Exploring The Heart Of New York City's Drug Trade (Washington Heights) | The Connect
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
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Johnny visits Washington Heights in New York City, to explore the culture and pay homage to the neighborhood that made him rich.
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00:00- Intro
01:10- Shipping it east
01:36- Meeting the Dominicans
02:16- Washington Heights made me rich
3:20- The Dominicans and Jamaicans were the retailers
05:06- The Colombians needed the foot soldiers
05:45- Uptown is the drug hub of the East Coast
08:00- The Heights has solidarity
09:51- Support our sponsor!
11:32- The introduction of west coast weed
13:00- Everyone wanted a Portland connect
14:45- Miami was the other connect
16:18- How I became the connect in the Heights
17:34- Moving pounds to Dykman
18:18- Poverty encourages drug dealing
19:05- I couldn't move the product fast enough
20:05- I had the LOWEST prices
20:46- The Dominicans were the best customers
21:20- How the Heights has changed
24:06- Interview with some real Heights hustlers
26:11- Legalization finally in NYC
27:33- Outro
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Wow so you're the guy responsible for everyone going uptown to get that Haze in the 90s? Hahaha. That's what's up!
Every dominan has a primo that’s a plug. It’s just how it goes 😂
Washington Hights use to be big when it came to buying hayes
im not from the heights but i think i actually smoked r product lol
@@cooloutac he is a fake don't believe anything
Born and raised in the heights… This vid is super valid. Ramon described the culture perfectly when he said “It’s not gang culture, it’s money culture” 💯🇩🇴💯🇩🇴💯
Yea north Philly and Camden and Baltimore don’t really do gangs like New York ….they make way more money then heights as far as drug money ….herion/ fentanyl is crazy in those areas and open drug market ….they care more about money ….New York definitely focuses on gangs but the heights and Dominicans are definitely leased focused on that dumb shot
Facts we never been bout that gang shit that that’s how sweepy slipped free him I love my hood Money culture is the perfect phrase
@@frankbills9638 wat about those puzzies trinitarios? Whats gangsta about killin kids?
Do you remember the knockout bags on like 172 and Autobahn by the Taco Bell
@@Bugjuck You kno tht💪🏾💯
“Oh you from Portland… I’ve never been to California.” That is hilarious.
Thanks for the shoutout, King. ✊🏿🇩🇴
I really like the historical aspect of your youtube work. Thanks for making and sharing this.
Been watching your videos since day 1 and i've commented before about my ties to Washington Heights. I was born and raised on 190th literally 5 minute walk from Dyckman. So happy to see my community getting some love, thank you for this Johnny.
You really from jersey...stop the bullshit
@@jesussinaloa9300 idk you weirdo, find something better to do
I'm from Arden Street about five blocks from Dyckman.
Dominicans have also had the heroin game on lock in NYC for decades now. Both the LES and the Heights have kept the whole city high on dope since the Blue Magic SEA supply dried up and the good number 4 started to flood in from Colombia. Dominican dboys are always business people. Period.
I'm from Paterson NJ 5 minutes away from the bridge speeding. Everything he saying is on point. The Heights an Dominicans were from the most trust worthy when it came down to everything from Respect to money Dominica didn't play little kid games or greedy games at all at all. Dominicans are good good people. Very few do you hear are bad blooded.
way off lol
This dude is the biggest FRAUD running.. just show literally ANYTHING about his arrest… I’ll wait .. there’s NONE he proffitt ing of the backs of people who have dudes a bozo
They are cool and fun to chill with but trust me. Them niggas should of been 1090 they was hella grimey
They white was garbage unless u knew someone
@@lordian8948 yup
Just found your channel last month been watching your videos very entertaining and unique loving his channel too
His channel only came out about 4 months ago
I'm from east new york but I've been living in Portland for the last 2 years. This is a dope kind of like origin story of the things I've seen growing up in the city. Keep up the good work bro
What part of eny?
@@emmanuelperez8033 linden projects
@rocky , how is it in Portland Oregon?
How much are pounds of good looking outdoor going for in Oregon nowadays?
East New York to Portland is crazy.
Are you setting up shop over there? Lol
Great video keep them coming
Your weed might have been uptown but the Dominicans where selling haze for years before your pounds hit the block Johnny.
Haze and sour weed besides anything else up there is real nyc marijuana and the heights was the area. The haze came from Miami since the 1990s. No hate but that’s the truth Johnny.
the Dominicans always had the money and knew how to run a business.
Great video Johnny
Facts .
Piff came from Miami and that sour was coming from Canada
Early 90s was all about chocolate tie and hydro. I was from Brooklyn and drove to my guy in 163 and Broadway, the drug supermarket of the heights
@@XloMotion I started smoking in 2002 it was a lot of dro and blueberry around then 05 the piff hit hard
@@XloMotion in 95 the Dominicans where selling haze but yes the Jamaicans had raw thai in bk. Still wish I can get some chocolate thai. That shit would knock you out like a dope head
💯💯
I listened to this on spotify while I was at work but the video makes it way more dope
Another awesome video!!
Killer Episode my guy!
Dang didn't know Luke Wilson has a pod.. Ive heard the stories about Luke and Owen wrapped up in the underworld.. This is about to be my new fav pod!!
As a uptown native… this video is very accurate…. 💯💯💯💯💯💯🇩🇴
"..See a black dude speaking rapid fire spanish" is top tier 😂
Back in the 90s, me and my dude would drive from Cleveland, Ohio, to Washington Heights to see ''Papi" at his pizzeria, a few times a month and go half on a quarter or half a brick, grab something to eat, and jump right back on the freeway. We usually didn't stay in NYC for longer than an hour or hour and a half, and right back on the freeway. We stuck the chunk right in the glove compartment, pretended like it wasn't there, and never got pulled over once, out of dozens and dozens of trips. It took us anywhere from six and a half to eight hours. It took longer to get home, because we obviously drove a lot safer on the way back. Everytime I passed a cop on the way home, I made sure to make eye contact with them, and maybe even gave him a head knod, just to show him I wasn't scared or worried about him, trying to show him I wasn't afraid of him and had no reason to be afraid, even tho we was basically sweating bullets lol. We would buy bud sometimes too, but we basically could get better quality and prices back home on the bud lol. Plus we didn't want that smell of the bud in the car with the white girl. We were two white guys, with no hats or hoodies on, as low key as we could possibly be. That guy mentioned putting wood chucks in the bud, I've seen that, I've also seen pieces of glass, and nickels (which are really small but weigh 5 grams each lol. I've seen a lot of their tricks of the trade, but I basically just stuck with "Papi", because his product was great, and he did great business. I would call him around 11:00-12:00 at night, and tell him I'll see him at the pizzeria around 7-8am. We never had any problem with Papi, other than it being literally just a few grams short, which he would make up for the next trip. If he shorted us a quarter oz one trip, he would give us back an extra half oz the next trip. He was a great businessman. Then one day his phone was going straight to voicemail, and I was never able to get ahold of him again. I assume he got busted.
If you see this Papi, it's "Blanco" lol. I have the same number on my work phone, or find me on Facebook. Would love to get back in touch with you again lol!
Much love to Cleveland 💪💪
After they busted this guy, papi, they struggled to find one of his best costumers, blanco.
Now they know, blanco is Charles Carter….
Jokes 😅 stay safe
What about the other tens of thousands of "blancos" across the northeast that were doing the exact same 🤔 thing ? How do they remember who's Blancos were who's ??
@@dreamshots_PIB Lol... would never use my real name on UA-cam
@@brianemrich2237 Most definitely 💯💪
My new fav channel the connect is tf legit af he’s a real 1 stand up guy. Balls of steel this guy has pause! If you all want the real talk about the real game tune in!
GREAT EPISODE..SPOT ON..
UNIQUE MECCA AUDIO!! My man!!
This is my favorite channel
Dyckman St had some of the most fire bud when I was in HS back in the day.
The Haze / Pooday from Florida...Cuban Black Haze
The most coherent explanation I have heard about what Washington Heights was. If you look at it in a enterprenual perspective, there is should be more studies about it.
By the way sir, I heard about you before. I thougt you were a urban ledgend.
Alot of Dominicans in the Heights were gettin serious weight from the Netherlands tho. I'm talkin about early 2000s through 06 etc. Alot of that serious weight of Haze came from the Netherlands and the Dominicans were movin it in Uptown and all over the city & tri-state etc. Good vid tho 👍
northern lights era yesssir
Facts! Also a whole bunch growing apartments
This is cap! The haze came from Florida
@@LuE630 😭😭😭😭 you musr be young the only bud Florida has been known for is crippy foh!
@@LuE630 haze not all they got god dam nigga
Dope! being dominican and From New York myself and having a past life myself This is so amamzing.
I'm still not sure just how much I believe about the whole deal, but a lot of these stories go with my own or ones that I've heard while locked up, so it is interesting at the very least.
I have a feeling this channel/ views is gonna blow up, the coverage/ interviews/story’s on here are very well done and makes you wanto watch more,
shit is trash
S/O to my Dominican 🇩🇴 Brothers
Man can I just say shout out to the growers out west sending the Christmas packages. Cali outdoors, light deps, greenhouse, jack herer, lol. Makes me miss the early 2000s to 2010s lol
2015 jager packs 😂 yuck lol
Mitchell having the sweats trynna not trap no more😅
Grew up uptown in the 90s. Love seeing Inwood in some of the footage in this vid
Heights Haze had that unique taste.
I'm from Westchester ny and as a kid I was 16 and heard about the heights. I walked out on 155th and broadway and walked up got my 1st plug for the larry and then Sherman for the puff. Washington heights home of thr haze! And pedricooo..
SHERMAN'S THE MAN
the puréé, that piff, the boom. plus you go out there for the banging food
Used to go down a few spots on amsterdam during late and early 2000s. Damn time flew
as someone who lives here this videos r hillllrious
that Houndstooth hoodie is 🔥
damn I loved the 90's....college tuition was still cheap in and we got 400 a zip for indoor, basically got paid to ski and go to school occasionally
Awesome Episode.. really enjoyed it
Diablo, he said my whole life I grew up 193 hell
Everything he said is the truth just I don’t know where it was coming the smoke for sure but everything else is the truth. If you know where if you can find the weed please please tell me I’m in Ohio but I go back to New York and I don’t see the smoke and I’m Dominica 💯
Johnny, you need to find a connect for that hair bruh.
😂
Best show on UA-cam period in my honest opinion.
You kept saying Washington Heights, instead of Inwood. You were mainly on Dyckman, Post, 10th Ave also known as Nagel. Inwood is the place baby.
Yea a lot wrong in this one
He’s said Jewish neighborhood and showed a pic of Irish guys on 218 st lol
All the different Burroughs, all kinds of different cultures & the food is all kinds of different you know all the different ways of living & shit would be so freaking awesome to live there & experience all of it!!
172nd and BROADWAY had the 🔥 fishscale for $18 to $22 a Gram in the 1980s.
As a dominican that grew up in the Heights I can tell this is facts. I lived in the Heights in the 90s and crime was serious back then.
I love that I spent my 90s in Jersey and NY. moved there from London in 92 at age of 9 till 2001. When Im watching all this stuff I know all the areas being spoken about. I workd on 79th floor at age of 13/14 in building one of the wtc then reasstaurant in battery park then South Street Seaport summer time and west 4th next to Washington Square Park during school months. alhumdulila blessed childhood.
No
He is not lying I’m always at that spot 💯
Growing up in the heights we alllllll knew drug dealers we all had a family member who sold coke.... It was normal
When I was younger, I used to drive through a part of town when I wanted something and it was easy. Now days, I stay fairly clean and I go fishing in that neighborhood and I haven't had a single person approach my car.
I remember when I used to roam those streets. Early 80's, all the weed spots in Inwood were on Nagle Ave (the "record Stores") . Every other business was a record store with pampers in front lol. They mostly sold shit weed - the best spot was off Dyckman, near Post Ave I think - called it the "hole in the wall". Also, I remember hanging in Jew Park off 175th-there was a code back then - H was being sold there but was not sold until it started to get dark and the kids left the park-there was more respect for the neighborhood. When crack hit, it became the Wild West, especially around 163rd and Ft Wash. Glad to have survived that era for sure
I miss the uptown mango pina haze sour days
Did the same thing out in VA - Richmond
Big facts for a lot of CT (Bridgeport to Stamford) niggaz it was either a quick drive or a metro north train ride away to get to Washington heights.. without traffic Washington Heights about 45 mins from Bridgeport CT
4:13 Johnny not losing eyes on what is happening around him, EVER.
Been here my whole life. It's changing. Fyi you walked by the best pizza in NYC. Johnnies aka pizza palace . Should of grabbed a slice and brick lol.
Pizza Palace is honestly the best pizza in NYC!!
The best part of buying coke from dealers in the Heights back in the day was the giant line they would make you do first to make sure you weren’t a cop! $20 grams of fish scale!!!…didn’t see that quality again until I went to Medellin a few years ago…(actually someone else went and they told me)😉
Sheesh, sounds like when I would get bundle samples of diesel in paterson lol
@dieselbaby yessir. Rosa parks and Godwin I believe , east 19th. Those were my spots. I hated going up on Rosa parks and Godwin, that area was extra hot
The dental office in the corner been there the longest pizza palace and jimbos lol
I'm from pa and had a good freind who I use too hook up with ! Dominican! Great product! But 1 of the most honest guys ever ! Never ever ripped me off ! The G man was the best ! Hope he is still alive and well 🤞🤞👊👊👊
Dominicans always have the most organized money in that shoebox Those were the only times I ever saw somebody have the patience to organize them money like that
I think most people with lots of money do that
I'm half Puerto Rican and Dominican and I think I visited Washington heights once to visit a friend but that was like 15 years ago lol. Viva mi gente puñeta! And long live our good ass food. I'm seeing lots of Mexican, Salvadoran and Colombian foods around my neighborhood and that's good because I love their food too lol. I think I'm hungry 🤣
He's not in Washington Heights, folks. He's in Inwood.
Not important, though. Many people confuse the two neighborhoods.
I’m about 95% sure the apartment complex that Johnny is standing in front of the entrance is where a family friend of mine lives😂😂😂 I remember staying at her apartment and checking out the area, definitely a funky area but not too bad, definitely one of the worst neighborhoods in Manhattan but that’s not saying much tbh. Never saw drug dealing as in the open as when I stayed there, only one night too. There was an old Dominican dude you could tell played absolutely zero games sitting on the corner waiting for cars to come speeding by and he’d do the handoff
My boi hit up The Basement 💯💪🏾😂😂 lit!
Lived off 184th for a while. As one of the only white boys hanging on the block they took me in and I made some cool friends almost immediately, showed me some cool shit around the heights. Loved that neighborhood.
What Avenue?
@@andrewjones2133 Audubon
@@longdcikbill3528 ok I grew up on 175th St. between Audubon in Amsterdam
@@andrewjones2133 ayyy not to far. They use to tell me shit got a lil crazy around 180th or passed that somewhere. It’s been a while so I could have the street mixed up. But I guess the gangs were a lil wild a little more uptown
Another episode of things that never happened.
I’m so grateful I made it out alive.
my hood 💪🏽
I remember getting a zip bagged up in purple bag dubs from a bodega, best haze and sour i ever gotten till this day
That’s just a small part of the story they left out a lot of the real street stuff that really went down in Washington heights. Today’s Washington heights ain’t nothing compared to 80s 90s Washington heights it was open drug market back then it was a very dangerous area.
A lot of how it really was wasn’t said in this video.
Another episode of things that never happened.
Yep. I used to make trips up there in the mid 90s. Off of Amsterdam Ave. Very dangerous. I'm lucky never to have gotten robbed, killed, or arrested by DTs. I just looked it up recently and read that around 20% of all the murders in the 5 boroughs happened in that one police precinct in some of those years.
some of the very best flower I've ever smoked here in WV come outta Philly back in the 90s and early 2000s. it was fire you don't see today except in very small circles. shout out to my Jewish friends
Watching this from the heights
Best so far from nyc too
This was spot on. My main spot to this day is an old 5 empty five story with a few people from the DR selling. It was sketchy though, when you say the entry word and walk up the stairs you walk into a room with 4 guys at each corner with semi auto weapons one one guy sitting at a table with a scarface pile. No chit chat allowed, u tell him a number the money and bags it up for you. btw i thought u might want to know that i made a direct connect. How it happened would take a few pages to explain.
Not saying you're lying but that story seems off
@@MRB1199 I have no reason to lie. If you grew up in nyc during the late 70's - 90 and didn't have a connect in Washington Heights.... Well then u didn't grow up in nyc. Just lookup nyc in 70's-80's son it was a warzone back then not disneyland like it is now. There was a lot worse going on then 4 guys with guns and a guy with a ton of stuff on a table.
@@mikemaldanado6015 lmao I'm from there and my fam was deep in the game if you know anything about coke you can't just leave it on a table open allllll day it will lose its efficacy maybe you right but there are alooooooot of reason why it won't just be on a table like the movie's
@@MRB1199 Yes my younger brother married into a DR crew. I am just telling you how it was. It was not scarface big but probably half a cakes worth.. The place was very busy so they sold it quickly. And yes air plays a factor but the bigger problem is the temp. it it's too hot i will just turn to liquid. I buy k's here in colombia all the time and leave at least an ounce out for a few days, the product worked the same. The temp here though is the same everyday. Plus this spot in nyc required u to buy at least 20g so i guess it was just easier for them. No unwrapping every time... you would give them a number and they would pack it up for you. If you want to pm me i can give u the address - they are still there but only sell to musicians . The price is still 20 per g but they won't let u in if ur not a musician. Sort of like a co-op.
@@MRB1199 they were probably still in the process of bagging it up. At some point you need to break the keys down and it’s messy. The humidity etc won’t have any effect on powder unless it’s left out for hours or days on end.
We meaning everyone in the business from the early 80’s on was getting Cali Hawaiian and cultivated indoor grows!
Yessss sirrrrr wash heightz home of the haze 💯💯💯💯💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
No doubt
The game is to be sold, not told!
it's legal now all bets are off
Having grown up in New York, now living in Australia. Nothing is more annoying knowing it's legal there while still illegal here
If it bothers you so much just move.
Are you not an American citizen?
It really sucks here now, but I heard it's getting worse there.
@@J_Games_1996 uh no. Life is way easier here. Don't know why anyone would think it's worse here. Just a gripe about legalisation. It'll come eventually but it's not like it's difficult to get and the standard is high.
@@bigblk45 Then how is, "nothing more annoying", then?
You just said something that wasn't true to try and get likes on UA-cam, or what?
@@J_Games_1996 because legalisation makes it easier and even more quality. I used to grow here. It's a lot of work but if it was legal. I could just grow in my back yard
@@bigblk45 Okay, just nevermind then. 😴
Yooo that’s vermilya 🤣 fishy waddup my boyy
Brooklyn in da house 😅
Unique was the real deal triple og much love from Mass
Speak on the transportation process getting to NY from Portland. Would be interesting.
You just seal it up and send it in the mail..
Fire content frfr
"Thats why you still alive!" lol
they’re walking around inwood. i’ve been on that block with the mural of the boy on the wall
Music got a GTA feel..😎
You know Apple and Tesla have that look out 👀 on the corner, lol!
This the dude from American Pickers?
When Johnny got knocked , the slow down of the supply put a serious dent in our lifestyles..
Lay off the blow while you're recording lol. Nice to see you in my hood 🤙🏼
Rip my fam masque tubas from upper west side. Real one
Cubans were growing the black down here in Miami late nineties all through the 2 thousands until we got legal then everybody started leaving to either Cali or Colorado but we were getting 6 racks a pee back in the day When you drove it up to New York definitely a lot of good times
They also had grows scattered all throughout the country in some obscure places too
So well produced.
Johnny please get fellow comedian Joey Diaz on the podcast. Hes from NY and he is also in the mix of the trade so hes definitely going to have good information. Plus hes funny asl. Please get him on, it would be a great podcast for the ages.
MAKE THIS HAPPEN !!
Smfh. 😴
Joey Diaz is. From west New York that’s in nj lmao
@@hitechmechanical8258 which is right over that bridge. He was in ny ALOT and grew up there a bit.
He's from NJ kiddo
I remember going up there from 04-2012 would love the uptown haze aka the Frankie’s lol best bud ever
sorry my guy but the haze is a Heights/Dyckman thing not from Cali. That official NYC haze had that humid basement taste from being grown in the basement of the buildings/where the super of the building lives.. iYKYK. 😎
People used to always say that the taste was from them mixing perico on the batch 🤷🏼♂️ lol
Here in the RGV south Texas you pay 30 for an oz....
‘05 I was getting sour and everything else for 1G from Cali and flipping it for 4500. Those were the days!
Academy,sherman ...170 thru 207th ...poppin foreal ..real genuwine bread makers...big up haze gang