BUT...what if the question was....If B's and C's united with Mexicans and fought the real war...that is, the war against the historical weight of social injustice, ...

Hey, heres a thing - 50 Cent has a tune called 'Wanksta' right? You may not know that in the UK, we have a word 'wanker', which means 'a person who masterbates a lot'! Wanker is used in the same way as, for example, f***er. So when 50 is singing about wankstas, does he mean serial masterbators, or i...

For me, an old boy, there's nothing better than Boogie Down Productions and KRS1 and Public Enemy - real radical, conscious and better than the new stuff (for me). New stuff wise, there's Dead Prez and ....well thats it

Ha Ha...Wigga's r funny man! And another - how about wastas? In the Uk there has been more white people growing dreadlocks the last ten years than black people, so does that make em wastas? Actually, many are 'Travellers', who live in old buses in the countryside and would give me a kickin if I call...

Imagine a hundred years from now....the sons and daughters of the sons and daughters of..the gang bangers of today may have turned the tide..why..because human beings cannot thrive in the gang mentality. I mean, fuck! You red, me green, he blue, so that makes beef. I mean if the culture didn't exist...

Soundbite from London - I call 50 Cent 25 Pence, (In the pub!). The last guy is right, he got shot, why does that represent credibility? Anybody can get shot, wrong place, wrong time...does that make them any more 'real' than those of us who 9thank God) have never been shot? It's BS my Americam frie...

Soundbite from London - I call 50 Cent 25 Pence, (In the pub!). The last guy is right, he got shot, why does that represent credibility? Anybody can get shot, wrong place, wrong time...does that make them any more 'real' than those of us who 9thank God) have never been shot? It's BS my Americam frie...

Soundbite from London - I call 50 Cent 25 Pence, (In the pub!). The last guy is right, he got shot, why does that represent credibility? Anybody can get shot, wrong place, wrong time...does that make them any more 'real' than those of us who 9thank God) have never been shot? It's BS my Americam frie...

replyto Duffman - Yup, I guess those loyalist areas of Belfast must surley represent some of the meanest streets in the UK, but are those paramilitary groups gangs as such - have they translated into crime more than, er, politics (thats what they would have called it, if you call politics murdering ...

Soundbite from London, UK. Eminem is a wanker man, he's a jumped up little oik and full 'o shite. his delivery is bollocks, his lyrics crap, his tough guy stance... don't make me laugh man, the boys soft, pure soft. without his big mouth, if he were a kid from the estate (you say projects your side ...

Soundbite from East London, UK. I like the last reply, the lad who says he tryin not to say nigga, but use dogg or homie instesd. You tryin friend, nice one bro. I dont use the word, I hate it when I hear young black people using the word and I hate it even more if a hear a white person using it. Us...

The word nigga has been reclaimed from the hate of the opressors of history. But does that make it positive if used by a black, white or asian person. In my opinion - NO. Move on peeps, move on. There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.....

At the end of the day....arguements for and against 'nigga'...the arguement for the use is, in my veiw, flawed. True, black people must never forget history or the origins of the word and who perpetrated the hate BUT, at the end of the day... the word denegrates and demeans, even if it has been recl...

Hey Snowman, Listen, you right and you wrong. True, Preston has tensions, but unlike Burnley, when the BNP tried to march thier this year, they got chased out of town. Lads I know, Asian And white, chased them out of town. It ain't a no go zone tho, simple as. And, I'm not a smartarse. I also know I...

I'm from East London, UK. I'm British Italian and live in Hackney, which is a multiracial borough in London. Here it is not as racially divided as in LA, but some divisions exist. The community is made up of West Indian (Jamaican and other West Indian Islands), Black British, White British, Vietname...

Have a consultation with G Dog (Greg Boyle) from Homeboy Industires in East LA. He talks more sense than a 1000000 heads of police. He says, 'hating gang members is not the answer'. He hates the lack of social justice which have lead to the formation of gangs. Time to get radical and politiacl peeps...

What can be done to help people out of gangs? Hell, the gang life is hard to leave, but at the end of the day, it ain't set in historical stone. Everything can change - the only thing that remains the same is change. After all, it all blew up in the early seventies, why can't it die in the noughties...

Crips were never a political group of teenagers! Mythology man! Believe wot ya like, but its like this - they were a rudimentary gang and became a series of associated gangs, deadly, having to hide any intelligence, dull, predictable - and dumb looking - so sick of macho posturing - got no creativit...

I was browsing through the gang stuff for the UK and I found it wanting, there is a growing underground of gang membership in Hackney in East London, effecting a significant number of 'at risk' young people. More of that in a moment. Some uninformed person said that they knew of no 'no go zones' in ...