Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area

This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.

Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.

Rules for General Chat

Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving

In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way

Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.

Yesterdays General Chat

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– Brent75 4 points 98 days ago +5 / -1

Yes some rap including some gangster rap is ridiculous. But some of the late 80s early 90s stuff isn’t. It was a way to message about poverty caused by the government reliance, and the criminal nature that arose to survive the encroaching drug cartels that would drive the ghetto’s further into hell. Ice Cube’s America’s Most Wanted, some of Too Short, Easy-E, Pooh Man, and Mac Dre’s early stuff all follows roughly the same message about government pushed reliance and poverty, and the connected crime. Movies like New Jack City, Boyz in the Hood, Blood In Blood Out: Bound By Honor, Mi Vida Loca, and the best Menace II Society do pretty well to stay with these sad and destructive themes, without over-romancing the so called positives or glamour of being Gangsta.

But yes you are right, everything else is hype, money and women, and fake hood rats “rollin on Dubs in my Escalade” type BS.