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HOOD STARS!!


I don't know who coined the term, but I f*cking love it!! Hood Stars! Let me take a moment to give my definition of a hood star...


Hood Star (as defined by Raven): is an individual in a low-income community, typically referred to as the ghetto, who survives by illegal activities i.e. selling drugs, prostituting, "hiting licks". This person then becomes respected by their peers and the more money they make, the more fans they have...in the hood. So therefore, they become a hood star!!


Everyday I come home from a long day of work, I run into hood stars. Most are very friendly and a little charming; however, their ego is something ridiculous. Their stardom has gone to their head and they figure they can have any cute thing walking in the hood. I had one hood star tell me "You are going to regret not talking to me"...I was like "wow". Mind you, that this is a youngsta, first and foremost, and he is posted on the same block everyday. What am I going to regret, I don't get it? Because I can catch you whenever I want too...


What I like to do...is challenge the Hood Stars. They are real comfortable coming and trying to hollar, but they are used to it being so easy (I suppose poppin at all the little "hoodettes"lol). So I give them a little conversation and "turn my swag on"...most of the time, they shy away, get nervous, start stuttering...its pretty funny.


I have some folks who I've known since I was like 6 years old. And now they are Hood Stars. Some of them won't even speak to me...I guess because they are so high up the totem pole..sike!! Someone really needs to give Hood Stars a reality check...that it doesn't mean sh*t to be famous in a 5 block radius...because outside the Bottoms, no one knows you!!


I'M JUST SAYIN!!
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