I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It just so happens that I was born and raised in Washington. Had I been born in Chicago or San Antonio, the streets and places would have figured into whatever I wrote. Just so happens that it's Washington, D.C.
I grew up in Brooklyn.
I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there.
I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.
I was born in New York.
I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.