Ghetto By The Sea

Where i come from you either have to know how to fight or you have to be pretty big because if you walk down the street around 9 you best believe your bound to get mugged. I grew up in a neighborhood or should i say hood called Shalimar where most of the street is populated with ghetto ass mexican people. Shalimar is the last ghetto street before you hit the beach hints the title name but its the last small street before you hit the main ones. The reason why Shalimar is ghetto is because the street is always filled with youngsters around the age of 4- 12 running around the streets from 2-7 and after that thats when the real stuff start cracking.

Shalimar is a one way street that connects with placenta st, Wallace st, and pomona st but ever since i was a little kid growing up their used to be drive by s and gang banging. So they blocked all the exits that connected to the other streets and made Shalimar a culdesac which means theres only one way in and one way out. People think that the blocked streets would help but instead people were doing walk by s and tagging which makes things easier when your walking on foot. As a kid i always wanted to become whatever i thought i saw was cool and at that time i would look up to my older brother and hang out with him and his friends. Hanging out with his friends were good time because i got see a bunch of stuff i never thought i would see till i was in high school but its a good thing i learned as a young cat.

I remember the first time seeing someone get shot it was the summer of the 6th grade and i was skating outside my house when bam you hear a shotgun being fired and a girl laying on the ground bleeding for her life and thats when things changed for me completely. Right then and there i knew something was happening and i also knew that i wasn't gong to be the little skateboarding kid anymore but that i had to be a conscious man. By a conscious man i mean i was aware that i had to grow up fast make a bunch of friends and make myself get known so that way i could have connections and no problems with people. I've lived in Shalimar all of my life and i know a bunch of OGs, riders, and gang members and ill tell you it comes in handy that way no one can mess with you or touch you or even clown on you because if your well known out here thats respect because it lets people know you've put in work and you've been around for a while. Now a days nothing happens and it seems that the community is getting together and trying to make the street a better place but when all the OGs come out from the pin they best believe things are gonna be active in Shalimar again. #700Block