You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.
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I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.
To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.
How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.
I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.