If I grow up / Strasser, Todd

Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.

DeShawn lives with his poor family in the Frederick Douglass Project. He knows he should stay in school and stay out of the gang life, but that's the only route to money for his family that seems available.

Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.