*shrugs*
Growing up a hood rat is not as glamorous as they taught you; but it does do a pretty good job of teaching you who ain't shit. Indeed, it's sort of a survival instinct; you figure out who talks a lot, and who is just gonna go for the strap.
Ngl, this has periodically be useful in life when folks who're like Tony's neighbors in the Sopranos start trying to act hard. You know, at the DMV, or the doctor's office, once at a lecture I was giving where security stopped ME, etc...