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with the exception of our appalachian and AKA readers, most of us probably didn’t start having sex until somewhere between our mid-teens and early twenties.
still, even though we weren’t actually doing the do as youngsters, we all still possessed enough sexual energy to hold celebrity crushes, play wrestle on the bus, and sneak peaks at our uncle’s playboy’s and fredericks of hollywood catalogs
basically, we each had and did a ton of sh*t that helped us make it through puberty. here are of few of mine.
cinemax after dark
you know, despite how big of a place this channel holds in my heart, whenever i try to recall any scenes from any of the hundreds of sequels to emmanuelle and lady chatterley’s lover, all i can remember are fields of grass and horse stables.
who knows? maybe my parents got hip to what i was doing in my bedroom every friday night and found a way to install a feed to an equestrian on endless loop whenever i turned to cinemax
tatyana ali
although the young champ would blush whenever rudy huxtable was on screen because my parents thought i had a crush on her, ashley banks was my prototype until at least 1994. seeing the banging-ass grown women she’s become has almost allowed me to forgive her for dating jonathan brandis and breaking my heart
biker shorts
for those too young to remember, there was a two year span in the late 80’s when young women would walk around wearing biker shorts everywhere.
no, seriously. EVERYWHERE
to school, to the mall, on the swings…it was like all of the women in the country had a clandestine weekend conference with each other to coordinate this. i mean, one day they’re all dressing like the chicks from the facts of life and the next they were all rocking the same sh*t salt and pepa were in the “push it” video.
then, AIDS happened and they all started dressing like kris kross.
release the den
while it appears to be an innocent game of team it-tag morphed with hide and go seek, those who’ve played it at night know that’s its nothing but a perpetual orgy of chasing, teasing, hugging, and groping. on a positive note, it did help me prepare for white women in college.
“still talkin”, from eazy-e’s “eazy-duz-it”
quite possibly the dirtiest rap song ever recorded, i remember listening to this through my headphones with my eyes closed and mouth agape, shocked and intrigued by the sheer descriptive nastiness.
20 years later, i still have no idea what type of game i pulled to convince my parents to buy this album for me. they were probably too busy wondering why i’d always come home cheesing after playing release to even care.
thats enough from me. people of vsb.com, who and what helped you make it through puberty?
the carpet is yours and sh*t
—the champ
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yeah, i’m first, baby. it pays to be an insomNIAc
1. somehow, i always convinced my mom to let me stay up and watch some random movie just so i could see some skinemax. and even as a horny teen virgin, i knew that i was watching some of the worst sex ever. I mean, lots of pale tatas belonging to a rhythmically challenged 2520, riding and grinding on top of some man who seemed to like it. Add to that the ridiculous orgasm of said 2520 swinging her head from side to side, and I can’t understand why i watched that junk. And you are right, lots of stables, grass, and of course, hot tubs.
2. as for music, my parents were very strict about my music, and screened all of my BMG and Columbia House packages. So, thankfully, the local hip-hop station would play unedited, raunchy music after midnight. And that is where I heard all of the Adina Howard, Akinyele, 2 Live Crew, and a whole host of
awesomelydirty music.Reply
insomN.I.A. Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:45 am
@insomN.I.A.,
i forgot to ads the books.
101 Se*ual Positions-my homegirl stole it from her big brother, and brought it to school for everyone to see.
Flyy Girl- That chick got it in, and had me searching for my own Victor. Another book we passed around because of the sex scenes.
And there was the time I discovered a prono vid in my big brother’s room. That darn VHS
made me into the woman I am todayruined my young, innocent mind.Reply
shay_d_lady Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:36 am
@insomN.I.A., I remember finding
“the joy of s.e.x” in my parents room when I was like 12…LMAO I was scarred for a long time after that not from the book but just the visual of my parents doing that shyt…
I wasnt as big on cinemax ..but I loved the HBO real s.e.x series I was like man are these people and places for real?
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insomN.I.A. Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 7:12 am
@shay_d_lady,
lol. yeah, i watched real s3x on HBO, and the red shoe diaries (i think that’s what it was called) on showtime. i figured since i was getting any myself, i might as well watch it.
insomN.I.A. Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@insomN.I.A.,
oh damn…why did i just realize that i said “i was getting any”. That should read, I wasn’t getting any myself. FML.
The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am
@shay_d_lady,
as a youngster, real sex was a bit too freaky for me. i’d try to watch, but i wouldn’t be able to make it through the segments about the crew of midget strippers in delaware
Big Man Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
@shay_d_lady,
I read “Fear of Flying” at a young age. Not a good move. That was some gross sex right there, but I learned mad new terms.
And don’t forget all Terry McMillian’s books. Mom’s would keep them lying around the house and I would sneak and read them when she wasn’t looking.
The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:57 am
@insomN.I.A.,
I mean, lots of pale tatas belonging to a rhythmically challenged 2520, riding and grinding on top of some man who seemed to like it
lol, sounds exactly like whats going to happen in every freshman dorm tonight
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BLUNTBLAZER Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
@The Champ,
dam i member my freshman first lolololol it was not fun
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hmmm I was so green
what got me through,.. and hey Im still a thug
Judy Blume novels-specifically “are you there God, Its me Margaret, Iggie’s House, and Then again maybe I wont and Forever which my 6th grade clue teacher was almost fired over giving to me…
The lion the witch and the wardrobe series
“little women” oh my gawd I oved that story especially, Joe March I loved her and identified with her even as a young black girl growing up in the hood… but I guess all of these books provided escape from reality…
LL Cool J… he was the first guy i looked at and it made me giggle and nervous and hot and I couldnt understand why……I remember being ashamed at watching his chest and him lick his lips…
the gangsta walk and memphis underground rap
my gawd.. I remember “gettin buck” to the local rappers
Get Buck-pretty tony
Smokin onions-dj spanish fly
skinny but dangerous -skinny pimp
ol school orange mound reppin Ball and G
oh and most definitely, Mr Nothin but Ana.. Mr Crownin me h imself… Playa Fly
and the most nastiest filthiest song I have still ever heard
Dj Paul -backyard freaks I still remember the line.. but that kim and ke ke freak love the taste of dyck meat…LMAO
and of course the bankhead bounce.. I think I developed tendinitis from all the bank head bounce routines we had
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Purplenat Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:21 am
@shay_d_lady,
I wish people still did the bounce. Hell, I wish people just danced like they did in the early late 80s/early 90s. That would be great.
*goes to throw a Soulja Boy CD into a bonfire*
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Nola Darling Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:03 am
@Purplenat,
Go HAM my ninja go HAM!
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
@shay_d_lady,
LL Cool J… he was the first guy i looked at and it made me giggle and nervous and hot and I couldnt understand why……I remember being ashamed at watching his chest and him lick his lips…
lol, actually had that feeling watching the chick in the “doin it” vid for the first time. i mean, there had been other “sexy” videos before, but that one and the chorus was, just…damn
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BLUNTBLAZER Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
@The Champ,
dam around tha way girl wuz my shiiiii LL showed me which chicks i need to be gettin at shiiii “bamboo earings at least 2 pair”
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Dude I would think you grew up down the street, hell in my house, with this list. Big ups for that.
1. My parents cancelled skinemax, but we had the hbo & showtime combo. I used to watch those emanuelle marathons, Lady Chatterly, etc. all on showtime. HBO there was 1st and 10, Hitchhiker, etc. At some point real sex started.
2. I feel you with Tatyana Ali. When I heard she was with that 2520 dude, I was still quoting Andre 3000 from D.E.E.P., so she was crossed off of the list. However, the actress who played Hillary remained.
There were a plethora of women then. When I saw Oaktown 357’s “Juicy got’em crazy”, I was ready to put on a straight jacket. 2 Live Crew videos were like a premiere at Cannes. I remember Salt N’ Pepa’s shake your thang with EU, when Pepa was shaking on that staircase…lawd….have….mer…ci!
My father used to have a descrambler, so I learned to hook it up and descramble those pay per view channels…Jeanna Fine & Asia Carrera began to dominate my fantasies, lol.
I had a few pornos from older kids in the neighbor hood–Ron Hightower’s “My Baby Got Back” was the first series I began to look for. Sean Michaels & Tom Byron gave me my first stroke.
NWA—probably one of the biggest influences (good and bad) of my generation. That Zaggin4Life album got so much burn the tape popped and I had to do ’surgery’. Songs like “Rather be with you”, “Just don’t bite it”, “Automobile song”, etc. were dope & disasterous at the same time. Sometimes I think that alot of the issues of our generation stems from what was an influence on us then and affect us now.
Air Jordans–This was the epitome of ‘cool’ and the very first distinction of ‘baller status’. I had my first pair in 3rd grade and I would continue to get them for good report cards, holidays, and birthdays. They separated cool from lame. Some of the best shoes ever made (aesthetically & application) were released during 88-98 roughly. When my parents decided they were only going to contribute $50 dollars, I would mow lawns, rake leaves, collect cans (lol), etc. All to punish lames with a fresh pair of Jordan Air. Ugh.
Dancing—I remember me and my boys would think of routines to bust at parties/dances (LOL). We would be like those dudes on New Jacks City with the Nike track suits, high top fades, etc. trying to out do everybody up in the spot.
Man, I just miss dancing altogether now (SMH).
Midnight Love on BET. I spent countless Sat. nights when I had no car/license talking to my flavor of the month over classics from Anita Baker, Stephanie Mills, Tracy Spencer, etc. Good times indeed.
Sports—I played baseball since I was 10 thru 10th grade. Basketball during the summer. During this time because of no license/car, there was always a facet of your game that you could be working on until lena from around the block decided to quit frontin’ and give you the drawls.
Black Movies—They were rare then, so when they came out it was like oscar night at the local theater. Every Black kid from 10-20 got fresh to def to make an appearance at the theater on opening Friday or for the late Saturday showing. Until ninjas started shooting the movie theaters up (SMH).
That’s all for now. Goodnight fam’.
Bond. BlkBond.
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shay_d_lady Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@BlkBond, Midnight Love on BET. I spent countless Sat. nights when I had no car/license talking to my flavor of the month over classics from Anita Baker, Stephanie Mills, Tracy Spencer, etc. Good times indeed.
You dont know NAN about no Midnight Love!!! I forgot about that and then you gone slick throw in Tracy Spencer… not Tender Kisses….
Midnight Love , video soul and teen summitt were the shyt as kids.. I didnt even realize we were being slighted on MTV, (Hell If it werent for Yo MTV Raps I would never have known MTV existed) because BET then provided all that I needed….
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:09 am
@BlkBond,
Loved some Midnight Love!!! I used to tape videos offa there…hahha!!!
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insomN.I.A. Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:22 am
@BlkBond,
Midnight Love was the greatest. Do you remember Video Soul and Teen Summit? What about when MTV and VH1 actually showed music videos?
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AkShone Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:23 am
@BlkBond,
I co-sign this WHOLE list, dude.
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am
@BlkBond, I’ve rebuilt tapes before too. The music that was on those reels couldn’t be allowed to die…but that was a tedious, not to be repeated process involving parts from elsewhere in my boneyard of cass-ettes (nod to the Jamaicans up in here).
*dead*@ “2 Live Crew videos were like a premiere at Cannes.”
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
@BlkBond,
HBO there was 1st and 10, Hitchhiker, etc. At some point real sex started
you’re forgetting about “dream on”, and how marty tupper would have a different nude hot chick in his apartment every episode
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
@The Champ,
That show was crazy! It had all of the old t.v. flashbacks…yo, did they ever show his ex-wife’s new husband?
Bond.
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
@The Champ and BlkBond, I thought I was the only one who cared for Dream On. Remember the ep where he and Eddie smoked a J? Both of them were getting they skins in.
And nope, they never did show her husband.
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Big Man Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
@BlkBond,
I didn’t know we could do generic stuff.
Let me include basketball. Me and my friends would be out ’til like 1 in the morning hooping on the court in front the house.
Or, when we decided to bring a little hood to the suburbs, we’d roll two portable goals into the middle of the street and then block traffic with our full court runs.
Man, I miss those runs. Me and my little brother waking up early on Saturday morning to cut the grass and then balling against each for hours until we were ready to fight and couldn’t speak to each other for several hours. Those were the days.
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
@Big Man,
LOL! Sounds like me and my brother. I made up something called ‘first & last shot of the day’ where we would scramble out of bed to see who could make the first basket (no layups) and who could make the last.
Bond.
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@Big Man,
RE: bring a little hood to the suburbs
Shoot, a lot of “suburbs” were just hoods that had a little more money. That was Gardena where I grew up and that was Carson. The kids would get slightly higher end sh*t and get it a little more often…but ninjas were otherwise as hood as ever. So many started thuggin’ and ended up locked up. It’s funny too because it was the place to be in my mind growin’ up, but when I moved away and got a taste of other areas, I realized how grimy it actually was…and it was in decline like what that entire time (I barely recognize the place when I go back now)
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One word. Jodeci.
lawd knows my soul looks back and wonders how I got over. But I STANNED for Jodeci. I’m talkin Word Up. and Right On! pull out posters all over my bedroom, momma I got a good report card can I please go to the concert, I wish my parents would me call The Jukebox(cable music pay per video station), who the eff does Mary J Blige & T-Boz think they are pushin up on Stanning.
That is the first and last time I have ever been so devoted to any person(s) and I look back and chuckle and thanks da lawd that I never ended up as a S.O. to nann one if these dudes.
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:39 am
@Nola Darling,
I had a big poster of Mr. Dalvin on my wall…lol
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shay_d_lady Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:43 am
@Nola Darling, the juke box is the devil…
I still blame it for my heartbreaking crush on Tevin Campbell
they use to play that
“tommorrow” song and “round and round” all the time on that joint…
and then ……
*sniffs*
it still hurts
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
@shay_d_lady, yeah, couldn’t get The Box in my part of town, but I saw the sweet ghettoness of it all at my cousin’s rest, as some local young hoodbooger who needed smut in their life would order “Put ‘Em On The Glass” repeatedly.
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
@Nola Darling,
lol, this sounds exactly like my sister. for like 18 months straight she’d be alone in her bedroom at night for an hour listening to “come and talk to me”
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
@Nola Darling,
Jodeci were those dudes. I used to borrow from the from 11-15. I thought Devante was that dude. HA!
Bond.
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Like Shay_d, Judy Blume books and the novel Little Women helped me figure out girl issues, friend issues and helped me deal with the the ’strange’ new thoughts that were running through my young mind.
I too would sneak and watch Lady Chatterly and Emmanuele, only to be left confused by what I was seeing.
I read a lot of Daniel Steele and V.C. Andrews too…all that ‘he inserted his throbbing member into her pulsating love pocket’ stuff was straight hardcore to pre-teen me.
I also ordered a sex toy catalog from the back of Teen magazine (why the ad was in there, I don’t know). It came in a brown, unmarked envelope. I kept it under my mattress and would thumb through it once a week. lol.
It wasn’t until I first saw C.W., with his big dimples and the part cut into his cesear, in the 8th grade, that I understood what true desire meant. I would ‘primp’ before school when I never did before. When he sent me the “do you like me’ note, of course I said ‘no’ (I had issues, even then. lol) but I continued to lust after him secretly. I wonder what happened to that boy.
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shay_d_lady Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:45 am
@V.E.G., girl I was never a danielle still but I read VC ANDREWS until I swore I had been stolen away from my real family and forced to live in the madness….
LMAO
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
@V.E.G.,
he inserted his throbbing member into her pulsating love pocket
lol, i wonder how much rhythm a dude would get now if he approach a woman at a bar with that line
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Showtimes Red Shoe Diaries.
Judith Krantz novels.
Any album by Prince. How much trouble was I in trying to write out the words to Erotic City? Didn’t get through first verse of Darling Nikki before Mom confiscated that album and called out Prince as Lucifer incarnate… ah, good times.
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WuDaMan Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:52 am
@OneChele,
Had that reacord too.
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AkShone Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:33 am
@OneChele,
Ya know, I always wondered why radio stations would play Prince’s Erotic City and NEVER bleep or scratch the curse words in it. Even as I child, I knew those were “bad words”. It was like Prince had some kind of diplomatic immunity over the airwaves.
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
@AkShone, shoot, for a minute, they wouldn’t censor Isley Brothers’ “Fight The Power” either….
And because you mentioned it, I hit the lyrics sites: two mentioned that whether he dropped the F-bomb or actually said “funk” is a matter of dispute.
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
@AkShone,
Because he is PRINCE! otherwise known as The Greatest. Thank you.
Bond. BlkBond.
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the non-sexual side: RC cars, comics, Hip-Hop, and being a car enthusiast. Fun hobbies, the former two of which I wish I could afford to get back into. I was also becoming a bit of a sneakerhead before being one was cool.
the sexual side (from throwing on that Troop jacket on the first day of 7th grade until I finally sucked some tiddys in 11th):
-the aforementioned juicy tiddy movie on Cinemax or Showtime
-ordered Spice channel about three or four times and pressed record
-go in my parents’ room and watched pops’ tapes
-scored a few smut mags and an issue of Faust at a comic book convention
-Short Dog’s In The House
-As Nasty As They Wanna Be
-”Gangster of Love” by the Geto Boys
-having girls sign the yearbook and throw in they number
-making it a point to get hugs from the more milk freaks I knew at school
and the female teachersOnce I
got a car, learned how to roll a blunt, andfinally did start baggin’ chicks and learning how to handle the phone conversations and missions out with them, I was a kid with a new toy. Would have come in handy with Nathany back in 8th.Met her again when I was 19, but things had changed with her…so that was dead.
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 6:32 am
Oh yeah, just remembered…dirty 976 numbers.
That sh*t stopped after a couple of those phone bills rolled in.
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
lol, as did my pay-per-view ordering career
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Nicki Sunshine Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 8:54 am
@Stuff Ghetto People Like, We had dirty LOCAL numbers, where you didn’t get charged. It was called a party line. One of my friends was addicted. I was always scared/ embarassed that I’d get caught, so I didn’t call ‘em. lol
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:41 am
@Nicki Sunshine, I kinda consider those “after my time” because I wasn’t interested…but my little brother and most of the entire hood would be on those tough. I’ve heard of those still poppin’ as late as ‘05 in this market. One young dude I know caught a case and ended up a registered sex offender off of some chick he met on one (he was 20, she turned out to be 12–really sad).
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1. Judy Blume: I was such a super nerd who LOVED to read. I’d read one of her books in a day. lol.
2. Wu Tang: I listened to everything Wu Tang related…. my friends rode my arse for playing Bobby Digital… and still do.
3. My girls: I had the best group of girlfriends who were exactly like me…. WE had so much goofy fun.
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klysha Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:20 am
@Nicki Sunshine, Cosign on Judy blume books!
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:29 am
@Nicki Sunshine,
“Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” up in this piece!
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Thuggie Luvvie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@Nicki Sunshine,
Repping the “Babysitter’s club” all day, errday!!!
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:48 am
@Thuggie Luvvie,
Aw, hells yes! I even read the Babysitter’s Little Sister series.
And Goosbumps! Don’t even get me started…
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
@all the girls,
…old Troll and Scholastic ordering asnookas…
I should know, I was one of them!
IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like, “…old Troll and Scholastic ordering asnookas…”
Werd, and putting the dentist’s copy of Highlights in my bootleg triple fat goose to read on the yellow bus . . .
Humble_One aka Field Ninja Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
LMAO. I was one of them too. I still have some of my Charlie Brown and Heathcliff books I ordered from them. I use to get my Encyclopedia Brown books from them too.
miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
The book fair game proper!!!!
insomN.I.A. Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
Wow!! I forgot all about Troll!! I got all kinds of stuff from Troll. Do they still have that for kids?
Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
@IVR,
OMG, Highlights! I used to steal those out of the doctor’s office. I never had a subscription, but always read them. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, your girl Cheekie was a klepto in her wee years.
BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
I remember Troll. That was elementary school though.
The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
@Nicki Sunshine,
2. Wu Tang: I listened to everything Wu Tang related…. my friends rode my arse for playing Bobby Digital… and still do.
top five wu albums? you first
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DJ Jimi “Where Dey At?”
Geto Boys “We Can’t Be Stopped” Album
UGK’s “Super Tight” Album
Ronnie DeVoe
V.C. Andrews books
Free Spice Channel movies that appeared on the TV from time to time…lol
(still don’t know how or why…but I didn’t ask any questions)
David V.~ who I had all my classes with in 7th &8th grade.
He could wear some jeans like no other!!!
Friday night dances after the football games
I see ya V.E.G.—I had one of them catalogs too!!!!
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klysha Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:22 am
@miss t-lee, wow someone else who’se heard of DJ Jimi!
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WuDaMan Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:51 am
@klysha,
Pscht I knew about DJ Jimi. shake it like a salt shakah
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:07 am
@klysha,
We ran that cassette single into the ground. It had like 5 different versions of the song, and we killed erry last one of them…lol
Especially the bytches reply. *snicker*
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GiGi Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
@klysha,
do it baby, stick it baby. do it baby, stick it baby. … it must be the stamps, cause it aint yo face.
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:34 am
@GiGi,
YES!!!!!!
Sula Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
@GiGi,
They were playin’ that on the radio this morning… in Memorial of Katrina.
Good stuff!
BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
@miss t-lee,
It’s official. I love you. lol.
DJ Jubilee
Bounce for the Juvenile
UGK were like GODS; the first Parental Advisory tape I bought. Ridin’ Dirty is the epitome of Southern Hip Hop, Life, and Culture
ten points if you can fill in the blank:
“cruisin’ down the street……real slow….(what the *ck are they yellin’?) ________!!”
I’m SOOO Southern.
Bond.
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
@BlkBond,
*snickering*
Marrero?
*full disclosure, I had to google it, but I’m loving the track.
We only got so much Bounce here in TX back in the day, so this is one I wasn’t familiar with…lol
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Lanieanna Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
@miss t-lee,
Pimp daddy……. Pimp daddy…… Well I’m pimp daddy and it’s about that time…. to kik-a-da-funky-kik-a-da-funky-funky reggae Rhyme… I said it gotz ta be betta, gotz to be betta, ………..
V.E.G. Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
@miss t-lee,
Aaaah. Marrero.
Rep that west bank.
BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
@miss t-lee,
No cheating. Thanks all the same… AYE! AYE! Enjoy your weekend.
Bond.
klysha Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
@BlkBond, Awe man I wish I would have come back and read this first….I could have filled in Marrero with no googling LOL!!!!
Man ya’ll are taking me back!
DJ Jubilee Do the monkey on a stick …….walk it like a…dog….. walk it like a… dog…. those were the days!!!!
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
@klysha,
Hey-yah, hey-yah, hey-yah, hey-yah!!!!
BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
@miss t-lee,
what you know ’bout that big chief…lol
Bond.
Lanieanna Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
@BlkBond,
Tell me y u akkin funnyyyyyy.. wit all yo moneyyyyyyyyy… Tell me y u akkin badddddddd… witcho kiddy kattttttttt!
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Lanieanna Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
@BlkBond,
I said ride that _____ a litlle deepa… and the brotha might buy u a beepa…… i said ride that _____ a little harder…. and the brotha might buy u a starter…. I can do this allllllllll day! lol!
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
@Lanieanna,
It’s must be the money ’cause it ain’t yo’ face!!!
Big Man Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
@BlkBond,
In New Orleans, the correct answer depends on where you live.
They could be yelling “Marrero.”
Or “Dat Eastshore”
Or “Hollygrove”, or whatever.
Yes, bounce was wonderful as a child. You couldn’t tell me that wasn’t “real hip-hop.”
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GiGi Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
@Big Man,
i was yelling dat 7th ward. lol
Now I feel like I’m waaaay too young to be reading this blog. I was born in 1988 so I do remember biker shorts, and I watched The Fresh Prince religiously. But release the den? Where they do that at? I’ve heard of Eazy E before but know none of his songs. Although that could have something to do with the fact that I wasn’t allowed to listen to rap or popular radio until 8th/9th grade……
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Liz Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 8:55 am
@Peachy Keen, yeah i dont know what release the den is and im old.
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Thuggie Luvvie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:44 am
@Peachy Keen,
Wow and I thought I was one of the babies of VSB. 1985 was a GREAT year!
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Beez Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
@Thuggie Luvvie,
Indeed it was!!
*blows up 24 balloons for my b-day bash this November*
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MizThickaDenThick Reply:
August 30th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
@Thuggie Luvvie,
Indeed!
I got a t-shirt with Super Mario on it that says “down since ‘85″
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
@Peachy Keen and lizzard,
i just did some intense research on google and saw that release the den is only played in western pennsylvania. who knew? i guess next i’m gonna find out that “murder the rat” was a strictly pittsburgh game too
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klysha Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
@The Champ,
yes I think your research would confirm both of those facts
was release the den anything like hide and go get it????
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Reecie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
@klysha, “was release the den anything like hide and go get it????”
I wondered the same thing. and anything after 84 is yooooooung. wow maybe I’m too old to read this blog. LOL
Hmmm….
Jet Beauty of the Week. Momz had a subscription. I would let her keep the new jawns around, but I had a growing collection the baddest ones in my room. Safely tucked. I still remember the Christmas chick holding the ornaments near her chesticles.
I somehow got a Masters & Johnsons-esque book on chex…for the pictures. I was intrigued.
I still remember pilfering a prono from my uncle’s house in H-town. I clandestinely woke up early in the morning and stowed that jawn away in the family car. Then when we got home, I waited til everyone was asleep. I then went out the back door and to the family car, opened the trunk and got said tape. It was viewed immejiately. Good times.
There were some cougars/MILFs at my church. Me and my boys were on the same wavelength unfortunately one of my boys’ momz was one we were checkin for. That’s when my older women fantasy started.
My mom had some Jackie Collins lyin around. I musta been bored b/c one day I started reading. The scenes were lame but the imagery in my head was on point. I was thinkin…”I would knock that down. Get at me.” Mind you I was still a resident of VIRGINia.
I was in Upward Bound and the field trips were a lifesaver. Rub on some titty meat, get rubbed on, kiss and huggin. It was grand. Some chicks were willing to go all the way at that point. I learned later on I left some girls…”frustrated.” Who knew?
I also had a job at Golden Corral. There was this one thick girl at my job. I just wanted to ogle her titty meat. I was at work EERY day ON TIME.
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Humble_One aka Field Ninja Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:52 am
@Stank-0,
“Jet Beauty of the Week. Momz had a subscription. I would let her keep the new jawns around, but I had a growing collection the baddest ones in my room. Safely tucked. I still remember the Christmas chick holding the ornaments near her chesticles.”
I think these helped every black dude through puberty. My boy had the pages on his wall like wallpaper.
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
So did my cousin and my homeboy’s cousin. Jet beauties weren’t smut enough for me, LOL…but it was a reason to even bother firing a Jet open (never knew what the elders saw in subscribing to them). Sh*t was like the Black National Geographic, so many houses would have mad Jets dating back to 1962.
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja,
I think these helped every black dude through puberty
it also helped at least 30 white kids at st. barts middle school “discover” black women, cause they’d crowd around me like vultures whenever i’d bring a jet to school
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja,
LOL! One of my best friends did this. Remember that was the first thing you would turn too…p.46. Good Times.
Bond.
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Blacklaw Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:26 am
@Stank-0, Church…preach on bruvah that beauty of the week was the realest thing eva. I liked reading the little bio at the bottom i.e. “I love having fun (Ima freak)” or “enjoy aerobics (Im real flexible)” or “studying to be a nurse ( currently strippin)”
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
@Blacklaw,
LOL
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Beez Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
@Stank-0,
See, yall the bad kids that made Upward Bound bad for us! Our “counselors” had the nerve to put tape on the outside of our doors after nightly check in, because they had an “incident” where a girl got pregnant on their watch…
…why didn’t she just blame it on the pool?
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Stank-0 Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
@Beez,
You don’t know the half of it. One got busted for stealin from Target on the regular. I know I bought some boosted items. Kids in my group were gettin it in. One kid got busted during a party out of state. Another got this girl kicked out of her summer program. Hear him tell it he was bucket nekkid when they came in the door.
I remember bein 18 at the Four Seasons at the Lake of the Ozarks with this big chested girl in my bed. At the time, I didn’t believe breasts could be that big.
My boy had this girl beggin to get it in. I dunno why they left us to our own devices in Upward Bound.
We prolly did ruin it for subsequent classes.
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My Ma’s Human cecksuality book. I used to sneak that jawn. Illicit fantasies of GROWN @$$ WOMEN (my teachers n $#!+. 1-800-grab-an-@$$ (we was just grabbin meat in jr. high. T.E. mh mh mh this bad light brown caramel biddie thought I loved the smell of the baby powder on her unh unh I was sneakin a peak in her shirt. Sneakin a peak @ HBO late @ night. mh mh mh
*grinnin and $#!+*
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WuDaMan Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 9:38 am
@WuDaMan,
Oh and how could I forget. Jackin (nowdays they call it jookin in CHI), Disapearing Acts (one of the few books I have ever read). The Touche` stories. Touche was the ladies man of the block. This dude was rumored to have hit the old lady down the block the new big bootie girl on the block (matter of fact she paid Frank to wait for Touche` so he could get it in… Frank was supposed to be trying to get it in too). And we gave him the name Touche` cuz he was rumored to have gotten some in a crowd of people @ school. And found pron. (I remember gettin busted w/ this. When the whoopin went down, I remember the end of the belt flying around and hitting me in the eye) mh mh mh
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
@WuDaMan,
Bang Bang Bang Skeet Skeet Skeet!
Let’s go to the Mo’…Uh OH!
I LOVE Chicago Juke. I remember when I got to college cats from the D would challenge them to juke vs jit danceoff when we were tore up from the club. LOL!!! Good Times.
Bond.
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
@BlkBond,
STOP IT! Got me jukin’ in my seat at work.
“Bang Bang Bang Skeet Skeet Skeet! ”
This right here. I love how back when I danced to this I had NO idea what “skeeting” was. Ah, the bliss of ignorance and innocence.
“Let’s go to the Mo’…Uh OH!”
WHAAAAT, let’s go to the mo’. Loves it.
WuDaMan Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:25 am
@WuDaMan,
Nasty music
Time for the percolator
Doo Doo Brown album
Prince purple rain album
AMG
Too Short
Ice T
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Humble_One aka Field Ninja Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:16 am
@WuDaMan,
Time for the percolator
Doo Doo Brown album
I thought these albums were only big in Detroit. We use to sing “Its time for the percolator” in HS when the teacher turned her back to annoy her.
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:23 am
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja,
“I thought these albums were only big in Detroit.”
Boy, naw. Chi-town STILL jukes to this mess in clubs. Especially the percolator. When they ish comes on at the club, folks get too wild. I love it.
Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
@Cheekie, WuDaMan, and Humble_One,
Percolator was how I learned the midwest was another world on my family Milwaukee trip.
To this day, I’ve NEVER heard that song played in SoCal.
Humble_One aka Field Ninja Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like,
“Percolator was how I learned the midwest was another world on my family Milwaukee trip.”
This is true. People like to think of the midwest as kind of monolithic but it isn’t. St. Louis is nothing like Detroit but they are both in the midwest. Even in Detroit you will get a different outlook on the city depending on who you are around.
Big Man Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
@WuDaMan,
I got sent to the guidance counselor in elementary school cause this teacher with some massive tiggle bitties caught me thrusting my groin at her behind her back. I saw her a few years ago. She remembered me. lol.
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WuDaMan Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
@Big Man,
cracking the faulk up. incredible. @ least you ain’t start hitting that. I have heard too many stories…
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other things that shaped my youth
1. Judy Blume
2. HS football games
3. School dances
4. Basketball–I played basketball from 7th-11th grade, and loved every minute of it.
5. books other than Judy Blume. B/t the ages of 12 and 18, I read so many books about so many things. Enders Game, A Wrinkle in Time, The Chronicles of Narnia series, Harriet the Spy, Bridge to Tarabithia etc. and even though I read Flyy Girl, I preferred scifi/fantasy/thriller/kids getting into trouble type of stuff. Even now, I prefer that kind of fiction. Which is why I love HP!!!
6. Black Sitcoms–it’s what i miss the most about my youth. Cosby, A Different World, Fresh Prince, Roc, Living Single, Martin. We had several sitcoms on network tv back in the day, now, i can’t name one black sitcom on any of the big networks. It hurts my heart. At least TVOne and TVland airs reruns of most of these shows.
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I remember in 5th grade our teacher threatened to take any kid she heard singing Salt and Pepas “Push It” out behind our classroom trailer and beat them with her paddle (yes paddling kids was still legal back then).
Bel Biv Devoe & Jodeci definitely helped get me through some critical years of my youth….and I remember having the biggest crush on one of the members of Another Bad Creation (which is really disturbing since I’m older than all them has been jokers)
I’m from the south so bass/booty music ruled…we used to have these parties in my town called teen jams where they played Uncle Al, 95 south, Luke etc in abundance. The glorious years when I learned the art of backing it up on a dude….memories…
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
@klysha,
I remember in 5th grade our teacher threatened to take any kid she heard singing Salt and Pepas “Push It” out behind our classroom trailer and beat them with her paddle (yes paddling kids was still legal back then).
lol, even if you were whistling the chorus? or playing hoops at lunch and asking your slow teammates to “push it”?
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klysha Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
@The Champ,
LOL my 5th grade teacher did not play …her paddle had a name (the Hots) and she weighed like at least 475 lbs..and that’s being seriously conservative so people didn’t really try their luck like that with her….lest she take you out back just for testing her….she had folks scared to ask for a push up pop when we had snack break….LOL
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Bootleg Cable. Not only did I get my 12yo rocks off, but I video taped them and sold them to my friends.
What you called release, we called RCK (Run Catch and Kiss)
Huge Biggie and Jay fan to this day
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:14 am
@Peysonic Temple,
I was lost too when he was talking about “release the den”. The game you’re describing as RCK, we called Hide and Go Get It.
LOL!! It’s basically all the same, everyone just had a different name for it.
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AkShone Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:49 am
@miss t-lee,
“It’s basically all the same, everyone just had a different name for it.”
Right…where I grew up, we called it: Catch a girl, get a girl.
…it was always that one girl that didn’t put up that much of a fight to get caught. Last time I went back home to visit, I heard she has 4 kids and 3 baby daddies. I see some things never change.
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am
@AkShone,
LOL!!! There was always that ONE girl…who never ran fast enough…on purpose. Lucky for ya’ll right?
The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
@AkShone,
…it was always that one girl that didn’t put up that much of a fight to get caught
lol, and one guy who’d always be a bit too aggressive when catching, and would be violently dry-humping when everyone else would merely grab and hug
AkShone Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
@The Champ,
LOL.
…unfortunately, he’s probably doing 6 to 12 on a s3xual assualt charge now.
Ahhhh, it’s funny how childhood
behaviors can be an indicator of future actionsbrings back so many memories.GiGi Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:25 am
@miss t-lee,
yeah, we called it “catch, kiss, get a lil bit”
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@GiGi,
See!!!! Different name, same game.
BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
@miss t-lee,
LOL!!! Do I know you?!?! (seriously)
Bond.
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
@BlkBond,
I don’t think so…
IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:08 am
@Peysonic Temple, “What you called release, we called RCK (Run Catch and Kiss)”
I wonder if this is the same as manhunt . . . we used to play manhunt football team vs. Cheerleaders back in High school . . . everyone ended up coming back all suspect looking after the game BEEN over LoL
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Blacklaw Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:22 am
@IVR, its messed up how the ugly dude would wanna keep playin when everyone had clearly begun what they came there to do….oh kids can be so cruel
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
@Peysonic Temple,
“Bootleg Cable. Not only did I get my 12yo rocks off, but I video taped them and sold them to my friends.”
LOL, yeah everybody knew that ninja that worked for a cable company where I was from. Ain’t NOBODY had an actual cable box yet had cable channels up the ying-yang.
I remember uncovering the muddled pron where it’s all fuzzy, but you can still kinda see it and it clears up a bit every so often. lol
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Tx10inch Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
@Cheekie,
Ahhh, the “muddled pron”. The key to me and my little brother’s survival through the horny, but stuck in the house puberty stage…If we saw a clear shot of a nipple or heaven forbid a full teat, we could go to sleep happy
and relievedwith a smile on our faces. *shrugs* at 13 we were easy to please.Reply
yeah cinemax after dark was the key for quite a few people. tatyana ali was cool but reagan gomez was the truth. thats the only reason i watched the parent hood. it surely wasn’t for faizon love or robert townsend.
i will never forget the day i found my dad’s pron stash. it was under the bottom drawer of his file cabinet in his office. what the hell was i looking for there for me to find it? it doesn’t matter. my life was forever changed that day. lol
also my older sister’s victoria secret catalogs. *don’t judge me* lol
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
@Tunde,
tatyana ali was cool but reagan gomez was the truth
those are fightin words
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The bra and panties section of the Sears catalog.
The swimsuit section of the Lane Bryant catalog
Patra’s Queen of the Pack video
Rayvon’s Bounce video
The Ebony magazine feature of SWV in 1993
Peg Bundy
The En Vogue Never Gonna Get It video
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8th Wonder Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:52 am
@Scipio Africanus,
Not Peg Bundy, though.
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@8th Wonder,
peg bundy was actually kind of sneaky sexy. as was marge simpson’s voice
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8th Wonder Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
@The Champ,
uh-uh.
Blacklaw Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am
@Scipio Africanus, I prefer “romantic Call” by said dancehall chick, biggup to Pac and Yo Yo
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:21 am
@Scipio Africanus,
“The En Vogue Never Gonna Get It video”
Whoo-whoo, whooo whoooooo!
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Humble_One aka Field Ninja Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:48 am
@Scipio Africanus,
“The En Vogue Never Gonna Get It video”
I’m still trying to figure out the name of the one with the banging backside in the “Hold On” and “Never Gonna Get It” videos.
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
@Scipio Africanus,
Yeah… I remember having insane conversations on how Al Bundy was stupid not to be knockin’ the walls down on Peg Bundy,lol. Peg Pundy was a sexy MILF.
Bond.
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AkShone Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
@BlkBond,
…yeah, Peg was a lil’ thick. Al was buggin’.
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Tx10inch Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
@AkShone,
…yeah, Peg was a lil’ thick. Al was buggin’
All day long..
who and what helped you make it through puberty?
1) Sports – football, basketball, stickball, and baseball
We had some of the greatest 2-hand touch w/ sideline tackle games. We also would play tackle at the park every week with different blocks playing against each other.
2) Black Sitcoms
The Cosby Show, Martin, Fresh Prince, A Different World(I watched this show just to see Dwayne Wayne’s kicks. His shoe game was sick)
3) Hide and Go Get it
I’m still traumatized by the time I found “M”. I was looking for this other girl I had a crush on. “M” was a big girl – groping me and dry humping me. I was trying to get away but couldn’t because she was bigger and stronger. That girl also accused me of breaking her EK’s when we were playing outside.
4) Sneakers
Either hustling or begging my parents to get hi-end Nikes, Reeboks, or Adidas. I wanted Force, Flights, Pumps, Jordans, and Ewings so bad. Mom and Dad wasn’t dropping $100+ on shoes for me.
5) RC cars and video games. We had turbo hoppers, porsches, whatever on the block. Game Boy, Sega Game Gear, Atari Lynx, we played with them all. Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System and Genesis also held us down.
6) Nerfoop
If you didnt have one of these in your room you missed out. My brother and I had battles on it. Dunk contests, 3-point contests, and regular one on one went down in the bedroom.
7) Word Up, Right On, and the other rap magazine I can’t remember. I had Kane, NWA, Salt n Pepa, and other rappers all on my wall.
These pants helped me to appreciate women in another light. You could go to the mall, chill in the hood, whatever and see women wearing these. I remember when the girl next door to me came outside with a pair on all the dudes on the block lost it. I still remember they were black with a turquoise stripe on the sides.
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:35 am
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja, “1) Sports – football, basketball, stickball, and baseball
We had some of the greatest 2-hand touch w/ sideline tackle games. We also would play tackle at the park every week with different blocks playing against each other.”
Did folks play suicide on the handball courts? I remember this game causing folks to be limping all through class . . .
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
@IVR,
Did folks play suicide on the handball courts?
what was your version of “suicide”?
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
@The Champ, “what was your version of “suicide”?”
Everyone would get on the handball court or any wall pretty much. . . you throw the handball against the wall and have to catch it . . .if you dont catch the ball but it hits you, you gotta run and touch the wall before you get “pegged” . . .someone else gets the ball and attempts to murder you with it . . .we also played kill the man with the ball . . . I know others played this under different names . . .I think 2520s called it Smear the Qu**r
IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:42 am
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja, “6) Nerfoop
If you didnt have one of these in your room you missed out. My brother and I had battles on it. Dunk contests, 3-point contests, and regular one on one went down in the bedroom.”
My brother and I made hoops out of wire hangers and duct taped them to the wall and used a bunch of socks taped together . . . when it got nice outside we hung a garbage can from the gate and played ball on a 4 foot rim . . . then the kids on the block got together and made a basketball hoop out of a milk crate and pieces of wood that we acquired around the hood . . . we had to transport this monstrosity of a thing every time we wanted to play ball . . .D@mn I miss brooklyn.
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Humble_One aka Field Ninja Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
@IVR,
I started out with the hanger and stepped up to the nerfoop. I hooped on milkcrates also. It’s crazy how people in the hood in different cities do the same thing. Everything you said you all did in Brooklyn we did in Detroit.
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja, “I started out with the hanger and stepped up to the nerfoop. I hooped on milkcrates also. It’s crazy how people in the hood in different cities do the same thing. Everything you said you all did in Brooklyn we did in Detroit.”
Yep, hoods are universal . . . Refused to believe it as a stubborn New Yorker for a lot of my life but after living in a hood in Anchorage Alaska you kinda see we all do the same sh!t in hood scenarios.
The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja,
It’s crazy how people in the hood in different cities do the same thing. Everything you said you all did in Brooklyn we did in Detroit
yeah, this is true. we just had different names for it.
Big Man Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja,
I know you from Philly, but homie we could have grown up on the same block.
Epic nerf basketball games with my brother to the point where ninjas was breathing hard and sweating. Crazy good times.
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Let’s see . . .
As a youngin growing up with the grandmother we didnt have any movie channels so BET UNCUT was my joint.
Then there was that Jade video . . . I think it was called Don’t walk away . . . First superstar crush . . . still get chills when the song comes on in the radio once every 2 years.
Once the aunts and uncles started making money and moved out to Long Island I don’t think I spent another non-school day in Brooklyn. Skinemax, red shoe diaries, sh!t I even used to watch spice channel and they HAD no descrambler so I was just waiting for a taytay to pop up through the snow.
Have to co-sign the Tatyana Ali deal . . . especially since she’s Panamanian like ya boi . . . Karen Parsons too . . . especially in that movie with one of those Wayans dudes back in the days.
The “spanish” channels on Saturday mornings . . . frruck a cartoon . . .these is half nekked chicks jumping around. . . way to start the weekend!
Had a crush on this girl Lourdes in Junior High School . . .made a tape off of the quiet storm on WBLS but didn’t have the cojones to give it to her so I just listened to it on my walkman on my way to the bus stop. Then her pops got shipped off to Germany and i NEVER saw her again . . .damn
Umm . . .outside of that . . .
Biggie – Ready to Die was my anthem as a ute . . . saved up my dollar a day allowance for lunch until I had 5 dollars to buy it from the African Man at Fulton Street. That week without my butter crunch cookies was a beast.
Jansport Strings . . . what the hell was everyone thinking beating people up for Jansport Strings. I still remember switching over from them bags from Bobby’s on Utica Avenue to my fresh Jansport from the chinese store (not the one with the leather on the bottom .. .moms was cheap)
Payless shoes – cause for the majority of my embarrassment as a youth (aside from mom dukes cutting my hair) – n!gg@ are those FAKE hurraches . . .*shudders*
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 10:58 am
@IVR,
“The “spanish” channels on Saturday mornings . . . frruck a cartoon . . .these is half nekked chicks jumping around. . . way to start the weekend!”
My brothers used to do this…LMAO
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:31 am
@miss t-lee, “My brothers used to do this…LMAO”
The funny part would be these girls half nekked advertising detergent and cooking oil . . . Gotta love Univision!
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:36 am
@IVR,
Really though!! And it’s still like that…lol
Humble_One aka Field Ninja Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:13 am
@IVR,
In high school Jansport and Eddie Bauer were the backpacks. This was the “backpack era”. Shoutout to Black Moon.
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Blacklaw Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:18 am
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja, cosign
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:26 am
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja, “In high school Jansport and Eddie Bauer were the backpacks. This was the “backpack era”. Shoutout to Black Moon.”
Yeah . . .mom dukes had me in one of those random schoolbags that ended in sport but wasn’t jansport. With the wack @ss strings . . . Once I got upgraded I do remember taking off a few times to the crib once some random stoop dweller screamed “YO IS THAT A JANSPORT” . . .time to roll. LoL
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Blacklaw Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
@IVR, BET uncut was real funn because i think it took ppl a minute to realize those were nipples tey were showing in them Dr Dre and Nelly videos. The best videos were the low budget ones, ironic but true
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:29 am
@Blacklaw, “BET uncut was real funn because i think it took ppl a minute to realize those were nipples tey were showing in them Dr Dre and Nelly videos. The best videos were the low budget ones, ironic but true”
I hadn’t heard of most of the songs that came on uncut . . . but I wasn’t worried about all that.
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
@IVR,
As a youngin growing up with the grandmother we didnt have any movie channels so BET UNCUT was my joint.
you know, i still remember the night “tip drill” premiered and everyone was talking about it for a week straight. it was like the citizen kane of nasty videos
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overitnomore! Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
@IVR, she’s mixed right? afro-panamian and Indo-Trinidadian? she def looks like she got indian in her, red dot, not feather.
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
@overitnomore!, “she’s mixed right? afro-panamian and Indo-Trinidadian? she def looks like she got indian in her, red dot, not feather.”
I think she is half Panamanian half Bajan.
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BlkBond Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
@IVR,
Telemundo, I think? I remember watching it though. My dude, Buck put me on to the Spanish channel.
I remember Jansport Bookbags. You had to have one if you were ‘cool’, otherwise, you were lame as hell. Tell me about the strings though….I’m curious.
I guess I would have been one of those kids bagging on you about the Payless shoes. I used to think of snaps all summer to come back with for the fall, had kids crying, wanting to fight…LOL. Good times.
Bond.
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
@BlkBond, “I remember Jansport Bookbags. You had to have one if you were ‘cool’, otherwise, you were lame as hell. Tell me about the strings though….I’m curious.”
The jansport came with a few strings on the zippers in different colors. People would buy strings and tie them to the zippers. Folks would steal strings to use on their own bags . . .Folks would also color in the jansport sign . . .I tried googling it but all I got was some NYC fad thread . . . This may have been very local.
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Stuff Ghetto People Like Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
@IVR,
Payless shoes – cause for the majority of my embarrassment as a youth (aside from mom dukes cutting my hair) – n!gg@ are those FAKE hurraches . . .*shudders*
The sarcasm of two 9th grade T.A.s (teacher assistants) was how I came to know shoes that looked like bootleg Jordans were unacceptable in junior high. Part of why I never wore Pro Wings again past age 12. Feet outgrew Payless within two years anyway.
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IVR Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
@Stuff Ghetto People Like, “The sarcasm of two 9th grade T.A.s (teacher assistants) was how I came to know shoes that looked like bootleg Jordans were unacceptable in junior high. Part of why I never wore Pro Wings again past age 12. Feet outgrew Payless within two years anyway.”
Man, my moms wasn’t trying to hear that mess . . . break into stories of how her and her 5 siblings lived in a one room apartment in Panama . . . bla bla bla fine I’ll rock my XJ900s and my Olympias.
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Ok 2nd time this week my post has disappeared. Whats happening?
Does anybody remember Cinderella on Cinemax? Or wa sit showtime?
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Blacklaw Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:17 am
@Humble_One aka Field Ninja, I do and she had a mystical “buhgina” if i remember correctly…..
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Finding out there were chexual subliminal messages in Disney films.
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BlackBerry Molasses Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:34 am
@Cheekie,
YES.
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Thuggie Luvvie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:47 am
@Cheekie,
LMAO! I was watching a “behind the scenes” documentary on Lion King and they said the smoke in the scene where Simba was on the hill didn’t spell out “”S*X”. It was actually “SFX”. The special effects team wanted a shoutout so they placed that in there. Too bad their goofy faces didn’t think it could look like chex. For shame. They had to go back and edit those frames in re-released versions.
Must go find the other “eggs” in Disney movies. I’m a geek for this stuff.
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
@Thuggie Luvvie,
“LMAO! I was watching a “behind the scenes” documentary on Lion King and they said the smoke in the scene where Simba was on the hill didn’t spell out “”S*X”. It was actually “SFX”. The special effects team wanted a shoutout so they placed that in there. Too bad their goofy faces didn’t think it could look like chex. For shame. They had to go back and edit those frames in re-released versions.”
Yup. I always said they were lyin’ ninjas because you KNOW there were chexually-repressed animators and ish up in that staff. I did an entire research project on subliminal messages in high school and found some INCREDIBLE stuff on Disney alone. Like, for one, that preacher who married Eric/Ariel in The Little Mermaid looked like he had a um…a, how do I put this…a”stiffly well-endowed piece” during the wedding scene. The folks behind-the-scenes claimed it was actually his knee, but they digitally removed it in the special edition DVD anyway. lol And also the phallic castle in The Little Mermaid. Girl, I can go on…I stan for that mess. I was so enraptured by it all.
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8th Wonder Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
@Cheekie,
THAT WAS NO KNEE!
LOL, they need to stop lying, my knee ain’t NEVER been in my zipper, what kinda magical pants was that ninja wearing?
I also remember the scene in Aladdin where someone whispers something about having sex. They probably got rid of that too…I hope.
Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
@8th Wonder,
HAHA… I know, right. They need to stop lyin. Why the eff they remove it, then? lol
And yup, I remember the Aladdin one, too!
Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Oh, and I still remember getting all hot and bothered by “Doin’ It” (LL Cool J)…what was I like, 11 when that joint came out? That mofo licking his juicy lips gave me LIFE. I think I had a hypothetical baby from that joint.
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overitnomore! Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@Cheekie, YES! LL and that smirk he’ do, lawd.
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miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
@overitnomore!,
Yeah…back when he had his original face.
Now…it’s just not quite right.
klysha Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
@miss t-lee,
Yeah…back when he had his original face.
so are you implying he’s had plastic surgery??? cuz I’ve said that for years…or at least botox but my friends insist he just aged that way
miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
@miss t-lee,
Oh yea, I’m totally implying!! I know that kat has had a facelift. I don’t even think its botox.
I saw him yesterday on ET talking about that new CSI show he’s gonna be on, and he looks completely different in the face to me.
BlackBerry Molasses Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
@Cheekie,
**rushing off to find a cold shower**
Gawt d@mn, u had to go there!
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8th Wonder Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
@Cheekie,
I still have a hard time listening to that song without gettting tingly feelings. And the video, fuggedaboutit!
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BlackBerry Molasses Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
@8th Wonder,
that damn peach he was eating
*faints*
Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@BlackBerry Molasses,
Ya’ll betta STOP!
I wanted to be reincarnated as a peach because of that.
miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 11:57 am
@Cheekie,
This is when I knew Disney was on some BS…
But co-sign on the LL vid…but I was already like 17 when that ish was out…lol
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
@miss t-lee,
“This is when I knew Disney was on some BS…”
LOL, girl that still don’t take away from the scientific fact that The Lion King had one of the best openings (Circle of Life scene) of any film EVAH. I used to yell out the “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!” even though I had n’an idea how to actually pronouce it or what it really meant until I got older.
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overitnomore! Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
@Cheekie, I used to yell out the “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!” L.M.A.O.
So did I!
Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
@overitnomore!,
LOL. I remember when I went to see this at the theater for the first time and you know how it was all quiet for a lil’ while, flashing the film title…all you can hear is some bugs buzzing and small jungle noises, then all of a sudden this ninja starts screaming “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!”. Scared the sh*t outta me.
miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
@Cheekie,
You already know we’re never gonna see eye to eye on Disney…lol
Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
@miss t-lee,
I know! You see me tryin’ to convert you. It’s all outta love, my homie. lol
miss t-lee Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
@Cheekie ,
I know chick…lol
Sula Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@miss t-lee,
But co-sign on the LL vid…but I was already like 17 when that ish was out…lol
That’s exactly what I thought… I was a Senior in High School…long past the angst.
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Hell, you left out the old stand-by of “playing doctor” and “playing house.”
For me, I got introduced to nubby titties and butts by fast little girls as earlier as five-years old. For some reason, I was always the cat tapped to play “Daddy” or “Doctor” when I was younger.
Being from New Orleans, I also satisfied some of my urges at school dances were girls were “catching the wall” and whatnot. That consists of some of the nastiness freak dancing outside of Magic City, and the girls down here started doing it as young as 10. Or younger if they were from the hood.
Yep, those were good times. Good times.
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
@Big Man,
Hell, you left out the old stand-by of “playing doctor” and “playing house.”
you know, i never did anyone of that sh*t. as a kid, i was more into the group pseudo sexual activities
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Lanieanna Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
@Big Man,
Well Hello fellow NOLA peep! I must say… many people know NOTHING of the Bounce culture here. I may have dropped 50 a time or two in my trip around the block! *hee-hee* ! People who have never been here before are actually shokked when they witness it for the first time
Something that got me through my adolesence were the generous tween drug dealers that were so happy to buy me stuff! I cant tell you how many pair of Reebok Classics and wind suits I recieved from boys from the age of 13-16 years old! Ahhhhh! those were the days.
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shay_d_lady mentioned Judy Blume novels-specifically “are you there God, Its me Margaret, now you know that was my book! lol, art, music, dance and reading got me thru puberty, lol.
also, being the sounding board for all of my friend’s experimental and preliminary ho shyte def got me thru, i was the sole operator on the hot mess line for a while.
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The Champ Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
@overitnomore!,
mmmmhmmm at “sounding board”
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I love the 90’s! So much flair. I loves it, where is Jodeci???? Living Single and Martin, HELLO! There is no quality programming like that anymore.
“Its Friday night and the weekend’s here!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFAhwS-NeNo
Striver’s Row
http://www.strive2arrive.blogspot.com
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Dam this takes me way back
1) Cable: shiii I think we all had the scrambler lol but mines had playboy channel and during the day they played all the x-rated videos. I saw the x rated versions before i saw the mtv version lol. ps did you know snoop had a x rated version of “whats my name”
1a) Rosie Per-muthapukin-Rez: “do tha right thing” “white man cant jump”
2) older siblings: hell mofo yea my older GIRL cousin knew where my unc kept his porn stash so we was watchn it hella confused like “why she puttin marbles in her ash”.
2a) My homie big bro: I neva hada big bro but my homie did so i did to and dude wasa strait pimp and he hada coo black tail collection.
2b) lol my homie big sis: yeah buddy she would come home drunk at like 16-17 and pass out ironically the super nintendo was in her room and i loved me some mario kart/ feelin on her booty, tittys, thighs erythang i think she knew but she hada crush on me anyways but i neva Smashed!….but my other homie did lol
3) magazines: victoria secret, black tail, jet beauty of the weeks, sports illustrated
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This was a good post champ. Whenever someone does a ‘remember when..’ post, I am often intrigued by the people who do post for lack of experience. I always wonder, what were doing during these years. If they weren’t doing anything listed above & cannot relate it speaks volumes to the Black social dynamic as it exists between the 25-33 yr olds. Hmm. Just an observation, carry on.
Bond. BlkBond.
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@The Champ
“with the exception of our appalachian and AKA readers, most of us probably didn’t start having sex until somewhere between our mid-teens and early twenties…”
You never let me down!!!
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I would like to thank many for helping me make it through puberty….But I don’t have that kind of time, so here are a few:
- Usher and 112, for having me in my room with my headphones on at night, acting like Ush and Daron were singing especially to me.
- Emmanuelle and Real Sex…ahh, we had good times until my mom caught me, put parental control on the cable boxes, causing me to snoop and find out what the password was, only for me to be stupid and taunt her about how I had the password, thus causing her to change it agian to a password I never figured out. The good times could have continued…blame it on me.
- The Quiet Storm on the radio, including songs by SWV, TLC, Jodeci, Shai, etc. I almost broke my neck countless times running to my radio to press record on my tape deck every time a hot joint came on.
- My mother’s old tattered romance novels, without which, I’d never have wondered what the hell “his fingers gently played with the folds of her moist flower” meant.
And last but not least, I’d like to thank all of the exponentially hornier and looser girls I met in middle and high school, who explained things to me that I’d never myself experience until I was
more thanold enough to vote.Ahh, puberty….to hell with ya, I’m grown now!
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Things that got me thru..
1) Dirty tapes I’d find (steal and put back) from my parents locked entertainment center drawer. Neva could pick that lock just right so my old man wouldn’t notice, but ahhhh it was worth it.
2) Muddled Pron – Don’t judge me. ( see earler reply to Cheekie)
3) Oh so sexy teenage neighbor across tha street. Anytime I’d see her come out her house I suddenly had the urge to take out the garbage. Any of it. All of it. On anyday. She neva really talked 2 me, she’d just smile and half wave and probably wonder why everytime she walked outside i was takin out the trash. My dad would start to get pissed at me cause he’d see the empty trashcans on the curb when he left for work in tha morning and think I’d never brought them in after the g-men JUST ran the morning b4.
4) “Pam” from Martin — Bedee Bee was Bedee BANGIN. Don’t care what he say, Martin would’ve hit that if she wasn’t Gina’s BFF.
5) BET midnight love — yeahhhh dawg.
6) Cosign on Ashley Banks – Though Lark Vorhees from Saved by tha bell was fine too..(I just neva really watched that show, but I liked her) She look a worn out mess now. SMH
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Cheekie Reply:
August 28th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
@Tx10inch,
Well, ya know I can’t judge ya on numero two. lol
number 4 – You KNOW that was chexual tension with Bedee Bees and Marty Mar. You KNOW it. Remember that “nightmare” he had where they were all over each other. Freudian as hell.
number 6 – I can’t blame ya’ll for the Ashley Banks love. I used to want to be her, she was so gorgeous. Still is very pretty.
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hmm, how did i make it through puberty…ah yes. can i just say *BAND* and leave it at that? y’all know how band ppls do…lol
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how i got thru:
1. my first addiction was harlequin romance novels. my momz had tons of them lying around the apartment. i read them at first cus i enjoyed the stories, then found myself getting guiltily aroused by the love scenes which led to my first physical acts of(ahem) self-exploration. it got pretty funny tho cus I started to make dog ears on the pages containing the steamy scenes since I didn’t want to break my “flow.” i’m sure my mom and my siblings had to wonder why i had a stack of these books on the side of my bed, each marked on the raunchiest pages..(i think these books were also responsible for why i was fascinated with pinkish nipples for the longest..lol)
2. if you from ny, then you know about those dancehall parties in the basements or at someone’s house when the parents were out. all you needed was a stereo, the newest reggae gold, and no lights. all that pent-up sexual energy you came in the party with would have disappeared by the time you left. sex without having sex! aren’t black folk creative!
3. pornos of course. only it started out just wrong. wrong like 40 year old white women with flabby stomachs and loosely skinned arms freakin dudes like ron jeremy. these scenes actually had me thinking sex was pretty gross. later my boys and i graduated to black pornos and the world was set right.
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I’m just a tad bit older than most of the commentators on this site.
1. Paperback version of the “Happy Hooker” in my Mommy’s nightstand.
2. Prince – first three albums and all the lyrics to the Controversy album written in a spiral notebook and sang rauncy like on the school bus.
3. Apple Boone’s Farm – Seven ninjas on one cup (50 cents) at a basement party.
4. Loose cigarettes – Cleveland kids like me come up fast. Started puffing while cornrowing my baby doll’s head and practicing my real official cussin’ skills ’cause “‘dat’s how we get down in the ‘Land”.
5. Dollar dances at St. Henry’s where my “Ola Ray” Jherri Curl was the business.
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Yoooo, I totally had biker shorts in EVERY color. I distinctly remember asking my Mom to buy me some whenever she went shopping. Like no Mom, I need purple ones now. I KNOW you just got me pink ones but they don’t match my PURPLE outfit! Please???
They ended up being my staple at camp.
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Books: Shout out to erryone who read Babysitter’s Club, Goose Bumps, The Wayside School Stories!
Music: Jodeci, TLC because they made being women fun, H-town’s knockin da bootz,
Porn: I have forever scarred in my memory of watching my Uncle Derrick’s flick from the 70’s and 80’s. The best scenes ever in life; Curl Juice runnin and errything!
Freaknik-I grew up round the corner from the AUC so I
couldnt wait to go to collegelooked forward every year..Hide and Go Get- Enough said
Boys and Girls Club- Where u learned bout different thing, did service projects, had a mentor and learned about the opposite sex!
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