I'd like to meet:
You know you are from Bakersfield when Your high school had the same name as a compass direction, you woke up early to check for fog delays, you have relatives in every gang, the only Spanish words you know are la movida, you live in a two bedroom for $400 a month, you go to B.C. for 13th grade, you cruz up and down the road like its Crenshaw, your ex boyfriend used to work in the oil fields, you look forward to the fair for funnel cakes, you hear deja vu and think of strippers, your idea of a fun Saturday is walking up and down the Valley Plaza, you claim LA or Fresno but you were born at KMC, you gotta make sure you wear running shoes to go to the club, you threw a party when Joey Porter got a super bowl ring, your favorite rap group is Desert Heat, you went to West High girls Basketball games to watch Nikki shake somebody, you go to Edwards movie theatre when your keepin it on the low, you took pictures at Qs studio, you know the GET bus routes to everywhere in town, you been in/or visited somebody at Laredo, you bang a new hood every year, you party with your parents at the Elks, you only smoke cronic on special occasions, you know what happens at Martin Luther King park after the parade, you go swimming in the Kern river, you got a swap cooler in your window for the summer, you go trick or treating in Hagen Oaks, you say the town or bake town for short, youre out on Sat. night and at St. John on Sun. morning, you waited all night for somebody famous to not show up, you gotta Mac Dre cd, you graduated at Civic Center you laughed at least once and passed this on to your friends. -by PROUD TO BE FROM THE TOWN WHERE IT ALWAYS GOES DOWN! Always loyal to my soil bak till i die!!!
Movies:
What's love got to do with it!
Books:
Blacc Artists
Heroes:
God ,and my Grandmother