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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. There are hurricanes along the Gulf. In New York, you get mugged.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

My sister died in Brooklyn.

I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.

I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.