Everybody Wants to be From the Streets These Days

Everybody wants to be from the streets these days
Street cred and all that
Okay here’s the deal

#1 If you have ever been on vacation as a kid you ain’t from the street

#2 If you never fished a ball out of a city sewer you ain’t from the street

#3 If you don’t know the Mr. Softee jingle you ain’t from the street

#4 If you never lived in a multi family dwelling (apartment house fool!) you ain’t from the street

#5 If your family never bought groceries on credit you ain’t from the streets

#6 If you even knew a person who went to a private school you ain’t from the streets

#7 If you never played stickball, punchball, boxball. Manhunt, skelly, tag, freezetag jumped rope, played stoopball or ever hung out on a stoop as a punishment you definitely ain’t from the street

#8 If you never went egging in Halloween (after stealing the eggs of course) you ain’t from the street

#9 If you went 1 year as a kid without having a real fight you aint from the street

#10 If you can’t name at least ten kids you grew up with who died from unnatural causes you ain’t from the street.

Case closed!!!

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