Its easy to be in the wrong place at the right time when everyone around you is in some shit. The people who say he should've made better decisions never had to grow up in that type of environment.
It’s amazing how people who are not Black say we should “stop playing the victim” or “ slavery was years ago” however, we forget in recent time that the government brought drugs in black communities that caused havoc. Just ask Kurtis who did everything right, just made a bad choice to ride in a car with neighbors and ended up going to jail for 17 years.
@@kencoch7944 don't even consider it a bad decision he was riding with his people like I say anything can happen when everybody around you got something going on.
You hear those little kids talking about "I like how he died in style" and you realize that they being influenced to admire hustlers and embrace death at a very young age. That ain't on them.
I met a chick from Cali mane and I'm from Memphis. Mane that shit was irritating! This weed hella good. She hell ugly. This food hella good. I'm hella high. Bitch shut up mane
@@MrGrace mayne came from the south that was apart aftican slaves language. Kinda similar to jamacians when the say "mon''. Mistah fab siad it in the kansas city bay mac dre documentary that the bay and south is litterally the same slang. As snoop said we all came from the south
@@rocklookalike Do you not know how to critically think? What caused those conditions and what caused people to resort to selling drugs? And didn’t you know the CIA were the ones who helped bring in drugs to Oakland and the rest of California to dismantle the Black Panther Party? There is literally proof and paperwork on that. RIP Felix Mitchell and the rest of the Town legends.
@@G23-k5r legend of what??drug dealing?? and making millions.. hmm where did he make all that money from?? all those crack heads in Oakland and surrounding cities.
I lived across the street from castlemont it was awful the kids use to be in my apartment parking lot all night. a little girl like 15 or 16 out there all night with her baby thinking it's cool. One night around 1 am I just went out there and gave her baby a blanket
I'm from Oakland, I went to the same middle school ( We called it Jr. High back then, Havenscourt) and Castlemont High school with them cats. Curtis was a baller for sure, but make no mistake, that boy had hands, and he would put them blenders on you if need be. Gerald, was better know as 'Pokie', and as bright as he was (straight A student, G.A.T.E. classes), that dude was crazy! If you valued your well being, you would not...I repeat, you would not, make fun of this nigga glasses. I saw many a fool get mopped for making fun of Pokie's glasses. Them cats were from the Village, which meant there was a lot of fire power to back them up too. As crazy as it seemed then, those were simpler times.
I don't know. Last time I heard information on Curtis Lee was over 20 years ago...word had it he was still in prison, but honestly, I couldn't confirm that information. It was a shame though, cause he was a cool cat, he always act more mature than his age. He was a couple of years older than me and my homies, and was pretty much someone we looked up to and tried to emulate.
One love family I remember when Pokie crashed into them apartments him and Ira was potnas, I came across this on a fluke! We made it😀 Peace and Prosperity to you and your family ESO love❤🖤💚
@@kevinwilliams6024 Are you on I.G family? If so I put together Events for our people and on some Very Solid shit! And want our people to Win, and do all I can to aid and assist with that!
mrfabulous17 Serious gentrification going on. The average cost for a one bedroom apartment is roughly $1,400 for a very small apartment with burglar bars on your windows and no grass out front. $1,400 is on the low end for an an apartment that was built in the early 70s. Many Black people in this area (East Oakland) have moved to Vegas and Dallas because it’s cheaper to live.
Sad story, 84 was two years before i was born, but yea ive heard about how crazy it was back then, & watching documentaries like this i get to learn more....life for those two brothers couldve been alot different, & they could still be alive if smarter choices were made. Rip gerald.....this story could be made into an inspiring movie based on true events
In oakland CA, sad to say but THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, and the ones that pick up a gun and drugs never the ones that die.. they are on the offensive with gunplay and get reputation of a killer.. they mostly never caught lackin
I am from deep east too, 86 N Olive was my section.. shit is still the same as always. It's the lawless wild west, we don't respect police at all, Oakland is different from everyother city n the world. We drive fast, swang donuts every sideshow, we love fast money, fast cars... And the role models are still ones in Bentley's n Maseratis .. crazy high murder rates, because now it's crack babies having 2nd gen crack babies, and they kill for the sport of it really.
I thought the same thing, lol. Them ones who don't put no extras on it and don't talk, just handle business on the court...they be the hardest. You only find out how good they are after you've won like five games straight.
reckless fax he did what he could and more based on what he was given. Honorable man in my eyes. Put in a system to fail and allowed others to succeed and survive. If you know then you know.
Is it seeing the dope boys getting money,women and respect. Or is it seeing two brothers like these -- successful in school and sports ,trying to make it by working hard.Yet in the end,one brother in prison, the other shot dead by police in a mistaken identity. Or is it living in East Oakland ?
Not true at all I'm from the town and grew up around that neighborhood I didn't get Into shxt stop judging people when you don't know wtf your talking about period if you don't know don't say shxt fuxk what UA-cam talking about half the shxt is not correct
@@crackazack510 early 2000's was grimey too. I say from 2000 -2010(10 yrs), oakland was consistently in the top 10 most dangerous cities list by FBI. It calmed down now mostly due to gentrification but don't think it's all good, it can still get grimey and dont look like a target and you should be good.
Sad story about them two brothers,, absolutely tragic that one died and the other in prison, I hope he got a second chance at life in the end, for his brother’s sake. Long shot now but any Oakland hood historians on here that knows if he made it out of prison and got his chance with a wife and kids? I’d like to think so…… I’m from Ireland and grew up in the same circumstances except for the gums and crack. Prejudice is everywhere, if it’s not based on colour it’s based on social class
Obviously you can get rich quick, it's supply and demand. If there's not much around, they charge as much as they desire, I've heard it was $50 for .10 of a Gram
Its easy to be in the wrong place at the right time when everyone around you is in some shit. The people who say he should've made better decisions never had to grow up in that type of environment.
Facts
STR8 UP 💯 I'm from East Oakland I know
On mamas
It’s amazing how people who are not Black say we should “stop playing the victim” or “ slavery was years ago” however, we forget in recent time that the government brought drugs in black communities that caused havoc. Just ask Kurtis who did everything right, just made a bad choice to ride in a car with neighbors and ended up going to jail for 17 years.
@@kencoch7944 don't even consider it a bad decision he was riding with his people like I say anything can happen when everybody around you got something going on.
Brilliant channel to be fair. Love all the old footage from the 80s and 90s.
Ms. Jennings was my principal. I went there class of 93. She changed the school.
Class of 89
class of 92... I went for 10th grade and was like FUX this I'm out!
C/O 89
I was there in 93 and I don’t remember her at all. I used to be in the offices a lot bc it was considered 2 of my classes and I graduate in 95.
You hear those little kids talking about "I like how he died in style" and you realize that they being influenced to admire hustlers and embrace death at a very young age. That ain't on them.
East Oakland to the San Jose city
Beverly hill to Hollywood
Suka Free Television Oakland is Oakland San Jose is 45 min away not even in the bay area cut it out
Bomytrid Da donk so what the fuk that mean same shit going on there and here homie.. fuk out my comments tough guy Bay Area representative Fukn weenie
Roberto Andrade malibu to sonoma the top rank.
Those glasses 👓 though
😂
😆😂
Man they ugly. Bifocals 😂
no bullshit
That's my mom foo!
THEM GLASSES SEEN THE FUTURE.
🤣🤣
They called those coke bottles lol
😂😂😂 yooo
Bruh
Lmfao hahahhahahahha
GodBless y’all it’s hard out here in the East Bay Area I fosho feel this May God help us and Protect us and help us do right choices
“Hecka” old school bay shit....then it turned to hella...Then the rest of the world started saying it
Lol
I met a chick from Cali mane and I'm from Memphis. Mane that shit was irritating! This weed hella good. She hell ugly. This food hella good. I'm hella high. Bitch shut up mane
HECKA!! Haha my childhood!!
@@caintgitriteexp9342
Lmao! And now you do it too. We also say "mayne" 😂😂😂
@@MrGrace mayne came from the south that was apart aftican slaves language. Kinda similar to jamacians when the say "mon''. Mistah fab siad it in the kansas city bay mac dre documentary that the bay and south is litterally the same slang. As snoop said we all came from the south
Love you and miss you Oakland!
Lmao where you go
@@nicolaswilson3268 Texas
@@HazeyCazeyTv go back to oakland
@@pimpiniseasy2778 I plan to
Not back to Oakland but around the Bay Area
RIP Felix Mitchell, Town Legend
Why? He probably sold crack to your relatives in his time.
@@rocklookalike Do you not know how to critically think? What caused those conditions and what caused people to resort to selling drugs? And didn’t you know the CIA were the ones who helped bring in drugs to Oakland and the rest of California to dismantle the Black Panther Party? There is literally proof and paperwork on that.
RIP Felix Mitchell and the rest of the Town legends.
@@G23-k5r legend of what??drug dealing?? and making millions.. hmm where did he make all that money from?? all those crack heads in Oakland and surrounding cities.
211 Mob Sqaud
Born and raised but I had to dip into Richmond for a minute. Hopefully, I’ll make it back one day.
I lived across the street from castlemont it was awful the kids use to be in my apartment parking lot all night. a little girl like 15 or 16 out there all night with her baby thinking it's cool. One night around 1 am I just went out there and gave her baby a blanket
Gotta keep these prayers pumping✊🏾✊🏾
Thank you, for caring for the baby. We ha e to show love when we can .
I'm from Oakland, I went to the same middle school ( We called it Jr. High back then, Havenscourt) and Castlemont High school with them cats. Curtis was a baller for sure, but make no mistake, that boy had hands, and he would put them blenders on you if need be.
Gerald, was better know as 'Pokie', and as bright as he was (straight A student, G.A.T.E. classes), that dude was crazy! If you valued your well being, you would not...I repeat, you would not, make fun of this nigga glasses. I saw many a fool get mopped for making fun of Pokie's glasses. Them cats were from the Village, which meant there was a lot of fire power to back them up too.
As crazy as it seemed then, those were simpler times.
Did he ever get out prison
I don't know. Last time I heard information on Curtis Lee was over 20 years ago...word had it he was still in prison, but honestly, I couldn't confirm that information. It was a shame though, cause he was a cool cat, he always act more mature than his age. He was a couple of years older than me and my homies, and was pretty much someone we looked up to and tried to emulate.
One love family I remember when Pokie crashed into them apartments him and Ira was potnas, I came across this on a fluke! We made it😀 Peace and Prosperity to you and your family ESO love❤🖤💚
Respect to you and yours family... it's always nice to hear/know that there's still some of us alive and well out here.
@@kevinwilliams6024 Are you on I.G family? If so I put together Events for our people and on some Very Solid shit! And want our people to Win, and do all I can to aid and assist with that!
I’d love an update.
mrfabulous17 Serious gentrification going on. The average cost for a one bedroom apartment is roughly $1,400 for a very small apartment with burglar bars on your windows and no grass out front. $1,400 is on the low end for an an apartment that was built in the early 70s. Many Black people in this area (East Oakland) have moved to Vegas and Dallas because it’s cheaper to live.
Unfortunately, that's East Oakland for you.
East Oakland gentrified af now 🤦🏽♂️ Pretty soon the whole East gonna be gentrified including the Deep
Man growing up in East Oakland wasn't for the faint of heart. This shit bring back memories and not necessarily good ones
Those kids at the beginning "he died in style" smh damn we need to get it together..
I think they meant w the horse and carriage
Rip Felix the cat s/o east oak town rip Gerald
I absolutely love Oakland 😁
Why?? This sounds good to you??
Where these cats buying their glasses?
that was in the early eighties
Anywhere they can
Now you know there was a Medicare glasses quit playing, 😂
In Oakland in 1984.
5 eyes
Is that Mark Curry at the 2:25 mark?
Dang I think that is!
Yea
I forgot that he is from Oakland, his TV show Hanging With Mr. Cooper was based in Oakland.
Sad story, 84 was two years before i was born, but yea ive heard about how crazy it was back then, & watching documentaries like this i get to learn more....life for those two brothers couldve been alot different, & they could still be alive if smarter choices were made. Rip gerald.....this story could be made into an inspiring movie based on true events
I remember when Oakland street signs looked like that haven’t seen one look like that since the early 2000s
Miss Evans was the coolest principal ever and she had the cleanest 1964 mustang all original RIP
When did she pass away?
@@Yoogi-ed3hz It’s been so long I can’t remember the exact year but it was between 2003 and 2007 if I’m not mistaken
I’ve heard of coke bottles but this is another level. Plexiglass? It’s sad they ended up in jail and dead.
😂😂😂...But word..This world is wicked
In oakland CA, sad to say but THE GOOD DIE YOUNG, and the ones that pick up a gun and drugs never the ones that die.. they are on the offensive with gunplay and get reputation of a killer.. they mostly never caught lackin
My hometown East Oakland, 81st and Birch baby. It was wild back in them days... still is in some parts but different.
@Do Action Nah, that shit is wack. I wanna see the babies grow up and be/do better. There's way more opportunities now instead of selling dope.
I am from deep east too, 86 N Olive was my section.. shit is still the same as always. It's the lawless wild west, we don't respect police at all, Oakland is different from everyother city n the world. We drive fast, swang donuts every sideshow, we love fast money, fast cars... And the role models are still ones in Bentley's n Maseratis .. crazy high murder rates, because now it's crack babies having 2nd gen crack babies, and they kill for the sport of it really.
Why tf is their glasses so thick...DAMN
🤣🤣
😂🤣
At those times glasses wasn't as advanced for people with bad eyesight who couldn't see far or near and contacts wasnt around
He looks like James Worthy 42 🏀
Curtis has game I can tell by his jump shot 🏀
he did..and he had hops
I thought the same thing, lol. Them ones who don't put no extras on it and don't talk, just handle business on the court...they be the hardest. You only find out how good they are after you've won like five games straight.
vellyvell33 well what ended up happening to Curtis??
This is an cold 1 dam 💯
“I like the way he died... yk he died in style” 😂😂what???
I know that’s why the kid on the far right next to them laughed and shook his head. “Nigga what”???
2:26 Mark Curry
Yup
Wow
Thats not Mark Curry
So that's what my mom meant when she said people had coke bottle glasses lol
Thank you for sharing
"He died in style" 6 year olds
💀
I don't think him are still a little girl and Felix Mitchell
What year did this report come out?
1984
@@Curtoonstv1986
1986
This happened in the 80's I'm seeing this in 2022 and it's still happening and sad
Ms. Evans reminded me of Ms. Lemon at Tech in '85.
What year was this?
Such a different time my man said "heck'of" even hell was a bad word in them crazy days
Hella was considered bad back then, probably didn’t wanna say it on TV so he said hecka lol
SMH the kid said “I like the way he died, he died in style.”
Cool channel
It's the best channel! 100%
Rest In power polk
THATS THE TOWN......
Whole couch covered in plastic 80's baby
They couches was covered covered🏆
Lol niggas in the Bay had jheri curls too
Man the glasses in this video 😆
🤣🤣🤣
Big momma at 3:24 had them trifocals
They forgot to tell how he helped his neighborhood and paid most of the people in his hood rent
Felix?
Derrick Martin yea
I poured tons of poison into the food chain but I paid the rent ? Really bro. Anyway I love both of yous.
Good day Bay area nigga he helped more than he destroyed
reckless fax he did what he could and more based on what he was given. Honorable man in my eyes. Put in a system to fail and allowed others to succeed and survive. If you know then you know.
Is it seeing the dope boys getting money,women and respect. Or is it seeing two brothers like these -- successful in school and sports ,trying to make it by working hard.Yet in the end,one brother in prison, the other shot dead by police in a mistaken identity. Or is it living in East Oakland ?
Oakland California
@@InkSync23 it’s not the same 😢
@@InkSync23 very crazy now
yes n sad
where u at now ?
The glasses took me out
everyone's glasses 😭
How about Mark Curry’s glasses, that nigga had on some Cyndi Lauper shades lol
That kind of neighborhood, your bound to get in some wild pile of shit , because of the violence. Born in a set up.
Not true at all I'm from the town and grew up around that neighborhood I didn't get Into shxt stop judging people when you don't know wtf your talking about period if you don't know don't say shxt fuxk what UA-cam talking about half the shxt is not correct
Back when underwear was shorts n glasses was PHICK
Those some thick glasses....😂
Shit changed for sure, I know they got some different glasses 🤓
they better .....shid!!
Without drug users, there would be no drug sellers and dealers.
Damn that was a sad story
Why are the bottom of coke bottles glued inside their glasses?
Bum that was corny
R.i.p. Popeye ah real one🙏🙏🙏
The whole neighborhood blind
So sad and common in the low income community. Growing up under this type of influence is a real challenge.
Them 80's!
He died in style 😳😔
free that mann
Oakland We Came along way💯
For better or worse?
Yall dont see same system is still alive FIGHT to teach kids different everyday
Really sad , rest in piece
I need to stop talking about folks always praising drug dealers and start doing the stories I demand they start doing.
Listen to those black women in the beginning it’s a 50/50 chance that you can make it. It’s up to you.
Knight Time!!
Born and raised in Oakland it's not that bad
If you mind your business and stay out of the way as much as you can then yeah it's not that bad.
In the 80 n 90s it was dangerous. Deff not as bad anymore but don't get fooled either.
@@crackazack510 early 2000's was grimey too. I say from 2000 -2010(10 yrs), oakland was consistently in the top 10 most dangerous cities list by FBI. It calmed down now mostly due to gentrification but don't think it's all good, it can still get grimey and dont look like a target and you should be good.
Sad story about them two brothers,, absolutely tragic that one died and the other in prison, I hope he got a second chance at life in the end, for his brother’s sake. Long shot now but any Oakland hood historians on here that knows if he made it out of prison and got his chance with a wife and kids? I’d like to think so…… I’m from Ireland and grew up in the same circumstances except for the gums and crack. Prejudice is everywhere, if it’s not based on colour it’s based on social class
Yes he absolutly did! He beat the odds!
That is so sad😢
Growing up in Oakland it doesn’t feel that bad but I guess I was just desensitized
Mammograms A.K.G Oakland today isn't a 1/3 deadly as it was back then ✌🏿
HawgBEright41510H20FRONT I agree but damn autocorrect murdered my name there lmao
@@Lightskinlightning my bad Brody but I'm still learning this shit from a town nigga from that era!!!!
HawgBEright41510H20FRONT nah you’re all good stay up don’t let these suckas drag you back into bullshit
@@Lightskinlightning fasholy bro and u stay smooth pimp.
Uzi's don't come chambered in .45 caliber.
I got questions something don’t seem right
Ask... I still like n east Oakland and I'll answer truthfully no filter n cut
I been to the town the question is how they do this documentary did you come up seeing people doing interviews in the hood?
They glasses can see 2099
Holy what the fuck. Aww hell naw. Gentrifications had unintended consequences/ramifications. Or was it intentional??? Idk. But god damn. This crazy
DAAAYYYYUUUM man!! SMMFH
Them 👓 are crazy though
It's some thick ass glasses in that old video...old school castle rats..m
..yip meth is everywhere in New Zealand ..i have 3 cars took me 13 years to buy ..i know a guy got a vr4 took 3 weeks aka meth !!
Obviously you can get rich quick, it's supply and demand. If there's not much around, they charge as much as they desire, I've heard it was $50 for .10 of a Gram
Cartier Glasses 😂😂😂😂
This is sad…
Felix Mitchell's hood.
Glasses 🤓😭😭😭
Come on blood thats how it was.
The technology wasn't there.
D- fiant 415 I I understand 🙌🏻
We’re gonna laugh at this shit we use to wear now, later on down the road.
Got damn microscope tri focals
So sad.
Hannibal Buress at 1:14
Everybody's Blind in that Hood
Hannibal Buress mom at 1:50
Is he out yet?
See to the future glasses 🤓
Oh my goodness look at the money
When ppl ina tha town
Went to jail
Lol
He got set up G
Joe and steve
A father of 15 kids.
No Joke.
Hope he gets out!