Lol you posted the other day where you grew up. Ya we got 8 million people, but the areas with actual murders are only some smaller sections of the city and we had over 2000 murders in 1 year when I was a kid. You **** right I am proud to not only live through that, but make it out. Making it to 21 meant you were tough and smart beacuse if you weren't you wouldn't make it that far unless you just hid inside your mamas house and made no money.
But if I had the option to grow up in your hood I would take that in a second. I could have got a better HS education and I could have studied more not having to worry about where my moms next meal would come from or how I could keep myself from getting shot/locked up. I talk to tons of people on this site and in real life that came from good neighborhoods and I respect their parents for bringing them up there. I wish I could have grew up like that, but if you are going to try and say you are from the hood when you are not I am going to call you out. Just because a neighborhood is majority black does not make it the hood. I looked up the murder rate in your town and it told me everything. If you only have a few murders a year that means you have no gangs and it means its not the hood.