It is the name of his six-year-old daughter.The gang's letters, he says, represent los homeboys, who were there for him when he was a fatherless youngster after the end of the civil war in 1992, and then moulded him into the violent criminal he became.
Once homeboys and homegirls are ready for the change, he says, the family accepts these human wrecks (several are waiting to see Father Greg in wheelchairs).
Speaking to "all my little homeboys and homegirls back in the city," Lamar noted that he too came from a world of food stamps, welfare and public assistance housing.
Better Call Saul will find the crooked lawyer going under the name James M. McGill, an Irish identity he used before switching to a name more suitable "for the homeboys".
"You'll have reason enough to cringe if we have any more of this foolery!" And with that Mr. Newt escorted the lad down the stairs and into the custody of waiting authorities from the Home for Little Homeboys.
There was a small crew of local surfers, most of them Sunset District homeboys, but the surf-based youth culture that flourishes in so many coastal towns and cities — there are said to be some five million surfers worldwide, a million and a half on the West Coast of the United States alone — has never taken hold in San Francisco.
We're homeboys so we named it Detny, to pay homage to Detroit and recognize New York, where we were fulfilling our dream.
MTV's "Jersey Shore" may have finished its season, but on the horizon are TLC's "Mama's Boys of the Bronx" (April 9), about Arthur Avenue homeboys who live with their mothers, and A&E's "Rambug" (May 5), about "a brawny group of hard-working, over-the-top Italian exterminators from Brooklyn".
Harassed by the homeboys and relentlessly badgered by his grandfather to accept Jesus, Flik makes a friend in Chazz (Toni Lysaith), a mouthy girl his own age whose mother, Sister Sharon Morningstar Heather Alicia Simmss), is a devoted member of Enoch's flock.
On the tape, he described the other defendants, including a half-brother, Alexander Alfaro, as "my homeboys"; admitted collecting the victims' valuables when they were robbed; and acknowledged that after the shootings, he and the others ran to his house a few blocks away, then drove away together.
Boston homeboys like Paul Revere begin to look, in their great harbor city, unexpectedly cosmopolitan.
