If wassi was killed by the cops for pulling a gun on them while wanted for a double homicide how can you call his death a murder? It’s inflammatory and flat out wrong! How do you not know the definition of murder? If someone pulls a gun on us here in America we’re allowed to legally defend ourselves and if we happen to kill that person that doesn’t make it a murder and it damn sure don’t make you a murderer it’s called self-defense. God you people in Europe really are out of touch. Your governments have neutered you.
One important thing I don't think you mentioned is that it's much harder for street rappers from Toronto to make it to America because a criminal record prevents you from crossing the border. That's why Pressa is super lucky he got his charges dropped and is now living in L.A.
@@josephgaspar2944 I’m from the US bro. I fw Canadian and UK rappers. Why do You think they’re trash? Also do y’all just hate Canadian and British ppl or sum? If so then try listening to South African rap. Nasty C is a good one. He’s fire
Yes super lucky that he kidnapped and tortured them. I'm so glad he managed to just get a slap on the wrist for that because god knows he deserves to be out and free to do w/e he wants.
@@kerlie5625 I'm telling you, even in Montreal, rappers used to help each others but now, the street are more violent than before, there's at least one shooting in the close city of Montreal everyday since june-july
@@CallMeDeeWee I don’t mean to be a dick but it’s not violent in your country in my country some of our biggest cities have a murder rate to rival your whole country think about how messed up that is that means almost the same amount of people that get murdered in your country each year happens in our bigger cities
@@kerlie5625 the us also has 300 million citizens while canada has 30 million, the state of california has more people in it than our entire country of course if theres more people theres gonna be more conflict
As someone who is from the US, it’s nice to see a RUclipsr who executes music information very well. I don’t know anything about Canada and their music space. This helped a lot!
Totally agree. Also makes me sad how quaint these gun violence statistics seem compared to US cities. Like the most dangerous areas of Toronto are much safer than the safest American cities. Like what the fuck lol.
As a Torontonian, I am saddened by this violence as I grow up in this city which has so many talented people and funny people who leave this world so young. Especially in the somail community which has been tough times as I know more dozen that have passed. I still have my habit of look behind me from times in living in the west end of city. Wish people the best and overcome these challenges in front of us with unity. As this only way, we can strive for a better future.
I just need to say that i am super impressed at ur ability to pronounce Etobicoke correctly. I have never heard anyone not from Ontario properly pronounce Etobicoke. I’ve heard a few interesting attempts at pronouncing it, but you sir nailed it!
Toronto native here, this documentary is very well researched and it’s awesome to see the rap underbelly of the city covered, as most people only know drake/weeknd. Awesome work.
I’m from Florida. Jacksonville to be exact. Seeing this as well as the Jax one I really appreciate the time you put into these. It’s doesn’t go unnoticed. Keep going.
Much Respect Bro for that Sponsor Portion in beginning, and I'm New to your Channel and seen about 3 or 4 videos so far that we're Documentary. Thank You for your excellent enjoyable videos and I know I'm a permanent fan now brotha frfr 💯. I'm truly excited to see what's next and stumble upon some of your older ones! God Bless 🙏
It's crazy. Noisey is a fully funded company with many investigative journalists, and they cant even come CLOSE to what TLR does by himself. It's mad. TLR is by far and away the best investigative journalist on this subject, and his presentation is second to none. Cheers. Any update on the second channel and what it will cover?
I'm from Toronto and have followed these hoods' stories extensively. Just wanna commend you on the time and effort you must be putting into these, the end product is great. Love the long video format
Honestly as a newcomer to Toronto, hearing the more prevalent sound of rap here for the first time I was kind of turned off, but seeing the support of the people here elevate these guys to heights that I honestly thought was a little too optimistic, I give them my respect. RIP to the fallen.
@@noahno Noah mate it’s not meant to be a step by step walkthrough it’s a rough timeline done from the other side of the ocean🤣 unless your directly involved you never truly know what’s going on, half these rappers lie about events anyway just tryna pick through the litter. He done it too well I’m sorry you ain’t see that
Got into Toronto rap around 2014-2015 right as the scene exploded out of the city and started spreading to the burbs. Now I can say I don’t hear nearly as much Toronto rap these days since all the most popular artists have all been killed, disabled, or are in jail.
Being a lifetime fan of Hip Hop it makes me smile to see the biggest artist in the world be Canadian and for my local hip hop scene to finally get worldwide recognition. I just find it unfortunate that it's gone the direction of the Chicago drill scene where the art is now motivating real life and vice versa. We can still sell streams without murdering ops for clout. 😔
you never really know the amount of work TLR does until he does a video about a story you thought you knew about... damn TLR digging stories up from halfway across the globe, good shit my guy, keep it up
Lol ion think being in Toronto has anything to do with appreciation of work he puts in he does this all around the world, But glad to know you’re from Toronto 😂
@@thirtythreeyears nah I love it but it sucks that my city doesn't have anyone that truly makes bangers. I mean we're the biggest city from canada and only behind NY n LA in population and we cannot hold a candle to them, even Chi which is a mirror image of TO. We dont got no chief keef or lil durk, Jay z or pop smoke, Tupac or Nipsey. What do we got? Drake n Pressa. Pass.
I hope that this I the start of a very long documentary-making career. These longer videos are 100% times better, and I hope you do more in-person 1st hand doc making like a vice and Louis Theroux "OG". my favorite documentary artist of all time, hands down, is Louis Theroux. Like weird weekends is god status among men, and I feel you have a little of that with the rap influence and a dash of your own style. You should do more of this and try small new things on each doc.
I've binged so many of your videos every single one was good, it's insane how much knowledge and details you gather and your delivery is entertaining. 🤘
I'm from Buffalo just over the border, and spent plenty of time in Toronto. I feel like the rest of the states don't realize how rough parts of the 6 can get.
"stupid" should be the word not "rough." Ppl fail to see what this all means because they don't have to deal with the strays of morons who think bullets stop at the wall.
because they never went there.. and it aint just Toronto that got rough parts. Winnipeg and some cities in the Praires of Canada got even rougher areas. West end Winnipeg is a mess
I can’t keep up with the cliques of everybody in ur vids don’t even listen to drill music I haven’t heard 90% of the rappers you mention in your videos but going on 4 days now I non stop keep watching your videos. Interesting stuff man I love the content!!
Fun fact: My city in NY(Rochester) had a fast ferry that flopped, trying to provide "quick" transport between us and Toronto. It failed because even as a straight line, it was about the same time, but far more expensive than gas to drive.
Lol! I took that once. Rochester got finessed! They built this nice terminal and Toronto just dumped you off in the Cherry St. wasteland. I got pulled aside by customs and they pressed me heavy.
The amount of non-rappers that died in these streets would also blow a lot of these viewer's minds. We got people dying from Etobicoke to Scarbz, Sauga to Ajax, Vaughn to T-cliffe Park, ESP to Complex, Malvern to Rex, Galloway to Dixon.... its absolutely wild how many people we lost from 2015-2020..... and 2018 will always be one of the saddest years for us in T.O. Its damn near impossible to not know someone who was killed in Toronto gang/gun violence in 2018 no matter how unaffiliated you are. RIP to the fallen
Let's have some perspective... Toronto is still the safest major city in North America. If they stopped following US culture - there would be even less.
This was honestly better than a lot of documentaries and tv shows - keep up your amazing work you really have an platform with interesting and real topics 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 keep it up brother
@@schill3833 give it time, you can’t put Canada into the uk category where the rappers ain’t had no success in America. You’re biggest rapper in America is Canadian. Lol. The top 3 artist in America are all Canadian. Drake, weekend, bieber. You heard of a lot of Canadian artist by now that did make it in the us Tory nav pnd so give it time he just getting started
Ross on his motion picture sh*t, great job man, I can't even imagine the amount of research you had to do to make this amazing documentary, great video
I like him a lot. But him trying to add those trash ass tory lanez "shot meg" jokes are corny. It's not gonna look good if he's proven innocent I swear
I grew up surrounded by gang activity in America.......as common as kidnappings were in my past, I'm genuinely shocked that this is apparently the first time you have covered one considering all these gangs you cover........kidnapping, torture, and murder is basically common where I come from.
And "The 6ix" is a name stolen from Atlanta's Zone 6. Toronto can't even be authentic in creating a nickname for itself. Atlanta will always be the original 6.
@@chicNlover yes, we all know the explanation for why the nickname was created in 2015. But be real with yourselves. It comes from Atlanta and has been an Atlanta thing for many years.
@@ComeAndSee101 you must not listen to music if you’re telling me no one makes references to Atlanta’s zone six. And it has nothing to do with the area code lmao. 😂
To clear things up, when dude was talking about being drakes shooter when out of towners come around, he's really talking about playing marbles. Drake puts mad cash down on matches and this certain dude is well known to be a killer with this special cats eye that's been in drakes family for generations. People think drake made all that money from music, but it's really all from marbles. When you win of course you get the money, but you also win your ops marbles . It's said drake has garbage bins filled with his ops marbles
Yes Ross 😭🇨🇦 When they come at you with threats and the haters tell you that you missed the most random details, ignore their dumb asses, this is solid 🙏🏽
@@elhalconloco it’s very true. Go look it up. Toronto barely got the “6ix” moniker in 2015. Atlanta’s zone 6 has been called that much longer. Even the Toronto raptors’ “we the north” slogan isn’t original.
@@TrapLoreRoss yeah i wish you couldve included more Alexandra Park stuff because K Money and Casper TNG were some of the biggest artists in 2018 and they are allied with Driftwood and Jungle since they all beef Regent
Good video bro. It's hard to watch though, the amount of death and prison that these guys go through is sickening. How can people be so hardened to such things. There has to be better avenues for people to get out of this type of poverty. This isn't just financial poverty, it's poverty of education, self-education, self awareness and respect.
Let me tell you something... You can walk anywhere in this city if you're just about your business and conduct yourself respectfully. You can even get a little messy and find your way home... Civilians rarely get touched. You fox around though and you might just find yourself in the arms of the Lord.
you know what? i can respect that. i felt safe in toronto even in the hood but i wasn’t sure if it was just my tourist naïveté. of course i watch my back at all times but nobody even looked at me funny in toronto the way in other cities you get a sense somebody watching you to see if they can catch you lackin. targeting innocents tho i just can’t get with that. it’s so many other ways to go about things
@@CoupleHoursLate idk bout that one. You def wouldn't want to walk through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro , Port au prince, or Caracas thinking if you just "mind your business", everything will be fine. The same goes for a lot of hoods im the USA
Losing rappers? These are just gangbangers who get paid to make garbage music who then commit crimes. If this is the attn they get then maybe the columbine shooters should have dropped a mixtape for respect.
Best damn series on RUclips, man!! You don’t miss!! You definitely need to do a deep dive into Kansas City and/or St. Louis gang violence next… that’d be badass 💪🏻
Can't wait for the TLR doc on the gangs of North Montréal. He'll probably entitle it something like: "War in the World's Safest City" and mispronounce all those French, Haitian, and Arabic names.
RIP to all the lives lost in the City of Fallen Angels 🙏🏾 Imagine how big the Toronto music industry would be rn if all these guys were still here… we’d be booming right now
@@yissssss let's be clear drake got his start on nickelodeon. He is a legit industry plant... and who the fuck even listens to drake... dude is lame as fuck.
@@cracksmoker1506 smoke dawg wasnt autotune and was beggining to get a little recognized in the US and UK. Houdini and bvlly were 🔥🔥 good kind of autotune, not different than the US. I agree wit you on others toronto rap artist but not them.
@Dan Jenkins Bro why are you stating these facts as though they're something to be proud of? I was born and raised in Jane and Finch and while I'm proud of what it made me as a man I'm not proud of the dead friends and acquintances. Canadians should be proud of our low crime rate and how well we all get along
Fantastic video. I'm from Toronto and cover the music scene as well. You clearly did a ton of research. I can't imagine how long it took you to write this script lol 😅. Also, really liked what you said about Robin Banks. 100% agree.
Houdini was incredible. One of my favorite artists from TO. A lot of artists out of Toronto are talented in their own way - they're different though. Houdini was more universally appealing. Shout out to TO stop killing each other and let us enjoy y'all music 😂
Props to Ross for keeping a straight face every time he says how tragic it is every time someone who already has 2 bodies of his own gets smoked himself.
@@theangrycheeto Its actually stupid not tragic. The generation that brought all this stupidity to the city is the same generation he's talking about in this video. Ppl mourn for morons while the innocent lives lost remain unknown.
@@gotgrainslikerice5311 You don't know where I'm from, and what I've been through. If that's your attitude, then you've probably grew up more privileged then me.
I'm not into hip hop but I am born and raised in Toronto. The gun violence in our city is truly going under the radar. It's starting to spill out into civilian Psyche. I know multiple guys my age who grew up in good suburbs who have gotten gun licenses in the last few years. This was a great look into my own city. To give people just a glimpse of how gta some of the scenes here in the GTA can get. I was once going to York university (right off Jane & Finch) and accidentally turned into driftwood. Not one block later I could hear that 90s whining hip hop intro blasting into the street. This was the summer before covid.
Jane and finch born and raised, it was real bad back then but now it has got alot better... still got bullshit happening and drug addicts going around but if you think its bad now imagine living there 90's and early 2000's.
@@manchuk1d As someone who still lives here, they’re definitely importing more rich white people (no racial) and trying to implement shit like those pay-per-hour city bikes and bike lanes…replacing the streets, etc. Idk if that helped with the impact but I agree it’s definitely not as bad as it was even 3 years ago when there was a shooting in my front yard every week.
I’m born and raised in Toronto. I live 5 minutes away from Jane and Finch. Big up TLR , amazing how he so accurate wit his info . Mans a serious researcher . Respect ✊🏾
Everyone who's from Toronto knows exactly how bad this really is.. just cuz its Canada doesn't mean it's all a safe place to be. Btw shoutout New Tec on the map outside the GTA
@@ar8831 London murder rate 2020 1.3 per 100k Toronto murder rate 2020 2.5 per 100k Us average murder rate lingers around a 5 per 100k meaning the average city in the u.s has a murder rate 2x Toronto and 3x london that's not including cities with actual high murder rates like St Louis MO 88.8 per 100k Jackson MS 82 per 100k Gary Indiana 72 per 100k East St louis Illinois 142 per 100k I mean... we not saying its sweet but it definitely ain't a warzone we get it shit bubbles in other countries but it ain't nothing we ain't already seen before
I used to live at Falstaff too and I remember it being a nice place at that time where all the kids including myself would play basketball at the courts and even have events there and stuff like that. It’s sad to see how dark things have gotten for the city of Toronto in general.
Exactly! All these areas were good a few years ago. Ppl who are looking at these things are acting as if this is extremely old when really this is the first/second generation shit.
I am from Los Angeles. Watts to be exact, and just hearing about crips and bloods being in Toronto and in the Uk is fkn crazy to me. My whole family is from grape street and I remember being blown away when I found out they exist in new jersey and that's still in the states.
You sound like me. I’m from watts too… Anzac to be exact. I remember the entire Jordan Downs being shocked when hearing about Jersey …. I live in Atlanta and it’s a Grape Street here too. But it’s a lot of guys from Watts who came over here and let it slide. I be like that’s y’all. I ain’t wit it , The Dub is home
Yea its mad entertaining to see how these guys run around with guns and shooting up in buildings n shit. Its seriously hilarious! Would have been funnier if the innocent got hit by stray bullets in the mass shootings these guys rap about being apart of. Am I right?
Being from Chicago and witnessing the birth of drill music before it turned into the beast that it has become is wild. Chief Keef, Lil Reese, Durk, 600, FBG Duck do not get near enough credit for what was created in those streets. The reach of that sound and how fast it took hold is insane. While it has produced amazing music it has also introduced a new level of violence that is just sad,
Love how Ross does all this research and effort and still be shouting out other channels during the video with videos about what he’s talking about. Fr fr keep sharing the love, hope you get it all back too
Lol i played soccer in scarborough and this team told me they gonna jump me after the game if i touch the ball. I called their bluff and slide tackled the shit out of him
Alot of people dont believe me when I talk about the Amount of Crips in Toronto. I used to live on Ontario Street and worked in the poorer parts of Downtown as a Crossing Guard. Bruh I saw someone DIE. Gun Shots at night was basically nightly in my area. Canada especially the GTA Is not exempt from Gang Violence. The ASAP Ferg concert I went to was like 30 percent Crips Edit: Holy Shit lmfao. 0:42 that spot was right next to my apartment I used to walk by there every day.
I greatly appreciate you posting this on RUclips and hearing out us Ontario kids in the comments. All your videos are very informative & well constructed; no one could’ve done it better. Thank you for educating those who do not have the time to Google. I, too have been told I can’t have an opinion or share my thoughts on the rap community because of the colour of my skin. It’s wild to me that those who complain the most about segregation, are the ones segregating the most over something that is public knowledge… Thank you for not letting the haters discourage your hustle, your fans understand your heart/motive and that’s all that matters ❤️ keep bringing awareness and keep being unapologetically you!
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If wassi was killed by the cops for pulling a gun on them while wanted for a double homicide how can you call his death a murder? It’s inflammatory and flat out wrong! How do you not know the definition of murder? If someone pulls a gun on us here in America we’re allowed to legally defend ourselves and if we happen to kill that person that doesn’t make it a murder and it damn sure don’t make you a murderer it’s called self-defense. God you people in Europe really are out of touch. Your governments have neutered you.
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One important thing I don't think you mentioned is that it's much harder for street rappers from Toronto to make it to America because a criminal record prevents you from crossing the border. That's why Pressa is super lucky he got his charges dropped and is now living in L.A.
Same with London rappers
Didn't know that. That's good
@@rickyronny4019 the US don’t fw Canadian or UK rappers y’all trash 🤣
@@josephgaspar2944 I’m from the US bro. I fw Canadian and UK rappers. Why do
You think they’re trash? Also do y’all just hate Canadian and British ppl or sum? If so then try listening to South African rap. Nasty C is a good one. He’s fire
Yes super lucky that he kidnapped and tortured them. I'm so glad he managed to just get a slap on the wrist for that because god knows he deserves to be out and free to do w/e he wants.
RIP Houdini that dude had some serious talent
Hard to believe even the magic game isn't free of gang violence.
Rip to a young legend
Yeah Houdini for sure same with smokey
i don’t need you, all i need is myself
i wasn’t asking nobody for help
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Damn I know, I miss that dude. He had sooo many bangers... sad hes gone.... Im still blasting his music around Southern California.
The fact you pronounced "Etobicoke" correct is massive
Doesn't pronounce "Wass" properly however 😭
Legit
England and France are the biggest influences as far as language with Latin being the root to all
@@Schemegodhaitibaby Yeah no shit, 99% of the locations in Canada that have english names come from Great britain.
Can't lie had to practice that a few times haha
Can we just acknowledge how much work he put in for a single video!? And the fact that there's about 100 more of these kind of videos is incredible!🙏
Truly insane.
kinds sad too
it’s a shame where you see Atlanta artists helping each other out, meanwhile in the 6ix there is no middle ground. 😕
That’s one place and it’s not like Canada’s even that violent
@@kerlie5625 I'm telling you, even in Montreal, rappers used to help each others but now, the street are more violent than before, there's at least one shooting in the close city of Montreal everyday since june-july
@@CallMeDeeWee I don’t mean to be a dick but it’s not violent in your country in my country some of our biggest cities have a murder rate to rival your whole country think about how messed up that is that means almost the same amount of people that get murdered in your country each year happens in our bigger cities
@@kerlie5625 the us also has 300 million citizens while canada has 30 million, the state of california has more people in it than our entire country of course if theres more people theres gonna be more conflict
@@kerlie5625 Quit comparing, just because one is worse doesn’t mean the other still isn’t bad. Not everything is a competition holy shit
As someone who is from the US, it’s nice to see a RUclipsr who executes music information very well. I don’t know anything about Canada and their music space. This helped a lot!
Totally agree. Also makes me sad how quaint these gun violence statistics seem compared to US cities. Like the most dangerous areas of Toronto are much safer than the safest American cities. Like what the fuck lol.
Yet in our schools we learned all your states and presidents😂😂😂.
@@tombradyshow1222 did you even attend a class? Or is your 6 year old typing for you?
As a Torontonian, I am saddened by this violence as I grow up in this city which has so many talented people and funny people who leave this world so young. Especially in the somail community which has been tough times as I know more dozen that have passed. I still have my habit of look behind me from times in living in the west end of city. Wish people the best and overcome these challenges in front of us with unity. As this only way, we can strive for a better future.
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U frm flinch fam
I just need to say that i am super impressed at ur ability to pronounce Etobicoke correctly. I have never heard anyone not from Ontario properly pronounce Etobicoke. I’ve heard a few interesting attempts at pronouncing it, but you sir nailed it!
Toronto native here, this documentary is very well researched and it’s awesome to see the rap underbelly of the city covered, as most people only know drake/weeknd. Awesome work.
Being from Toronto and hearing someone call Shoppers Drug Mart “Shoppers Mart drugstore” just sounds so weird lol
Why do you guys have that weird ass accent?
Werd..
Hahaha right! It's rare to hear ppl even say the whole thing.. its "shoppers" as far as I'm concerned 🤣
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@@drewpop8515 Idk man why do you got that weird ass face?
I’m from Florida. Jacksonville to be exact.
Seeing this as well as the Jax one I really appreciate the time you put into these. It’s doesn’t go unnoticed.
Keep going.
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@Medallo City he has mentioned a few times he has an editor.
Big ups from 🇨🇦
I’m from Toronto. He definitely does his research 🧐
Just say u from Jacksonville 😂😂 it’s only one
Much Respect Bro for that Sponsor Portion in beginning, and I'm New to your Channel and seen about 3 or 4 videos so far that we're Documentary. Thank You for your excellent enjoyable videos and I know I'm a permanent fan now brotha frfr 💯. I'm truly excited to see what's next and stumble upon some of your older ones! God Bless 🙏
It's crazy. Noisey is a fully funded company with many investigative journalists, and they cant even come CLOSE to what TLR does by himself. It's mad. TLR is by far and away the best investigative journalist on this subject, and his presentation is second to none.
Cheers.
Any update on the second channel and what it will cover?
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TLR has a team, just sayin
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Even so - That VS the VICE Corporation.
Didn't know he had a team like that though.
@@TheOGnK if he does have a team that doesn't matter he still doing it better than anyone else 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
@@MilyxxMily he works with the team and researches with them
I'm from Toronto and have followed these hoods' stories extensively. Just wanna commend you on the time and effort you must be putting into these, the end product is great. Love the long video format
Honestly as a newcomer to Toronto, hearing the more prevalent sound of rap here for the first time I was kind of turned off, but seeing the support of the people here elevate these guys to heights that I honestly thought was a little too optimistic, I give them my respect. RIP to the fallen.
This is trap lore Ross. It's all rap . Wyd here ? Lol
@@jamiebizness1 nigha fukin on u gritz mane
Community center ross
@@marksilva2929 never said it wasn't but true
@@marksilva2929 Hamilton or London Ontario aren’t on anything stop this
This guys channel is the best. His work is impeccable.
These documentaries are actually masterpieces oml
@@noahno Noah mate it’s not meant to be a step by step walkthrough it’s a rough timeline done from the other side of the ocean🤣 unless your directly involved you never truly know what’s going on, half these rappers lie about events anyway just tryna pick through the litter. He done it too well I’m sorry you ain’t see that
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Yes finally I’ve been waiting for a Toronto video, big ups to TLR!
Got into Toronto rap around 2014-2015 right as the scene exploded out of the city and started spreading to the burbs. Now I can say I don’t hear nearly as much Toronto rap these days since all the most popular artists have all been killed, disabled, or are in jail.
If something happens to Burna Bandz it will be too much for me
Being a lifetime fan of Hip Hop it makes me smile to see the biggest artist in the world be Canadian and for my local hip hop scene to finally get worldwide recognition. I just find it unfortunate that it's gone the direction of the Chicago drill scene where the art is now motivating real life and vice versa. We can still sell streams without murdering ops for clout. 😔
i'm sure there is nothing racist about this
I can name around 20 rappers frm Toronto that has been killed these last years. Its crazy
@@sandersamu4655 what about Houdini how did you take that one?
That sponsor ad is probably one of the best I've ever seen the VPN one ❤️🔥❤️🔥
you never really know the amount of work TLR does until he does a video about a story you thought you knew about... damn TLR digging stories up from halfway across the globe, good shit my guy, keep it up
Lmaoo all he’s doing is regurgitating other RUclips videos he’s seen it’s not that hard
@@reallilzay why aren't you doing it yourself then, fool
@@lc.18k get em
@@reallilzay goof.. cmon dude this video over an hour. His accuracy 110%. Apoligize
@@stevemanson2165 I would if u would spell it correctly 😂😂🤡
Being from Toronto I can appreciate the work and time that goes into documenting all this. Awesome work man
Lol ion think being in Toronto has anything to do with appreciation of work he puts in he does this all around the world, But glad to know you’re from Toronto 😂
Saw all this happen on the news 📰
Being from Toronto I can honestly say what rap scene? It sucks
@@thirtythreeyears nah I love it but it sucks that my city doesn't have anyone that truly makes bangers. I mean we're the biggest city from canada and only behind NY n LA in population and we cannot hold a candle to them, even Chi which is a mirror image of TO. We dont got no chief keef or lil durk, Jay z or pop smoke, Tupac or Nipsey. What do we got? Drake n Pressa. Pass.
Yeah no one cares weirdo
I hope that this I the start of a very long documentary-making career. These longer videos are 100% times better, and I hope you do more in-person 1st hand doc making like a vice and Louis Theroux "OG". my favorite documentary artist of all time, hands down, is Louis Theroux. Like weird weekends is god status among men, and I feel you have a little of that with the rap influence and a dash of your own style. You should do more of this and try small new things on each doc.
documentary are the new meta frl
@@phantacarrytemari what do you mean
@@dexterjustice8749 long documentary is the wave g
how is this the start? ross been uploading these
@@Thestoicrevolution-v5o mmmh well i like it i hope he continues
I finally get around to watching this video and I get a notification “Top5 released”
I've binged so many of your videos every single one was good, it's insane how much knowledge and details you gather and your delivery is entertaining. 🤘
I'm from Buffalo just over the border, and spent plenty of time in Toronto. I feel like the rest of the states don't realize how rough parts of the 6 can get.
"stupid" should be the word not "rough." Ppl fail to see what this all means because they don't have to deal with the strays of morons who think bullets stop at the wall.
Toronto isn't even the worst of it.
because they never went there.. and it aint just Toronto that got rough parts. Winnipeg and some cities in the Praires of Canada got even rougher areas. West end Winnipeg is a mess
appreciate you for saying this
Griselda…. By Fashion Rebels.
Shoutout to Smiley and Northsidebenji for getting out of the streets and creating a better life for themselves and their families
Is that true
Yesss.. I love to see how amazing Benji is doing.
That northside benji guy has some good music you can tell hes smart
I can’t keep up with the cliques of everybody in ur vids don’t even listen to drill music I haven’t heard 90% of the rappers you mention in your videos but going on 4 days now I non stop keep watching your videos. Interesting stuff man I love the content!!
Fun fact: My city in NY(Rochester) had a fast ferry that flopped, trying to provide "quick" transport between us and Toronto. It failed because even as a straight line, it was about the same time, but far more expensive than gas to drive.
Thank you for the facts dawg
I needed that bro thank you
Sounds like some RealLifeLore stuff
Being from Rochester, do you rock with your local dudes 38 Spesh, Eto, Rigs, Pounds, etc?
Super super talented artists out there
Lol! I took that once. Rochester got finessed! They built this nice terminal and Toronto just dumped you off in the Cherry St. wasteland. I got pulled aside by customs and they pressed me heavy.
This documentary is on another level Ross. Sheesh you killin' it man, thanks
I love how a lot of these shootings videos “aren’t allowed to be shown on RUclips” yet they all on RUclips
Facts 🤣🤣
He doesn't want the video to be demonitized lol
i don’t know why i like to learn about gangs now but thanks for the awesome content
Surprised someone like VICE aren't offering you work. The levels of details are 1st class. Keep up the excellent work 💯🔥🔥🔥
I just got to say, thank you for the entertainment over the last like 2 years & for the enormous effort you put into this. I appreciate it Ross 💯
Impressive, I'm from Toronto and have to respect the research that was required to put this together.
The amount of non-rappers that died in these streets would also blow a lot of these viewer's minds.
We got people dying from Etobicoke to Scarbz, Sauga to Ajax, Vaughn to T-cliffe Park, ESP to Complex, Malvern to Rex, Galloway to Dixon.... its absolutely wild how many people we lost from 2015-2020..... and 2018 will always be one of the saddest years for us in T.O.
Its damn near impossible to not know someone who was killed in Toronto gang/gun violence in 2018 no matter how unaffiliated you are. RIP to the fallen
Let's have some perspective... Toronto is still the safest major city in North America. If they stopped following US culture - there would be even less.
How many died?
TLR, your consistency is CRAZY. YOU'VE BEEN ON TOP OF YOUR GAME AND YOU HAVEN'T LET UP. STAY ON TOP OF SHIT KING. GREAT JOB PER USUAL 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
This was honestly better than a lot of documentaries and tv shows - keep up your amazing work you really have an platform with interesting and real topics 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 keep it up brother
Chromazz and “Toronto legends” in the same sentence is crazy😭
Yeah hell nah not that dog mouth spitting fishstore
Shes dutty fam
treesh legend 😭😭
Bro just be happy someone covered Toronto and it's irrelevant rap scene instead of complaining
@@aw2584 complaining like u. Ain’t that irrelevant if ur here watching 🤣
Very informative video homie! Well done! 👏👏
You should’ve talked more about Duvy. He’s blowing up crazy fast here in Toronto
Facts he's making some of the best music out the city rn
Facts
@@TrapLoreRoss u already know that’s crazy and ur across the world 🤞🏿
USA an never heard of him
@@schill3833 give it time, you can’t put Canada into the uk category where the rappers ain’t had no success in America. You’re biggest rapper in America is Canadian. Lol. The top 3 artist in America are all Canadian. Drake, weekend, bieber. You heard of a lot of Canadian artist by now that did make it in the us Tory nav pnd so give it time he just getting started
Ross on his motion picture sh*t, great job man, I can't even imagine the amount of research you had to do to make this amazing documentary, great video
I like him a lot. But him trying to add those trash ass tory lanez "shot meg" jokes are corny. It's not gonna look good if he's proven innocent I swear
The 180 Ross has had with his videos making it more professional and is the only hip hop video creator that isn’t promoting the violence good job man
I'd he didnt like trash beats so much he'd be a shitton cooler.
UK drill blah blah blah.....no Ross. It's WestCoast For Life🤓
I grew up surrounded by gang activity in America.......as common as kidnappings were in my past, I'm genuinely shocked that this is apparently the first time you have covered one considering all these gangs you cover........kidnapping, torture, and murder is basically common where I come from.
I thought the shocking part was that they were forced to perform sexual acts on each other 😳 not the kidnapping
I just watched this yesterday and now they caught Top5, the story continues
Thats a great thing.
The “6ix” was started by a guy name JimmyFromThe6 he used to work with Smoke Dawg a lot, Drake bought the rights to “6ix” from him
And "The 6ix" is a name stolen from Atlanta's Zone 6. Toronto can't even be authentic in creating a nickname for itself. Atlanta will always be the original 6.
@@Savvce 6 came from the area code for Toronto 416 you goofy ass kid no one calls Atlanta the 6 😂
@@Savvce No "The 6ix" comes from the six districts in toronto. Scarbourough, north york, east york, york, old toronto, and etobicoke.
@@chicNlover yes, we all know the explanation for why the nickname was created in 2015. But be real with yourselves. It comes from Atlanta and has been an Atlanta thing for many years.
@@ComeAndSee101 you must not listen to music if you’re telling me no one makes references to Atlanta’s zone six. And it has nothing to do with the area code lmao. 😂
Whole time I’ve been saying “I was running through the 6 with my woes” not even knowing how deep this stuff goes.
Color us surprised
That rhymes
You know how that shit goes.
Real Toronto Gs don't say "the 6" only the lil kids do
Canada is soft dont worry
It is so odd seeing all these stories as one long video, I remember watching alot of these clips on the news daily.
30:35 "along with fellow Toronto shooter Tory Lanez" this shit had me dead 😭😭
Lmaoo
Wow. TLR better then most toronto medias covering they own city (no offence). He really did his homework. Much respect TLR
The most underrated channel on RUclips💯
Lol he has a lot of subscribers.
@@Chae_shay Doesnt mean anything. I see any channels with 200-500k that Ive never heard of ever lol
To clear things up, when dude was talking about being drakes shooter when out of towners come around, he's really talking about playing marbles. Drake puts mad cash down on matches and this certain dude is well known to be a killer with this special cats eye that's been in drakes family for generations. People think drake made all that money from music, but it's really all from marbles. When you win of course you get the money, but you also win your ops marbles . It's said drake has garbage bins filled with his ops marbles
Every time you release a video it can be 1 hour or 30 minutes you can never tell as it just flows. Most times I watch at least twice, inspiring work.
Yes Ross 😭🇨🇦 When they come at you with threats and the haters tell you that you missed the most random details, ignore their dumb asses, this is solid 🙏🏽
No way I got TrapLore Ross giving me a rundown of my city’s street wars 💀💀💀
These videos will actually be parts of history. So we’ll crafted these will be appreciated forever
Drake did not give Toronto the 6ix nickname. That was created by Jimmy Prime, a local artist.
and really it's an imitation of Atlanta's Zone Six. It's not even a real authentic name.
@@Savvce ^ not true
@@elhalconloco it’s very true. Go look it up. Toronto barely got the “6ix” moniker in 2015. Atlanta’s zone 6 has been called that much longer. Even the Toronto raptors’ “we the north” slogan isn’t original.
We already had a bunch of cooler nicknames anyway, Hogtown, The Big Smoke. Even T/T-Dot were at least original.
Oh I agree, I have never and will never call it the 6ix. It’s always going to be Tdot for me.
Ngl I was surprised Rolexx homi’s avengersk track wasn’t dissected in this 🤷🏽♂️ that was modddd
facts that song sparked a bunch of shootings lol
Man I tried to fit it in but it added so many people and complications to the story I decided to leave it out. Save it for the sequel lol
@@TrapLoreRoss I hear that bro, interesting if u include moula 1st, plus Casper tng just came outta jail the other day
@@TrapLoreRoss yeah i wish you couldve included more Alexandra Park stuff because K Money and Casper TNG were some of the biggest artists in 2018 and they are allied with Driftwood and Jungle since they all beef Regent
@@rohanbad7672 caspers out?
Damn, the research that must go into these videos is crazy bro, their gold, keep them coming
Good video bro. It's hard to watch though, the amount of death and prison that these guys go through is sickening. How can people be so hardened to such things. There has to be better avenues for people to get out of this type of poverty. This isn't just financial poverty, it's poverty of education, self-education, self awareness and respect.
As someone from Etobicoke I just gotta say Bravo 😆
Was waitin on this n u did not disappoint.
Let me tell you something... You can walk anywhere in this city if you're just about your business and conduct yourself respectfully. You can even get a little messy and find your way home... Civilians rarely get touched. You fox around though and you might just find yourself in the arms of the Lord.
you know what? i can respect that. i felt safe in toronto even in the hood but i wasn’t sure if it was just my tourist naïveté. of course i watch my back at all times but nobody even looked at me funny in toronto the way in other cities you get a sense somebody watching you to see if they can catch you lackin. targeting innocents tho i just can’t get with that. it’s so many other ways to go about things
I feel this is how most places are , if you just mind your own business most of the time you’ll be fine .
@@CoupleHoursLate idk bout that one. You def wouldn't want to walk through the favelas of Rio de Janeiro , Port au prince, or Caracas thinking if you just "mind your business", everything will be fine.
The same goes for a lot of hoods im the USA
That’s not true at all. Being a civilian especially in rougher area is a risk itself.
You gotta give props to black people for shooting themselves and not taking out schools and randoms like white people.
Mad respect to Trap Lore Ross for putting people on whats going on in Toronto, the city got too much talent but losing too many rappers
Losing rappers? These are just gangbangers who get paid to make garbage music who then commit crimes. If this is the attn they get then maybe the columbine shooters should have dropped a mixtape for respect.
Watching this after reading up on the New Ho King line in Euphoria led me down a huge rabbit hole. Thank you so much for your work.
Best damn series on RUclips, man!! You don’t miss!! You definitely need to do a deep dive into Kansas City and/or St. Louis gang violence next… that’d be badass 💪🏻
His rap ad was one of the best i’ve heard from him
I was thinking the same thing
lol this is the one time i skipped it
Ahhh...fresh off the press with my boy Trap Lore Ross. Can't wait to dive into this. Keep them coming fam!!
Can't wait for the TLR doc on the gangs of North Montréal. He'll probably entitle it something like: "War in the World's Safest City" and mispronounce all those French, Haitian, and Arabic names.
RIP to all the lives lost in the City of Fallen Angels 🙏🏾
Imagine how big the Toronto music industry would be rn if all these guys were still here… we’d be booming right now
Seriously,
Bvlly, houdini, smoke dawg, robin banks at full capacity would have taken the toronto scene worldwide
@@aarontheruler Drake is the second highest grossing rapper of all time, dummie.
@@yissssss let's be clear drake got his start on nickelodeon. He is a legit industry plant... and who the fuck even listens to drake... dude is lame as fuck.
@@malezytunnii4712 I’m sorry to say they wouldn’t have at all, no one else likes the screechy auto tune puberty rap except you Canadians
@@cracksmoker1506 smoke dawg wasnt autotune and was beggining to get a little recognized in the US and UK. Houdini and bvlly were 🔥🔥 good kind of autotune, not different than the US. I agree wit you on others toronto rap artist but not them.
Uptop refers to Uptop Jane and Finch areas like Shoreham, Driftwood whereas Down bottom Jane and Finch refers to Lane, Connections
@Dan Jenkins did you not watch the video?
@Dan Jenkins there are hoods in the uk...
@Dan Jenkins Bro why are you stating these facts as though they're something to be proud of? I was born and raised in Jane and Finch and while I'm proud of what it made me as a man I'm not proud of the dead friends and acquintances. Canadians should be proud of our low crime rate and how well we all get along
@Dan Jenkins stop lying bro 😂😂 philly is literally one of the most gentrified city in the US. just stay out of certain neighborhood and ur good.
@Dan Jenkins ur capping my guy it gets popping out here dont get it twisted
Fantastic video. I'm from Toronto and cover the music scene as well. You clearly did a ton of research. I can't imagine how long it took you to write this script lol 😅.
Also, really liked what you said about Robin Banks. 100% agree.
That atlas vpn ad though, captured Toronto rap perfectly lmao
Keep doing what you do Trap. Your content is some of the most informative and entertaining available on the internet.
crazy they caught bro in la, they're gonna throw the book at him for taunting them for so long
Football numbers for surw
He shoulda went to Mexico it’s chill out their
@@kerlie5625 judging by your comment you should go back to school
Houdini was incredible. One of my favorite artists from TO. A lot of artists out of Toronto are talented in their own way - they're different though. Houdini was more universally appealing. Shout out to TO stop killing each other and let us enjoy y'all music 😂
When you get Covid and you watch Trap Lore when you don’t have it. Perfect time to binge watch him!
Props to Ross for keeping a straight face every time he says how tragic it is every time someone who already has 2 bodies of his own gets smoked himself.
It's tragic for their families and tragic how their life turned out in a country with so many opportunities.
@@theangrycheeto Its actually stupid not tragic. The generation that brought all this stupidity to the city is the same generation he's talking about in this video. Ppl mourn for morons while the innocent lives lost remain unknown.
@@thephilosopher7173 Well f*ckin' said sir!
@@thephilosopher7173 say you never had it hard without saying you never had it hard lmao 🤡
@@gotgrainslikerice5311 You don't know where I'm from, and what I've been through. If that's your attitude, then you've probably grew up more privileged then me.
I appreciate the shoutout bro!
Top5 wasn't dissing Sluggah in 2 cases, he was dissing Sluggie from Edmonton Alberta
I'm not into hip hop but I am born and raised in Toronto. The gun violence in our city is truly going under the radar. It's starting to spill out into civilian Psyche. I know multiple guys my age who grew up in good suburbs who have gotten gun licenses in the last few years. This was a great look into my own city.
To give people just a glimpse of how gta some of the scenes here in the GTA can get. I was once going to York university (right off Jane & Finch) and accidentally turned into driftwood. Not one block later I could hear that 90s whining hip hop intro blasting into the street. This was the summer before covid.
Jane and finch born and raised, it was real bad back then but now it has got alot better... still got bullshit happening and drug addicts going around but if you think its bad now imagine living there 90's and early 2000's.
Bro gun listened doesn’t mean gun violence 🤡
@@manchuk1d As someone who still lives here, they’re definitely importing more rich white people (no racial) and trying to implement shit like those pay-per-hour city bikes and bike lanes…replacing the streets, etc. Idk if that helped with the impact but I agree it’s definitely not as bad as it was even 3 years ago when there was a shooting in my front yard every week.
Yeah Connections is gone, part of me also hate these changes... its kinda sad to see.@@shimmershine6902
I’m born and raised in Toronto. I live 5 minutes away from Jane and Finch. Big up TLR , amazing how he so accurate wit his info . Mans a serious researcher . Respect ✊🏾
Everyone who's from Toronto knows exactly how bad this really is.. just cuz its Canada doesn't mean it's all a safe place to be.
Btw shoutout New Tec on the map outside the GTA
If u not from Canada or don't come here thinking we bubble gum .. shit ain't sweet in these tdot streetz ✔✔😈
@@shyheimlittlez8061 that's a fact
@@shyheimlittlez8061 same as london
🙄
@@ar8831 London murder rate 2020 1.3 per 100k
Toronto murder rate 2020 2.5 per 100k
Us average murder rate lingers around a 5 per 100k meaning the average city in the u.s has a murder rate 2x Toronto and 3x london that's not including cities with actual high murder rates like
St Louis MO 88.8 per 100k
Jackson MS 82 per 100k
Gary Indiana 72 per 100k
East St louis Illinois 142 per 100k
I mean... we not saying its sweet but it definitely ain't a warzone we get it shit bubbles in other countries but it ain't nothing we ain't already seen before
I used to live at Falstaff too and I remember it being a nice place at that time where all the kids including myself would play basketball at the courts and even have events there and stuff like that. It’s sad to see how dark things have gotten for the city of Toronto in general.
Exactly! All these areas were good a few years ago. Ppl who are looking at these things are acting as if this is extremely old when really this is the first/second generation shit.
my mom used to work right at the timmies there for years. it's still a decent place to live imo
Your blocks a playground
@@mikesmith7326 what?
@cyver5121 lol it was a joke... it's from a top 5 song. He calls Falstaff a playground
I am from Los Angeles. Watts to be exact, and just hearing about crips and bloods being in Toronto and in the Uk is fkn crazy to me. My whole family is from grape street and I remember being blown away when I found out they exist in new jersey and that's still in the states.
You sound like me. I’m from watts too… Anzac to be exact. I remember the entire Jordan Downs being shocked when hearing about Jersey …. I live in Atlanta and it’s a Grape Street here too. But it’s a lot of guys from Watts who came over here and let it slide. I be like that’s y’all. I ain’t wit it , The Dub is home
Then u ain't really in the streets. T.o has more then double the murders last 4 years then new York.... And new York has double tge population,
Damn these videos just keep getting better. Loving the longer documentary style too. Shits better than television lmao
Yea its mad entertaining to see how these guys run around with guns and shooting up in buildings n shit. Its seriously hilarious! Would have been funnier if the innocent got hit by stray bullets in the mass shootings these guys rap about being apart of. Am I right?
Always having your shirt off is a bigger deal in Canada.
It gets really cold up there.
Ya. They call him Nips in the winter.
Being from Chicago and witnessing the birth of drill music before it turned into the beast that it has become is wild. Chief Keef, Lil Reese, Durk, 600, FBG Duck do not get near enough credit for what was created in those streets. The reach of that sound and how fast it took hold is insane. While it has produced amazing music it has also introduced a new level of violence that is just sad,
Drill was created in the 🇬🇧 they say.
You act like they created hip hop lol.
@Akeem Sincere Drill was created in Chicago and was popularized by Chief Keef and his affiliates
@@scootmcgoot6547 I've heard that also.
@@akeemMagic01 UK didn't create drill or hip hop, they're just copying Americans.
I grew up in North York, I live in East York now, moving up in life and eternally grateful for everything God has given me
Love how Ross does all this research and effort and still be shouting out other channels during the video with videos about what he’s talking about. Fr fr keep sharing the love, hope you get it all back too
Top 5- “If somebody dont like Drake, imma shoot em”
AK- “yea.”
I don’t get the joke, isn’t AK a drake fan?
@@574882 if someone doesn't like drake
Used to play soccer at Driftwood as a kid, we had so many games cancelled because of the constant shootings
Oh you guys fuck with football over there, that's sick💯, never new that
@@C.O-EDITS yeah we do, football is huge here
😢
Yeah
Lol i played soccer in scarborough and this team told me they gonna jump me after the game if i touch the ball. I called their bluff and slide tackled the shit out of him
I ain’t skip the sponsorship on this one 🔥
You covered some ground, but it gets WAY Deeper than this. Way Deeper. This is a small part of what's going on.
Dam how deep can it get?
@@kakuzu4565 quite deep obvious
@@luvendz but just how DEEP Jonathan?
He obviously can't cover absolutely everything dude, the videos would be days long lol 🤣
How deep we talking
As someone in the GTA the Doug Ford joke hit home. The entire areas political scene is funny asf
Rob Ford, the OG... Doug is a goof.
@@otisjacksonjunior9795 Marion Barry was the OG
@@cool_sword fax
Alot of people dont believe me when I talk about the Amount of Crips in Toronto. I used to live on Ontario Street and worked in the poorer parts of Downtown as a Crossing Guard. Bruh I saw someone DIE. Gun Shots at night was basically nightly in my area. Canada especially the GTA Is not exempt from Gang Violence. The ASAP Ferg concert I went to was like 30 percent Crips
Edit: Holy Shit lmfao. 0:42 that spot was right next to my apartment I used to walk by there every day.
SJT? pretty ghetto area for sure
@@otisjacksonjunior9795 eah Cabbage Town, right next to Regent Park one of the biggest Crip Areas. It was All blue where I lived
different story for eglinton west surrounded by jungle, oakwood, marlee, neptune and chalkfarm. fun fun fun.
Wooord
Canadians are a different breed, they will either be your best friend u ever had (which they prefer to be) or your worst nightmare
Ross blessing us with that documentary heat again 🙏🏾
North York is wild. My first month there someone let off a bunch of shots in a neighborhood full of mansions. It's really no barriers
I greatly appreciate you posting this on RUclips and hearing out us Ontario kids in the comments. All your videos are very informative & well constructed; no one could’ve done it better. Thank you for educating those who do not have the time to Google. I, too have been told I can’t have an opinion or share my thoughts on the rap community because of the colour of my skin. It’s wild to me that those who complain the most about segregation, are the ones segregating the most over something that is public knowledge… Thank you for not letting the haters discourage your hustle, your fans understand your heart/motive and that’s all that matters ❤️ keep bringing awareness and keep being unapologetically you!
It’s about Toronto not All of Ontario
@@brandwind3545 I am in Toronto lmao I personally know someone that was robbed by Top5.