Niggaz from Detroit was deep.
I was there in 93 and 94. I stayed at the Scandanavian House on Peachtree and 3rd with Moorehouse fam. We were trying to holla at these girls from Detriot that were in a honda civic. Whenever the line moved we kept telling the chicks to pull up and dont let anyone get in between us...so that we could holla at them eventually.
Once the girl driving let too much space get between us and them. So she floored it in an effort to close the gap. In that instant, a car from Tennessee was trying to cut across her path. The girl from Detroit t-boned the female from Tennessee. The driver behind the wheel in the car from Detriot started shaking. And then she started yelling and cursing at the other driver from Tenn. We tried to calm her and her crew down.
There was a cop at the corner of the acciddnent who was playing dumb like he did not see or hear anything related to the accident. I ran over to him and told him to turn around and handle it before the girls from Detroit turned that chick from Tenn's car over. He walked over to the scene and we jumped back into my boy's ride.
Come to find out the chick took her boyfriend's car without him knowing and drove it to Atlanta.
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In 94, we walked to Piedmont during both years to hang out. I saw a girl go into a port-a-potty to use the batroom. As soon as she went in, 3 guys rushed it and tried to turn it over. The POP swayed back and forth and flung the chick out of the front. She hit her head as the door swayed open. Plenty of people lost interest in using the POPs after that.
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In 93 the crowd was mad deep in Piedmont Park. We were near some shallow lake when someone set off some fireworks (which sounded like gunshots). All of a sudden a stampeded sea of black people turned around and started running in all directions. We had to make a split decision on whether to duck and dodge between all of the people approaching us or turn around ahead of the crowd and run ourselves (in an effort to keep from getting trampled). We turned around and almost ran into the water when the crowd calmed down. That scene in Jurrasic Park when they were running and dodging the dinosaurs in the open field is exactly how it played out in my mind years later.
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In 94 we were back at Piedmont. There was supposed to be a concert featuring Snoop and a dozen other people...or so we thought.
This year it was even more crowded! No cell phones, so you had to think ahead. We were elbow to elbow in people in the park. I remembered what happended the last time. It was getting late and I looked up and noticed that there were no lights at all in the park and it did not look like any kind of concert was going to kick off. I was like how are all of these people gonna get out of here in the pitch black dark?
So I told my peeps that I was going to head over to the stage area by these 3 U-haul trucks parked on the grass. AS SOON AS I GOT to the trucks, stuff popped off. People started running everywhere. People climbed on top of the trucks. People ran under the trucks. Some jus held on the back of the trucks. The crowd dwindled after that.
I saw all kinds of ratchetness and met some cool chicks in between. Chicks stripping in cars. Walking arounf half nekid....letting you do whatever when you took pictures with them. We crashed college house parties near midtown, hung out at Dugans on Piedmont. And I think that we saw one of those Tony-Toni-Tone dudes. One year I walked right past the Fab 5. Everyone was there except for CWebb....we all know why.