Lets talk about #Struggles we came up on

[Phoenix_Knightly23]

Military brat lifestyle was nothing but struggle

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

Sharing a chinese food order with my older brother
only going to IHOP after 4 cause I ate for free
Hug juices or just kool-aid cause it was cheap
Channels 2-13 for nearly 2 years
scamming quarters from strangers pretending I really needed to make a phone call

for most of my childhood, now i got more channels than i know what to fukking do with

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Lmao nikkas love drowning in their sorrows.

You ain't never been thru no skruggles huh?

 

[Xtraz2]

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

that PB&J diet

parents split and pops came back and took EVERYTHING he bought..a lil nikka was listening to the radio because mom took my tv to replace the one he took

Vienna Sausages

food stamps when it was in currency form

having to rock a hoodie/blanket/shoes/hat in the crib all day

had the black & white tv with 2 channels while everybody else in the house ....

staying the night with my dad when he was living in this abandoned house that my aunt owned. crib was literally falling apart...one day my dad aint have no room/upstairs no more

was up in that abandoned crib watching Beta Max tapes

 

[Exiled Martian]

Man some of ya'll lucky to have lived that western life from the get-go...don't know shyte about real struggle & all your first world problems couldn't compare to some of the hardship endured... in the first 15 years of my life...To this day I'm forever thankful to my parents & co for blessing me with a better life style by making that migration happen back in the early 2000's no matter what (it was torrid back then) & honestly I don't take nothing for granted in the first world ever since.

Song below epitomises (minus our slight geographical difference) my come uppance.. He from the West side & I'm from the Eastern cusp of the Mother land!






'Yo / Case you aint know, i go by the name of / E.M, and im from / *africa africa * / Home of the Pemba & Mafia islands im from the Eastside/ *africa africa* '

• So what you know about drag racing one another using a stick & a bicycle/ car tire down the road or using coiled wire to model a toy car & cutting out round shapes in old slippers to make the wheels for it! What you know about bundling plastic bags & elastic rubber to make a football you can play with on an unfinished construction site (our pitch) in the slums of Africa!

• What you know about catching that malaria plus wave or dealing with typhoid & cholera 2-3 times a year atleast..!

• What you know about breeding/ keeping several pidgeons on some Tyson flex in a wooden home made birdhouse built...thanks to Kalumanzila (RIP local o.g)the carpenter down the road.

• What you know about eating Ugali, Mchicha na daga (type of fish) 3-4 times a week & your eyes lighting up at the sight of a rare treat i.e chicken, icecream, juice etc.

• what you know about pushing a Mkokoteni for spare pocket money on your weekends so you could go afford them sweets & ICE COLD DRINK & savour & taste every ingredient in that biitch under the beating sun....

The list is infinite... props to anyone & everyone who has witnessed life on the same wavelength... there is a reason why most of us coming from nothing end up with alot of something in life!

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

You ain't never been thru no skruggles huh?

I have, but I think I'm not going to give them the time of day tbh. Gonna have more sorrows anyway so why reflect on the past ones when you're sure to have many in the future.

 

[Ohene]

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