According to Rap Artist Jim Jones and Crissy, most of Harlem residents in the 80's and 90's had no idea that Harlem would be what it is today, they said "when we were young, if that Hustle mentality and that business mind were a little bit more adept and we had a little more structure we would've known those same buildings we made millions out of we would've brought those a long time ago.

There would be no gentrification right now, there would be a bunch of Black people owning all the top brownstones for pennies on the dollar. 

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