(http://images.gawker.com/18jevqfpdkr6ijpg/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636.jpg)
ans of Biggie will remember that the late but relentlessly beloved rap icon often remarked on his hardscrabble younger years in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where he grew up in an apartment with a single mother. Now, 41 years after Christopher Wallace was born, and 16 years after he was murdered, the Notorious BIG's childhood home is up for sale. But things, it would appear, "done changed" since Biggie lived there.
The apartment, renovated a few years ago, is a far cry from the cramped, bland place depicted in BIG's rags-to-riches anthem "Juicy," what with its three bedrooms and brightly lit den. Beyond that, the former Biggie residence is not located in Biggie's beloved Bed-Stuy, as one might have been led to believe from the rapper's frequent shoutouts ("Bedford-Stuyvesant the livest one!"). Instead, apartment 3L at 226 Saint James Place is in neighboring Clinton Hill, just down the street from the fancy private art college Pratt.
So, which is it? Have the vagaries of New York City neighborhood boundaries caused what was once Bed-Stuy to become Clinton Hill, in an effort to not scare off white home buyers? Or, was Biggie kind of lying all along when he said, "My Bed-Stuy flow's malicious, delicious"?
I asked Judith Lief, the woman selling BIG's childhood home and the person who stands to make a nice commission if the place sells for its $725,000 asking price, what her thoughts are on the matter; all she could offer was, "I really don't know the answer to that question." Perhaps you can pry more from her yourself at one of the apartment's open houses, starting tomorrow.
http://gawker.com/5993354/was-biggie-lying-about-being-from-bed-stuy
s
I thought he said he lived in a good home
but the hood was literally across the street
before the whites came in that neighborhood was trash
Quote from: alien. on October 15, 2016, 06:16:29 PM
mpkin
watching NOTORIOUS now on vh1
he lookin kinda good on this bed tbrfh
D
Quote from: AYR on October 15, 2016, 06:03:22 PM
I thought he said he lived in a good home
but the hood was literally across the street
That's what I always thought
Quote from: MelMel on October 15, 2016, 06:34:36 PM
before the whites came in that neighborhood was trash
sssssssssssssssssssss yea....
I notice up here when the white gorls come and INVADE the projects, it then becomes "hipster! Williamsburg!". I'm sure it was filth when he was growing up... :dead:
Quote from: Trey on October 15, 2016, 07:09:27 PM
Quote from: MelMel on October 15, 2016, 06:34:36 PM
before the whites came in that neighborhood was trash
sssssssssssssssssssss yea....
I notice up here when the white gorls come and INVADE the projects, it then becomes "hipster! Williamsburg!". I'm sure it was filth when he was growing up... :dead:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they even got plaza where you can sit out in the streets in that neighborhood :plzstop:
I thought he was from Brooklyn :udontlookok:
afro, it's gentrification hun
the modern day colonialism :cheerup:
:omgwatshappening: