G. Dep - Child of the Ghetto

Gerard Dep’s Child of the Ghetto arrived as Bad Boy’s early-2000s Harlem street voice—less shiny-suit flash, more block reportage. Special Delivery became the club and video staple; Keep It Gangsta with Shyne and Smash on the First Night with May and Puff fill out the guest list.

The album stalled commercially relative to the single’s heat, peaking outside the Top 100, but it remains a cult favorite for listeners who preferred Dep’s dry delivery to the louder Family-era posse cuts.