The shocking facts of where Bernard Hopkins grew up

[Cletus Funk]

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..

Nah, that's growing up ******. Nobody forced him to rob old ladies.

[C'MONMANG']

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

well thanks so much for clarifying that for us..

we were so lost with out you.

[C'MONMANG']

Nah, that's growing up ******. Nobody forced him to rob old ladies.

ofcourse they did

[Cletus Funk]

ofcourse they did

Guess he's not that mentally strong afterall then.

[C'MONMANG']

Guess he's not that mentally strong afterall then.

i know right. man, you really owned him

[Cletus Funk]

i know right. man, you really owned him

Actually......he owned himself, the dumbass.

[PBDS]

I don't care if he grew up in the Trump Taj Majal................played tennis........and was a male cheerleader.

He's a bad mother ****er who is intimidating and used to strong arm rob people on the street. He like I stated IS THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT.

He is as street as anyone else is. LOL.

....Yeah, I think BHop is a hard assed ****er for sure. I still think he gets his ass beat by the pampered white boy though. Calslappy has a natural mean streak that has nothing to do with the streets and was hard wired in from birth. He has always been his most dangerous when he's hurt or challenged. The only way Popkins wins this fight is on dirty dirty tactics. It's all up to the ref.

.....My own son has had a pampered life but he's just a natural mauler that feels no pain and keeps coming. Sometimes the street makes a kid hard and sometimes they just pop out that way.

[C'MONMANG']

Actually......he owned himself, the dumbass.

damn ..another own.

[Cletus Funk]

damn ..another own.

Cool.......

[ИATAS]

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.

So you were what? 1-6 years old when Hopkins was a teenager and getting into trouble? So in other words, you have absolutely no idea what it was like during that time period.

Thanks for answering that question.

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

Thanks in advance comrade.