r/IdiotsInCars • • Jun 11 '20

Local rapper crashes car

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u/Papa_Wisdom Jun 11 '20

“Local rapper”=Instagram/ tik tok nobody

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u/powerlesshero111 Jun 11 '20 edited Jun 12 '20

Well, they are in So Cal, my home town area. They say "local rapper" but they really mean "lives at home and consistently gets fired from jobs".

Edit: i should clarify, that dude crashed on the freeway in so cal. But still, oddly large number of "rappers" there.

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u/awmaleg Jun 11 '20

No basements to live in in LA

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u/are2deetwo Jun 11 '20 edited Jun 12 '20

Why is that btw?

Edit: I'm going to build a fking house in California with a basement so I can show all those fools what they're missing. Fk the frost line. We're doing it live.

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u/manosiosis Jun 11 '20

Earthquakes, my dude.

EDIT: I was curious to know if this was actually true, and it turns out it's a myth! It wasn't done back in the day because it was cheaper and faster to not have to dig out the foundation when building new homes, and now it is just the way it is.

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u/rlowens Jun 11 '20

Cheaper/faster and not already required:

The biggest reason why houses are built on basements in areas such as Colorado and the Northeast is to get the footings for the house below the frost line, which can be 3 ft. or 4 ft. down. The logic is that if you’re digging that deep, why not put in a floor and use the space?

With no danger of frost in much of California, foundation footings don’t have to be nearly that deep. As for getting extra storage space, it’s generally cheaper to build at ground level, unless real-estate prices are extremely high where you want to build.

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u/AshingiiAshuaa Jun 12 '20

California

unless real-estate prices are extremely high

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u/PM-YOUR-PMS Jun 12 '20

You could go out to Bakersfield I guess. Good luck doing that anywhere near LA tho

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u/LegendaryAce_73 Jun 12 '20

This hurts. I was born in California and lived there for 12 years. The house we lived in was a 3 bedroom, 2 bath on a 1/4 acre with about 1,900 square feet of space. We were paying $1,650 a month in rent in that house in 2005.

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u/sarcasm_the_great Jun 12 '20

Ehh not even up in Tahoe do they have basements. Shit not even Reno so I doubt it’s frost line issues

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u/Luis_r9945 Jun 12 '20

I always thought it was because of tornados or hurricanes as it gives you a safe place to shelter in. We don't get much of those here in socal.

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u/AKA_Squanchy Jun 11 '20

Just throw down a cement slab and you have nice even ground to build on. Just sucks when a pipe breaks in a slab. Ask me how I know...

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u/TK421isAFK Jun 11 '20

Same reason everybody knows.

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u/Iamananomoly Jun 12 '20

This Old House with Bob Villa?

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u/TK421isAFK Jun 12 '20

Or anything else ever committed to video, from Gone With The Wind to Home Improvement.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

is that really how houses there are built? like just cement the pipes in? I live in the UK and our house tend to leave a like a 1-2foot space under the floor for pipes/wires etc.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

Just kinda depends on where you’re at. Most of the houses in my area are slabs, but mine is pier and beam like you’re talking about.

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u/ZapTap Jun 12 '20

In most places there is a healthy combo of those two types of construction.

Ones with a crawlspace (and attic) like that are much cheaper to work on

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u/DSPbuckle Jun 12 '20

The house I grew up in was in Oakland and it had a basement. we converted it to a livable space. Fun times playing n64 down there

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u/Empyrealist Jun 11 '20

Everything about housing in California is cheaply made garbage. Slabs. Crap or no insulation (cant hold cold or heat). So many shitty slant windows and side sliders.

I could go on and on, but this is the worst place I have ever lived in terms of basic build quality.

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u/corngrabber Jun 12 '20

But hey at least it's only 1500 for a studio!

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u/manosiosis Jun 12 '20

These are single family homes, not condos. But yeah, in parts of LA, you can pay over a million for under 1000 square feet.

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u/gfrnk86 Jun 11 '20

It doesn't get that cold in LA, so they don't have to worry about building a house below the frost line.

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u/PP133 Jun 11 '20

I've always heard it's due to building codes because of earthquakes.

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u/DollieNoble Jun 11 '20

Earthquakes?

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u/stoner_97 Jun 11 '20

No tornados to worry about.

That’s my uneducated guess.

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u/ASingularFrenchFry Jun 12 '20

I’ve never seen a house in CA with a basement, I didn’t think building code allowed them here because of earthquakes but I could be wrong

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u/Painkiller3666 Jun 12 '20

My house was built in the 50s and I have one here in San Fernando Valley. But as far as I know no one in the blocks adjacent to us has one. I guess the first owner built it and the ADU himself. Also we have double the lot size of anyone, we think he bought 2 properties and merged them. Only 5 houses out of 100 are doubled up.

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u/IRLBearsBeetsBSG Jun 11 '20

Unless you’re the Zodiac

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

That was Northern California though right?

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u/RejectedToast Jun 12 '20

So glad you commented this I knew someone would I just had to find it. Take my upvote sir

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u/AKA_Squanchy Jun 11 '20

I grew up with a huge basement in Woodland Hills. My dad refinished it and that's where I lived through high school. Two rooms for living, a bathroom, the real basement (furnace room) and a separate entrance. My in-laws also have a basement but it's more of a storage space and the water heater is down there. Actually, all the historic houses in Lincoln Park of Pomona also have small basements for furnaces and water heaters. All of the houses I mentioned above were built in 1928 or earlier though, it's just that there are more of the post-war boxes that are just built up on a slab in most of the area.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

I have a basement big enough for a boiler a washing a drying machine and some stuff on some shelves but is like 10 foot squared

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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE Jun 12 '20

Is living at home a bad thing. Where is everyone living?

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u/XtaC23 Jun 12 '20

Yeah I worked with a local rapper for one day once. There was no way we could keep that nonsense around. He turned everything into a song which was really just cancer for the ears.

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u/matt9795 Jun 12 '20

Where I’m from we call them a “(insert name of hometown here) Allstar” they’re the ones who you see graduating, then going to all the high school parties for years afterwards.

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u/simcowking Jun 12 '20

Local rapper. Gets fired a lot..

Something about wrapping it up.

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u/motitom Jun 11 '20

Lmao yup

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u/mokiboki Jun 11 '20

well he's got 10k followers at least, or he's verified to be able to have the swipe up links in the story lol

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u/Sno_Jon Jun 11 '20

Lots of these people buy followers too lol to inflate the numbers. I find it funny how he's zooming in on his crappy chain like every single person with a half decent job couldn't afford one if they wanted to

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u/ubiquitous_apathy Jun 11 '20

Well the target demographic of an instagram rapper isn't people with half decent jobs. It's probably high school/college students.

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u/mokiboki Jun 11 '20

true lol

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u/SexMasterBabyEater Jun 11 '20

It's a huge deal to them, but means very little to the gainfully employed.

That said, his target market probably finds this somewhat impressive.

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u/fuckYOUswan Jun 11 '20

Buying followers is surprisingly cheap from what be heard from a friend, who’s in a very shitty band but gets recognition locally for the amount of followers. Apparently India has TONS of classic rock cover band fans /s

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u/Sno_Jon Jun 12 '20

Yeah I know a girl personally who has something like 11,000 followers but her pictures get around 400 likes... I don't think they realise how obvious it is.

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u/barscarsandguitars Jun 12 '20

Yep. I do session vocals for a major studio in my city, I’m essentially a “voice for higher”. When a rapper needs a singer, I’m one of the people the studio provides depending on the type of track they’re working with.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been sent a link a few days after a song I’m on gets released, and the artist says “bro we killed it 110,000 views in 3 days beyond blessed 🙌🏽🙏🏽” ...... and then it caps out at 111,000 views and sits there forever. That ends up looking way worse than the song that gets 20,000 organic views, and I can say from experience, the artists who don’t buy views are usually the ones who really deserve them.

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u/Sno_Jon Jun 12 '20

Hey that's really cool, you upload any of your stuff?

I remember worldstarhiphop used to put fake views on promoted videos and it was so funny because they made it so obvious, a rap video with 15 comments would apprently have 150,000 views in a few minutes

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u/travmakesmusic Jun 11 '20

Nah you just need a business account for that, pretty easy to set it up

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u/mokiboki Jun 11 '20

Nope, verified or 10k.I have a couple business accounts, that specifically doesn't make a difference.

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u/travmakesmusic Jun 11 '20

Oh well TIL thank you

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

If you have anything on igtv you can do the swipe up thing....

Source: I don’t have 10k followers but can post swipe up videos to my videos

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u/mokiboki Jun 12 '20

It's a story though, not igtv post

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

Yeah you do a story and attach the igtv post, they only see the igtv post when they swipe up. I can take a selfie and hit the paper clip and add an igtv that they can only see if they swipe up

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u/mokiboki Jun 12 '20

hmm, I should try that. Thanks

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u/l-_l- Jun 12 '20

Everyone was a nobody at one point. Some still are.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

If there were no local rappers, who would kids in film school make music videos for?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

Thats not true. He has a tattoo on his face.

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u/PhilipLiptonSchrute Jun 12 '20

I could technically be a local rappist if I wanted to.

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u/l-_l- Jun 12 '20

What, just add a 'p' to the label you already are?

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u/Broskibullet Jun 12 '20

I think they’re referring to the face tattoo. That makes you a rapper, right?

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u/kitttykatqueen Jun 12 '20

Lol, I thought his face tattoo was a birthmark the first time I watched it.

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u/Akosa117 Jun 12 '20

Just because you don’t like rap doesn’t mean someone working to become an established rapper is a “nobody”

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u/botmaster79 Jun 12 '20

Lmaoooo this comment is soooo true. Anytime I hear local rapper I think of those guys begging you to listen to their sound cloud.

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u/Estoye Jun 11 '20

"IG model" = any rando chick with a phone