WELCOME TO BIRMINGHAM'S MOST DANGEROUS HOUSING PROJECTS /GATE CITY

[@josephmcdaniel8937]

It's like a competition of who can make more noise- the cicadas or this group.

[@biterness2323]

Lol underrated

[@randythesavage1105]

😂😂😂

[@j.ballsdeep420]

At least their mumble shit just drowned among the cicadas. Man. Fuck Alabama

[@danielgriffin5584]

You think that's funny but go tell them niggas that. CP ,AL tappin in Eastside tha Beastside

[@africkinamerican]

I'm from Chicago area and the first time I remember hearing them was going down south to my grandparents'

[@ronsmac]

Everyone always seems to be proud to say they’re in the worst hood. It’s weird. I’m from Baltimore and was glad to get away from the worst parts.

[@unclekeef4496]

Shonuff the city crazy fool, I don’t glorify that shit

[@shalontehernandez6752]

I’m glad I got my kids and granddaughter out of Chicago!! Glorifying property and violence sets them backwards from what we’re suppose to be accomplishing

[@allaboutthemurzic]

@Bhodisatvas True statement

[@j.ballsdeep420]

Their hood ain't shit and their just chest puff: If they dealt with real hood they'd go back south and stfu

[@livewithnick]

Because their culture glorifies it.

[@themadcatter5849]

If you miss what they say it’s ok because they are guaranteed to repeat it.

[@JazzyJADAxxx]

They look emaciated… is there a famine there or what ?

[@catsissy1994]

@@JazzyJADAxxx Maybe because of drug

[@step2058]

@@JazzyJADAxxx Y'all must not know that poverty is real in East Birmingham AL.

[@vladtschill8774]

@@JazzyJADAxxx not enough crack

[@fightthefairy]

@@JazzyJADAxxx Nah, their mothers and sisters are eating everything.

[@anthonyr587]

Damn even the trees look like they want out of there.

[@nahzewilliams5912]

haha

[@carlosesparzavazquez4753]

😂😂😂

[@Fuckareyousaying]

Damn son lmao

[@alaskanwhiskey]

Broskii 😂 give this man a raise

[@alfonso11978]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jimnoel6059]

Guy is complaining about the police saying “they know what goes on around here.” Uhh yeah they do, that’s why they’re always around there 😂😂😂

[@CarlosXPhone]

You gotta understand, it IS rough in Birmingham. I hear gunshots almost every other day, week, or month. I live here, brah.

[@hillarytrump9146]

@@CarlosXPhone Brah ?

[@CarlosXPhone]

@@hillarytrump9146 Bruh.

[@bbandzzo3k]

@@CarlosXPhone ight so what that gotta fo with the police you want them to not do there job cause people getting shot

[@jondoe6862]

@Roja Dove Dat man don't control that. He probably not even living like that. The hood has a variety of different people. Not just her some people trying to make it out. Some people don't know how to get out. That man just saying why you talking down on his hometown or whatever the case may be about his neighborhood or whatever he letting you know that's his neighborhood and he proud of his neighborhood for whatever reason. He could be trying to help he could be throwing barbecues he could be throwing fundraisers you don't know that. That man would just giving you a insight of what he go through and letting you know it ain't easy being here it ain't easy trying to make it out of this neighborhood so how he made it like that and how you figure he let me get like that he only one person. Which lets me believe you don't know what you talking about you just on here talking you don't know what you talking about probably ain't never been outside your comfort zone and then you ah whole hoe outcha .

[@MishaElRusito]

People who try to immigrate to the US, thinking it's all free money and paradise, need to watch this video.

[@salad2322]

Bro USA hoods ain't shit compared to South America or Africa trust me I'm from Chicago in the west side and I have family and colombia it's litterly a war over there

[@reapz3074]

@@salad2322 Fr bro don’t even know what he’s talking about yes they bad but there is always worse lol he hasn’t seen how families live in Mexico or Central America ... $10 a month

[@waltersmetak]

@@salad2322 Spot on - I live in Rio de Janeiro - this "dangerous hood" is a walk in the park by comparison to where I live, a vile, dirty & decadent shithole of a city......

[@ozz243]

Eh..

[@jrloyal2594]

All the places ya mentioned can't compare a single bit to the worst place on earth and is the entire North Korean peninsula ☠do a lil real research and holla at me.

[@chriswilkinson7654]

The Cicadas said we run this city…

[@vtie]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@zduke5979]

Deep south sound like a jungle

[@theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796]

“Ok so I’m over here with - what’s your name man?” *Jehfoeifbdjjr* “Uhhh ok, what about you?” *Djjruduf* “Uhhh, ok...”

[@aynako1538]

Yeah, I can't understand most of the names....except for Young Charlie and King Dmoe from the Chicago videos.

[@nataliesurinova6812]

I was listening so hard 🤣🤣 Wish they had btr environments to grow up in its really not their fault

[@omfgCantGetaUsername]

That got me dying!!!!! Lmao

[@marleygee8870]

😂😂😂😂. These comments be better than the videos sometimes.

[@corneliusmambili8536]

😂😂😂🧨🧨

[@NewMansBlues]

i guarantee i can convince one of these guys to eat a crayon

[@tylerpeifer6450]

🤣🤣🤣

[@weveallgotanever-endingsup2112]

nARLES 713 Especially if they believe it's laced with angel dust

[@aaronwhite6960]

A 64 crayola set.

[@mahlodiannah204]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@surreydaprejident432]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

[@jason401.]

I feel bad for kids that grow up into this lifestyle

[@Nobody-Nowhere]

Its a class war.

[@alaskanwhiskey]

Well I grew up decent and ended up in the projects when my parents separated, and even then I made something good for myself. The streets and the projects don’t make you, you make the life you choose to do.

[@jason401.]

@@alaskanwhiskey Yeah but having to see family get shot and getting addicted to drugs must be hard, right?

[@alaskanwhiskey]

@@jason401. of course it is, but those are the decisions they make. Most of my family is in a gang, jailed, dead, or have nothing going for their lives or blaming the “white man” for keeping them down. My main family seems to be the only ones who did good for themselves. It’s sad honestly.

[@jason401.]

@@alaskanwhiskey Well I'm glad that you're doing good

[@heather4189]

I understand about hard times and not having a chance growing up because I lived it. I went to prison when I was a teenager and not a juvenile facility. I remember my first week I met 3 women A mother and 2 daughters. The mother was late 30's and just started her 3rd sentence. I knew that I wasn't going to have any help in prison or when I got out. But just as much as I knew that to be true I knew I wasn't going to make that my life. Just thinking about it was the easy part. Actually putting in the work, learning how to be accountable for my actions and choices and keeping myself away from around people that didn't have my best interest at heart was the real shit. Now I'm 44 and I thank God on a daily for giving me the strength and love to make it through.

[@danieljacobo7847]

Prisons or county don’t take teens dummy stop the 🧢 🤣

[@heather4189]

@Fishing in The County thank you !

[@Donttouchmypenut]

You can be forgiven for all of your sins, regardless of what you’ve done. Hear the Gospel Romans 10:17 Believe the Gospel Romans 1:16 Repent of sins Acts 17:30 Confess Christ Romans 10:9-10 Baptism Mark 16:16 Be baptized in water for the forgiveness of your sins and be added to the church of Christ.

[@jesusischrist1527]

I grew up right around the corner from the brickyard (gate city ) in Avondale you can hear one of them talk about it in this video ... I turned 18 in the county waiting to go to prison doing a 3yr sentence ... I went back to prison in 2011 and did another 5 year sentence ... I got out and this time I never looked back ... Jesus set me free from that life style and I never want to go back to it ... Everyone I grew up with is dead or still in prison and won't ever get out ... I don't know why Jesus spared me from life in prison or death but He did so I want to make the best of it instead of go back to it .... I pray you make the best of the life Jesus has given you along with everyone else who He spared ... Be blessed my friend in Jesus' mighty name 🙏🙏🙏

[@centsoutofnonsense7349]

I know that's right ❤

[@shughy1]

There must be more to life than walking around in circles looking anxious, go find your purpose guys, you can achieve good things if you put your heart into it 👍

[@frankthetank2284]

Thats what im thinking, the real question to the youth should be where you see yourself in 5 years. This circle of life brings your own self destruction.

[@RayW....]

Welfare state. Just enough to not work. Sad to say

[@frankthetank2284]

@@RayW.... value of hard work takes time to develop, there are no bad kids only bad parents who didnt make time to teach them correct, so all they know is quick money.

[@barbaragoree1679]

You interested why you came ..you must be looking around

[@shughy1]

@@barbaragoree1679 It's interesting for sure... But moreso sad, that many grown men make bad choices and then blame "the system" for their destiny... When in fact it was their choice to behave like this

[@Bajanprince67]

I will never understand this. Standing around all day smoking, looking over your shoulder, throwing up gang signs, etc.

[@justinnamuco9096]

Hedonism

[@SerafinaTorgul]

Its the result of no fathers. They have no fathers, their mothers had no fathers, their grandmothers had no fathers. Its a long chain of single motherhood.

[@xirioslandon8040]

@@justinnamuco9096 The Junkies living here

[@slbdnkrmpc9951]

at least they don't got to go to work lol

[@xirioslandon8040]

@@slbdnkrmpc9951 They are walking the chinese fentanyl road

[@search4truth104]

Could understand about 10% of what they were saying.

[@TyBrezzy11]

open yo ears

[@j.ballsdeep420]

@@TyBrezzy11 -- How bout they articulate their words rather than having shit in their mouth just mumble from one word to another?

[@allaboutthemurzic]

I understood all of this im from birmingham

[@colerainswaggify6387]

You just gotta have an ear for the southern twang. I lived in Birmingham for 15 years.

[@go2beats980]

All of em talking over one another is funny af😂

[@shaneshiphopchannel1688]

I swear Bama dudes be funny asl bout that. 😂

[@charliecampuzano2240]

Imagine out of nowhere camera guy shouts "Aight errbody stfu! One at a time!"

[@j.ballsdeep420]

Evidence they're not talkin bout shit.

[@MuvaLaNegra]

I remember as a little girl visiting my Granddaddy and aunts and cousins in this projects back in the 80's. Wow I haven't been back since. We use to walk around with no shoes going to the market. Brought back so many memories

[@forealpat397]

NICE. lol

[@lo3ful]

The 80s was the cool project days, a lil more unity back than ✊🏻 RIP to East Lake Meadows 🏚🧱

[@DroneStrike1776]

No shoes? That explains why the south has so many hookworms. It causes retardation. That's why the cousin marrying joke started. It was actually hookworms.

[@DazzaBo]

Always makes me laugh when the dudes being interviewed are like FUCK the police and flashing guns and shit and Charlie himself is an ex-cop lol

[@khristionlouvatin6874]

Charliebo is a retired cop?

[@DazzaBo]

@@khristionlouvatin6874 yep, Detroit PD.

[@dast3971]

How do you know

[@DazzaBo]

@@dast3971 it was in an interview with him from a few years ago when his channel was getting popular

[@kapuda9364]

Well that def makes sense on how he gets around....

[@obeysuccess]

It’s crazy how they smile with pride when asked how bad is the projects!

[@Worldofourown2024]

Too dangerous for me to ever go some place like that. Thanks for sharing a side of my country I can't visit in real life.

[@gs8405]

Lol in real life you can walk thru there you just gotta mind your business

[@JeremyCrescendo]

@@gs8405 on me if you mind yo business you good

[@gs8405]

@@JeremyCrescendo fr bruh I moved to the west side of atl on Simpson road.. aka the “bluff” if you seen that movie.. shit ugly over there. I use to walk thru getting off public transportation pull out $40-$100 to buy weed from random niggas in the hood and all and I never had a problem..

[@allaboutthemurzic]

I rode by these exact projects off Georgia road an saw a CEO lookin white dude walkin right thru the middle of em like 60 year old business suit white dude

[@gs8405]

@@allaboutthemurzic he about to try to buy that mf, renovate, then kick errbody out

[@bigchet]

Lovely gentlemen, eloquent and kind

[@Methanol2000]

For sure, I'd hire them just like that for real..perfect in customer service etc.

[@taters7359]

Big CHIEF fom TEXAS 🤔

[@georgiamademane9552]

🤣

[@jdavid118]

Lol

[@kishawolson7679]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MissVale]

The attitudes are simply a mask of learned helplessness. I guarantee most of these guys don’t even think they are capable of anything else because they were raised by their elders to believe that “this is it.” Either you make it or you end up in prison/dead. What are the parents doing? How are they living? Even the parents that aren’t on drugs or gangbanging I guarantee don’t have the resources to convince their sons that they are better and bigger than the projects or what society has made the black man think he is. My father always told me “ghetto is a mentality.” When he made it out, he knew a lot of his friends weren’t going with him and they would be exactly where they are at when he got back. It’s doesn’t matter what city you are in. It’s always the same narrative.

[@allaboutthemurzic]

Props to you for speakin the facts

[@justinnamuco9096]

I honestly wonder if there are job opportunities around the area? Or secure enough for businesses to stay

[@allaboutthemurzic]

@@justinnamuco9096 There’s job opportunities everywhere And plenty of jobs who will take people regardless of their background If you got a car and money for gas then you shouldn’t have no problem

[@mikeyagami205]

Yea but shitty ones , minimum wages . Then they make it hard

[@SerafinaTorgul]

Its the result of single mothers having kids who became single mothers. The result of the dispossession of fathers since way back when the slavemaster would tear apart families, selling off the fathers.

[@brendanwilson4876]

I’m shocked that the “Rico Suave” handle was still available.

[@boogallday]

lol

[@julienbee3467]

What is that ?

[@pablovaldes6022]

Lmao 🤣, he knows some Spanish

[@dustydean56]

Didn't he say with two e's ? Reeco Suave ??

[@livewithnick]

“They don’t bring us no peace”. Used to be men worked towards their own peace and didn’t expect somebody that they obviously don’t support to provide it.

[@sams.1597]

I grew up about a mile from here in Eastlake not the projects but was still not an ideal area back in the 90s & 2000s. All of the neighborhoods are slowly getting gentrified around this area. Ironically about a mile to 2 miles from gate city is the richest neighborhood/city in all of Alabama Mountain Brook. And gentrification in Birmingham doesn’t mean rich white people moving in… Birmingham is a lot more diverse than people realize well the Birmingham metro area as a whole. It’s a mix of white black and Latinos. Younger people are making a serious effort, IMO, to turn the page here. BTW, any of you from Birmingham remember my mom Mrs. Skinner? She was a music teacher at Barrett elementary Kingston and Bush Hills Academy.

[@IGStrangDaKang]

What kinda jobs or careers are the people that you talk about pursuing in order to live in better neighborhoods down there

[@eddiewood6239]

I fondly remember Mrs Skinner. I had a Hellish and Unhappy Childhood. My "father" abused and abandoned the family when I was quite young. He left my Dear Mother alone with me and two sick and dying children who finally passed at twelve and thirteen years old. Mine was not a life of peace and comfort. Your Precious Mother went above and beyond her duties as a school teacher. She was a Friend to the friendless, she brought a welcome light to those who dwelt in the dark. She gave hope to the hopeless. Here I still exist at fifty five years old and though my flaws remain legion, I can honestly say that to this very day I continue to Like, Love and Respect Mrs Skinner. In a world Filled to overflowing with evil and parasidic people, Mrs Skinner was a beacon of Love, Optimism and Kindness. SHE BETTERED MY BAD and contributed to much of the good and decency that now dwells within me. I fear to think of the monster I very well could have been had I not known her. Teachers often wonder if0 they "Make A Difference", I assure you that your Precious Mother Bettered This Bad World. To this day, I still love her. Your post has warmed my heart and wet my eyes. I wish you and yours All That Is Good. Eddie Wood, Hendersonville NC.

[@ladariusnichols1659]

Ms. Skinner was my music teacher at Barrett in the 90’s

[@jaimemontes3963]

Crazy to think just down the road is the richest neighborhood in Alabama

[@maira60]

mountain brooke

[@Gievags]

whole lotta engineers and doctors

[@ducaticanine]

nice to see the American education system working so well.

[@liamgross7217]

What a fu(ken rabble.

[@RonVik7]

Education? These people don't have it 🤣

[@Life_42]

They didn't go to school...

[@tinyhat8825]

this is mynames fault. Wrong side blank ww 2

[@herculesh1907]

So blame the teachers but not the parents?

[@TB11222]

I just got done playing football at University of Alabama-Birmingham. Never had a problems there because I played football. Dudes like this always used to be hella nice to us. But it felt like everyday something wild was happening.

[@allaboutthemurzic]

You was right by elyton village

[@TB11222]

@@allaboutthemurzic what was the name of the projects that surround legion field?

[@allaboutthemurzic]

@@TB11222 Elyton village projects I was over there back in May directly across from Legion

[@qdezy7695]

What's the project called on university

[@allaboutthemurzic]

@@qdezy7695 Southtown court

[@Viola5501]

Needs subtitles. It’s like trying to understand another language.

[@BDoughly]

If you don’t understand the “dialect” leave

[@eks_0]

You're just deaf.

[@marcushubbard9954]

@@BDoughly It's like yawl own language..thats dope an don't lose it..create yawl a flag an make yawl own country...dialect dope

[@mysticbeing6768]

@Assam Khan lmao

[@BDoughly]

@Assam Khan jokes be so ass, its supposed to offend me.. it don't! lol

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Birmingham is much more dangerous by murder rate but they big city people mind they own business i think montgomery is more dangerous to outsiders cuz its small town and people too nosey. BHAM is actually an amazing city too, love driving thru there at night. I personally NEVER had a problem in BHAM cuz they mind they own business except one time my passenger from out of town so that was our fault. But in general BHaM if you dont act silly your okay cuz like i said its big city people. But montgomery, they small town BS at times. Lil bam is a upcoming artist very talented i actually seen him around town 🙂 - so yeah its super dangerous in BHAM but just behave and you ok. The barber car museum is a MUST visit site trust me!! And vulcan park too

[@jillpatton3432]

All those civil rights men that marched in Birmingham are rolling in their grave's.

[@77RenaeSweets]

These kids are lost smh

[@harveylewis4201]

The majority of them in America are unfortunately

[@justchillin6599]

BIG TIME!

[@blast4me754]

Most of us black men think we look tough in our hoods but most people drive by and view us the same way they look at a helpless toddler standing in it's messy play pen with poop everywhere ..

[@ajaxshipale]

Lol they ain't lost they jus comfortable in they stupid spot.

[@maryfowles807]

Are they on something or drunk or just happy to be on camera?

[@jxniorszn8223]

I saw a vid of the Birmingham projects with high school kids. They were saying how depressing it is to live out here bcuz there’s nothing to do and they feel trapped

[@Norwood2052]

Facts

[@user-wz5py1ie8x]

I myself am from Kazakhstan, I can assure you, they live in paradise compared to us.

[@bdawg3942]

In what way please? I’m from Australia, watching this

[@bablipaul2219]

@West Baltimore Mafia👺 Look doesn't matter.. Jobs matter

[@drew-nd6rn]

I guarantee this is not a good environment

[@unclewangg]

Nothing goes on in Kazakhstan you guys are just poor it’s not dangerous at all just dirty and polluted

[@aziznazarov3090]

I’m from Kyrgyzstan, and I live in Birmingham Alabama. Moved here 4 years ago. Better to live in safe place. In this area stray bullet can hit anybody, everyone has gun

[@jasonj7052]

At the rate the culture is going I wouldn’t be surprised if people in these areas assume MLK was just a shorter way of spelling milk.

[@aceclop]

Lowkey, a nigga should start doin dat, like it lowkey sounds hella fresh

[@Indygoflow1]

There's about 80 IQ spread across the entire group

[@niptuck5707]

🤣

[@richardsmith8342]

You are being generous.

[@mariannejohannessen9751]

lol you right

[@aisuru8013]

Ngl I visit family down there that’s what it felt like lmao the school system is ass

[@mattrichardson4521]

That 80 IQ and they can survive in such a place. I promise you you would fold up there lol

[@nicholemask6739]

My family is from Jasper and Birmingham AL. Everytime we have ever went everyone was kind to us...hoods are the same everywhere...don't bother nobody and they don't bother you. My father left the hood in Louisville KY, for military when he was 18. I appreciate people in all walks of life!

[@allaboutthemurzic]

Its all about respect in Birmingham even in the worst hoods

[@BigBinoMI64]

💯💯💯💪🏿💪🏿

[@kamaumoore2025]

Nah I’m from Birmingham left and went back to visit, crackhead tried to get in my car like I knew him

[@nicholemask6739]

@@kamaumoore2025 oh damn 😳 I never had anything crazy like that happen

[@jessiefrye3045]

@@allaboutthemurzic you're absolutely right. I got lost in the Burroughs, off Finley looking for one of my kids that had broke down, on his way to work. I just pulled in a vacant parking lot,, and I saw 6 young men, all strapped, across the street. I kinda hollered "could Y'all help me, please "? And all 6 walked over and said "sure Mama, what is it you need help with"? I Told them and I said "I can't find that address, that road "Y"s off and the GPS says nothing" one young man said "oh. I know where you're trying to get to, its just a few blocks, we will walk you there if you want us to, because where you are , it's a 8 block turn around because of the one way streets" I Said "would you?! I would be so thankful "! One young man said "lock your car up, and we'll be glad to walk you". I locked it up and while we were walking there , a Bham cop pulled up and asked if I was ok ( 1 older white woman and 6 young black men all strapped with semi autos I reckon I looked out of place) one of the young men said "she alright. We're helping Mama find her son.. you can follow if you want to,, but she's ok" I smiled and said "oh yeah, I'm fine"... cop went on and we all talked and Laughed as we walked....3 blocks later we found my kid and the 6 young men helped us get it started and we all got in and took them back to where they started and me to get my car. I tried to pay them for their help and they refused. That same cop, stopped me on the way out of the Burroughs, and he said "the kids you were walking with are some of the most dangerous gangs around" I said "well evidently, a little respect goes a long ways,, and I'm not an enemy now, am i"? He shrugged and walked off. I went to the corner store and bought 6 Gatorades, (it was a hot day) and 6 packs of smokes, just in case, (I smoke, they might too you know?) I took it back and they thanked me and I got 6 hugs. You never know where respect and kindness is appreciated. I sure did appreciate it! They did too. Be kind. Be respectful. We are ALL on the grind these days.

[@benzobrimzs]

Gotta love me some charliebo313 all the way from the USA🇺🇲 to the UK 🇬🇧 it's all real. No filter .

[@blitzy3244]

It’s Birmingham Alabama dude not the Uk can’t you tell by what side of the road they drive on

[@ladonna8282]

WHAT'S UP CHARLIE!!💙🙏🏾💙THE LOGUST TALKING TO LOL

[@benzobrimzs]

@@blitzy3244 r u dumb I'm from the UK

[@bdawg3942]

Villa is the only team in Birmingham 🤣🤣👍

[@step2058]

East Side Birmingham, born and bred. Straight trenches. 8500 Block 3rd Ave East Lake, 1st Ave N, Gate City, 24th Ave NE Center Point 205 4L RIP Derrick "Dee" Lamont King, Darrell "D2" Cross, Samson T. Giddens, Sanquez A. Giddens, Khalia "Tuke" Sturdivant, Brody Sargent, Gerald "G Bayboy" Bailey, Justin Webber, and Mello World. Fly High 🕊️ Imma make it out for all y'all that couldn't come with me.

[@awrjkf]

Oh shut up boi. The Feds run the streets. They're the real gangsters. You just an illusion.

[@step2058]

@@awrjkf Illusions? I wasn't talking about gangsters I was just shouting out my block and the dead homies.

[@sandrawilliams9786]

It's just sad how people live

[@tre_4]

Making Tha Best Of What They Got

[@BenDover-jy1wy]

@@tre_4 in what way

[@vaughnreedjr6592]

They live better than people in 3 ward countries.

[@BenDover-jy1wy]

@@vaughnreedjr6592 they bring the 3rd world with them.

[@gs8405]

@@BenDover-jy1wy physically in this video they ain’t doing nothin a white person won’t do 🤷‍♂️

[@patrickmims7267]

Charlie, can you preface your questions with "One at a time..."?

[@jamesmitchell9201]

Grown men hanging about street corners the world is fucked.

[@qjtheprince425]

That's people home wym you sit in ur yard to dont you

[@jamesmitchell9201]

@@qjtheprince425 difference is I go to work and don't hang about street corners getting drunk smoking weed and carrying guns.

[@qjtheprince425]

@@jamesmitchell9201 that's you

[@jamesmitchell9201]

@@qjtheprince425 it is 🤔

[@peepeerogers]

@@jamesmitchell9201 I do all that minus the hanging on a street on a corner. Life is swell lol

[@chicosworld]

Shout out to Alabama from Chicago...a lot of people here got family from Alabama and Mississippi...my family from eufala Alabama 💯

[@bobbydouglas7909]

From Alabama to Chicago 💯✌️😎

[@TyraCallender]

My aunt lived in Eufaula

[@moebiddy3072]

Bham don't fuck wit eufala lmao

[@chicosworld]

@@moebiddy3072 why not I'm curious 😂

[@sneakerheadonlys]

Chicago on its own

[@yaboiip6147]

These dudes couldnt wait to get on camera 🤣

[@captainkirk9879]

Very impressive..they should be proud

[@spacecatboy2962]

its like a gang bang of brain farts

[@dinosaurmonkey666]

Just remember kids, when your done with something just throw it on the ground and forget about it forever. Let somebody else deal with trash, y'all aint gots time for that type shit 👌

[@dumpstersauce4514]

Lmaooooo

[@slick1844]

always know your in the hood when there is trash all over and people wont get out of the road for a car to pass

[@nathanjohnson2932]

We wuz kangz and shiid

[@cawheeler27]

I literally had to suddenly stop my car behind a woman who stopped, opened her car door, and started sweeping fast food bags (plural) into the middle of the road, then shut her door and started driving again.

[@davidrutledge424]

Im from tha Westside of Birmingham man its real out here if u can make it out of Birmingham u can make it anywhere

[@lucyvazquez1223]

I visited Alabama two weeks ago & boy it is different than LA. Visiting Birmingham made me not want to move out of LA never. There were hardly any Latinos there & the vibe was just different.

[@FINESTGAMER100]

All the Hispanics are in Hoover pelhem and Alabaster which is right under bham....bham is predominantly black

[@PlaylistKing478GA]

It's a lot in the suburbs. I just left the biggest mall in Bham Metro (Riverchase Galleria) in Hoover, Alabama and lots of Hispanics were in there.

[@RajSingh-jv4dn]

Love ur content mr Charlie . I’m watching this thousands of miles away in London

[@ClerRose]

Raj Sinh,,oi indiano

[@RayW....]

We need this in London for us...

[@chriscorscadden2484]

My dad grew up in this area around Rugby Ave and it’s sad how Birmingham is still segregated and suppresses people in many ways. If you drive 5-10 min away from here (near airport) you’re seeing multi-million dollar houses, just bizarre. Primary difference as far as I can tell is a school district, property value/generational wealth and access to opportunity.

[@finejustgivemeaname]

Yeah, well, videos like this don’t exactly inspire 280 folks to want to Integrate with these gate city folks.

[@justinnamuco9096]

You're talking about wealth though, not race

[@chriscorscadden2484]

@@justinnamuco9096 Exactly. I’m not talking about their race. I’m referencing that wealth in the metro area has consolidated itself into small communities (Mountain Brook, Vestavia, etc.) that invest nothing into the city of Birmingham. This further limits wealth mobility as the primary source of money for education is property taxes, and all of these wealthy communities conveniently have their own school systems.

[@mikeyagami205]

Fam have you not been paying attention? Avondale have mansions , Eastlake, and etc

[@PrincessPowerUp]

@@chriscorscadden2484 Absolutely true. All the real money is on the other side of the mountain. They have much much better education and opportunity and they will NEVER contribute to Birmingham's Permanent Underclass. Luckily we lied about our address to avoid the shits.

[@townbizz2361]

Had to cut this one short Charlie. I don't know what's more irritating these dudes accents or the bugs in background noise.

[@dreday6320]

Lol I said the same

[@GeeEm1313]

Cicadas

[@murdamansin559]

Istg

[@jejourneclark5870]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@apeshitclothing]

💯

[@eriksundqvist]

Wow, so much wisdom in these fine young chaps, seem really sharp. Wow.

[@sovietchampagne]

Every time one of these videos gets posted people talk about how they can't understand anything the guys in them are saying ... well yeah, they speak a dialect which is pretty distant from what you'd call "standard American English", and why would they speak any other way when they're sitting around smoking weed and shooting the shit in a parking lot? I think part of the reason why CharlieBo puts up these videos is so you can come into contact with things you don't understand, that might be "off-putting" to you as an outsider (perhaps for a very good reason) or which seem just downright wrong, and ask yourself "how can this be normal for a person?". Glad to have the ability to watch these. I feel they have brought me to a lot of insight I wouldn't otherwise have had.

[@allaboutthemurzic]

I’m from Birmingham, not from the eastside but I know people from that area I understood everything they said

[@sovietchampagne]

@@allaboutthemurzic I myself am Canadian so I didn't understand all that well. I've been to Alabama only once (Florence area), took a day trip there when I was staying in Tennessee for a few days. I was really struck by how many accents/ways of speaking I heard in just a few days.

[@marcushubbard9954]

Exactly..Im fan of different American dialects an I like bham one...this country use too be different tribes with different languages...Alabama need to capitalize off this unique culture they got..the old me would of been joking but I truly get it now...shoutout to the whole Bham Huntsville Montgomery Mobile from the eastcoast...Dope dialect

[@allaboutthemurzic]

@@marcushubbard9954 We need some rappers comin up reppin to capitalize on the culture

[@michaelhines4600]

That is not a dialect. I am from Mobile which is 3 hours south. We know Birmingham very well. This is just a lack of education. It has nothing to do with accent or any of that. Too many black people in Birmingham sound nothing like that. There is a State Farm office there and all kinds of corporations with people from other places but definitely from B ham working there. They sound like college professors. If it were dialect then they should sound like that as well.

[@aliyahfassett6970]

Watching this video and just thinking about what young black men were going through in the 50s and 60s. I know for a fact that there mentality wasn't like this smh...

[@emileneslo5695]

Stupid rubs off and has been rubbing off for decades. Generation after generation lost. Just a hand full smart up on their own and make something in their life.

[@bigsmoke480]

Rico suave: "it's Rico suave mane look me up on KZbin Rico suave" Charlie: "so wats ya social media?"😂😂

[@CarlosXPhone]

KZbin isn't technically "Social Media." It sorta is, you socialize in comments section, but you can't yell at the void like a broadcast. Its just a video, and comments section. Videos are used as a means of communication, but other than that, its not really talking at the void as a broadcast message.

[@Topjake1492]

With two "E's"

[@szamiduzaable]

1:20 cant fking watch him throwing that bag away just like that.

[@xxkkxx1982]

3:35 flying beer. I wonder if he also throws garbage on the floor at home

[@DubCmusicTV]

No regard for community

[@LAHA759]

Yea I was like ...wow just throw the trash down like that and walk off? Lol sad

[@1elwin]

What’s so special about been proud from the hood couldn’t understand 90% of this they need to learn not speak over one another

[@fdsafsgrgsdg242]

3:35 someone threw like a half full can of soda lmao

[@magnellseth]

😂💀

[@t3dlifestyle650]

In the late 80s early 90s, Gate City Projects was an area you didn't go hangout unless you really knew someone there. I dated a girl from Gate City Projects. I always kept it 100 and showed respect when I came through, so I never had any issues.

[@kishawolson7679]

Aawee good for you....you deserve an award of achievement 👏

[@dirtydirty5857]

​@@kishawolson7679Kisha fisha wassup guh long time no see how ya neck holin up ..we had some good times guh😅😅😅

[@TheWineroute]

Goldmine of footage here, can't wait for the feature to come out.

[@kenhightower897]

I used to go to the pool when I was a kid, it wasn't that bad. Now you couldn't pay me to go thru that neighborhood. The neighborhood has become so bad the bus drivers don't want to go thru Gate City.

[@tonithenightowl1836]

Did I see one guy show his gun on camera? I couldn't understand much of what was being said but I did hear the word government as one explanation. So does this mean its the governments fault these projects are so dangerous?

[@showmestatefinest5412]

Yea.they flood the areas with guns and drugs and took away jobs and funding for schools and hired corrupt police

[@PhonePhone-sf8te]

@@showmestatefinest5412 So, Your solution is make guns illegal, drugs illegal, bring in factories, throw millions more into school that they wont attend, and hire honest policemen that enforce laws heavily instead of looking the other way?

[@tonithenightowl1836]

@@showmestatefinest5412 And the purpose for doing this is what? What is the goal?

[@RosvStudios]

@@showmestatefinest5412 yes, it's not people's fault ever. Let's blame the white man and say that he took away jobs, haha. You got jobs everywhere in the US, stop lying.

[@kingz9916]

Lost souls. Within a few years most of these guys will be incarcerated or dead.

[@sonnyroy497]

Sad but true.

[@andraiharris7428]

U dont know that for sure why dont u speak life into these men instead of death

[@kingz9916]

@@andraiharris7428 I know what I see and hear. There is not much hope for these men. Sadly they put themselves in a position to fail. Facts matter.

[@andraiharris7428]

@@kingz9916 then u see the glass half empty whereas I see it half full. And as long as they have breath in their body there is still hope for them

[@kingz9916]

@@andraiharris7428 Until people acknowledge what is occurring in these neighborhoods, nothing will change. Again, facts matter.

[@neltev5700]

Abraham Lincoln is to blame for this

[@jillpatton3432]

To be fair to Abe, he did attempt to repatriate freed slaves back to their homeland. It never gained much traction.

[@kurtsydavis7517]

if this ain't hell I can't tell so imma sell my soul inside myself

[@lowwprofile]

Just one more rap album on YT and they'll be outta the hood!

[@bobbydouglas7909]

I got payed in bham just to hear me fart😂😂😂😅😌✌️

[@bigpapileach6601]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@andraiharris7428]

Yea and one more baby with your cousin and you'll be out the trailer court

[@CullmanPatriot]

@@andraiharris7428 Bahahaha

[@andraiharris7428]

@@CullmanPatriot oh plz

[@librasoul7546]

One of the most beautiful attributes about Black/Brown people is our dialect. We speak eloquently flawed yet understandable. You must remember English isnt our first language yet we have taken it..flipped it and made it into our own vernacular. Although it may be hard for you to understand its still communication at its finest. Much love from Alabama ❤

[@everettjohnson1485]

pfft lol

[@neonbyyukika3181]

right !!! i love our dialect

[@cesarperea5207]

what you by it isn't your first language? I mean, if you were born in the US it is your first language

[@neonbyyukika3181]

@@cesarperea5207 when our ancestors were brought here, they did not know english at all and were not TAUGHT it. they had to pick up on words and also made up their own, which is AAVE. you can google it yourself 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@eddiemarconi51]

Brown people are you talking about indians they speak better English than them lmao

[@RetiredLovingIt]

We have heard that Alabama has some dangerous places and gangs. We’re so sorry that people have to live like that!

[@Beachgirl1]

Not just Alabama, but every State. California, Chicago and New York are incredibly dangerous. Portland and Seattle are incredibly dangerous due to the fascist antifa terrorist gangs.

[@kellerclark85]

@@Beachgirl1 New York is one of the safest states, and NYC is one of the safest big cities. And California is a lot safer than it was in the 90s with all the gentrification going on in LA, SF. The worst hoods are in the Deep South (New Orleans, BR, Birmingham, Jackson, Little Rock, Charleston) and the Midwest (Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Gary, Milwaukee)

[@ithinkihaveebola5238]

Alabama is trash

[@thomasisasneakerhead7329]

@@kellerclark85Little Rock is hella dangerous

[@thomasisasneakerhead7329]

@@kellerclark85north carloina too

[@jossjiyane7809]

you need a body/ armoured car to walk/drive around most hoods in the USA

[@MonsterHDE]

Lol no just dont go where you not welcome. simple.

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

If you got food(delivery) everyone’s name is Jamal

[@MonsterHDE]

@@ScrapFatherScrapSon ?

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

MonsterHD personal experience . I’ve been a delivery driver for years and drivers would refuse to take orders to the hood. Well I am a nice white man and not scared. So people in the hood gotta eat too.

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

When I have delivered everyone is (insert any name here) for the delivery

[@paulcarlin5181]

I wonder how many in this video will live to see 30.

[@vivelagauche3564]

very instructive, we learned a lot.

[@dleonardrandom3416]

Top notch video. Thanks for mentioning where the video was recorded. Gate city!!!

[@cberry205]

I grew up close by Gate City in Woodlawn which is also the name of our high school which alot of housing projects were zone too including Gate City, Kingston and Avondale. I was cool with all the dudes from each area because i carried myself as the laid back mellow type who mind my own business.

[@blast4me754]

I'm so sorry that you had to grow up in this place ...

[@allaboutthemurzic]

One of my partnas from Tom brown my boy peanut

[@step2058]

@@blast4me754 Really no need to be sorry for us folks. Shit wasn't all great all the time but I love where I'm from. East Birmingham will always be my home and I always get love when I go back. I lost a lot of folks but at the end of the day I wouldn't be where I am without it.

[@allaboutthemurzic]

Thats what its all about mind ya business and youll be straight

[@j.ballsdeep420]

Gay City?

[@ykb04]

Need these in every city u go

[@packisbetter90]

I always liked these videos he does the most

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

Need what?

[@jb6971]

Every day above ground is a good day. God bless you all~

[@boshuncho7414]

Gate City Projects a dangerous area in Birmingham,, it's survival of the fittest get it how you live,, a lot of times we just a product of our environment,, everybody want their way out and try to provide a better opportunity for their family.

[@dm2694]

Charlie do any of these people you interview ever recognize you from youtube? How do you decide who to talk to? You just go up to a group of people who seem like they'd talk?

[@urbexerella]

HAHA OMG i thought the EXACT same thing!!!!

[@packisbetter90]

I'm sure some have

[@taters7359]

He got dat HOOD PASS 💪🏾

[@lamBETTERthanY0U]

Pretty sure he shows people there his youtube and they call other people they know

[@liamgross7217]

Wondering the same?

[@jalenmcpherson3203]

Great Birmingham most dangerous housing projects/gate city hood interview 👑💯🎥🎞🎬

[@elijahreilly9247]

100%🧢

[@sabretechv2]

Cool how they all got the same day off of work 👍

[@lashawnJ1954]

I WILL NEVER LOSE HOPE IN MY CITY, OR THE PEOPLE THATS IN IT🙏🏽

[@GlassOfJuicee]

Hahah fucking joke

[@leroydaniels5793]

Sad thing is you live there and believe this.. i lost all hope just from this 8 minute video. No helping these people.

[@lashawnJ1954]

@@leroydaniels5793 the beautiful thing about KZbin is that everyone can express their opinions and although I may not agree with your opinion however I do Respect it! Blessings to you, Stay Safe.

[@GlassOfJuicee]

@@leroydaniels5793 haha exactly!!!

[@kennedyliberty1304]

@@lashawnJ1954 Sisters like you ❤❤❤

[@larrypreiser4511]

Future of America. These guys are great.

[@Emajjab]

Hate when people come and judge these guys collectively everyone is a individual. Its the same almost every hood its almost more phycological as it is a physical war in that environment.

[@southboundtp2067]

Well said, that's the elephant in the room folk DON'T like to talk about 🤔

[@franciscoguzman1065]

@GGPWEST this is a lifestyle G. These men could do anything if they put their mind to it. It has nothing to do with environment.

[@martymcfly5842]

Rosa Parks would roll over in her grave seeing the current state of affairs in the black community

[@DNRailworks]

People saying "Oh its cool to walk through there just dont bother no one" Yea ok, I live close to where these dudes are, you dont just walk around there unless you know someone or have a reason to be there. Especially where these guys are, Tarrant, Ensley, or Selma.

[@dast3971]

What would they do to me if I walked there?

[@averyprice9422]

Ensley is the buckest

[@kapuda9364]

And if you never been there and have to drive through better roll the windows down so they can see you ass...Lived here in the area a few years...Had a few close calls lol...

[@streetwearjimmy]

@@dast3971 they would definitely say “aye bruh you don’t look/sound like you from around here” and you might get held up. I’m from Birmingham and know these different zones throughout the city.

[@nunyabizznizz7326]

thanks for posting, gives a real look at the country i live in, but dont recognize.........most of us are too sheltered

[@steffanij]

These fools need a role model or a hug or sumn.

[@southsidesaiyan8641]

Above the rim watching ass😂

[@bonnierantz6440]

🤣🤣I knew he was in gate city but if you from Birmingham.. hearing "gatecity" or "Bessemer" will make you say oh f no or EWWWW.. this is a ewwwww lol

[@tthorough4741]

Lmao I swear only BHam folks will understand this shit 😂😂

[@deedramcconis1763]

I always Bessemer is like a whole other country crossing over out of Midfield lol

[@moebiddy3072]

Nothing is like that west and Bessemer is not considered apart of bham we don't fuck wit them

[@tthorough4741]

@@moebiddy3072 you right it ain't BHam but it's in the BHam metro area, so in actuality it really is part of Birmingham

[@moebiddy3072]

@@tthorough4741 nigga Bessemer is not in tha bham metro area LMFAO y'all people say anything...

[@terrelljackson6476]

These are the projects that keeps on appearing on First 48, lol.

[@jereljenkins8084]

Loveman Village was on there with the kid Mookie Dook or something and they were similar but smaller and more compact

[@terrelljackson6476]

@@jereljenkins8084 Funnily enough, that's exactly the episode I had on mind when watching this. That 17 yo kid Francis 'Mooky Duke' Williams and his cuz beating this middle-aged man with a stick.

[@richelieutartempion4435]

4:54 speaking to them about 15 years ago when they canno't even remember what they did this morning was a harsh question :')

[@6844376]

I'm guessing maybe 4 yrs of total education among all of them. Maybe!

[@davidg.9932]

"there but for the grace of god, go I". Peace, Love and Aloha from Waikiki..

[@joycepatrick]

I live in these exact same kind of apartments in Mississippi, and I hate it, I feel like if I pay my rent, I own where I freakin live and no gang bangers and outsiders have any freaking rights to come into my neighborhood disrupting my peace and rights!! But thankfully, we have good police and security protection, they always come when called and try their best to keep down the peace.

[@coolboyclick7486]

Hope you can move out of there soon love

[@justinnamuco9096]

I wonder if police can secure businesses and finally give people jobs

[@joycepatrick]

@Draper Scott my sons father was born and raised in Mississippi but he moved to mobile Alabama, he was on America’s most wanted and unsolved mysteries. He was a big time dope dealer!!! When he was caught and died in a Mississippi prison from colon cancer, he was the last of his kind. All of these upraising, wanna bes in my neighborhood don’t faze me, so happy my sons took after me and not their useless daddy!!

[@joycepatrick]

@@coolboyclick7486 I’m about to be moving real soon, thank you so much!

[@coolboyclick7486]

@@joycepatrick hope you moved soon update us and hopefully a better area

[@shelby3822]

Looks like they stole random clothes from salvation army... respect for that Purple Rain shirt tho ✌️

[@michaelgoebel1593]

There seems to be a huge drug 'intake' among these fellows.

[@stevebanning902]

thanks captain obvious

[@marshanaturner3150]

I live in Birmingham and every time I've ever been to Gate City something popped off. I'll never go back there again.

[@joshuabolton1211]

Man I'm from Birmingham and yes this is the worst on the East side, check out the Hill on the West side! Some go up but never come down. I'm white and I have hung out in Gate city but I never went up the Hill!

[@BIGCHEEZY616]

Cant help but notice how much louder there insect's are compared to more the northern states and my state Michigan to be exact like damn there shitz loud as a Mug

[@seansmith9333]

I was looking for this comment. They get louder when its super hot outside but right now in where I live in Texas it's stormy and cool right now so I hadn't heard them in a few days. This video had be trippin looking out the window like "why they being so loud."

[@packisbetter90]

This year here in Indy the 17 year cicadas came out and it sounded like that but maybe louder constantly

[@BIGCHEEZY616]

@@seansmith9333 lol like for real,i was thinking sheesh if they were that loud up here id go nuts 😂

[@BIGCHEEZY616]

@@packisbetter90 i wouldnt be able to listen to that for a period of time,No Way 🙅‍♂️lol

[@bobbydouglas7909]

You right I use to live in detroit 😂😌

[@ms13626]

Imagine what you learn from hanging out with these dudes...

[@kishawolson7679]

Nothing