The Jungle (1967) | Philly Gang Members Tell Their Own Stories

This dramatized documentary was created by inner city high school students in Northern Philadelphia through a project initiated by Temple University social worker Harold Haskins. With the students creating everything from the credits to the soundtrack, this short is an early example of modern, independent African American filmmaking. With its raw fusion of documentary and fiction, it shows a unique view into street life through the lens of gang members themselves. The Jungle was named to the National Film Registry in 2009. (1967, dir. Charlie “Brown” Davis, Jimmy “Country” Robinson, David “Bat” Williams, 35mm, black and white, 22 min.)
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[@KingofNewYorkkk]

Philly always played a pivot role in black culture. Philadelphia Soul scene, Contributing Grafitti towards the culture of Hip Hop, Schooly D releasing PSK as the first "gangsta rap/reality song" in the mid-80s, Will Smith and Neo soul wave. Much respect from a fellow New Yorker🗽😎

[@carlinwoods245]

Before the civil war,when the enslavement of black people was legal, Philly had the largest community of FREE BLACK PEOPLE.

[@mrwalkyoudown2175]

My man said “young bulls “ I’m cracking up how popular that is in Philly to this day

[@capricorn1116]

My mom is from this era , she told me a lot of stories from back then . When you see videos of other cities , we're all the same

[@MikeV.-sy6fl]

unfortunately

[@TheJaybugg311]

I can watch old school vids like this all day.

[@kewsiyehboah6058]

Yeah love da throwback stuff..

[@pastorjohnnye.odomjr.9022]

1968-69 my parents moved us from Philly to Delray Beach FL because of the gang wars. But we quickly found out that things weren't that much different. Not a week went by that we didn't get into fights with other guys who heard about the Philly reputation and were looking to challenge us. Before you knew it, we had our own crew following us and after getting expelled from school because the principle charged us with starting a Philly gang on campus, our parents moved us back home.

[@Lerf8]

Philly kids don't get a break

[@steeloharris7054]

Damn old school, that's crazy.

[@b8st9rdfdd46]

@@steeloharris7054 😂😂 nicca calling him old school is crazy

[@b8st9rdfdd46]

@@steeloharris7054 you should of put the Jack at the end😂😂

[@steeloharris7054]

@@b8st9rdfdd46 nah that's that eastcoast shit

[@alijn7]

The year I was born. This was a great documentary about Gang Affiliation back in the 1960's. I always enjoy what this channel upload. Continue to do good work Reel Black.

[@d1sc0urs3]

YOU HEAR THAT!

[@damarcusmomm05]

I think I just saw my daddy 😲

[@jermainejones3087]

🤣😂😂

[@kenetterobinson2109]

😂🙃😎9 out of 10 you may have 🙃🤣🙏💪✊

[@ReggieRobinson-i2u]

Yea he went through the kangaroo line😂

[@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489]

how they throwin hands wit Stacy's on tho😂

[@ogbarryjones4791]

the grand canyon is Egypt It Went Down All Day!

[@ethelparis2255]

I was in the BBP in northphilly in 1969 and 70 gang waring was still going on, the Panther Party started trying to stop the violence and get them to stop gang waring and start working to better the community and it started slowing down, but then came the drugs and the violence became worse in the 80s you saw more random gun violence where children were being shot because they were in the line of fire

[@powerplay4real174]

Who you think is responsible for the Drug coming in at that time, I would bet it was the government through the police departments had a big hand in the drugs popping up.

[@africanamerican1818]

It's sad. They forget how their ancestors had to go through heck and high water to get into these neighborhoods across America. One of the complaints was how the "N-words" will bring the community down if we moved in

[@capricorn1116]

It was all by design

[@kidmack1121]

R-E-A-G-A-N!!!!

[@northphillymorningstar7385]

CIA..

[@Jesseraxon]

Being from philly I always felt like our ppl and culture is under exposed. I truly appreciate films like this

[@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489]

definitely, we had BLK British Prime Ministers & secretary of state that operated out of Philly. William Pitt & Charles Fox respectfully ( named after his namesake King Charles). William Penn was certainly not a wyt man either😂. Philly history is Rich & still suppressed 💯

[@cee-lopreen6754]

it's cause it's close to NY I guess. But yea Philly had the original Black Mafia, not that Detroit knock off.

[@2ant1man5]

Philly is so unique I love my City 25th diamond before they blew the projects up.

[@Msboochie2]

Yeah, you’re right about that. I realize I know very little about the people, the culture, and the history. I am from NY, and I always felt like Philly was a lot like NY. Even in this documentary some parts of the scenery looks like the Bronx, and some parts look like Brooklyn. I knew it wasn’t because of the clothes and hair, a different look than NY. So I can see why people sometimes lump Philly in with NY, but they shouldn’t, because although there are similarities there are differences, and Philly has it’s own nuances and history that is uniquely Philly.

[@Jesseraxon]

LONtoLAX maybe to you idk where from. But I’m proud of my people and where they come from

[@Urbantravelclub]

Why do we act like the younger generation is so much worse? Clearly we are repeating a cycle.

[@jerseydevils9686]

Nah the older gens are way worse than what goes on now-a-days

[@oluhamilton2121]

Not quite, there is NO FILTER with today's youth. They will attack old folks in a second. WHAT??

[@Urbantravelclub]

@@oluhamilton2121 I am speaking more about the gangster ISM and the violence it didn't start today from this clip the good old days were not so good is the point I'm attempting to make

[@oluhamilton2121]

@@Urbantravelclub aiight...

[@deewoods8785]

It's worse... G.i Joe's now have interchangeable privates, and I don't mean rank lol, 4genders to choose from. Knowledge of self sold separately

[@mariel.4566]

They all dressed so nice and clean back then.

[@jerseydevils9686]

Yea its a bit weird. But gangsters wore zoots and things like that before the 80s and 90s

[@hornetbrown]

Gangsters wore different ropes and vogues when they came into that fast money.

[@gregoryross9770]

@Happy Growing lol they do....rapping/singing about cheap wine in a paper bag

[@jamesvickers9476]

@Happy Growing look at how they dressed...you call that bummy some were but most dressed like the gangsters they were

[@lkxnqno]

And yet they still acted like a bunch of reckless street hoodlums

[@1STKNOWLEDGE]

My brothers was born in north philly,, I was born in south philly,, I miss home , 215 forever

[@jasonbantu4719]

This is where I hear the sounds of hiphop through chants and stomping

[@jerseydevils9686]

Bro its always always been there for us!

[@ordinaryextraordinarybrotha]

100 Proof upon the roof yeah they spitting bars

[@ronniecarter8918]

Right really the first rap huh

[@mbp333]

Now this is classic.

[@abusiness7450]

Hell yeah!

[@xavierrainey8747]

Damn Philly accents been the same for years lol

[@majorprotx3363]

Great video and reminder of how things were in those Philly gang war years. It's wild: my uncles were part of the same gangs and hanging on the same corners that I grew up hanging on. They repped Somerville (and Haines Street) back in the 60's and 70's; I was Bottomside Somerville during the 80's. The gang culture never died out in the city. We don't have organized gangs anymore: just the names, actions and culture of the old gangs from back in the day. Instead of knives, tire irons and baseball bats, it's all guns now. It's like the city is still haunted by the gangs from the 1940's-1970's. Kinda like how Chicago is. No more 'gang leaders.' Just the names, territories and results of that old gang culture that's still active in the city. Funny too how that Philly accent never changed over time.

[@4465Vman]

is "Somervillle" the name of a street ...or of a section of the city?? you described the culture perfectly really

[@majorprotx3363]

@@4465Vman Thx. It's named after Somerville Ave near the West Oak Lane section

[@hoagieheadz5445]

My pop n them started the Eastside Somerville wave. Price n Crittenden/brush road. I grew up on Stafford 1200 block

[@frizza241]

You can hear the origins of HIP HOP

[@oohweeoohwee9222]

frizza241 hip hop came from the motherland.

[@harrypool71]

frizza241 exactly!!!! “The Education of Sonny Carson” also has heavy pre Hip Hop in it

[@americasmaker]

@@oohweeoohwee9222 and where you think these niggas come from?

[@americasmaker]

And most of the elements and attitude of Hip Hop have always been in African American culture. People piss me off claiming Hip Hop comes from Jamaica. Very disrespectful to and ignorant of African American culture and history.

[@harrypool71]

Zombie Nat Turner I’m a African American with roots from the south and I live in the tri- state area. I have to inform you that elements of early Hip Hop did come from Jamaica. The early b-boy fashion and sound systems are purely Jamaican. British Walkers, Clark’s and other early fashion is strictly English, brought to Hip Hop by Jamaicans. Stacked sound systems out side is Jamaican. They played a part

[@lokstarmegatronix6767]

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT VIDEO...👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 Thanks for sharing...

[@abusiness7450]

Damn right!

[@vidform]

For some strange reason, this film makes me think about The Delfonics.

[@andrewmatzo8167]

They were really popular at this time. That's 1 thing Philly was real strong with the music during this time

[@fitnessexpert2010]

😂😂😂😂

[@quietstorm1291]

Back when your hand game had to be on point.

[@saiyangod1825]

it was like 12 people on 1 dude though

[@bobwatson1162]

Now to buy a house in that neighborhood will cost you 300,000 or more... and Temple has bought up a lot of North Philly east

[@sonofapollo5892]

What is Temple?

[@anotherpointofview222]

@@sonofapollo5892 Temple University. My daughter graduated from Temple. Spent a semester at their Temple University Tokyo Japan campus.

[@cee-lopreen6754]

most of North Philly still ungentrified though. Garbage and abandoned buildings everywhere.

[@pjsmith141]

I have family in north philly ,I figured they would do that

[@mrstanbmw]

Facts

[@BlazeOfGlory742]

Philly always had its own style. Love my city. #SWP!

[@delma8937]

🥰#SWP❤

[@JUBABU4]

I was born 1970, my mother told me of distant relatives from the 30’s and 40’s were up in Philadelphia from Virginia area

[@THECABSOURHERE]

Yup alot of us cane from Virginia

[@215Christ]

@@THECABSOURHERE and south carolina, florida, georgia, north carolina...

[@thtbulumad7290]

My great grandmom was apart of that migration from Virginia to North Philly in the late 30s

[@ewilliams19]

Yup my grandfather came to Philly from South Boston Virginia back in the 50’s I think and my grandmother came from Sandersville Georgia.

[@samwheat8348]

Damn two years after malcolm x was assassinated.

[@delma8937]

Wow 😔❤

[@215Christ]

18:16...we been saying bul forever, eh...

[@RIDAMAN79]

Good observation😀

[@FullyAutomaticAddict410]

I swear, I thought the same exact thing on that part!

[@michaelali7151]

Remember these days, black gang life, basement parties some fortunate times to have survived the gang fights lost alot of friends had good times too though. ✊

[@danielbrown3461]

How about White Gang Life? There wasn't too much because they were usually in the Library or at a Boxing Gym doing real fighting.

[@boudusaved4719]

The camera and sound editing in this film is really good.

[@terranceaddison4599]

But the quality of the camera is so 1940-ish

[@saundrabrown1873]

Wow my mom graduated from Emmett Scott High School in 1967 in Rock Hill,SC. I was born in 1969. This documentary reminds me of Cooley High aka "What's Happening"! Some 53 years later nothing has changed really but the game of worst violence. The killer's in this video is probably laying on his back in a nursing home suffering or in a grave...smh.

[@northphillycryptobul2112]

Ahh He said Young Bul 18:37 Old Philly Slang 18:18 still move in on the Bul😂

[@artvandalay8769]

I peeped that too.

[@oredi2159]

They been saying bul and jawn for 60 years. Its more so accent then slang

[@solophillysfinest7378]

Yo tell me I'm lying, if you from Philly, tell me why the hood still looks like this til this day 😭😭😭

[@thephoenix2176]

You are speaking of some parts that aren't re-gentrified yet...

[@delma8937]

From SW Philadelphia and FACTS

[@solophillysfinest7378]

@@delma8937 Big Facts💪

[@ewilliams19]

Yup it’s still tore up.

[@youngmenace6077]

5:17 "A bowl a day, keep the niggas away"💀💀

[@JustakidfrmEastSide]

This was 1967!!!! Yet I relate to them so much ! Damn that’s my GrandDaddy era 🔥💪🏾

[@syyiidelamin7880]

My mother came up in this era, In North Philly. She use to tell me about the gang wars all the time. Met a lot of old heads, who were probably in this, telling them me their war stories in streets of Philadelphia.

[@tenbroeck1958]

The men who survived are true war vets. Not an official thing, but I can only imagine the PTSD some of these young men carried

[@arthurgraham9109]

Beating ppl up in church coats n church shoes lol

[@MQJones1]

This reminds me of early Crippin and ESPECIALLY Cooley High lol

[@danielbrown3461]

Nothing sucks like a Hoover....(Crip)

[@kingporter67]

This is a very powerful 1967 documentary!!

[@ewalker1057]

This is following Black refugee crisis of fleeing lynching and racism in the South. These gangs were first created in response to the white gangs they found in cities of the North and West. Notice how they use fists? Eventually these areas became predominantly Black. They are not Black people from and born in the North. Black people fleeing the South were not treated well when they reached the North. My, my the processes and scarfs. Black men would be on the street corners singing just like that. The rhyming as seen in rap. The memories.

[@ewalker1057]

@Roger Jones Northern racism is subtle. Sometimes very very subtle. The South is open and honest with its racism. Not the same in the North.

[@delma8937]

Yes, lived in Yeadon and SW Philadelphia and West Philadelphia on and off 79-2002 and honestly the first time I here some call me (barely 6 year girl) a n with the hard er (other then when living the year before in ATLANTA)

[@terranceaddison4599]

Virginia on the hand...is a different story

[@lawrencejames6446]

I remember going swimming on arrot Ave in frankford north east Philly in the late 70s 80s couple of blocks away from oxford Ave

[@bro.zawdieabdul-malik4631]

They're depicting the North Philly area of 12th and Oxford Streets, in the Temple University spraul.

[@JoeyAfrika]

Different Oxford ave

[@derekstatham24]

Is it just me, or does the first guy to talk at about 1:26 kinda look like Frankie Lymon?

[@bignadier]

Philly probably the only major city without gangs now , just blocks

[@ewilliams19]

Now everyone wanna be from Chicago out here.

[@brucepatrick9442]

this was before we became “Bouls”....”Pre-Jawn” Era

[@cee-lopreen6754]

BRUCE PATRICK lmao

[@shyheimbond7142]

NAH THEY WAS SAYING BOUL BACK THEN. THATS OLD PHILLY SLANG LISTEN AT AROUND THE 18:17 & 3:41

[@scotiagrizz7927]

They was saying youngbul in this video in 1967 and jawn..everything has a root

[@marcuskomari5141]

shyheim bond Faaaacts I was just bout to say that Crazy

[@billyjacc]

@@scotiagrizz7927 They said Jawn???

[@jerseydevils9686]

The crazy thing is i was literally just thinking abt this (or atleast one clip from this) earlier today! This is the 60s! That rhymin’ and call and response is what we do. Keep telling us the bs that we got rap from the jamaicans... Edit: And if you pay attention to the call and response you hear the one guy say nigga. We really gotta stop acting like Hip Hop is the reason we say nigga. It popularized the usage but it was being used before Hip Hop and all over

[@Meta4ce]

I'm isolating it right now so I can add it to my historical archives.

[@jerseydevils9686]

@@Meta4ce Doin the work 🙏🏾

[@aboriginalbrotha9947]

The word "nigga" came from the streets so as rap. Rap came from the streets too.

[@jerseydevils9686]

@@aboriginalbrotha9947 Eh…Not really

[@danielbrown3461]

The first Rappers were Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly....Blacks copied them.

[@dollaz4647]

Notice how they also have bruises and scars, no guns

[@gregoryross9770]

"Then for a 1/2 will kick your ass we are the most".... This reminds me of the stuff they used to sell in East Oakland( Liquid crack) wild Irish rose Thunderbird and Night train.. You will wake up in handcuffs. What's the word Thunderbird!!! what's the price ??60 twice..

[@bigmanz1000]

Thunderbird what's the word drink your night train with a dash of packet Kool-Aid

[@anotherpointofview222]

Wow. Memories. We been medicating for a minute. How are we still here. ..well some not. :(

[@kicokohana2154]

consistent gems from this channel. beyond grateful

[@unitedsoulsnetwork2619]

FBA black Americans been rapping since the 60's damn 🤣 4:45

[@kahlilboi]

​​@@user-fm8gp5rk7i the griots been doing it since the 1300s

[@UsikuA]

This shows how humans worldwide are trying to protect their turf and within each group their is infighting. Nothing has changed even among those who think they are not in gangs, there is still fighting for self-esteem and other things. The immature mind is made worse through malnutrition.

[@go-goyubari8776]

Tribalism

[@misterb7070]

I went to college (Penn St) with many cats from Philly; I’ve heard plenty of stories about gang warring and wolf packs. Especially in North Philly

[@mrstanbmw]

I'm from DC but I have a boatload of family in North Philly and back in the 60 s and 70s that was how it looked Zulu Nation

[@scotiagrizz7927]

Proof philly started graffiti..the walls are tagged up in 1967...and philly was saying bul and youngbul all the way back then lol

[@quintinfranklin9168]

Does it matter!

[@omarleggett3816]

@@quintinfranklin9168 yes

[@TheBlueThird]

@@omarleggett3816 no

[@ewilliams19]

@@quintinfranklin9168 yes it matters especially when dealing with the history of hip hop because it’s all said to have started in nyc. Supposedly the 4 elements of hip hop which are the Emcee, The DJ,break dancing and graffiti started in New York in the late 70’s and this video challenges that. I also heard them almost rapping at one point.

[@gfirm456]

Graffiti started in Vietnam, with solders writing “Kilroy Was Here” on the wall.

[@mattm4341]

Sound like Philly cats was rapping far before anybody in New York

[@oohweeoohwee9222]

7:20 LoL his partner cut out.

[@davefortune89]

hahahahaha

[@cadillacreece7660]

Understatement!! That boi turned on the turbo boosters!! 😂😂

[@oohweeoohwee9222]

Maurice Harrison lol

[@GarwinWayne]

Notice something? not one single gun was fired. At least back then he was able to run. Times sure have changed

[@oohweeoohwee9222]

Garwin Wayne no.three people got shot later in the film.

[@ConquerWealth.network]

Did he just say it gives me a nice flow when im drinkin' Oh Yeah that is Hip Hop Rap all thee way

[@profoundja9598]

"A quart of Taylor Port"... 🤦🏽🤦🏾🤦🏿‍♂️💫💫💫 Rock gut wine still taking livers, glad brotha's stopped the press.

[@drecool6976]

The Effed up part of this is that i know some brothers that been down in prison for gang war killings since the 70s for corners that aint even black anymore.

[@danielbrown3461]

They shouldn't be black or white or red or yellow...just sold to the highest bidder.

[@eyahmeenusah7504]

Are any of these yungbluds still living?? I'm guessing they would be in their late 60's early 70's.

[@david-lm7iu]

I know jb is still living

[@lotuscream7826]

Y esss they heads press to the Gods

[@juanitafalice8226]

bruh with the overcoats these OGs just too saucy

[@alexanderk7422]

Sad... informative... to say the very least... interesting. 100% Proof rap existed in the 60's.

[@fabulousphil1]

A classic, in every city!!!!!!

[@jeanetteroberts4427]

My afterschool sitter's house @ 3:47. The Playground is across the street. We used to swim, play b-ball and baseball in the field. Threw rocks at the Septa trains above.

[@lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597]

Harold Haskins is a junvinile biography writer who was writing lives of black peole period. from Michael to Maya to Alex Haley to the black panthers, believe to our dreams he was the Alex Haley of black biography, when we drop some science on black folks we seen on the street and then later he or she was on the pages on the Philadelphia inquire or the globe written by Haskins with no filth or gossip. I thank to him. as for the stagger house street gang in North philly they are rough. thank professor Haskins.

[@yftdraco]

Crazy how shit never changed it just got worse

[@saiyangod1825]

Heard it was worse back in the 80s and 90s

[@yftdraco]

@@saiyangod1825 fax my uncle n em would always tell me how it was worse cuz it was easy to get away w shit

[@fairisfair2986]

I was really bothered by the processed hair I just looked and carried onnnnnnn

[@bobwatson1162]

Well a few years later it was jeri curl's

[@delma8937]

@@bobwatson1162 chill that was like late late 70s 🤣🤣🤣

[@deewoods8785]

If ganga were fazing out in the 60s then what brought them back.. with such a hidden gay agenda

[@sonofapollo5892]

Huh??

[@deewoods8785]

@@sonofapollo5892 gang members never wore skinny jeans bruh, or shoed they ass's

[@destinygreen2430]

@Markus Harris kmfsllll 😂😂

[@anotherpointofview222]

Aren't "gangs", "people". People associating with each other bound together as an extended family unit, brotherhood, sisterhood? Words mean different things to different people. However you define the word "gang" a gang is people. All people ain't gangs, but all gangs are people. Has to do with IDENTITY. Who we identify with, Why, How, Where and When. We fight over "differences" and violence committed.

[@billyjacc]

@@deewoods8785 What gangs are in Philly?

[@averymonte5783]

They were still gang warring in the late 70's I remember sitting in front of family store front on Bambery & Columbia ave 9 plus after the store closed on warm summer nights using a milk crate as a seat. After my Pop Pop counted the money all up, we would watch the gangs walking down the street towards the yard to gang war. The 1st time I witnessed this activity it must have startled me because I can remember my Pop pop saying be cool they not going to bother us. They never gave Pop pop or my father who helped run the corner store any problem plus they kept their guns visible in a shoulder holster and you dear not try it because they would definitely use those guns. But the jungle was real and I got to play in the jungle...

[@floridagirl3494]

Were they now either in prison or dead or on crack or homeless person in the streets sad when racist was still going on at that time

[@ewalker1057]

Self hate. What an ugly assumption.

[@jerseydevils9686]

Florida girl34 Thats the crazy thing too. I look in my neighborhood and you can see the “gangsters” become the addicts chasing a fix or slowly becoming the guys on the corner. Thats how it happens

[@jenniferriley7842]

Stfu acting like u better than people you're apart of the problem this over 50 years ago most of these guys are most likely dead

[@beedeepee9418]

I jus watched this vid on another channel yesterday n then of course today I see u posted it 2 yrs shout out to yall

[@215Christ]

14:40...richard allen and cambridge plaza projects?

[@almondschanel8348]

Did anyone else see the one guy haul ass @7:26😂😂😂

[@LloydMajor]

This is awesome! May i use some of the footage in my "KZbin VIDEO"? I will give you credit.

[@reelblack]

Go ahead!

[@LloydMajor]

Thank you and, when the video is done, i will bring the link here. Thanks again.@@reelblack

[@ordinaryextraordinarybrotha]

These cats is out here spitting flows and doing it good back in the sixties yeah they out there spitting bars that tokey wine that could have been a song Philly was always known to have some good rappers

[@danielbrown3461]

Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis were the first rappers....Blacks just copied them.

[@SouthSideRalph1]

TALKIN all that RARA with processed hair...fall back...lol yes i know its a dramatization)

[@Officer_Bumpdown_Brown]

That intro is hard 💪🏾😯 in 1967 tho

[@terranceaddison4599]

I could barely see anything...

[@nathanmccloud3572]

The birth of hip hop

[@oohweeoohwee9222]

nathan mccloud hip hop been around for thousands of years.

[@jerseydevils9686]

nathan mccloud Nah this isnt the birth of Hip Hop fam. All around the country Black America expressed this cultural aspect in different ways. Hip Hop was NYC’s interpretation. Fun fact tho, Philly came up with Grafiti

[@jerseydevils9686]

ReturnoftheBrotha Hip Hop, a culture of combined elements, was NYC’s interpretation of traditional Black American cultural aspects. I dont do “nothings new under the sun” talk, Hip Hop grafiti is rooted in Philly not ancient Egypt or Rome etc

[@nathanmccloud3572]

It was just a part of the shaping of hip hop,grand Master flash, originated from grand Master flowers, class of 72, you right it wasn't the birth of hip hop,it goes deeper,I grew up around that era, you can even throw brother Curtis Mayfield,Gill Scott heron in the conversation when it come to cultural expression, folklore, graffiti, Charles wright the list goes on, from the inner city of new York, jersey, growing up in Oakland west side, doing the late 60s early 70s trust me, our culture taught the world a lot about self expression, spiritually,music, and art, James Baldwin was my hero

[@jerseydevils9686]

ReturnoftheBrotha Oh i see, a semantics game. Who can verify that there is any correlation? Im using “Graffiti” to mean writing and bombing. Wildstyles, Softees, Tags, Throw ups etc in Hip Hop trace back to writing in Philly. If you disagree thats like dismissing the creation of the modern format of music making or discrediting the creators of Blues because music has existed for thousands of years...

[@ogbarryjones4791]

Me and My Homie was Just Talking About NOWHERE! 🤣👊

[@majorprotx3363]

It got to the point where I just use to tuck and prepare. You know the hands was coming next. Until I started carrying. Then all that stopped.

[@mauricenunn6935]

Damn, he said "Jitterbugs", I haven't heard anybody say that since I use to live on 21st and Ridge Avenue up the street from the original "Pearl" theatre in the early sixties.

[@abusharifah72]

Love this Channel good stuff !

[@zacharysmith8421]

It’s crazy Philly been crazy since the beginning of time 💯 Every city can’t say that maybe Chicago LA Detroit and NYC 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@ewilliams19]

I say that shit all the time Philly been “bad” probably since the 50s maybe even before that so the stuff that’s going on out here seems super extreme but it’s never been good out here. I was born in 80 and I saw the height of the crack era that shyt was bad af!

[@danielbrown3461]

Don't forget Forks WA.

[@aaronjackson6610]

This is the original Philly Drill scene‼️🎵🔥😈🎶

[@joedermilio8924]

This film 🎥 is for real I'm from south Philly north Philly had some tuff corners 12 Oxford is one of them I myself started at 13yrs old I seen a lot I'm 58 yrs old now I forget were I came from peace out !!!

[@marcuskomari5141]

You can lowkey hear where the accent comes from

[@tenbroeck1958]

Living through this, had to change a person, down to their core. I bet many of these young men were drafted. God bless them. I hope they lived through it and had better loves.

[@danielbrown3461]

And many of them wound up in prison being someones wife...or sold for Ramen Noodles.

[@dejonc6z]

this is HISTORICAL

[@saladeenmelanin8100]

Dis dat real OG Norf Philly old head shit

[@Spill_ent]

My uncle was the warlord at 12th and Poplar. During the fifties and sixties.

[@shannonm9979]

2021 still a jungle

[@gokubrown5416]

The gangsta/scene rap scene was born here, along with graffiti in gang encrypted writings. Skooly D, Cool C, and Beanie Sigel.

[@TheSlimATL]

Lace fronts everywhere

[@ReggieRobinson-i2u]

We all from Philly still talk like this lol

[@conservativewaybigolec9547]

If that wasn't rapping that they was doing back in those times then what was it called back then?

[@fuegodiego2951]

They all had perms lmfaooo

[@shyheimbond7142]

T.NT. 10TH & THOMPSON

[@andregoings4616]

This remind me of "Cooley High"!

[@futiousstyles3315]

Straightening hair was really a thing back then eh..

[@UNDERGROUNDskateco]

Yo this is incredible on so many levels

[@royalgold8045]

I enjoyed the history, thanks!

[@Mr.NyCiTy]

It sounds like those brothers was rapping to me. I know rap when I hear It. This is a part of black culture; this is what the old folks would say is called "playing the dozens " Much respect to Philly.

[@SamuelHill-jy2li]

I was from 15th and Clearifield. This is exactly how things went down back in the day. If somebody ask you where you from, you better claim a corner ( gang). If you said no where, you got smashed.

[@SamuelHill-jy2li]

If any of these brothers are still with us today. they would be in their 70's

[@MadAngel209]

I was just being born.

[@abusiness7450]

Oh wow, almost the same age as my parents

[@deewoods8785]

Me too fam, we came from a time of beautiful termoil

[@deewoods8785]

Brave camera man, right. These dudes used their hands on their so-called enemies. That's another story

[@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489]

@@deewoods8785 indeed just throwin hands not a gun in site💯 & pre Last Poets👍