A List of Guaranteed Ways Your ATL Pass Can Be Revoked

Butter ATLJuly 9, 2021

ATL Card

It’s one thing to come to Atlanta from somewhere else and just live here, in unadventurous and outsider-status mediocrity. It’s quite another thing to know that you are an accepted member of ATL, with all of its perks and privileges.

How you behave has a lot to do with where you fall on this spectrum, and really, as Shawty Lo famously told you, there are two sides. You’re either one of us, or you ain’t. 

Aside from the obvious driver’s license provided to city residents by the State of Georgia, there’s no actual physical “ATL Card.” But you don’t have to possess a laminated piece of paper or a hard plastic proof of identity to lose the right to claim that you represent the greatness of Atlanta. Your ATL Card, real or not, can be yanked back. 

And while the list below isn’t complete, here are some of the ways you or whoever the hell could be compelled to give back the proverbial pass granting Atlantans the right to claim good standing in the club we call The A. Don’t be the next person to be told “We full.” 


Being in any way dismissive of OutKast (also comparing Big Boi and Andre)

Saying some other trash city’s food is better than Atlanta’s (extra points deducted for New Orleans or Charleston)

Purchasing a Pepsi

Driving the exact speed limit in the far left lane of any Atlanta interstate

Complaining about shit because you hang out in the wrong places (try leaving Marietta sometimes)

ALSO: Asking the strip club DJ to play New York hip-hop 

ALSO-ALSO: Complaining about the ATM fee at the strip club

Not appreciating lemon pepper wings

Bringing up “28-3”

Rooting for the Saints

Criticizing trap music, especially if you’re gentrifying what used to be the trap

ALSO: Having to ask a friend’s child who is Lil’ Baby, Young Thug or Gunna 

Not knowing what A.U.C. stands for but regularly mentioning the A.U.C. in conversations with “friends of color”

Slandering the Waffle House in any way for any reason

Asking for vegan options or nutritional information at the Waffle House

Supporting Buckhead secession

Saying or thinking that Crunk is Dead

Crunk ain’t dead.