wheel of torchin'

A term for the ring of slums around a supposed gentrifying neighborhood where some of the craziest shit in the city goes down, a ghetto ghetto-er than ghetto

Gangster: *flicks open switchblade* gimme your money, foo'!
Middleclass working man: why not just get it from actually working like the rest of society?
Gangster: Welcome to a wheel of Torchin', cracker!