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

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

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.

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.

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

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

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.