I don't think you fully understand what growing up in a terrible neighborhood entails. They aren't so much "a constant nuisance to everybody around them" as the

I don't think you fully understand what growing up in a terrible neighborhood entails. They aren't so much "a constant nuisance to everybody around them" as they are acting like many who are around them. When you grow up in the hood and your father is gone (dead, in jail, never in the picture) and your mother is on crack and all of your friends and siblings are in gangs and/or on drugs and/or selling drugs, changing your destiny is a difficult proposition.