Childhood poverty is traumatic

[EBK String]

not having food and going to sleep hungry
heating the house with the oven
lights getting turned off
not getting gifts on alot of Christmases and birthdays
etc


that shyt still fukks with me till this day.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Agreed...my best friend and I have financial anxiety. I be scared to spend money. I save a lot. But it just makes me grind harder. Also, it makes me realize how entitled these crackers at work are. They fold under pressure more quickly.

Lights off for weeks.
No hot water for weeks.
No food or drinks in the crib.
Project heat.
Roaches.
Waiting until tax refund time for Christmas gifts.
Shootings.
Chinese store on the corner fed me most nights.

But that prepared me for the world so I appreciate the struggle

 

[Wildhundreds]

Nikkas weak as fck now days..

Shyt was common in the 80s and a lot of us made it through fine..

 

[DuncanWebayama]

School projects shytty as hell while the other kids lookin immaculate cuz they could afford the materials.

Sports equipment of the cheapest kind, cleats missing stubs underneath after your first game and having to use them all year.

Being afraid to open my bookbag because a roach might crawl out.

Hoping to get picked up after sports practice.

It's your family time to buy snacks after a game and they bring the worst snacks.

Hate the days when there was a field trip, cuz you would just have to stay in another teacher class while the class had fun.

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

I agree , but at the same time it makes my grind stronger and makes me more resilient so I don’t ever get to comfortable because I don’t ever want to be in that position for myself and establish wealth for me , my fam and the generation after ..

(I wish I could summarize this better but these allergies got me feeling retarded rn so bare with me )

 

[010101]

& the impact hits generations after you pass on*

 

[Take It In Blood]

I was more scared to go to the corner store for fear of being shot

 

[KidJSoul]

Damn y'all had ROUGH rough.


Feel bad for yall

 

[BaggerofTea]

Thankfully I didnt grow up impoverished, but starving and having to garbage dive for food during my college days and realizing that childhood poverty is that x1000 is just

 

[alpo]

not having food and going to sleep hungry
heating the house with the oven
lights getting turned off
not getting gifts on alot of Christmases and birthdays
etc


that shyt still fukks with me till this day.

 

[aXiom]

I use it as fuel for my career. People be looking at me crazy when I tell them where I need to be at before I even think of slowing down...

Them: You shouldn’t focus on the money.. there’s more to life

Me: We’re underpaid, and there’s a lot more money out here.. do you not hear it calling

Them: but you make good money now, single no kids.. what more do you want


Me: ALL OF IT!!

 

[How Sway?]

Thankfully I didnt grow up impoverished, but starving and having to garbage dive for food during my college days and realizing that childhood poverty is that x1000 is just

Same here. I definitely was not spoiled growing up, but we weren't fukked up either.

But my early 20 man .....

I see why dudes out here are ready to hit a stain or sell drugs or get on a corner to beg.

I cant even imagine what It would be like if i were to have a child at that time..

To live like that through no fault of your own and simply bad luck is really fukked up

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

That shyt build character, stop crying. I wouldn’t have it any other way. How you gonna really feel songs like All that I got is you by Ghostface if you can’t relate? nikkas that grew up straight be like yeah, that’s that real shyt. Shut up nikka, you wasn’t living like that

 

[L2014]

I wish brehs really knew, they see me clean shaved n crossin lines n be mad talkin down...nikka we the same I just went to men’s warehouse

 

[Joe Budden]

There was an MTV True Life episode about poverty. I was like 12 when I saw this.

It was a poor black family on there who was living in squalor and had just been evicted. The young son was on probation and trying to get into the military. He couldn’t read very well so he had to learn to read before taking the military test.

there was a part in the episode where he couldn’t get a ride to his probation officer so he decided to walk 30 miles on the highway.

by the end of the episode he found out he couldn’t go to the military because he had a record. A felony maybe?

that episode broke my heart as a kid and I’ve always wondered where they ended up.