It's Golden State. That fanbase (really, Bay Area sports fans in general) has had to deal with decades of mockery and continuous L's. Just let them enjoy this while it lasts.

I know it's happening, I'm just not interested.

All that new development looks to be sticking around Sandhills and Spring Valley though. Go to where Decker Blvd intersects Two Notch and it looks like investment can't get away from the area fast enough. The situation definitely wasn't helped by the flood, either.

Where are people going? It's been years since I've been to Charleston but my dad's side of the family all live in Red Top.

I was thinking more along the lines of Montgomery and PG county. Is Baltimore really considered part of the DMV? I'm not from the area so I'm not sure how far it goes.

I'm actually from Columbia. I know that in the last 5-10 years they've really been building up Downtown, Five Points, the Vista and a lot of areas around Williams-Brice but a lot of that looks like it's being geared more towards students and serving USC, rather than professionals. Meanwhile areas like NE Columbia-…

One thing I've been curious about regarding the DMV area: Latinos. They populate a lot of places in that area; is their presence having any effect in shifting where people are living?

Jackson and Birmingham: high crime and stagnant economies. Plus the cultural perception that MS and AL are places you're supposed to escape, not move to.

Let it happen? The Black business/professional class that controls the Durham city government wanted this to happen. The bio-medical industry started popping in the Triangle and folks in charge started rubbing their hands like Birdman, saying "we'd like a bit of that."
The end goal was "development"; not preserving…

But the question is, where in the Carolina's (especially SC- nobody ever seems to want to include us in "the Carolina's") would upwardly mobile Black people want to migrate? I know nobody is trying to live in the Upstate.

I would try Durham, NC before it gets completely bought up.

The best example: Durham, North Carolina. Go through East Durham- Braggtown, down Fayetteville Street, through the Hayti and Walltown and you'll see it's not just the White folk taking advantage.

That may be true, but I really don't see how that matters from the perspective of the low-income people being pushed out of the community. In either case, they're not going to be around to benefit from the amenities that are following the money.

Yes, Black people can be gentrifiers. Getting priced out of my neighborhood doesn't sting any less just because the guy doing it looks like Anthony Mackie instead of Chris Evans.

To specify; I'm only talking about 90's- early 2000's East Coast hip-hop. I like more of the millennial NY rappers out right now. Limiting the conversation to music from the 90's- early 2000's era, production-wise, I'm attracted to the music from those regions because the production typically made greater use melody…

To specify; I'm only talking about 90's- early 2000's East Coast hip-hop. I like more of the millennial NY rappers out right now.
Being a southerner, I've always gravitated more towards southern music, though I'm also a fan of a lot of West Coast hip-hop. Limiting the conversation to music from the 90's- early 2000's…

Meh, it's all the same.

I don't know what it is about them, but I just can't rock with 90's boom-bap era NY rappers. With the exception of Redman, I can only stand them in very small doses.
But about the Black Album specifically, that was just a painful listen. I didn't have a single song on there that I liked.

Every time I listen to Pusha-T I feel a little bit of his sociopathy rubbing off on me.

When I was 14, I spent my Crown Royale bag money on The Black Album. It was the first Jay-Z record I'd ever listened to. It was ALSO the record that convinced me I never, ever, ever, ever needed to hear another Jay album.