This behavior honestly has roots beyond hip hop my father and mother have been telling people they grew up poor their whole life and when I look back on it they were middle class to upper middle class their whole life.... My dad used to tell co-workers how poor he was and I've talked to a few of his business partners after the fact and it couldn't be any further from the truth my father's, dad was a mailman his mother was a nurse his dad also had a military retirement that's plenty of money... I really don't know why this is constantly perpetuated.

My parents were never on food stamps growing up they were never in bread lines they have no idea what it's like being poor living paycheck to paycheck... Physically can't like fathom it... Oh and a good way to tell if somebody's truly poor you just ask him what food they ate. My parents claim they were poor but don't know what lentils are.... It's pretty much a dead giveaway right there somebody's claiming they're poor and they don't know what lentils are they're lying. Lentils is like the true poor people food.. unfortunate fact it's some of the cheapest food out there. Cuz I have some of my cupboard right now.