U have your good aspects, but u r not as innocent as u portray yourself to b, at one time, NYC was Indian land..
From an article, pdf, on Wu Tang
By 1975, New York City faced bankruptcy. It was saved by an agreement between the City and New York State, which obtained a federal loan in exchange for drastic cuts in city services and stringent repayment terms. As a result, 30 percent of the city’s Hispanic population and 25 percent of the Black population lived in poverty (Rose 1994, 25–29). Historian Daniel Walkowitz observed that New York had become divided between white-collar workers and “an unemployed and underemployed service sector which is substantially Black and Hispanic” (1994, 29). Historian Jason Sokol describes New York City in the 1980s: “Streets were awash in crack cocaine and homelessness. The crime rate soared. The AIDS epidemic ravaged the city. New York was no longer the nation’s urban gem” (Sokol 2014, 205). The resulting gritty street tales offer insights into life on Staten Island. In “Cash Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M.),” Raekwon (Wu-Tang 1993b) discusses his childhood
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