A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from November 09, 2007
Agg Town or Aggtown (Arlington nickname)

Agg Town (or Aggtown) is a hip-hop nickname for the city of Arlington, dating from about 2003. The nickname is confusing—it has nothing to do with the Texas A&M Aggies. The origin of the nickname is unknown.
 
   
Urban Dictionary
Aggtown 
Arlington TX, inbetween D-town and Funky Town
Hey, ima go to Aggtown this weekend
by Hope Dec 14, 2003
 
Urban Dictionary
1. agg town 
Arlington, Texas. Da Hood.
Bitch we gone roll up on agg town this weekend and get some.
by SHawn Feb 15, 2005
 
2. agg town 
Arlington Texas. In between The Dallas Forth worth metroplex.. according to hightimes it distributes the mose weed in the US..
yo you wanna roll up to agg town and cop a half oz. of that DOE DOE
by VTKABA AGG TOWN Apr 28, 2006
 
Wikipedia: Arlington, Texas 
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas (USA) within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. According to a U.S Census Bureau release, as of July 1, 2006 Arlington has an estimated population of 367,197. Arlington is the 7th largest city in Texas and the 49th largest city in the United States.
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City of Arlington
Nickname: Aggtown
 
virginsexy
freddy (virginsexy) wrote,
@ 2004-01-18 05:16:00
po po’s right outside!!
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well my whole crew is sober (except kenny of course) so we decide to take our asses back to arlington. the five most sober left first (to scope out for cops and shit) and make it back to aggtown, where we then call the others to let them know it’s alright to leave. well, our ride dropped me and greg off at lipscomb so we went into his dorm room.
   
hunney216
Jennifer (hunney216) wrote,
@ 2004-03-08 00:34:00
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got to hang out with michele, my homie from okc. so glad she decided to move back home to agg-town! w00t.
       
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Drew Diggs
Sep 25 2004, 12:08 PM
Don’t know their names but we recieved a phone call from Los Angeles of some rap kats that were performing in L.A. from Dallas (Agg Town) that got booed off stage. 
 
DFWHIPHOP.com
RE: N00B in arlington, just givin an intro Mar 08, 2005 - 12:44 PM
Agg town? like Bryan/College Station? lol yea that sounds great, we’ll have to hang out or somethin
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RE: N00B in arlington, just givin an intro Mar 08, 2005 - 10:37 PM
Agg Town is Arlington.
I like livin here cause it’s right smack in the middle of Dallas and Fort Worth so same distance.
   
A life in GG aka GodsGift
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
8:57:00 PM CDT
Feeling Chillin’ a lot of stuff
well it has been a while since i’ve wrote in here…and a lot has happen..1st of all me emerald and my mom went to agg-town to find my prom dress and i got it!!
 
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ClaAs
06-08-2005, 01:06 AM
ive always known it as aggtown..hmm weird, as far as i knew, its always been dtown(dallas) funkytown(ft.worth) and aggtown(arlington)
 
i really have no idea where it came from but thats what its known as, i could see aggietown maybe out at College Station, but who knows..
 
Liberally Lean From The Land of Dairy Queen
Thursday, May 11, 2006
What Would Tyler Durden Do?
After all the crazy news reports about the “fight club” video tapes - the tapes showing young kids beating the hell out of each other in Arlington (oddly referred to as “Agg Town”) - it is kinda surprising to learn that you can still buy them here. 
 
10 August 2006, Rolling Stone, pg. 43:
But is it legal? Fighting in public is typically a felony, but what about filming and distributing footage of a fight? In Arlington, Texas, one teenager will soon find out. Nineteen-year-old Michael G. Jackson - who says he began filming street combat more than two years ago and marketed his AggTownz Fights DVDs on a now-defunct Web site - is awaiting trial. (“AggTown” is slang for Arlington.)
 
5 October 2007, Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram, “Arlington police targeting gang members” by Nathaniel Jones, pg. 6:
The Tarrant County district attorney’s office sought charges of engaging in organized crime against four adults involved in the 2006 Agg Townz Fights videos, which showed teens beating one another and were distributed over the Internet. They pleaded guilty to various charges.

Posted by Barry Popik
Texas (Lone Star State Dictionary) • Friday, November 09, 2007 • Permalink


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