2 posts tagged “hyphy”
For those who've seen my rant post about the whole "Hyphy" generation, you know that this quarter-life-ian missed the hyphy boat and is feeling like current teenagers are on some other planet. I've officially crossed the line between adult and youth. The generation disconnect between myself and current college sophomores and below, is now visible and feels like its spans eons. But (!) I'm not the only one who feels this way. Peep this spoof on hyphy my cousin-in-law, a man of 32, put together. He's a dad so pardon the material. I find it, hilarious.
Although this didn't help either of us understand things better, satire is a lovely thing.
While watching a typical SF Giants game... vs. the Dodgers of course... something made me wonder if I'm truly turning into the workaholic old woman my body feels like its become. It's after 9pm, a Friday, and I could be asleep right now, hell... I would be asleep right now if I hadn't started thinking about this.
I'm damn proud of where I grew up. As a native "Sanfrenciscan" (we do run our words together don't we?) of the Quarter-Life generation, I have to say, I do NOT understand the new breed of natives from the 415.
At the job to whom I've given an adult, polite two week notice to (although I'd really like to pull an office space/ half baked style EFF YOU sort of goodbye) we have this promo up where we took pictures of people and asked them what their dreams were. Two ignorant ass teenagers wrote...
"STAYING PEEZY"
I call them ignorant b/c to be quite honest I have no idea if they just had sloppy hand writing, made up the word peezy, or couldn't think of more significant dreams. But it got me thinking... with all this hyphy generation malarky, I have NO idea what these teens are talking about 90% of the time.
After my college hiatus on the East Coast, I ventured into my first "eh" part time job at a high school and discovered a Bay Area I had no idea existed. Don't get me wrong I'll gladly tell you how incredibly dope I thought E-40, Slick Rick, JT the Bigga Figga et al, were back in the day, but I don't know what HYPHY means. And why is it GOING DUMB. The first time I was told that GHOST RIDING THE WHIP meant dancing around your car with the engine running, I got really worried. Are people THAT bored?
Apparently. I can say this, I get the beezy, breezy, fo sheezy thing. Ok it's slang, Snoop what you've done that is now considered oh so Cali classic is fine. I get it, we don't have a response to CRUNK fine. But damn... its embarrassing some days. I was genuinely embarrassed to share the same birth place with these people.
I won't deny that the things my friends and I had to represent our love for the 4-1-5 were corny too, CUTTY is a word that came up with us, and I still say that, but I did end up abandoning HELLA in my adulthood (exceptions to this rule are when I'm around people I grew up with) but it's true. My pride has been skewed.
The one thing I can say about standing firm in my pride as I watch this VERY foggy Giants Game, top of the 9th inning, Giants down by 1 run... is EFF THE DODGERS, (and yankees, but with a lowercase eff not a capital).
I'm just staying peezy... WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!?!
I'm damn proud of where I grew up. As a native "Sanfrenciscan" (we do run our words together don't we?) of the Quarter-Life generation, I have to say, I do NOT understand the new breed of natives from the 415.
At the job to whom I've given an adult, polite two week notice to (although I'd really like to pull an office space/ half baked style EFF YOU sort of goodbye) we have this promo up where we took pictures of people and asked them what their dreams were. Two ignorant ass teenagers wrote...
"STAYING PEEZY"
I call them ignorant b/c to be quite honest I have no idea if they just had sloppy hand writing, made up the word peezy, or couldn't think of more significant dreams. But it got me thinking... with all this hyphy generation malarky, I have NO idea what these teens are talking about 90% of the time.
After my college hiatus on the East Coast, I ventured into my first "eh" part time job at a high school and discovered a Bay Area I had no idea existed. Don't get me wrong I'll gladly tell you how incredibly dope I thought E-40, Slick Rick, JT the Bigga Figga et al, were back in the day, but I don't know what HYPHY means. And why is it GOING DUMB. The first time I was told that GHOST RIDING THE WHIP meant dancing around your car with the engine running, I got really worried. Are people THAT bored?
Apparently. I can say this, I get the beezy, breezy, fo sheezy thing. Ok it's slang, Snoop what you've done that is now considered oh so Cali classic is fine. I get it, we don't have a response to CRUNK fine. But damn... its embarrassing some days. I was genuinely embarrassed to share the same birth place with these people.
I won't deny that the things my friends and I had to represent our love for the 4-1-5 were corny too, CUTTY is a word that came up with us, and I still say that, but I did end up abandoning HELLA in my adulthood (exceptions to this rule are when I'm around people I grew up with) but it's true. My pride has been skewed.
The one thing I can say about standing firm in my pride as I watch this VERY foggy Giants Game, top of the 9th inning, Giants down by 1 run... is EFF THE DODGERS, (and yankees, but with a lowercase eff not a capital).
I'm just staying peezy... WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!?!
