1972 Re- Edited Version

[@Drama18c]

This was deep! Gave me a perfect understanding of everything

[@Drama18c]

Appreciate that Conrad!

[@big1sswsm905]

It really was. I’ll be 55 this year and get enlightened every time.

[@Drama18c]

@@big1sswsm905 I’m 41 and Same here

[@lawrencesmalls6914]

I read your comment from the original version on how you wasn't happy with the product you put out. I said to myself..you was gonna re do it. This speaks to you wanting to be as clear and accurate as possible. Your passion for this is unmatched. Good job as always.

[@TheBuddhaVlogs30508]

💯💯💯💯💯💯 quality over quantity is key

[@brianjohnson5771]

Big Kev, I’m watching this for the second time. I’m listening to the video and I’m hearing about the death of Little Chocolate from the Hoover Groovers. Chocolate passed on my Birthday and l just turned 5. Suffice it to say that the year 1972 is tremendously significant in the reputation of the Crips. With all of the shootings and deaths, this upped the popularity of the Crips with 32 gang related murders. With this video I have a better Overstanding of the climate in South Los Angeles. Good lookin out Big Kev and KMV, of all MacHeads and Maniacs I truly appreciate your hard work and great effort. Peace!! #Salute!!

[@MrMocheez80]

Man I really hope Kev Mac is given something for all the work he do while he still alive. Bro you have done something for LA that is unmatched. Not from out that way but I respect how you bring very important information to the forefront and not the typical media hype when it comes to California gang culture. Respect homie 💪🏾💯🙏🏾

[@garrlavelle3320]

Watched this a few times. Never gets old. Thats how you know it’s top notch content.

[@King_KB_713]

KevMac got it looking like an episode of 60 mins. Great work big homie.

[@JayWilliams-mg2wd]

For very little monetary gain, this was the definition of for the culture. Thank you for ethical journalism Kev Mac

[@dnedwrds]

Man what a fascinating video. Thank you for documenting all this

[@midwestmidwest9816]

Hard work and dedication is always appreciated kev mac... once again great history you keep your audience from beginning to end ...Big ups homie...

[@jerryallenjr5985]

Good looking on the suggestion to check out the edited version of 1972. It was good to rewatch and I caught a few gems I missed the first time around.

[@slagwill5599]

Excellent job K-Mac. As you hone your documentarian skills - it just gets better and better.

[@f.mazz.459]

Great video KM, piecing everything together and breaking it down. And good archival news clippings that back-up these claims 👍

[@tinyfalcon1185]

This video needs to be shared Forreal

[@gregmoney8799]

Perfect!! This a b a dope series 1972-1980 ., I wonder what ya next move is tho u got the streets on loc!! 🔥

[@panafricandesignsandapparel]

Get it right then...I see you Kev a true perfectionist and historian!!!

[@TheBuddhaVlogs30508]

Quality over Quantity 💯

[@thelordsouljah5641]

The big homie Ronnie Walker stuffed from seizures for years, as a result from being stomped by the Crips in juvenile hall. My oldest sister boyfriend Ricardo “Ricky” Bell from the Denver Lanes was killed by the Hoover’s at a liquor stores on Vermont, because his brother was also involved in the killing of Chocolate. When I listen to Kev narrate the events, it take a brotha back to when I was 7 and 8 years old. 💯

[@bigbaba4542]

there was a women on youtube who was a relative of ricky bell. she said some things about his death, something to the effect of: tookie had him killed to punish his brother. do you know her?

[@joemosely9383]

Ricky got killed in 1973

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@bigbaba4542 damn

[@big1sswsm905]

Lot of broken hearts in 72. Still have to remember these were kids killing kids. Love this piece. Will be watching it again for the 5th time. Good shit Kev Mac

[@f.mazz.459]

Ya what a year. '72 really set the wheels in motion of black on black in L.A. Unfortunate

[@big1sswsm905]

@@f.mazz.459 it’s a trip becuz at that time I was 7-8 years old living on 39th and Budlong. I can remember picnicking at exposition park and young black gang members coming and taking all our stuff and beating my older cuzzins ass. How did we go from “ Black revolutionaries” and “Black pride” to self hatred and the willful participation in the destruction of our people over night! It says a lot about how we felt about ourselves once the jobs were gone, the father was out of the home and young black youths were left to their own demise. Smh

[@larose6551]

@@big1sswsm905 it’s mind blowing. The self hate especially when you think of all that we as a people have endured.

[@larose6551]

“They’re cowards and it’s written on their birth certificate” OG Moon

[@big1sswsm905]

@@larose6551 mind blowing is the exact word and yet still an understatement. Terrify and victimize the innocent first and all other crimes will go unchecked. Cowardly acts and brave for all the wrong reasons ☹️

[@OGGeech]

So good. Seeing it twice in a row 🔥🔥🔥

[@bilalgarcia2543]

Kev Mac can’t lie this history fire 🔥

[@ceew4120]

@ KEV MAC THAT INTRO LEGENDARY this video was needed og 💯 All luv frm your STL FAM

[@squeeze6450]

The Narration and Music Is off the Chain... Good job!

[@lisajackson8643]

I'm catching this!! Simply couldn't find a charger for this phone today... Come Back Charleston Blue!!!

[@royalekash4164]

At this point your a legitimate journalist Kev…LA Times might as well give you a job lol

[@SuperMactime]

GREAT CONTENT KEV MAC LIKE ALWAYS'

[@friscostreetstories5403]

Good job on the research and personal interviews that lead to this well made documentary. I would like to hear how the Crip and Blood gangs, with crack and crack money, were able to set up shop and create sets across the country. For example, I seen some cats in Colorado with a WBLC hat,Watts Baby Loc Crips. I was trippin. I seen some grafitti there in the early 90s that said CMG, Crenshaw Mafia Gangsters. Im just curious. Thank you.

[@guttanc36]

Great Work Kev!!

[@guttanc36]

i done watched this joint 3 times

[@carloswoodard5374]

Charleston white coming in last place ! WEST COAST GOT SO MUCH HISTORY AND HERITAGE .KEV MAC YOU CANT BE DUPLICATED .

[@Miss702Awakening]

Great doc!

[@KevMacVideos]

Thanx… had to clean it up a bit.

[@lisajackson8643]

@@KevMacVideos You're a force

[@lisajackson8643]

_Miss_ Reed_ All this violence makes me pause!

[@sabirabdul-lateef5352]

The first one was excellent I watched it twice yesterday!!

[@sincerelyjerry244]

thank you

[@Kudjo-theYoruban]

Sweetback is Mandatory viewing. Rest Easy, (Elder) Melvin Van Peebles.

[@jeremyjones871]

kinda closes the case of jackamoe sayin he was a blood in 72...the gangs were labeled individually while crips were crips no word "blood in sight good job kevmac

[@1maccin]

Man this looks like the first part of a 2hr long documentary that explains how gang culture started and grew here with future episodes explaining the rise of Crack, flawed justice system and poverty in the neighborhoods and connecting all the dots as to why things are the way they are with us today. I can only hope this is a start to something bigger

[@naomigraham5314]

Okay I had to watch this one 3xs to get that there were TWO CHOCOLATES. Smh damn I felt slow

[@carvellidavis4672]

This was a banging video. PEACE 7

[@bullyvard34705X]

Fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 & also I’m confused is it 2 chocolates? The one that passed at school and the one at taco stand ?

[@baby.e401]

You put this together like a crossword puzzle 🥇🥇🥇💯💯💯🔵🔵original mac head

[@f.mazz.459]

25:49 - So I guess Avalon Gardens was the very first Crips sub set ? And who are the Exterminators - never heard them mentioned before

[@tinyfalcon1185]

And the figureora street boys

[@f.mazz.459]

@@tinyfalcon1185 ...no I heard of them

[@adonisrich3499]

Would be the biggest movie ever. Production by Kevmac

[@lilmenaceloc2]

I would love to see what happened after 1972 in an episode. 72-80's.

[@richierich8914]

This why I told you OG..you are legendary..🐐✊🏾

[@timbob1523]

Is there any photos of craig craddock as a teenager/young adult?

[@KevMacVideos]

I’m sure his brother has some but I don’t know him maybe Alex has action.

[@timbob1523]

@@KevMacVideos Alright thanks. Just my suggestion, but you should try to reach out to him for an interview.

[@KevMacVideos]

Alonso already interviewed him I don’t have any interest in that one.

[@byroncole8072]

Excellent

[@gilbertbell7331]

You are a Historian

[@delstanley1349]

Indeed, a lot was going on in '72. I remember it well. In the sports world you mentioned the Cowboys and the A's. In politics (Nixon and Watergate) and of course the emergence of the LA gangs. I also remember an event that included ALL these type events rolled into one setting! It was the 1972 Summer Olympics. During those Olympics eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team and a West German policeman were killed by a Palestinian group called Black September. It wasn't in the US, but it played all over the country as well as the world at the time. It was major news then. LA gangs were probably thought of in the same light as the Black September group. Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway, The Ojays, The Main Ingredient, and Luther Ingram were getting a lot of play on my 8 track tape deck at the time.

[@FactsForLife_901]

0:27 should’ve known then, something wasn’t right lol

[@gilbertbell7331]

What awful times

[@KevMacVideos]

OG Cutes.

[@lisajackson8643]

Heartfelt... 💙💙💙

[@RickSanchezC1980]

Oh snap Kev Mac re -edit the video and forgot to include Black Dynamite again.

[@naomigraham5314]

I hope this lays to rest the “The Newspaper misspelled the names” theory…. HOW 6 WEEKS EARLIER???

[@KevMacVideos]

If you noticed there was also an article a few days before that one. So yes, Crips was already printed in newspapers at least two or three times before the Palladium murder.

[@jblue7760]

hawk eye was onpoint 💯

[@surwompa13]

Thanks Kev ! S O L I D

[@originalbabygeestak9819]

3:32 two historical topics on one article I'd love a copy of that newspaper

[@00bankz24]

KMV never fails to impress

[@ahernandez6870]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@larryjohnson7545]

I like that 60 minutes ticker

[@davidthomas8113]

Dude, your getting close to a documentary.

[@fakenews6142]

The Avalon Garden Crips were separate from the East Side Crips on that 1972 map 🗺 ……The LAPD did the map and I don’t see any other individual Crip sets listed for Compton, East Side, West Side or Inglewood …..That tells me Jimel Barnes and his crew were doing they own thing early…..

[@ronaldjohnson4677]

True Avalon Garden was.

[@fakenews6142]

@@ronaldjohnson4677 If so why is this gang always down played??…….Obviously these little projects Crippin was stronger than the other sets because the LAPD ain’t bother to mention any other set…..1972…..I believe the personal hatred of Jimel Barnes is why Avalon Gardens don’t get they credit…..Even funnier is how Kev Mac deliberately didn’t mention them with Inglewood, East Side, Compton and West Side…..Tookie got credit for a lot of things Jimel started…..This map proves Jimel Barnes was a bigger Crip than most in this era……

[@ronaldjohnson4677]

Avalon project always held its own even with Munson and the Avenue when Jimel said what he said about rookie the hate came crips sets stay in the project,All you have to do is look at what was written before what he said just like your comment on 77 .

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@fakenews6142 damn

[@fila_arthur]

At 7:00 minutes that's like he was there but police and eyewitness reports say ballou was wearing a green suit, and his friend wouldn't give up his coat. Then they both got beaten and ballou died because he hell badly on the back of his head. That guy who was with ballou should give an interview. I heard rumoures that his brother became a pretty active p stone or Jungle brim

[@ronaldjohnson4677]

1972 state theatre Superfly Avalon Garden Raymond,icky #1 ,bulldog,Clint,rest of the Crips was there.

[@bigbaba4542]

supposedly craig craddock was killed on his way home from watching superfly in october 1972

[@Dcain2]

It seems that most anti -Crips focused on the take of “holding down the fort”. Several of the large Crip conglomerates wanted to expand and/or terrorize. Holding down the fort was a given as they were the aggressors. The anti -Crips, aggressively defended their territory, but that’s a different energy than “expanding territory and terror”. This is why a time period came where the most vicious wars were Crip on Crip. Piru St Boys was an exception. They expanded, bullied and pushed a line.

[@Dcain2]

It’s kind of weird that the Swamp Boys didn’t go anti -Crip/Piru…

[@f.mazz.459]

Sooo the Blood identity didn't start in '72, but in '73 then...?

[@santonior2]

Black Ceasar - Hell Up In Harlem. Thats my movie!

[@dusewoopin605]

iLuv ViDeos Like This 👌🏾👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾 KeeP it uP King 👑👑

[@krlm2280]

Rip to the godfather of Melvin van peebles

[@gregmoney8799]

So the Harlem’s had the 20-40’s in 72?

[@fredsmith5878]

I love it

[@ShoYaRightRayRay]

27:00 wtf did Unk say😂😂😂

[@Kudjo-theYoruban]

For the (Younger's). Sweetback was a Revolutionary Movie. No Afrikan on Afrikan "gang" violence. A Mother and friends protecting their own. And Sweetback honorably puttin it down on charlie.

[@johnbarnesNnaptown]

"Two bags please"

[@jshipp5469]

The pookie twins was so turnt up cuz they were born in 72’ is wild

[@gregorydudley9564]

THE PEOPLE INCLUDING ME INVOLVING DIFFERENT DIVERSITY...

[@mikecampbell5178]

Its sad that these soldiers with military minds couldn't be used for the progress of our people.

[@j.spearsmagnolia3rduptown331]

Rest well Crag Croddott. I might not have spelled it right. Oct 5.

[@mr.fantastic1485]

Hoover's predate the crip era and that's facts! Hoover's turned crip in late 1972. Before then they were formally known as the hoover groovers

[@tinyfalcon1185]

Next kev mac the year 1983

[@jwright7360]

What Gang was called the Exterminators

[@tinyfalcon1185]

They must have had some hittas

[@j.spearsmagnolia3rduptown331]

Sanford & Son is my fav. Fun fact. Lamond was a Vet that nvr acted before and Rollo was a real gangster that died from a gun shot wound.

[@j.spearsmagnolia3rduptown331]

@@1Zulu why the the fuck you care!? Do yr research

[@christopherjamal1985]

@@1Zulu Nathaniel Taylor died of a heart attack 2 years ago

[@christopherjamal1985]

@@j.spearsmagnolia3rduptown331 It's quite obvious you cared enough to respond. Guess you didn't do your research

[@j.spearsmagnolia3rduptown331]

@@christopherjamal1985 not that much..not all facts. I get things mixed up

[@Mr50403]

Kev I love the history. But the leather coats in school. If you are prayed upon at school you will not go. So the people taking the leather coats did not do positive things in school and probably dropped out and the students other blacks were terrorized. From a black man that is black on black crime. We had it and gave it away.

[@kingsittystudios2400]

you forgot Lakers won the title in 72. all good,

[@user-Tripleggggggg]

Thank Raymond and the rest for how many kids dying in LA now....

[@KevMacVideos]

I would love too except Brims was already killing people too.

[@TheBLACKMQQN]

That wouldn't stand up in court.

[@TheBuddhaVlogs30508]

@@KevMacVideos facts only!

[@TheBuddhaVlogs30508]

@@KevMacVideos facts only!

[@1maccin]

Man this looks like the first part of a 2hr long documentary that explains how gang culture started and grew here with future episodes explaining the rise of Crack, flawed justice system and poverty in the neighborhoods and connecting all the dots as to why things are the way they are with us today. I can only hope this is a start to something bigger