Anything Sadder than a Man/Woman in their 20s, 30s and 40s Still in Streets and Still BROKE?

[NoirDynosaur]

The saddest realization is a person who had potential but not living up too

Ending up as a former shell of themselves

 

[JamesJabdi]

Yes. Being in your 50s and 60s and still caught up in the streets


Sadly tho it’s all a lot of folks know

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Ain’t no 401K out in the streets

 

[Vandelay]

Broke or poor?

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Why y'all always talking down on blacc people?

People use criticism as a crutch to just pile onto people these days.

 

[Wildhundreds]

People use criticism as a crutch to just pile onto people these days.

I was actually trolling.

However, constructive criticism is always good. Always.. I sat on the porch with my H.S graduating class drinking and smoking in the mid 90s.. They had no idea what they wanted to do with their lives.. I suggested they work some square a$$ job like me and a few others and go from their.. They just wanted to run the streets and didn't want to work for the man. They figured they'll get on in the streets.. This a true story and many others that grew up in the hood have these same stories. People try to make like it seem streets dudes grew up on a island by themselves.. Nah, they grew up in communities with regular people living next door, working regular jobs. The story is very nuanced.

 

[Cladyclad]

As long as u ain’t hurting no one or your self. Who gives af?


being Available alot of time to be with friends and family is somethin I envy.

not everyone in the streets is a dirt bag or down bad or even a criminal

 

[Wild self]

The black man's glorification and fetishization of the "streets" has been one of our biggest downfalls of the last century. Probably a good few hundred thousand black people in a jail cell right now because they put all their time and energy into being a "real nikka" instead of learning a trade or picking up a book and acting like they have some sense. Truly embarrassing.

NWA 1991 with Eazy E pushing the "real nikka" mentality pushed this to be mainstream @Wear My Dawg's Hat

 

[Studious one]

The only thing worse is being in your 50s and 60s and broke. I have an admirer that is in his 60s and he doesn’t have shyt, and he really wants to get with me. I’m like why?

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

My mom said something to me that changed my life...

"You look at all your friends.. Y'all almost 30 right... How many of them can you see retiring at 65? Like they have a 401k, a savings, money, a plan, anything? Those are the people that will be working a dead end job until the day they die"

I was a knucklehead still but the smart one.. Looking around at all my friends from that age/era... They are all going to be fukked.. We all 35-45 and them dudes have NOTHING going on. Not a damn thing. Some still don't even have jobs. Just moving a little coke and drugs to survive..

Worst part, I moved out the hood in middle school. These are all suburb babies, chasing the street life and money, with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. They all had zero reasons to not be in my same position. Even had me telling them "Yo we gotta do something else" and ignored it.. I know they regret it.. I know there's some repressed hate there..

But oh fukking well..

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

True.

We've always had these type of street people, but Hiphop in the 90s really popularized just hanging in the streets and getting smoked out.

Ehhhhh I don't agree with this at all. The Crack Era brought MONEY. That's what glorified it. You living broke as fukk and can't even eat every night, but the nikka you grew up with is driving a 500 Benz from next year and he didn't even go to school this year

90s wasn't about barely making it.. nikkas had mafia kingpin raps.. Drug dealing and the streets will always be about the money, the women and the power.

 

[Stuntone]

Ehhhhh I don't agree with this at all. The Crack Era brought MONEY. That's what glorified it. You living broke as fukk and can't even eat every night, but the nikka you grew up with is driving a 500 Benz from next year and he didn't even go to school this year

90s wasn't about barely making it.. nikkas had mafia kingpin raps.. Drug dealing and the streets will always be about the money, the women and the power.

Wrong. The Crack Era brought money to a very few people and families. Way more family got destroyed and pushed deeper into poverty.

I was born in 81 in the projects. I saw it all 1st person.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Wrong. The Crack Era brought money to a very few people and families. Way more family got destroyed and pushed deeper into poverty.

I was born in 81 in the projects. I saw it all 1st person.

We was born in the same year and different projects. But what you saying wasn’t the argument.

We talking bout GLORIFICATION and it was said it was 90s rap. Nah. Anybody in love with the street life, was doing it for the fast money. Not some broke ass glory. Making even $100 a day was more than your mom or dad was making at their full time job

 

[AnonymityX1000]

If you are born poor and your guardians didn't value your future and/or physically or mentally abused you. You are going to have a hard time making it happen.
Let's not promote the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" Republican talking point.
Making it out of the hood is a huge accomplishment because it's difficult. Don't forget that.

 

[Harry Sax]

Y’all don’t have that same energy for the eyetalians