I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.
I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
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.
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.