Good shit yall. I luvd skulls vladtv interview but it shows when someone from the same environment does the interview. Aint even over yet and i know this one is gonna e better than vlads. Keep up the hood work fellas
Vlad is a such a vulture.. everything is surface and based on tabloids.. the guy has no clue about the black culture outside rap music.. I understand why Skull did it.. but he glad he came back home to do the deeper dive
@@mrfabulous17 truth! He’s a total culture vulture. He ask condescending questions like “ did you have a father present” then asked shocked if they reply yes. he’s a weirdo.
This is one of the dopest interviews I have seen...right there with Cutes, Mumpy, Monster, Hawk and Keith Stone....what made it dope to me was when Skull said...we were juvenile delinquents ....and that's facts...they were! These dudes were just kids hanging out and coming together. Ask Barefoot Pookie, him and my Dad use to paint walls together during the summer on the Eastside for work .....
Henry Tillman resided in Swan Hood. Also, you had Eric Davis and Reggie Montgomery that went on to play in the MLB. And then there was David Fulcher that played safety for the Cincinnati Bengals. Casper Ware also resided in Swan Hood, along with Baron Davis.
@@randumbryan , not all of these guys were bangers, but they resided in those hoods. They basically resided around Fremont High School, on the Avalon side or the San Pedro side. I do know though that there were a numerous professional athletes that came out of Fremont High School, probably more than any other High School in Los Angeles County. I will say for sure though that the Southern League produced the most professional athletes. That's without a doubt. The Southern League included Fremont, Jeff, Washington, Manual Arts, Dorsey, and L.A. High.
Man ... When OG Melvin speaks its like coining strait truth ..I order his book on line The new slave ship a ship that does not sail .I can't wait too read it...
I like his story on how the West Side started forming. It may not have been some well thought out plan and "organic" in nature. It happens in all walks of life where major movements , bands, clubs or whatever just happen to grow out of nowhere. If the elders at that time where 17 -20 years old ? Makes sense to me.
This cat’s memory ???? He’s my parents age And his MEMORY is BETTER Than MINE Great interview YOU know He telling the TRUTH he’s NOT SIDING with nobody He Just telling it like it IS
I feel you OG Skull...if your b-ball game is tight, its a must to let mo'fers know dat! Coming up, I could go to most parks and not only get run, but often I didn't have to ask, cats would ask me "you want to run?" And most folk would never think that about me now at 56, but its 100!
Hopefully later in the interview he asked him about his friendships with tookie, Raymond, buddha and Mike christian, especially Mike Christian, Raymond, and buddha they don't talk enough about those three, "they'll say stuff like they were good dudes and they had hands lol" if the older crips knew them so well how come you can't share more stories about what it was like growing up with them, if you were there from day one you should have infinite stories about how it was in the early crip years good and bad, when you describe a person you don't always have to point out the bad things they did.
because 15:39 they have families who don't want to hear that shit. more lightheaded shit like fistfights is still appropriate, but they can't say too much also they have victims, victims families, there are a bunch of reasons you will never hear the full version of stuff like that on the internet. not about tookie, not about raymond...etc.
@@bigbaba4542 bro no disrespect but please re read what I wrote you're not understanding what I put down, I repeat "you can talk about a friendship you had with a person without always bringing up the bad things that person did" especially if they claim they were around them from the beginning I mean half of the old school crips were bodybuilders/weightlifters so why not talk about that and some good memories they had with them playing sports like melvin talked about they're can be so much more talked about other than the bad they did, and Raymond Washington is about to have his own documentary out soon called "birth of a crip" so I'm sure Raymond's family would love to hear the good things Melvin has to say about Raymond Washington from back in the day.
@@KevMacVideos he's okay I tried to send you birthday wishes in the past I just didn't know how to get them to you sweetie Eric is fighting cancer but everybody is all good my phone number still the same give me a buzz one day Let's Love again happy birthday One Love
OG Frog said Junior Thomas brother was murdered by a crip on mothers day 1971, which put the bounty hunter movement into motion. that would probably predate anything else, if it's true
I went to Manhattan Place Elem, Henry Clay and Washington High with Kelsey Thomas he was 13 in the 6th grade. I remember me Kelsey and Mo were waiting for the the bus at Western and 96th street across from Daddy O's, Kelsey pulled out a gun and pointed it at an unsuspecting man across the street. Kelsey's parents owned a bar on wester near 91st called Little Tom's, we went there for lunch. A dude named Gee Gee five foot five to this day chased Kelsey. Carl Vernon aka Mr. X chased Kelsey and could not catch him! Kerry Brown killed Psycho at his house and later he killed the mail carrier Dale Hooker also at his house. In the 8th grade Kerry asked me to Crip, of course I said know!
@@ogbamcomptonfronthood-ogba999 , I know the entire family. They actually live smack dab in 79 Swans hood. I actually know quite a few of the people from that block.
Folks don't hear from the thousands who were in community and schools with these boys. Keep in mind, boys (although everybody felt grown). Anybody freely in the streets of South Central were, had to be mentally alert to the ways, norms and survival modes to be a part of a new age during these times. During the pre-formal gang naming, many stayed friends, often naively, with "just classmates" who would soon change into near unrecognizable gang members. The streets were very dramatic. Many Hollywood movie scenes were being acted out before your eyes. No glorification...but congratulations on understanding boyhood is different than manhood. SCLA Grad 73' ❤️ _ USC WHS
Not Crip Cal’s big bro he was Big Cal’s big bro. Two different Cal’s Rest In Peace. A lot of people say they don’t know him so I’m not surprised. Jed was smooth with his.. straight rider, down as they come.
CRIP is just a group of ALREADY established gangs UNITING under 1 umbrella. Nobody had Sway over the WHOLE W/S. ALL dropped their original gangs names for W/S CRIP.
Yeah some had more notoriety and Influence than others and Big Tookie definitely was in the forefront and this wasn't because he was the baddest, biggest, he simply had a lot of respect from his peers because he had heart and never backed down.
@@SHAYDEE3 - more than that - Tookie had charisma; that quality which others gravitated to. He was like a ghetto star. Its not always about kicking ass - Tookie became a knock out artist though. A one hitter quitter.
I've seen this dude on a few UA-cam channels, yeah he's an old crip and all but the way he talks down at everyone he's super smug and got that know it all attitude
Good shit yall. I luvd skulls vladtv interview but it shows when someone from the same environment does the interview. Aint even over yet and i know this one is gonna e better than vlads. Keep up the hood work fellas
@@JoshTheTechnoShaman i feel ya
For sure, Vlad interviews are geared for an outside audience..
Vlad is a such a vulture.. everything is surface and based on tabloids.. the guy has no clue about the black culture outside rap music.. I understand why Skull did it.. but he glad he came back home to do the deeper dive
@@mrfabulous17 truth!
He’s a total culture vulture.
He ask condescending questions like “ did you have a father present” then asked shocked if they reply yes. he’s a weirdo.
When Cutes, Big Hawk & Skull talk about the era before the Westside broke up into sets I can always visually see it playing out.
Don't forget about Barefoot pookie!!! 💯
Best Melvin Farmer interview I've seen
This is one of the dopest interviews I have seen...right there with Cutes, Mumpy, Monster, Hawk and Keith Stone....what made it dope to me was when Skull said...we were juvenile delinquents ....and that's facts...they were! These dudes were just kids hanging out and coming together. Ask Barefoot Pookie, him and my Dad use to paint walls together during the summer on the Eastside for work .....
Skull has tons of history! Great to see him on KM videos ✊🏿
Thank you for this. I know we bout to get a LOT of history from this dude
Mad love for Melvin Farmer been thru hell and back
For what?
The way he can remember every little detail n name made me think I need to chill on my constant chiefing. I can't remember stuff from a year ago.
Kev you got another one. This interview is gold from a historical standpoint.
This man has a great memory when it comes to remembering names and their locations
Been waiting for an official skull interview kev mac style...good shit kev
Man, this is the first person to shake an S Mac question. Great interview.
Skull memory is impeccable!
CANT STOP WONT STOP " AINT NO BIG YOUS AND LITTLE MEEES " WEST UP SKULL THIS LODOWN ".I LOVE THIS SHIT !
Henry Tillman resided in Swan Hood. Also, you had Eric Davis and Reggie Montgomery that went on to play in the MLB. And then there was David Fulcher that played safety for the Cincinnati Bengals. Casper Ware also resided in Swan Hood, along with Baron Davis.
I think he was naming people he attended school with. These guys your naming are mostly 1961 birth years.
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Randumb question: Pharaoh would you say Swans are the most athletic street gangs, one of the top?
@@randumbryan , not all of these guys were bangers, but they resided in those hoods. They basically resided around Fremont High School, on the Avalon side or the San Pedro side. I do know though that there were a numerous professional athletes that came out of Fremont High School, probably more than any other High School in Los Angeles County. I will say for sure though that the Southern League produced the most professional athletes. That's without a doubt. The Southern League included Fremont, Jeff, Washington, Manual Arts, Dorsey, and L.A. High.
@@pharoah1200 the mix of the smog meeting the ocean air creates a different type of brother maybe. Respect nonetheless 🤝🏾
Great interview. I sure wish we was still all united. Hope we can get back to being united.
Mr kev mac u do alot for the culture I appreciate the facts that your channel brings..
For what culture the black KKK (bloods and crips)?
I always tell people that the toughest streets fighters are athletes or former athletes. Strong as hell.
Man ... When OG Melvin speaks its like coining strait truth ..I order his book on line The new slave ship a ship that does not sail .I can't wait too read it...
Skull is always on point!
I like his story on how the West Side started forming. It may not have been some well thought out plan and "organic" in nature. It happens in all walks of life where major movements , bands, clubs or whatever just happen to grow out of nowhere. If the elders at that time where 17 -20 years old ? Makes sense to me.
Good work SMack.
S'Mac
Thanks big skull for blessing us with your time.
😎😎 great interview Melvin much-loved much respect from your brother can't nobody stand next to you when you splitting the truth
Dope spill as always. I would like to get more on the split that was caused by the lil fee n took death row incident.
🗣ABOUT TIME the Big Bro blessed the KM Platform✊🏽
Melvin was "Casket Clean" in the thumbnail ✊✊
This cat’s memory ????
He’s my parents age
And his MEMORY is BETTER Than MINE Great interview YOU know He telling the TRUTH he’s NOT SIDING with nobody
He Just telling it like it IS
That's what I'm talking about.. Straight to the point and well explained 👏
Man... what a wealth of information!
Let’s get it skull
I respect this man. No glorification, he just gives facts 💯
Skull got tons of history! Great 1 as usual! Kmv 🐐👈
Love hearing Mr. Franklin speak...he know all the history
Lemme find a nice hiding spot from my fatherly duties and fye up to dis rite fast. I smashed the like button already...
Salute Skull Original Westside Crip/ 8trey gangsta…
MAGNIFICENT AS USUAL💯💯💯
Skull brings a ton of knowledge and does so by dates
mr farmer, salute, those shades is killing it bro
Cartier, wires rimless
There stories take you back to the 70s like you right there with them Id been clean in some biscuits
I really hope the other platforms leave the history to Kev Mac videos for goodness sake night and day what a difference
Finally somebody mentions Eddie Murray
I feel you OG Skull...if your b-ball game is tight, its a must to let mo'fers know dat! Coming up, I could go to most parks and not only get run, but often I didn't have to ask, cats would ask me "you want to run?" And most folk would never think that about me now at 56, but its 100!
Damn good interview
Straight 🔥
Thanks KMV.
Hopefully later in the interview he asked him about his friendships with tookie, Raymond, buddha and Mike christian, especially Mike Christian, Raymond, and buddha they don't talk enough about those three, "they'll say stuff like they were good dudes and they had hands lol" if the older crips knew them so well how come you can't share more stories about what it was like growing up with them, if you were there from day one you should have infinite stories about how it was in the early crip years good and bad, when you describe a person you don't always have to point out the bad things they did.
because 15:39
they have families who don't want to hear that shit. more lightheaded shit like fistfights is still appropriate, but they can't say too much
also they have victims, victims families, there are a bunch of reasons
you will never hear the full version of stuff like that on the internet. not about tookie, not about raymond...etc.
@@bigbaba4542 bro no disrespect but please re read what I wrote you're not understanding what I put down, I repeat "you can talk about a friendship you had with a person without always bringing up the bad things that person did" especially if they claim they were around them from the beginning I mean half of the old school crips were bodybuilders/weightlifters so why not talk about that and some good memories they had with them playing sports like melvin talked about they're can be so much more talked about other than the bad they did, and Raymond Washington is about to have his own documentary out soon called "birth of a crip" so I'm sure Raymond's family would love to hear the good things Melvin has to say about Raymond Washington from back in the day.
@@kasper0422 ok, i misunderstood your statement.
A Kev Mac, you been through there before. Is that Oakwood Park that Philip McCain and OG Skull are on that flic on the grass? @10:16
He has an commanding presence!
Salute King
How come Batman Davis and Michael Conception never get mentioned...?
Happy Belated Playa.kerp up the good work!
Og got a nice pair of Cartier glasses on
Not bad for a guy in his 60s who had a job in his life
That sounds haterish but i mean it in a friendly way
OG Frog said Junior Thomas brother was killed on mothers day 1971 by a crip, that's pretty much what made them start the bounty hunters according him
@kev mac happy birthday from God moms
One love
Hey Vickie haven’t heard from you in over three years what’s up with Dre?
@@KevMacVideos he's okay I tried to send you birthday wishes in the past I just didn't know how to get them to you sweetie Eric is fighting cancer but everybody is all good my phone number still the same give me a buzz one day Let's Love again happy birthday One Love
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very good, s mac skills are advancing
If I'm not mistaken, Dwayne Munson, not related to Craig Munson, was killed in a bangin incident before the Palladium murder.
Dwayne Munson Sept 1972
@@joemosely9383 , that situation took place on my block, and there's a greater back story that goes with that one. No gunplay involved.
OG Frog said Junior Thomas brother was murdered by a crip on mothers day 1971, which put the bounty hunter movement into motion. that would probably predate anything else, if it's true
Knowledge!!
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Cant say nothing else KM
Big Skull 💪🏽💪🏽
OG SKULL 🥰😇
Damm...gotta pause the nuggets vs golden state game..
True OG. Melvin Farmer
Thank you
s mack good questions
Crip mac videos next bring baby crip mack test him who started 55 nh lol what year did it start
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“Mexicans wasn’t playin that shit “😂💀
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I'm a member but I can't see the other video
Is it a way I buy them or something?
Wise brother
I can seem to get to where you get the membership
Kev Mac Videos> Community> then click link in post.
Biggg Skull
I wonder why Jefferson High School is never brought up because they have most notable people who made it out the hood.
It’s all 38 street now 😂
Went to high school with Kelsey Thomas. knew his Brother Don. in Carson Kelsey was NO JOKE.
Big Kelsey has hands, I saw him put them on cvpiru he got down.
I went to Manhattan Place Elem, Henry Clay and Washington High with Kelsey Thomas he was 13 in the 6th grade. I remember me Kelsey and Mo were waiting for the the bus at Western and 96th street across from Daddy O's, Kelsey pulled out a gun and pointed it at an unsuspecting man across the street. Kelsey's parents owned a bar on wester near 91st called Little Tom's, we went there for lunch. A dude named Gee Gee five foot five to this day chased Kelsey. Carl Vernon aka Mr. X chased Kelsey and could not catch him! Kerry Brown killed Psycho at his house and later he killed the mail carrier Dale Hooker also at his house. In the 8th grade Kerry asked me to Crip, of course I said know!
@@roneducator Mo was another one I always heard had serious hands.
i remember henry tillmann
he was a real crip?
Baba is my homie that's Henry Tillman
@@ogbamcomptonfronthood-ogba999 He put hands on Mike Tyson in the amateurs boxing twice but lost in pros.
@@Andre-cl2qt yes he didi
@@ogbamcomptonfronthood-ogba999 , I know the entire family. They actually live smack dab in 79 Swans hood. I actually know quite a few of the people from that block.
Folks don't hear from the thousands who were in community and schools with these boys. Keep in mind, boys (although everybody felt grown). Anybody freely in the streets of South Central were, had to be mentally alert to the ways, norms and survival modes to be a part of a new age during these times.
During the pre-formal gang naming, many stayed friends, often naively, with "just classmates" who would soon change into near unrecognizable gang members. The streets were very dramatic. Many Hollywood movie scenes were being acted out before your eyes. No glorification...but congratulations on understanding boyhood is different than manhood.
SCLA Grad 73' ❤️ _ USC WHS
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Melvin Farmer was the original "get the ball to Will." 🤔
Kev, what’s up with a Stacy Butler interview?
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What year did the Westside fall out with Denver Lanes & Athens Park?
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Who was the founder of ETG
Skull, Sidewinder, Hunchy, there’s a couple more ppl but I forgot
He was one of them , and sindewinder . I believe it was five in total .
Big OG sidewinder GC. I. P
Uncle Jed Rodell is Crip cal from 60 big brother the OG honey Harlem Godfather on West Blvd Crip that shocced me he said he didn't know him
Not Crip Cal’s big bro he was Big Cal’s big bro. Two different Cal’s Rest In Peace.
A lot of people say they don’t know him so I’m not surprised. Jed was smooth with his.. straight rider, down as they come.
@@KevMacVideos yeah my bad homey Yeah big cal had the orange cut dog stayed on keniston next to the smith's OG Still Bill house
Look Cripping came to the West through Tookie and his clic.. All the ones Melvin named. Some people seem to lightweight have issues with that.
CRIP is just a group of ALREADY established gangs UNITING under 1 umbrella. Nobody had Sway over the WHOLE W/S. ALL dropped their original gangs names for W/S CRIP.
Yeah some had more notoriety and Influence than others and Big Tookie definitely was in the forefront and this wasn't because he was the baddest, biggest, he simply had a lot of respect from his peers because he had heart and never backed down.
@@SHAYDEE3 - more than that - Tookie had charisma; that quality which others gravitated to. He was like a ghetto star. Its not always about kicking ass - Tookie became a knock out artist though. A one hitter quitter.
@@slagwill5599I agree Ghetto star💪🏾
Where was Darryl strawberry from?
He was from Compton
@@garnettprice5333 7th Ave & 60th Street.
Graduated from Crenshaw High in 1980.
He's a naybahhhhh
@@joemosely9383 is this jo mo from the vng's50? If not still salute to you anyway if you real slim
@@realslim5473 Thats kitchen Mo
Big Skull....Big Homi3 M8v3n this yu lil homie Kirk In Atlanta
Was Skull Underground before forming ETG with Sidewinder & Hunchy?
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Melvin’s memory is ridiculous.
Yes all..
Tookie was so big
Ozzie and Strawberry were westside Crips or???
Osborne ... Ozzie Smith... never live the gangster life....nor did his oldest brother fred.or his youngest brother Carl r his first cousin Ronald
I've seen this dude on a few UA-cam channels, yeah he's an old crip and all but the way he talks down at everyone he's super smug and got that know it all attitude
Maybe he does know it all, on these topics that is..
@@Mr.NoPrints what's that have to do with his attitude
@@sleepyjones9625 I didn't notice any attitude from em
Older people are just like that, they feel they right on everything.
@@blackjohnny9570 yeah that's true.
You can tell his memory is like a steel trap.
Ozzie smith & strawberry 🍓