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[–] 2 pts

Implying Everlast knows what it's like.

My family lived on welfare for most of my childhood, my mother got pregnant with her first child at 16 by a guy who fucked off shortly after hearing the news, she raised that boy and later had me and my sis with my dad who was a crazy mofo.

I was diagnosed with all manner of mental illness and disability, the kind of behavioral issues that leaves you struggling in school with a 140+ IQ, full of potential that was never realized and been through all manner of psychological programs.

I grew up in a bad neighborhood, lived in poverty, when I got independent I git a place downtown in an area full of beggars and criminal gangs, I knew what it was like to go hungry regularly, even for weeks on end, as I was unemployed and on a very meager welfare allowance, I had to beg on occasion.

I've never been homeless, but I have had to sleep in a bus shack for a night a few times.

I've never had many friends and I've done a lot of things I regret in the past, I've tried to kill myself multiple times, I'm in a very vulnerable position at a time where government hates me.

I've been a victim of multiple criminal activities, I've been attacked, I've been robbed, I've suffered quite a bit in my time on this earth.

I've got a bit of an intimate experience with all the stories in this video, but unlike the music video accounts, mine were actually experienced in real life.

The white family at the end is a scapegoat, a lot of the people in the video have experiences with nothing to do with them, they just hate them because they are envious of them.

The first story is vague, a poor old man who feels ashamed to beg, why is he poor? Is the claim that there isn't any opportunity for him not to be? That's a lie, there are a lot of charities and government services for someone like him, his age may be an obstacle, but he still has ample opportunity to climb his way out of poverty.

In my experience most homeless are stuck there due to drugs, mental illness, criminal activity, or a mix of the three, they have opportunities given to them, always available, but they choose not to take them.

The second story isn't even that bad, a teen girl gets pregnant and the guy fucks off, that's my mom's situation, it's not bad if you got a supportive family, and even if you don't, you got other services and charities specifically set up for young mothers.

So the next part of the story is that she gets an abortion and people call her bad names, perhaps this is coupled with shunning, well the abortion was her choice, and if she admits it was a wrong decision that could go a long way to getting better treatment, however, the real issue is that her situation isn't even that bad, if she could get an abortion, she can get out if any small town she lives in, and go someplace where no one knows that she got one.

The story is also unrealistic in that the anti abortion community is largely placing the blame on the ones performing the operation, not the ones undergoing it, who are seen as being victims rather than perpetrators, especially for young teenaged mothers like the girl in the story.

Third story is of a guy selling drugs as a teen, pulling a gun on an undercover cop and getting shot, then his family are suffering the results of losing their father and husband who was a violent criminal, I really don't know what to say about this one, because I've known a lot of people like this, and can say that they are often pathological narcissists at the very least, who relish in their malicious actions.

I guess I have to feel sorry for the guys family? Well I also know what the families of these Fuckers are like, and i can say that they'll be fine.

[–] 0 pt

Excellent writeup. Personally I find the castration reference enough of a turn off to avoid it, even tho it's a decent song otherwise.

[–] 1 pt

Mediocre jam

Your opinion, thats ok.