>the year is 1985
>you wake up in the Queensbridge projects in New York City
What's your next move?
The year is 1985
Gavin Perry
Camden Walker
Make my way out rapping
Hudson Campbell
protest against the master boomer, reagan
Julian Butler
Why are they called projects?
Luis Diaz
buy some crack
Robert Wright
wash my face, get dressed, and go down to town to look for a job.
Jacob Allen
Take advantage of free public education and affirmative action once it's time to apply for college, and never look back
Cooper Anderson
Short for 'housing projects' which is just the standard term given to public housing in the US.
t. wikipedia
Brandon Hill
if i die i couldn't choose a better location
Lincoln King
These were attempts by the HUD to build large, affordable, standardized housing units for low income Americans (organized as individual projects), and they all turned out to be shitholes
Ayden Jackson
Public housing projects.
Connor Perry
get jerked off by Adam Eget
Isaac Adams
The mob comes equiped for warfare
Beware of my crime family who got nuff shots to spare for all those
Christopher Carter
Burst a fat load of cum, that time in NYC was nuts, crazy punk and hip-hop era, fucking awesome. Crack, crime and awesome.
Wyatt Sanders
I read somewhere almost every New Yorker back then, even those in Manhattan, had to deal with crime at one point in their lives.
Jaxson Gonzalez
Find and assassinate Representative William J. Hughes.
Cameron Perez
I doubt you will find him there
Adrian Clark
becoming billionaire rap star
Landon Foster
Start dancing violently
Jacob Cooper
If only there was available mass transit in the NYC area.
Oh wait there was.
Leo Fisher
get on the subway
Adam Hernandez
My uncle lived on Avenue B in the East Village in 1985 and he told me on some days he would have to beat his way with a club into his apartment. That entire area was pretty much an open air drug market at the time
Easton Hall
This is from Style Wars and the picture is c. 1983.
This is from Hell on Wheels and is c. 1977-79.
It's interesting to note the brown-tinted 70s photography versus the more natural color in the 80s shot.
Elijah Carter
THE SAGA BEGINS
BEGIN WAR
I DRAW FIRST BLOOD, BE THE FIRST TO SET IT OFF
Asher Hughes
Go and see Sonic Youth performing. Punch Robert Christgau in the face while I'm there.
Andrew Morales
You ever seen Escape From New York?
Sebastian Sanders
Why are photos from the '70s so brown-tinted? And why was everything from that decade so ugly?
>shades of brown, yellow, orange, and pea green.
Jason Kelly
Based
Justin Wilson
Is that Alphabet City?
Jace Rodriguez
IDK, you tell me.
Isaiah Cook
"Just enjoy the show, mums. No need to worry about those little cunty teenagers calling you a fascist and all that."
Mason Davis
>tfw those girls are old and gross now
Anthony Walker
Run from niggers.
Zachary Barnes
>the year is 1985
Go buy a box of blank floppies and download C64 games from a pirate BBS.
Jordan Taylor
Convince my mother to fuck a white man
Logan Russell
Go south for 85 and then feel safe
Hudson Campbell
Put on my timbs, black jeans and wife beater and go sell crack rocks on the nearest street corner.