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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.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

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.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.