my childhood was far from carefree, I had a lone mother, we were some of the poorest on the estate. I was bullied relentlessly for it.Be @2GooD Productions be grateful your childhood was carefree, mine was also albeit w/different experiences on the other side of the pond.
What kind of Nokia is this?Back in my day, telephones looked like this:
was many times we got VIP in clubs, but we had to help carry some record cases, or even speakers lol. Man shit wasnt light back then.BACK IN MY DAY....
Rappers had a DJ.
Every live show had a DJ with actual turntables and real vinyl.
When rappers had beef, they made diss records at each other.
Women were naturally beautiful and weren't covered in tattoos and all kinds of fake shit like nails, eyelashes, etc.
Music, TV, movies were awesome.
No cell phones, no internet. Yet we survived. Amazing, isn't it?
Well said. At this point I'd rather go back to the 80s since we have both old school and some new stuff. For example, we had Atari but we weren't on it all day, we went to the arcade if we wanted to play games. Hell, just the experience of going to the video store was fun. It's not the same just laying on the couch being a fat piece of shit, just clicking something on your remote or phone and ordering a movie.During the 80's and 90's there was a lot of imagination in the world. Music, TV, Movies, Comedy. It was of such a higher calibre when it wasnt pushing some political agenda and just wanted to entertain us, usually by mocking the very politics we have rammed down our throats now. I think it was the golden age of entertainment as a whole, not just hip hop. Labels still took chances on something new, it wasnt so formulaic.
We still get the occasional gem of a movie, but they are few and far between these days. Everything has become generic, lacking the freshness and originality it once had, the ones that still have it stand out by a mile. Movies like John Wick, or Ready Player One.
Im starting to notice some more originality even in the drill music, some stuff that gets me nodding(I never believed it would ever happen) but its not all shit.
Im not just an old man(yes I am) looking back on my time growing up thinking things were way better, in many ways they werent, and in many ways they were. It was indeed different. Could I live without the internet? yes, do I want to? No.
Everything is a double edged sword and we often look back on the past with rose tinted specs, but life was so much easier back then, especially for kids.
IN MY DAY we would go to the off license(liquor store) downstairs and spend a good 20 mins looking through the vhs movies that me and my sister would be watching that night. We watched everything, we were well accustomed to horror films by the time we were 12, most were hilarious. Some were pretty impressive like the Hellraisers and the first Nightmare on Elm Street. Then we would play the movies on our VHS cassette recorder with the piano keys.Well said. At this point I'd rather go back to the 80s since we have both old school and some new stuff. For example, we had Atari but we weren't on it all day, we went to the arcade if we wanted to play games. Hell, just the experience of going to the video store was fun. It's not the same just laying on the couch being a fat piece of shit, just clicking something on your remote or phone and ordering a movie.
Shit. That's poor! What about your bed? Did that thing work on coins too?oh shit, just remembered, for a while we were so poor we rented our telly and had to put 50 pence pieces in the meter at the back to make it work