by FriendlyNeighbourhood May 10, 2010
Get the Ghetto name mug.Where a person is real ghetto and dresses really obnoxious and excessively showy with lots of bling and/or has a mouth full of gold.
People are also gaudy-ghetto when they talk that hood-talk.
People are also gaudy-ghetto when they talk that hood-talk.
"Soulja Boy is sexy and all, but he is so gaudy-ghetto"
"Flava Flav is so gaudy-ghetto when he wears that big clock around his neck and says "Yeahhh Boyyy"
"Flava Flav is so gaudy-ghetto when he wears that big clock around his neck and says "Yeahhh Boyyy"
by Ayyy GeRRL April 8, 2009
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A baby that wears a hat sideways, has baggy poopy pants, and is sitting next to a bike all decked out in bling. A popular phrase among these ghetto babies is, "That's for babbbbbbbiiiiiesssssss."
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Get the ghettoest mug.A flashlight stuck out of a car window to be used as a headlight. It can be done because the driver can't afford working headlights, or for style.
People pointed and laughed at Gerald as he drove down the street bumpin' tunes out of his boombox, with his ghetto headlight lightin' up the street. Some people thought he was mad cool but others thought he was just cheap.
by B-Rad2 October 2, 2006
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Get the Bourgeois ghetto mug.Building on the previous entry, in an urban American United States) context, "the ghetto" refers to areas, neighborhoods, wards, or districts of a city where, due to often racist and/or discriminatory municipal planning policy, certain groups have been intentionally confined and isolated because of their race or ethnicity.
The U.S. example of "the ghetto" is compelling because like the Jewish example cited in the previous entry from which the term originates, the racially homogenous African American ghetto neighborhood was created largely by racist land developers and planning policymakers who bowed to the whims of cruel prejudice named under the facade of "market forces."
In layman's terms, here's how it breaks down: African Americans move from the South en mass in the Depression years to Northern cities (Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc); White people don't like having to share their living space with people with more melanin in their skin. So they enact municipal policy to establish racially and ethnically homogenous neighborhoods; when school bussing comes around in the 60's trying to integrate the races, whites simply abandon the central city and move out to the good ol' sprawling suburbia; what you end up with is entire core city neighborhoods that are entirely African American and their tax base is too low to provide decent services, and we sit back in our lawn chairs in suburbia and wonder why they rap about "the ghetto" and about "hustlin" and about "keeping it real..." Keeping this in mind, "the ghetto" to African Americans seems to imply not just a location or domicile, but a racial solidarity unified in place in fierce opposition to the racial injustices that placed them there in the first place
So to those of you who are insensitive to African American culture, hopefully this little lesson on the racist policy behind creating "the ghetto" will inspire you to look upon hip-hop culture with a bit more benevolence and sensitivity.
The U.S. example of "the ghetto" is compelling because like the Jewish example cited in the previous entry from which the term originates, the racially homogenous African American ghetto neighborhood was created largely by racist land developers and planning policymakers who bowed to the whims of cruel prejudice named under the facade of "market forces."
In layman's terms, here's how it breaks down: African Americans move from the South en mass in the Depression years to Northern cities (Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc); White people don't like having to share their living space with people with more melanin in their skin. So they enact municipal policy to establish racially and ethnically homogenous neighborhoods; when school bussing comes around in the 60's trying to integrate the races, whites simply abandon the central city and move out to the good ol' sprawling suburbia; what you end up with is entire core city neighborhoods that are entirely African American and their tax base is too low to provide decent services, and we sit back in our lawn chairs in suburbia and wonder why they rap about "the ghetto" and about "hustlin" and about "keeping it real..." Keeping this in mind, "the ghetto" to African Americans seems to imply not just a location or domicile, but a racial solidarity unified in place in fierce opposition to the racial injustices that placed them there in the first place
So to those of you who are insensitive to African American culture, hopefully this little lesson on the racist policy behind creating "the ghetto" will inspire you to look upon hip-hop culture with a bit more benevolence and sensitivity.
So when someone says "Yo, we from the ghetto," it implies a separate culture and a separate frame of mind, which ties in nicely to keepin it real
by American Socialist November 10, 2008
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