i have, and it shocked the hell out of me. it was a long time ago (i'm thinking '95) and i was watching one of those mtv spring break shows. they followed these three pale frat guys around cancun and one of them was always using "hip-hop slang" (or what he perceived to be hip-hop slang, anyway). so at the end they asked him how he liked his spring break and he said "it was dope! it was hype! it was ghetto!" i was like WTF???!! what would he know about the ghetto?? and then i really began questioning my own useage of the word (i'm from a working class suburban neighborhood) and how causally i (and most of my friends) tossed it around. and i've since been very conscious about using it. i'm not saying that i've never called something "ghetto" since that time, but now i'm more wary of it.
(sorry for all the parenthetical statements)
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