Chapter TwoWill Smith arrived at his dilapidated tenement building at 137th Street near Lenox Avenue after having spent a couple of hours at the library on West 124th Street. He was in his senior year at Mott Hall High School on Edgecombe Avenue off 135th Street, and it seemed as if he was confined to this small triangle outside of the occasional trips to the store or midtown to wander around Times Square. The 137th Street g**g ruled the streets in his neighborhood, and for those who didn't join their ranks it was like being a serf in their private fiefdom.
He lived with his grandmother, who was the only family he knew. His father ran off after his mother got pregnant, and she ran off to support her c***k habit when he was six months old. Grandma was a God-fearing woman who did her best t
