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The asphalt university where the diploma is survival and tuition is paid in scars.
means Slang for the harsh, unregulated social world of urban life, especially its dangers, hustle, and hard-won wisdom.
from From Old English straet, itself borrowed from Latin strata via, a paved way; the lofty figurative sense of the streets as a school of hard knocks grew in 20th-century American urban culture.
Knowledge typeStreet smarts outranks book smarts here
Hip-hop stapleFoundational subject in countless rap lyrics
The talkStreets are talking means rumors spreading