When did you realize you were from a ghetto a** family?

[NIKE...]

When I first saw a my uncles scrap over a book of foodstamps.

When King Vitamins/Corn Flakes with sugar were the breakfast.

When I learned that my oldest brother was 3 years older than some of my uncles.

When we finished a jar of jelly it was washed and converted into a cup.

When my Mom finished cooking chicken, and poured the grease back in the container.

When we slept 2by the foot, 2 by the headboard.

When I received my older brother's jacket as my NEW winter coat.

When we heard gunshots everybody dropped simultaneously.

When Fried Salami/Bologna sandwiches and sugar water were good dinners.

When we threw a welcome home party for my cousin who did 7 years in jail.

Whenever the Temptations/Chi Lites/Marvin/Stylistics came on radio the house turned into Soul Train.

Shit I could go on and on.

real shit b

 

[NIKE...]

Too much shit to post..I come from a long line of snobby savages...my fam covers every end of the spectrum of black life in america..from junkies to scholars to junky scholars my bloodline is a huge klusterfuck of what the fuck

 

[damnkp]

I remember my dad sending bout 7 kids to the store with a dollar food stamp to buy one bag of 25 cents chips apiece so he could get the change...or getting sent to the store at 7 with an empty pack of cigarettes to buy him some new ones...or bringing your friends with you to visit your old man in jail like it was a field trip

 

[CracceR]

When i was about 10

 

[DNB1]

When everybody had a colour TV and me and mums still had black and white.

When I took the bull by the horn and had to buy my first nikes cause there was no way mum could afford them.

When we had corn beef andf rice at least twice a week.

When I would eat dinner, but my mum wouldn't.

Times change tho, Mum is the only black person I personally know in the UK that live in a house with a indoor swimming pool. I'm still broke tho, but my kids aint.

 

[shtoopid]

i didn't realize we were broke til we started going to school in a white neighborhood, and everybody kept on trying to "help" us.

i hated wearing jackets as a kid, and would show up to class wearing shorts and a t shirt in the middle of january (we live in cali, so it wasn't that bad). my 5th grade teacher thought i didn't own a jacket, and gave me one of her son's hand me downs. bitch was confused af when she never saw me wear it.

one christmas, this one family gave us hella canned food. shit was kind of offensive. yeah we were broke but the fuck i look like eating canned tuna for christmas dinner?

as offended as we were, we still kept the tuna... and the jacket. you never know when something's gonna come in handy.

 

[NIKE...]

M mcfly is pussy...now you have a real reason to hit feelings you lame ass nigga..

 

[ex-soldier]

I was in 5th or 6th grade ('85) my pops knew how to fill out the school application to get free or reduced lunch.

Pops goes through a drive-thru and asks for no ice in his drink.

Pops brings the leather strap to the school when I got in trouble.

Pops took me to the Aquaduct (Nassau Coliseum) horse track many times. I knew what OTB (off track betting) meant before I hit 13.

We had the Black Jesus painting w/the purple velvet background pic on the wall.

 

[J-GUTTA]

We were poor but not hood at all. My fathers side though....all my male cousins are or were gang members.

 

[Max.]

When my mom would go to mcdonalds drive thru and get 10 29cent cheese burgers(goat) thAn she would send me in there n get 10 more..

 

[Max.]

My auntie would go to buffets with a big ass purse n put ribs n ziplocs n there

I was doing my homework n My uncle was drunk af..and he said to my grandma on the bible im not drunk he didnt know he had his hand on a websters dictionary.

 

[Billy_Poncho]

My aunt is a 64 year old great-grandmother...

 

[vince_vince]

my uncle used to have that cheap ass garden furniture in his living room:

 

[damnkp]

I kno I wasnt the only nigga with a pair of xj900's

 

[Ajackson17]

A few of my family are, but majority my grandparents didn't play that ol'e hoodrat shit, they nipped that shit in the bud early on.

 

[Splackavelli]

I got fam that sells plasma as a hustle. Like its they job.

Instead of going to a 9 to 5, niggas sell blood. smh.

who were their clientele vampires?

 

[Splackavelli]

My auntie would go to buffets with a big ass purse n put ribs n ziplocs n there

I was doing my homework n My uncle was drunk af..and he said to my grandma on the bible im not drunk he didnt know he had his hand on a websters dictionary.

that was my moms always stealing chicken wings at golden coral.

 

[Splackavelli]

We had a family reunion at old country buffet 3yrs back.

I have family members that still have Jheri curls in 2013

A fight broke out at the last funeral.

My grandma has plastic on her floor to keep her carpet clean

Ghetto.

my godmother had that plastic rug and plastic on the couches.

 

[deadeye]

When my mom would go to mcdonalds drive thru and get 10 29cent cheese burgers(goat) thAn she would send me in there n get 10 more..

You remember that?

That was in the 80's.

You must be up there with me, @Cain1 and Hassan.

Either that or you're remembering it from when you were a toddler or something.

 

[Max.]

When my mom would go to mcdonalds drive thru and get 10 29cent cheese burgers(goat) thAn she would send me in there n get 10 more..

You remember that?

That was in the 80's.

You must be up there with me, @Cain1 and Hassan.

Either that or you're remembering shit from when you were a toddler or something.

Naw i was born in 89...they still had that early 2000s around my way