Inside Brixton, South London - First Impressions 🇬🇧

[@jermainewong]

Thank you Micha. Thank you Brixton Soup Kitchen. Despite my son being a victim of the culture. People like you and BSK still make me proud to be of Brixton 🖤👊🏾

[@DTecksVision]

Finally, it's a community-driven documentary about Brixton instead of the usual ones we see, e.g. gang violence, etc. This was done really well. Long live Brixton Kitchen

[@moggy1972]

I grew up in Brixton in the 70's 80's onwards, and still tell people who ask that I'm from Brixton even though I've not lived there for at least 15 years, it will always be my home. The place has changed so much since my days there. But massive thanks to people like Micah who do what they do.

[@Gmonie30000]

Absolutely love the Brixton soup Kitchen team doing great work and continue to do for the community❤

[@WilliamKidd-iw3xd]

Thank you Micha . Your tour and stories of Brixton, And your soup kitchen is a blessing to the homeless your are a major help for the people of Brixton and London

[@FunkyChild718]

These guys volunteering at the soup kitchen is what the media needs to show and the world needs to see - productive young Black men helping out their community and inspiring the world to make their community a better place. Thanks lads.

[@tmello_music]

powerful video watched from start to end big up micah how you broke everything down was proper and there was a lot of knowledge and wisdom in this episode and big up brixton soup kitchen every time keep doing what your doing. nuff love

[@WesleyWinter.]

Appreciate it 👊🏻 Need more people like Micah

[@DanielGurney-l7q]

Big up Micah. Great guy. Doing amazing work

[@Bbobby01]

Wot a guy!! Really need people like like this!! Complete bridge building an truly a key figure in the community!! Lovely to see.

[@1973tinytim]

I'm 50 now and was 8 when I moved on to fairbairn green myatts field estate and moved out when I was 32. Had the best time growing up living here it will always call Brixton home. Couldn't believe how much it changed when I went back to see a pal who still lives there. We t Stockwell park school and Slade green was our playground I remember Andy blonde haired guy used to run the place in and the ice 10p ice cup. 37:32 this was my old house block but the another side was knocked down . Great video

[@WesleyWinter.]

Love hearing the stories from the local. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for subscribing if you did 😁

[@jongenboren]

This was an excellent watch and completely challenged my preconceptions about Brixton.

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thanks for watching and subscribing if you did 👊🏻

[@EmpressEvolve]

Memories 😊. Great video. You got the right people to give you a true insight in to the COMMUNITY that is Brixton. 👌🏾✨️

[@WesleyWinter.]

For sure! Got the full tour 👊🏼

[@stevenbingham4828]

You forgot go in the weatherspoons and the check the old boys playing chess 🫡

[@AdventureElliot]

BRO GREAT CONTENT!! The best of the dangerous hood vlogs in London so far

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thank for the support bro! Glad you enjoyed it

[@LiClan]

Can’t say Londonis dangerous mate. I Australia we got real hoods where it really kicks off. I came to London as my miss family live there but it’s full of losers and weaklings

[@goviraltrending9984]

He didn’t even go to hood

[@nadinesearchwell3113]

Awww love this well done. And love that Keelen was apart of it 🥰 RIP SON 🙏🏽🕊️💙

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thanks to Micah for showing me around and letting me share his story. He spoke really highly of your family. My condolences 🙏🏻

[@WilleneBusinessLifestyle]

This is amazing man! Powerful work as always! Gives me an insight to the reality on sights not seen before! Even the hood has got really helpful and friendly people man. Keep showing us these. The world needs to know so it can be fixed!✊🏾

[@WesleyWinter.]

Respect man!

[@LiClan]

Brixton win a good mate when I visited there were junkies and young punks trying to act hard. I’ve seen the Australian slums and don’t fear any man

[@nicomus1c]

Great vid, important people actually show the community cause its the best thing about all these areas in London that have so much violence, its the unity and love that keeps people pushing.

[@PerpetualBeta]

Tuning in from Jeju Island, South Korea. A very different playground to that of multicultural London. I miss that cultural diversity and the pace of all London. Thank you for sharing through your lens to the world stage. Amazing stories from some of the realest people of Brixton and London. Thank you to you all! That Micha is well connected! He’s doing good things! Humble to acknowledge his community and the people he helps. 👊 💥 👊 I lived in Stockwell and Clapham areas on the borders of Brixton for a while way back in the 90s. I knew Brixton very well. And I see that Brixton Academy! Memories! Good to see the grassroots initiatives helping in and around that area as best you all can. Keep it going! I’m looking up Brixton Soup Kitchen. Good things! We are a million miles away but united by the rhythm of life. 🙏 Update: you’re half British / Korean? I just watched ‘England Has Fallen’ where you state your cultural heritage! Hello from a fellow blended British / Korean family here in South Korea!

[@omoz189]

I just had to subscribe!! This was great content ! I see Brixton differently after watching this , a lot has changed. Micah and the resource team they are doing well for the community in Brixton. He needs to be nominated for an award for helping people in the community. It's not easy to give support to people in the community with limited resources . Nice on what the newspaper has done to help Micah with having a vehicle to compound in making waves in progress and continuous success in endeavours for the community, Love it 😎 🙏 "Micah and Company" keep doing what you're doing . Well done 👏 ✔️ 👍 😎❤

[@queenp3193]

I dont recognise Bricki anymore. I remember the Brixton riots clear as day, i used to go Burntwood school and my friend who lived there was stuck on the 133 bus watching it all. Got some of my best memories from Bricki x

[@thegoat1261]

This is the revolutionization of media coverage. Good work.

[@akindele13]

Loved Brixton when i was there in April. Plan to go back next year, to see even more.

[@arabziana94]

I saw you driving around filming this! What an amazing video - thank you!

[@MoooMoo-sb9jd]

Great video and Great man Micah!!❤️❤️❤️

[@WesleyWinter.]

Legend!

[@seanjamescameron]

A suggestion for you - at the start of the video, when you have the location come up on screen, also include the date you filmed it. Would be very interesting for historians of the future, because the date you upload/release may not be the same time that you filmed it. All the best.

[@jfearondasparky]

youtube has all that on screen

[@user-dv3kq3rm4h]

@@jfearondasparky You Tube could not be around in future, I'm sure he's taking that into consideration.

[@DanielKings10]

Brilliant doc!!! Large up Micah

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thanks for checking it out

[@9etherking707]

Big up to Micah and Solomon for the tremendous work they do for the Brixton community 👏🏾

[@RDCCC]

This is brilliant. My whole family’s from South, my mums side all from Moorland Road in Brixton. But I even learned a lot watching this. BIG UP the community leaders ❤

[@patbash5718]

Just watched this ,good people are good people love and peace from ireland

[@WesleyWinter.]

Exactly that, cheers for subscribing if you did too 👊🏻

[@jameswalsh2427]

Another Irish viewer

[@martinjohnson2381]

I used to go to the Brixton Mass and Academy in the early 2000's for the drum and bass raves; literally git the scars to prove it. Mad times.

[@greni7472]

20 years too late. Brixton has been gentrified.

[@patmann9363]

I was thinking that,maybe even 30.

[@greni7472]

@@patmann9363 Yes, closer to 30 years.

[@Jh19999]

Is that whay you call it when people.try make a sh*t hole a nice place 😂😂😂

[@hh-ww2ev]

@@Jh19999 first explain to me why it became a shit-hole in the first place. U don't think racism, slavery, exploitation,, war, police injustice, school resource scarcity, in and out of council estates with mould and a landlord that dont give s sh*t , wars going on in home countries was part of that. Instead of building community infrastructures, youth clubs, football / sport cages, investing it back into the people , putting homeless people back on to their feet. translating talent to business. they'd rather make profit by demolishing and investing into new apartments and buildings ,overprice everything and then rent them to richer people.

[@Mel87y]

Never too late for change

[@AlanAttack]

Micah and his crew are amazing, well done folks.

[@geraldinecharlie1000]

Brilliant doco fabulous work from the Soup Kitchen l was a Brixtonite from the 60 s it always had a fantastic vibe so multicultural and so full of life force ,, l miss it to this day Acre lane, Brixton Market , Coldharbour lane, Brixton Town Hall,, etc etc Reggae Music everywhere Saturday night parties and so on WOW! Great memories l now live in Cairns Australia could not be more opposite, l miss Brixton so terribly much love to all the Brixtonites ,,Party on keep surviving ! Great doco❤❤😊😊😊😊😊

[@SandraAlladice]

❤😊

[@MrMarcy76]

Really enjoyed watching this from start to finish.

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thanks a lot! Appreciate it 👊🏻

[@MrMarcy76]

@@WesleyWinter. You're welcome mate.

[@CecileM013]

Thank you AGAIN (genuinely) Wesley. You have been given a gift to documenting human BEINGS in horrific living situations that non one gives a fuck about as profit free. Glad you keep improving that great and rare skill (humanity, genuine neutrality, understandings, etc.) through reporting measurable facts (as opposed to opinions) in society. Knowledge and understandings and daily & repetitive actions between beings will always unite.

[@WesleyWinter.]

Wow really appreciate that comment! You’re so kind. Thanks for watching and subscribing if you did 😁

[@jameswalsh2427]

Excellent work and congratulations. Every time I get to London I make sure to be there for the magnificent Brixton Market on daily but Saturday is my favourite day . Especially exploring the many international restaurant's and coffee shops. James J Walsh in Limerick city Ireland 🇮🇪 (Subscribed and liked)

[@WesleyWinter.]

Didn’t have time to check it out for that long at the time. Looked good! Cheers for subscribing 👊🏻

[@369kwest]

Very positive and humble guy and considering everything he's probably witnessed and had to endure over the year's, that in itself is an achievement. to still be so involved and inspired for positively and kindness. community in general has a back bone built like this fellow 👌 without it or people like him the people have absolutely nothing and nobody. he's proof we need eachother and have eachother god bless bro 👍💥💥💥

[@WesleyWinter.]

Exactly that! Thanks for checking out the video and subscribing if you did 🙏🏻

[@369kwest]

​​@@WesleyWinter.My bad bro I rushed over to the KZbin Brixton soup kitchen channel after leaving that comment and subscribed.. but I did just subscribe to you for bringing the awareness. so bless up my guy & nuff respect 🙏

[@asaruptah2974]

Divine Beloved Respect to Micah and organised resources in supporting its Communities,may his Divine Essence continue with other supporting associations.

[@jonnyrainbow1]

I grew up in Clapham and Streatham. My sister bought a house in Brixton back in the 80s,in Rattray road. My Father a Doctor was mortified,but although my sister was attacked on her doorstep almost immediately after moving in Loved living in Brixton. Her home became our families meeting place.

[@neiidesigns6972]

I came from Paris to London 13 years ago with my 3 kids and Brixton is and allways be our home. We love it so much, we’ve been welcomed like nowhere else and we feel lucky to be part of this community. Big Big up to Soup Kitchen. 🙏🏽✨❤️

[@UKHipHopdaily]

Man like core Johnson you know !!.. big up your channel

[@WesleyWinter.]

Appreciate it

[@wise1889]

Great work

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thanks!

[@fsow1237]

I’m so in love with big man ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ And well done to y’all for helping those who need the help ❤

[@C_Pedro13]

Love your videos dude, so insightful

[@DJTomOke]

Great vid. I lived in Brixton for 16 years, Loughborough Estate 2005-21. I remember when the OG Franco Manco opened! Was tiny. Really nice guys who still work in the big one now. Brixton 'Village' used to be pretty much solely a food market during the day, and a place to buy certain things at night 😊 The first Honest Burger opened in thr Village, went there all tbe time, now they're all over London. There was a great unfussy winebar called SW9 down Dorrell Place. When I go back now Im struck by how much open drug use tbere is, its got worse. And lots more dirt cheap shops that have a money laundering vibe, where proper shops like Mothercare once stood.

[@SMATICKZ]

Good content keep it up brother

[@WesleyWinter.]

Appreciate it

[@MrMarcy76]

We need more people like Micah

[@Ali_channel]

great vid thanks for Micah

[@ProVizionTV]

Best journalist In the game!

[@WesleyWinter.]

Cheers bro! It’s been a minute 👊🏻

[@lifeisblessed4802]

Great Video Wesley.......Bless up

[@WesleyWinter.]

Appreciate it 👊🏻

[@davidbernard7256]

Thanks for the video Wesley and Micha, i enjoyed it. Respect from Melbourne Australia! PS one food you cannot get in Melbourne is jerk chicken! it hasn't even been heard of!

[@WesleyWinter.]

Melbourne is missing out 😂

[@brooks4365]

Great video and convo

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@rjauto7215]

I must admit this was a really good video well done and said guys ❤

[@WesleyWinter.]

Appreciate it! Thanks for subscribing if you did 👊🏻

[@Mspowell30]

11:09 I grew up down there in the bob marley way estate. My mums no longer with us anymore 😢

[@WesleyWinter.]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Cirrus5005]

54:15 - Could someone translate that exchange for me? I understood the English that was spoken, but what does it mean?

[@alanmarsh5834]

My father was born in Brixton it was very posh 97 yrs ago then in later life he brought a fish and chip shop I use to love going there shopping with my mum my aunt used live in Stockwell Avenue all her life what a change

[@nicekko]

Good video of Brixton 😀😀 keep up the good work 😀😀

[@WesleyWinter.]

Cheers bro 👊🏻👊🏻

[@heavymetal1330]

I played football in brixton back in 1996 with my african friends there! Played for a team called Accra (don’t know if they exist anymore)! I was very welcomed there! Good old days! Much love and respect from Brazil 🇧🇷!

[@ProfNDKai]

Shoutout to aunty Mary and RIP to all the youth that unfortunately passed away

[@markstubbs5332]

What an Amazing guy well done!! for all your hard work.

[@zachhoward9336]

Great video sir!

[@WesleyWinter.]

Thanks man 👊🏻

[@KINGCABA-if4nk]

It’s so good showing this; I never this side to south ldn areas. Everyone whose isn’t affected jt and or more affluent would be in similar environment but not of the working class community.

[@meinjapan]

These people represent the best of British 🇬🇧 no matter colour or creed, they all have a British heart ❤️

[@faithBlondon]

Brixton has different sides to it, and how you get to experience it depends. Generally it's become gentrified over the years. Its still very lively, interesting people, great food, nice independent shops. Its still a nice vibe. Yes It has a deprived side too, but again..." deprived" also has spectrums. Despite some of its issues, I dont think you can call yourself a South Londoner and not know Brixton, or have some slight affection for the place😊

[@youcantno3963]

Love Brixton, my youth was hanging around Acre Lane eating West Indian food and checking the many record shops there back in the day. Lovely multi racial community where people got on. It was fine if you were respectful and polite. Bottom line is don’t be a bell end and you won’t draw attention. Looks like it’s changed with gentrification for the worse though. All them hedge fund managers come in and contribute nothing to the community.

[@WesleyWinter.]

Cheers for checking it out and subscribing if you did 👊🏻

[@lin_unrulychin1028]

So proud of Micah💯❤️

[@mingwingming1971]

Great content. ❤

[@WesleyWinter.]

Appreciate it!

[@victorpatrick2812]

It's so good to see brovers sister looking out for one anover in Brixton and peckham spead the love and peace live as one ever where

[@Bs-gw3tt]

Shouldn't make tracksuits in that size. It'll never be at the track or the gym

[@BosiWu]

Great work！

[@WesleyWinter.]

Cheers!

[@RonnieSutton-cz3lp]

I am Irish catholic white and I was brought up i n Brixton. I'm the 60s and 70s most of my friends were Jamaican.Great place.

[@Deezyduffus]

RIP TO MY BEST FREIND KING BOWZA

[@madztv4523]

Rip bowsa ❤

[@Copyrightact962]

What about the abeng centre if you know you know..

[@Natzcool83]

Ya dun know!!!

[@maxpayne69876]

Brixton..or Woolwich Croydon.. Edmonton Tottenham hackney Ilford harlsden..you choose

[@victoria2509-d1h]

There used to be an amazing nightclub in Brixton called The Fridge which was big in the late 90s early 00s trance music heyday. I remember you could get in free if you brought a bongo drum 😁

[@atomicmoog1219]

Awesome place. I visited London frequently in the 90s, one the best clubs in London. There was also a wonderful small club, 414, is that gone too?

[@victoria2509-d1h]

@@atomicmoog1219 Unfortunately that closed too. Most of the best clubs have closed now which is a shame.

[@karenthomas714]

I love brixton ! Reminds of how DC was back in the day !😊

[@TheWhole36]

Seems like a top geezer running that food kitchen big him up🫡

[@christinecleavest9099]

This is community! If only everyone, everywhere took care of their fellow neighbors. 💞

[@WesleyWinter.]

Right!

[@davidhookway514]

My Late Grandmother lived in the Borough when only one Ethnic Group lived there.

[@cleo63100]

West Indians were invited and recruited to the UK after the war to fill the shortage of workers in the railways, NHS, London transport etc. The Jamaican influence in Brixton isn't what it was in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. They're now part of the ‘Windrush' history, with a square in Brixton being named Windrush Square in 1998, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship in 1948 on which the first set of Jamaicans and other Caribbeans arrived in London. Brixton has now become a trendy, gentrified area with many nationalities running bars, restaurants, etc. Small snippets of the Jamaican influence remain but for the most part, most of the early generation sold up their huge houses to yuppies in the 80s and 90s and moved on - either back to Jamaica, Caribbean or other areas. It’s now become very expensive to live in Brixton. Jamaicans have now become part of the history of Brixton. Now the black people in Brixton are mainly Africans. The original Jamaicans are no longer in the area, so all these reports do not relate to Jamaicans. They were in Brixton since the 1940s, 50s, etc but most have moved on and are now only part of the history of Brixton. Now you have to have money to buy a house in Brixton. Brixton is not a 'black' area. You all need to stop calling Brixton dangerous because that title was only placed on it because it was one of the first areas in London with blacks people. They worked hard to buy their homes but as soon as there are non-whites it becomes dangerous’. You need at least £1million to get a small house in Brixton. The Jamaicans owned the large houses over 70 years ago but they have moved on many decades ago so stop using Jamaicans and Brixton to spread lies about ‘dangerous’. Now Brixton is very gentrified - so stop perpetuating the lies and racist propaganda!

[@vajethananthakumar3351]

Great video miss Brixton memories

[@Amen-sx3mp]

Great tour. 👍

[@jpareditoz]

Big Up Micah Birxton is home to all of us

[@lloydburgess1743]

Long life, my brother, from a brixtonian, Excellent documentary.

[@WesleyWinter.]

Ey appreciate it my guy! Thanks a lot

[@rjauto7215]

It's odd because I was born in Brixton in 1967 and have lived there all my life just off front line I can tell you some stories lol

[@aleviodema]

I live in Tulse Hill West Norwood, still learning a lot about the area

[@EightyFour-s3z]

Dangerous? Brixton is trendy AF. Anyone can go there any time they want. Those young fools play the fool with one another and that’s it. Brixton is NICE. Why so much money is moving in.

[@WesleyWinter.]

It was better than I expected. Definitely not how it’s portrayed on the news. Good people too

[@ChosenWun180]

That’s because it’s gentrified. You don’t go to the parts where he filmed which is why u think it’s safe. Pure ignorance

[@manassehdawkins4826]

@@ChosenWun180exactly. And going to any part of Brixton was Risky bk in da 80s ,90s and early 2000s. Mandem was robbing everything moving there was no cameras bk then.

[@Wurwa45]

Exactly I was going to say. Brixton has been gentrified I grew up there and things started changing when they bought Costa and starbucks over

[@BlitzHarry]

Welcome to Brixton I’m in a party with Barbie’s and drillers

[@lindMW]

Me & friends stayed in Brixton for the night in 2019 we went to the electric to see sonny fordra we had the best night ever .💃💃💃💃💙from Liverpool..

[@WesleyWinter.]

Love the scousers would love to check out some of the places there. Maybe soon 😅

[@RosemaryGomes-n8l]

This documentary is so true. Hopefully, things change for the better after this election.

[@DhadirMohamed-q2x]

I use to work in Loughborough junction it was nice

[@HdHd-hp6qz]

Brixton is well gentrified. Nothing like 30 years ago. You can find dangerous places in Kensington or westminister. Richest areas in the UK. Brixton is a place I would live in now in 2024 if I had to move to south of the river.

[@ringovision]

Bless up bro Good Vibes

[@WesleyWinter.]

Legend, my guy 👊🏻 let’s cook

[@RonnieSutton-cz3lp]

Brixton market brilliant and there use to be a record shop just b&4 front line where you could by American I'mpyorts

[@Natzcool83]

Dexter playground, Effra Primary School, Dick Shepard School, 80/90s Brixton best time of my adolescence and teenage years

[@WesleyWinter.]

Love hearing these stories! Cheers for subscribing if you did

[@Deezyduffus]

That building was built wrong the artitec killed her self because of that

[@garymorgan75]

I'm a white British guy who understands what these guys are saying about being pushed out of Lambeth we have all been exploited by the rich. I also grew up in Brixton.

[@AJ-cn7eh]

refreshing non clickbait/stereotype video

[@WesleyWinter.]

That’s what it’s all about man

[@JamieCovey-t2g]

I think he meant the most police and lowest crime rate , Brixton looks like its full of good vibes and people

[@damnft8218]

Dressing up Brixton in St George’s colours is mad, it is deffo a Union Jack ting

[@WesleyWinter.]

What, it’s in England?

[@damnft8218]

@@WesleyWinter. it’s Britain but if you’re appealing to English demographics good on u

[@WesleyWinter.]

@@damnft8218 anyone and everyone bro, cheers for watching tho and subscribing if you did 👊🏻

[@stevenpop2746]

As someone who has lived in brixton for years and just moved from there…one thing I’ll say is brixton is STILL the same old brixton 😂….yes it’s been gentrified but the old essence is still there and it’s still dangerous especially night time!…you will be fine there generally but just need to stay alert and be wary!…brixton is a vibe and unlike any other place I’d definitely recommend going but just letting people know it ain’t all fairy lights and bubble gum vibes like social media shows you 😂