- coming to a hood near you
there’s a very pronounced difference between the adjectives “hood“ and “ghetto” and their respective connotations. for many, hood is a state of mind…a practical, unpretentious and, at times, hilariously resourceful way of doing things born from sheer necessity (think erykah badu).
ghetto, on the other hand, describes blatantly ignant and uncouth actions (think random unmarried hoodrat with three kids by three different fathers. in other words…think erykah badu again)
despite these facts, its still extremely difficult to pin-point and articulate their distinguishable traits.
as a self-proclaimed master of semantics, i’ve decided to end the confusion today, offering you all a simple guidebook to help to tell the difference between “hood” and “ghetto”. enjoy and sh*t
kool-aid is inherently hood, especially the darker colors (red and grape).
serving kool-aid at a wedding reception is ghetto, regardless of how great you think black cherry goes with tilapia.
definitely hood
definitely ghetto, and definitely a great advertisement for birth control
tims in the summertime is hood. musty, but hood.
tims at the prom is disgustingly ghetto
chicken places that serve chicken with things that chicken traditionally doesn’t go with (waffles, pancakes, oysters, midgets) are very hood.
chicken places that run out of chicken at 7pm because they’re done cooking for the night, even though they close at 11 are ghetto (is this just a pittsburgh thing? please tell me that it is. please tell me that the kfc’s and popeyes in other places in the country actually still allow you to purchase chicken 5 hours before closing)
carrying a “buck 50″ (a “buck 50″ is a razorblade for those not well-versed in hoodspeak. it’s referred to as a “buck 50″ because a slice to the face usually results in 150 stitches. btw, knowing random sh*t like this makes me feel more black. its not a game with the champ’s blackness. my blackness will kick you blacknesses ass) with you at all times is hood. it’s especially hood if you carry it in your mouth
using that same razorblade for things such as “clipping fingernails”, “cutting salad”, and “changing diapers” is hilariously ghetto
despite having no literary skills whatsoever, writing a well selling book about your sexual exploits as a video vixen is actually pretty hood
being named “supahead” and actually allowing yourself to be referred to as supahead is the epitome of ghettoness. in fact, the name “supahead” in itself is so ghetto, that anything associated with it (including bill maher) becomes ghetto by osmosis.
peeing while waiting in line at the club is hood and a surprisingly effective bagging technique.
sitting down to go to the bathroom at any point while you’re actually in the club, unless you’ve been overcome with a sudden bout of amoebic dysentery, is ghetto
in an odd paradox, the jay-z’s “so ghetto“, off of “volume 3: life and times of s.carter” is actually pretty hood, while dj khaled’s “i’m so hood” is quite possibly the ghettoest thing ever conjured in the history of ninjadom
using a spades game as a viable double dating and/or hook-up opportunity is definitely hood
writing “big” and “little” in big ass black letters with a marker on the jokers because your dumb ass cant remember which is which, is ghetto
“md 20/20″ is hood, until you reach 21. basically, if its legal for you to drink it, it’s ghetto.
breakfast for dinner is hood
the breakfast song? ummm, does the term uberghetto exist?
grilling outdoors while its snowing is hood
grilling outdoors with a robe on while its snowing is ghetto (sorry dad)
having a childrens birthday party at mcdonalds is hood
having childrens birthday party at mcdonalds and making all the guests buy their own food is ghetto
i know i’m forgetting a few. people of vsb.com, what say you? in your opinion, whats the difference between “hood” and “ghetto”?
—the champ
i tried and tried but i just can’t see the difference lol.
this sounds like a case of “you might be ghetto if…” lol
@Gem-nasty,
LOL!!
@K.,
probably because you’re from philly
@The Champ,
**long side eye**
@blackberry molasses,
LMAO!
@The Champ,
co-sign!
@The Champ,
Say what?
@The Champ,
I beg your pardon?
@K.,
Yeah…I gots nothing.
@CreoleInDC (AKA me-not-hood-mingo),
are you from philly too?
@The Champ,
Nerp…worse…Louisiana.
@K., yea, the philly jawns and the young bols be drawlin out there. Actin madd joe.
7 y.o. young bols robbin you is hood
7 y.o. young bols robbin you with a butter knife is ghetto
@Peyso is still confused about twitter,
“the philly jawns and the young bols be drawlin out there. Actin madd joe.”
lol@ this all crazy, ak
Although I’m not sure how “joe” fits here.
@Peyso is still confused about twitter,
LOL
good list, Champie. i’m actually REALLY impressed you pulled this off. i saw the kool-aid man and immediately thought “Geezus take the wheel and drive me off the road”. but you made the distinctions and used great examples. kudos *clapping*
and this…
writing “big” and “little” in big ass black letters with a marker on the jokers because your dumb ass cant remember which is which, is ghetto
…reminds me of the spades party at Poison Ivy St’s when we had that jacked deck of cards with all the duplicates and we had to basically write on half the cards to have a “full deck”. *smh* the things nigros will do to get a game of spades going…
@Gem-nasty, i agree etwin! this was hilarious lol.
i’m mad that timbs @ prom is tims at the prom is “disgustingly ghetto” and using that same razorblade for things such as “clipping fingernails”, “cutting salad”, and “changing diapers” is “hilariously ghetto”
aint it the other way around?
clearly, [the level/type of] ghetto is in the eye of the beholder.
@Gem-nasty, no. i will not accept that in the above case. please read carefully.
using that same razorblade for things such as “clipping fingernails”, “cutting salad”, and “changing diapers” is “hilariously ghetto”
i need to go lay down lol. i caint with that razorblade right now.
@shri fry rye,
“using that same razorblade for things such as “clipping fingernails”, “cutting salad”, and “changing diapers” is “hilariously ghetto””
I hope by ‘hilariously ghetto’ Champ meant ‘nasty’
@Gem-nasty,
“the things nigros will do to get a game of spades going…”
this is another entry in itself. people have passed up sex form spades before
@The Champ,
Is this spades game really that wondeful???
@YGB,
yes
@The Champ,
Oh how I wish I could relate! *Sigh*
you didn’t pass up on it , it just wasn’t offered in the 1st place. no post necessary
And done.
@The Champ,
Spades is not a game. It’s life. Thank you.
@Gem-nasty,
we write the big and small on jokers down in the south, ONLY bec we usually get the deck where all the jokers are the same.
now the issue comes in when someone procures a deck of cards where one of the jokers is labeled “guarantee” but the picture of the joker is small compared to the other. some want to call the guarantee joker the “big” joker because thats a guaranteed book. and others disagree. ive been playing for 20 some odd years and this issue has never been resolved
lol i’ve dealt with that issue too. if writing big vs little on jokers makes one ghetto, i’ll be dat.
@Gem-nasty,
Damn rite! I need a clear distinction on which Joker will trump the other. Big & lil aint ghetto. It’s a necessity.
right! if it’s clearly marked, there can be no pouting or bickering on who won the book when i smack that big joker on the table (or my forehead). cuts down on the ambiguity.
@Gem-nasty,
I feel you, I got the deck that the jokers are the same size… so you gotta put “B” or “L” so I must be ghetto.
@Gem-nasty,
You know fools will still try it like they aint know which was higher, deuce of diamonds or deuce of spades, tryna tuck cards under the pile and tell you they led when yo team made the last book…
*URGE TO KILL RISING*
@Me fail english?
LOL who you be playin with?? that kinda playin will warrant a buck 50 fa real
@Gem-nasty,
omg i do that too! and my family thinks im bonkers (joker to the forehead)
@b*tch who loves the smiley, damn yall know a lot about spades. i need to step my game up. i must be rusty.
@b*tch who loves the smiley, ya folks need to invest in better decks of cards….
the decks i keep in the house are quality (no need for written memos). the ones in the car?? not so much.
@Gem-nasty, you keep a deck of cards in the car too? I *heart* u
@Gem-nasty,
LMAO! Good call! I wonder who brought the cards…
@Gem-nasty,
“…that jacked deck of cards with all the duplicates…”
The Pinochle deck? That got me once too
chicken places that run out of chicken at 7pm because they’re done cooking for the night, even though they close at 11 are ghetto (is this just a pittsburgh thing? please tell me that it is. please tell me that the kfc’s and popeyes in other places in the country actually still allow you to purchase chicken 5 hours before closing)
LOL. this whole thing was a ghetto fabulous mess. that’s def only pittsburgh, and random spots on georgia ave lol. HU!
@shri fry rye,
Naw. Church’s chicken on 103rd in Chicago (SOUTH SIDE!) runs out of wings on the regular. lol. I don’t eat chicken but I do get the corn on the cob and when I am in the drive thru I hear them telling people: “We are out of wangs”…as if they don’t know wings are the most popular chicken part in the hood.
@iloVEGrits,
““We are out of wangs”…as if they don’t know wings are the most popular chicken part in the hood.”
That is some shullbit! I would be so vexed if this happened to me.
@iloVEGrits,
“I don’t eat chicken”
was i the only one that saw that? blasphemy!
@Cornell Westside,
I decided it was better to pretend I didn’t see it.
@Cornell Westside,
I saw it too…lol
@Cornell Westside,
sometimes, u just keep it movin…..
@Cornell Westside,
VEG is VEGetarian so she dont eat chicken. I’d become a vegetarian too but my love of fried wangs wont let me. I’m not a big beef-eater so that aint my concern. *Can’t wait to see who bites this bait* Champ? Aif?
@Luvvie,
I eat seafood people so I am not a vegetarian. Though, sometimes, I get a whif of chicken frying and am transported back in time, to a happy place. I had a dream, recently, that I snatched up the chicken my family was eating, locked myself in the bathroom and ate it all. lol.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
It’s a sign! Your body’s callin for that chicken!
@all philadelphians
speaking of hood, ghetto, philly, AND wings….barber’s hall anyone? it IS tuesday….
@iloV.E.G.rits,
Oh so u’s a pescovegetarian. LOL I remember the time u had a bite of my buffalo wings and felt sick. Thats what u got for bein greedy
@Mr. Westside…
“You know you owe me somethin’….
Owe me back like you owe your rent.”
**Jesus forgive me for quoting THAT song**
@Luvvie,
dont nobody wanna bite yo crusty ass bait
@The Champ,
CLEARLY u did :-p
@Luvvie, I know these people are like. “Who the hell is Aif?”
I don’t know these new ninjas, lmao!
@iloVEGrits, “We are out of wangs”…as if they don’t know wings are the most popular chicken part in the hood.
hilarious! The Taco Bell/KFC next to the United Center…ran out of EVERYTHING and were only selling hard-shell tacos!
smh at the westside of Chicago
@olivya23,
“Taco Bell/KFC”
Mmmm KenTacoHut. When I lived in PGH we used to walk what seemed like a couple miles to one on Forbes(?)
@Me fail english?,
that doesnt exist anymore. there’s a five guys there now
@The Champ,
Exactly why I havent been back. Hmph!
@olivya23,
welcome and sh*t
damn..i love all y’all….got me missin chicken bone garden n shiait!
@shri fry rye,
um jerry’s never runs outta wings…and that joint across the street from la bamba prolly never runs out either…lol i’m right down the street…and jerry’s be hold’en it down
Jerry’s mumbo sauce has made me have a few religious experiences.
@shri fry rye,
oww! me + georgia ave = pit stop at negrils for beef patties and coco bread all day every day.
@shri fry rye, they do this all the time here in the M Town I mean dayum…. the kfc and church’s chickens close to my job and home are notorious for that foolishness….
@shay_d_lady,
They deserve a thorough ssa kicking!
@YGB, My Jerk City run out of chicken, on a regs!
“We nuh av no chicken.” insert screwface * here*
“so wah yu waant!?”
The woman behind the counter was giving ME attitude because they run out of chicken. foolishness!
All i know is if I go there tomorrow, there best be chicken!
@Dope Fiend,
LMAO! I feel you though
@Dope Fiend,
All i know is if I go there tomorrow, there best be chicken!
is it hood or ghetto to fight a chicken place employee because they gave you too much attitude about their lack of chicken?
@The Champ,
is it hood or ghetto to fight a chicken place employee because they gave you too much attitude about their lack of chicken?
This statement just made me LOL! I saw the scene in my head…blacks folks are known to fight over some foolishness…”he forgot to put BBQ sauce on my ribs, so I punched him in the face” LOL
@The Champ,
wow. i laughed HARD at that one! LMAO! they bout to put me out the library!
@The Champ, Yes, and it’s happened on the Wessside too many times to count. That’s why all the KFCs and Popeyes have bulletproof glass. No punchline here, I’m so serious.
@The Champ,
It’s both hood AND ghetto to fight a chicken place’s employee.
@KindredSmile
See why the Wessside scares me? Yeah… I shall continue my exile
@The Champ,
Or whoppers?? Ninjas be callin 911 cause they outta whoppers!! Saw it online. You believe that ish?
@The Champ, Its hood to fight a restaurant employee over giving too much attitude, but its Ghetto fight over not having any chicken.
@Dope Fiend,
LOL. This reminds of one time I was at a salad place and asked for carrots. Mind you, the display case is clear glass with spotlights on the food. Some 6’13″, dead-eyed fool gon lean over the glass talmbout …
[Skeletor Voice]“WE AINT GOT NO CARROTS”[/]
But I can see them! Of course I didn’t say that. He just started scratching his balls and I sheepishly walked home. He lucky I aint seen him out back!
@Me fail english?,
“He just started scratching his balls ”
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!
@Me fail english?,
That’s what ur a$$ gets for eating vegetables!
@YGB,
LMAO!! That’s what I get for tryna support the salad joint that gives ex-cons a second chance
@Me fail english?,
“Some 6?13?, dead-eyed fool gon lean over the glass talmbout …”
*dead and gone*
@The Champ,
Yes I think only in Pitt will chicken places stop selling chicken early. I can’t believe that.
I am glad you wrote this because living overseas was starting to bring my “hoodness” into question. However(while abroad), I have barbequed in winter and keep packets of Kool-Aid. I’m relieved.
Now if only I could appease the officials…
@Ms. Hall,
where are you?
@The Champ,
Japan (Yamanashi prefecture)
@Ms. Hall,
Yamanashi prefecture
this sounds like a VD
@Ms. Hall,
Running out the chicken isn’t even what makes this hilariously ghetto to me. It’s the fact that they have no plans to re-up!
I mean I’ve been to a pizza shop or two that ran outta cheese. But I’ve never seen the workers get indignant like you’re the crazy one.
@Me fail english?,
the lack of plans to re-up and the subsequent attitude the workers get with the customer are what make it hilariously ghetto to me! like, show a little shame about your lack of proper planning!! dont get mad at me for it, i did my job; i came here with teh money!
@shatani,
the lack of plans to re-up
is it ghetto or hood to think of “the wire” whenever you hear the term “re-up”?
@The Champ,
I dunno which it is but I guess we both it since I always start looking for Bodie when I hear “re-up”
@The Champ, Def had a Stringer Bell moment.
LMBO exactly!! like, they (the employee) WISH somebody would get up in their face about runnin outta somethin. they prolly got their buck 50 ready lol
@Ms. Hall,
nope there is this place in gainesville, fl called guthries. i know the employees and lets just say ghettofied!
guthries is known for its chicken fingers and crinkle cut fries. it is also known to be the spot for after club tomfoolery and is supposed to close at 2am. ya know what i mean. but
guthries is also across the street from a pool hall. so on a regular the employees would shut down early say 10pm or 11pm to go shoot some pool across the street or to go behind the store and indulge in some herbal essences.
@b*tch who loves the smiley,
guthries is known for its chicken fingers and crinkle cut fries.
They must got this spot in every hood in America. In Chester, PA it was called Showell’s until some more Chinese people bought another spot that I forgot the name of, that apparently has even BETTER chicken fingers and fries… (note: to qualify as the spot, the chicken needn’t be that good; you only have to be drunk enough to think it’s good)
A white dude at my job saying that his broken speakers are hood, gets a pass from me.
A white dude at my job saying that his broken speakers are ghetto, gets the o_O and the obligatory “what do you mean by that Jake?”
@Dorian G., LOL. so true.
@shri fry rye,
heh heh…jake. lol
@Dorian G.,
Yup.
@Dorian G.,
I agree with this sentiment….
@Dorian G.,
this is true. i dont know exactly why, but hearing a non-black person say “ghetto”, in any context, triggers something in us. maybe it reminds us of picking cotton. or kim kardashian.
@The Champ,
yeah, i had to really reign in my backhand when this blond chick at work was talkin about ghetto this and ghetto that.
i think its because we know what THEY think about when they think about something being ghetto and we know its negrotic in nature…
@The Champ,
” i dont know exactly why, but hearing a non-black person say “ghetto”, in any context, triggers something in us.”
delurking to agree wholeheartedly with this statement.
i be straight ready to snatch somebody.
I can’t count the number of times I heard a 2520 girl say thier hair was “so ghetto when they were having a bad hair day.
I also can’t count the number of times I had to remind myself after hearing that ish that I’m too cute to go to jail for murder.
@Dorian G., I agree… they cannot say the word “ghetto.” It goes up there with the enword.
driving in 60 degree weather with your top down is hood.
driving in 60 degree weather with your top down because it’s broken and won’t go up is ghetto.
@iloVEGrits,
that is a beautiful illustration of the difference!
@iloVEGrits,
LOL!! yep…
1. my friends and i went to maggiano’s and they informed us that they were out of lasagna. at maggiano’s. like, son, thats what you DO! this is an italian restaurant, people stop the madness. and this happened to my girl once before. so yeah, joints being out of the thing they are known for for no good reason….not cool
2. im so hood was like my favorite song i didnt want anyone to know about! it just made me happy to sing it KNOWING how hood im not….hypocrisy rools!
3. you just put a new coat on my blackness with that buck fitty info. im gonna go forth and use it like ive always known. thanks for increasing my negrocity, champ!
4. breakfast for dinner is hood? wow, im so hood! i would eat breakfast for every meal, actually.
@shatani, new coat? i don’t even know what to do with you anymore, shatani. i just don’t lol.
@shri fry rye,
so shiny and new!! its like he put a spitshine on my blackness!
No ma’am, lmao!
@shatani, um…the wendy’s in my area will just randomly be out of bread. BREAD!! i just don’t understand that (it’s hood). but the fact that they will ask if i want to wait a half hour while they hook something up is ghetto.
and what we do when me and the employees sit there starin at each other after i’ve asked, “well…WHY are you here then?”–i’m just not sure what is.
@charli skipper, Bread? Seriously. And how can they hook something up? Jr. Bacon lettuce wraps? Spicy Chicken baked potatoes? Stop the madness.
@Kindred Smile
“Jr. Bacon lettuce wraps? Spicy Chicken baked potatoes? ”
::snickering::
@Kindred Smile,
Jr. Bacon lettuce wraps? Spicy Chicken baked potatoes?
*tears streaming down my eyes*
@shatani,
“my friends and i went to maggiano’s and they informed us that they were out of lasagna. at maggiano’s. like, son, thats what you DO! this is an italian restaurant, people stop the madness. ”
This is like hookers running outta coochie! Makes no sense!
@YGB,
This is like hookers running outta coochie! Makes no sense!
LOLOLOL
@The Champ,
that is EXACTLY what its like!!! and if it ever happens again, i will point that out to the waiter/tress!
@YGB,
OMG!! I’m gonna get fired!!! LOL!
Please warn me before writing such hilarity! LOL
@YGB,
LMAO!!!!!
@YGB,
OMG…D.O.A.
@Me fail english?,
For real though – some things just shouldn’t happen!
this comment made my damn day.
@shatani,
(aside: i LOOOOOOOOOOVE maggiano’s, i live in ny and i will drive to philly or take the chinese bus just to get some of those delicious beef medallions, mmmmmmm family style!)
anywho,
its crazy when you walk into a place and its like late morning, early afternoon and they don’t have something, and its like yo you’ve only been open for 4 hrs, what do you mean you don’t have any tostones!?! papi its 11am, whats goin on? lol
@PrincesMo,
what the hell is the chinese bus????
@The Champ,
Surely you jest
@The Champ,
aka the Chinatown Bus. Round these parts you can get from city to city by going to Chinatown in each one. I remember when it used to only cost 10 bucks to get from Philly to NYC, on the Chinatown Bus. Eff Greyhound.
Now, I love me some Bolt Bus… free wi-fi!!!!!
@blackberry molasses,
Altho’… you have to get those Chinese buses at the most random places. They stop for you at the darkest non-intersection (usually at 4 am) in the most unsavory part of town. Plus Grey Hound also goes down hard!!! They used to hustle those buses quickest out of their bus stops if they even thought they were trying to stop and pick up passengers in their area. The Jewish bus though? That’s the hotness. Same price, only with a designated bus stop. Ahhhh memories of school days!!!
@The Champ,
It’s the bus you catch in Chinatown to get to all major points north between DC & NYC! LOL! A bunch of different buses, all owned and operated by crazed Chinese people.
@PBG Returns, OMG. Can we do a post of crazy china bus stories?
If anyone has ridden the “Today Bus” please contact me lol.
@The Champ,
lol. Something Ghetto. Tell me why that bus stay smellin like kimchi. And the chinese ladies selling tickets are some straight up G’s. If you aint buyin’ get off the block cuz they will manhandle you onto a bus that you had no intention of boarding. They have a few different “companies” (read: Chinese mafia) running the buses and they compete HARD for passengers, esp. when it’s slow. They mighta calmed down now but about 4 years ago one “company” blew up another’s bus in NY. No passengers inside but still. Ish goes off in those Chinatown streets.
But they do got the good movies. And it was my only ride home from school sometimes
@The Champ,
vsb.com: where new yorkers provide daily evidence that new york should be its own country
@The Champ,
Hol’ up! That one’s not even our fault. I blame Jersey!!
Don’t know why but I do. (heheheh)
@Me fail english?,
Personally I feel like Philly was the key to the China bus revolution. NY-DC on Greyhound was the same price as NY-Philly and that made no sense to anybody. Luckily Soo Kim recognized the ability to guap and handled that.
@The Champ,
You are clearly from PGH, EVERY major city on the east coast has a Chinese bus line. I must so that they are quite dangerous but extremely cheap. Philly to Boston for 30 dollars *SMH*
@shatani,
Yeah I was gone say….. I eat breakfast for dinner like 4 times a month.
@shatani, Breakfast is def the meal of the champions.. hand me iHop anyday!
“Candy” painted cars are hood.
“Candy” painted with company logos/colors are ghetto.
Maroon/Bleach blond hair extensions are hood.
Rainbow colored extensions are ghetto.
White girls named Becky with braids are hood.
White girls named Keesha with braids are ghetto.
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes,
um…i think both of those weave situations are ghetto
@shatani,
i concur. lol. any weave that is noticeably a weave is ghetto.
@iloVEGrits,
“any weave that is noticeably a weave is ghetto.”
So you saying most women rocking weaves are ghetto? LOL cuz you know there are too many Yaki connoisseurs who are rocking the Florida Evans up front and Pocahontas in the back. *major side-eye*
Jeebus be some pro styl gel for some people
@Luvvie,
“So you saying most women rocking weaves are ghetto?”
If it is a noticeable weave? YES!
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes,
Candy painted car. I think I know what one is but need some help. lol.
@iloVEGrits,
Here ya go…
http://www.kromepaint.com/candypaint.html
I know I’m hood, I loves the candy!!!
*walks of singing ESG’s “Candy Coated Excursion”
@miss t-lee,
thats pretty!!
@miss t-lee,
“Man I need a scursion or a Navigator” That ESG go oh so hard! (I guess I am a little hood too!) Or remember that “Candy on Chrome”
@Ms. T,
Yes ma’am!!!!
“Candy” painted with company logos/colors are ghetto.
^^^…this shyt runs rampant here in GA. I’ll be in traffic sometimes and think I’m in a Macy’s parade with all the advertising on candy whips.
“Word?! Tide sponsors your orange ’71 Chevy Chevelle?”
NOT a macy’s parade lol
@AkShone, Tide???? WOW>
and I thought they were trippin in Louisville for the Skittles logo.. Yes, he has “taste the rainbow,” on his big body. LOL
@Nicki Sunshine,
My cousin ( yes, I am ashamed) has the skittles theme also with 22 inch colored rims….
@FiveFivewithbrowneyes, Is your cousin in Louisville, Kentucky by chance???
I just cannot believe that other folks are doing this!
@Nicki Sunshine,
A. R. K . is where I stay…. down here we do the lil rock bounce, lol. I just showed my hood side, lol… or ghetto?
@Nicki Sunshine,
“He has “taste the rainbow,” on his big body”
…that’s ghey.
@AkShone, It really is… I wonder if he was thinking that.
champ,
come to 125th street and fredrick douglass in harlem – the popeyes stays open 24/7. and that’s hood.
the dude in front of said popeyes who was seriously trying to pick me up at 3.30 in the morning while i was waiting for my ride by saying we could go to the movies (and i could bring my friends along too)? – ghetto.
also, the uptown ihop (the only one in manhattan) – sidenote ihop is technically ghetto but i can’t resist those darn sausages and pancakes at 4am – stays open 24hours on weekends.
new york 2092132. pittsburgh 0.
@puff,
is ihop ghetto?? sad! i loooove the ‘hop! nobody makes pancakes like the ‘hop….
@shatani,
I didn’t think IHOP was ghetto…it’s almost like an after hours club up in that piece…lol
Funny…the food doesn’t taste the same unless it’s the middle of the night.
@miss t-lee
Waffle House doesn’t taste the same unless it’s the middle of the night too.
Matter of fact, Ima test this theory out at lunch today. Wait is breakfast for lunch hood too?
@V Renee,
You’re right…Waffle House doesn’t have that same “it” factor either during the day…
Have a pecan waffle for me!!!
@miss t-lee,
i feel like ihop at 2am after a night out of ackin a damn fool is hood.
ihop at noon on sunday after church in the same clothes, festive hat and all….ghetto!
@V Renee,
Waffle House doesn’t taste the same unless it’s the middle of the night too.
you know, ive been to waffle house three times and was impressed each time. i wish i had one in my basement. sh*t, i wish i had a basement too
@The Champ,
Waffle House after the club is over rated to me cause it is always dirty and smell like a dirty dish rag! So not the biz! I rather IHOP!
@shatani, you know, i’m not a huge fan of ihop. there are other pancake spots i like better.
@puff, darn right NY 2091234873 while pburgh is 0..
The popeyes in Brooklyn stays open till 1pm and serves chicken till then too (Nostrand b/w Flatbush and Glenwood)
Ihop on Staten Island (that is if you can’t get to harlem) is open 24/7
and if you’re in the mood Jamaican spot on Flatbush and Parkside is open till 3 and they serve jerked chicken ALL NIGHT LONG!!
Ya nuh hundastand!!
@Liryc,
You know Brooklyn and Queens have IHOP too right?
@Me fail english?, yeah, but they don’t stay open 24/7!! Gotta get on the Verrazzano and cross that bridge for the after party hunger fest and of course the caramel nut pancakes…
@puff, I hope iHop isn’t ghetto, because it’s great for people watching and spotting fuglies- sweating out a weave in the club might be a good look for LaQuintae in the cloak of night, but add some harsh lights and pancakes?! Whoa, no thanks.
@Kindred Smile, lmao @ harsh light. Ihop never fails to bring out the drama.
@shri fry rye,
Shooot our IHOP closest to the club district has 2 cops posted up in that jump at all times…lmao
Get outta line if ya wanna…
@miss t-lee
Ours does too!! They were put in place after someone got shot there.
I wonder if IHOP keeps tabs on how many and how often people get shot at their establishments. I think everybody knows of a shooting at IHOP…they should call that shyt, Die-HOP.
dead @ die-hop
@puff,
24 hours popeye’s is the greatest invention of all time. i recently discovered this grandiose idea when i was on the way back from the club and made the cab driver stop so i could get a 4pc last friday night.
life is good
@Cornell Westside,
getting take-out in a cab is definitely hood.
The cab driver asking for a lil’ piece of chicken and a sip of your lemonade is ghetto…
@AkShone,
but bartering a wing in exchange for a discount cab rate is hood
@The Champ, LMAO! ya’ll are a trip, i’m laughing out loud over here.
Receiving food stamps and buying steak and shrimp is hood.
Receiving and then selling food stamps in order to go to Outback to purchase steak and shrimp is ghetto.
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes,
LMAO!
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes, wow!! talk about down and out!! Ha ha
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes, Receiving and then selling food stamps in order to go to Outback to purchase steak and shrimp is ghetto.
extra ghetto if you attempted to sell the food stamps dollar for dollar……instead of the national agreed upon price of 65 for the 50
LOL @ the fact you know the selling rate of govt assistance.
@Gem-nasty,
its funny but not surprising!! shay knows many things about many things! lmao
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes,
Receiving and then selling food stamps in order to go to Outback to purchase steak and shrimp is ghetto.
ghetto or cunning and ingenious? lol
@charli skipper
Ghetto. That’s not ingenious. You can get several meals at the grocery store, that will more than likely be more banging unless you’re just a horrible cook.
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes,
“Receiving and then selling food stamps in order to go to Outback to purchase steak and shrimp is ghetto.”
i once “dated” a woman who was obsessed with outback to the point that she even wrote a poem about it. its taken me a while to figure out if she was hood or ghetto, but i think i have my answer now
everytime i see an Outback commercial i think of the “Diversity Day” episode of The Office– where they had to guess the ethnicity on the card taped to their foreheads by giving stereotypical clues. dwight had “asian” on his card…
meredith: “i really like your food”
dwight: “outback steakhouse! i’m australian, mate!”
@Gem-nasty
OMG I just watched this episode last night. The one where he got in trouble for doing the Chris Rock impression? LMBAO
yessss!!!! lmbo i LOVE that episode. it’s one of my favorites. michael was a straight up fool for the CR impression.
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes, LMAO well said
@Fivefivewithbrowneyes,
Sat Down!!!!!!
um is this a repost with some minor edits in it?
ghetto: mini van/regular van converted into ice cream truck with currency exchange glass window in place…meaning transactions require sliding ice cream/money under window…smh.
@maria,
not a vsb re-post, but i did originally write this some time ago.
@maria,
Even more ghetto: The ice cream man blasting soca and chutney…or maybe that’s just exotic
@Me fail english?,
Equally ghetto: the water ice man (Philly thing lol) selling shots of Henney in the water ice.
@K.,
yeah, imma need an address on where THAT is goin down! lol
@K.,
we have that down here, but we call em lilly dillys.
frozen koolaid in dixie cups
@b*tch who loves the smiley,
Cool cups!!!!
@b*tch who loves the smiley,
frozen kool-aid =/= water-ice (even with Henny in it).
NO MA’AM.
Come up here and get the real deal… you’ll undersand the wonder that is Water Ice.
@K…. where is this wonderfulness of Henny and Water Ice located?
@blackberry molasses,
It’s actually water ice truck that frequents the West Philly area…so I’ve heard.
@b*tch who loves the smiley,
Might you be from FL? That’s the only other place I’ve been where I’ve heard such phrasing.
@Beez,
wpb to be exact
First off, I couldn’t go to sleep after reading this, I was laughing till I had side stitches
**chicken places that serve chicken with things that chicken traditionally doesn’t go with (waffles, pancakes, oysters, midgets) are very hood. **dead** what in the world!! Midgets.. where in the world do they do that?? In NY, places that serve chicken will have chicken till closing.. sorry it must be just where you are.
Writing and misspelling easily detectable words i.e supposedly with supposebly is hood, but writing with numbers mixed with letters is just the epitome of Ghetto i.e. b3aut33 (supposed to be beauty)… Please Lord fix the educational system!
@Liryc,
Writing and misspelling easily detectable words i.e supposedly with supposebly is hood, but writing with numbers mixed with letters is just the epitome of Ghetto i.e. b3aut33 (supposed to be beauty)… Please Lord fix the educational system!
you know, a few teacher buddies of mine have emailed me essays where students incorporated text language. i’d weep for the future if i still cared
@Liryc,
Just wrote about Webiquette that Grinds my gears yesterday and p30p13 thAt wR1t3 l1k3 tH15 make me wanna kick a cute puppy. They aren’t not ghetto, just illiterate.
@Luvvie,
Iono why, buy reading that made me involuntaritly lisp. Maybe because that’s what”p30p13 thAt wR1t3 l1k3 tH15″ sound like to me.
Jesus be a speech pathologist and a literacy coach.
@Luvvie
Peter Griffin is that you?!?!?!?
“You know what really grinds my gears….”
@Liryc,
Ghetto i.e. b3aut33 (supposed to be beauty)…
I hate when people do that, it drives me up a wall.
@Ms. T,
Using “IDK” in place of “I don’t know” in face-to-face conversation is FAR worse.
Tyra Banks stomping down the runway in weaves in the early 90s…hood.
Tyra Banks on Top Model rocking lace front wigs…ghetto.
yup. I said it. lol.
Having a quiet argument with your man in public so that no one can really tell you are arguing…hood.
Cussing your man out in front of his friends and loud talking him in a public space…ghetto.
Toni Braxton tellin her man love should have brought his arse home last night…hood.
Beyonce tellin her old man her new man is tighter than her Dereon jeans…ghetto.
@iloVEGrits,
…good list and sh*t.
@iloVEGrits,
Hey – that Tyra stuff needed to be said. Its a crying shame nobody points that out to her or that she doesn’t listen if they do,
@Madame Zenobia,
Those wigs are awful. And they get worse, not better, each year.
@iloVEGrits,
tyra needs to watch rupaul’s drag race! ru always looks good!
@iloVEGrits,
I KNOW – you’d think the more money she gets the better the wigs would be, but its like she wants you to know she’s rocking wigs and weave. Isn’t the point of a wig or weave to blend?
ummmm lace front wigs are ghetto????? nah, bad weaves and horse hair is ghetto. real lace fronts done well look very natural (i mean as natural as one could get it they’re a bald-headed scalawags of the world)
@Gem-nasty,
im gonna need visual reference….ive never seen a lace front look good. i can always see that mesh on mofo’s forehead!
@shatani, Same here. Finding a well done weave is like spotting a pristine bus seat, or a crackhead with a full set of teeth. It just doesn’t happen.
@Kindred Smile, you are foolish.
@shatani,
please don’t tell me pgh is the only city in this country that does good lace fronts!!! (sidenote: pgh has the WORST fashion and hair styles ever in life–always waaaay behind the times). i know so many ppl who have them and every time i go to the salon, i see at least one chick gettin hers done. and they look perfect! stylists in my salon hook it up.
@shatani
Lace fronts are a hot azz mess! All of them!
@Gem-nasty,
You can tell a lace front a mile away – the ones I’ve seen anyway. I think those wigs are probably best for tv/print.
i’m not saying you don’t notice it’s “fake” i’m just saying i have seen really well done lace fronts. that look good and NOT ghetto or worthy of a “what she got on her head”. and coming from a person who has naturally luxurious and festive hair, that’s a compliment.
@Gem-nasty,
No, I don’t look at them and say “that’s fake” I look @ them and say “look @ her lace front.” They look weird as hell even from 20 feet away. I dunno maybe the chicks I’ve seen are applying them in their kitchen when they should be going to a professional, lol.
NOT in their kitchen lmbo
@Gem-nasty,
hahahahaha hold up…I’m a wig wearer.. you better watch it. *shaking my 1b colored curly fro”
track. gettin it!!
@Gem-nasty, LMAO, i love you.
@Gem-nasty,
I agree lace fronts aren’t ghetto. A real one cost waaaay too much money. It is also hard to actually properly put on someone’s head. I’d say lace front is something someone with a weave uses when they have stepped their game UP.
@iloVEGrits,
“Beyonce tellin her old man her new man is tighter than her Dereon jeans…ghetto.”
Lol. This was very ghetto. Beyonce from the streets y’all!
@iloVEGrits,
Betwixt Tyra Banks, Benoncay & Trina, they have single-handedly given lace front wigs LIFE. Not good life, but more like the life of the people on “The Corner”. (Yes B-More)
@Luvvie,
Bey doesn’t belong in that category. Her wigs look good. MUCH better than Tyra’s and Trina’s. They don’t look half as fake.
Disney character bedroom slippers might be hood if you consider that the individual is going against the grain.
Wearing those slippers to the grocery store is ghetto.
I’ve seen this and it saddens me.
@Ms. HaWearing those slippers to the grocery store is ghetto
and wearing sad slippers with a shower cap, satin bonnet or rollers is even worse….
@shay_d_lady,
Going outside in any hair covering that is NOT a hat is ghetto. Plain and simple.
@iloVEGrits, I have to confess that I used to be guilty of this, but I’ll add that it was only for going to the candy store down the street, AND I was in the deep dark Wessside so no one even noticed.
@iloVEGrits,
i’d say wearing a scarf after you get your hair done if its raining is hood (although the only place i’d wear a scarf or my hair wrapped is my house-thats what hoods are for), wearing said scarf outside when it’s no longer raining, and then wearing that joint to work is G-H-E-T-T-O!!! Lol i see it way too much–girl please take them bobbi pins out yo head and go get a comb and take that wrap out! the madness must stop!
@PrincesMo,
I never understood why women get there hair done…then wrap it up…add a scarf and leave the salon like its the ish or something.
@PrincesMo,
I always imagine chicks who go shopping and stuff in a doobie to have crusty lips
~~~~~~~~~~ (waves of reminiscing)
awwww i miss home
@Ms. Hall,
On another token, being grown and having the stuffed animal of your favorite cartoon character (usually Tweety) is hood.
Having a tattoo of said cartoon on you (AND in full color) is ghetto. I have seen this also. *sad face*
No grown woman should have a Tweety tattoo on her. especially one that was clearly done at a House Tattoo Party. Tweety was all pigeon toed and wonky… The yellow ink looked dirty…
@Luvvie,
Ugh. I have seen many a stretchmarked Tweety in my day. Along with the cartoon characters, thumbsucking past the age of ohhh, I’ont know, 2 is ghetto.
@Luvvie,
Tweety was all pigeon toed and wonky… The yellow ink looked dirty…
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…wearing a wife-beater under a suit [to church, a wedding, a funeral] is hood.
…wearing a wife-beater to a job interview for anything other than being an underwear model is ghetto.
@Resident GRitS, um…..what if it’s under your suit jacket and they’re both the same shad of black? no?? okay….i might be ghetto…(sad face)
@charli skipper, i didn’t want that job anyway.
@charli skipper,
LMAO! Sour grapes much?
@YGB,
LOL!! awww…that job was stupid anyway!
@Resident GRitS,
…wearing a wife-beater under a suit [to church, a wedding, a funeral] is hood.
this isn’t hood, its just weird, lol, or something a vin diesel character might do
first off I am glad I made the cut!!!! whooo Hood and not ghetto..for a while there I thought that razor thing was gone put me over the edge but instead it increased my hoodness…my razor is only used to cut a biatch…I stopped arching my eyebrows with them a wh ile back….LOL
hood-wearing your club dress to work with a nice sweater or cardigan over it and flats…
ghetto wearing your club dress to work with shiny bright colored stiletto heels and and the video vixen 22″ long blond ponytail
hood tight fitting shirt to interview
ghetto see through shirt to interview with black bra underneath (this actually happened )
@shay_d_lady,
lol’ing at a mental pic of shay d sweating while reading the list.
@iloVEGrits, lol’ing at a mental pic of shay d sweating while reading the list.
Girl I thought I was gone have to defend my hood honor…LOL
Hell Im suprised he didnt add anything about having a tattoo of your name..you know he a hater about that… LOL
@shay_d_lady,
Hell Im suprised he didnt add anything about having a tattoo of your name..you know he a hater about that… LOL
lol, thats neither hood nor ghetto. just proof
@The Champ, proof DEEZ ninja….LOL
Meanwhile I have been ending sentences like this a lot recently.. it popped in my head yesterday when my mgr was asking about the month end reports… I wanted to say report these biatch!!!! but I didnt…
thats hood right? it would have been ghetto to say it….
@shay_d_lady,
U may also have been unemployed, lol. You cant go telling folks to “_____ Deez” in these TET
@shay_d_lady, gotta love the feminization of the workplace…it used be dudes coming to work looking hood but I saw it reversed in the 90′s. Just about every job I had-there was the “Imroperly Dressed Line”" and it was always 80/20 women to men.
Wowzers –
OK, a few things come to mind after reading this post.
1.) I live in Iowa and the Popeyes here definitely runs out of chicken at early hours. KFC runs out of the other stuff, like side dishes, pot pies, etc., early (Right now there are a few thoughts possibly running through your mind – a. They have black people in Iowa or b. They have Popeye’s in Iowa? or c. Both questions came to you simultaneously, the answer to both questions is “Yes.”)
2.) I love red Kool-Aid and I’m not ashamed and writing Big and Little on the Jokers is just how you do things regardless of the fact I may or may not have a bad memory.
3.) I’m not sure I fully comprehending the difference so I’m going to give it a shot – wearing hair rollers around the house more than two hours after you’ve woken up is hood. Wearing hair rollers anywhere outside of your house at anytime is ghetto. Did I get it?
@Madame Zenobia,
Wearing hair rollers anywhere outside of your house at anytime is ghetto.
Girl, that’s not ghetto. That’s every woman, black or white, in New Orleans the day before mardi gras. lol.
uh no it is NOT every woman lol. i, nor any of the non-ghetto ladies i know, would be caught dead OUTSIDE in rollers….
now, i will rock them in my apt building to go do my laundry in the basement.
@Gem-nasty, that’s so hood of you.
why thank you love muffin *taking a bow*
@Madame Zenobia, writing Big and Little on the Jokers is just how you do things regardless of the fact I may or may not have a bad memory.
exactly!!! sometimes the deck of cards have two jokers and they are EXACTLY alike…so then what Champ huh? then what…let me pipe down Im already borderline…..
@shay_d_lady,
lmao! dont push it!
@Madame Zenobia,
Did I get it?
yes. now tell me more about this popeyes in iowa.
@The Champ,
To me its like Popeyes in St. Louis or Louisiana. (I’m originally from MO and have fam in both places.) Actually it’s kind of like Popeyes-lite. The workers have bad attitudes (but not too rude, can’t scare off the white folk) the counter where the condiments and napkins are is messy and disorganized (but not too messy, can’t scare off the white folk) the floors are sticky and look like they have been mopped in a few weeks (but not TOO dirty, can’t scare off the white folk.) The food tastes the same though….which i was happy about – at least they didn’t water down the spices and stuff.
@Madame Zenobia,
Wait you live in Iowa?
@Dorian G.,
Yes, I live in Iowa. How does that make you feel?
@Madame Zenobia,
Hmm I wouldn’t say wearing rollers inside the house is ever hood… but then again maybe I am a little hood. But you definitely got it with wearing rollers anywhere outside of the house.
Ladies wearing a hat (to work or the club…though I typically frown on hats at work) cuz it sets off their outfit…hood.
Ladies wearing a hat (to work or the club) cuz they didn’t do their hair…ghetto.
@iloVEGrits,
“Ladies wearing a hat (to work or the club…though I typically frown on hats at work) cuz it sets off their outfit…hood.
Ladies wearing a hat (to work or the club) cuz they didn’t do their hair…ghetto.”
I do both. Lol. u noe them long beanies! haha!
iontcare, I aint got no shame!
@Dope Fiend,
lol what about wearing a snow hat to work (in an office) so you can finish taking ur braids out, so u can get a perm after work, talkin bout “i gotta keep this hat on its cold in here,” heffa please- verdict:ghetto, 3rd degree
@iloVEGrits,
Aw sh!t, guilty of both.
@iloVEGrits
“Ladies wearing a hat (to work or the club) cuz they didn’t do their hair…ghetto.”
Hi hater.
I take offense to you calling me ghetto, lol. The hats DO set off my outfits even when my hair aint done though.
@Luvvie,
LMAO. What I tell you about only the guilty fleeing when not pursued.
I thought you were wearing the hat cuz it was cute not cuz you didn’t take a comb to that head. lol.
Now…you at work in a skullie, put vaseline from a jar on your lips: THAT IS GHETTO.
hahaha.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
LMAO!!! Ihatechu! Y u always tellin my bitness??? *wall slide*
@Luvvie,
get up fool. lol.
@Luvvie
No matter what, the wall slide gets me EVERY TIME.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
there yal go again… I got a jar of vaseline in my drawer right now. and I will not hesitate to pull it out during a meeting. I guess I’m just ghetto like that.
@mssmtaylor,
I got deodorant in my desk, just in case I forget to put it on at the house. Sue me!
I also have mouthwash, a nail file and two full vials of vitamins.
Additionally, I also have a small “chinese tupperware” tub full of peanut butter and a bag of crackers in my overhead. I use them, along with a plastic knife to make peanut butter crackers for breakfast at my desk, and sometimes at snack-time (about 3pm)…cuz [Beanie] u know how it get on the job [/Sigel].
Am I on the fast-track to ghetto?
@Me fail english?,
OMG…I thought I was the only one who stowed peanut butter in tupperware in her desk drawer. Man, sometimes you just be hungry and nothing does the trick like a little fruit and peanut butter.
@mssmtaylor,
I take my jar of vaseline EVERYWHERE with me. I don’t leave home without it,. Just like my MasterCard
“No mo’ nuts of grapes (grape nuts?).”
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. I have some slight issues with the list, but for all intensive purposes… Yeah, it works.
Wearing a scarf on your head to make a quick run to the corner store for some dutches- hood.
Wearing a scarf on your head while shopping Nordstrom- unacceptably ghetto *aside* what is with chicks wearing satin sleeping caps as fashion accessories in Philly. Matching them to their outfits and such. Just all kinds of ghetto. *end aside*
Wearing extra long false eyelashes -hood, but can be cute.
Applying your eyelashes with the tweezers and glue during a staff meeting- ghetto.
Having a booming system or 22′s on your car -hood.
your system or rims costing more than the vehicle they are on -ghetto.
Goodnight VSB vampires.
@blackberry molasses on her Crackberry,
“Applying your eyelashes with the tweezers and glue during a staff meeting- ghetto.”
*Crying at the imagery*
What kind of bufoonery is this?
@YGB, this is just ugly, i’m too scared to mess with glue or sharp objects near my eyes, threading all the way!
threading makes me look like i just got botox injections around my eyes. looking very awake and surprised.no thanks, wax works just fine.
One lady in my shop kept threading my face and making me bleed. I’m bout to swear off the whole damn process
@Gem-nasty, lmfao @ botox injections!!!
I prefer threading it takes longer for the hair to grow back!
i love that aspect of it. but i have a LOT of eyebrow and a big head, so it’s really not worth the swollen eyebrow-ridge that can be spotted a mile away like a kitchen-done lace front wig. *smh* everyone is better off
what ghetto ppl you know shop at NORDSTROM???? lol i can’t even imagine… nordstrom rack maybe lol
@Gem-nasty,
Nordstrom just opened up at the Cherry Hill Mall this weekend. Not co-incidentally, this mall somewhat borders Camden, and until recently had a ‘bourgie’ side and a ‘ghetto’ side.
I saw all manner of awkward natty tri-colored hair-hattery and faux Gucci scarves running around…
@blackberry molasses,
I went to the Cherry Hill Mall once.and never went back. I’ll go to my little ol’ Echelon, lots of room to walk,lol.
@Rita,
I live near Echelon… or should I say Voorhees Town Center. Its still only half a mall. Moorestown Mall acutally BEATS them now… even in all their 1 story glory. I’m just sad that when the chopped that sucker in half they got rid of the $2 theatre and Fredericks **stinkface**
They remade the Cherry Hill Mall into the King of Prussia Mall Lite. Container Store, Crate and Barrel… I’m in HEAVEN. No more 5 million hour drive on the Schuylkill Parking Lot.
@Gem-nasty,
girl, there was all manner of foolishness out and about when the new nordstrom opened at the cherry hill mall.
@blackberry molasses on her Crackberry,
“Having a booming system or 22’s on your car -hood.”
another for ghetto: advertising said 22′s with decals on both rear passenger windows…
lol, i love my neighbor
@peachi,
Speaking of ghetto advertisements, NYC area people can we all agree that the following are ghetto:
-”Madd Funn”, the Discovery Zone/Chuck E. Cheese knockoff they are advertising for in BK
-Those rapping lawyers. I need my lawyers lawying! Not spittin hot fiyah
-That non-rapping rapper. you know that brotha who’s sittin in front his projects in his car talmbout some “Puffy…50..Jay…Holla at me yall. I need a deal” but won’t spit no hot fiyah in his own effin comm’l? And how the eff did he get that ish on CBS??? Is times really that hard at the Eye. Really tho?
@Me fail english?, speaking of NYC area,
going to the corner to get some kennedy’s fried chicken is hood
going to the corner to go to OBAMA FRIED CHICKEN IS GHETTO.. only in Brooklyn SMH!!
@Liryc,
LOL. The proprietor of Obama Fried Chicken said he’s gonna change the name to “Popular Fried Chicken” or smthg. Damn, that joint is right in the ‘ville too. I was gonna go this wknd!
@Me fail english?, he needs to change is.. cause that was just horrible, him and the guy who owns Obama 99 cents store in Queens.. total fail!!
No bueno!
@Me fail english?,
there’s an Obama 99cent store on utica, right off of church in brooklyn too. I’m mad people tryin to make money off of my president like that.
@blackberry molasses on her Crackberry,
LMAO!!! Not during a staff meeting though!
…socks and sandals – hood.
…toes and/or heels hanging over the edge of sandals and/or dragging the ground – ghetto.
@Resident GRitS, toes and/or heels hanging over the edge of sandals and/or dragging the ground – ghetto.
LMAO
let me also add that if you get your toes done 1 time in june and in august you still sportin the remnants of that crusty a$$ polish with not even the smallest attempt to repaint or tame them cuticles? GHETTO AS HELL!!!
@shay_d_lady,
I’m guilty…. I was just looking at the remnants of my February toe polish this morning.
Help me lawt
@Resident GRitS,
beep beep*whistle*…….. offsides on the phalanges.
@Resident GRitS,
I’ma have to go with acrylic toenails. Sorry ladies, but why must feet resemble claws.
@Me fail english?, some people just don’t have toenails and they need that extra length to make their toes look good… (( did I just say that..oops.. gotta go))
@Liryc
” some people just don’t have toenails ”
::crying laughing::
Although I do know a chick that rocks acrylic tonails – only on her big toe though. It looks good.
@Resident GRitS,
I disagree. Wearing socks to BED is hood. Wearing socks with flip-flops is GHETTO, lol.
@RedBeanzNRice,
…not flip-flops, sandals of the Nike kind.
smoking weed in public…hood
smoking bidis anytime…ghetto
@Saule Wright, why do i feel like thee are too many personal attacks out here on VSB today!
@Dope Fiend,
“Dope Fiend” …..dunno fam.
@Dope Fiend,
lmao!
@Saule Wright,
LMAO @ bidis!!!!! Now that’s something I have heard of in a mighty long time!!
@Saule Wright,
smoking weed in public…hood
lol, i think this depends on how public you are. weed outdoors is hood. weed in burger king is ghetto
@The Champ,
Weed in burger king is fantasy! Legalize it!!
I thought “hood” and “ghetto” were synonyms… guess it is possible that i can be wrong. Who’da thunk it? Well I live in Pittsburgh so I’ll just spout off some pf the random fcukery that I’ve recently witnessed.
- yarn braids – not the very nice professionally done ones that can cost $200 plus dollars at a salon – but walmart yarn w/ loose ends (tails) hanging about 6 to 7 inches long in 5 different neon colors (pink, green, sky blue, burgundy, and blond) all over said wearers head. Kinda reminiscent of muppet fur gone wild or an exploding Fraggle rock pom pom all over the head. Grotesquely sad… I’ve seen this on 3 different young ladies over the past couple days. smh.
- coming outside in a full head of rollers. w/o a scarf or anything. just walking down the street tra la la-ing… loud talking w/ crew about some ni99a… in big a$$ bright orange rollers. this child was prolly about 13… smh
-wearing a very short sweater dress in late march with NOTHING underneath to a barbershop to get your brows done (ladies in pgh… if you want to participate in a black man parade start getting your eyebrows done by a barber! I had no idea there could be so many black men congregated in pgh at one time and the vibe be peace and fun) ne who, i digress. This chick had on slouch boots w/ the dress and NOTHING underneath… it was apparent cuz the dress was WHITE… i had to cover my son’s eyes for shame!
-putting on a disguise to buy up some nice pots that go on sale @ costco. This great heavy soup pot was on sale @ costco and there was a limited number each customer could purchase… so said customer buys their limit and comes to car w/ merchandise. Puts it in the trunk then puts on glasses, coat, and wig and goes back in to buy another batch. the nimrod @ the register didn’t notice… but i’m in the car w/ the foot on the gas so we can make our get away b4 she tries to turn the wig around and goes to buy sommore… them pots are gon’ b 4 christmas, she says. Hood or Ghetto? U be the judge. All i can do is laugh and shake my head. Sorry grandma Gi Gi lol.
@pgh muse, “Sorry grandma Gi Gi lol.”
AY! ur Grandma is a G! too funny!
@pgh muse
I wanna meet Grandma GiGi. I like her style.
@pgh muse,
Hood or Ghetto? U be the judge
lol, i think its both. she definitely falls under the badu corollary.
@pgh muse, The first story conjured up images of George Clinton and the P Funk, which then forced me to re-conjure my breakfast.
Now I’m hungry and quite miffed.
@pgh muse,
I love me some grandma Gi Gi.
Naming your child after liquor, vehicles or giving your child a name with 3 apostrophes (usually starts with a La, Da,Ty) – ghe-he-tto!!!
@YGB,
ghetto and sad. you might as well name the kid “nochance”
@The Champ,
gone and name the child “unemployable”
“Usually starts with a La, Da,Ty”
…d@mn, momma…well, I’m out.
@YGB,
Haha. I got a lil cuz named T’Keymah or some ish like that. I know it got an apostrophe.
Also the following nicknames are hood:
-tiger
-ray-ray
-day-day
-pookie
-eesh
the following nicknames are ghetto:
-dookie
-nappy
-black ass, black or some other variations on that
-ho (yes, I met woman named “Ho” in Phila. Guess how she supported her “habit”…)
@Me fail english?
I someone who’s nickname is Sh*tface. Ghetto
@Me fail english?,
I had a cousin nicknamed Dookie (RIP). And at his funeral last summer, we blasted his music on the way to the cemetery. He was a rapper who got killed at point blank.
This is all actually true. And in reading it over, it sounds like a ghetto tale. And the anomaly is that he was Nigerian (we usually don’t aspire to be rap artists who beef with folks, nor do we have ghetto nicknames). And no, I don’t claim Chamillionaire
@Luvvie,
Sorry to hear about your cousin. That’s pretty cool the fam blasted his music during the processional. Sounds like the Biggie funeral.
Is Chamillionaire Nigerian?
@Me fail english?,
Yes Chamillionaire’s homo erectus-looking self is Nigerian. His real name is Hakeem Seriki (which sounds like Rafiki, the monkey he coincidentally looks like)
@Luvvie,
lol. Damn, Chamillionaire is like the first unattractive Nigerian man I’ve ever seen. I thought they were all fine. Bless his little heart
@ Me fail english?
You’ve got to be kidding.
Maybe all the unattractive ones live in the ATX…lol
@Luvvie,
Too done witchu! Do you hear me???
TOO DONE!
BTW, I’ve always thought he looks like a gecko!
@Luvvie,
I wear my black and white for your cousin…
Wait.Wait.WAIT. Chamillionaire has Naija roots?
**trying to hold in giggle fits and FAILING**
BBBBWWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
you shouldn’t have let that tidbit out missy.
@blackberry molasses,
*sigh* I know. I’m ‘shamed bout it.
We, the Association of the Awesome Nigerians, do NOT claim Chamillionaire as our own.
That is all
@Luvvie,
He’s ya’lls. Try as you might deny, but he’s all yours…lol
@Luvvie,
now you KNOW he will come around the way for some jolof, fried plantain and fish. Dangit, we all got people we don’t want to claim.
**hoping no one mentions He Who Shall Not Be Named**
@YGB, Growing up, I knew a whole family of folks named after likka. I wrote about it here: http://kindredsmile.blogspot.com/2008/09/hindsight-is-2020proof.html
Don’t say I didn’t warn you, lol
@Kindred Smile,
that is hilarious, and a little sad all at the same time….Remy Martin? smh….
@Kindred Smile,
My cousin named her baby “Genesis Alize’”.
How she gon’ name her baby after the first book of the Bible and a very tasty ‘hood likka??
She says that she was feminizing the child’s father’s nickname (Ghengis) and “wasn’t thinking ’bout no Bible”.
Ahem…I see.
Needless to say, that child has had a hard life. *smh*
@Kindred Smile,
Clearly their mama liked to get her drank on!
Ludicrous!
@Kindred Smile,
Bwahahaha!!! Your entry was hilarious. Why did it make me think of Dijonay of The Proud Family? They had all types of spices/condiments in her house… lol!
@Ms. Sula,
made me think of LaCienega Boulevardes!! i mean, i thought that name was ghetto and then i found out that la cienega is actually a boulevard in cali!?!?!?
just. aint. right.
im glad she’s just a cartoon.
@YGB, ladidadee we likes to party, this is a mess.
@YGB,
Or better yet, giving your child a name so horribly unpronounceable, you might as well have said “eff yo life,” then giving them one of such nicknames, to where your 2 year old thinks his name is “dee dee” for real instead of Da’Qua’Vi’On’Sha’Mira, or Baracka (sorry, new school parents, but just DON’T)-
G.H.E.T.T.O. B.E.Y.O.N.D. R.E.P.A.I.R.
@YGB, uber ghetto naming your child with a dash in the middle and the dash not being silent
La-a (pronouced laDASH-a)
and god bless my little baby cousin .. her daddy named her Da’zhya (she will never get a job, and by the time she learns to spell her name she’ll be 25)
@Liryc,
(she will never get a job, and by the time she learns to spell her name she’ll be 25)
Haha, thankfully I have a job. But my parents gave me a “hard to spell” name too (I actually could spell it perfectly by 3). So when I went to school they just dropped half of it (actually more than half) so it’d be easier to remember/spell.
Even the damn SS people dropped half my ish when they sent my card as a baby. I didn’t get it fixed til I was 13. I just started using my full first name as an adult. And people still only say whichever part of it they like most so I answer to three different names (not including nicknames).
@Me fail english?,
Ok this is too much. I’m cracking the hell up. OMG!!!!
I’m way more hood than I gave myself hood credit for. Where can I cash in my hood points at??
@Liz,
the white house
@The Champ, LOL.
I am so hood.
Already knew it and I love it.
I’m glad the distinctions between “hood” and “ghetto have been made in a public forum because the two should NEVER be confused.
@PBG Returns,
I’m glad the distinctions between “hood” and “ghetto have been made in a public forum because the two should NEVER be confused
i’m surprised that there are some people who dont know the difference
hood: Bringing 1 small box of uncooked rice a roni to a bbq
ghetto: bring 1 small box of uncooked rice a roni and a date to a bbq and being the first in line to eat.
My homeboy is hilarious.
@Double J,
i once brought bottled waters to a cook-out and left them out of the coolers intentionally so that noone would drink them and i could take them home. is that hood, ghetto, or just cheap?
@The Champ, That’s a d@mned shame
@The Champ,
LOL!! that’s hood…it would have been ghetto if you took the leftover water bottles out of the cooler along with a few sodas and a fixed yourself a big plate to take home….
@The Champ,
Neither. It’s triflin. lol.
@The Champ,
Trife!
@The Champ,
LMAO!!! OMG thats turrble. *cackling*
@Double J, LMAO! i love bbq’s! can’t wait for the “vsb bbq”
@overit (BBPD)
This “vsb bbq” is an urban legend.
@overit (BBPD),
Champ is playing bald-headed games! I don TOLD him, I needs a VSB bbq in my life. Do we need to plan an unofficial one? Dang!
@Luvvie,
“Champ is playing bald-headed games!”
LMBAO!!!
This post is hilarious.
@Nicki Sunshine,
thanks and sh*t, sunshine
Hood
1) Sneakers on the telephone wire
2) Any of the following cars made from the late 70s – late 80s
Cutlass Supreme, Monte Carlo, Regal, Caprice Classic, Impala, Malibu, EL Camino, Grand Prix
3) Bullet proof glass in all restaurants and liquor stores
4) shrimp, fish, and chicken spots
5) liquor stores and churches on every block
Ghetto
1) any of the following colors in a woman’s hair
maroon, yellow, blue, orange
2) fiends selling food stamps in front of the grocery store
3) weave, jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, CDs, DVDs, and groceries being sold at the gas station
4) 65K car in the driveway on a 30K house or a flat
5) busting guns on new years eve and july 4th
6) Dickies pants and gucci or louis vuitton shoes worn at the same time
Can somebody explain to me when ghetto replaced white trash for 2520s? I hear so many of them say something is ghetto when it is far from ghetto. It is more like redneck ish. I would like to see someone do a country vs. ghetto thread too.
@Humble_One,
6) Dickies pants and gucci or louis vuitton shoes worn at the same time
This is indeed ghetto. As well as wearing that Gucci/Louis Vuitton fabric from head to toe! STOP IT!
@YGB,
You need to make a swap meet/flea market exception
@WestIndianArchie,
NO!
@Humble_One,
Dickies pants are ghetto. Period. Aint another way around it. I’ve seen grown folks rock Dickies as dress pants too. For shame!
@Luvvie, dickies pants used to be a white thing until ghettokind started rocking them. much like coogi you see how that shit turned out
@Humble_One,
Can somebody explain to me when ghetto replaced white trash for 2520s?
i think it happened in the spring of 1998. this is also roughly the time when people of color started noticing ‘thickness” in white women. i wonder if they’re related
I knew what a buck-50 was…go me!!!! All those years of listening to East Coast rap paid off, because no one uses that term down here…lol
My cousin and his wife served kool-aid out the champagne fountain at their wedding.
Breakfast song~~~ You know that ish goes hard “no mo’ nuts of grape, no mo’ sugar and rice, no mo’ beef stew. I made a ringtone out that ish–now that’s ghetto…lol
Champie-BBQ spots down here run out of certain meats early…bout 3:00 when they don’t close up until 7:00. Word to the wise, get there early.
It’s a very thin line between hood and ghetto. Razor thin.
@miss t-lee,
“no mo’ beef stew”
Yo on some real ish tho…ninjas eat beef stew for breakfast?
@Me fail english?,
You don’t know my Daddy…if it’s in the fridge, it will get ate for breakfast…lol
@miss t-lee,
Lol. I heard that! If it was my Daddy, he mighta thrown some bacon in that bish and had a meal.
Which reminds me batteries in the fridge…hood or ghetto? *looks around nervously*
@Me fail english?,
That shyt is funny and hood. I still do this…without any scientific reasoning as to if it actually works.
@AkShone,
Oh snap!!! We used to do that as kids, I haven’t done it lately though…forgot all about it.
@AkShone,
Word. I can’t say conclusively if it works. But it sure does make me feel better.
@Me fail english?,
LMBO @ batteries in the fridge. my parents STILL do this, but the batteries are in the extra fridge that’s in the garage. *smh*
@Me fail english?, no this is actually standard-nothing ghetto or hood about it its just science
@miss t-lee, I need that ringtone, thanks
@Kindred Smile,
I gotta find the email with the attachment…if I find it, I will send…
Or you can just record the audio to your phone and save as a ringtone. (I know–super hood and ghetto at the same time!)
Taking old ideas and making new ones is hood.
Regurgitating old posts is ghetto.
@Dice Vegas,
if i ask you how my nuts taste, is that hood or ghetto?
::Shots fired::
@The Champ,
Hmmm I’m gonna go with hood.
@The Champ,
POW! ZING!
@The Champ,
Lol. Ok, Shaq
@The Champ,
For $500…The Champ’s Response….
What is “hood”, Alex….
@The Champ,
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. OMG, you people wanna ruin my livelihood! My office just reverberated w/ my echoing laughter. I hate that I love u.
A black man being President of the United States is so hooood!!
Me typing that sentence is super ghetto.
@nia,
lol, good distinction
Hood – Having a couch on your porch as a college student.
Ghetto – Having a couch on your porch (that is not screened) in as an adult. And using said couch as a guest room.
Hood – Getting the cable man to hook you up with free cable services.
Ghetto – Running an electricity cord from your neighbor’s place to provide electricity for your whole house.
Hood – buying bootleg dvd’s (p.o.rn included) and cds from the African at the gas station.
Ghetto – making your own homemade p.o.rn and selling it at the gas station.
@V Renee,
Hood – buying bootleg dvd’s (p.o.rn included) and cds from the African at the gas station.
Ghetto – making your own homemade p.o.rn and selling it at the gas station.
LOL. i actually know someone who’s currently attempting to do this. he calls himself stanley longwood.
@The Champ,
Ummmm is stanley longwood’s alias The Champ??
@V Renee,
*muerto*
@V Renee,
No, Champ’s pron name is “Foghorn ThirdLeghorn”
@Luvvie,
iCan’t with you today.
iQuit you, effective 10 minutes ago.
@V Renee, I would have said that’s being an entrepreneur
Maybe terminology is different across cities, but in NY a buck-fifty is the actual wound. The blade is an “ox”
That aside, McDonald’s throws fabulous parties for babies. Act like you know!
ouch, Champ just got school’d lol
@Me fail english?,
Maybe terminology is different across cities, but in NY a buck-fifty is the actual wound. The blade is an “ox”
i actually first heard the buck-fifty term from a friend in college, from queens. he also used to call himself “the mayor”, so he might have been mistaken
@Me fail english?,
That was actually part of my McDonald’s gig in high school! I’d make the goodie bags, unthaw the cake, kick the other kids out and sanitize the playplace, make the happy meals by order, and the birthday kid got a special present!
I was pretty good, and got “tips” for my work. My boss wanted me to dress up – but that’s where I drew the line. No dressing up as Ronald or the Grimace- ol’ sad lookin purple blob dude.
@Beez, I had the same job in HS. I was the drive-thru chick until party day. Then I was hostess! LOL!
@PBG Returns,
We must collaborate on “Tales from the Drive-Thru”- People wouldn’t believe some of these stories!
@Beez,
Which reminds me, walking thru the drive thru may be hood…
but cutting in line at the drive thru like pedestrian right-of-way still applies is just grounds for a beat down. And ghetto too. Don’t be acting tough when my car is made of steel and your body is not. Punk!
@Beez,
“kick the other kids out”
LMAO @ kids getting kicked outta VIP for not doing bottle service. Club Mickey D’s is exclusiveness
@Me fail english?,
Hey, if they were just there for 4 hours with a 69 cent supersize cup of Sprite, it was past due time anyway!
@Me fail english?, yes thank you on this one, also an “ox” is referred to as a “shank”
OK…that breakfast song!! Pure FOOLISHNESS! And they had the nerve to throw God’s name in the mix! LMAO!!
We write “big” and “lil” on our jokers…but it’s mainly for the benefit of the folks who come over to play, DUH! lol
And I’m mad at ya’ll Popeyes running out of chicken @ 7! There would be a riot if that happenened in the south! LOL
@Mimi,
We write “big” and “lil” on our jokers…but it’s mainly for the benefit of the folks who come over to play, DUH! lol
mmmhmmm. whatever
thanks for adding to my hood quotient…I had no idea what a buck 50 was….
Based on this list, I’m not ghetto, but I am semi-hood.
hood–working on a broke down car in your front yard
ghetto–leaving a broke down car in your front yard sitting on cinder blocks with no attempt to ever fix said car…ever
ghetto–crayola colors of weave or real hair. I had a high school classmate who would dye her hair orange, blue, green, and any other color of the rainbow….
@N.I.A. fabuloussince1982….,
“I had a high school classmate who would dye her hair orange, blue, green, and any other color of the rainbow….”
Does her hair still grow?
@YGB,
I have no idea…the last I time I saw her, it was a photo in the paper saying she her bf were arrested for drug possession. It was short and platinum blond then….
@N.I.A. fabuloussince1982….,
that should say she and her bf….
@N.I.A. fabuloussince1982….,
That actually doesn’t surprise me at all!
@N.I.A. fabuloussince1982….,
I had a high school classmate who used to rock purple hair pieces b/c purple was her fave color.
hood is having fun and other people recognize it as such.
having a block party in your cul de sac that overflows to a busy street.
Ghetto is having fun that is not as readily acceptable to the bystander.
Same party was seen as ghetto by the police and or who ever was bold enough to call the cops.
@WuDaMan,
Ghetto or hood you tell me.
Rocking a candy necklace. Not those smartee elastic band candies. But a string of green apple chews that match your green outfit?
going to the barber shop for anything other than a hair cut?
‘Treating’ (Chicago stand up) the Arab and thinking it’s funny?
Getting odd jobs done on your (car/house/yard) by a crack head to get a deal?
dressing your dog up?
hanging out in your garage w/ the music blasting and drinking beer all night long?
test driving cars just for the fun of it?
rushing the door @ the club so you don’t have to pay the cover?
morning deciesed loved ones by drinking and ending up in ‘the dark place’ aka the neudy bar?
going to wal mart in jammies any time of day especially if it’s a 24hr super walmart?
@WuDaMan,
these two…
going to the barber shop for anything other than a hair cut?
Getting odd jobs done on your (car/house/yard) by a crack head to get a deal?
…qualify as hood. the rest? somewhere between “quirky” and “bipolar”
@The Champ,
LMAO!
@The Champ, Thanks. You know I don’t say things are Hood cuz of DJ Kahlid. unh unh nope. One of my fav DJ’s got quoted calling stuff ‘Hood Rich.’ I keep this one in my lexicon and it helps me.
this is def ghetto; I think
having a hotel party when your in high school. And getting a room just for the children of the partygoers.
@WuDaMan,
LMAO! Thats definitely ghetto
@WuDaMan,
‘Treating’ (Chicago stand up) the Arab and thinking it’s funny – Seeings as to how I’m not a Chicagoian, can you please explaing what Treating the Arab is?
“dressing your dog up?” – Doesn’t everyone do this?? And take pictures?
“hanging out in your garage w/ the music blasting and drinking beer all night long?” – My neighbor did this last Thursday night. He had the music BLASTING until 4 in the morning. I must have heard the remix to Blame it on the alcohol at least 10 times. I was PISSED!
@V Renee, “treating” means to embarass, humiliate, roast, etc.
I’m embarassed for my city sometimes
@V Renee,
Treating means to rank, play the dozens, jive on, talk baaaad about.
Okay I was picking stuff that kind of was ghetto for other skin colors like that to me is a Mexican thing to do.
@V Renee,
I used to dress up my cat in an old ashy black t-shirt and a rubber band. He used to slap the ish out me too.
Cats that scratch=Hood
Cats that pimp-slap=Dog Food
FOH Mittens!
@Me fail english?,
See I was thinking dressing up pets was all,,, well 2520 style. But I guess not. I had this bitch and when she went into heat was rocking a pad and some reversed tighty whiteys. You know so her tail could go through the d!ck hole. lol
@WuDaMan,
You bought maxi pads for the dog? Do they still do that when they’re neutered?
See ish like this is why I’m a cat person.
@WuDaMan,
Nah they don’t do it when they get spayded. I loved that bitch.
@WuDaMan,
I was going to wait till she got @ least a year old before I had it done. Sidewalk councelor told me it ain’t good for em to get that surgery before they turne one year old (earth years). So I was tryin to stall it out.
@Me fail english?
Er ummmm where did the rubber band come into play? Around the neck?
LMAO.
@V Renee,
Lol. Nah I used to tie it up in the back in a little knot so the shirt wouldn’t drag. But his bad ass used to come home with the knot undone (I think he used to bite it off, ungrateful bastard) so I used the rubber band to “custom-fit” it
@V Renee,
Okay when I was a lil WuMan. The store had these candy impulse buys. It was candy on a string an elastic string. They had neclaces and bracelets w/ candy on em.
@WuDaMan,
“rushing the door @ the club so you don’t have to pay the cover?”
Lol. This is pretty ghetto.
@Me fail english?,
Oddly enough yes it could be considered ghetto. But when we got done the owner of the kareoke bar invited us back anytime for free. So by my definition it went from ghetto to hood. What can I say me n my cousins know how to party
@WuDaMan, dressing your dog up? I have never seen a dressed up dog in ANY ghetto ever now in the white nabes…HELL YEA
@temps,
Strawberry and Rainbow both sell pet clothes now. That’s where I got all of Monster’s new gear.
Yes, I’m aware stepping foot in either of those stores is ghetto
@Me fail english?,
Fuggalladat I ain’t dressing no pets (in these TET’s, they would be lucky if they got fed)! God created them with fur for a reason!
@YGB,
LMAO!! Yeah I stopped buying ‘em. She hates them
Using a lighter to write your name on the ceiling is hood
Using a lighter to write your name on everything else is ghetto.
I got more of em but I gotta run to this damn meeting about TPS reports
@Peyso is still confused about twitter
I love Office Space and the fact that you quoted it.
@Peyso is still confused about twitter,
Using a lighter to write your name on the ceiling is hood
lol, i never even heard of this until memphis bleek mentioned it in a freestyle
@The Champ, It is very hood. Done in projects across NYC
NOT tps reports lmbo
did ya get that memo??? mmmkay
@Peyso is still confused about twitter,
What else can you write your name in with a lighter but some paint?
@Peyso is still confused about twitter,
“Using a lighter to write your name on the ceiling is hood”
And signs that you may be an arsonist
Oh. That sucka got served!
But to extend the hood ghetto list
Quarter Waters=Hood
Champagne Cola=Ghetto
Screaming for your “baby” at graduation=Hood
Screaming “Owwww!” at his graduation as he makes his way across the stage=Ghetto
Space Heaters=Hood
Ovens left open and running at 300=Ghetto
Buying a “swipe” from a crackhead to get on the train=Hood
Sliding in with the unwitting person in front of you at the turnstile=Ghetto
Cars with missing hubcaps=Hood
Cars with missing seats/headrests/windows=Ghetto
Creeping from movie to movie at the theater after only buying one ticket=Hood
Buying one ticket and letting all your friends in the emergency exit=Ghetto
Frosted Flakes=Hood
King Vitamin= Ghetto
Fried Bologna Sandwiches=Hood
Free Lunch Bunch=Ghetto (sorry kids)
I’m sure I’ll think of some more… cuz according to these lists I used to be pretty effin ghetto. Hahaha
@Me fail english?,
“King Vitamin= Ghetto”
I still have scars on the roof of my mouth from eating this cereal. King Vitamin never came with toys either. You just got that lame cut-out mask on the back of the box.
@Humble One,
“I still have scars on the roof of my mouth from eating this cereal. ”
This is the same reason I refuse to eat Captain Crunch.
Captain Crunch was so good to me as a kid…I was like f*ck it, it’ll heal.
@AkShone,
LOL!!!! I used to suffer through those Crunch Berries too.
Now I’m like…how did I used to eat this ish?
@miss t-lee,
Sometimes I try to let it sit in the milk a little to get soft. But soggy Cap’n Crunch?? What would be the point? So I pour it out and get a fresh bowl and bleed.
@nia,
lol @ Bleeding Gums Nia. See this is why I subsisted on a strict ackee and sizzlean diet as a kid.
@nia,
Hahahahahah!!!!!
@me fail english
not the Sizzlean!!! OMG–that brought pack memories…dayum!
@Humble One,
o_O children’s cereal should not be inflicting permanent damage.
@Humble One, LOL King Vitamin was kinda good though! But I must agree, a little ghetto.
@Humble One,
ROFLMAO!!! This was the only cereal at my Nana’s house…too funny. I forgot all about this and that stupid mask my brother used to cut the box before all of cereal was gone, lol…good look on that one….
@Me fail english?,
lmao but you know you can heat the house up better if you put on a pot of water to boil w/ the oven on. I learned that in the customer service line from a Buhdist monk.
@WuDaMan,
“I learned that in the customer service line from a Buhdist monk.”
WTH?! Buddhist Monks have hotlines for making it in the ghetto? This ish is ingenious. What with all that aesceticism they practice…
@Me fail english?,
I knew after I hit the submit button that was gone be funny style. The person in front of me in the Delta airlines customer service line was a Budist monk. I still do this @ my apt. Frickin temp. controlled building my ssa.
@WuDaMan, I was 14 when I realized that you’re not supposed to heat up the house this way.
I have quite the colorful past, it seems.
@Me fail english?,
Ok I thought up some more..
Keeping the plastic on your couch=Hood
Not letting people sit on the couch at all (cause they’ll “crease the leather”)=Ghetto
Having Uncles/Aunties/Cousins in lockup=Hood
Putting money on your Grandparents’ books=Ghetto
Leaving water running for thirty seconds til it runs clear=Hood
Having to boil the water clear cuz no longer how long you leave the faucet running that bish won’t turn clear= Ghetto (cleanest water in the country my arse!)
@Me fail english?,
Screaming for your “baby” at graduation=Hood
Screaming “Owwww!” at his graduation as he makes his way across the stage=Ghetto
this reminds me of the graduation heel-toe my homegirl did when she was walking across the stage to get her degree.
@The Champ,
Please tell me this was HS or younger
@Me fail english?,
this was 2001 at a prestigious college in upstate new york
@The Champ, wow!! who heel toes anymore..(side glance)
trying to keep up with the latest reggae dances hood
Jumping off of tables and chairs because of said reggae dance is GHETTO!!
Doggerin’.. (youtube it) Jesus be an ambulance!!
@Liryc,
” Doggerin’.. ”
Please tell me this dance is in no way related to “daggering”… This is why I’m too old (and stuck up) for bashment time!
@Me fail english?, yes, it is.. and you should see how it happens.. Said fool stands on top of a table or ledge and jumps off and lands on another fool waiting with her legs open or with her butt c*cked up in the air!
I have left the bashment scene since they give you instructions in a dance.. after the willy bounce I was out!! no thanks!
@The Champ,
LMAO!!! Not heel toe during the Pomp & Circumstance!
Can somebody explain to me when ghetto replaced W.T. for 2520s? I hear so many of them say something is ghetto when it is far from ghetto. I would like to see someone do a country vs. ghetto thread too.
@Humble One,
I’ve noticed redneck (country) and ghetto tend to be synonymous. The difference is just cultural interpretation.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I do not know the difference between hood and ghetto. The terms seem like they’re not mutually exclusive. For instance:
Bringing a porkchop sandwhich to eat at the movie theater and then leaving the porkchop bone on the floor. In my opinion, brining the porkchop sandhwich could be ghetto, or even country for that matter and disgarding the bone on the floor could be ghetto or hood. I’m gonna list things I’ve actually been exposed to and I’d appreciate it if someone could tell me what category these things fall into.
Naming your child “Chris” but spelling it C-h-r-i-s-p (silent p). Naming your child “Courvoisier” but spelling it C-o-n-v-e-r-s-h-i-t-t-y.
Laughing at a person when they correctly pronounce words. Like if someone says Bur-bur-ee when speaking of Burberry.
Finding greasy chicken crumbs on your college application when it shows up in the mail (This actually happened to me and it’s the reason I decided I would not go to Hampton).
Selling boxes of candy you know you stole from a bodega in Washington Heights claiming that it’s for “basketball camp” or to “keep money in your pocket so you can stay of the streets” or so that you can go to “Rome.”
Giving your teacher food stamps as a birthday gift (One of my mother’s high school students did this back in ’96).
Going buck in the club when the bartender tells you there’s no more Henney.
Buying your own wristbands in an assortment of colors so that you don’t have to pay for V.I.P. just in case you go to a club. And yes, I’ll admit I’ve done this. I see it as being frugal!
Buying the “A Different World” season 1 box set on DVD only to find that each episode was recorded on someone’s VCR. How do you know? There are snippets of commercials and you see “TBS” in the bottom right corner of the screen.
@Voiceofreason
I don’t have any answers because I’m laughing too hard.
@Voiceofreason,
Naming your child “Chris” but spelling it C-h-r-i-s-p (silent p).
I am so done…lmao!!
@miss t-lee,
Girl me too! That shyt is hilarious!
LOL @ the silent p!
@Voiceofreason, LMAO this list made my morning. And I’m mad about the wristband trick, why didn’t anyone tell me?!
The wristband trick.
…that shyt IS genius.
@Voiceofreason,
“Buying the “A Different World” season 1 box set on DVD only to find that each episode was recorded on someone’s VCR. How do you know? There are snippets of commercials and you see “TBS” in the bottom right corner of the screen.”
LMAO!
Girl that’s what yo ass get buying from the Homeless Shopping Network. And that, by the way, is ghetto!
My girlfriend bought a camera from a crackhead outside the post office for like $90. It’s all neatly wrapped, she’s opening it on the way home. Come to find out, it’s a box of effin crayons!!
@Me fail english?,
When my girl told me about the Different World DVDs I literally laughed until I cried.
Crayons????? LMAO! I can’t take it.
@Voiceofreason,
I am dying laughing at the food stamp gift! HAHA
@Voiceofreason, I really don’t think I can do this site @ work anymore, lmao!
@Voiceofreason, OMG the wristband trick is pure genius!!!!
LOL what a h.a.m.!!!
on another note: great meeting you friday
@Gem-nasty,
It was great meeting you too!
@Voiceofreason,
LMAO!! Hilarious! Where did you get those DVD’s from…LOL!!
@Blk Bond,
Lol. My friend ordered the DVDs. She said it was through some company in Canada. I told her she should have known better.
@Voiceofreason,
Jesus be a side stitch. I got to live to be able to find a place to buy and use some wrist bands.
& @ pork chop bones. SMH unless they came from Maxwell street, nah that’s just hood rich. mh mh mh I thought I was gettin off w/ some lil wine bottles stuck down in her movie purse. WOW
@WuDaMan,
And I’m ashamed but my d@mn mother is the one who came to the movies with porkchop sandwhiches for me and my aunt. She had hot sauce too, but she didn’t throw the bones on the floor ’cause that’s just trife.
I was so mad at her for bringing the sandwhiches but I still ate mine. There’s no sense in letting a perfectly good porkchop sandwhich go to waste. Lol!
@WuDaMan,
You can order the wristbands on line. One box probably costs the same amount you and a friend would pay to get into V.I.P.
::keeping a straight face::
You mean Roscoes does not qualify as a fine dining establishment?
on another note, the one in Oakland…assuming it’s still open is a front.. and therefore ghetto.
@Champ,
“using that same razorblade for things such as “clipping fingernails”, “cutting salad”, and “changing diapers” is hilariously ghetto”
That’s not hilarious, that’s a disease waiting to happen.
@Happy Meal,
That’s not hilarious, that’s a disease waiting to happen.
tomato, tomato.
In the Boot, dudes wore Jordans at prom and thought they were fly cause that was the time the patin leather Jordans were out. Supa dupa ghetto!
@Ms. T,
I knew about 5 dudes who rocked some Nike Cortez’ with their tuxedos.
Couldn’t do ish but laugh…
@miss t-lee, oh…just so you know they are bringing this back. The patent leater jordans are comming back made especially for prom…go get a good pair of dress shoes (i.e. stacy adams) so you can be comfortable? OH NO! that would be too much like right..
@ESQuared,
Exactly…lol
@ Luvvie
No…no Kanye’s in my senior class…lol
I completely forget about the Heaven’s Gate thing though…they were rockin’ em.
@miss t-lee,
“I knew about 5 dudes who rocked some Nike Cortez’ with their tuxedos.”
Was one of these dudes named Kanye?
@miss t-lee,
Oh and Nike Cortez will FOREVER remind me of the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide. Yall remember that cult that rocked Cortez’s and committed suicides on bunk beds? No? Let me find the link.
Bam! Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(cult)
CHAMP YOU ARE A DAMN FOOL!!
Let me see…..
Having like 30 first cousins and your mama only got 5 siblings is hood. Having a newborn Auntie or Uncle is ghetto.
Using your mamas ID to sneak in the club is hood. Passing it out the bathroom window so she can join you is ghetto.
@Yaa,
Using your mamas ID to sneak in the club is hood. Passing it out the bathroom window so she can join you is ghetto.
LOL!!!!
Going to the club WITH ya momma is UBER-ghetto…
@AkShone
What about a bar???? Moms gotta have a life too.
@Yaa,
“Having a newborn Auntie or Uncle is ghetto.”
THIS right here, just bout KILLT me! There are TOO many people on Facebook talm bout “I’m so excited! My aunty Nikki was just born! Aint she cute?”
I weep for the Black family structure sometimes lol
@Luvvie,
LOL!! sounds like these people in middle school I knew…a brother and sister who were also cousins, and their uncle who was 2 years older than us, but was still in the same grade. smh @ my former ghetto classmates….
@N.I.A. fabuloussince1982….,
…my head hurts trying to picture this family tree.
@Luvvie,
I’m not sure how this is ghetto. My grandmother’s aunt is younger than her…and I’ll be damned if y’all gonna call my great grannie ghetto! lol.
That baby was a surprise.
@Yaa,
If you’re 21, and ur mom is 35 and ur granny is 48, you’re ghetto (oh and your child is in 1st grade)
@Luvvie,
This sounds like my grandma, auntie, cousin and cousin three times removed(?)
They are pretty darn ghetto though. But to their credit most of em have names you can spell.
And with them in mind, I’ll add calling your mama by and grandma by their names and calling your great-grandma “Ma” is ghetto.
@Yaa, Having like 30 first cousins and your mama only got 5 siblings is hood. Having a newborn Auntie or Uncle is ghetto
Sounds African…and like my mama’s side of the fam. All jokes aside, when people ask me how many cousins I have, I pull out a piece of paper, start with my grandpa and work my way down.
Example.
The Wu-Tang Clan: Hood
G-Unit: Ghetto
(gave “The Diplomats” the strong Huey Freeman side eye for this one, but Santana can rap and G-Unit….well….its G-Unit…..)
@ESQuared,
good distinctions and sh*t
LMAO and quite True!!!
Thinking everything HOOD associated is GHETTO = WACK and yes there are black folks like that LOL….SMH……
@OrangeStar616,
this is true and sh*t
@The Champ, LOL n sh*T!!!
Job well done!
Also, u ain’t right for puttin erykah out on front street like that.
@Liz,
gotta call a spade a spade and sh*t
@The Champ,
Unless you in FL where they play w/ 2 of diamonds as a spade. Then they callin a diamond a spade.
@WuDaMan,
…does that only happen in FL?
My friend used to work in labor and delivery at a hospital, and she said some hoodrat named her child…
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“DaCodest”. As in “The Coldest??” But spelled “DaCodest”.
Ay Dios mio….
@nia, That is up there with the one my mother in law who is a doctor told me:
AHBECEDEE(phontecially) . (Spelled) ABCD. The mama was mentally challenged & high on meds from delivery but the child still went home with the name.
@Yaa,
The maternity ward social worker in that hospital is OUTTA ORDER for that one.
@Yaa,
This is almost as bad as that South Jersey family naming their kids Hitler, Himmler and Aryan Nation. It gotta be some rules to this. Like if it pisses ppl off or there aren’t vowels in the right place we take the baby.
@nia,
Ish likes this is why I’ont claim negros sometimes. Some folks are TRULY outta order. iCant
@nia and Yaa
Now that right there is some bullsh*t. Sometimes I question why anyone is allowed to have kids. Some people just don’t deserve them. There should be some type of psychological test before chicks can become pregnant (and men can “donate” their sperm).
@nia,
i know someone who works for child services and one of the kids brought in was named Diamondsnpearls, not first name diamond, middle name pearl, nou gotta say the whole thing like a tribe called quest lol! crying shame, i dont know why some parents hate their children
@PrincesMo,
Lol. They might as well buy her clear heels NOW.
@PrincesMo,
*Dead* LOL
Like “Apimpnamedslickback” LOL
Going to the Chinese joint for a Shrimp St. Paul and chicken fried rice, and having to order through bulletproof “glass”, slide your money through a makeshift hole and receive your order through a drawer- Hood.
Going to same said Chinese restaurant (or “Rice House” or “Chinamen” as they’re called in East St. Louis) and getting that same order, but adding a Peach Vess soda, some red hot riplets, a couple of loose cigarettes (2 for a quarter), and some Now and Laters- irrevocably ghetto.
['Tis where I am from. ]
Going to the movies and pre-buying your snacks- hood (or nonconformist, some may argue)
Going to the movies and pre-buying a chicken meal from Wal-Mart- possibly ghetto *whistles nonchalantly* – we wuz hongry!
@Beez,
OMG. A Shrimp St. Paul. I LOVE them.
My ex was from the Lou and he’d talk about these sandwiches and they sounded nasty as all get out.
When I went with him to meet his fam, I had one and it was DELISH!!!!!
You are so lucky to have constant access to them. lol.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
I wish I still did, I live in Chambana now- where they don’t have nuffin!
@Beez,
Haha, Loosey’s alone are pretty damn ghetto. Why not save up for the pack?
@Me fail english?,
LOL@ “save up”
@Me fail english?
LMAO. Yeah they are. I may have to question the 2 for a quarter though. For some reason I think they’re more than that. Otherwise you can buy 20 cigarettes (a pack) for $2.50 and that can’t be right. I think it’s more like 2 for a dollar….or at least 2 for .50.
@V Renee,
Which reminds me
Newports = Hood
Black&Milds = Ghetto
Although, as a non-smoker I prefer the smell of Blacks
Black or White Tee Shirt/ Dickies outfit/Tims = Hood
Black or White Tee Shirt/Dickies outfit/ Tims at a funeral or wedding = ghetto
*de-lurking*
Hood: having jelly jars as drinking glasses
Ghetto: serving said jelly jars to guests.
@Justbreathe, YAY FOR DELURKING!!!!
@Justbreathe, L.M.A.O, these are just so unacceptable, the horror!
Any big dog you’ve named “Duke”, “King”,”Kang”, “Butch” or “Killa” is definently hood AND ghetto in my opinion.
There’s always one…SMH.
@Tx10inch,
LMAO! I got like two “Duke”s in my family and got bit by a “King” when I was little
@Me fail english?,
Knew there HAD to be one. LMAO!
@Me fail english?,
we had german shepards by the name of Duke and Duchess….hood
having a mean-ish dog (i.e. boxer, rottweiler, doberman, pit bull) named “King”, “Duke”, or “Killa” is hood.
getting said dog from off the streets (stray) or a store that also sells electronics/jewelry/urban clothing (back home we call this place “Fam Mart”) and taking him for walks where he is actually walking YOU is ghetto.
@Tx10inch,
LMAO! The ghetto name for dogs round these parts is “Danger”
@YGB,
The ghetto name for dogs round these parts is “Danger”
SMH @ ’09 hoodness…
Scrambled egg and rice is hood and ghetto
Those imitation ‘Bruce Lee’ slippers pass the age of 12 is hood
@Blk Bond,
I used to have those joints! So comfortable!
@YGB,
The bruce leroys? I had them joints too!
@Blk Bond,
Scrambled egg and rice is hood and ghetto.
I need to clarify…the eggs and rice are cooked as one, right? That is not ghetto! That is southern. lol. And it tastes great salted.
Rocking bootleg LV or Coach bags or their snekears: ghetto, this includes scarfs-headwraps-bandanna’s…you look dumb in the Chinese restaurant ordering the same meals we all discovered in JHS with Prada on you feet & a LV (big bag) with you**sidenote**even the “official” joint are ghetto simply cuz teenieboppers and MILF rock the bootlegs so much I cant tell the diff: ghetto.
Also Nike got in bed with Cole Haan-I own a pair they are shoes with the Nike Air bubble-I get in spots dudes with Prada kicks dont
Following the Crowd like sheeps: Ghetto (but is more universal and can apply to all crowds)
Middle aged men trying to rock hip hop gear: ghetto-whats funny is now that button up and the slim look is in these guys look confused when they see that styles have been slightly altered
Buying so much bootleg you actually arent saving money: ghetto…if the kicks were 150 but he got em for 50 fools go out and buy 3 pair-dumbass!!! And I dont wanna hear “but I got three” ah they are fake and wont make it past the season they was brought in
Despite your Corporate gig and salary you still go to EXCLUSIVELY these “hood clubs”: you my friend are GHETTO and dont give me that “staying in touch with the hood” crap
Women in public dressed to the nines (I wanna rip that blouse off and damn..look at them shoes!!!) her Man: jeans waaaay too baggy-XXXXXL shirt with XXXXXXXXXXXXLLLLLL shirt but you know the Timbs are F-R-E-S-H: Ghetto
Knockoff shirts of existing products: eg “Hood Life” a play on the cereal “Life”: sorry yall thats ghetto
ONLY listening to the radio as your source of new music: Ghetto
Buying anything from a bodega with EBT card: ghetto
However charging the Palma cigars on your card: hood
The diff being ghetto is something you should question yourself about.
Hood is something practical and makes sense although at the time it seems odd. For example buying dutches on my card at Rite Aid…well in some spots in NYC dutches are $1.50 well you get four in box at tth Duane Reade-do the math it does make sense, but buying junk food in the bodega paying for it with EBT card is ultra GHETTO
@temps,
Buying so much bootleg you actually arent saving money: ghetto…if the kicks were 150 but he got em for 50 fools go out and buy 3 pair-dumbass!!! And I dont wanna hear “but I got three” ah they are fake and wont make it past the season they was brought in
LOL
@The Champ, I say buy 1 pair take the buck and buy them jeans on sale and now you got something goin
my dad recently hired a person with twin sons, named “orainjelo” and “milanjelo”. when my dad asked them the origin of these names, the person replied that they were french.
strange? of course…but nothing really noteworthy enough to talk about, right? well, my dad eventually saw how these names were spelled:
orainjelo=orange jello
milanjelo=melon jello
i guess i should have added another component. hood, ghetto, and f*cking foolish.
@The Champ,
LOL!! This is beyond fycking foolish…smh.
@The Champ,
This from Freakonomics? lol
@Me fail english?,
sounds like it, doesnt it?
@The Champ,
FUKC them people!
@The Champ,
aaaaaaaaaaahahahahaahaaha OH MY GOD MY STOMACH IS CRAMPING!!!!!!!!
@The Champ,
*tearin up*
smgdh
@The Champ, speaking of “French” names…
My name is Tanishah and I went to high school with a girl named Ta’Nisha. She was going on and on about her mother giving her a french name and that the spelling of my name was ghetto and it was gettin on my nerves. So I said “I guess there are projects in France too?” This girl has hated my guts ever since! LMAO…french my azz!
@SxyScientst, actually the bricks in Paris are outside of the city I saw it in a movie called “La Haine” and it was they were seen in the news a few yrs back when the Muslim cats out there started flippin on some LA Rodney King type shit
Going to the club and showing them your passport to get in is hood
Going to the club and showing them your benefit card because you don’t have any other forms of ID is GHETTO EXTREME!!
I tell you sometimes I wonder why I even try with these Brooklyn People..
question: can you really be hood if you own a passport??
@Gem-nasty, Hmmmm this I have to think out further.. but if you use it to get into the clubs there is a problem.. If you can afford that then you should be able to get yourself an ID card!
@Gem-nasty,
I say yeah. I mean they got that saying. You can take em out the hood but you can’t take the hood out of em…
@Gem-nasty,
I concur. Even if you’re just going back home to the islands, passports are pretty classy.
Now carrying a suspended license cuz u got no other ID is kinda hood.
LOL @ passports are pretty classy.
and yes, carrying a suspended (or even expired, not renewed) license is hood.
@Gem-nasty,
guilty as charged
@KingPine & Ms. Sula
VSB: where VSppl show just how hood and/or ghetto they really are
lol
@Gem-nasty,
Hey! It’s for the gym!
@Gem-nasty,
If they take your license during a traffic violation, the only photo idea you have may be your passport. I’ve had to use mine as ID while I waited on my traffic court date. But I snuck and got a state ID (usually in IL you have to surrender your state ID once you get a DL) on the sly to avoid having to drag (and possibly lose!) the passport in the club.
My original post is stuck in moderation pergatory so here’s the 2nd attempt…
Black or White Tee Shirt / Dyckies outfit /Tims = Hood
Black or White Tee Shirt/Dyckies outfit/ Tims at a funeral or wedding = ghetto as hell. nucca go buy a damn suit for cryin’ out loud…
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@ThePhiladelphiaNegro,
lol, i still have yet to see a person rocking a dickies outfit to a wedding. you are from philly, though, so that changes things
@The Champ,
Yeah fam….the all black set are the ones I’ve seen dudes rock at the aforementioned occasions. Only difference is, if it’s a funeral, substitute the plain white or black tee to a white or black tee with the decedent’s image on it…
@ThePhiladelphiaNegro,
Yeah. Brothas need to step their game up re: dressing for a function.
I don’t care how much you paid for that tee, “Yung Rich” is not for formal occasions!
I can’t breath! I’ve never had the opportunity to *experience* The Breakfast Song, and now my life will never be the same. Oh So Ghetto. Oh So So Ghetto.
@KatrinaME,
the breakfast song might be better than actual breakfast
@The Champ,
I find myself singing this ish randomly…I can’t stop. It’s been dayum near a month now.
*breathe*
wearing a stocking cap to your morning class is hood.
wearing it to graduation is ghetto
Big Pony polo shirts–hood
bootleg big pony polo shirts–ghetto.
@Big Man, do people still do these random acts of fcukery?
@Big Man, where the “pony” looks like a big azz goat and the “jockey” looks like a crackhead? Just saw a dude at the ghetto gas station selling those! His girlfriend was braiding hair, and the grandma was selling oils…
@SxyScientst,
LOL @ the family business.
I saw this cat on trial for second degree murder get his folks to bring him a black Dickies fit for his trial.
WTF
Are you just trying to set the mood? Of all the things you could choose to wear when the fate of your life is being decided, you chose a black dickies fit with G-Nikes?…
He only got manslaughter though.
This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read, its so no point I can’t stop laughing.
You guys are so f*cking stupid.
You’re what everyone would call an Oreo. Black on the outside, but White on the inside.
lol I totally can see the difference, it’s kind of like there’s just that pinch of difference but it’s there lol
I read this and laughed so much. I stumbled across this by accident. Think about my past, visiting cousins living in Louisville KY. I actually googled Madam Zenobia’s and your article popped up. I live in Dayton OH now. I just wanted to let you know that the deal with the no chicken after 7pm is alive and kicking in Dayton OH! I remember wondering how they manage to stay in business with the excuse of “we don’t have no chicken left”. The girl at the counter actually worded it that way. We have, since that time in our lives, moved on up so to speak. However, I find myself visiting “the hood” for AA hair products that I have become accustomed to using on a daily basis.