1970 SPECIAL REPORT: "PHILADELPHIA GANGS"

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  • Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
  • PHILADELPHIA, June 10 -In West Philadelphia the atmosphere on the streets is almost palpably tense. Gang wars are a way of life-and death. So far this year, 13 Philadelphia youngsters, sev eral in their early teens, have been killed in gang violence. Some were innocent bystand ers. There were 39 deaths last year, 43 the The Talk year before, a total of 248 in of West the last 10 years. Philadelphia as often as not, the antagonists were no more than children. It is as if they were playing cowboys, but somehow, in some malign transmogrifica tion, the guns have become
    The Talk of West Philadelphia
    The average age of both victim and killer is a little over 16.
    A Sixth Sense
    One hundred and seven gangs have been identified, scores more probably exist and the minimum estimate of 5,000 is quite likely short by about the same number. There are white gangs and some Puerto Ricans, but for the most part the gang phe nomenon in Philadelphia is black.
    Benny Swans, who is 23 years old, a former gang member and now a commu nity worker on the Philadel phia streets, has developed something of a sixth sense about which street gangs will start shooting at each other and which ones won't.
    “The Osage Avenue gang is cool,” says Mr. Swans, “and so is Cedar Avenue. But the Mongol Nation and the Woodland bunch-they could blow any time.”
    There are confrontations almost daily between the two groups, each with its own po tential for violence and al most random death. One day last week was typical.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 443

  • @sirach2069
    @sirach2069 3 роки тому +139

    Biggest gang in Philly is the police.

    • @Montweezy
      @Montweezy 3 роки тому +18

      Thats every city!

    • @darklordofyocommunitah4781
      @darklordofyocommunitah4781 3 роки тому +10

      The biggest gang in Philly is the Bonnet Crew.

    • @johnolson5538
      @johnolson5538 3 роки тому +15

      The police are responsible for the murder rate?

    • @sirach2069
      @sirach2069 3 роки тому +4

      @@johnolson5538 you ever see the one and only episode of the First 48 in Philly?

    • @johnolson5538
      @johnolson5538 3 роки тому +2

      @@sirach2069 who cares, and no I haven’t. Philly is garbage and I’m not watching a tv show about the place.

  • @Don_Blanco215
    @Don_Blanco215 Рік тому +11

    Philly is one of the original gang cities

  • @briancordero7674
    @briancordero7674 3 роки тому +49

    The Philly Police terrorized the black community but turned a blind to the South Philly Mafia.

    • @JB-hl1qx
      @JB-hl1qx 3 роки тому +17

      Thats what happens when you make political contributions and kickbacks to the right people. Chess ... not checkers

    • @lynnieadams3070
      @lynnieadams3070 3 роки тому +2

      🎯

    • @animalcub5292
      @animalcub5292 3 роки тому +2

      @@JB-hl1qx that’s what’ happens when the police commissioner is a racist and happens to be Italian

    • @thinblacknoodles
      @thinblacknoodles 3 роки тому +3

      That part FACTS

    • @toddsmith346
      @toddsmith346 2 роки тому +2

      @@JB-hl1qx let’s not forget complexion for connection 😂 im not jealous just stating facts

  • @malcolmwhite6637
    @malcolmwhite6637 2 роки тому +20

    An interesting video in 1970 I did not live in Philly just yet . I didn't get to Philly until 1973 from Brooklyn and I was fortunate enough not to get caught up in the gang life growing up in West Philly ..''University City'' and ....''Cobbs Creek''....my BIGGEST fear was dealing with the POLICE during the Rizzo era!! The gang situation at that time was starting to die down but there were areas where you still had to watch your back! I grew up hearing the stories about ...the ...''Moon gang'''.....'''hoopes St''.....'''Lex St'''....'''Cedar Ave'''......the notorious '''Woodland Ave'''.......the '''Four Corners'''....the ..'''Mongo Nation'''.....the ..'''El Manors''........the....'''Zip''......the '''Creek'''........the ...""Apple Jacks''''....(I heard they did crazy things with razor blades).!! So seeing Frank Rizzo and the beginning of this video kinda had me TRIGGERED because of my own bad experience with the police at that time at only 13 for no good reason and that the gang situation was being cooled down by a group called the ''House of Emoja'' ran by Queen mother Chaka Fhala...the campaign was called ''No more gang war in '''74 from what I remember. She didn't didn't get enough of the credit she deserved for stopping the violence!! But this was all BEFORE THE CRACK ERA....and sadly things have gotten WAY WORSE since then....just look at what we have NOW IN 2022!!

    • @fawnnahh7438
      @fawnnahh7438 Рік тому

      History repeats itself. Crime was going down before the pandemic and now it’s back to where it was 40 years ago.

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 Місяць тому

      What happened to mother chaka ?

  • @wandawells5596
    @wandawells5596 3 роки тому +51

    It’s still the same, ima 70’s baby and 80’s teen. We just stuck in a loop 🤦🏽‍♀️ Philly come on!

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 3 роки тому +2

      Are you from north Philly? Always was attracted to that city I don't know why

    • @jeremiahwoods1845
      @jeremiahwoods1845 3 роки тому +4

      West philly up in chea sistah

    • @Spill_ent
      @Spill_ent 3 роки тому

      Facts

    • @anthonycaserta89
      @anthonycaserta89 3 роки тому +2

      It's not the same at all the only cycle we have is electing corrupt democrat officials for 8 years out of 12.. In the 80s Kensington was nice now half the northeast is a shit hole but so is most of the city

    • @wandawells5596
      @wandawells5596 3 роки тому

      @@anthonycaserta89 k

  • @9chilidog
    @9chilidog 3 роки тому +23

    “ more programs” I’m an 80’s kid, and we got all those programs they talk about…Guess what, it didn’t work.

    • @lowdown4444
      @lowdown4444 3 роки тому +6

      They stole that money

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 3 роки тому +1

      So what's the reason for not working out in spite of the existence of those programs? Some kind of spiritual curse?

    • @1990758
      @1990758 3 роки тому +2

      Seems like they always say that more programs but like you said it never works

    • @damienwyche2105
      @damienwyche2105 3 роки тому

      What programs, I saw none of them.

    • @9chilidog
      @9chilidog 3 роки тому +2

      @@damienwyche2105 are you from the states? Food programs, Rec centers, urban league, subsidized or free camps, job programs, mentoring programs… y’all need to stop acting like it’s Selma, Alabama 1962. It wasn’t a “programs” issue, it was driving the fathers out of the home issue.

  • @DBryan-vu6ec
    @DBryan-vu6ec 3 роки тому +30

    Philly in the early 70s is a one a kind sight ❤️

    • @anthonycaserta89
      @anthonycaserta89 3 роки тому +3

      East oak lane is a beautiful area real nice now only the mixed neighborhoods are slums

    • @1990758
      @1990758 3 роки тому +4

      Exactly I remember those days I grew up in North and South Philly

    • @thinblacknoodles
      @thinblacknoodles 3 роки тому +4

      Born in 73 west Philadelphia but claims Southwest and South mostly

  • @ezekielmajor5511
    @ezekielmajor5511 3 роки тому +76

    I grew up in the 70s 80s 90s. Gangs were still highly active then. Hilltop vs Wynnefield, JBM, The Craig Haines crew, Moon Gang, the bottom, underworld, The Hollow, Somerville, Cedar Ave, Hoopes Street, The Black Gambinos, etc. Whoever said Philly wasn't known for gangs knows nothing at all.

    • @hamiddaain7877
      @hamiddaain7877 3 роки тому +20

      Also The Valley and The Village gangs from North Philly!!!

    • @howardrussell3919
      @howardrussell3919 3 роки тому +17

      Lived in West Philly late 60's, early 70's. The Moon, the Barbary Coast, 58th and Osage Ave. Ran into some gangsters from Germantown; Summerville, The Clang, Haines Street, Brickyard . Knew a brother from 13th and South in South Philly name Shoot Em Up. Another Brother was Diver Dan from 39th and Aspen. Cool Earl and Chewy from 46th street tagged the whole city. It was insane...!!

    • @kidkully
      @kidkully 3 роки тому +8

      @@hamiddaain7877 the tender-lions and the stars ⭐️ were other north philly gangs too

    • @hamiddaain7877
      @hamiddaain7877 3 роки тому +1

      @@kidkully what area down north?

    • @kidkully
      @kidkully 3 роки тому +5

      @@hamiddaain7877 not really sure bro, but the tender-lions were more popular than the stars. An older teacher told me about the stars ✨ I wanna say tender-lions were around oxford street but I’m not too sure….ask any old-head from north philly about tender-lions like I said they were pretty popular 👍

  • @MisterB2eternity
    @MisterB2eternity 8 місяців тому +5

    Wow this was crazy. Philly has always been rough for a long time. I'm from West Philly. Grew up there from 70s through the 90s. I remember the wars between Wynnefield, Hilltop, Parkside, Hoopes Street, H&R (Hazel and Rodman), Vine Street, The Bottom, Cedar Ave, and so on. During that time the crack epidemic was hitting and JBM was running shit until the early 90s when Aaron Jones and other JBM members either got locked up or killed.

    • @leslie0459
      @leslie0459 3 місяці тому +1

      Peace I lived on 57th Hazel during those days I remember the gangs and seeing gang activities.

    • @MisterB2eternity
      @MisterB2eternity 3 місяці тому +1

      @@leslie0459 Peace my brother are you the original graffiti artist, Cornbread?

    • @leslie0459
      @leslie0459 3 місяці тому

      @MisterB2eternity no my nick name Is Beany

  • @Riogi
    @Riogi 3 роки тому +25

    This was so interesting yet sad to know that youths chose to join gangs when they saw no other way to move forward with their lives. I wonder what became of Danny and the others. Thank you, Hez. I send many blessings to you and loved ones.

    • @gilesbentley7113
      @gilesbentley7113 3 роки тому +2

      That was a long time ago I live at 34th Haverford Avenue

    • @mariusmatei2946
      @mariusmatei2946 2 роки тому +1

      Well, you have to look at the big economic picture of cities like New York, or Philadelphia in the 1960s; the major economic changes (that lead to economic stagnation) of the 1960s (in New York/Philadelphia) had had a major social impact: in the 1970s, and 1980s, New York was marked by crisis, and decline (with a full recovery only in the 1990s); likewise, throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Philadelphia was marked by (a deep) crisis, and decline (however, unlike the recovery in New York, the recovery that started in Philadelphia after the year 2000, was only partial/limited in scope).

  • @khingofswordz43
    @khingofswordz43 Рік тому +10

    Back then Philly....we was our own "Cooley High". Every neighborhood had a "Cochise" that brotha that had inspirations of making in the NBA or least a college scholarship for playing ball. Every neighborhood had a "Preach"....that brotha that wasn't hood enough to gang war but you liked him because he wasn't in a gang or ran the streets. Every hood had a "Pooter"....you know that young Bol that hung around the older guys in the neighborhood....but won't allow him to be part of "Puttin' In Work" gang activities. Then we every neighborhood had a "Brenda".that pretty fly girl you saw & had to get with but unlike you there's other guys wanted her too.....then last every neighborhood had a "Stone.& Robbie"... Those guys you stood clear from them because.they was trouble from the start. Real gang bangin, reefer smoking, pint of "Johnny Walker Red", Knife packing mean dudes.....The funny thing about these young men of yesterday that ran with the gang & the streets are now seniors today that lived thru that period now tell stories about what they been through during the 50's, 60's, & 70's.......
    🔥🧊🔥🧊🔥🧊🔥🧊

  • @newera5238
    @newera5238 2 роки тому +20

    I just remembered growing up as a kid in the '80s, and my mom not allowing me to meet many of my family members for some reason. I didn't find out until age 35 that we had A LOT of family that was in the JBM.

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 Місяць тому

      Hey yooooo. That's crazy. I always wondered what happened to the JBM and BM family members

  • @hereisayana8207
    @hereisayana8207 3 роки тому +14

    Philly had a lot of beautiful black people in the 80s

  • @donnienorco.9341
    @donnienorco.9341 3 роки тому +7

    Love your videos big fan. Keep up the great work.

  • @1GirlieGirl
    @1GirlieGirl 2 роки тому +11

    This is fascinating, I'm so glad I found it. I work in Parkside, and I drive through Mantua and "The Bottom" every day. It's going to get gentrified like the rest of the city. These young men literally wouldn't believe what that area looks like now, 50 years later. Also this is the first time I heard 52nd St called "The Top." Fascinating.

    • @Number1DriversSeat
      @Number1DriversSeat 2 роки тому

      That’s sad.

    • @dammitdannie215
      @dammitdannie215 Рік тому +1

      Anything below 46th is considered “the bottom”

    • @PhlyWise
      @PhlyWise Рік тому

      Lol yea we say up the way when we talking about 52nd still. Up top usually Cobbs creek or hilltop. In convo and such

    • @BigM-wz2mi
      @BigM-wz2mi 9 місяців тому +1

      Parkside used to beefed with Wynfeild a lot back in the day,Mantua was underworld,36th Street,Hub, Aspen Street and 436 Market Street, and 52nd Street was always considered the top

    • @raymondgreen185
      @raymondgreen185 Місяць тому

      This was true in Gray's ferry
      34st towards the river and 31st below on Wharton Street and Reed. Tasked Homes towards the south.

  • @kmotley517
    @kmotley517 3 роки тому +13

    This man was the perfect interviewee. You got nothing but truth from him. He told you "the streets"

  • @MrBoswel1
    @MrBoswel1 11 місяців тому +3

    That was my joint innner city boundaries

  • @househeadtwo5509
    @househeadtwo5509 2 роки тому +8

    ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS I WENT VARE JR HIGH 24TH & TASKER 9TH GRADE IN 1975 SOUTH PHILLY. THE GANGS I KNEW WHERE , 7TH ST TASKER PROJECTS SIGEL ST AND MAYBE CARPS. THIS SCHOOL WAS A SERIOUS PROBLEM I HAD JUST MOVED FROM THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND OF GUAM STRAIGHT TO THE HOOD IN SOUTH PHILLY A CULTURE SHOCK.. GUAM WAS THE NICKNAME THEY GAVE ME I FOUGHT ALMOST EVERYDAY BECAUSE I WOULD NOT GIVE UP MY LUNCH MONEY, AND BECAUSE OF THE CLOSE I HAD ON . I LOOKED JUST LIKE JJ EVANS ON GOODTIMES WHEN I WENT HOME AND LOOKED, IN THE MIRROR,I SAID OMG I'M IN TROUBLE.. BECAUSE GUAM WAS YRS BEHIND ON THERE CLOSE. WHEN I LEFT GUAM I THOUGHT I WAS UP ON MY GEAR, WHILE THE GUYS AT VARE WHERE WEARING KANGOS, LEATHER COATS, GAB PANTS AND BALLY SHOES OR JACK PURCELLS, SNEAKERS, THATS WHEN I LEARNED THE MEANING OF GETTING MOVED ON AND DO NOT SNITCH WHEN YOU GET IN A FIGHT LOL, ITS FUNNY NOW BUT IT WASN'T FUNNY BACK THEN. AFTER SO MANY FIGHTS I FINALLY GOT MY RESPECT.. IN THAT ONE YR, I COULD HAVE WROTE A BOOK THANK GOD I MADE IT OUT ALIVE... PHILLY IS NO JOKE , THE CRAZY PART IS I WAS BORN AND RAISED FOR 5 YR IN THE RICHIE ALLEN PROJECTS.

    • @greggsiano5920
      @greggsiano5920 2 місяці тому

      My man

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 Місяць тому

      What is the GUAM? Richie Allen projects still around or gentrified ?

  • @niss2142
    @niss2142 2 роки тому +8

    And the commissioner/mayor had the most feared gang, The Police... Rizzo: was nothing but a gangster

  • @Montweezy
    @Montweezy 3 роки тому +18

    These old school videos are amazing! I was growing up in the 80's so by the time I was 15 in 89 I was into the shit but these videos remind of the old days....

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 Місяць тому

      So bac then u heard about alpo and them?

  • @shaunNkaidensDAD
    @shaunNkaidensDAD 3 роки тому +10

    We not gon act like dat 1st song ain't 🔥

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 Місяць тому

      Ahahhha I was thinkin the same thing.this jawn is fire

  • @thephoenix2176
    @thephoenix2176 3 роки тому +35

    We were in the era of the Moon gang/JBM...Whether there was one, two parents, extended family or guardian in the home - we had love togetherness - NO such thing is a broken home foh! Meraki Brother!

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 3 роки тому +2

      U a beautiful sister.

    • @jeremiahwoods1845
      @jeremiahwoods1845 3 роки тому +2

      You need a young man like me Madame

    • @jeremiahwoods1845
      @jeremiahwoods1845 3 роки тому +2

      West philly finest

    • @dlt215
      @dlt215 3 роки тому +3

      My dad was in the moon gang (overbrook)

    • @ruffboss1
      @ruffboss1 3 роки тому +5

      Lol smh, What comes out when the sun goes down? The Moon, seems like yesterday, you had the Barbary Coast, the Empire, the original Philly Black Mafia, and a few others in West Philly. Travel to the wrong hood get moved on, their best and your best and you come out on top you get moved on, you had to keep it even which would earn you respect and keep them off ya ass lol, it was a lot of work smh. R.I.P "BIRD" and "HOOK"

  • @757CitiesReppa
    @757CitiesReppa 3 роки тому +10

    Perfect intro for Philly!!!

  • @terrencesmith1333
    @terrencesmith1333 3 роки тому +12

    The Black Bottom had the toughest gangs, up the way the coast, the Yard , the smaller gangs seem to be the rougher ones

    • @Dmx215WP
      @Dmx215WP 3 роки тому +4

      39th street down the Bottom was wild back then and still is.

    • @nkosistrainbullies5806
      @nkosistrainbullies5806 2 роки тому +1

      @@Dmx215WP tell me about. My peoples still there I left 23 years ago barely go back.

    • @jamarmills7928
      @jamarmills7928 Рік тому +1

      My pop was running with the Empire Gang 34th and Wallace st Black bottom was tough

    • @raymondgreen185
      @raymondgreen185 Місяць тому

      I think Carpenter Street was the most violent.

  • @atriskyouthtv
    @atriskyouthtv 3 роки тому +4

    U ALWAYS COME THRUUUUU ...AND BIG TUNEEEEEEE

  • @rahsaancongo6927
    @rahsaancongo6927 3 роки тому +26

    I'M FROM NORTH PHILLY AND IT DEFINITELY AIN'T THE SAME🔥🔥🔥

    • @lowdown4444
      @lowdown4444 3 роки тому +2

      Lying css where the money go🤦

    • @victordejung5675
      @victordejung5675 3 роки тому +3

      Why is the Kensington area a heroin 💉🥄 💧 💊 💊 den?
      WHO had the power to designate that area as the smack center of the east
      coast🤔💭❓

    • @reggiekaz4147
      @reggiekaz4147 3 роки тому

      Ur last name is congo? U congolese descent?

    • @lowdown4444
      @lowdown4444 3 роки тому +1

      @@reggiekaz4147 Sthu

    • @rahsaancongo6927
      @rahsaancongo6927 3 роки тому +2

      @@reggiekaz4147 naw main man... My last name just Congo

  • @robertsaunders1288
    @robertsaunders1288 2 роки тому +4

    In the 60s in North Philadelphia there was Lawrence of Poplar 12th and Poplar the Morocco Diamond Street 2nd and Vine Oxford Street The Tenderloins.

  • @tylebglover7481
    @tylebglover7481 2 роки тому +4

    I Thought That was Dennis Rodman man..☝️😩

  • @MasterQuan808
    @MasterQuan808 8 місяців тому +3

    Fist track is fire 🔥

  • @jackals1982
    @jackals1982 3 роки тому +10

    Me being born in the early 60's i remember philly was the gang capital of the US

  • @terrencesmith1333
    @terrencesmith1333 3 роки тому +6

    I remember Rev Floyd had the gangs make a peace treaty, that stopped gang fighting for a minute but younger guys started it up again years later ,

    • @cinquebleuu9408
      @cinquebleuu9408 Рік тому

      Rev. Floyd use to drive around with a casket on top a car.

  • @215Christ
    @215Christ 2 роки тому +2

    1970 and on to the mid '70s philly was averaging 400+ homicides a year on-record...

  • @jizzy3025
    @jizzy3025 3 роки тому +13

    There aren’t any gangs in Philly. Just guys repping a block killing each other for drug money and respect.

    • @billyjacc
      @billyjacc 3 роки тому +3

      .. & the money is miniscule compared to what dudes was getting in the Mid 80's-late 90's.

    • @toddsmith346
      @toddsmith346 2 роки тому +2

      @Smoke Dawg yes but Chicago still identify with the name but I get you it’s significance no longer holds weight

    • @oredi2159
      @oredi2159 2 роки тому +1

      This was the 70s there were alot of gangs in Philly then

    • @isaiahbutler1938
      @isaiahbutler1938 2 роки тому

      There were a lot of gangs in the 70's. There are definitely gangs in philly right now. They are beefing heavy too.

    • @jizzy3025
      @jizzy3025 2 роки тому +1

      @@isaiahbutler1938 name 1 from this generation….

  • @davidgregory5564
    @davidgregory5564 Рік тому +3

    I grew up on 22nd and master in the early 70s and I seen all kinds of gang wars,vaux Jr high was at the corner of my house and Blomberg projects was around the corner,there was The Demarcos,24 and Thompson,28th and Oxford,24th and Ratiner,17 and seybert,the Valley,all gangs around the neighborhood, started dying down in the mid to late 70s, oh let's not forget about the Philadelphia police department..

  • @tkso.philly3879
    @tkso.philly3879 2 роки тому +4

    Born in the 60's.Oh yeah I remember the gangs very well growing up.There were all kinds programs and projects in Philly to curb the gang violence.I remember seeing many young brothers in wheelchairs years ago.And as for Rizzo,'Burn baby burn-

  • @famousdagodjohnson6624
    @famousdagodjohnson6624 3 роки тому +8

    North Philly Badlands...

    • @thespritzwithpopfritz68
      @thespritzwithpopfritz68 Рік тому

      Actually the 25th district badlands . It was a term coined by cops . Rookies would get assigned to 25th district at front & Westmoreland and asked not to get assigned west of 6th street in North Philly . The Captain & Lieutenants would say sure , we’ll assign you to the West Kensington badlands between 2nd street & 6th . That will keep you safe . Lol

  • @kevind.jamison6032
    @kevind.jamison6032 Рік тому +2

    I remember one time when Rizzo was the Police Commissioner and some of his goons came to our neighborhood (Osage Avenue) harassing us until we got tired of it. The "8" (5-8 Osage ) gave them all they could handle. They never came back.

    • @greggsiano5920
      @greggsiano5920 2 місяці тому

      I knew dick and Curtis good ppl dick hadda a mechanic shop

  • @E80-t6e
    @E80-t6e 2 роки тому +5

    I’m born and raised in West Philly 59th and Master I’m 41 and I tell ppl all the time that Philly has always been bad! But when main man said “all I do is burglarize,burglarize,and burglarize” I had to ctfu why he say it like that🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it bugs me out how differently we speak then and now.

    • @pecanbrown2006
      @pecanbrown2006 2 роки тому +1

      59th Thompson here

    • @Number1DriversSeat
      @Number1DriversSeat 2 роки тому +3

      Rice’s Barber shop…

    • @E80-t6e
      @E80-t6e 2 роки тому

      @@Number1DriversSeat damnnnnnnn bro you went wayyyyyyyy back that was my barbershop,my Uncles and grandpops damn near until it closed those were some good ass memories Gary was my barber he was in like the 3rd chair kept a part in his hair light skin bol Mr.Rice was in the first chair then his son took over.

  • @williamriley5118
    @williamriley5118 11 місяців тому +1

    Frank Rizzo was the Police Commissioner back then. His nickname was “Wyatt Earp.”

  • @NoMorePodDes
    @NoMorePodDes 3 роки тому +6

    Song makes me have to watch the movie strapped

    • @HezakyaNewz
      @HezakyaNewz  3 роки тому +5

      It ain't the same sandwich

    • @NoMorePodDes
      @NoMorePodDes 3 роки тому +2

      @@HezakyaNewz HIS WAS BIGGA!

    • @thefractalcurve5462
      @thefractalcurve5462 3 роки тому

      It's same god dam sandwich, okay.

    • @mightywisdom88
      @mightywisdom88 3 роки тому

      @@thefractalcurve5462 Okay man!

    • @dlt215
      @dlt215 3 роки тому +1

      Damn,I was wondering where I heard that song at.

  • @kincamell2
    @kincamell2 3 роки тому +3

    Heavy
    Ps Much Gratitude
    Ps Peace to Freestyle Fellowship and Daddy O from Stetsasonic

  • @JP-by6pe
    @JP-by6pe 3 роки тому +4

    Classic!! Love this!

  • @greatcontroversywarrior2865
    @greatcontroversywarrior2865 2 роки тому +1

    The Era that we live in now is pushy as shit 60s-90s was the realist eras ever

  • @PhlyWise
    @PhlyWise Рік тому +1

    They shot that video on 36th and haverford. Now there’s grace lutheran there I only was able to mark it because I saw mantua hall when the camera panned

  • @Paaka
    @Paaka 3 роки тому +6

    How was philly already bad in the 60s when other cities chagned after crack?

    • @1990758
      @1990758 3 роки тому +1

      I guess I was too young to remember gangs I grew up in North Philly mid-60s we move to the projects South Philly

    • @billyjacc
      @billyjacc 2 роки тому +8

      I'm not sure of what you mean by bad, but Detroit, Chicago, New York, LA, and Philly had gangs and crime before crack came out.

    • @renealexander2703
      @renealexander2703 2 роки тому +6

      There was a lot of violence, drugs, and gangs BEFORE crack.

  • @mujahidabdur-rahman2724
    @mujahidabdur-rahman2724 3 роки тому +2

    36st born and raised BOTTOM BRED💯💯💪🏾💪🏾

  • @richardsingh5827
    @richardsingh5827 3 роки тому +3

    You should do a Spotify playlist

  • @andredefrancesco7111
    @andredefrancesco7111 Рік тому +3

    I’m Italian American and a South Philadelphian. I’d use every tactic this man used to turn this city around

    • @clarencecarter2361
      @clarencecarter2361 Рік тому

      Duh!

    • @homeoftek5844
      @homeoftek5844 Рік тому

      I read about the history of Italian mobsters in South Philly. I'm a Philly native as well from North. Are any of the mobsters still around? It's been so long

    • @andredefrancesco7111
      @andredefrancesco7111 Рік тому

      @@homeoftek5844 walk along Oregon Ave during the day from 10th to Broad Street. I see them every day.

  • @cameronashton9325
    @cameronashton9325 7 місяців тому

    The Freestyle Fellowship... Loving it.

  • @Savadorason1
    @Savadorason1 3 роки тому +9

    -First it started with the Irish, then the Italians, then later came blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Chinese, then some mixed groups. When more companies opened up they mainly hired whites. Eventually whites moved out around the early-mid 60s, but the minorities were mostly stuck from then til now. & That's how it happened stretching for over 150yrs, from New York over to Cali. The End.

    • @kidkully
      @kidkully 3 роки тому +1

      Mexicans had gangs in L.A. since the 1920s

    • @Savadorason1
      @Savadorason1 3 роки тому +2

      @@kidkully -New York City had gangs since the 1840s. White thugs, criminals, hookers, addicts, etc. & Then it gradually spread to the rest of the US. different ethnicities/races. By the time Mexico got them NYC had already been swamped with various gangs for about 80+ years, some members of certain crews even becoming affiliated with police & politics while still dealing with urban crime.

    • @thepunisher9991
      @thepunisher9991 3 роки тому +2

      @@Savadorason1 Like that movie based in the 1800's called "Gangs Of New York."

    • @Savadorason1
      @Savadorason1 3 роки тому

      @@thepunisher9991 -That's it.

  • @johnbran7091
    @johnbran7091 3 роки тому +2

    Was the music that was played in the beginning a song that was made with the board cast or added in because that was straight flames 🔥 🔥🔥🔥

    • @kool-ki7739
      @kool-ki7739 2 роки тому +2

      It was added in. It's from the Freestyle Fellowship feat. Daddy-O (of Stetsasonic) called "Inner City Boundaries" from 1993

  • @PhlyWise
    @PhlyWise 3 роки тому +3

    Da Bottom! I grew up on stories about Empire
    I’m from 35th street! #356

  • @xtabolx2425
    @xtabolx2425 3 роки тому +4

    CLASSIC MATERIAL!!!!! UA-cam is on some f*ckery....👎🏿

  • @lovelysosweet8386
    @lovelysosweet8386 Рік тому +1

    This city was better back then

  • @blazayblazay8888
    @blazayblazay8888 3 роки тому +3

    “Bo bee Lee bo bo di bo bo bo”

  • @bxdale83
    @bxdale83 3 роки тому +13

    I said in another video that Philly was the gang capital, more so than Chicago, LA, NYC, and Detroit but someone didn't believe me. There's articles about the gang violence in Philly in the 60's and 70's

    • @gabaryaahlayasharahla9447
      @gabaryaahlayasharahla9447 2 роки тому +1

      Theres Articles About Gang Violence In L.A And Chicago From The 1900's Bruh... Especially L.A's Mexican Varrios In The 1920s..You Just Sound Like You Favor Philly In Some Sort Of Way..Maybe It's The Cheese Steaks & Etc...Idk..But The True Gang Capitals Of America Is Los Angeles And Chicago..And Chicago Put Newyork Gangs On And Showed Them How To Become Structured Before Capone Even Came Down There...Now Philly Had The Most Ruthless Italian Mobs Though...Way More Ruthless Then Any Other Italian Mafia Family... Philly Was The Spot Where The Mob Really Showed How Brutal They Can Get... But Philly Is Not The Gang Capital Of America Bro...Philly's Home Grown Gangs Never Even Left The City..Chicago And Los Angeles Is The Gang Capitals.. Who's Gangs Have Influenced The Entire Culture From America Even To Other Countries...Name One Philly Street Gang That Has Done What Chicago And L.A Gangs Have In Terms Of Influence & Numbers

    • @bxdale83
      @bxdale83 2 роки тому +2

      @@gabaryaahlayasharahla9447 Bruh, I clearly said the 1960's and 1970's. I'm not speaking on Capone and the Mob. I'm talking about street gangs. Like I said there's articles in the archives online about the gang violence across various cities from the 1970's and Philly had the most gang violence, more than Chicago, NY, and LA (IN THE 70's!) And who from Chicago put on NY gangs and which gang before Capone went to Chicago?

    • @gabaryaahlayasharahla9447
      @gabaryaahlayasharahla9447 2 роки тому +1

      @@bxdale83 Smfh..Bruh I Know You We're Talking About The 60s And 70s 💯💯💯🤣🤣🤣🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🔥🔥❗❗
      I Mentioned The 20s And 1900s That Pre Dates The 1960s and 1970s With Not Just The Mafia..BUT STREET GANGS ASWELL.. Lmaooo..And You Know That's Exactly What I Was Doing Too..But You Wanna Try To Use Lil Tactics To Try And Delay What I'm Saying So You Can Continue On Running Your Mouth Explaining Your Invalid Point That Was Proven Wrong...Theres SURENO SETS in Los Angeles That Are Over A Hundred Years Old... STREET GANGS!!!..
      LMFAOOOO...
      IN LOS ANGLES BRO!!!..
      💯💯🤣🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🔥🔥🔥❗❗
      Even The Vice Lords From Chicago Predate The 60s And 70s!!!!
      Lol Just Stop Now..Your Reaching Way Too High Fam!!
      Your Not Tall Enough!!!
      Philly The Gang Capital??!!
      NO BRO!!
      Like I Said...YOUR NOT TALL ENOUGH...SO QUIT REACHING..YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT...CHICAGO AND LOS ANGELES ARE THE GANG CAPITALS OF AMERICA...NOT NEWYORK AND IF NEWYORK WAS??!!..THEY WOULD BE IN THIRD PLACE!!..AND NEW YORK HAD HEEEEEELLLAAAA HOME GROWN GANGS BACK IN THE 60s and 70s AND EVEN BEFORE THAT!!!
      PHILLY TODAY HAS LOS ANGELES GANGS AND CHICAGO GANGS...YOU DON'T HAVE NO PHILLY GANGS OUT THERE THO!!!
      NAH THEY STAY ON THERE BLOCKS AND ONLY GO TO WAR IN PHILLY AND CITIES THAT ARE CLOSE BY!!!..THATS IT!!!... STOP IT!!!...💯💯🤣🤣🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🔥🔥❗❗

    • @gabaryaahlayasharahla9447
      @gabaryaahlayasharahla9447 2 роки тому +2

      @@bxdale83 Sam Young Who's A Black Mobster Who Started The Lottery And Various Italian Figures From Chicago Did That!!!..And brought they markets to Newyork and influenced Newyork!!!..the Chicago outfit was already formed and moving before Capone even went there!!!..Capone wasn't even a big figure until he came to Chicago and got laced up with even more game!!..Capone WAS HIRED BY CHICAGO MOBSTERS AND THEY BROUGHT HIM TO CHICAGO!!!
      THE HELL YOU MEAN BRO??!!!
      Are you seriously this lost??!!
      You better go do your home work!!!
      Go look and see who was really the heavy hitters...even moreso then the 5 families..even the Philly mob had the 5 families Lowkey scared..they was comparable to the Mexican cartel in brutality...but they wasn't the heaviest hitters...the outfit was!!..now as far as Philly having more violence??!!..with street gangs at that time??!!..that could be true!!..but that doesn't make them the damn gang cap Bruh!!..that just means it's heavy beef over there...Philly a ruthless city..but damn sure ain't the gang capital...your weird bro

    • @bxdale83
      @bxdale83 2 роки тому +3

      @@gabaryaahlayasharahla9447 Can you read? I said Philly "WAS" the gang capital in the 1970's! I'm not making shit up this is what I read in the archives ya dig?? This video is not about Sam Young or Capone or the Italian Mob its about street gangs in Philadelphia in the decade of the SEVENTIES! I'm not understanding why you going on a tangent about other shit that's irrelevant to a comment I made over a year ago. If you wanted to drop some extra info that's fine cause I like to research shit but you don't have to drop insults my nigga

  • @CynthiaAleaseSmithEdD
    @CynthiaAleaseSmithEdD 16 днів тому

    20th & Carpenter Street, 13th Street, 15th & Clymer Street. South Philly.

  • @erichall8866
    @erichall8866 2 роки тому +3

    Philly hasn't changed since, has it?

  • @BigM-wz2mi
    @BigM-wz2mi 9 місяців тому +1

    Do us a story on the black bottoms.

  • @garyflythe1362
    @garyflythe1362 3 роки тому +4

    Have you ever been involved in a gang killing Danny what in the hell! Is he a reporter or FBI agent or CIA agent? Intel for the police department what what is this guy's job

    • @HezakyaNewz
      @HezakyaNewz  3 роки тому +7

      DJ VLADS Father

    • @1990758
      @1990758 3 роки тому

      Anyone or everyone would ask that question

    • @thinblacknoodles
      @thinblacknoodles 3 роки тому +1

      @@HezakyaNewz 🤣🤣🤣

  • @fathermayhem6185
    @fathermayhem6185 3 роки тому +7

    It's easy to see the difference between the older gangs and the snakes of today-

  • @trayrozier6042
    @trayrozier6042 3 місяці тому

    Yes I was from The Coast so I remember all that

  • @vidform
    @vidform 2 роки тому +2

    The best thing about Philly was Gamble and Huff... Period.

  • @trainrover
    @trainrover 11 місяців тому

    wow .. Jill Scott's bee-bop roots now revealed (the introductory accompaniment here..!) 👀🍸👀

  • @josephrobinson5452
    @josephrobinson5452 3 роки тому +7

    The police must've shut the gangs down here in Philadelphia because it's no gangs her anymore.

    • @hectorjinx3433
      @hectorjinx3433 3 роки тому +4

      LMAO you wish

    • @brianburton5946
      @brianburton5946 3 роки тому +4

      @@hectorjinx3433 if you're not from Philly, please don't comment. There is no gangs in Philly. Maybe crews up guys who grew up together. But they not walking around wearing colors or throwing up gangs signs etc

    • @hectorjinx3433
      @hectorjinx3433 3 роки тому +2

      @@brianburton5946 who said I don't live in Philly please don't assume brother. There are Kings and bloods among others. You really have no idea what you are talking about. Just kuz you don't bang don't think others don't There might not be any white gangs for you to join LMFAO

    • @brianburton5946
      @brianburton5946 3 роки тому +3

      @@hectorjinx3433 I have hardly seen any gangs in my 43 years. Besides maybe the JBM. My dad was the leader of one but they were dissolving when I was growing up. Its always gonna be a few goofies that may call themselves gang members. But even if you had 10 weirdos that called themselves blood, they wasn't going to war with another gang like the Crips. We had crews sure, who may have identified with the block they grew up on, like 21st, Tasker Projects, etc. But nobody walking around wearing colors, terrorizing the neighborhood, etc. If the Bloods or Crips ever tried to set up here, they would get laughed at

    • @PhlyWise
      @PhlyWise Рік тому +1

      Those areas are still called the same shyt and we go at it with the same places ironically but naw I wouldn call it gang culture as I saw in other cities. It’s block culture

  • @youremybiggestfan
    @youremybiggestfan 2 роки тому

    Love the music.. Havent heard Freestyle Fellowship in too damn long..

  • @cd.cd.cd.cd-cd
    @cd.cd.cd.cd-cd 3 роки тому +2

    Buddy in the thumbnail look alot like Dennis Rodman

  • @alamiynsantiago1446
    @alamiynsantiago1446 Рік тому

    The incriminating questions from the interviewer lol

  • @DONNYPESO
    @DONNYPESO 3 роки тому +7

    Move down to the Philadelphia area 2 years ago as a black man I must say it is surprisingly racist

    • @1990758
      @1990758 3 роки тому +1

      I grew up in North Philly mid-60s what part of Philadelphia did you move to

    • @thinblacknoodles
      @thinblacknoodles 3 роки тому +2

      Its been always racist Google thr history of our city ,it ain't pretty

  • @norfphillybul2154
    @norfphillybul2154 2 роки тому +1

    This my dad era he was born 1949

  • @anthonyfernandes588
    @anthonyfernandes588 3 роки тому +1

    Some scans compared ta now it actually looks nicer

  • @Originalman360
    @Originalman360 2 роки тому +1

    I’m from a much much younger era but I’m still 60th Market up to 60th & Girard Moong Gang

  • @JoeyAfrika
    @JoeyAfrika 10 місяців тому

    3:13 what's the name of that song?

  • @jeremiahwoods1845
    @jeremiahwoods1845 3 роки тому +2

    Frank Rizzo choked to death on either a chicken bone or a pork chop🤣

    • @E80-t6e
      @E80-t6e 2 роки тому +2

      He actually had a heart attack in the restroom of a restaurant.

  • @Grenadier311
    @Grenadier311 Рік тому +1

    Only so much one can accomplish up against a certain demographic.

  • @Prone-Ski_BX
    @Prone-Ski_BX 3 роки тому +13

    No disrespect but Philly is one of the ugliest cities I've ever seen on the East Coast. That row house thing, hell no never, not for me. And I'm from the Bronx.

    • @brianfitzpatrick9949
      @brianfitzpatrick9949 3 роки тому +6

      The Bronx is aesthetically beautiful

    • @jahawhitaker1016
      @jahawhitaker1016 3 роки тому +1

      I'm from pa and i hate the row house thing and I been in nj for about 12 yrs just never liked it

    • @briancordero7674
      @briancordero7674 3 роки тому +2

      Philly is a city of neighborhoods from Chestnut Hill to South St from Chinatown to the Great White Northeast.However remember the South Bronx was Hell on Earth in the 80s with vacant lots and burned out buildings everywhere.

    • @Prone-Ski_BX
      @Prone-Ski_BX 3 роки тому

      @@briancordero7674 Hold on I told you I've been to Philly and when I went those bacon lots there too.

    • @briancordero7674
      @briancordero7674 3 роки тому

      @@Prone-Ski_BX I'm just bringing everything in perspective in view of the video here,My Brother.

  • @southsideshanks3851
    @southsideshanks3851 3 роки тому +2

    “Over a girl”

  • @29jcorn
    @29jcorn 2 роки тому +1

    Damn, Philly always been some slick talkn dudes😂😂😂💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

  • @QABRsean
    @QABRsean 2 роки тому +1

    Homie in the thumbnail look like kurrupt

  • @bobski7032
    @bobski7032 3 місяці тому

    Beating someone within minutes of their death in order to get a confession is not solving a murder 🖕🏻rizzo

  • @jamesclark8398
    @jamesclark8398 Рік тому +1

    Poplar Street the four corners June Street Lex Street Diamond Street Norris Street the valley Moon gang the bottom

  • @BKaneNp8
    @BKaneNp8 Рік тому +1

    I grew up hearing stories from the old heads in my neighborhood. Zulu Nation

  • @cityfunk8244
    @cityfunk8244 2 роки тому +1

    Freestyle Fellowship!

  • @noblesiner
    @noblesiner 3 роки тому +1

    Damn my mom was 13 in 1970

  • @travisthechimp7857
    @travisthechimp7857 3 роки тому +1

    Danny ... have you ever seen a man die? LOL!

  • @scotiagrizz7927
    @scotiagrizz7927 2 роки тому +1

    He said all muders have been solved...now ask yourself how man black that did not do anything wrong went to jail back then

  • @BigBeltBoy1k
    @BigBeltBoy1k 3 роки тому

    What's the name of the first song played

  • @jegame012
    @jegame012 3 роки тому +2

    i thought that was dennis rodman

  • @rahajibaba
    @rahajibaba 3 роки тому +2

    39th st West Philly

  • @TheCerebralDude
    @TheCerebralDude 3 роки тому +7

    I don’t think I would take advice on how to avoid getting caught committing crimes from INCARCERATED criminals

    • @RicArmstrong
      @RicArmstrong 3 роки тому +11

      Yeah, they should ask politicians. 😅

    • @Montweezy
      @Montweezy 3 роки тому +1

      So true!😂

  • @bangster1444
    @bangster1444 Рік тому +1

    The Valley Gang The Zulu Nation And The 58 Zip

  • @wearefitnow
    @wearefitnow 3 роки тому +2

    The reporter is a cop

    • @1990758
      @1990758 3 роки тому +1

      It's a very interesting hypothesis

  • @charliebrown9489
    @charliebrown9489 3 роки тому +1

    "burger eyes "burger eyes "burger eyes" 🤷🏿‍♂️

  • @juliusrandle2733
    @juliusrandle2733 3 роки тому +3

    Will smith wasnt lying

    • @thinblacknoodles
      @thinblacknoodles 3 роки тому +2

      Will Smith is a "sweet" boy from west Philadelphia that never was in the hood life I wish stop bringing him up when Philadelphia is the story

    • @pecanbrown2006
      @pecanbrown2006 2 роки тому +1

      @@thinblacknoodles EXACTLY

    • @pecanbrown2006
      @pecanbrown2006 2 роки тому

      Will Smith didn't live our truth

    • @greggsiano5920
      @greggsiano5920 2 місяці тому

      @@pecanbrown2006 and what’s your truth

  • @trayrozier6042
    @trayrozier6042 3 місяці тому +1

    Check this whatever your dislike for police that's your business however I was committing crimes being out late night police use to give me hard reality lessons like when I was in street after 2 and they pick me up take me to graysferry drop my ass off had to fight to get out of there but let me be perfectly clear 90% of problems I had were from peeps that look like me when I was gang waring moon ran down on us my members ran out on me I got stabbed and beat up then when I got out of gang started hustling powder they tried rob me kidnapped me so when you start talking bout law enforcement ok that's your issue my own peeps were my enemy snitched on etc

    • @Cottonrazorblades
      @Cottonrazorblades 2 місяці тому

      I grew up on 54th and kingsessing. I wasn’t even born until 74 but I remember people talking about the moon gang , woodland ave , mongo nation ect

  • @bridgelifeshiar
    @bridgelifeshiar 3 роки тому +2

    Its all blocks going to war now. Smh

  • @gslimm40
    @gslimm40 3 роки тому +1

    Brotherly luv

  • @tomarnold3016
    @tomarnold3016 2 роки тому +1

    Shout out freestyle fellowship

  • @joshuamiller916
    @joshuamiller916 Місяць тому

    The 215- and 267 Shout out philly peeps😊

  • @shanaqueenbee
    @shanaqueenbee 2 місяці тому

    1979 Strawberry Manison