The Real Difference Between Cleveland And Cali
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Layzie Bone & The Gangster Chronicles discuss The Real Difference Between Cleveland And Cali. They discuss the initial culture shock when first moving from Cleveland and the other lessons learned along the way. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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I’m from Cleveland. I used to get my car washed at the same spot as KRAYZIE and Layzie. The biggest difference is the weather and the gangs, other than that CLEVELAND and Cali are almost one in the same. When I finally made it to Crenshaw and Slauson for the first time, it reminded me of being on Kinsman.
I’m from 154th and Harvard. Alot of parts of Watts reminded me a lot of Kinsman
@@SMOOTHCUTPRODUCTION isn’t that crazy that it’s all the way across the country, but still feels the same? I remember pulling up to The Marathon store thinking, that it reminded me of that little plaza on 140th and Kinsman. You’re the one that does these interviews with the artists?
@@antoniomitchell1883 I do the filming and editing. I hooked up with this podcast randomly and we just all happen to be from
Cleveland. It’s a lot of us out here that came to visit and never went back
@@SMOOTHCUTPRODUCTION I’m want to get involved. I’ve only visited Cali once, back in 2019, but I really liked it and have been wanting to go back. You actually met Layzie too?
@@antoniomitchell1883 yea, Lay was cool and humble, he ain’t no Hollywood type rapper at all. I used to do Krayzie Bones Truth Talks podcast a few years ago too
First time I was in Cleveland I knew exactly why bone made the music that they did and went out to l.a. to get on. That place got hit hard when the steel industry went down...like gary indiana.
True. Cleveland, Gary, Detroit, Flint, Milwaukee, Youngstown, East St. Louis, Bethlehem PA, Buffalo, etc.
@hitek9too255 word. I moved to st Louis with my father back in 98 as a teenager. I knew nothing about the place and we stayed in the city on the Southside. First time being in a place that I thought was wild like newark nj. They put me on a lot of game out there though and they changed my perspective in a good way. I just hung out with my father out there a few weeks ago and it doesnt seem like anything has changed.
These conversations are golden! We didn't have content like this in the 80's/90's.
Well, there was no Internet
I’m from New Orleans, but stayed in Cleveland a few years…The hoods looked just like N.O except the houses were 2 story doubles and ours are 1 story, and the streets are wider….That area around Union before Kinsman looks just like the 9th ward in N.O
Interesting. Because I always wondered about New Orleans
Union/Kinsman equals 9th ward? Makes sense😂
UTW ALL DAY
yea facts
I’m from the city 😂 you are referring to DTW aka Down the way aka the projects of Cleveland and they don’t fuck around
Bone Thugs part of the greatest generation of Hip-Hop.
Facts
Early 90's Baby came up inna middle of this era & the one after bone & pac made some timeless music u can still bang to this day
@@onehitterquitter2130 ☀️☀️☀️💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿🌊🌊🥇🥇🥇🔥🔥🔥💯⭐️⭐️🎶🎶🎶🌍🌍💎🥇🥇 powerful Truth
I'm from Cleveland....an 80a baby and bone hands down the best rap- hip hop GROUP of all time
When Layzie speaks he really paints a picture. Its dope to see all yall legends, in good health and just living life. Bone Thugs 4 eva!
When Layzie said it was only black people in Cleveland, he was definitely talking about the Eastside. The Westside is and always was a mix of everybody. The East and West in Cleveland always felt like 2 different cities back in the 80s and 90s.
Exactly tha West side was blacks, Puerto Rican, whites.
The East and West side still feel like different cities.. borh and raised eastsider but I love all the different flavors on that west
I'm born and raised Cleveland. Grew up on the west side and now live on the east side. I've traveled all over but always come home. I love my home town.
@@tonyingram4568the westside was mostly ricans. You trippin
East side of Cleveland had a bunch of white people and I was one of them. I lived there in the early 90s til today. I grew up in Collinwood on St Clair. He’s exaggerating a lil bit.
As a Clevelander that love going to California I love this conversation 😭
Yea me as well, except I'm moving to Vegas in June
@ that’s what’s up man I’m saving up to move out west now
@leako4g649 see you out there
I love my city!!! CLEVELAND!!!!!
I don’t know why 😂
@@IssacEinsteinbecause it’s their city Fym ?
Here in Cleveland we rock wit them Cali Peeps ,Chitown,Baltimore, Detroit if you know you know them second homes to us
From The D. We get $$$ everywhere Midwest will always touch the entire map making all the noise
This facts.. im LA but one of my best homies from Cleveland and is a big cavs fan..He know it’s Lakers but still lol 🫡
The nidwest have more in common wit cali than anywhere else
@Quan-g2s
We got more in common with the South stop pole jocking California already.
@@Quan-g2s texas
Layzie Bone still looks like he's in his 20s... never aging🔥🔥
He's 50 years old
@@mr.fowler1684late 40’s
As a Chicagoan Cleveland always reminded me of the bad Chicago surburbs like dolton, riverdale. With a mix of Detroit combined
I could see that.
It’s deff not the greatest area plus alot of people think downtown is East Cleveland, but the real East Cleveland is about 15 minutes down st clair
That was my impression went I went a few years ago too. Shout out to Sauce the City for that fire chicken sandwich though.
Ngl not tryna gass nothing up Cleveland the real zoo rn way worse than a Chicago burb get tapped in woth frontstreet dee rose camp and etc
@ you don’t know Chicago burbs just as bad as the city gang it wasn’t no slight to Cleveland 😂
Riding Dow 116 n kinsman listening to this right now.
Cleveland in the house
Ayeeee
Wade park checking in u dig
Da Roc Westside!!! Ya feel me!❤
E.1999 was the first rap CD I ever bought growing up and loved every song on it! Bone Thugs put the Midwest on the map!!
e 99 is my #1 album above all along with pac next and so forth
i couldnt afford the album so i had to get my homies cassette tape and made a copy on a blank cassette tape
My bro was one the coldest hustle out of Cali in Cleveland. Rest in hevean Big Dee.
Cleveland real HOOD
Yes indeed. I was there on 99th St. Clair bacc in 2016. Im from LA. I was truck drivin through there. Bone wasnt lyin
@@WLA-GeneralMe I’m a fellow driver and I did the same exact shit. Them niggaz wasn’t lying. That shit look gutter for real.
@@WLA-General yelp I'm a truck driver too that shit look abandoned and rough.
@@gmack7488 💀💀💀
From Flint Michigan...I had to ride down 99st and St Clair
Wow the first time I've heard anybody give Ohio it's props for being the birth of funk....I tell folks all the time this....but I didn't pop out here like it did in Cali an Cali ran with it but it definitely started in Ohio
Right, been telling cats Cali sound is really Ohio music for years. And it definitely took of here, Cali just flipped it into rap.
Dayton, Ohio…..
@@TheSupremeDunk all day, 937 land of the Funk
71 is the funk corridor. From Ohio Players to Eddie Hazel. Rich history in the music game.
I remember an old Bizzy Bone interview.....he said when they first got to California. They were dressed like Bloods and Crips lol they weren't fully aware of the politics.
They definitely looked like Crips especially being around Eazy who was a Crip himself
😂😂😂ay bro. Not even gone lie...the first time I went out to California on tour...I wore gray and white everyday when in LA County. I was like nigga...my name is Jimmy Neutron, my favorite colors are gray and white and I ain't from nowhere.😂😂
@@joshuaattractsmoney some gangs were gray
@@beachboi6196 😂😂💀cant win for loosing out there then.
@@beachboi6196yeap plenty of sets do Lmaoo 😅
They ain’t lying about Cleveland/NE Ohio. It won’t take long for you to recognize that you are in the hood. I moved to Charlotte 10 years ago and didn’t believe their hood’s were bad. I was wrong, they get it in, it just doesn’t “look” as bad as Cleveland/Akron hoods.
As the old saying goes, "Looks are deceiving."
@user-lo4gm6vr2b you seem proud my guy
Layzie always seemed he was the coolest laid back dude out the crew to hang with!!!
I want to see BTNH do music with everyone literally. All five members. The next two years of these guys lives should be dedicated to doing at least 200 songs with every producer and artist that also crosses genres. BTNH change my life forever and I only want the best from these LEGENDS. It always frustrates me when they don’t connect with other artists. I don’t care for politics. I just want the best rap group to ever exist (BTNH) to keep making those tunes that reach your soul.
Can’t wait for the Mac Eiht collab (16 tracks please)
J.P.
Big ups to you 3 Kings!!!! Luv the podcast!!!
I think Bone would've still made it because I remember being in middle school and that "Faces of Death" tape was circulating like crazy.
Dope interview!
I'm from Cleveland and this straight facts!!!
6:32 same here 😆 🤣 😂 im from Dayton, OH but i only knew Cali as Boyz N The Hood and Menace 2 Society 😆 🤣 😂 😹 it wasnt til i VISITED LA i saw it was different...
OHIO is slow like they said, but thats not always a bad thing... rent is waaay lower and able to stay out of trouble in most situations...
I'm from L.A. raised in Tulsa. I had a homie (RIP) in Cleveland who called me up to live up there. I fell in love with the "C". I just couldn't do them winters tho.
Man. You haven’t seen winter until you survived one in Cleveland
Brutal lol
Dope interview! Got to meet layzie bone in phx az at a dispensary rally cool dude
Dude from 103rd and superior literally from my hood. I was in between north, south, and east blvd. I could say i was superior, 10-5, and st clair. I went to glenville too.
All so familiar
it’s funny because I grew up off of E. 105 in between St. Clair & Superior. I know exactly what you’re talking about, I lived on the other side of you going towards Parkwood [E. 110]. Most of us were from 10-5 (X-V) back in the day. Once you crossed E. 108, you was either 10-5 or Parkwood, it wasn’t a choice, you had to pick a side 🤣. It’s funny because once Bloods, Crips & Folks hit the area depending on who you were connected to you could go to other neighborhoods in the area and move a lil “different”. But, yeah I left Cleveland in 03’. I’ve visited a few times since. I tell people outside of Ohio, that Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Toledo are different worlds compared to the rest of Ohio.
Thanks you for this interview. Being from Cleveland I learned a lot from this to stand on
I'm from Cleveland,,, East Cleveland that is,,, imma tell you like this The Westcoast played a major part of our community none of it was good! 😂
Shout out Rudy Pardee he was from cleveland,ohio.he helped shape the west coast in the early 80s.youngsters learn about Mr.Rudy Pardee#L.A. Dream Team💪😎
Outside of the Chi .. the Midwest was really heavy influenced by California.. from the Bay to LA .. the influence was serious here in Ohio & Indiana as well as KC & St Lou
Wrong MIDWEST INFLUENCED THE WORLD
We have our own vibe. Realest city in America. E.79th Kinsmen UTW
@@216standonit4damn bro is 79th n kinsman utw? I always thought anything past 93rd was considered dtw.
I’m from 131st n miles ave. Salute to ya.
@216standonit4 bro im from pa i went to my buddys crib on 72nd n kinsman in 04. Shit was wild
@timb6755 Lol yea it's subjective lowkey. We considered everything 65th and farther dwn as DTW. Everything 65th and up, well yk. But that shit will vary depending on the hood
Big Shout RTA ,Randall Park Mall,Thistledown race track..east 131st.
You ever been to willie qs?
Cleaveland, California, put together as a state, 😂
Sound dope af
That's funny they say they can't stay more than a couple of days to a week when they go back to Cleveland. I'm from the West but been in Atlanta for 20 years. Whenever I visit home home I'm ready to come back within 2-3 days.
I can’t do more than 2 days bro
Why is that ?
@@SMOOTHCUTPRODUCTION yah why?
The Ojay's are from Canton, Ohio. 9th and Berger. They may live in Cleveland now, but they are from Canton.
It’s still Ohio
NEO is NEO.
Canton don't count #216
And we’ll still claim them dgaf
@bayerhead im from erie. We dont look at it like that. I lived in akron when i was a kid n akron is deff akron n i dont think we ever claimed canton like that. I think cleveland are the ones to claim near by cities cause thats the big brother. I love ohio n one day i plan on movin back
From the Land Cleveland Ohio lived on 105 and Saint Clair....hung out right on east 99 st Clair.......when I was running them streets doing crack hustlin.......in the early 90s...st Clair was total Mayhem.... African room Cicero's...... I name st Clair baby New York......went to FDR and Glenville High.....thank God he had his hand on me been clean sense 2002 21
Years God got a way turning a nobody in to somebody in front of everybody 10-5 4life st.clair raised and born
This was such a interesting convo, I like hearing about the different urban areas and how the hoods and stuff are different
Much Love And Respect!!
That’s crazy how CLEV is damn near a replica of Cali and I’m from Memphis 🤷🏾♂️ 😂 shit crazy
Ummmm who told you it’s a replica of California?
Not a replica , more like California's bad ass cuzzins
Cleveland is nothing like California.
Man layzie got the fountain of youth on his side,
Ain't slow out here now!!...I'm from kinsman/Old Longwood born 77 ...I actually attended John Adams with one of the bone members and dj ice..we hung on 116th💯
Ice my baby mama.uncle
Lil shrimp😂
Facts ! Ain’t nothing slow out this way
Met some Cali dudes All star weekend 97 love Bone and the city but couldn't stand the lake effect Snow Dickies from the ankle down were Soak and Wet chuck Taylors were cold and soggy from the Lake effect snow Cold ass February totally a shock to those brothers peace and love to Lazy
The biggest difference between Cleveland and LA is the houses. Almost all Cleveland houses got basements. I aint never seen a California house wit a basement. I guess to prevent from being buried alive from an earthquake
Cleveland really is a singing city even to this day the yns super melodic with the autotune and melodies they come up with
Hell Yeaa bru Even lil durk admits his flow comes from “Bone thugs “ just look it up even migos alot of FOLKS be rapping a Cleveland flow & don’t even know it 💯
It’s crazy how much love California got love for other states. I personally love the east coast.
From Cleveland born and raised now I been in LA bout 4 years now. God is the greatest
California is a state. Cleveland is a city. Not even comparable. You gotta say like LA or Compton or sumn if we talkin comparisions
Wade Park checking in wassup yall
Awesome interview
Bone always reminded me of the rock group, Alice In Chains. Dark, harmonies, and grimey yet beautiful music.
Yeah I always thought Layne Staley and bizzy bone sound the same.
Cleveland in this bitch
I never been to Cali but id love to go
Caili got some cool city's los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Oakland palm springs .Ohio got cool city's too Cleveland Cincinnati Dayton Columbus
s6n d1e9o!
THAT PART
@@gmack7488 you from Cali if so what part los Angeles oaktown or Sacramento
@@tobiashillsjr8420 no I'm from Dallas Texas I stayed in LA and San Diego when I was about 4 that were my mother got me and my sister SSN from but I got family in Sacramento and East Oakland Palm springs. California beautiful but to expensive for me.
@@gmack7488 I from Florida but I never been to Cali I just know about them
I can’t believe I heard 10 Five!
Cali has money beaches and finer women.
Wish lived locally to me for awhile, I saw Wish and them at Walmart pretty often. Was always cool to see the legends, they were super nice. Though I never did bug them besides the "what's up bone" kind of comment, Wish gave his autograph for being respectful when he was with his family and not going wild as a fan.
They lived across from my Great Uncle they went to school with late cousin 🤍
I been to Cleveland 3x. If I can help it, never again..
Nobody will miss you ✌🏽
@Divadoh10 _Preferred_
@@WorldsOnlyBlackStan 🤷🏽♂️
Im from Cleveland....... Cali was homies were nice . Very nice.
this is a legend in the city yall listen and show respect if your the new generation. the city isnt what it used to be
The weather is the difference
I thought you were going to say stove face😂 it's the first of the month.
Cleveland is the LA of Ohio
Cleveland is the city where we come from so run!☠️
Cleveland in the building
I was born in 71, came up with the same type of music also... My circle is further east of the Clair, I went to Collinwood HS, we rivaled with all the schools, everywhere we went we wasn't liked.
from Shaw High ... used to break off them wings @ Kims. on 152 back early 1990s
Biggest difference is... One is a city one is a state
That is genius
Don’t even watch the video, you already got it figured out
lol
Layzie Bone is the greatest. He is a strong businessman.
Shout out to B.O.N E. use to hang out in Elyria back in the day.
We love the FUNK in California ever since the funk fest and WattStax back in the 1970s
Tappin in from CLE Ohio 🫡
Awesome video
clevelandwill never die, east cleveland was once Irish north of the track and italians southof the tracks, and while that is still a very different experience, there's a lot of different history here. people learn to be tough here. once things spread out for us white people, going all over the west suburbs and leaving the city and state in generral, especially irish families like mine, we grew to hate each other, not stick up for each other, and without family you have nothing. My brother killed himself years ago, my aunt died of alcoholism, my grandfather beat his family, my grandma on that side is as tough and as tight lipped as it gets (we don't talk about our problems). yet my mom is oneof the nastiest people I know, and my aunt is as crazy as it gets. you have to be tough to survive there and especialy to make it through all of that baggage without going crazy yourself.
It's more famous people from Flint Michigan than Compton
Name em
One of my bms live on the east everytime I’m on that side they like 👀🤣 I’m from THE BRONX JUST MOVED TO E55th
So you reckon these new age rappers gonna leave a mark like them og from the 90s? I ain't seen nothing so far
It's so funny to hear how similar everyone is in Cleveland. I went to Brooklyn High School, and we had beef with James Ford Rhodes High School. Why? I don't know...sports? Nothing better to do?
That's a big reason. Boredom. You start beefs just to pass the time. A little excitement.
I tell people all the time Cleveland style is the same as LA style. Even our accents are the same
For sure I'm from San Diego been out here lorain near Cleveland about 2 years lot time it reminded back home way talk if Cali niggas would not no from Cleveland except if day also San Diego were downtown looks lil like downtown Cleveland lil bit plus you got warehouse barea wit clubs downtown deygo we got gaslamp direct wit clubs also we're I'm from we got elclid ave as well of elclid in San Diego like be in Crenshaw in la
No it’s not. Most of Cleveland leans towards southern culture and music. In the mid nineties Cali was a big influence though. And Cleveland people either sound proper or country. Western Pennsylvania has a more Cali accent that’s why Wiz Khalifa sounds just like them.
@@respectlife216 fool Cali has a proper accent and pronounces their words like we do. I know what I’m talking bout I’m from the Land
@@respectlife216 I totally agree with you the way things are now back in the 90s gangbanging was a big thing in Cleveland and a lot of the dope that was being bought in came from California so they were official bloods and Crips floating around all through Ohio. There was actually a blood and Crip fight at the theater in Tower city when menace came out but when the south took over hip-hop that Cali influence went away and most people in Cleveland got roots in the south just like the blacks in California so it’s all the same
@@NASAWHITE we don’t sound like no fucking California dudes, they have an accent with their proper hood dialect. It’s totally different from a mid western accent. Stop being fake as hell
i’ve never been2 Cali but my parents lived in Hough during the late 90’s. They moved to Collinswood later. But back then Hough looked like Kinsman, so if the comments say Kinsman looks like Cali… i don’t wanna go2 Cali😂.
❤ Been all around the World!!!!! CLE Baby!
The whole NEO Ojays from Canton
216 love from the 440
"Cleveland, Cleveland where we be thuggin' and thievin'"
Bone concert tonight @ HOB Cleveland
Dayton Funk set the precedent for West Coast rap!
I was born in Unwin Road Projects. When I moved to The Bronx I thought it was heaven. I felt safer there than The Land all day.
I think Domino was harmonized before bone.
I love Domino but he was solo. I fell in love with "Getto Jam" before Bone. His harmonies were because of overlays, adlibs, etc. And he wasnt harmonizing with other members so I wouldn't call it true harmony. Also, he wasn't as "thug" or dark as Bone, nor did he rap with their speed.
I also loved PM Dawn around that time, and they had a similar harmonius style but they were very much on the other end of the spectrum as far as subject matter and didn't rap nearly as much, and when they did, no speed to it.
Domino aka genuine draft was with the crips on bangin on wax how he aint a thug lol
He was. They got to LA around the time he came out and They was not harmonizing before they left.
@@qhorton6743 he was banging on wax, so yea he was a thug and u can’t harmonize solo?
@@qhorton6743 domino a real crip get ya facts right
Cleveland looks like Oakland
And watts
@@hufair2215 watts a neighbourhood of 40k people in south los Angeles. Oakland is an actual city so its more relatable to compare it to a city not a neighbourhood of projects
@@studentoflife3501 no shit I’m just saying watts looks like East Cleveland I been to both so does the east side of south central. Don’t be an asshole
I've lived in both and can attest to that, to a degree. It's the industrial parts that they share the same qualities. The Westside of Cleveland and parts if lakewod probably favor Jack London Square and East Oakland and West Oakland.
I say all of the time that Berkeley looks like Westerville and some other parts of Columbus like Bexley and Olde North.
The kings of kings 👑
79th Nina Raw 7All.....yeah
East 55th and White.... Ask Him About 79th and SOWINSKI AVE...Late 80s
We took a trip to Cleveland a few months ago. Cleveland looks like the set of the Walking Dead. There is absolutely nothing there. We take California for granted
I went to the casino downtown
Center city is 2 drug dealers at the boogie outa town spot and miles of abandoned buildings
Ohio City is cool as it E and 4th and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame etc.
Go in the summer and smell it! It smells like lake water and dirty ass
Youz a clown for this comment
4:58 truth
"Snatch that drum machine outta there"😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sounds like My people when i go on binges of making beats😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 #TalesFromASouthernCrypt #CentralAvenueSlim #MeanwhileInLittleRockArkansas
Cleveland and Cali are apples and oranges .
One is a city one is a state
@@dwillwilliams1240 when people say Cali believe they referring to LAX
@@NASAWHITE I get it but Iijs
@@dwillwilliams1240😂😂😂 so true
Cleveland Is Definitely In Da House!
I’m from the suburbs of Cleveland much much better. My family from benwood right off 131st my uncle had a restaurant called willie qs we called it the rib house.
105 COLUMBIA…. Respect to Layzie… He really was around with my aunt that was the councilwoman in Ward 8…. Got a story about that 😂….