I grew up in south Dallas, in one of the "roughest" neighborhoods. Never got stolen from or threatened in anyway. My house was literally between a piru house and a crip house. They were both the best neighbors I've ever had. My point, you prolly won't get shot, hurt or threatened by anyone if you treat people right. No matter where you are.
I made it from Oak Cliff to Carrollton. I was more nervous in Carrollton/Farmers Branch. NOBODY messes with you in the south DFW or west DFW, but the POLICE love to fuck with random people on this side.
Shit, i knew an older crip (around my age) who told me some things, and he had his fellow members who visited sometimes. Sometimes even people he knew from rival gangs but were connected through family or shared hardship. The crew got wild sometimes, but i never heard shots ring out from them, and I never saw any of them get picked up or taken away by police. Hell we had to worry more about the drugged out maga white guys down further in the apt. complex parking lot who were stealing catalytic converters and drilling out tanks for gas. But the crip homie was just minding his business most often unless somebody was starting shit with him, and he left the complex to do his dirt. He knew I wasn't about that street life and as far as i know he respected the fact that i wasn't about to get active with his group but again...like he never stole from me or anything your avg Tuckerite likes to say about black "thugs" in "the hood". The brotha was thuggish no doubt, but like...not irresponsible if that makes sense. But i guess part of that was because he had family, was trying to keep his head on straight, and potentially get out of the game to do something else.
Yeah my experience with things like anonymous theft was like one time in a 95% white middle class suburban neighborhood in one of the richest counties in Kansas I’ve yet to hear anything irl about people actually stealing more than food or money in areas that people say are “bad” And I’ve lived in areas people called bad but the crime stats said it was all DV and like half the neighborhood was cops
the youth see rappers and other types of artists from that kind of environment get rich and begin seeing that environment as directly related to their success
The reason for that is that many people don't wanna think they got it relatively easy in life, in other words many people don't like to recognize their privilege recognizing it necessarily entails that something's wrong is with our current and God forbid someone says capitalism is bad. They also see the recognition of their privilege as a moral failure since everyone knows you gotta work hard to get to where you are but if you're just privilege your nothing but a phony. Something something "meritocracy" you get the point
I'm latina and moved into public housing after a lot of hardships soon after turning 18 and learned that I was living in the same exact apartment (not just complex) that my grandma's brother took his life in. It just felt like a horrifying cycle of being trapped in this system
@37:59 - Yeah, there is. There are idiots in the hood who would do a drive by on a group of unknown people just on the corner minding their business having a good time. Just because!!!! I’ve seen it…
I love how you talked about the hood not always looking like inner cities, but I’m shocked you didn’t bring up the rural West and Native American reservations. I feel like many of these areas are just as poor and underserved as the rural South, if not worse
I kinda get what you're saying, but the concept of the hood needs to be defined....because I don't think Bill is just talking about poor/low-resourced areas....I feel like trailer parks, rural areas and reservations are their own categories of poverty-striken areas *still* separate from what we mean when we say the hood. I think it's the combination of poverty, race/culture/immigration, zoning, etc that creates what we consider to be the hood
@@juicyparsonsI see what you’re saying, but I feel that the conditions in the West were also a product of public policy, economic conditions, and societal views/biases. This amongst other things contributed to a certain culture forming. By Bill’s definition, they would be hoods
I did and a post script mention reservations but I didn't realize until I was basically done that I forget to mention Reservations in the section with Barrios, and chinatowns
@@richmondwottersno! we're exempt from state income taxes if and only if we live on a reservation, AND work for our tribe, otherwise that's a hard no. So perhaps 5% of us are exempt from state taxes, because we are separate from the state we are surrounded by. This is part of why if you drive onto a reservation, you're likely to drive onto dirt roads because the state could give two shits about us. If you follow the money, for every tax dollar that goes to tribes for things like education, at least $7 is going to the average American. And also, if we are getting any kind of checks it's because we pay ourselves from any tribally owned business revenues. it's not from the United States government and for the vast majority of us, those checks may come out to a couple hundred a year, if even that.
I'm a white kid who grew up in Pennsyltucky, and let me tell you, the amount of trap houses/meth houses out here is nuts. We had a meth house burn down near my school in like 2012. I dated a guy who lived with roomies in a trap house in one of those nice suburban neighborhoods with the housses built in the early 00s. The drug use out here is just as crazy
We had a meth lab explode and blow our windows out. There was low income housing right next to our upper middle class neighborhood. That housing was destroyed weeks later. I live in Kentucky for reference.
Interesting, my friend lives in a small suburb of the 4th most dangerous city in Canada (the city I live in). The houses in his neighborhood were built from the late 90s- late 2010s, and there's a surprising amount of trap houses. Theres even 2 trap houses 2 doors down from each other on the same road.
The laws are good for non blacks. No cops go through there taken ppl out, sending ppl to jail...they should go to jail just like bp had to go to jail for drug use. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. America has a price to pay.
My 56 Y/O white dad moved out of Philadelphia to Florida last year. I catch him all the time watching hood content all the time. Everytime I say “ya miss it don’t ya?” And he fumbles with his phone and puts it away like I caught him watching P
bro you’re an excellent speaker. you don’t even need much editing. i admire your ability to let thoughts flow out of your mind so smoothly. keep dropping fire brother🫡💪🏾
Being poor really sucks. My first apartment had bullet holes in the wall they painted over. First month there a bunch of cops with shotguns showed up at my door looking for the guy who used to live there. We got on food stamps, which helped but barely. Thankfully we had supportive family who helped us as I transitioned into the tech field and worked my way up (again with help).
I'm a white guy from Baltimore, all my neighbors have been black for most of my life, and all of them have always been really chill, normal people. I hear terrible things about my city from people who haven't been here, watched a few episodes of the wire, and never gave Baltimore a chance. I think this video's great, and brings to light a lot of annoying stereotypes I've heard about the people I grew up around. Acknowledging that the reasons those assumptions exist can be real, but also making sure people know they don't apply to everybody is really important.
I'm a white dude who's spent a lot of time in the hoods of LA and Fort Worth and I've never been a victim of crime there. I don't go to hang out late at night (when most crimes happen) and I trust my spidey senses. More than a few times, I was at a club and sensed that tensions were escalating and I got out of there. The only time I ever got robbed was my car got vandalized in a mall parking lot in a mostly white suburb.
Good for you buddy, white people ignoring crime in bad areas helps everyone. For real though talk to the police in those areas if you want to know whats really going on. Dont just assume because you didnt get shot while passing through makes it a safe place.
Having to use your 'spidey senses' all the time and it being unsafe to go out at night is actually not normal. I don't know what you tried to say with this comment, but it only seems to say that those areas are indeed unsafe.
@@youcanthandlethetruth8873he’s not talking about some supernatural ability he literally means using his head and common sense. If you see a group of white or black or Filipino or Martian dudes (or not dudes) standing in an alleyway holding baseball bats staring at your pockets menacingly, you might want to walk the other way and get on the phone with somebody. Dumbasses who walk by scrolling through Facebook and Tiktok with zero awareness are the ones who will get targeted if they were ever even a target at all. The original commenter did not say anything about the people he encountered being more criminal or civil, he did not know because he never got himself into disadvantageous situations. If everyone tried a little bit harder (I know it’s hard to do so because your life is so easy in 21st century America) we’d have a lot less crime committed by idiots against idiots.
@@pyramidion5911wdym lol people ignore crime literally 24/7 and you and I (probably) will ignore any crime unless it directly affects us because we don’t care. If you saw a homeless person stab a crackhead, are you going to do the same for them that you would do for your sister or your mother? No, no you are not. If you see a politician gain hundreds of thousands of dollars from insider trading, are you going to put your life on hold to call them out and get them prosecuted? No, because you don’t truly care and even if you did you wouldn’t be able to influence action against it.
@@josephmother2659 Seems kinda 'victim blamy' to me. Running the risk of robery should not be a normal thing. Constantly looking out for yourself should not be necessary in a wel adjusted neighbourhood.
Thank you for speakin on NYstateofmind I’m from Flatbush I Grew up with the guys that are GDs from Brooklyn in Brownsville and Flatbush these kids diss my friends and there organizations for clout and cool points you know no Blixkys no Choo’s as OPPs you know them from Drill music they have family who watch you guys disrespect them everyday my friend sister gets comments on instagram everyday about my dead friend just cuz he was GD make it make Sense
holy shit thank you for calling out trap lore ross lmao he doesn't even use the current definition of serial killer in that video its insane on a number of levels
you guys wanna hear my conspiracy theory? lol I think Ross is putting himself in position to make himself a martyr.....he keeps making his content longer, more in depth, and I feel like he knows that somebody might bring him some violence someday...but now he's so popular he will just pull on the public's heartstrings and still come out on top. mark my words some rapper testing his gangster is only gonna make him more powerful. I'm getting covert white savior vibes from him tbh
King Von was a serial killer by any definition you want to put, but I see your bias showing by policing what’s online to consume… so sorry didn’t realize you were the all seeing eye online
I have friends from Appalachia. One of my closest friends is actually from Appalachian WV, basically ground zero for the oxy nightmare that started so many years ago. I'm glad he mentioned it, too. There's some really wonderful people tucked away in those mountains, but they're so used to being made fun of or kicked down at that they tend to just keep to themselves. And you also get the added perk of industrial waste poisoning thousands of acres of land and entire water tables, including some substances that lead to increased birth defects, cancers, kidney problems, etc. Louisiana's Cancer Alley is a great example of this, but it's far from the only one. There's way too many totally ignored people in this country. We like to hide our poor, the more deeply the better. Until it's time for some sensationalized nightly news story or another round of disaster tourism, at least.
This was a good essay on poverty and hoods in America. I live in Baltimore and was born in Norfolk, it's crazy how ubiquitous the black experience is nationwide. I lived as a child in a black working class neighborhood and white people called it the "hood" then you have white people living in poor sections of Baltimore county such as Dundalk and that isn't referred to as the hood. When you drive through neighborhoods of Virginia Beach that look like questessitial suburbia and it's the "hood" because the residence are black and brown. Also I almost died when yo said clubfooted offspring
"The 'hood" is black slang for "neighborhood," which is pretty much what everyone called their homes until the media started mainstreaming everything subcultural and decadent. Continuing to call it "the 'hood" is perpetuating a perversely self-criminalizing tendency. You might think of it as a place worth caring for and saving if you went back to calling it a neighborhood. Calling it "the 'hood" is an admission that it's lost, a wasteland." That's partly how places become wastelands.
Same. I grew up in the highest income per capita majority black county in America. The difference is.. across the river is the highest income per capita county in America, majority white Sounds like not that big of a difference. It is though.
Cus whites treat they neighbors fairly. It’s not about the area it’s the people. Anywhere a group of blacks go will become the hood because they’re ignorant. They gone sell drugs to each other, fight, shoot, not get a job living off welfare so they can’t pay for the upkeep of the property smh
As a black kid from the middle class suburbs whose only black hood experience was tv that I was sneaking to watch, I am glad this conversation is happening. What we call the projects was not the project. Middle class suburbia was. Both sides believe a lot of crazy things about each other that, flat out, isn't true.
Some of your points remind me a lot of my childhood. I was a white kid in a majority black neighborhood and whenever my cousins, or another white kid from school would be coming over they’d ask if they’d be ok or if whites get shot at on sight. I’d always think “how do you think I’m alive!?”
I grew up in florida in a rough neck of the woods, and always had a hard time conceiving how i could live right next to literal mansions when my dad was struggling to feed my family. Love what you have to say brother Ps The band’s performance in the last waltz of “the night they drove old Dixie down “ is a great song and my favorite band
Florida I think I'd just like that for some reason it doesn't get better in the more city areas I was In I used to live in these apartments that weren't the best and sometimes down right poor next to these nice white fences was these big luxurious houses right next to us almost being in your face like "oo what could've been" idk tho I think more common people needs to open there eyes sometimes
lived in west pasco for 4 years! met some of the most genuine people & had a true neighborhood kid childhood experience. needles on the ground at the bus stop type shit tho. was a huge culture shock going from inner city hood in the midwest to a more southern country type that was still so densely populated despite the lack of infrastructure
I'm a white Puerto Rican producer from the burbs. I worked at a studio in Humboldt Park in Chicago for a while. Everyone there was cool af. They knew I wasn't bout that life and I was just there to make music and they actually fucked with me. Wasn't no hate or intimidating or threats. Never once did I feel unsafe in Chicago. The media blows the violence way outta proportion.
The south side is one of the most welcoming and homely places I’ve been, yeah it’s dangerous compared to like, most other Midwestern cities, but there’s a respect that you get as long as u just keep to yourself and are passionate n nice to those around you
Thank you again lil bill for helping me articulate life growing up in the hood or in my case “the barrio”. Also thank you for speaking on the part about “not knowing the language” of the barrio is an almost alienating feeling. I got bullied hella and even caught fades for not being “latino enough” and knowing the language. Where I live now, most of my friends are white and it’s hard for me to explain my experiences to them because as you summed it up, at 57:00 “it’s not a place, it’s an experience” edit/sum up: if you group up in the hood then you know lmao
@@malegria9641 ehh it a spectrum really and geography. Where I’m from, the barrio is pretty insular so speaking spanish as a first language in my area is common. I, however, learned english as a first language, so I played a lot of catch up growing up, and am still learning to speak the language in college
I think a lot of them were living in some fancy aparts that a rapper from the hood brought to let them live free, but feds took it because they said he was using it as a trap house and it was brought with drug money.
Great video as always. 57:00 "There's no such thing as a bad neighborhood, there's only a lack of resources". Well said. Community is key. There are studies that show a correlation between income and community in neighborhoods. I learned lots and got reminded of things I had forgotten.
It's not resources. It is buying into and then living out and propagating a "culture" that was invented by rich people. Said to be black culture. But has nothing to do with anything except the most moronic distructive crap ever. Then stupid white kids eventually grab onto it because they were told subconsciously through media and the created white person culture that black people are cooler than white people... It's all manipulation. Everything anyone does is because they were trained to do it from birth. This became very easy with television. Then more so with the internet... Now it's game over with these phones. The real question is who is really behind the orchestration of this manipulation. And what is the purpose and end goal. Is it really just money? If you are someone who runs the world money shouldn't seem To matter... As it's only a fictional thing anyways. And also you are in a position you can have anything you ever could desire that money could buy.
The Cabrini Green project was not nearly as bad as its reputation suggests. The only reason it had such a reputation was because it was actually located in an affluent neighborhood. The Robert Taylor Homes were way worse.
Shout out to millennial Chi-townians. RIP Chicago projects. They aren't missed. It's just weird you can relocate a whole population because rich folks feel like living here now. Side note, I got chased though the Robert Taylor Homes once because I dared to wait for my bus... Never had any issues in Cabrini. It's anecdotal... But lines up with your comment.
@@ecilpsgg if I remember correctly, Cabrini Green was intended for Irish and Italian people (hence the name). Those were most of the occupants for the first decade or so. That's how they were able to originally build it in an upper middle class neighborhood in the first place. Also, the low rise housing projects of Cabrini Green are still there.
@@robk7266 Thanks for the info. I didn't know that about Cabrini. Also didn't know it survived. Haven't been that way in a long time. I'm not in Chicago anymore. Thought all the 'jects were torn down.
@@robk7266I wad just telling my wife that the projects in New Orleans were originally built for Irish and Italians. They gave them all that free housing and once we benefited from it, they shut down the projects.
Incredible! One of your best videos yet. I was only gonna watch a few minutes but couldn't stop, what topped it off is how you're advising people on what to do at the end to combat this!
I grew up in NYCHA both in Harlem and the South Bronx and I have nothing but positive memories from those places. Everyone had each other's back. Spent most of my days going to the library playing YuGiOh with the kids from school. The point is, I never felt unsafe, or unwelcome, and it was honestly the only places I've lived now that I "made it out" where I actually felt real love from my community.
Rural poverty is a different ball game, and no one talks about it. Glad you are highlighting it. Also, black farmers are mistreated very harshly. I couldn't live in rural area
How are black farmers mistread very harshly? And why? I haven't heard anything about the farmers mistreatment in the black community since the 90s or some like that when there was still some goofy ass policy/books from the dept of agriculture that didn't get dealt with until almost the turn of the century.
@@JohnDorian-j7x listen babes, a little bit of Googles could have answered your questions but here are some issues. Also PBS did a special on them recently and I would post that below Black farmers have long faced systemic discrimination by public and private institutions and barriers to economic mobility. Inequities in the administration of government farm programs and discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture have had a devastating impact on rural communities of color ruclips.net/video/Kqxr78hBzvE/видео.htmlsi=3CWR6nOD9fEJZXwl
I would have never in a trillion years have imagined I’d hear Lil Billiam drop an Avett Brothers bar 💀!! I really appreciate this video. I’ve been a black person in white spaces my whole life, now as a broke single mom with very few resources, I’ve found myself living with two amazing black women in the hood of Chicago. I’m not worried about danger or anything like that, but I don’t know how to connect with my community as someone who lived an extremely suburban life. This video kinda helped me articulate that that’s something I’ve been struggling with.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!! This is one of my biggest gripes with online black leftist, alot don't experience from the neighborhoods and poverty, and the problems that come from that. They seem so eager to critize without realizing that non of this shit can be fixed without adressing the material conditions which creat the issues in the first place.
Man them democrats are fucking up the black community so bad. Republicans want us to work hard work for ourself. Fuck the government we need to come together and build our neighborhood ourselves fuck asking for help we look weak
If you beat the streets and do survive..it. Exhausts you it takes years to recover from and while ur doing that it’s a time u need to build your situation witch puts u on overdrive the system is ment to brake you in half or stall you out it’s so fucked yp
@@Jsmoove8kman that’s just cap shit they say. I’ve been shot and I don’t have ptsd. Blacks look for every excuse to not be doing well meanwhile they have the best resources just lazy asf
Man when you started talking about having to decide between eating and buying gas just to get to work… too fucking real. I’m nineteen living on my own and it’s hard man. My ass got whipped into that survival mentality real quick.
Best of luck. Be careful if you ever end up in a more well off station in life, because that survival mindset has a way of sticking around. You can get so used to scrambling for the most basic necessities and choosing which thing you can sacrifice until the next paycheck (heat or food, problems with your vehicle, etc) that it can be hard to break free of.
I’ve lived in Alabama my whole life, and i’m grateful for the privileges I have. Living here there’s a reminder nearly everyday that you’re lucky to even have basic necessities. I’ve lived all over this state, and the stuff you see in rural areas like Pike county vs Birmingham for example appear so different but in the end it’s the same stuff that people lack access to. It never has been the people, i’ve met extremely nice and kindhearted people in Anniston but the system of things has beyond fucked that town.
Bed Stuy Native..and you are correct in your assessment. Got family in the South...not even the deeeeeeep South and you are correct about not seeing poverty poverty til you see it in the south. Lack of even reliable public transportation, something us Northerners take for granted
16:43 hearing about people getting pushed out to the outskirts of cities due to expense… kinda hits close to home. That’s exactly what’s happened to me and my mom. We use to live within walking distance if a bus stop, 10 min either way driving to our work. Now we’re out almost to the boonies cuz it was the only place we could find anything we could sustain paying rent for and even that’s fine up 🙃
@@Sofiaode18right I keep telling people blacks fuck up shit for themselves they always complaining. They have everything to make them succeed. I like in the suburbs and if you not rich it’s sooo hard everything is far asf
58:39 - Thank you for this part. I find getting people to provide support is the hardest thing of all. I am back to living in poverty in a Brown community. I got out but fell back in due to escaping DV. But still doing my sj work, probably harder now than ever because I need to. Something that I hear in the undertone of what you're saying is something I've felt for a while. That people have become so individualized, they are not providing the community we once had and now need more than ever. (That may just be me though because the Neurodiversity community, my sj area, didn't come out of a 'hood... so never had a community that relied on each other to survive. Something for me to think on.)
@37:59 - Yeah, there is. There are idiots in the hood who would do a drive by on a group of unknown people just on the corner minding their business having a good time. Just because!!!! I’ve seen it…
Growing up in South Africa, ive always loved to see the analysis similarities and differences between the types of discrimination and treatment of non white persons between our countries- especially because of how the state of the black man in America was one of the major motivations to fight Apartheid on our side. Always a pleasure and a motivation to learn more when I watch your videos
As a whitey who grew up in the hood with broke ass early 20s parents who were listening to Rush Limbaugh's 'The Way Things Ought To Be' on audio tape in 1992 I felt that intro so deep
I spent 6 years growing up in Augusta, GA. It's a fairly big city, but there were still people living in old houses that were built without power or plumbing. In one case, literally next door to a gas station.
I moved out of the hood before high school, and I will comfortably tell anyone that I haven't been there in a long enough time to know what's going on. I just know how it used to work, and I can base the way I carry myself in the hood on that.
Adding to your point about infrastructure being abysmal in rural towns, I've had the theory that the reason gentrification is becoming popular is the fact that the average middle class white person has lost the ability to pay for their acre sized single family plots of land and are now forced to live in an actual city like the rest of the world due to the subsidies of days past no longer supporting the suburban projects. They have nowhere else to run to unless they're willing to drive several hours to a job near that city they live and that's impractical for most people, so it's easier to displace poor folks in the inner city, fix up their home/demolish them and then sell it to young, middle class person and now they can live close to their job and pay less in future property taxes since they don't own huge unused acres of land nor do they have to pay more fo infrastructure to go out to them in the moddle of nowhere.
There's also the fact that suburban culture is hellishly isolated, depressing and paranoid. It can be a miserable place to live for most. So, the young from these environments flood into the cities because they've often mythologized what city life is like and want to take a part of it for themselves. It often doesn't work because many of them don't want to mesh with the locals and just push/price them out. Eventually replacing them with something similar to what they grew up around but closer in proximity to each other.
@@cryptbeast3222 Actually like your point more tbh, it makes sense to me now that I've been working with suburbanites since they act like the city I live in SO dangerous and like people just pop out of cars ready to tear you limb from limb. Then people like the artsy-fartsy side of town because historical big homes are there and then they can over price them and put overpriced stores nearby. Just American logic though I guess, just keep building fancy shit for the sake of building it without considering who can actually use it or afford it.
@@TomyPesantes It's to further price out the locals and also, if your filthy rich, there are tax write offs for owning cultural centers. You can see some of this going on in Appalachian towns too. Weird art galleries, mansion business centers and hyper expensive restaurants in areas where most buildings are boarded up and getting prepared for bulldozing and replacing. It's never for the locals. It's a not subtle way of telling you to shove off in a few years.
@@cryptbeast3222 Agree, it definitely makes sense when you take into account how wealth is taxed in the US, being only dependent on income but not property
I don’t Think there’s a single RUclipsr has the same level of analogy usage as this man right here. Everything he says is so hilarious while also being spit fucking on
Speaking on Chicago burbs, the South/Southeast suburbs have always in my lifetime historically impoverished. And we have gangs too. Crime didnt follow as much because, in my experience, even with those conditions, they werent as bad as the inner city and we still had a sense of family and community. With all of this displacement, it brings different spirits, ideologies, and principles around and if people dont assimilate, everything tends to fall apart. Its deeper than just poverty, drugs, and murder. Its mentality.
I have been to Chicago, the community itself is strong but the way people move militantly is a cancer, it’s probably bad in other states and cities but seeing how structured and deep everything these smart young guys have going on makes me wonder why nobody is trying to bring unity without compromising important things like honor and respect which any man should care about. Chicago is a city I feel like the leadership will forever try to hold back because they know the peoples potential.
Im white, my family have been broke ghetto polish people (literally, in Poland's OG "Ghettos") in Cleveland's west side since they cam here during WW2. It really is amazing to see how something as mundane and bleak as urban poverty has captured the world's eyes, ears, and heart. And what's sad to me is it makes it seem like some of these areas are like gladiator pits meanwhile it's mostly old people, low income working class families, and alot of people who actually own their homes and take care of them, but then the reputation any "hood" has thanks to No Jumper, King Von, etc. is that these places are just gang banger central, and granted it is for sure like that in a certain time and place, but it gives no credit to the majority of people who play it straight even in Americas "most fucked up" areas according to experts like Trap Lore Ross
racism is so strong that it was common for latino communities to play down any genetic blackness as much as possible. which is interesting because on the west coast, the predominant latino group was mexican, which is on the low end of the black spectrum, so until like the 90s there was basically a race war [at least in la]. so you would think on the east coast, with latinos with *much* higher black genes, there would be less animosity. its wild to see clearly blatino people only being seen as latin. also very surprised there was no mention of capitalism
I LOVED listening to this. I’m an architecture student in NYC and was raised in the projects - in the middle of a white neighborhood - so I’ve heard and lived all sides of the ghetto concept: first lived experience inside, opposing view from outside, and academic explanations. I made it out and am glad to be in a different environment, and i remember being embarrassed of where i lived as a kid. But now that I’m older and know more, i see that i had no hand in how the projects came to be. Decades later, now that same project where i grew up is set to be torn down in a couple years for gentrification through the basic developer condo scheme. It pains me to know that my childhood home will be gone, along with all the friends and community that also had no part in the circumstances they were set in to survive to only be thrown out by people with more money and influence than themselves. I resonate deeply with your closing comment - i would want to change a lot about how i grew up, but looking back at it now, where i grew wouldn’t be something i would change
The Spanish language isn’t necessarily that important in Latino hoods depending on where you are. In the neighborhood I grew up in Queens there was bunch of immigrants from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and a few other countries and everyone spoke Spanish. When I moved to the Bronx though I moved to a neighborhood with a lot of Puerto Ricans and a bunch of them did not speak a lick of Spanish.
Def right about the poorest areas being rural. I have family in south TX, more specifically the Rio grande valley and the first time I visited there I was just shocked. I’m from the south side of Chicago and I grew up in Pilsen which is now gentrified but it was indeed lower working class with lots of homeless folks around when I grew up there..but even that didn’t prep me for the poverty I saw in south TX.
I came up right on the edge of Appalachia in PA, and the most hood places i saw were also the whitest, at least in north east Pennsylvania. when my family finally came up and moved to Central New Jersey, and the difference was so stark to me. The houses were huge, the yards were huger, and the people around me were still white. funny how that works.
Dude that’s because Appalachia is actually poor. Them white folks ain’t got shit to do but get high. Atleast they not killing each other. Blacks live in cities and do bad on purpose. They have choices everyone can go to college due to loans but as we know most blacks are lazy
Thanks for making this video man, I’m very happy that I live in one of the few suburbs that integrated really well all the way back in the 60s and has a great multicultural community. I wish that this wasn’t an oddity.
I'm so glad you made this video, I've been trying to explain this to my friends but they just don't get it. I'm from the South Ward in Newark and I remember visiting my boy in Trenton like damn this feels like home lol
Wooooooooo. Black lady here grew up and still live near Gary, IN. The only thing people say to me when i tell them this is "the jacksons" and "murder capital" like bruh... Gary hasnt been in the top 100 for almost a decade... whaf gets me the most is the "urban exploration" people come on buses and look at the very very beautiful abandoned architecture and white people do whole guided walk through... like bruh.... people still live there... also the fact that they showed my litteral street on life after humans as an example of what a city would look like after humans were gone for a century. 😂 cant do nothing but laugh for crying.... i miss my hood cul-de-sac.... if it had the resources id go back... but ive got kids to think about.
My white ass lived in Harrison NJ with tons of Latino/a/x neighbors and I spent significant time in Newark. I never had a problem. If anything my time in Florida could have (COULD HAVE doing a lot of work here) been more of a problem when I was in the Black neighborhood by my school. I had a friend who lived there, and on my way to see them there was an older Black couple I would often see on their porch. My white ass would smile, wave, and say hello...and they never said hi back. The first few times I got a little offended, but on the third time seeing them I actually looked closely at their faces, trying to glean why they weren't saying hi back. It hit me like a dump truck and broke my heart at the same time; they were scared of me. When I finally got it I was like, "Oh holy shit! They're nervous I'm here to cause trouble! Damn...they've probably had some problems in the past Christopher; you're not in Jersey anymore. Remember that." I toned it down after that and they were much more receptive afterwards. One day the wife, Mrs. Jones, gave me some leftovers because I was really skinny back then. She says I looked like I "needed something filling." Which, as a college kid, I'll take free food! Yes please! I never learned their names more than Mr. & Mrs. Jones, and I was never invited past the front gate let alone inside to see the house and chat over coffee. I'm much more aware now when I'm a guest in someone else's town. I don't want to scare anyone or make them nervous. Because I could get hurt if someone misunderstood me, and if that causes them to hurt me they'll get hurt and down the rabbit hole that goes. I don't want to see that happen. But beyond that, the city is fine people. Go visit.
It's dope that you mention Dolton and Riverdale. I used to live in Harvey, IL, and the changes made over the decades are wild. My granny literally saw the City go from mostly white neighbors to a completely all-black neighborhood with issues that Mayor Kellogg Corn flake refuses to fix.... but we have more fancy police tech. smh
@@Ja.abbatta_V& blacks keep making excuses. We’re the problem not whites. We take over there infrastructure they left and destroy it. Why wouldn’t blacks run away from blacks? Sometimes you gotta put yourself in people shoes
I thought I knew your face and felt crazy watching your channel thinking this thought but when you rolled on up to Trenton, NJ and not only Trenton but Donnelly Homes, I no longer feel insane.
@@fluidthought42 bro theres been whole fist fights over they spicy chicken sandwhich chick-fil-a cant even say thay even tho personally as someone who has lived all over the south bojangles is top tier chicken spot on nation
@@maxether2333 There's fistfights in Churches over who was first in line, that's not a high bar to clear. We aren't saying that Waffle House's mark of quality is the anime fighting tournament arcs that happen at night.
Wonderful video, as always! To be fair, the white "hood" is usually called the "boonies", but the vibes our culture has for those are different. The boonie stereotype is that you can't piss off the locals or they'll turn you into corn fertilizer. Which... Is not actually different from what you were talking about with the hood!
Interesting I always considered the white hood the trailer park. But theres some of those in the boonies I guess lol You ever heard of Thomas so well? He has a video on the origins and parallels of so called hood culture and redneck culture
@37:59 - Yeah, there is. There are idiots in the hood who would do a drive by on a group of unknown people just on the corner minding their business having a good time. Just because!!!! I’ve seen it…
I’m from Detroit, but I made it out. I had a realization a few years back now, that I didn’t relate to stuff coming out of the hood anymore. After that, anytime I tried listening I felt phoney, even a bit guilty.
Thank you. But we not phoney we became educated. I learnt that the way whites do shit is the right way. It’s not even the white way it’s the real world. Allat ghetto shit gets you nowhere out here. It’s good to go to school, exercise, be nice, volunteer etc
what’s crazy is i became very good in spanish growing up in a predominantly hispanic neighborhood. like to this day i can understand spanish 100%, and express myself maybe at like 75% fluency, but i can say literally anything at all in spanish if i need to. basically i speak spanish like a first gen american latino lol, but im african american and irish biracial, and grew up on my irish side.
The hood isnt a community its a project. That isn't said to deny the spirit and soul of individuals who live in the hood. However the collective mind.... yea
Y'know, honest to God, if I could go back to living in our block I would. I am so homesick for our council house that when I dream about anything to do with home, I'm back there. It wasn't the best place in the world, we understand that but when that estate was torn down they were the worse days of my life😭
@@lilbilliam In the suburbs, I'd end up living next to loads of Indian people who thought they got away. They do NOT like us... *and that's the safe option because white suburbs are creepy.
@@lilbilliamit's crazy too cause places like Baltimore get tons of money for the schools and per student and teachers get huge bonuses if they stay on and if kids pass exams. Yet no heat and no AC...
Really love the videos, in case you weren’t aware, in some parts of the video, especially cutaways to computer recordings, your voiceover is only in the left channel. If you’re listening on your phone or speakers, no big deal, but I often will listen with one headphone in, and it’s usually the right, so when your voiceover goes to the left channel, I’m left in silence wondering why the video stopped playing.
That's the one thing I'd say I always envied, is those people in the hood just across the highway they had community. Everybody went to the same school, the same church, the hung out right out side the liquor store, in the park, they knew who their neighbors were. As a 7 year old a wished I lived in the hood. As weird as it sounds I was always jealousy of the hood because despite all the bad they weren't alone in my eyes as a kid. And the suburbs was 100% isolation and depression, they just happen to have the one thing I really wanted as a kid.
@turkishman4202 It's not that simple, it's not just talking and socializing with people. There's an enmeshment of people's lives that exists through the presence of community, as well as physical proximity, so there are many factors that limit socialization in the suburbs. Families in the suburbs barely know or rely on one another, or try to, so even if you're a kid with friends at school most likely they live too far to visit on a whim and everything has to be planned out and not conflict with the schedules of any adults involved.
You was cookin this video 💯 And the Cabrini Green projects wasn’t even the worst hood in Chicago, the Robert Taylor Homes and The Hornets were literal war zones
Right on Lil Bill for making part of this video to talk about Raza hoods. Colorism is real in our communities. There still needs to be more unity between Black and Brown hoods.
I watched Trap Lore Ross's video on The Bronx. Unfortunately, I lost some friends as a youth to gun violence. One of them was the younger sibling of a kid who joined the bloods out of peer pressure and he was around when a fight over $200 got heated. I say this to let you know I had enough insight into my friend's struggles to take exception to how Ross would refer to these teenagers who were mislead, groomed and abused into making horrible decisions while having their most impulsive behaviors reinforced. Not that there was ever a "street code", but real OGs in my generation are pretty much non-existent. It hits different when you see it first hand, human beings growing up and having their worst impulses reinforced so heavily. I HATE words like "hood" and "ghetto" as Americans use them to describe poor--and incidentally black and hispanic--people because it's so fucking dehumanizing. Growing up with my own family members lacking the emotional intelligence to even admit they have anger issues gave me the perspective to know that the way the media portrays ALL OF US doesn't inform any kind of social awareness about how to handle that anger. Because like you said, gun violence isn't random. Anyone suffering from serious generational trauma has almost certainly been angry enough to wanna at least seriously injure someone. Seeing it come to reality at your friend's or loved one's hands makes it more real. When the fuck are the people who "represent us" gonna look at us as humans? And why do we as a consumer culture mentally ALLOW them to represent us in the first place? I don't fuck with my generation because, in the least patronizing way possible, that school of thought is just pathetic to me. And then YOU get looked at like you don't understand when you want to invest your hard-earned cash in some fucking peace and quiet.
42:05 This is what my mom always has to tell these privileged consevatives. When you're born into a poor family, everyone you know is poor. There's no getting private assistance from someone you know, cause they gotta make rent this month too.
This is one of the most consise essays on "inner city, urban politics" outside of the everwatching eye of Mass White Media. People from outside our communities love to judge, and endulge in the spectacle of the extremes of other cultures, never understanding the nuance. But your later point about how the hood encapsulates the in many ways universal values of human survival, "Community, ingenuity, self reliance, endurance" is why so many silver spooned, red pilled suburbanites have talked about "the Return to Unga Bunga" . Its a reflection of their racism and self hate, and the "softness" that modernity and civility have created. (Just for them tho) Their ancestors spent every waking moment creating this western society, and now that its not 'fun or edgy' enough, now that cops cant just beat minorities and women have power, and society before perhaps promoted humanism and rights, their spoiled offspring think, Maybe the "Natives" were right. Nativism in there eyes, or unga bunga, is just codified racism. Its extremist tribalism. "Me want to screw woman, me want to fight other who look other, and think of nothing else". They want to be animals, or more accurately, less beholden to the society their ancestors created. Ironically, or appropriately enough, this has been an energy among white liberals for DECADES, Eastern Mysticism and the like. A rejection of modern standards and expectations. I can go anywhere and do anything DADDDD! While wholely being oblivious to the fact theyre jsut repeating the same thing.(American Revolution) but like you said! Its a true human desire, to become more community and nature riented, but they keep screwing everything and everyone else over in that pursuit. I think a great essay topic would be how Western Society Creates, Feeds and Reproduces its Own Problems, because some people keep making Beaucoop Bucks on these machinations. Of course its gonna get back into communism, and a movement among people today that I like to call "communityism". Which is just basic socialism that doesnt scare white people. But the Western cultural energy of destroying everything in its path so its own people are satified, and then a generation passes and theyre not. I think its a specifically priviledged energy, especially since World War 1, and I think a deep dive on how we get people who inherit billions, but ineffectively "rebel" against the system, which usually leads to the involvement and then manipulation of minority cultures that thrived or existed without them. THEN combine the stereotypes of the culture that makes the rebels comfortable. Think of all the white patron clubs in the Harlem Renneasance. The massive involvement of ARs and Directors in the Marketing of Hip Hop. Blaxplotation films writers and production teams. Porn. Just porn. Even back to the Vaudeville days... You could make an entire essay on how privilledged people throughout history have loved to parTAKE in the culture, and maybe (definetly) in the women, but they make sure to reshape the Native culture in a form palatable to them. Hip Hop, Jazz, Black Sexuality, Native Americans, even Slavery and Jim Crow. The line between curiousity, the desire to be free, to also dominate, reeducate, enlighten, and to experience isnt a line, its a Venn Diagram. I hope my ramblings conveyed what I tried to say.
I just wanna acknowledge the fact that RUclips is actively censoring lil bill whilst pushing Trap Lore Ross to the top of the algo. Only makes this video hit harder.
While it isn't the complete same experience, I grew up right on the edge of South Austin, and for anyone who know South Austin, it's as "ghetto" as you can imagine it. I never went into that part of the city cuz I was sheltered, but recently I've had the experience to take public transit, walk the streets and just move about the city on a consistent basis. And it really ain't anything special. Most people just tryna do their thing and get along with their day. In fact, I've had pretty pleasant experiences with the people there, even those that people would write off as nuisances, like the mentally ill, homeless and ne'er-do-wells. It's crazy how treating people with respect, dignity and allowing them to go along with theirs lives will cause them to reciprocate that respect onto you 🥴
I grew up in south Dallas, in one of the "roughest" neighborhoods. Never got stolen from or threatened in anyway. My house was literally between a piru house and a crip house. They were both the best neighbors I've ever had. My point, you prolly won't get shot, hurt or threatened by anyone if you treat people right. No matter where you are.
I made it from Oak Cliff to Carrollton. I was more nervous in Carrollton/Farmers Branch. NOBODY messes with you in the south DFW or west DFW, but the POLICE love to fuck with random people on this side.
Shout out to Oak Cliff, Glen Heights, Desoto, etc!! DFW in the building like the low battery smoke detector!!
Exactly bro real simple. Only real people from the hood understand this
Shit, i knew an older crip (around my age) who told me some things, and he had his fellow members who visited sometimes. Sometimes even people he knew from rival gangs but were connected through family or shared hardship. The crew got wild sometimes, but i never heard shots ring out from them, and I never saw any of them get picked up or taken away by police. Hell we had to worry more about the drugged out maga white guys down further in the apt. complex parking lot who were stealing catalytic converters and drilling out tanks for gas.
But the crip homie was just minding his business most often unless somebody was starting shit with him, and he left the complex to do his dirt. He knew I wasn't about that street life and as far as i know he respected the fact that i wasn't about to get active with his group but again...like he never stole from me or anything your avg Tuckerite likes to say about black "thugs" in "the hood".
The brotha was thuggish no doubt, but like...not irresponsible if that makes sense. But i guess part of that was because he had family, was trying to keep his head on straight, and potentially get out of the game to do something else.
Yeah my experience with things like anonymous theft was like one time in a 95% white middle class suburban neighborhood in one of the richest counties in Kansas
I’ve yet to hear anything irl about people actually stealing more than food or money in areas that people say are “bad”
And I’ve lived in areas people called bad but the crime stats said it was all DV and like half the neighborhood was cops
I was tell my fiancée that.. people want to be from the “struggle” so bad, it’s a weird time. There’s nothing cool about struggling.
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the youth see rappers and other types of artists from that kind of environment get rich and begin seeing that environment as directly related to their success
Hell yeah wish i was a trust fund baby.
Facts
The reason for that is that many people don't wanna think they got it relatively easy in life, in other words many people don't like to recognize their privilege recognizing it necessarily entails that something's wrong is with our current and God forbid someone says capitalism is bad.
They also see the recognition of their privilege as a moral failure since everyone knows you gotta work hard to get to where you are but if you're just privilege your nothing but a phony. Something something "meritocracy" you get the point
I'm latina and moved into public housing after a lot of hardships soon after turning 18 and learned that I was living in the same exact apartment (not just complex) that my grandma's brother took his life in. It just felt like a horrifying cycle of being trapped in this system
Wow...
Are you thick
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@@idontcare2851you must care😊
@37:59 - Yeah, there is. There are idiots in the hood who would do a drive by on a group of unknown people just on the corner minding their business having a good time. Just because!!!! I’ve seen it…
I love how you talked about the hood not always looking like inner cities, but I’m shocked you didn’t bring up the rural West and Native American reservations. I feel like many of these areas are just as poor and underserved as the rural South, if not worse
I kinda get what you're saying, but the concept of the hood needs to be defined....because I don't think Bill is just talking about poor/low-resourced areas....I feel like trailer parks, rural areas and reservations are their own categories of poverty-striken areas *still* separate from what we mean when we say the hood. I think it's the combination of poverty, race/culture/immigration, zoning, etc that creates what we consider to be the hood
@@juicyparsonsI see what you’re saying, but I feel that the conditions in the West were also a product of public policy, economic conditions, and societal views/biases. This amongst other things contributed to a certain culture forming. By Bill’s definition, they would be hoods
I did and a post script mention reservations but I didn't realize until I was basically done that I forget to mention Reservations in the section with Barrios, and chinatowns
But ain’t they exempt from taxes and get checks every month…along with their own land?
@@richmondwottersno! we're exempt from state income taxes if and only if we live on a reservation, AND work for our tribe, otherwise that's a hard no. So perhaps 5% of us are exempt from state taxes, because we are separate from the state we are surrounded by. This is part of why if you drive onto a reservation, you're likely to drive onto dirt roads because the state could give two shits about us. If you follow the money, for every tax dollar that goes to tribes for things like education, at least $7 is going to the average American.
And also, if we are getting any kind of checks it's because we pay ourselves from any tribally owned business revenues. it's not from the United States government and for the vast majority of us, those checks may come out to a couple hundred a year, if even that.
I'm a white kid who grew up in Pennsyltucky, and let me tell you, the amount of trap houses/meth houses out here is nuts. We had a meth house burn down near my school in like 2012. I dated a guy who lived with roomies in a trap house in one of those nice suburban neighborhoods with the housses built in the early 00s. The drug use out here is just as crazy
My mom is from Western PA. Tell me more…
I knew more drug addicts living in NEPA than living in New York. It's actually insane lol
We had a meth lab explode and blow our windows out. There was low income housing right next to our upper middle class neighborhood. That housing was destroyed weeks later. I live in Kentucky for reference.
Interesting, my friend lives in a small suburb of the 4th most dangerous city in Canada (the city I live in). The houses in his neighborhood were built from the late 90s- late 2010s, and there's a surprising amount of trap houses. Theres even 2 trap houses 2 doors down from each other on the same road.
The laws are good for non blacks. No cops go through there taken ppl out, sending ppl to jail...they should go to jail just like bp had to go to jail for drug use. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. America has a price to pay.
My 56 Y/O white dad moved out of Philadelphia to Florida last year. I catch him all the time watching hood content all the time. Everytime I say “ya miss it don’t ya?” And he fumbles with his phone and puts it away like I caught him watching P
😂😂😂😂why you do him like that ?
It's a thing. I miss some of the things people consider "ghetto" in my life.
bro you’re an excellent speaker. you don’t even need much editing. i admire your ability to let thoughts flow out of your mind so smoothly. keep dropping fire brother🫡💪🏾
Being poor really sucks. My first apartment had bullet holes in the wall they painted over. First month there a bunch of cops with shotguns showed up at my door looking for the guy who used to live there. We got on food stamps, which helped but barely. Thankfully we had supportive family who helped us as I transitioned into the tech field and worked my way up (again with help).
Billiam: shoots part of video outside
FD: Speechless, points at screen, intensely seething like HHH
Lol
I'm a white guy from Baltimore, all my neighbors have been black for most of my life, and all of them have always been really chill, normal people. I hear terrible things about my city from people who haven't been here, watched a few episodes of the wire, and never gave Baltimore a chance. I think this video's great, and brings to light a lot of annoying stereotypes I've heard about the people I grew up around. Acknowledging that the reasons those assumptions exist can be real, but also making sure people know they don't apply to everybody is really important.
I'm a white dude who's spent a lot of time in the hoods of LA and Fort Worth and I've never been a victim of crime there. I don't go to hang out late at night (when most crimes happen) and I trust my spidey senses. More than a few times, I was at a club and sensed that tensions were escalating and I got out of there. The only time I ever got robbed was my car got vandalized in a mall parking lot in a mostly white suburb.
Good for you buddy, white people ignoring crime in bad areas helps everyone. For real though talk to the police in those areas if you want to know whats really going on. Dont just assume because you didnt get shot while passing through makes it a safe place.
Having to use your 'spidey senses' all the time and it being unsafe to go out at night is actually not normal. I don't know what you tried to say with this comment, but it only seems to say that those areas are indeed unsafe.
@@youcanthandlethetruth8873he’s not talking about some supernatural ability he literally means using his head and common sense. If you see a group of white or black or Filipino or Martian dudes (or not dudes) standing in an alleyway holding baseball bats staring at your pockets menacingly, you might want to walk the other way and get on the phone with somebody. Dumbasses who walk by scrolling through Facebook and Tiktok with zero awareness are the ones who will get targeted if they were ever even a target at all. The original commenter did not say anything about the people he encountered being more criminal or civil, he did not know because he never got himself into disadvantageous situations. If everyone tried a little bit harder (I know it’s hard to do so because your life is so easy in 21st century America) we’d have a lot less crime committed by idiots against idiots.
@@pyramidion5911wdym lol people ignore crime literally 24/7 and you and I (probably) will ignore any crime unless it directly affects us because we don’t care. If you saw a homeless person stab a crackhead, are you going to do the same for them that you would do for your sister or your mother? No, no you are not. If you see a politician gain hundreds of thousands of dollars from insider trading, are you going to put your life on hold to call them out and get them prosecuted? No, because you don’t truly care and even if you did you wouldn’t be able to influence action against it.
@@josephmother2659 Seems kinda 'victim blamy' to me. Running the risk of robery should not be a normal thing. Constantly looking out for yourself should not be necessary in a wel adjusted neighbourhood.
Shit like r/NYstateofmind and DJ Akademiks made the hood into something cool for people not from there to consume.
Wtf are either of those things?
@@desuretard8654One is a New York reddit forum, the other is a clown
@@desuretard8654Subreddits
There’s more of em too
Thank you for speakin on NYstateofmind I’m from Flatbush I Grew up with the guys that are GDs from Brooklyn in Brownsville and Flatbush these kids diss my friends and there organizations for clout and cool points you know no Blixkys no Choo’s as OPPs you know them from Drill music they have family who watch you guys disrespect them everyday my friend sister gets comments on instagram everyday about my dead friend just cuz he was GD make it make Sense
holy shit thank you for calling out trap lore ross lmao he doesn't even use the current definition of serial killer in that video its insane on a number of levels
you guys wanna hear my conspiracy theory? lol I think Ross is putting himself in position to make himself a martyr.....he keeps making his content longer, more in depth, and I feel like he knows that somebody might bring him some violence someday...but now he's so popular he will just pull on the public's heartstrings and still come out on top. mark my words some rapper testing his gangster is only gonna make him more powerful. I'm getting covert white savior vibes from him tbh
King Von was a serial killer by any definition you want to put, but I see your bias showing by policing what’s online to consume… so sorry didn’t realize you were the all seeing eye online
Thank you for spending some time talking about Appalachia. Most people don't realize how economically depressed most of that area is.
I have friends from Appalachia. One of my closest friends is actually from Appalachian WV, basically ground zero for the oxy nightmare that started so many years ago.
I'm glad he mentioned it, too. There's some really wonderful people tucked away in those mountains, but they're so used to being made fun of or kicked down at that they tend to just keep to themselves. And you also get the added perk of industrial waste poisoning thousands of acres of land and entire water tables, including some substances that lead to increased birth defects, cancers, kidney problems, etc. Louisiana's Cancer Alley is a great example of this, but it's far from the only one.
There's way too many totally ignored people in this country. We like to hide our poor, the more deeply the better. Until it's time for some sensationalized nightly news story or another round of disaster tourism, at least.
@@RevShiftywell MLK tried to help the sitch buh a wm took him out so idk 🤔😒. They
This was a good essay on poverty and hoods in America. I live in Baltimore and was born in Norfolk, it's crazy how ubiquitous the black experience is nationwide. I lived as a child in a black working class neighborhood and white people called it the "hood" then you have white people living in poor sections of Baltimore county such as Dundalk and that isn't referred to as the hood. When you drive through neighborhoods of Virginia Beach that look like questessitial suburbia and it's the "hood" because the residence are black and brown.
Also I almost died when yo said clubfooted offspring
"The 'hood" is black slang for "neighborhood," which is pretty much what everyone called their homes until the media started mainstreaming everything subcultural and decadent. Continuing to call it "the 'hood" is perpetuating a perversely self-criminalizing tendency. You might think of it as a place worth caring for and saving if you went back to calling it a neighborhood. Calling it "the 'hood" is an admission that it's lost, a wasteland." That's partly how places become wastelands.
Makes no sense
The number of times people didn't want to go somewhere in Baltimore but were cool with going somewhere next to Dundalk. smh
Same. I grew up in the highest income per capita majority black county in America.
The difference is.. across the river is the highest income per capita county in America, majority white
Sounds like not that big of a difference. It is though.
Cus whites treat they neighbors fairly. It’s not about the area it’s the people. Anywhere a group of blacks go will become the hood because they’re ignorant. They gone sell drugs to each other, fight, shoot, not get a job living off welfare so they can’t pay for the upkeep of the property smh
As a black kid from the middle class suburbs whose only black hood experience was tv that I was sneaking to watch, I am glad this conversation is happening. What we call the projects was not the project. Middle class suburbia was. Both sides believe a lot of crazy things about each other that, flat out, isn't true.
Some of your points remind me a lot of my childhood. I was a white kid in a majority black neighborhood and whenever my cousins, or another white kid from school would be coming over they’d ask if they’d be ok or if whites get shot at on sight. I’d always think “how do you think I’m alive!?”
I grew up in florida in a rough neck of the woods, and always had a hard time conceiving how i could live right next to literal mansions when my dad was struggling to feed my family.
Love what you have to say brother
Ps
The band’s performance in the last waltz of “the night they drove old Dixie down “ is a great song and my favorite band
same here grew up in the rough projects of south miami but our school was in the wealthy area which was only a 5-10 minute drive
Florida I think I'd just like that for some reason it doesn't get better in the more city areas I was In I used to live in these apartments that weren't the best and sometimes down right poor next to these nice white fences was these big luxurious houses right next to us almost being in your face like "oo what could've been" idk tho I think more common people needs to open there eyes sometimes
lived in west pasco for 4 years! met some of the most genuine people & had a true neighborhood kid childhood experience. needles on the ground at the bus stop type shit tho. was a huge culture shock going from inner city hood in the midwest to a more southern country type that was still so densely populated despite the lack of infrastructure
I'm a white Puerto Rican producer from the burbs. I worked at a studio in Humboldt Park in Chicago for a while. Everyone there was cool af. They knew I wasn't bout that life and I was just there to make music and they actually fucked with me. Wasn't no hate or intimidating or threats. Never once did I feel unsafe in Chicago. The media blows the violence way outta proportion.
The south side is one of the most welcoming and homely places I’ve been, yeah it’s dangerous compared to like, most other Midwestern cities, but there’s a respect that you get as long as u just keep to yourself and are passionate n nice to those around you
I’m half Puerto Rican half white you are boriqua gang
Hood crime promotion is linked to correction facilities investors...
You’re probably not white
@JayGreens most cases of outsiders getting hurt here is mentally ill people n robberies so it’s about the same as anywhere else
Thank you again lil bill for helping me articulate life growing up in the hood or in my case “the barrio”.
Also thank you for speaking on the part about “not knowing the language” of the barrio is an almost alienating feeling. I got bullied hella and even caught fades for not being “latino enough” and knowing the language.
Where I live now, most of my friends are white and it’s hard for me to explain my experiences to them because as you summed it up, at 57:00 “it’s not a place, it’s an experience”
edit/sum up: if you group up in the hood then you know lmao
Hm. From my experience the cholos can barely speak it themselves 😂
@@malegria9641 ehh it a spectrum really and geography. Where I’m from, the barrio is pretty insular so speaking spanish as a first language in my area is common. I, however, learned english as a first language, so I played a lot of catch up growing up, and am still learning to speak the language in college
Camden resident born and raised here! Love your videos dude. Also, Churches absolutely clears Popeyes
#1 and #2 chicken franchises in that order! idk why people don't' get that lol
I drove through the bluff in Atlanta a few weeks ago, and that hood is dead. Bought up, boarded up, and ready to be demolished.
I think a lot of them were living in some fancy aparts that a rapper from the hood brought to let them live free, but feds took it because they said he was using it as a trap house and it was brought with drug money.
Great video as always.
57:00 "There's no such thing as a bad neighborhood, there's only a lack of resources". Well said.
Community is key. There are studies that show a correlation between income and community in neighborhoods.
I learned lots and got reminded of things I had forgotten.
That is probably one of the best quotes I've ever heard and I will use it.
It just puts the truth across so succinctly.
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That doesn't mean that bad neighborhoods don't exist, it just partially explains why they exist.
You say that but there are plenty of bad neighborhoods with plenty of resources.
It's not resources. It is buying into and then living out and propagating a "culture" that was invented by rich people. Said to be black culture. But has nothing to do with anything except the most moronic distructive crap ever. Then stupid white kids eventually grab onto it because they were told subconsciously through media and the created white person culture that black people are cooler than white people... It's all manipulation. Everything anyone does is because they were trained to do it from birth. This became very easy with television. Then more so with the internet... Now it's game over with these phones.
The real question is who is really behind the orchestration of this manipulation. And what is the purpose and end goal. Is it really just money? If you are someone who runs the world money shouldn't seem To matter... As it's only a fictional thing anyways. And also you are in a position you can have anything you ever could desire that money could buy.
The Cabrini Green project was not nearly as bad as its reputation suggests. The only reason it had such a reputation was because it was actually located in an affluent neighborhood. The Robert Taylor Homes were way worse.
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Shout out to millennial Chi-townians. RIP Chicago projects. They aren't missed. It's just weird you can relocate a whole population because rich folks feel like living here now.
Side note, I got chased though the Robert Taylor Homes once because I dared to wait for my bus... Never had any issues in Cabrini. It's anecdotal... But lines up with your comment.
@@ecilpsgg if I remember correctly, Cabrini Green was intended for Irish and Italian people (hence the name). Those were most of the occupants for the first decade or so. That's how they were able to originally build it in an upper middle class neighborhood in the first place. Also, the low rise housing projects of Cabrini Green are still there.
@@robk7266 Thanks for the info. I didn't know that about Cabrini. Also didn't know it survived. Haven't been that way in a long time. I'm not in Chicago anymore. Thought all the 'jects were torn down.
@@robk7266I wad just telling my wife that the projects in New Orleans were originally built for Irish and Italians. They gave them all that free housing and once we benefited from it, they shut down the projects.
Incredible! One of your best videos yet.
I was only gonna watch a few minutes but couldn't stop, what topped it off is how you're advising people on what to do at the end to combat this!
I grew up in NYCHA both in Harlem and the South Bronx and I have nothing but positive memories from those places. Everyone had each other's back. Spent most of my days going to the library playing YuGiOh with the kids from school. The point is, I never felt unsafe, or unwelcome, and it was honestly the only places I've lived now that I "made it out" where I actually felt real love from my community.
As someone born and raised in Camden, your content surrounding NJ as well as the fact you're from Trenton resonates a ton with me.
Rural poverty is a different ball game, and no one talks about it. Glad you are highlighting it. Also, black farmers are mistreated very harshly. I couldn't live in rural area
How are black farmers mistread very harshly? And why? I haven't heard anything about the farmers mistreatment in the black community since the 90s or some like that when there was still some goofy ass policy/books from the dept of agriculture that didn't get dealt with until almost the turn of the century.
@@JohnDorian-j7x listen babes, a little bit of Googles could have answered your questions but here are some issues. Also PBS did a special on them recently and I would post that below
Black farmers have long faced systemic discrimination by public and private institutions and barriers to economic mobility. Inequities in the administration of government farm programs and discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture have had a devastating impact on rural communities of color
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Black Farmers Issues video via PBS
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@@JohnDorian-j7xthe white farmers are harrassin them 😒
I would have never in a trillion years have imagined I’d hear Lil Billiam drop an Avett Brothers bar 💀!!
I really appreciate this video. I’ve been a black person in white spaces my whole life, now as a broke single mom with very few resources, I’ve found myself living with two amazing black women in the hood of Chicago. I’m not worried about danger or anything like that, but I don’t know how to connect with my community as someone who lived an extremely suburban life. This video kinda helped me articulate that that’s something I’ve been struggling with.
I hope my love for Primm’s Hood Cinema doesn’t make me a bad ally
you are according to this guy lol
Just like me liking Trap Lore for accurately depicting the struggles of gang infested cities by online research, just like everyone else
Grew up in the hood. I always felt safe, it's these suburban neighborhoods that scare me. 😂
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!! This is one of my biggest gripes with online black leftist, alot don't experience from the neighborhoods and poverty, and the problems that come from that. They seem so eager to critize without realizing that non of this shit can be fixed without adressing the material conditions which creat the issues in the first place.
Man them democrats are fucking up the black community so bad. Republicans want us to work hard work for ourself. Fuck the government we need to come together and build our neighborhood ourselves fuck asking for help we look weak
1:00:06 "it takes a community to raise a child". my indigenous peoples made that our motto before my time
Gaza is an open air prison
If you beat the streets and do survive..it. Exhausts you it takes years to recover from and while ur doing that it’s a time u need to build your situation witch puts u on overdrive the system is ment to brake you in half or stall you out it’s so fucked yp
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a lot of kids who grew up in the hood have a form of ptsd similar to people in the military… look it up
@@Jsmoove8kman that’s just cap shit they say. I’ve been shot and I don’t have ptsd. Blacks look for every excuse to not be doing well meanwhile they have the best resources just lazy asf
Man when you started talking about having to decide between eating and buying gas just to get to work… too fucking real. I’m nineteen living on my own and it’s hard man. My ass got whipped into that survival mentality real quick.
God bless you bro you gonna make it just gotta think outside of the box they tryna put you in 💯
Commute time should be paid time. That's just a bare minimum yet obvious concession.
Damn I’m the same age. Idk how you do it
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404right we fighting each other we need to fight these damn CEOs
Best of luck. Be careful if you ever end up in a more well off station in life, because that survival mindset has a way of sticking around. You can get so used to scrambling for the most basic necessities and choosing which thing you can sacrifice until the next paycheck (heat or food, problems with your vehicle, etc) that it can be hard to break free of.
I’ve lived in Alabama my whole life, and i’m grateful for the privileges I have. Living here there’s a reminder nearly everyday that you’re lucky to even have basic necessities. I’ve lived all over this state, and the stuff you see in rural areas like Pike county vs Birmingham for example appear so different but in the end it’s the same stuff that people lack access to. It never has been the people, i’ve met extremely nice and kindhearted people in Anniston but the system of things has beyond fucked that town.
Bed Stuy Native..and you are correct in your assessment. Got family in the South...not even the deeeeeeep South and you are correct about not seeing poverty poverty til you see it in the south. Lack of even reliable public transportation, something us Northerners take for granted
16:43 hearing about people getting pushed out to the outskirts of cities due to expense… kinda hits close to home. That’s exactly what’s happened to me and my mom. We use to live within walking distance if a bus stop, 10 min either way driving to our work. Now we’re out almost to the boonies cuz it was the only place we could find anything we could sustain paying rent for and even that’s fine up 🙃
This is sad because public transport is so important for everyone, especially to negate all costs of owning a vehicle.
@@Sofiaode18right I keep telling people blacks fuck up shit for themselves they always complaining. They have everything to make them succeed. I like in the suburbs and if you not rich it’s sooo hard everything is far asf
58:39 - Thank you for this part. I find getting people to provide support is the hardest thing of all. I am back to living in poverty in a Brown community. I got out but fell back in due to escaping DV. But still doing my sj work, probably harder now than ever because I need to.
Something that I hear in the undertone of what you're saying is something I've felt for a while. That people have become so individualized, they are not providing the community we once had and now need more than ever.
(That may just be me though because the Neurodiversity community, my sj area, didn't come out of a 'hood... so never had a community that relied on each other to survive. Something for me to think on.)
@37:59 - Yeah, there is. There are idiots in the hood who would do a drive by on a group of unknown people just on the corner minding their business having a good time. Just because!!!! I’ve seen it…
Growing up in South Africa, ive always loved to see the analysis similarities and differences between the types of discrimination and treatment of non white persons between our countries- especially because of how the state of the black man in America was one of the major motivations to fight Apartheid on our side.
Always a pleasure and a motivation to learn more when I watch your videos
As a whitey who grew up in the hood with broke ass early 20s parents who were listening to Rush Limbaugh's 'The Way Things Ought To Be' on audio tape in 1992 I felt that intro so deep
Imagine being cucked enough to call yourself that.
My dad nigerian and love rush Limbaugh. Rip too dude he really loves America man
When cops need to start hanging out in the bowling alley parking lot, your town's done.
I spent 6 years growing up in Augusta, GA. It's a fairly big city, but there were still people living in old houses that were built without power or plumbing. In one case, literally next door to a gas station.
I grew up there too
I moved out of the hood before high school, and I will comfortably tell anyone that I haven't been there in a long enough time to know what's going on.
I just know how it used to work, and I can base the way I carry myself in the hood on that.
Adding to your point about infrastructure being abysmal in rural towns, I've had the theory that the reason gentrification is becoming popular is the fact that the average middle class white person has lost the ability to pay for their acre sized single family plots of land and are now forced to live in an actual city like the rest of the world due to the subsidies of days past no longer supporting the suburban projects. They have nowhere else to run to unless they're willing to drive several hours to a job near that city they live and that's impractical for most people, so it's easier to displace poor folks in the inner city, fix up their home/demolish them and then sell it to young, middle class person and now they can live close to their job and pay less in future property taxes since they don't own huge unused acres of land nor do they have to pay more fo infrastructure to go out to them in the moddle of nowhere.
There's also the fact that suburban culture is hellishly isolated, depressing and paranoid. It can be a miserable place to live for most. So, the young from these environments flood into the cities because they've often mythologized what city life is like and want to take a part of it for themselves. It often doesn't work because many of them don't want to mesh with the locals and just push/price them out. Eventually replacing them with something similar to what they grew up around but closer in proximity to each other.
@@cryptbeast3222 Actually like your point more tbh, it makes sense to me now that I've been working with suburbanites since they act like the city I live in SO dangerous and like people just pop out of cars ready to tear you limb from limb. Then people like the artsy-fartsy side of town because historical big homes are there and then they can over price them and put overpriced stores nearby. Just American logic though I guess, just keep building fancy shit for the sake of building it without considering who can actually use it or afford it.
@@TomyPesantes It's to further price out the locals and also, if your filthy rich, there are tax write offs for owning cultural centers. You can see some of this going on in Appalachian towns too. Weird art galleries, mansion business centers and hyper expensive restaurants in areas where most buildings are boarded up and getting prepared for bulldozing and replacing. It's never for the locals. It's a not subtle way of telling you to shove off in a few years.
@@cryptbeast3222 Agree, it definitely makes sense when you take into account how wealth is taxed in the US, being only dependent on income but not property
I don’t Think there’s a single RUclipsr has the same level of analogy usage as this man right here. Everything he says is so hilarious while also being spit fucking on
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Being from Camden, I was waiting until we would show up. I can't believe it took 29 minutes! 😀 This was an awesome history lesson. Thank you!
Thank you for working on this, and the other videos and this series. 5/5 stars.
Although now I want to rewatch the whole series again!
Speaking on Chicago burbs, the South/Southeast suburbs have always in my lifetime historically impoverished. And we have gangs too. Crime didnt follow as much because, in my experience, even with those conditions, they werent as bad as the inner city and we still had a sense of family and community. With all of this displacement, it brings different spirits, ideologies, and principles around and if people dont assimilate, everything tends to fall apart. Its deeper than just poverty, drugs, and murder.
Its mentality.
I have been to Chicago, the community itself is strong but the way people move militantly is a cancer, it’s probably bad in other states and cities but seeing how structured and deep everything these smart young guys have going on makes me wonder why nobody is trying to bring unity without compromising important things like honor and respect which any man should care about. Chicago is a city I feel like the leadership will forever try to hold back because they know the peoples potential.
Im white, my family have been broke ghetto polish people (literally, in Poland's OG "Ghettos") in Cleveland's west side since they cam here during WW2. It really is amazing to see how something as mundane and bleak as urban poverty has captured the world's eyes, ears, and heart. And what's sad to me is it makes it seem like some of these areas are like gladiator pits meanwhile it's mostly old people, low income working class families, and alot of people who actually own their homes and take care of them, but then the reputation any "hood" has thanks to No Jumper, King Von, etc. is that these places are just gang banger central, and granted it is for sure like that in a certain time and place, but it gives no credit to the majority of people who play it straight even in Americas "most fucked up" areas according to experts like Trap Lore Ross
racism is so strong that it was common for latino communities to play down any genetic blackness as much as possible. which is interesting because on the west coast, the predominant latino group was mexican, which is on the low end of the black spectrum, so until like the 90s there was basically a race war [at least in la]. so you would think on the east coast, with latinos with *much* higher black genes, there would be less animosity. its wild to see clearly blatino people only being seen as latin.
also very surprised there was no mention of capitalism
Anti Haitian racism especially. A lot of black latinos will swear up and down that they aren't black because they associate that with Haitians.
I LOVED listening to this. I’m an architecture student in NYC and was raised in the projects - in the middle of a white neighborhood - so I’ve heard and lived all sides of the ghetto concept: first lived experience inside, opposing view from outside, and academic explanations. I made it out and am glad to be in a different environment, and i remember being embarrassed of where i lived as a kid. But now that I’m older and know more, i see that i had no hand in how the projects came to be. Decades later, now that same project where i grew up is set to be torn down in a couple years for gentrification through the basic developer condo scheme. It pains me to know that my childhood home will be gone, along with all the friends and community that also had no part in the circumstances they were set in to survive to only be thrown out by people with more money and influence than themselves. I resonate deeply with your closing comment - i would want to change a lot about how i grew up, but looking back at it now, where i grew wouldn’t be something i would change
You made it out "the trap" set up by them ppl. That's awesome.
As a nigga from a small town in rural Georgia , that segment about the hood in the country really hit home man.
The Spanish language isn’t necessarily that important in Latino hoods depending on where you are. In the neighborhood I grew up in Queens there was bunch of immigrants from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and a few other countries and everyone spoke Spanish. When I moved to the Bronx though I moved to a neighborhood with a lot of Puerto Ricans and a bunch of them did not speak a lick of Spanish.
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I’m Puerto Rican and don’t speak Spanish, apparently it’s actually quite common among Puerto Ricans and I had literally no idea
*Barrios
Def right about the poorest areas being rural. I have family in south TX, more specifically the Rio grande valley and the first time I visited there I was just shocked. I’m from the south side of Chicago and I grew up in Pilsen which is now gentrified but it was indeed lower working class with lots of homeless folks around when I grew up there..but even that didn’t prep me for the poverty I saw in south TX.
Another great video. Thanks for talking about your neighbors. Community is key.
13:20 the way they say black makes my eye twitch a little bit
I came up right on the edge of Appalachia in PA, and the most hood places i saw were also the whitest, at least in north east Pennsylvania. when my family finally came up and moved to Central New Jersey, and the difference was so stark to me. The houses were huge, the yards were huger, and the people around me were still white. funny how that works.
Basically black Americans are caught up in between white on white crime and a class war between white Americans
Dude that’s because Appalachia is actually poor. Them white folks ain’t got shit to do but get high. Atleast they not killing each other. Blacks live in cities and do bad on purpose. They have choices everyone can go to college due to loans but as we know most blacks are lazy
This is really really good. You articulated a lot of things I’ve thought before but never could put to words
Thanks for making this video man, I’m very happy that I live in one of the few suburbs that integrated really well all the way back in the 60s and has a great multicultural community. I wish that this wasn’t an oddity.
I'm so glad you made this video, I've been trying to explain this to my friends but they just don't get it. I'm from the South Ward in Newark and I remember visiting my boy in Trenton like damn this feels like home lol
One of my favorite series on your channel. I hope I make it to the livestream😅⭐️
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Wooooooooo. Black lady here grew up and still live near Gary, IN. The only thing people say to me when i tell them this is "the jacksons" and "murder capital" like bruh... Gary hasnt been in the top 100 for almost a decade... whaf gets me the most is the "urban exploration" people come on buses and look at the very very beautiful abandoned architecture and white people do whole guided walk through... like bruh.... people still live there... also the fact that they showed my litteral street on life after humans as an example of what a city would look like after humans were gone for a century. 😂 cant do nothing but laugh for crying.... i miss my hood cul-de-sac.... if it had the resources id go back... but ive got kids to think about.
My white ass lived in Harrison NJ with tons of Latino/a/x neighbors and I spent significant time in Newark. I never had a problem.
If anything my time in Florida could have (COULD HAVE doing a lot of work here) been more of a problem when I was in the Black neighborhood by my school. I had a friend who lived there, and on my way to see them there was an older Black couple I would often see on their porch. My white ass would smile, wave, and say hello...and they never said hi back. The first few times I got a little offended, but on the third time seeing them I actually looked closely at their faces, trying to glean why they weren't saying hi back. It hit me like a dump truck and broke my heart at the same time; they were scared of me.
When I finally got it I was like, "Oh holy shit! They're nervous I'm here to cause trouble! Damn...they've probably had some problems in the past Christopher; you're not in Jersey anymore. Remember that."
I toned it down after that and they were much more receptive afterwards. One day the wife, Mrs. Jones, gave me some leftovers because I was really skinny back then. She says I looked like I "needed something filling." Which, as a college kid, I'll take free food! Yes please! I never learned their names more than Mr. & Mrs. Jones, and I was never invited past the front gate let alone inside to see the house and chat over coffee.
I'm much more aware now when I'm a guest in someone else's town. I don't want to scare anyone or make them nervous. Because I could get hurt if someone misunderstood me, and if that causes them to hurt me they'll get hurt and down the rabbit hole that goes. I don't want to see that happen. But beyond that, the city is fine people. Go visit.
Aye my brotha, I just watched your hip hop is dead video, and like 10 mins into this one, you just earned a new subscriber. Dope content fam, salute 🫡
lil big pac goes hard. thank you another nuanced piece on the perils of poverty. the economic mobility ladder is covered in cooking oil
off topic but i wish i could speak like this man, authoritative but also descriptive and concise
It's dope that you mention Dolton and Riverdale. I used to live in Harvey, IL, and the changes made over the decades are wild. My granny literally saw the City go from mostly white neighbors to a completely all-black neighborhood with issues that Mayor Kellogg Corn flake refuses to fix.... but we have more fancy police tech. smh
I lived in these burbs as a teen in the 90s and purposely accelerated yt flight out of rage until my own demise was meant
I watched Dolton go from a pretty cool place to bad
@@Ja.abbatta_V Oh yes it's looking like a ghost town most of the time now days
@@Ja.abbatta_V& blacks keep making excuses. We’re the problem not whites. We take over there infrastructure they left and destroy it. Why wouldn’t blacks run away from blacks? Sometimes you gotta put yourself in people shoes
I thought I knew your face and felt crazy watching your channel thinking this thought but when you rolled on up to Trenton, NJ and not only Trenton but Donnelly Homes, I no longer feel insane.
Churches clears Popeyes is a very northern thing for you to say bill 😂😂😂😂
I've had gss station chicken as good as Churches, can't say the same about Popeye's without an actual Popeye's being integrated into one.
@@fluidthought42 bro theres been whole fist fights over they spicy chicken sandwhich chick-fil-a cant even say thay even tho personally as someone who has lived all over the south bojangles is top tier chicken spot on nation
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There's fistfights in Churches over who was first in line, that's not a high bar to clear. We aren't saying that Waffle House's mark of quality is the anime fighting tournament arcs that happen at night.
Churches is a blessing for people who don't like crowds. Fuck chikfila and popeyes for having lines
Wonderful video, as always! To be fair, the white "hood" is usually called the "boonies", but the vibes our culture has for those are different. The boonie stereotype is that you can't piss off the locals or they'll turn you into corn fertilizer. Which... Is not actually different from what you were talking about with the hood!
Interesting
I always considered the white hood the trailer park. But theres some of those in the boonies I guess lol
You ever heard of Thomas so well? He has a video on the origins and parallels of so called hood culture and redneck culture
No the boonies is the suburbs fool. It’s the boondocks
@@Stophatingjitt I call rural places the boonies too but mostly the sticks
The boonies is country. Or boondocks. Not close to any towns or cities
@37:59 - Yeah, there is. There are idiots in the hood who would do a drive by on a group of unknown people just on the corner minding their business having a good time. Just because!!!! I’ve seen it…
I’m from Detroit, but I made it out. I had a realization a few years back now, that I didn’t relate to stuff coming out of the hood anymore. After that, anytime I tried listening I felt phoney, even a bit guilty.
Thank you. But we not phoney we became educated. I learnt that the way whites do shit is the right way. It’s not even the white way it’s the real world. Allat ghetto shit gets you nowhere out here. It’s good to go to school, exercise, be nice, volunteer etc
what’s crazy is i became very good in spanish growing up in a predominantly hispanic neighborhood. like to this day i can understand spanish 100%, and express myself maybe at like 75% fluency, but i can say literally anything at all in spanish if i need to. basically i speak spanish like a first gen american latino lol, but im african american and irish biracial, and grew up on my irish side.
21:06 I’m from D.C., but currently live in Central/Southwest Virginia and you hit this part dead-on.
Don't know how the algorithm works, but I'm here now. You got another sub, bro. Keep makin' em, and they will come.
its funny how your thumbnail is just like those videos to draw in the exact people youre talking about haha i see what you did there guy
You recognize the game
Amazingly well-done, brother. Excellently expressed, this has got to be some of your finest if not best work yet. Respect given where due.
The hood isnt a community its a project. That isn't said to deny the spirit and soul of individuals who live in the hood. However the collective mind.... yea
a repeated cycle of trauma
Y'know, honest to God, if I could go back to living in our block I would. I am so homesick for our council house that when I dream about anything to do with home, I'm back there. It wasn't the best place in the world, we understand that but when that estate was torn down they were the worse days of my life😭
The only reason I'm in the suburbs now is the schools
@@lilbilliam In the suburbs, I'd end up living next to loads of Indian people who thought they got away. They do NOT like us... *and that's the safe option because white suburbs are creepy.
@@lilbilliamit's crazy too cause places like Baltimore get tons of money for the schools and per student and teachers get huge bonuses if they stay on and if kids pass exams. Yet no heat and no AC...
When you said peak season I just knew it was a warehouse job 😂 I worked at fedex 😂
you know the struggle lol
Amazing. All I can say is amazing. Thank you for this brother
I guess I'll just settle for the two vids I haven't watched yet lol I keep coming back to that long wait period and I'm punching the air 😂
Really love the videos, in case you weren’t aware, in some parts of the video, especially cutaways to computer recordings, your voiceover is only in the left channel. If you’re listening on your phone or speakers, no big deal, but I often will listen with one headphone in, and it’s usually the right, so when your voiceover goes to the left channel, I’m left in silence wondering why the video stopped playing.
That's the one thing I'd say I always envied, is those people in the hood just across the highway they had community. Everybody went to the same school, the same church, the hung out right out side the liquor store, in the park, they knew who their neighbors were. As a 7 year old a wished I lived in the hood. As weird as it sounds I was always jealousy of the hood because despite all the bad they weren't alone in my eyes as a kid. And the suburbs was 100% isolation and depression, they just happen to have the one thing I really wanted as a kid.
so there's no one in your neighborhood that went to the same school nor your age to converse with??
@turkishman4202 It's not that simple, it's not just talking and socializing with people. There's an enmeshment of people's lives that exists through the presence of community, as well as physical proximity, so there are many factors that limit socialization in the suburbs. Families in the suburbs barely know or rely on one another, or try to, so even if you're a kid with friends at school most likely they live too far to visit on a whim and everything has to be planned out and not conflict with the schedules of any adults involved.
Weird amount of people getting defensive about Trap Lore Ross. Didn’t think anyone that watches this would also watch that garbage.
Explain the difference without you ur bias showing first 😅
Ngl that news broadcast about compton was crazy, in my head the vine boom sound effect was playing everytime he said "blacks"
Glad to hear someone speaky thoughts about that trap lore Ross guy. Watched one video from him and that's all I needed.
You was cookin this video 💯
And the Cabrini Green projects wasn’t even the worst hood in Chicago, the Robert Taylor Homes and The Hornets were literal war zones
Right on Lil Bill for making part of this video to talk about Raza hoods. Colorism is real in our communities. There still needs to be more unity between Black and Brown hoods.
I watched Trap Lore Ross's video on The Bronx. Unfortunately, I lost some friends as a youth to gun violence. One of them was the younger sibling of a kid who joined the bloods out of peer pressure and he was around when a fight over $200 got heated. I say this to let you know I had enough insight into my friend's struggles to take exception to how Ross would refer to these teenagers who were mislead, groomed and abused into making horrible decisions while having their most impulsive behaviors reinforced. Not that there was ever a "street code", but real OGs in my generation are pretty much non-existent. It hits different when you see it first hand, human beings growing up and having their worst impulses reinforced so heavily. I HATE words like "hood" and "ghetto" as Americans use them to describe poor--and incidentally black and hispanic--people because it's so fucking dehumanizing. Growing up with my own family members lacking the emotional intelligence to even admit they have anger issues gave me the perspective to know that the way the media portrays ALL OF US doesn't inform any kind of social awareness about how to handle that anger. Because like you said, gun violence isn't random. Anyone suffering from serious generational trauma has almost certainly been angry enough to wanna at least seriously injure someone. Seeing it come to reality at your friend's or loved one's hands makes it more real. When the fuck are the people who "represent us" gonna look at us as humans? And why do we as a consumer culture mentally ALLOW them to represent us in the first place? I don't fuck with my generation because, in the least patronizing way possible, that school of thought is just pathetic to me. And then YOU get looked at like you don't understand when you want to invest your hard-earned cash in some fucking peace and quiet.
42:05 This is what my mom always has to tell these privileged consevatives. When you're born into a poor family, everyone you know is poor. There's no getting private assistance from someone you know, cause they gotta make rent this month too.
1:54 “I'm the girl who listens to gangsta rap on the way to the farmers market after yoga. “
"I'm not racist! I listen to rap music!"
Had to leave a comment for Church's solidarity💯 I'll give you all the audience engagement
Country dudes always catching strays. I think we need our own bread tuber.
Churches over Popeyes? Oh, you’re an agent
This is one of the most consise essays on "inner city, urban politics" outside of the everwatching eye of Mass White Media. People from outside our communities love to judge, and endulge in the spectacle of the extremes of other cultures, never understanding the nuance. But your later point about how the hood encapsulates the in many ways universal values of human survival, "Community, ingenuity, self reliance, endurance" is why so many silver spooned, red pilled suburbanites have talked about "the Return to Unga Bunga" .
Its a reflection of their racism and self hate, and the "softness" that modernity and civility have created. (Just for them tho) Their ancestors spent every waking moment creating this western society, and now that its not 'fun or edgy' enough, now that cops cant just beat minorities and women have power, and society before perhaps promoted humanism and rights, their spoiled offspring think, Maybe the "Natives" were right. Nativism in there eyes, or unga bunga, is just codified racism. Its extremist tribalism. "Me want to screw woman, me want to fight other who look other, and think of nothing else". They want to be animals, or more accurately, less beholden to the society their ancestors created. Ironically, or appropriately enough, this has been an energy among white liberals for DECADES, Eastern Mysticism and the like. A rejection of modern standards and expectations. I can go anywhere and do anything DADDDD! While wholely being oblivious to the fact theyre jsut repeating the same thing.(American Revolution) but like you said! Its a true human desire, to become more community and nature riented, but they keep screwing everything and everyone else over in that pursuit.
I think a great essay topic would be how Western Society Creates, Feeds and Reproduces its Own Problems, because some people keep making Beaucoop Bucks on these machinations. Of course its gonna get back into communism, and a movement among people today that I like to call "communityism". Which is just basic socialism that doesnt scare white people. But the Western cultural energy of destroying everything in its path so its own people are satified, and then a generation passes and theyre not. I think its a specifically priviledged energy, especially since World War 1, and I think a deep dive on how we get people who inherit billions, but ineffectively "rebel" against the system, which usually leads to the involvement and then manipulation of minority cultures that thrived or existed without them. THEN combine the stereotypes of the culture that makes the rebels comfortable.
Think of all the white patron clubs in the Harlem Renneasance. The massive involvement of ARs and Directors in the Marketing of Hip Hop. Blaxplotation films writers and production teams. Porn. Just porn. Even back to the Vaudeville days... You could make an entire essay on how privilledged people throughout history have loved to parTAKE in the culture, and maybe (definetly) in the women, but they make sure to reshape the Native culture in a form palatable to them. Hip Hop, Jazz, Black Sexuality, Native Americans, even Slavery and Jim Crow. The line between curiousity, the desire to be free, to also dominate, reeducate, enlighten, and to experience isnt a line, its a Venn Diagram.
I hope my ramblings conveyed what I tried to say.
This applies to the USA only pretty much not to the rest of the western world
I was in the car listening to this when you said "why should I have to pay for your nut?" & a lady in the parking lot looked back at me lmao
I just wanna acknowledge the fact that RUclips is actively censoring lil bill whilst pushing Trap Lore Ross to the top of the algo.
Only makes this video hit harder.
They not pushing neither of them
While it isn't the complete same experience, I grew up right on the edge of South Austin, and for anyone who know South Austin, it's as "ghetto" as you can imagine it. I never went into that part of the city cuz I was sheltered, but recently I've had the experience to take public transit, walk the streets and just move about the city on a consistent basis. And it really ain't anything special. Most people just tryna do their thing and get along with their day. In fact, I've had pretty pleasant experiences with the people there, even those that people would write off as nuisances, like the mentally ill, homeless and ne'er-do-wells.
It's crazy how treating people with respect, dignity and allowing them to go along with theirs lives will cause them to reciprocate that respect onto you 🥴
The intro on this doc is incredible and too real. That is as far as I got, I know I'll love the rest of this doc.