You don't know struggle unless you ate this cereal...

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Let me set the atmosphere that this was best enjoyed...Something that every 80's baby and beyond can appreciate.

A New York Summer with the wind blowing a teasing warm air, definitely not pleasurable enough to cool you off as the Hot sun is baking the cracked concrete of Brooklyn. Yes Brooklyn, Old Brooklyn, not even a dream of a Basketball stadium o overarching gentrification exists yet, and the African american, Caribbean american & African culture warmly blanketing the Borough in such a way where traveling block to block makes you feel like you should have a passport handy. But you don't, all you have is a faulty beeper, a token & a few quarters.

Your ears light up & come alive when a honda civic stops at a light, its window down, but the air conditioner still on, the driver hot & cool all at the same time. Playing from the speakers is a symphony of beats & voices, a song that makes you feel..like New York. "Whooo oooo oooo, ooo, If I Ruled the World". You stop, instantly feeling how special the sound is to your ears, before it continues its play through, a bomb is dropped and a music magician, Funk Master Flex replays it 2 more times, all before the 57 second stop ligh tthat the Honda Civic is stopped at, but still creeping into the intersection, leaving you wondering what it is the driver is rushing to. A barbecue? A fly shorty in Bed Stuy? Or just tryingt o finish up his errands that his mother let him borrow the car for. Who knows, as you repeat the words beautifully uttered by Lauren Hill & Nas, you feel your throat parched.

Not a city park near & the heat baking down onto your fitted, you walk into the corner store. Greeted by the tease of an air conditioner, you quickly realize its not on but nobody seems to notice. You step over a brown dusty cat that seems to own the bodega & you walk past the water bottles, you walk past the soda & grab the best beverage that your 24 cents could grant you. You grab a quarter water.

As you walk back out into the broiler pan that is Nostrand Ave, you use your pinky finger to pierce the seal covering this red concoction. As you place the beverage to your mouth, throat in dire need, you close yoru eyes. Nothing but water, sugar & food color, as it hits your palette, the taste is nothing short of magnificent. And as you keep your eyes closed to savor this unique taste, the Honda Civic pulls away w/ Nas & Lauryn Hill's voices going into the distance with it. Not knowing, that that taste will one day be gone forever, just like you Old Brooklyn.



fukk Gentrification.

Breh......you took me back with that one. I remember them summers when you went to the corner store and copped a 10 cent icee or if you was really balling the 25 cent one

 

[hotbeezie]

King Vitamin & Kaboom



You gotta put the milk in the freezer until it starts to ice up some then you pour it so it don't get soggy so fast.

Juicy juice be giving nikkas the runs


My dad use to come in the house like ...on a payday when
he'd bring home

for and my little brother to "share"

And a VCR RENTAL of mortal kombat the movie.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

It's 2015 and there is still no option to buy cereal by the pound

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

what that mask look like tho

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

nah you ain't been struggling until you do your monthly grocery shopping from the dollar store

not the dollar store, dollar store... i mean the EVERYTHING in that bytch is $1. go in with 25 dollars and walk out with 25 items


knowing chicken costs $15 in the store and getting two chicken breast for $1

cooking eggs with cheese and noticing your cheese slices don't even melt.... on high

thinking about the fukk is actually in all this shyt that makes it $1

 

[USSInsiders]

what the fukk is King Vitaman? King Cac cereal included free mayo.

 

[Bless't]

I'm cracking up at the "free mask on back". Couldnt even give you a little plastic car/animal but instead had to make the actual box your toy. Ahhhhh, good ol' King Vitaman. A gentleman and a scholar.

 

[MayQueen]

Lol ya'll are hilarious.

 

[DPresidential]

Breh......you took me back with that one. I remember them summers when you went to the corner store and copped a 10 cent icee or if you was really balling the 25 cent one

Breh... Thank you.

Not many things in LIFE are better than someone quoting something you posted a minute ago & you get the alert to see it & forgot what you wrote...

Just to read it as if someone else wrote it & it hits you that you can't be humble & admire the greatness of the post.

I re-read that just now...put on "If I ruled the World" & damn near teared up in my office. shyt.

I wonder why I wrote 24 cents though...they were 25. Must have been a typo.

 

[dBoyFresh*212]

struggle is when you pour out the lucky charms cereal and that bytch only got 2 marshmellows

 

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struggle is when you pour out the lucky charms cereal and that bytch only got 2 marshmellows

You could afford lucky charms

 

[Swiggy]

This is why I fukks with Aldi... it's a store dedicated to those who have been molded, shaped, raised by the struggle.

 

[SHO-NUFF]

Syrup Sandwich:

15 seconds in the microwave and

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I'm cracking up at the "free mask on back". Couldnt even give you a little plastic car/animal but instead had to make the actual box your toy. Ahhhhh, good ol' King Vitaman. A gentleman and a scholar.

nikka don't act fly and shyt

 

[scarlxrd]

what do yall know about MRE's?

money is funny in the crib but you got some beans in a vacuum sealed pouch....so we cool tonight?

I was in Miami during Hurricane Andrew, family couldn't move right away so we had to rebuild. All we ate for dinner were MRE's. I remember the little vials of Tabasco and the crackers with the cheese spread. That was the bottom of the bottom for me but looking back, my folks never let me carry that weight. I was happy. Man, this thread...