You know you're ghetto when...
You're 12 and get in a beef wit someone way older or more dangerous and say some shit when people are trippin like "ey if I die I die"
You can tell the difference between a police siren and an ambulance siren
You got a "white girl" and a "black girl" or a "latin girl" "Yea I was fuckin wit my white girl last weekend"
You got 4 black girls but only one white girl "yea ima hit up Jameena spot
but this weekend ima be fuckin my white girl"
You've ever asked a stranger for a ride somewhere, especially when its just cause you too lazy or spent your bus money. Extra ghetto points if you throw in a story like "my gramama sick"
You've ever hustled or jacked a tourist
You think committing a crime and outrunning or getting away from the cops is the tightest shit ever and you brag about it for a week
You have taco trucks on your block
You have ever hid in the cuts to ambush a rival at a taco truck, corner store, or bus stop or wait for one to show up
You've ever been hella drunk or fucked up on some shit and walked around hood/settrippin and threatening old white people, bums, or grandmas "wassup bitch this 19th bitch what"
You've ever bought a dimebag from a dealer for 7 dollars and a shirt/hat
You have a local dealer/hustler threaten to tell your family what you been doin, but next week you buy a sac off him or he sends you on a mission
You ever highly exaggerate your role in a crime to a group of niggas / females "Yea we saw them dudes comin up so I ran up and socked one in the face. When they followed me around the corner Lupe blasted them" knowing damn well you was scared as fuck and ran when you heard shots
You've ever seen a dead body on the sidewalk with all the cops around and shit around and said "damn", but didn't let it ruin your ice cream
You know some slang that only people in your hood say...and you can tell people from other parts of the city by their slang
You have a party in your house but dont wanna go in any of the back rooms or you have to post a good homie out front because people will jack shit from your living room
You know the local prostitute on your block, and she knows you by first name, and you have small chats when you see each other
When you ask your mom at 5 years old why prostitutes are doing what theyre doing and she says "oh honey they just like boys"
You believe the government is responsible for anything and its a large conspiracy "How come white kid skater shoes cost 50 dollars and shoes for niggas cost 125?"
You think smokin a joint up top a hill or on a rooftop above the projects and watching shit go down on the street is fine entertainment
As a youngster you brag about fuckin a bitch you never did and she calls you out in front of hella people and you say some shit like "alright thats ok thats ok whatever"
You've ever bought weed from a gas station or corner store
You've ever went to the burbs and spit hella hood game at white girls
You make a rap song with long ass words like irrelevant and analytical, but you'll be damned if you read a boring ass book with some long ass words in it
When you smoke weed, you act as cool as possible, like you just inhaled straight game
You holla at every single fine girl you see no matter where/when/what time/how you look or if you got a girl or not
You have to have the tighest cell phone (pager back in the day) no matter how much it cost
You can read pager code fluently