When I read that; my first thoughts were Pigtown and all of Patapsco Avenue. Oh yeah and the panhandlers that be on MLK median near Ravens Stadium. Hate when whites act like their s#it don't stink.
I’m from Florida, lived in Baltimore for a year. It all looked like this. Black, white, Asian, the city is 300 years old and has never even had the roads paved. Don’t blame the black folks. Politicians killed Baltimore
"Don't blame the black folks"? Oh! so other races are coming in to shoot up the city? And the politicians are responsible for unmarried women producing multiple children with multiple men who are either unfit mates or who have no intention of marrying them? Get real! The government cannot fix the problems created by irresponsible people.
I lived in Baltimore. I've gotten followed, got woken up to gun shots on a regular basis, had rats everywhere, random people who would look in my window at night...list goes on. And I was in Federal Hill, which is considered a "nice" area.
I lived in Baltimore all my life and the representation here is on point... Baltimore is mess up... I don't see nothing wrong what he is doing here... Baltimore needs help bad... The murder rate is 300 plus every year... Baltimore isn't big either... It's only about 600,000 people living there so happy I got out of there...
You are totally right. I think its just the context of the video is what people are talking about. The music and tone of it kind of villainize the neighborhoods and people. Like if you are there you will be killed. Baltimore is an amazing city that needs to be healed. If Nina Simone "Baltimore" was playing it might come off differently.
I feel bad for the kids that live in these conditions life truly isn't fair! And with parents not caring about there kids makes it worse no love= massive build up of hate which leads to negative thoughts and murder
What was the intended purpose for this video? To call out Baltimore? To call out the people of Baltimore? To take a picture of people who live in generational poverty?
ahh Baltimore, I'm from Baltimore. Met some really cool, honest, down to earth people from parts like these... and also got robbed, got man handled by police because I was white in a black area so they thought I was buying drugs, also had some guy bang on my door at 3am only to find the bloody hand prints he left the next morning. I love Baltimore guys but lets face it... it's got some issues.
I was stopped by police on North n Pennylvania by police bc they thought I was buying drugs..being a while woman in that area, I stood out..Was looking for a parking spot as I worked at Baltimore City Health Department ..1500 North Ave...lol😁
Baltimore is a cesspool destroyed by Democrats and democratic politicians who steal from the city. Even the schools are trashed. This how the ppl treat their community. No respect or decency.
Lol, 11am on a Sunday morning is probably the quietest and tamest time of any day in the ghetto (source - I live there). Go back any day of the week after 4-5pm. Its a completely different world
Except this giy is full of crap! I am a 72 year old white woman and live in Baltimore. I have had occassion to be in West Baltimore at 1 AM and wad perfectly safe. I habe been there on other occassions and everyone was nothing but nice. I wasn't looking for trouble so zi didn't get any. Lots of yimrs you reap what you sow! mice.
As a former balmoron who is so relieved to be gone, to me the most heartbreaking sight in Baltimore are the corner liquor stores where paraplegic teens in blinged-up electric wheelchairs hang out with nothing to do and nowhere to go, victims of street shootings from drug deals gone bad or just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I'm from Baltimore and still live here where you pulled over was a drug block AKA the dope strip be careful in this city a lot of people have lead out here smh
You're giving the producer of the video too much credit. He wasn't looking for anything positive. He found what he came to Baltimore to find, negativity. We have to stop giving clowns like him our positive energy. He is vile. He's pimping Baltimore's problems for clicks and video views to make money.
I used to think it was "beautifully ghetto" too when I was a young girl from the county who didn't know better. Left home because of an abusive relationship and lived with a friend near park heights for a WEEK in the middle of the SUMMER! No air conditioning, food desert, crime up and down the block. I slept on her floor and couldn't breath for air that's how hot and still the air was. Imagine living like that your entire life, that's all you know. Now driving through in a better place in life, it just makes me extremely angry. Angry that people in a country as prosperous as AMERICA have to live like this. This government doesn't serve them, it serves corporate interest.
Clara Ayre no no no. They’re saying these impoverished areas were dealt a bad hand. Nobody wants handouts! A lot of times, the people who aren’t in this generational cycle (this is any “hood”) relocate and don’t turn back. There are no opportunities within these communities unless they leave the environment all together. My father is from a very poor area in Tennessee, moms from a poor area in Georgia. There weren’t promising opportunities in their communities so they eventually settled in VA and NEVER turned back. They didn’t want to raise their kids in the environments they had to experience in which they are almost guaranteed to be stuck.
I used to live in Baltimore. I miss it a lot, but I feel bad at how my city has declined to horrendous levels. Horrible lawmakers, drugs/guns, the police are trash, the list goes on. The only thing that outsiders love about Baltimore is that we have one of the best football teams in the NFL, the Baltimore Ravens.
The inner harbor used to be nice till the bands of youths started terrorizing patrons...like you said 'horrible lawmakers' that tie the hands of the police.
I’m not from Baltimore but this has been my home for the past 5 years... I took offense to this. You only show the negative parts. Showing people in poverty. Not even helping them. All your doing is riding around with a camera capturing the negative parts. Why not make a video about the good parts of Baltimore. We already have bad things being said about us enough. Make a change and stop being like all the other negative speakers. Bring more light to Baltimore
Well, you had it easy. I had a gun aimed for my head from the people across the street. A woman who was jogging with her dog noticed just as she made her way towards my car. She started screaming really loud for them to put their gun down and how dare them. What she did was bring a lot of attention their way, and they did stop putting their gun away immediately. Sad part.... they thought it was funny. Some sick people. It’s unfortunate all the good doctors are in some of the most dangerous cities.
As someone who lives in the "bad part of town," I often hear people remark about West Jacksonville as being the hood and aren't I afraid I'll be murdered. Been here 25 years now and, although it's rundown and dirty, I really don't see what they are afraid of... We are just people trying to make it - like everybody else. Generally speaking, if you don't put yourself in a bad situation you usually won't end up in one.
As someone who has spent time in affluent communities as well an "bad neighborhoods" I can say there's really no difference except you might hear gunshots at night but that's it. As long as you be responsible people will respect you.
I'm a white boy who grew up in bmore and let me tell u ,if u ain't built for It u will get ate up I'm 5foot6 135 I been banked countless time's for no reason just being in the wrong spot wrong time ,I been robbed at gunpoint 2 times thank the Lord I got out of them situations alive ,but being a white boy in bmore it can be bad but if u live in the hood people also know u and they will fuck with u .meaning talk too u hang with u etc ,but in reality its hard for anybody in bmore ..the police don't do shit too help u and the government is so corrupt that we have too get whatever we can from them too survive .peace out whiteboy from Westport and cherryhill
Im same size i havent had to many problems in west bmore they usually bout making there bread but in east bmore where im actually from iv been jumped and robbed gun point e lorraine ave to be exact
Dude with Virginia plates driving through any part of Maryland while filming is suspicious. My grandmother grew up as an orphan in Baltimore city. I grew up south of DC but have spent and worked plenty of time in both cities. This video doesn't even scratch the surface of what really goes on.
It's now 2023... and I just stumbled upon your video. I am unfortunately still a Baltimore home owner. I have watched this once great and beautiful city go straight to hell since the early 90's. You only got a MILD glimpse of what this city is REALLY like. You took your drive in the winter-time, where it is by comparison relatively calm. NOW.... if you had taken that same drive through the same route in the middle of July, I hate to say this, but you probably wouldn't have had such a peaceful journey. It's downright CRAZY around here in the summer months. I would consider this a heavily sanitized view of Baltimore, as you have shown it. The reality of this city when the weather is warm is in unbelievable stark contrast to what you have captured on this video. Consider yourself lucky to have chosen this time of day and year to make your video..... if it was summer, early afternoon to the evening... you may not have fared as well my friend.
I don't think you realize how much you took your life in your hands being in the neighborhoods you were in. I was raised there and I NEVER went to those areas. Thank your lucky stars.
Also from Baltimore. This is a VERY narrow view of my city. Being a delivery person and lived near this part of town. This doesn't give you a true description of the ppl in the area. True there ppl who make it seem truly scary but, once again just part of the story. There are parts of Baltimore city that would make you feel like you're in one of the richest city in America. Next time you come to the city show that part also.
I drove a cab in baltimore at night for about 20 years. I left there around 2002. It looks exactly the same now as it did then. Sandtown was a huge open air drug market in the 1980's and 1990's which actually made it kind of a safe place to be because people there did not want to attract police attention. I spent many many many hours a week in Sandtown.
I live about 15 miles outside Baltimore and drive the city for my job. I have lived here all my life and have sadly watched the city implode and decay. It truly is a shithole.
I'm from here. It's a sunday in the morning. It's way more people out n about ANY other time. Why not show the neighborhood right around the corner from sandtown where politicians live? Yea we all know Baltimore is bad but instead of showing the negative you out of towners need to show some of the positive things and do your homework. Like Baltimore is one of the best cities in America for new tech companies and Maryland is in the top 5 richest states in the us n last I checked Baltimore is in Maryland
Darryl Paine I think the point of the video was to show “the worst part” of Baltimore. Yeah Baltimore is nice, I’m from the DMV so I drive there from time to time, but u missed the whole point
DP over by hopkins university there is literally a neighborhood comprised of multi million dollar mansions. It’s quite astonishing to see just monster houses in the middle of Baltimore like you’d expect to see in Bethesda or potomac
Yeah I hate when someone tries to shine the light on the negative .if you want to show something off go downtown go to the Harbor show the good and the bad predominantly white & black residents. Take a drive down south Baltimore show the world the poor white areas then take a trip out Reisterstown and Park Heights, Jew town, Falls Road places like that where it's clean full of middle-class residents white and black living together.
I can see how this can be viewed as offensive to the locals. You'd probably get better reception if you walked around in daylight and just talked to people to get to know them. As you can see, they're people and just want to feel like a person. If you do that, they'll open up just like anyone else.
@@c.a.1929 I drove a cab in Baltimore for 20 years. I left in 2002 so I don't know about now but Sandtown used to be a huge open air drug market. If a white boy was in Sandtown he was looking to cop a rock or some "H" if it's still that way now that guy who tried to open the door was probably thinking he was helping this guy out.
I remember doing missionary work in Maryland. Going into Baltimore was so humbling to see the poverty. I remember when my time as a missionary was done my mom joined me in MD and I took her to the scary parts of Baltimore. We saw drug deals, one woman got on her knees on the sidewalk to scoop up the drugs she had just dropped. I never actually felt scared in the city. Mostly people left the missionaries alone, although a fellow missionary was mugged 6 times within 9 months, including being shoved into a closet in someone's home. He got out of the house when the guy went to answer his phone. After that he wouldnt go near the city, only the county. I miss MD.
I’m am so amazed by these comments, negativity is everywhere every city county or state. I’m from Baltimore try Lochraven & Coldspring my childhood area, how about Hamilton. Rotunda.. People only see others never the negativity they spread.
He's not your bro. He wants nothing good for the people of inner-city Baltimore. He's a clown who tries to get page views by showing wost aspects of Baltimore. He's like a drug pusher who profits off of people's pain.
Yall trippin im from NC been to bmore plenty of times there is really good people out there. the city is just going through a rough time and all of baltimore is not bad either!!! its like most inner cities rough parts good parts!
I live in west Baltimore and I just moved here from ATLANTA and I happen to love my decision everyone has been nothing but nice, welcoming and I honestly can't tell the white neighborhoods from the black neighborhoods.
Smash Value it’s been going through a rough time since the 90s and it hasn’t let up. So I don’t know what you meant by “just going through a rough time “. This has been going on since the mid 90s literally.
Baltimore is a great city. It is a beautiful city with many beautiful buildings and views. This city also filled with many people with big hearts. It has it's problems but the people here are very humble.
Around the time The Wire was being shot, I used to go to clubs in Baltimore, sober up at an all-night diner, and head back to DC around 4 AM on a Saturday. There were open drug deals on every block. Driving from Federal Hill back to I-95 took at least 20 minutes through heavy traffic of people buying drugs. It was a frightening rush hour.
absolute757 Never been there. I’ll have to check it out. I used to go to Hammerjacks back in the day, before it was demolished to make way for the Ravens stadium. But I hear Hammerjacks is back? Can’t wait to see Kix there again! I used to go to Central Station and The Hippo (which is now a CVS 🙄), then grab an early breakfast at Gampy’s.
Why is everyone hating on this man for simply recording a ride through Baltimore city. It’s all candid. He’s not creating anything. This is what a city that averages 300 deaths per year looks like. So why are y’all mad at him?
I don’t understand why everyone thinks this isn’t everywhere in the US. Pretty much every state has a area that looks like the video. Not every part of Baltimore is like this and some of the comments in the comment section are absolutely disgusting.I don’t see none of you people trying to help those people or most of you are fortunate enough not to have to struggle and have to live in a area like this. Many people are stuck no matter how hard they work.So shut up if you haven’t personally experienced having to live somewhere like that or constantly being stuck.
Nick, I applaud your bravery. I'm sure you know these folks don't like their drug deals recorded for posterity. Ya done good. BTW Did you know the home of Edgar Allen Poe in Baltimore is a museum in his honor? The only problem is you have to call ahead to get someone to unlock the building.Because they don't have anybody there full time to greet people. Because its too dangerous. Nice, huh?
This is heartbreaking. Oh God help Baltimore. NOBODY has love for this city that is just burdened down with neglect and hopelessness and despair. It's the politicians that are the issue. They are not held accountable. There's no love for Cab Calloway's childhood home in Baltimore. They tore it down. And the Apollo Theatre has been left to just rot away, forgotten, dilapidated, and fading into oblivion. Thank you though for driving through, and not just passing Baltimore by.
My Boyfriend live in Baltimore. Sitting here with my mouth wide opened. He don't live in no area like this and he lives on the West side. You can't make me believe all of Baltimore is like this. Its expensive to live there.
That is crazy that someone tried to get in your vehicle and steal it. I live about an hour away from Baltimore. I used to drive to Baltimore on a daily basis. A lot of times I would go there with my cousin and her boyfriend to see the inner harbor. I always drove through the ghetto areas. There were even times where people would be trying to hit us up for drugs when we were stopped at a red light. We always said to them "no thank you we used to be addicts but we are not anymore" which is actually true. There were times where I would drive the whole entire city just cause I'm very adventurous a lot of times. It made me feel sad and depressed that a lot of houses there were abandoned and a lot of trash in alleys. But at least there's the good side of Baltimore.
My family is from that circle ⭕️ you drew. Took hard work and dedication but now I can say this; dad had an MBA and so did my mom. My sister is a DR and I’m doing well for myself as a business owner in FL. If you think this video is depressing...just think...some of those people from that circle ⭕️ did better and in life then you did. If that’s not motivation what else is??
So what are you going to do to fix it? The answer is nothing! I’m sure there are depressed sections within the area that you live in. Put those areas out there on social media.
Amber Decameron My argument is we have complaints but NO solutions. All cities have depressed areas. He is a visitor but I’m sure he has the same problem in his own city. Fix your problems before you complain about others. I’m from Missouri!
The question is, what are the people living there going to do about it? Throw more trash in the streets, let the properties run down more, hang out by the liquor store all day? One day they will learn it takes work to be successful.
Baltimore is actually scary (I live here, and I been living here for 12 years). I've been mugged twice, once at gun point. Mind you I am a 5'3" 145lbs girl, not a threat to anyone. My family member's business was robbed at gun point. This is not a misrepresentation of Baltimore, because of the people who are saying this is negative, do you sleep with your door unlocked? Or ride around without locking your doors? Or almost make fun of how bad Baltimore is? Or see/hear (about) a crime and simply say " Ah, you know how Baltimore is". So don't pretend that is not like that. I know there is a lot more to Baltimore and some areas are wonderful and safe. The sad truth of the matter is that Baltimore is this video as well as the parts that are nice, safe, and that make Baltimore Charm City.
Janrose Veras yes it can be scary but no one shows the good parts we have I do leave my house door unlocked and no one has ever entered or tried to enter without permission I take some offense in this video and your comment because not all of Baltimore is bad I would know I’ve been here my whole life
Sometimes during the early 90's, I was very young from a third world country going to the reservoir north of Baltimore, but the driver wanted to show me something so he drove through Baltimore. Even some 20 plus some years, I still remember that - My third world country was lot better than that and probably still is.
Nick, I actually live within Baltimore City myself. I will admit, I live in the northern part of the city near the city/county line in Roland Park. What the guy did to try and get into you car, 100% wrong. Let me just throw something out and it's unfortunately what is going on in big, urban cities mostly. The guy probably thought you were calling the cops if he saw you on your phone for whatever reason. I have worked for a staffing agency here in Baltimore for nearly 7 years and I have worked for a few companies in West Baltimore. As for West Baltimore, when the baby boomers left the city in droves for the county, the solution was to take the poorest of our poor and put them in crumbing houses, take away any grocery stores and put up liquor stores, fast food places, etc. Have to remember also that Baltimore has had two major riots (1968 and 2015), so the tensions in parts of Baltimore are extremely strained. You make it harder for people to move up the ladder of life and yes, then is what some will turn to because it's the only life they know. If you ever come back to Baltimore, I would more than be happy to be your tour guide and hopefully you could actually meet the vast majority of our residents that are not what you saw. We are trying to get our city back but it's an infinite number of hurdles. Sadly, too many people think there is only one solution.
The more people think the way you do and make excuses the worse Baltimore is going to get. What Baltimore needs is a complete change in leadership and in attitude. Fix the streets, and make them safe, re attract industry and business, create opportunity, gentrify the neighborhoods to increase the tax base, charter schools and school vouchers. Let's help the people take advantage of all the opportunities to improve their lives and join the rest of America, but for those who won't or for some reason can't shape up can ship out. It is their attitude and behavior that is keeping Baltimore and every other major city down.
@@stuarthirsch And hmmm. #1 was not making excuses but giving a little history lesson on what has happened here. #2 my 2nd to last sentence said "We are trying to get our city back but it's an infinite number of hurdles." But I'm so glad to see you took a typed response from me and automatically you knew exactly the context of what I was typing. #3 I live in Baltimore and there are many wonderful, beautiful parts of the city but want to know the ONLY difference why where I happen to currently reside versus the area of the city Nick was driving through ... skin color. Yes, when the white folks left the western part of Baltimore in the 1960s and 1970s, they forced poor people of color to take over that area that was already showing signs of crumbling. Guess who didn't get the funding for all those wonderful suggestions you put in your response ... people of color. And yes, I was born in 1971 and my mother and father moved out of Baltimore City and into Baltimore County (yes, Baltimore City and Baltimore County are two separate counties) as did many of their friends in that era. And before you start to make assumptions about how I think, why don't you come and live my life and see exactly how I have thought in the past and in the future.
Drove through some of these neighborhoods on my way to the Susquehanna and Baltimore aquarium and I can attest that it is truly a depressing area. That and those damn squeegee kids at every corner!
N police do nothing Abt them damn squeegee kids...A motorist just got killed by one of them near the Inner Harbor...They need tougher laws for their juveniles
I've lived in Bmore since 2014, the City improved a lot and it's still improving every year. I've been in good and bad neighborhood and nothing bad ever happened to me. There's no point in denying generational poverty or crime... but Baltimore is so much more than this. I ❤ you, Charm City.
Jeez Nick, I was scared and had anxiety just watching this and iam up here in Canada lol. Gotta hand it to ya, you and your videos are fantastic! I think the old buildings and their style's of past architecture is what gives us the real melancholy atmosphere that you so wonderfully describe in this video.
Hey Nick, this has to be one of the scariest places I’ve seen you go to. It doesn’t look so run down, just with the gangs everywhere. I’m not from the U.S. but we have similar areas where I’m from and people avoid the area.
@@NickJohnson Baltimore & Gary, INDIANA looked how I would expect it to be, however, Detroit didn't look that bad though🤷♀️. It seemed to have some beautiful nature green spots.
I lived in Sandtown off Fulton Ave. during and after Nursing School.... I IMMEDIATELY recognized one of the liquor stores. I almost shot a man in self defense at a traffic light. I have more ptsd from those 3 years than from 8 years of military service. LOL. Terrible place to live.
I’m from Baltimore. I’m also a fan of your videos. I usually watch the state videos, so it’s no irony that this video came up in my suggestions. It’s crazy, growing up in Baltimore(in still consistently go back there), it doesn’t seem like that bad of a place. But then I see a through the eyes of someone else, I guess I can see from the outside looking in how it could be a little harsh. Funny thing is, you came in a Sunday!🤣🤣🤣😂😅 No one was out. Damn. Imagine if it was a Saturday. I grew up in that neighborhood, still come around. No one really be out on a Sunday, but a Saturday, it would have been a while different video.😂😂😂😂😅
@@NickJohnson I saw gangs hanging out on corners all over the place and none of them looked friendly or like they were willing to have a nice friendly chat either.
Yep, sigh, this is a lot of Baltimore. I’ve been many times but not recently. Earlier, though, every time I visited there, it seemed like it was always improving by the Inner Harbor, Federal Hill and east, Fells Point, Camden ... but no question it’s a hard-drinking one scotch, one bourbon, one beer kind of town with a lot of neighborhood bars on 3 or 4 corners of a lot of intersections. You drove through predominantly black areas of town but the predominantly white blue collar areas or diverse neighborhoods look not that much different. The city could use about 20,000 more trees. So much of it just seems beat and environmentally degraded. They used to have signs on their public trash cans that said, “Baltimore, the city that reads.” A rising tide lifts all boats - if our country can rise up as a whole, our inner cities will hopefully regenerate as well.
I have lived in North Carolina my whole life. My husband's family live in Maryland....his father lives in downtown Baltimore right beside the police station. I had never seen a row house, a hooker, or anything like Baltimore before. I was shocked and as we drove threw so I could see the city, I thanked God I grew up in NC and that my children grew up here and not in a run-down city like Baltimore.
One time me and my family went to Baltimore for the first time to visit my father in Jons Hopkins, and we got stuck in the parking lot to a ware house. We're all white, we as in my mom, me , my sister, and my racist grandfather. Once we realized the warehouse was for drug deals, we had to interrupt someone's drug deal to ask for directions. We have all lived in Maryland our whole lives, and only my grandfather has been outside of the state, this was way worse than our area. It took us a total of 5 hours to get to the hospital where my dad was, and took us about an hour to get back to our home. There was a direct route from the hospital to our area that google maps didn't tell us. lol
@@NickJohnson they probably have uber but I'm sure most drivers in that area would be black and the rest are just scared as shit to pick up anyone in that vicinity.
I’m pretty sure they have Uber there, However like most of you guys said I think there are lots of drivers that try to avoid going over there in fear of their safety. Believe it or not, Uber considers avoiding an area when doing rideshare as discrimination because avoiding lots of those areas disproportionately affects African American and Latino customers because these areas tend to consist of these 2 groups.
Baltimore didn't used to look like this. From 1970 to 1998, the city was a great place. There were stores everywhere and police walked a beat from dawn to dusk. It kind of went down after they tore down the projects. Yeah Baltimore had projects for those too young to know.The courthouse on North Ave used to a Sears. The Food Depot on Belair Road used to be a major department store that everybody use dot go to.
The Sears store at North Ave was the only Sears in the area until Security Square Mall in the mid 70s. Went there regularly with my father in the 50s and 60s. We lived in southeast Baltimore County. I worked at many large construction projects in the city and watched it decline as the years passed. Always wondered why anyone would invest in large projects when the writing was on the wall. Pouring sand in a rathole!
Hey Nick I’m from and I live in Baltimore I would really like to link up with you and show you around East Baltimore. The dude polled your handle probably thought you wanted drugs from him anytime a white dude in that part off Baltimore 9 times out 10 it’s to buy drugs. Also there are white neighborhoods that look exactly like black neighborhoods that you Road through
This is my hometown. Born & raised & still reside in Baltimore. I may be in the suburbs now, but I'll always support my city. U have to hide cameras cause they hate snitches & people that they know don't belong here, just to show the negative. Hate to break it to u, but almost every city has a hood just like ours. Im sorry I'm just never gonna forget where I came from & what made me the amazing woman & mother that I am today. Go Ravens!
The outskirts of Baltimore are like the near outskirts of many major cities today,,,,,they are Dodge City, where lawlessness and chaos rule, unfortunately. The center-city areas are beautiful and protected, as are the suburbs. But in between are these areas. Look at the buildings; a hundred years ago (only 2 or 3 generations) these areas were beautiful and vibrant. Very sad. I was born in Bawlmer, but my family moved north when I was 3 years old, thank God. But no other city has National beer, Esskay meats, and the original Colts.
Exactly, I've lived all over the world including Europe and Africa and have seen rough places like this in every major city. Not excusing it but no one is in better than the next.
wow, I love the choice of music as its blended into this cinematic masterpiece!!! It almost instills a sense of uplifting optimism throughout the sites of Baltimore!!!! Bravo!!!!
You're one lucky guy! Thank God nothing happen to you Nick. Please no more videos of these dangerous neighborhoods! And no more parking on the corner of Stab and Run!
@@NickJohnson More like shoot and run. Last year a 6 months old child was killed in front of her grandmother by a stray round on one of the corners you drove by.
Diva lang Not from here? I didn’t think so you should probably not only go based off a video of an entitled boy who shows the parts of Baltimore that obviously needs work done. I’m pretty sure where you live EVERY neighborhood isn’t so sweet. So you shouldn’t prejudge such a “dangerous” neighborhood😘
@@Brandon-eq7hk it really isn’t like that all the time. I have been to west Baltimore countless times and I have never gotten mugged or robbed. There are always shit parts of a city and going to any other hood from any other city would get the same outcome. Granted, we do have high crime rates, but that is mostly due to shitty police and social workers. This city is not shit and I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.
All the suburbs just outside the city are great, beautiful forests, lakes, nature and you only go downtown for a ballgame or a museum. Every city has its crappy areas but we also got a thriving middle class who can get out of those areas for relatively cheap compared to other places. Suburbs usually means white folk but here you got black, white, etc living in the burbs. Nice to see a vibrant black middle/upper middle class moving up and out and stomping on the negative stereotypes about blacks being stuck in the hood. Hard work, education, family values goes far no matter what color.
We’re in Maryland now visiting family for Thanksgiving week…heading from Silver Spring where we are staying to where my wife’s family resides today we got forced by traffic over to take an exit into Baltimore…I knew it was bad there but holy crap! You weren’t kidding when you said it kinda “slaps you in the face!” We got back a little bit ago to the house and first thing I thought? “I bet Nick has a video of Baltimore!” And as usual sir, you did not disappoint!
That said, it should also be noted that cities like Baltimore (as well as the whole state of Maryland) have really crappy gun laws (well, crappy for the law abiding citizens, but absolutely perfect and accommodating for the criminals)…as such whenever we enter Maryland I have to disarm and break my sidearm down and stash the pieces in different areas so as not to violate the law (Maryland does not recognize and other state’s concealed carry license)…so when you find yourself in an absolute hole like Baltimore you realize you are at an immediate disadvantage should something go down(like the guy trying to open Nick’s car door) since the only ones with the firearms are the criminals. Do that where I live in Florida you’re liable to have a VERY different outcome
I can not watch this. Your introduction is insulting. People film all the time. You treated the community like you are visiting a wild and dangers jungle. You did not take time to get to know the people. You did not do your homework to determine why it is the way it is. Say home. You are not welcome.
I was an international student in Maryland and after a sailing lesson in the marina I got lost trying to walk back into the city. A Turkish girl with a backpack.. I drew a lot of attention but I remember people being very nice. They thought I was lost and offered me help. I was shouted at by a drunk white woman, though, on the way. That was the only time I faced violence in my entire 4-year-experience in the area. I love you and miss you Bal’more!
I walked this dressed a bum. Every inch of baltimore. Never a problem. I had bleach mix in a coffee mug just incase. Ill go with you in any hood if you hire me
My dad is from South Baltimore I spent many summers riding my bike threw the city in the mid 1990s I saw alot of stuff but I was never messed with luckily I still live in MD I visit the city sometimes to see old friends who never left
@@speeddemon945 and the though of it just makes you wanna bring a gun with you. It's surprising that the majority of that city is pretty much the hood.
@@Code_blu215 The majority of the city is NOT the hood. The area he went through, Sandtown is very bad and all black. Why do you think all major cities have an MLK Blvd anyway? To warn everyone that a black area is there.
So you ride down Pennsylvania Avenue & areas close to MLK Boulevard which systematically is one of the worst areas in ANY PART OF AN AMERICAN CITY. Smh the CAUCASITY of it all.
The title literally says driving through the worse parts of Baltimore. I don't get all the comments saying there are nicer parts. I'm sure there are nicer areas but the point of this video is not to go to the nice parts, its about the WORST parts.
"Baltimore has a beautiful ghetto you could ever create." ...and that is why Baltimore is called, "Charm City". It has a certain charm to it no matter how rough it looks.
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I'm from Baltimore, I can take you to the "White" parts of Baltimore that look exactly the same as what he videod.
I was thinking the same thing.The opening scene looked like Falls Road between the Avenue and Cold Spring Lane.
When I read that; my first thoughts were Pigtown and all of Patapsco Avenue. Oh yeah and the panhandlers that be on MLK median near Ravens Stadium. Hate when whites act like their s#it don't stink.
@@BPD1586 Excuses are the difference.
@@SteveLeicht1 You're right, white people have no excuse with the privileges they're afforded in life.
Drive through pig town.
White boy in the hood with a camera sounds like undercover cop
time to murder
J. C. Also most of them are drug addicts.
naw they send ya own kind
Hop out the car tough guy tell them that
J. C. AGENT!!!!!!
Come back in the summer after dark. And keep your windows down. It’ll make for a much more entertaining video...
Haha that's what I came hear to say
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Cant corona got us on locc
Juice CFC you tryna get him killed
Juice CFC exactly
I’m from Florida, lived in Baltimore for a year. It all looked like this. Black, white, Asian, the city is 300 years old and has never even had the roads paved. Don’t blame the black folks. Politicians killed Baltimore
Who voted for those politicians?
yes, democratic politicians whose main focus is being overly lenient on crime and bail reform.
"Don't blame the black folks"? Oh! so other races are coming in to shoot up the city? And the politicians are responsible for unmarried women producing multiple children with multiple men who are either unfit mates or who have no intention of marrying them? Get real! The government cannot fix the problems created by irresponsible people.
@@kevinc8955 crickets, innanimt objects, NO wait. It's starts with...
Yeah but the black people keep electing the same politicians that race bait them and than rip them off
I lived in Baltimore. I've gotten followed, got woken up to gun shots on a regular basis, had rats everywhere, random people who would look in my window at night...list goes on. And I was in Federal Hill, which is considered a "nice" area.
I lived in Baltimore all my life and the representation here is on point... Baltimore is mess up... I don't see nothing wrong what he is doing here... Baltimore needs help bad... The murder rate is 300 plus every year... Baltimore isn't big either... It's only about 600,000 people living there so happy I got out of there...
You are totally right. I think its just the context of the video is what people are talking about. The music and tone of it kind of villainize the neighborhoods and people. Like if you are there you will be killed. Baltimore is an amazing city that needs to be healed. If Nina Simone "Baltimore" was playing it might come off differently.
Stop voting for democrats.
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Yeah because rep Trump with all his capitalism will do anything about this problem lol It doesn't matter who you vote for bruh
@@MauriceG85 "It doesn't matter who you vote for". You need help.
I’m from Baltimore and you won’t even catch me in Sandtown. Nope! All of baltimore does not look like this. There are beautiful parts.
TECH NERD B are u black?
Only the L part.
@@braveraveboss Is living are around meth and heroin head white people better? hmmm!
I feel bad for the kids that live in these conditions life truly isn't fair! And with parents not caring about there kids makes it worse no love= massive build up of hate which leads to negative thoughts and murder
Honestly when I went to Mexico I felt relaxed Even in the not so good areas. Now Baltimore all I think about is my funeral no offense 🤣
What was the intended purpose for this video? To call out Baltimore? To call out the people of Baltimore? To take a picture of people who live in generational poverty?
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Baltimore looks nice compared to my city Cleveland
They had groceries stores
Ant Boa nah Baltimore worse
Ant Boa Baltimore ain't sweet homie believe that
ahh Baltimore, I'm from Baltimore. Met some really cool, honest, down to earth people from parts like these... and also got robbed, got man handled by police because I was white in a black area so they thought I was buying drugs, also had some guy bang on my door at 3am only to find the bloody hand prints he left the next morning. I love Baltimore guys but lets face it... it's got some issues.
Oh really? I feel bad for you
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I was stopped by police on North n Pennylvania by police bc they thought I was buying drugs..being a while woman in that area, I stood out..Was looking for a parking spot as I worked at Baltimore City Health Department ..1500 North Ave...lol😁
@@barbaramay5048 New to Baltimore and I moved from Michigan. currently living in the pigtown neighborhood. yall are scaring the heck out of me 😅
U went on a sunday mornin. Everybody n they mama at church 😂😂😂
lol
lmao
Lol this is too true
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I can hear Slim Charles saying on a Sunday morning
Yeah don’t come back either
Shaun Gross word up
Baltimore is a cesspool destroyed by Democrats and democratic politicians who steal from the city. Even the schools are trashed. This how the ppl treat their community. No respect or decency.
Why would he want to? Lol
@@zerokool-2058 Your neighborhood is so perfect.
Bernard Carlin, Jr. far from it. But still don’t make sense as to why would he come back.
Lol, 11am on a Sunday morning is probably the quietest and tamest time of any day in the ghetto (source - I live there). Go back any day of the week after 4-5pm. Its a completely different world
My exact comment at the top. It's a Sunday. People still hungover n sleep n let the old people go to church at that time lol
Yep. He picked the safest time to do a ride threw us he should of waited for summer. Everyone be out.
“The days are long and the nights are longer in the ghetto “
- JJ “ kid dynomite” Evans
theyre at church lol he picked the calmest time
Yeah it's dead on Sunday
That’s terrible when you can’t even pull over to the side of the road to take a phone call in ANY city smh
I think the dealer thought he had a customer. Crack anyone? His next call should have been 911.
That was just neighborhood patrol
Except this giy is full of crap! I am a 72 year old white woman and live in Baltimore. I have had occassion to be in West Baltimore at 1 AM and wad perfectly safe. I habe been there on other occassions and everyone was nothing but nice. I wasn't looking for trouble so zi didn't get any. Lots of yimrs you reap what you sow! mice.
Pardon the fat finger errors above on my comments.
The most yuppie hipster video I have ever seen.
"it's incredibly beautifully ghetto"
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The only thing ghetto is the mindset of the people its not ugly the system made it that way go to a 3rd world country you'll see a difference
@@leesmusic1 "shitty rap dosent exist"
Shitty rap:
Bahahha
As a former balmoron who is so relieved to be gone, to me the most heartbreaking sight in Baltimore are the corner liquor stores where paraplegic teens in blinged-up electric wheelchairs hang out with nothing to do and nowhere to go, victims of street shootings from drug deals gone bad or just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I almost got kidnapped at one 🤨
I'm from Baltimore and still live here where you pulled over was a drug block AKA the dope strip be careful in this city a lot of people have lead out here smh
Lol facts
You're giving the producer of the video too much credit. He wasn't looking for anything positive. He found what he came to Baltimore to find, negativity. We have to stop giving clowns like him our positive energy. He is vile. He's pimping Baltimore's problems for clicks and video views to make money.
I use to walk these streets for drugs. U aren't kidding. I'm lucky to be alive
@@MTaylorUS exactly
@Tiara Monique the video title is "driving through the worst parts of Baltimore"
I used to think it was "beautifully ghetto" too when I was a young girl from the county who didn't know better. Left home because of an abusive relationship and lived with a friend near park heights for a WEEK in the middle of the SUMMER! No air conditioning, food desert, crime up and down the block. I slept on her floor and couldn't breath for air that's how hot and still the air was. Imagine living like that your entire life, that's all you know. Now driving through in a better place in life, it just makes me extremely angry. Angry that people in a country as prosperous as AMERICA have to live like this. This government doesn't serve them, it serves corporate interest.
Lesson #1. NEVER rely on the government to do ANYTHING for you.
Give me a break its not up to the federal government to bring people up like babies people need to take responsibility for themselves
Clara Ayre no no no. They’re saying these impoverished areas were dealt a bad hand. Nobody wants handouts! A lot of times, the people who aren’t in this generational cycle (this is any “hood”) relocate and don’t turn back. There are no opportunities within these communities unless they leave the environment all together. My father is from a very poor area in Tennessee, moms from a poor area in Georgia. There weren’t promising opportunities in their communities so they eventually settled in VA and NEVER turned back. They didn’t want to raise their kids in the environments they had to experience in which they are almost guaranteed to be stuck.
Was you in the innerburbs right outside park heights, the one with the golf course
Go buy an air conditioner they like 90 bucks at Walmart
I used to live in Baltimore. I miss it a lot, but I feel bad at how my city has declined to horrendous levels. Horrible lawmakers, drugs/guns, the police are trash, the list goes on. The only thing that outsiders love about Baltimore is that we have one of the best football teams in the NFL, the Baltimore Ravens.
The inner harbor used to be nice till the bands of youths started terrorizing patrons...like you said 'horrible lawmakers' that tie the hands of the police.
Pit beef seems nice though?
baltimore is iconic because of the wire
@@Daniel-uk6yr chaps
@@Daniel-uk6yr ...Chaps on Rt 40...The Best...Guy Ferrari goes there Everytime he's near Baltimore
I’m not from Baltimore but this has been my home for the past 5 years... I took offense to this. You only show the negative parts. Showing people in poverty. Not even helping them. All your doing is riding around with a camera capturing the negative parts. Why not make a video about the good parts of Baltimore. We already have bad things being said about us enough. Make a change and stop being like all the other negative speakers. Bring more light to Baltimore
shut up
@Key 1arda why are you replying this to a five month old comment...
Facts
Well, you had it easy. I had a gun aimed for my head from the people across the street. A woman who was jogging with her dog noticed just as she made her way towards my car. She started screaming really loud for them to put their gun down and how dare them. What she did was bring a lot of attention their way, and they did stop putting their gun away immediately. Sad part.... they thought it was funny. Some sick people. It’s unfortunate all the good doctors are in some of the most dangerous cities.
Damn 😢
You forgot how to drive away?
As someone who lives in the "bad part of town," I often hear people remark about West Jacksonville as being the hood and aren't I afraid I'll be murdered. Been here 25 years now and, although it's rundown and dirty, I really don't see what they are afraid of... We are just people trying to make it - like everybody else.
Generally speaking, if you don't put yourself in a bad situation you usually won't end up in one.
You don't even have to be in a bad situation to get put in one
@@providence3436 Not generally, if you're smart.
As someone who has spent time in affluent communities as well an "bad neighborhoods" I can say there's really no difference except you might hear gunshots at night but that's it. As long as you be responsible people will respect you.
Just like anywhere: If you go looking for trouble you'll find it. If you go looking for friendship, you'll find it as well.
Yo there are no bad part of Jacksonville, FL, lmao. All of Jville soft
I'm a white boy who grew up in bmore and let me tell u ,if u ain't built for It u will get ate up I'm 5foot6 135 I been banked countless time's for no reason just being in the wrong spot wrong time ,I been robbed at gunpoint 2 times thank the Lord I got out of them situations alive ,but being a white boy in bmore it can be bad but if u live in the hood people also know u and they will fuck with u .meaning talk too u hang with u etc ,but in reality its hard for anybody in bmore ..the police don't do shit too help u and the government is so corrupt that we have too get whatever we can from them too survive .peace out whiteboy from Westport and cherryhill
Ricky you're strong!
Im same size i havent had to many problems in west bmore they usually bout making there bread but in east bmore where im actually from iv been jumped and robbed gun point e lorraine ave to be exact
Dude with Virginia plates driving through any part of Maryland while filming is suspicious. My grandmother grew up as an orphan in Baltimore city. I grew up south of DC but have spent and worked plenty of time in both cities. This video doesn't even scratch the surface of what really goes on.
Sunday morning seems like a very safe time.
I wonder if things might have looked different just 12 hours beforehand
@@sunnyberlin3521go at night time. You will never ever return 😂😂
@@sunnyberlin3521you might not make it back home
It's now 2023... and I just stumbled upon your video. I am unfortunately still a Baltimore home owner. I have watched this once great and beautiful city go straight to hell since the early 90's. You only got a MILD glimpse of what this city is REALLY like. You took your drive in the winter-time, where it is by comparison relatively calm. NOW.... if you had taken that same drive through the same route in the middle of July, I hate to say this, but you probably wouldn't have had such a peaceful journey. It's downright CRAZY around here in the summer months. I would consider this a heavily sanitized view of Baltimore, as you have shown it. The reality of this city when the weather is warm is in unbelievable stark contrast to what you have captured on this video. Consider yourself lucky to have chosen this time of day and year to make your video..... if it was summer, early afternoon to the evening... you may not have fared as well my friend.
I don't think you realize how much you took your life in your hands being in the neighborhoods you were in. I was raised there and I NEVER went to those areas. Thank your lucky stars.
I love how the beginning of the video theres 2 trash cans and people still choose to litter less than 2 feet away from them.
Lack of respect on the road is another negative thing about Baltimore
It's lack of respect ANYWHERE here.Try something as simple as buying a soda at a convenience store.Horrible.
@@deliveryguyrx you got that right
Also from Baltimore. This is a VERY narrow view of my city. Being a delivery person and lived near this part of town. This doesn't give you a true description of the ppl in the area. True there ppl who make it seem truly scary but, once again just part of the story.
There are parts of Baltimore city that would make you feel like you're in one of the richest city in America. Next time you come to the city show that part also.
Thanks for the info
He said that he was specifically looking at the poor side of town. I'm sure there are some great places there.
Something about your motive of this video don’t sit well with me ...
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@Key 1arda LMAOO
I drove a cab in baltimore at night for about 20 years. I left there around 2002. It looks exactly the same now as it did then. Sandtown was a huge open air drug market in the 1980's and 1990's which actually made it kind of a safe place to be because people there did not want to attract police attention. I spent many many many hours a week in Sandtown.
So many homeless folks, so many buildings sittin' idle!!
I live about 15 miles outside Baltimore and drive the city for my job. I have lived here all my life and have sadly watched the city implode and decay. It truly is a shithole.
I'm from here. It's a sunday in the morning. It's way more people out n about ANY other time. Why not show the neighborhood right around the corner from sandtown where politicians live? Yea we all know Baltimore is bad but instead of showing the negative you out of towners need to show some of the positive things and do your homework. Like Baltimore is one of the best cities in America for new tech companies and Maryland is in the top 5 richest states in the us n last I checked Baltimore is in Maryland
I bet those politicians have nice fancy homes big fences😎
@@DarwinLpayne Ashburton is a very small wealthy neighborhood within the hood that politicians live there
Darryl Paine I think the point of the video was to show “the worst part” of Baltimore. Yeah Baltimore is nice, I’m from the DMV so I drive there from time to time, but u missed the whole point
DP over by hopkins university there is literally a neighborhood comprised of multi million dollar mansions. It’s quite astonishing to see just monster houses in the middle of Baltimore like you’d expect to see in Bethesda or potomac
Yeah I hate when someone tries to shine the light on the negative .if you want to show something off go downtown go to the Harbor show the good and the bad predominantly white & black residents. Take a drive down south Baltimore show the world the poor white areas then take a trip out Reisterstown and Park Heights, Jew town, Falls Road places like that where it's clean full of middle-class residents white and black living together.
I can see how this can be viewed as offensive to the locals. You'd probably get better reception if you walked around in daylight and just talked to people to get to know them. As you can see, they're people and just want to feel like a person. If you do that, they'll open up just like anyone else.
@Levi Anthony
Have you tried it? You seem like a local, so why do you find that hard to believe?
Like the dude that tried to open up his car all of sudden? Seems like a real nice harmless chap.
Lol ok walk around and try to talk to the locals in bmore and see if you don’t get robbed at gunpoint.
@@c.a.1929 I drove a cab in Baltimore for 20 years. I left in 2002 so I don't know about now but Sandtown used to be a huge open air drug market. If a white boy was in Sandtown he was looking to cop a rock or some "H" if it's still that way now that guy who tried to open the door was probably thinking he was helping this guy out.
Right.
I remember doing missionary work in Maryland. Going into Baltimore was so humbling to see the poverty. I remember when my time as a missionary was done my mom joined me in MD and I took her to the scary parts of Baltimore. We saw drug deals, one woman got on her knees on the sidewalk to scoop up the drugs she had just dropped. I never actually felt scared in the city. Mostly people left the missionaries alone, although a fellow missionary was mugged 6 times within 9 months, including being shoved into a closet in someone's home. He got out of the house when the guy went to answer his phone. After that he wouldnt go near the city, only the county. I miss MD.
I’m am so amazed by these comments, negativity is everywhere every city county or state. I’m from Baltimore try Lochraven & Coldspring my childhood area, how about Hamilton. Rotunda.. People only see others never the negativity they spread.
I know so sad!
There were some beautiful radius parapets on the homes there
Seen many beautiful brownstones in that part of town...
Ann summ Thanks u took the word right out of my mouth try Lafayette poplar. Grove his ass would have got lit cuz he stands out we know outsiders
Right... Try cold spring and park heights.
Bro this mad disrespectful coming from someone who lives in Baltimore you only choose to film the bad side it’s a good side to
He's not your bro. He wants nothing good for the people of inner-city Baltimore. He's a clown who tries to get page views by showing wost aspects of Baltimore. He's like a drug pusher who profits off of people's pain.
Yall trippin im from NC been to bmore plenty of times there is really good people out there. the city is just going through a rough time and all of baltimore is not bad either!!! its like most inner cities rough parts good parts!
I live in west Baltimore and I just moved here from ATLANTA and I happen to love my decision everyone has been nothing but nice, welcoming and I honestly can't tell the white neighborhoods from the black neighborhoods.
Homicide rate is still up in Bmore, even during the pandemic crisis.
Going through a rough time??? Lol it's been like this since the 80s
Smash Value it’s been going through a rough time since the 90s and it hasn’t let up. So I don’t know what you meant by “just going through a rough time “. This has been going on since the mid 90s literally.
Nobody is saying the people are terrible. Those broken down buildings are an eyesore yet some of them have potential.
Baltimore is a great city. It is a beautiful city with many beautiful buildings and views. This city also filled with many people with big hearts. It has it's problems but the people here are very humble.
I agree Baltimore has some amazing old architecture, and great food.
also a lot of reggin gangbangers
As someone living in baltimore.. you got more courage than I do to go to the bad neighborhoods. luckily I don’t have to go to or through many hoods
I've lived in Baltimore for most of my 50 years. This is what you get from democratic control for longer than I've been alive
Alan Biles - true Dat
@frank man Nah, it is the Democratic party. Look at any Democratic/Blue city and you'll see the same.
Yeah look at Republican Mississippi just the same
Around the time The Wire was being shot, I used to go to clubs in Baltimore, sober up at an all-night diner, and head back to DC around 4 AM on a Saturday. There were open drug deals on every block. Driving from Federal Hill back to I-95 took at least 20 minutes through heavy traffic of people buying drugs. It was a frightening rush hour.
Dang. We should do that again sometime.
Did u got to hammerheads by the harbor?
absolute757 Never been there. I’ll have to check it out. I used to go to Hammerjacks back in the day, before it was demolished to make way for the Ravens stadium. But I hear Hammerjacks is back? Can’t wait to see Kix there again! I used to go to Central Station and The Hippo (which is now a CVS 🙄), then grab an early breakfast at Gampy’s.
I want to Baltimore 5 minutes my truck got stolen and I told the police on the street my truck gets stolen he said don't bother me I swear to God
when i start to feel badly about my life and down on thing i watch these videos and i suddenly feel great.
Why is everyone hating on this man for simply recording a ride through Baltimore city. It’s all candid. He’s not creating anything. This is what a city that averages 300 deaths per year looks like. So why are y’all mad at him?
They're triggered easily
Nathaniel Whitt STFU TURNCOAT!
I don’t understand why everyone thinks this isn’t everywhere in the US. Pretty much every state has a area that looks like the video. Not every part of Baltimore is like this and some of the comments in the comment section are absolutely disgusting.I don’t see none of you people trying to help those people or most of you are fortunate enough not to have to struggle and have to live in a area like this. Many people are stuck no matter how hard they work.So shut up if you haven’t personally experienced having to live somewhere like that or constantly being stuck.
I'm in Baltimore county so I'm Gucci but when me and my dad go to church we just think that they need to start fixing up some better houses
Nick, I applaud your bravery. I'm sure you know these folks don't like their drug deals recorded for posterity. Ya done good. BTW Did you know the home of Edgar Allen Poe in Baltimore is a museum in his honor? The only problem is you have to call ahead to get someone to unlock the building.Because they don't have anybody there full time to greet people. Because its too dangerous. Nice, huh?
Never more Baltimore!
This is heartbreaking. Oh God help Baltimore. NOBODY has love for this city that is just burdened down with neglect and hopelessness and despair. It's the politicians that are the issue. They are not held accountable. There's no love for Cab Calloway's childhood home in Baltimore. They tore it down. And the Apollo Theatre has been left to just rot away, forgotten, dilapidated, and fading into oblivion. Thank you though for driving through, and not just passing Baltimore by.
Plenty of love, I’ve seen the city getting better everyday!
My Boyfriend live in Baltimore. Sitting here with my mouth wide opened. He don't live in no area like this and he lives on the West side. You can't make me believe all of Baltimore is like this. Its expensive to live there.
That is crazy that someone tried to get in your vehicle and steal it. I live about an hour away from Baltimore. I used to drive to Baltimore on a daily basis. A lot of times I would go there with my cousin and her boyfriend to see the inner harbor. I always drove through the ghetto areas. There were even times where people would be trying to hit us up for drugs when we were stopped at a red light. We always said to them "no thank you we used to be addicts but we are not anymore" which is actually true. There were times where I would drive the whole entire city just cause I'm very adventurous a lot of times. It made me feel sad and depressed that a lot of houses there were abandoned and a lot of trash in alleys. But at least there's the good side of Baltimore.
They probably got it cause they thought he stopped to by some dope
Or they got in it because they thought "oh look at this slum touring asshole". Which is what he does he makes alot of cash peddling his shit.
My family is from that circle ⭕️ you drew. Took hard work and dedication but now I can say this; dad had an MBA and so did my mom. My sister is a DR and I’m doing well for myself as a business owner in FL. If you think this video is depressing...just think...some of those people from that circle ⭕️ did better and in life then you did. If that’s not motivation what else is??
Yep!!
So what are you going to do to fix it? The answer is nothing! I’m sure there are depressed sections within the area that you live in. Put those areas out there on social media.
What is he going to do to fix it? Lmao. You have no comprehension of how complex these issues are.
Source:
Live in Baltimore.
Amber Decameron
My argument is we have complaints but NO solutions. All cities have depressed areas. He is a visitor but I’m sure he has the same problem in his own city. Fix your problems before you complain about others. I’m from Missouri!
The question is, what are the people living there going to do about it? Throw more trash in the streets, let the properties run down more, hang out by the liquor store all day? One day they will learn it takes work to be successful.
Baltimore is actually scary (I live here, and I been living here for 12 years). I've been mugged twice, once at gun point. Mind you I am a 5'3" 145lbs girl, not a threat to anyone. My family member's business was robbed at gun point. This is not a misrepresentation of Baltimore, because of the people who are saying this is negative, do you sleep with your door unlocked? Or ride around without locking your doors? Or almost make fun of how bad Baltimore is? Or see/hear (about) a crime and simply say " Ah, you know how Baltimore is". So don't pretend that is not like that. I know there is a lot more to Baltimore and some areas are wonderful and safe. The sad truth of the matter is that Baltimore is this video as well as the parts that are nice, safe, and that make Baltimore Charm City.
yep! you know :)
Janrose Veras yes it can be scary but no one shows the good parts we have I do leave my house door unlocked and no one has ever entered or tried to enter without permission I take some offense in this video and your comment because not all of Baltimore is bad I would know I’ve been here my whole life
Sometimes during the early 90's, I was very young from a third world country going to the reservoir north of Baltimore, but the driver wanted to show me something so he drove through Baltimore. Even some 20 plus some years, I still remember that - My third world country was lot better than that and probably still is.
I feel bad for the people who live there and I Baltimore need to clean up and try to get more better so sad and pitiful. Thanks for visiting md.
brokfangirl84 they won’t do it !!!!!!!
The city is dead. You cant bring a person back to life.
Nick, I actually live within Baltimore City myself. I will admit, I live in the northern part of the city near the city/county line in Roland Park. What the guy did to try and get into you car, 100% wrong. Let me just throw something out and it's unfortunately what is going on in big, urban cities mostly. The guy probably thought you were calling the cops if he saw you on your phone for whatever reason. I have worked for a staffing agency here in Baltimore for nearly 7 years and I have worked for a few companies in West Baltimore. As for West Baltimore, when the baby boomers left the city in droves for the county, the solution was to take the poorest of our poor and put them in crumbing houses, take away any grocery stores and put up liquor stores, fast food places, etc. Have to remember also that Baltimore has had two major riots (1968 and 2015), so the tensions in parts of Baltimore are extremely strained. You make it harder for people to move up the ladder of life and yes, then is what some will turn to because it's the only life they know. If you ever come back to Baltimore, I would more than be happy to be your tour guide and hopefully you could actually meet the vast majority of our residents that are not what you saw. We are trying to get our city back but it's an infinite number of hurdles. Sadly, too many people think there is only one solution.
I was hands free on the phone. I was white. That's why.
The more people think the way you do and make excuses the worse Baltimore is going to get. What Baltimore needs is a complete change in leadership and in attitude. Fix the streets, and make them safe, re attract industry and business, create opportunity, gentrify the neighborhoods to increase the tax base, charter schools and school vouchers. Let's help the people take advantage of all the opportunities to improve their lives and join the rest of America, but for those who won't or for some reason can't shape up can ship out. It is their attitude and behavior that is keeping Baltimore and every other major city down.
@@stuarthirsch And hmmm. #1 was not making excuses but giving a little history lesson on what has happened here. #2 my 2nd to last sentence said "We are trying to get our city back but it's an infinite number of hurdles." But I'm so glad to see you took a typed response from me and automatically you knew exactly the context of what I was typing. #3 I live in Baltimore and there are many wonderful, beautiful parts of the city but want to know the ONLY difference why where I happen to currently reside versus the area of the city Nick was driving through ... skin color. Yes, when the white folks left the western part of Baltimore in the 1960s and 1970s, they forced poor people of color to take over that area that was already showing signs of crumbling. Guess who didn't get the funding for all those wonderful suggestions you put in your response ... people of color. And yes, I was born in 1971 and my mother and father moved out of Baltimore City and into Baltimore County (yes, Baltimore City and Baltimore County are two separate counties) as did many of their friends in that era. And before you start to make assumptions about how I think, why don't you come and live my life and see exactly how I have thought in the past and in the future.
Drove through some of these neighborhoods on my way to the Susquehanna and Baltimore aquarium and I can attest that it is truly a depressing area. That and those damn squeegee kids at every corner!
N police do nothing Abt them damn squeegee kids...A motorist just got killed by one of them near the Inner Harbor...They need tougher laws for their juveniles
I've lived in Bmore since 2014, the City improved a lot and it's still improving every year. I've been in good and bad neighborhood and nothing bad ever happened to me. There's no point in denying generational poverty or crime... but Baltimore is so much more than this. I ❤ you, Charm City.
Good! Hopefully they can fix this bad side though
baltimore is reggin shithole
Improving 😂😂😂 it’s a complete schit show!
Jeez Nick, I was scared and had anxiety just watching this and iam up here in Canada lol. Gotta hand it to ya, you and your videos are fantastic! I think the old buildings and their style's of past architecture is what gives us the real melancholy atmosphere that you so wonderfully describe in this video.
T Dunph I’m from Canada too 🇨🇦
@@vel6979 Google it.
Doesn't show the white ran down parts of Baltimore 🤔🤔 Interesting...
we all know why...
@@GreaterThanGodLike Exactly
Exactly
There such small parts of the city i and all the traditionally poor white nieborhoods are mostly all mixed now.
He's a braver soul than me. Watching this on RUclips is as close as I'll ever get to Baltimore and watching The Corner and The Wire..
Hey Nick, this has to be one of the scariest places I’ve seen you go to. It doesn’t look so run down, just with the gangs everywhere. I’m not from the U.S. but we have similar areas where I’m from and people avoid the area.
Stunning video and I love the historic architecture of the place. I hope the communities can heal soon💕
I hope so too!
As if they ever will.
I’ve been watching your videos and this has to been the most scariest and unsafe place so far.
For sure!
@@NickJohnson Baltimore & Gary, INDIANA looked how I would expect it to be, however, Detroit didn't look that bad though🤷♀️. It seemed to have some beautiful nature green spots.
I have never in my life craved death more than when this man started rapping at the end
lol
I can't believe what that guy just did while you were making a phone call.
Only been here a couple months. There’s more to Baltimore than this.
I lived in Sandtown off Fulton Ave. during and after Nursing School.... I IMMEDIATELY recognized one of the liquor stores. I almost shot a man in self defense at a traffic light. I have more ptsd from those 3 years than from 8 years of military service. LOL. Terrible place to live.
I’m from Baltimore. I’m also a fan of your videos. I usually watch the state videos, so it’s no irony that this video came up in my suggestions. It’s crazy, growing up in Baltimore(in still consistently go back there), it doesn’t seem like that bad of a place. But then I see a through the eyes of someone else, I guess I can see from the outside looking in how it could be a little harsh. Funny thing is, you came in a Sunday!🤣🤣🤣😂😅 No one was out. Damn. Imagine if it was a Saturday. I grew up in that neighborhood, still come around. No one really be out on a Sunday, but a Saturday, it would have been a while different video.😂😂😂😂😅
no one was out???
@@NickJohnson I saw gangs hanging out on corners all over the place and none of them looked friendly or like they were willing to have a nice friendly chat either.
Sunny Sunday morning in Baltimore is not the real deal.come back in the summer. On a Friday night. Down by fells point. Lots of homies
Yep, sigh, this is a lot of Baltimore. I’ve been many times but not recently. Earlier, though, every time I visited there, it seemed like it was always improving by the Inner Harbor, Federal Hill and east, Fells Point, Camden ... but no question it’s a hard-drinking one scotch, one bourbon, one beer kind of town with a lot of neighborhood bars on 3 or 4 corners of a lot of intersections. You drove through predominantly black areas of town but the predominantly white blue collar areas or diverse neighborhoods look not that much different. The city could use about 20,000 more trees. So much of it just seems beat and environmentally degraded. They used to have signs on their public trash cans that said, “Baltimore, the city that reads.” A rising tide lifts all boats - if our country can rise up as a whole, our inner cities will hopefully regenerate as well.
The very last sentence is the key solution to the problem in this video: Together we stand, divided, we fall
I have lived in North Carolina my whole life. My husband's family live in Maryland....his father lives in downtown Baltimore right beside the police station. I had never seen a row house, a hooker, or anything like Baltimore before. I was shocked and as we drove threw so I could see the city, I thanked God I grew up in NC and that my children grew up here and not in a run-down city like Baltimore.
I’m from Baltimore, no matter where you go there’s gonna be that same energy and essence regardless of the way a neighborhood might look
One time me and my family went to Baltimore for the first time to visit my father in Jons Hopkins, and we got stuck in the parking lot to a ware house. We're all white, we as in my mom, me , my sister, and my racist grandfather. Once we realized the warehouse was for drug deals, we had to interrupt someone's drug deal to ask for directions. We have all lived in Maryland our whole lives, and only my grandfather has been outside of the state, this was way worse than our area. It took us a total of 5 hours to get to the hospital where my dad was, and took us about an hour to get back to our home. There was a direct route from the hospital to our area that google maps didn't tell us. lol
Were they at least nice to you?
Beautiful? You must’ve stopped and got some of those drugs somewhere.
ur not funny at all
“Wait? You ain’t my Uber!”
Haha I don't think those neighborhoods have Uber
@@NickJohnson lol 😂
@@NickJohnson they probably have uber but I'm sure most drivers in that area would be black and the rest are just scared as shit to pick up anyone in that vicinity.
I’m pretty sure they have Uber there, However like most of you guys said I think there are lots of drivers that try to avoid going over there in fear of their safety. Believe it or not, Uber considers avoiding an area when doing rideshare as discrimination because avoiding lots of those areas disproportionately affects African American and Latino customers because these areas tend to consist of these 2 groups.
It was a joke, like “hey, this ain’t my Jeep, my bad!”
Mannn u making it seem like Baltimore the worst place ever 😭😂😂😂 Baltimore ain’t even that bad fr
Yes it is lol I got family there!
Baltimore didn't used to look like this. From 1970 to 1998, the city was a great place. There were stores everywhere and police walked a beat from dawn to dusk. It kind of went down after they tore down the projects. Yeah Baltimore had projects for those too young to know.The courthouse on North Ave used to a Sears. The Food Depot on Belair Road used to be a major department store that everybody use dot go to.
True. I lived off of McDowell Lane in Baltimore Highlands in 70-80s.
The Sears store at North Ave was the only Sears in the area until Security Square Mall in the mid 70s. Went there regularly with my father in the 50s and 60s. We lived in southeast Baltimore County. I worked at many large construction projects in the city and watched it decline as the years passed. Always wondered why anyone would invest in large projects when the writing was on the wall. Pouring sand in a rathole!
I just hate Baltimore’s narrative the way people automatically think bad about Baltimore
Exactly. It's like right away it has a negative connotation to it.
That was somewhat of scary situation when that guy tried to get in your car
'twas
The guy only probably did that because he recorded him I've never seen anybody just try open my door
Hey Nick I’m from and I live in Baltimore I would really like to link up with you and show you around East Baltimore. The dude polled your handle probably thought you wanted drugs from him anytime a white dude in that part off Baltimore 9 times out 10 it’s to buy drugs. Also there are white neighborhoods that look exactly like black neighborhoods that you Road through
2:39- You were right there at the AA Grocery, and didn't stop for ice cream and candy?? What???!!!
He was too scared to leave his car, also he should of went to upton, baltimore
@@rachelmuchow8958 I was being a little facetious.
@@rachelmuchow8958 he did
This is my hometown. Born & raised & still reside in Baltimore. I may be in the suburbs now, but I'll always support my city. U have to hide cameras cause they hate snitches & people that they know don't belong here, just to show the negative. Hate to break it to u, but almost every city has a hood just like ours. Im sorry I'm just never gonna forget where I came from & what made me the amazing woman & mother that I am today. Go Ravens!
Aww Jill ❤️❤️❤️
The outskirts of Baltimore are like the near outskirts of many major cities today,,,,,they are Dodge City, where lawlessness and chaos rule, unfortunately. The center-city areas are beautiful and protected, as are the suburbs. But in between are these areas. Look at the buildings; a hundred years ago (only 2 or 3 generations) these areas were beautiful and vibrant. Very sad. I was born in Bawlmer, but my family moved north when I was 3 years old, thank God. But no other city has National beer, Esskay meats, and the original Colts.
Exactly, I've lived all over the world including Europe and Africa and have seen rough places like this in every major city. Not excusing it but no one is in better than the next.
wow, I love the choice of music as its blended into this cinematic masterpiece!!! It almost instills a sense of uplifting optimism throughout the sites of Baltimore!!!! Bravo!!!!
You're one lucky guy! Thank God nothing happen to you Nick.
Please no more videos of these dangerous neighborhoods!
And no more parking on the corner of Stab and Run!
Haha that's every corner there
@@NickJohnson More like shoot and run. Last year a 6 months old child was killed in front of her grandmother by a stray round on one of the corners you drove by.
I live there so what. I used to walk threw the hoods he drove threw when I was hooked on dope to cop it.
@@JimD410 he definitely came for more then a video. I don't understand this video, if he ain't going to help why is he there ?
Diva lang Not from here? I didn’t think so you should probably not only go based off a video of an entitled boy who shows the parts of Baltimore that obviously needs work done. I’m pretty sure where you live EVERY neighborhood isn’t so sweet. So you shouldn’t prejudge such a “dangerous” neighborhood😘
Dude Baltimore it's really not that bad. I work in Baltimore every day and it's really what you make it.
@chris parker Baltimore, Md
@Adam Edward that is a false statement
I've been going to downtown Baltimore for all my life and to this day I've never felt like I was gonna lose my life just by being down there
Ditto
I don't know. He only pulled over once and almost got robbed or killed.
@@Brandon-eq7hk it really isn’t like that all the time. I have been to west Baltimore countless times and I have never gotten mugged or robbed. There are always shit parts of a city and going to any other hood from any other city would get the same outcome. Granted, we do have high crime rates, but that is mostly due to shitty police and social workers. This city is not shit and I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.
All the suburbs just outside the city are great, beautiful forests, lakes, nature and you only go downtown for a ballgame or a museum. Every city has its crappy areas but we also got a thriving middle class who can get out of those areas for relatively cheap compared to other places. Suburbs usually means white folk but here you got black, white, etc living in the burbs. Nice to see a vibrant black middle/upper middle class moving up and out and stomping on the negative stereotypes about blacks being stuck in the hood. Hard work, education, family values goes far no matter what color.
We’re in Maryland now visiting family for Thanksgiving week…heading from Silver Spring where we are staying to where my wife’s family resides today we got forced by traffic over to take an exit into Baltimore…I knew it was bad there but holy crap! You weren’t kidding when you said it kinda “slaps you in the face!” We got back a little bit ago to the house and first thing I thought? “I bet Nick has a video of Baltimore!” And as usual sir, you did not disappoint!
That said, it should also be noted that cities like Baltimore (as well as the whole state of Maryland) have really crappy gun laws (well, crappy for the law abiding citizens, but absolutely perfect and accommodating for the criminals)…as such whenever we enter Maryland I have to disarm and break my sidearm down and stash the pieces in different areas so as not to violate the law (Maryland does not recognize and other state’s concealed carry license)…so when you find yourself in an absolute hole like Baltimore you realize you are at an immediate disadvantage should something go down(like the guy trying to open Nick’s car door) since the only ones with the firearms are the criminals. Do that where I live in Florida you’re liable to have a VERY different outcome
I can not watch this. Your introduction is insulting. People film all the time. You treated the community like you are visiting a wild and dangers jungle. You did not take time to get to know the people. You did not do your homework to determine why it is the way it is. Say home. You are not welcome.
I was an international student in Maryland and after a sailing lesson in the marina I got lost trying to walk back into the city. A Turkish girl with a backpack.. I drew a lot of attention but I remember people being very nice. They thought I was lost and offered me help. I was shouted at by a drunk white woman, though, on the way. That was the only time I faced violence in my entire 4-year-experience in the area. I love you and miss you Bal’more!
Awwww Baltimore was good to you ❤️
I walked this dressed a bum. Every inch of baltimore. Never a problem. I had bleach mix in a coffee mug just incase. Ill go with you in any hood if you hire me
I'll hire you email me NickJohnsonNC18@gmail
@@NickJohnson Are you still hiring 🙃🙃 I’m mixed race black woman.
@Ms.OnnaMargret (As Known As Troll) you’re weird I looked at your pic and nothing else needs to be said nappy.
As a Baltimore native, these comments are sooo funny to me
fr why are they so mad lmao
The fact this guy is on some bizzare ghetto Safari for spectacle truly illustrates how messes up the U.S really is
How so. I did it a few months ago. It's an adrenaline rush.
My dad is from South Baltimore I spent many summers riding my bike threw the city in the mid 1990s I saw alot of stuff but I was never messed with luckily I still live in MD I visit the city sometimes to see old friends who never left
Grew up in South Baltimore..Now called Federal Hill area...Sad bc yuppies n politicians took over n pushed most of the hard working ppl out
Imagine if you went through there at night
I'll have sleepless nights in that place
@@speeddemon945 and the though of it just makes you wanna bring a gun with you. It's surprising that the majority of that city is pretty much the hood.
At night you'll get robbed at gun point. True.
@@uniquestion777 just sad..
@@Code_blu215 The majority of the city is NOT the hood. The area he went through, Sandtown is very bad and all black. Why do you think all major cities have an MLK Blvd anyway? To warn everyone that a black area is there.
So you ride down Pennsylvania Avenue & areas close to MLK Boulevard which systematically is one of the worst areas in ANY PART OF AN AMERICAN CITY. Smh the CAUCASITY of it all.
Caucasity is not a word.
The title literally says driving through the worse parts of Baltimore. I don't get all the comments saying there are nicer parts. I'm sure there are nicer areas but the point of this video is not to go to the nice parts, its about the WORST parts.
"Baltimore has a beautiful ghetto you could ever create." ...and that is why Baltimore is called, "Charm City". It has a certain charm to it no matter how rough it looks.
Fair
@@NickJohnson Well to be fair maybe not so much the inner city neighborhoods but the nicer neighborhoods and the inner harbor overlooking the water.