I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.
What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now.
Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.
Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.
My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s.
I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
I go by 'Papi' on the streets.
Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.
I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.
I don't think about returning to the streets, 'cause I don't have any plans to return to the streets. I'm at another level in my life. Returning to the street - I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it's necessary.
I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.
