After his discharge in 1970, he became a heroin user and dealer who rose to control the drug trade on the ghetto streets as a ruthless authoritarian.
That's one dismal conclusion when a country accepts wholesale slaughter in ghetto streets, then gets outraged over the murders of three foreign tourists in Florida.
His canvas stretches from the tough realities of ghetto streets to the transcendent joy of spiritual acceptance, each rendered with an original, unique musical palette.
There was talk in the ghetto streets.
He established hospitals, organized a fire department, set up a government, and cleaned the ghetto streets.
There she transforms life in ghetto streets into a metaphor of middle-class life indoors.
He learned that early, growing up on ghetto streets, and he had been an avid student of survival.
And it all ended with his death this week, at age 47, from gunshots on one of those grim ghetto streets in Oakland.
The rappers insist they are merely telling it like it is and "reporting" the news from the ghetto streets.
The street is described by the narrator as one of a conglomerate of "jumbled ghetto streets" into which millions of Jews are crowded.