The shocking facts of where Bernard Hopkins grew up

[C'MONMANG']

What do you know?

You're obviously an MTV child in love with "gangsta" images. You know nothing about the "street" or "prison."

Hopkins invented this image for wannabes like you. And it works.

That's why I'm not hating on Hopkins. It's an image that sells. But those who buy the image are fools nonetheless.

i grew up in dc and went to schools is S.E.
im sure I know more than you.

what has Hopkins "image" DONE for his career? nothing.. his victories are why he is where he is.

[kayjay]

-Did you spend 5 years in prison? Can you tell us what it's like from personal experience?

-How old are you? Did you visit, live or spend time in the same neighborhood as B-hop in the mid to late 70's/early 80's?

-Why do you spend so much time trying to discredit whether or not bhop has a tough upbringing or not?

Why are YOU spending time defending another man's childhood hardships? We're in the same boat here, so that one is out of the question.

Did I spend time in Germantown in the late 70's and early 80's? I was born in 1976. My great aunt lived in Germantown. So occasionally we would go over there for dinner and I would play outside with the neighborhood kids. So uh, yeah I kind of did.

[C'MONMANG']

Why are YOU spending time defending another man's childhood hardships? We're in the same boat here, so that one is out of the question.

Did I spend time in Germantown in the late 70's and early 80's? I was born in 1976. My great aunt lived in Germantown. So occasionally we would go over there for dinner and I would play outside with the neighborhood kids. So uh, yeah I kind of did.

lol, so it was your great Aunt he "strong armed" .....lol.. you bitter child.

[kayjay]

i grew up in dc and went to schools is S.E.
im sure I know more than you.

what has Hopkins "image" DONE for his career? nothing.. his victories are why he is where he is.

I know what he did in his career and am not attacking that. All I said I was doing, a hundred times over, was clarifying that the statements he makes referring to his special "****** sense" are just image bull**** for the MTV generation. They have nothing to do with his legitimate career accomplishments.

He is a champion, and that has nothing to do with "growing up hard," which he in fact did not do.

[kayjay]

lol, so it was your great Aunt he "strong armed" .....lol.. you bitter child.

She died of cancer. I don't remember specific incidents of her being robbed.

Why are you upset that his image is a false one?


I'm not upset about it, but I'm willing to acknowledge fact also.

[C'MONMANG']

I know what he did in his career and am not attacking that. All I said I was doing, a hundred times over, was clarifying that the statements he makes referring to his special "****** sense" are just image bull**** for the MTV generation. They have nothing to do with his legitimate career accomplishments.

He is a champion, and that has nothing to do with "growing up hard," which he in fact did not do.

you are a CLOWN. he was stabbed mutiple times, his brother was murdered and he went to prison at the age of SEVENTEEN. thats growing up hard. dumb dumb...

i dont care if he did all that in Beverly Hills..

[BrooklynBomber]

She died of cancer. I don't remember specific incidents of her being robbed.

Why are you upset that his image is a false one?


I'm not upset about it, but I'm willing to acknowledge fact also.

KayJay, you are cold and sharp.

Cong**** on making a helluva thread that seemed to stomp on many people's pinky toes.

[C'MONMANG']

She died of cancer. I don't remember specific incidents of her being robbed.

Why are you upset that his image is a false one?


I'm not upset about it, but I'm willing to acknowledge fact also.

what part is false? him going to prison, him robbing people or his brother getting murdered or him getting stabbed?

im not upset.. he didnt "strong arm" MY Grandmother....

[kayjay]

Nah he talks about it in a completely different sense:

"I sense fear that other people don't because of where I'm from."


Where's he's from is a plush, middle-class neighborhood. Yet fifty people replied to that quote with "yo boy in da hood **** is real, yo" and other such nonsense said by teenage boys who don't know the inner city except from hip hop albums (most of which are also portraying a falsified image).

A bit of clarification was in order

[BrooklynBomber]

you are a FOOL. he was stabbed mutiple times, his brother was murdered and he went to prison at the age of SEVENTEEN. thats growing up hard. dumb dumb...

i dont care if he did all that in Beverly Hills..

I was stabbed(once) and beaten quite a few times down here in Brooklyn. It DID not make me any tougher or gangsta.

Boxing on the other hand did.

Whoever says beatings make you tougher is a suburban child whose closest thing to a beating was when his mom spanked him when he was 7.