THINGS I'M GETTING OFF MY CHEST & OTHER THINGS...

You know you from Chicago When....

....i know i posted something before like this, but this is the ghetto version of "you know you're from Chicago when..." ....i seen it on a few people's BP pages today...i think i had the none ghetto version on my page.....
*Note* Some of this doesnt apply to me, because i guess i'm not that ghetto...and i grew up on the northside....hey don't hate on the Northside! :-)

You know you're from Chicago if....

YOU USE TO OWN A TWEETY BIRD TOWEL JACKET (why dont i remember this?)

IF YOU HAVE EVER SAID "JOE" MORE THEN ONE TIME IN A CONVERSATION

FOR THA SOUTHSIDERS IF YOU EVER SAID CHARLIE LIKE 80 TIMES

IF YOU GO THE THE LOCAL RESTAURANT AND ORDER 6 WINGS WITH EXTRA "MILD" SAUCE ON THE FRIES AND A POP(HAROLD`S CHICKEN #456, J&J FISH, UNCLE REMUS)

IF YOU KNOW WHO MARQUITA AND POOKIE ARE OFF THE "AWAKENINGS (mannn i use to beg my mama to stay up and watch this on Channel 38! the local Christian Station in Chicago!) LMAO i just found a website for it too! LMAO smh@me googling ish... http://www.awakening.com/index.html man, this show was something serious to Chicago folks...i think it was a good show that showed how life was...but it was bootleg..i wonder if i watch it now as i'm older, what i'd think of it...i'm mad theyg ot DVD's for the show though....

IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE SPOTS WERE "CLUB IN THE MIX"(WESTSIDE) AND "THE ROUTE"(SOUTHSIDE) (the hell is this??? i never went anywhere when i was young...)

IF YOU OR SOMEONE THAT YOU KNOW HAS EVER SAID "ON LARRY HOOVER" OR "ON KING NEIL" (aren't they the Folks and Stone or Latin King leaders? smh!@people saying that then.....)

IF YOU CAN`T WAIT TO GET BACK HOME FOR CHRISTMAS BREAK TO GO TO HOMERUN INN (For me it's Giordanos....Home Run Inn pizza is aight, i mean it's good as heck, but i LOVE Giordanos pizza!)

LADIES IF YOU EVER HAD A FEATHERED OVERLAY (I always had my hair braided..)

ON A SATURDAY NIGHT YOU KICKED IT AT THE ROCK AND ROLL MCDONALDS PARKING LOT DOWNTOWN (i've never done this)

IF YOU WORE A GARTER TO PROM! (That's some country ghetto ish!)

D. J. Chip is your DJ at Southside parties (i never went to parties...)

You know what Sweetest Day is (Shouldnt everyone know this?!? It's really not a Chicago Thing...it's a Hallmark Holiday....)

HEY A A A is used when you and yo crew is too hype at a party (i wouldn't even know this, i didnt have friends growing up...)

You know what the word "juke" mean (lemme see ya juke....)

You know that chicago only has 2 seasons, winter and summer (heck yea it does!)

When you don't have nothing to do on a saturday night in the summer time u go down to the Lake front (i lived right down the street from the beach...we was there all the time...up in Loyola Park...yea Northside! LOL...)

You don't get hyped when u see Twista cuz he always around ( i saw him at jaguar's) (i've never seen Twista in person, though my cousin have, and Da Brat, and Crucial Conflict and Do or Die...she grew up out west whent hey were all big, lol, cuz she graduated high school in 93')

You use to love that song by 3piece (even tho' they only came out with 1 song and the remix to it ) (ya'll know that song! "Ohh, Ahh", came out back in 2003 i believe...only Chicago folks...)

You go to the skating rink, not to skate but to juke(dance) (i've only been to the skating rink a few times, and it was always to the Rainbo since it was up North...i STILL don't know how to skate, but i loveeeeeeeeeeeeed to see the guys dance on their skates!)

You know at least 1 person R.kelly done tried to holla at or u know a friend of a friend who r.kelly tried to get with (See i tell people that's not from Chicago this all the time...what R. Kelly is doing now aint knew! Aaliyah wasnt the first...i've heard from other folks about him messing with girls, still going up to his old H.S...that perv! see i know a friend of a friend...)

Foot-workin' (i LOVE to watch footwork...but i can't footwork..i'm too clumsy....)

When the Bulls use to run it, and we'd win a championship, you'd ride all ova (stoney island or down town) blowin ya horn yellin' "Go Bulls". (see i would see people do that, but wouldnt do it, lol...i remember my cousin and them out west going ont heir porch acting all stupid back in 93' whent he Bulls won, smh...)

When everybody meet you that's not from the Chi, they say you sound "country." (I hate when people say this...i do NOT sound like people from TN or AR....well then again maybe a lil bit, but i dont have a long drawn out country accent...but then again, my grandma and grandpa is from Eudora, AR...where is that at? EXACTLY! But alot of black folks from Chicago parent's and grandparents are form the South...)

On saturday nights you kick it on stoney island all down 79th. In Goldblats parkinlot! (ok...why would you wanna hang out in the Goldblats parking alot? Goldblts don't even exist anymore, lol....Again, that must be a southside thing...)

You go to the car club picnics (i remember my mama use to go to a motorcycle club called the Dragon....she use to take me and my brother with her whent hey had stuff for kids, lol, that was back in like 88'...)

You say Caa and not Car (lol, i remember Chevonne mentioned this on her blog...)

You used to go to parties at the "Prep" back in like 98-99 and they used to be jukin'! (Again, i grew up on the Northside....)

You know somebody that DJ Chip used to mess with!!! (Why the heck was DJ Chip a celebrity? again...that must be a South and Westside [i lived out West the first 8 years of my life, well 2 of those years out South] thing....ok now i can understand if Mike Love and The Diz was....lol...or Crazy Howard McGhee or Rick Party....)

Remember Baller Click, Dynasty, and all them other clicks (The hell is this?)

You used to go to the Dolton Expo! (don't know what this is! i guess i'm not ghetto enough, ha ha ha....)

You ever belonged to a "party crew" i.e. Crucial Clique, 3993, Precious, Dirty Clique, Gambinos, Disco Ballerz (This sounds really lame...this sounds like what some people in my class like in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade would be in...talking about clique this and that...smh...see i was a loner...i had no friends...)

You only go to a particular Harold's cause thats your spot (87th Dan Ryan) (man i've only had Harolds once in my life...i grew up on the northside...and 6 years of my life out West...now out west they got Wallace Fish and Coleman ribs...i know about that now!)

On the weekends you go to "da show" (Thats jsut cuz people from Chicago say "da" instead of "the"...thats all...)

You wear "gym shoes" (Heck yea i wear Gym Shoes! i dont wear "Sneakers" or "Tennis Shoes")

If you were to visit U of I or NIU right now it would a be grammar school/ high school reunion. (i dont know what this is...i guess i was sheltered as a child...not, my mama let me do stuff, but i decided to stay in the house...too many crazy folks in Chicago...)

You went to "grammar school" not elementary school. (people laugh at me when i say Grammar School...)

You know what Burr Oak, Marina City, Miami, Skyway are, and you've kicked it there more than once. (Well i guess i'mn ot from Chicago then cuz i dont know what this is....)

You know how to "step" only because your momma taught you. (And my mama still has yet ot teach me how to step...thats cuz i never really danced...but i love to watch her and my aunts Step...i'm gonna learn one day before i get old...so that when i'm old i can go to the steppers set! and i use to watch Stepping at Club 7 too when i was little, lol....)

You could care less if R. Kelly is guilty or not because he repping "the crib" real hard. (I actually do care...R Kelly can NOT rep Chicago anymore...that damn PERV!)

You've ever referred to something as "cold" or "raw" Example: Joe, you heard that new R. Kelly cut?....Its raw as eva!

You hum to tune to "bang bang bang skeet skeet skeet" (LMAOOOO....i use to be hummin all those mix tape songs in my head....)

You would sing "Gel and Weave" to anyone who you suspected had weavein their hair (Bald head scally wag, ya hair can't touch ya back, gell it, weave it, you really need it...)

You drive to Indiana to get gas (some folks get cigaretts)

Your favorite events of the summer are the Taste (only on July 3) and the Bud Billiken Parade (i have GOT to be the ONLY black person in Chicago that never been to the Bud Billiken Parade...i only watched it on WGN Ch. 9...i use to like to watch the people footwork, lol....see thats cuz i dont get along with the soutside...i had bad experiences out there the 2 years i lived out there...51st and king drive?!?! that neighborhood was bad as hell!)

IF YOU EVER JAPPED (WESTSIDE) (the heck is Japped? did i miss this one? Wait, actually i think i have heard this before...)

People STILL skate. I was at Olympic skatin' rink last week and people still come out in groups with spray painted t-shirts showing off. (LOL@this...)

Rainbow use to be the spot (thats the only rink i ever been to...and they finally closed it a few years ago...my aunt use to always go there and i went there a few times with her...)

IF YOU THOUGHT R.KELLY AND CRUCIAL CONFLICT SHOULD HAVE MADE A VIDEO FOR GHETTO QUEEN (i remember this song, and NO they shouldn't have done a video, lol...)

IF YOU EVER TREATED SOMEBODY (Treated? whats that? i've never been "hip" to alot of slang....)

If you ever used to say salty, lame, on my momma, hecky naw, raw, treated, or remember crucial conflict (I use to and i still do say "salty", "lame", "hecky naw", and i say bogus too...i've notice that alot of Chicago people say "Bogus")

ok i added to this list as you can see....lol...all ya'll chicago folks what ya'll think? if you not from Chicago, you probably think this is silly....

i got one for ya...and only the Westside folks might remember this....Remember Buddy Bears?!? there use to be on over on Cicero (my old neighborhood out west, Lamon, and Maypole!)....i think it was by Cicero and Lake...i think the side street it was on was probably West End...i'm not sure.... lol, also, people form Chicago also gotta say the intersection of a street to describe where they're from, when people from other cities will give you their adress...i had someone not from Chicago at my church down here at school ask me why people from Chicago do that...heck i dont know...we just do! ALSO if you use to listen to 107.5 WGCI you remember that "It's all about the Bad Boyz" song that had alot of those Chicago Rappers on it (Common, Twista, Do or Die, Crucial Conflict, and some other folks), that song used the "It's all about the Bejamin's" beat....LOL....

posted by Toya @ 10:31 PM