Jects

A few days later, Pharoah, now eleven, told a friend: "I worry about dying, dying at a young age, while you're little. I'll be thinking about I want to get out of the jects. […]

Monie grew up in the music industry, not in the jects.

"Whattaya expect? We in the 'jects, baby, a project for rejects," Jasmine sneers.

Olander grew up around the “jects,” but wasn't born there; he actually lived about two blocks away in a three-story house with his mother and younger siblings.