THE REAL LONDON...

this is the real london, not the glamour of the west end, but the estates were people really live, & this is just a small fraction of the estates that exist in london...
music...roots manuva: cinematic orcestra

[@RightNowIGuess]

i lived on an estate in SLondon for many years when i 1st came to this country. my parents are English. i love the UK and contribute. i took and sold drugs from about 13-20. i moved out of the area, to somewhere not better but somewhere new. I studied, worked any job i could, i dressed smart, spoke well and now am a higher rate tax payer, i am continuing my studies and have a new lease on life. i agree the system isn't there to help the less fortunate, but where there is will there is a way.

[@ThePORTYDAVE]

Love the whole feel of this - dark and foreboding. Someone should do a thesis on youtube comments. Lot of bile and hostility out there....

[@jdiprose1988]

Amazing video and amazing song. I've probably watched this about 10/15 times over the years. It must be cherished.

[@andreahighfield7893]

Me too 😊

[@ThePORTYDAVE]

The music and the vid go together so well. Sense of danger and urban desolation.

[@larjah4042]

Deep seated urban decay, deep seated urban decay

[@adamhagerty3869]

i lived on heygate and aylesbury,for 10 years between them,when i 18-28yrs old-2002-2012. i never had any issues with the estate,people or the flats. fair do's outsides a shithole,but thats down mainly to council neglect.if u imagine the amount of jobs could have been created to maintain the estates,cleaners,caretakers,electicians etc.i lived well on that estate,started working as a bricky,good money,resonable rent,cushty car,i never lived like a poor person,even though its wrongly seen as a poor persons estate

[@edit19787]

adam hagerty I live in south London ( Lewisham) but its what u make it... Yeah its a tad jagged but I love it. Like you said in my walls my place is sweet. And outside council need to pop a finger out and engage in a clear up. Man if they paid me I would do. Man is respectful to other man as far as I've seen in 39 years...its only a problem when fools make one x

[@mrrumpledumple2132]

adam hagerty I used to live in grenfell and as you probably kno if you’ve been alive for the past 2 years, the hole thing caught fire

[@lancewhitchurch512]

your point??

[@ricknorm3787]

Lived in Northchurch Aylesbury Estate. Also Claydon Haygate estate. Walked through most of the estates in Southwark. For me it was 90% fine living there, just got frustrating with repairs! Remember I just finished redecorating kitchen in Heygate and woke up to find dirty water leaking from ceiling kitchen, I just laughed with my heart sinking at the sametime😳

[@Itdoesntevenryhme]

"all things to all men", cinematic orchestra ft roots manuva, the perfect song for this video.

[@lcfc1985]

This tune's a memory jogger, uve just brought back all the chances iv had n threw away, cheers!

[@riddley39]

That track was hard!!!

[@blondeandchatty7842]

Love this, often watch again!

[@Gombeboy]

When the London riots occurred, I was in Uganda and had been there for the past year, so had some very close friends. They were shocked at what Britains were doing, assuming we were all millionaires. I tried my best to graphically explain the day to day life of many Londoners, the lifestyle, the accomodation, the police treatment. I just wish I had videos like these to show them, so they can know how many really live. How can one of the richest countries in the world subject citizens to this?

[@onetimeforthefuntime4376]

Its crazy how the vast majority of these blocks have been torn down for new expensive housing, kind of like what they did in Chicago

[@easthustler3937]

Gentrification and Regeneration is a serious problem, they should keep the blocks up but just refurbish them instead of building flashy private apartments for the same old west-end white millennials to open up their trendy pop up coffee shops in the area.

[@fahad7148]

@@easthustler3937 It ain't a serious problem. People like u just want that ghetto lifestyle where you blame the system not helping u. Truth of the matter is London is now much more safe, kids are getting an education and there are more job opportunities. Those horror estates needed to get torn down idc what you say.

[@MsIthinkthereforeIam]

Very beautiful photos, intense music, very artistic. To be honest with you, if your intention was to convey a sense of depression and oppression... well... waching this video I didn't feel....I felt, instead, a sort of melancholic loneliness, depth, intensity, a sense of loss, and, as paradoxical as it may sound,...beauty! I think you're a bit of a poet! from an Italian artistic soul who lived 8 years in London. CIAO!

[@JesusManson323]

As a tourist, I drove into some parts of London that scared me, and I don't scare easily. But my most shocking experience was when I was walking through Walthamstow at night and I looked into a half open door to see an entire warehouse packed with hundreds of Muslims kneeling prayer.

[@Brock-Lesnar-WWE]

Gotta rewind back to the days this was uploaded 2008 times. Those were the days

[@mrrumpledumple2132]

Rtm00s back when being poor was actually alright cuz crime was huge back then and not knife crime, just casual good old crime

[@user-so9nb5rn8n]

@@mrrumpledumple2132 knife and gun crime was way higher

[@batmantheanimated]

@@user-so9nb5rn8n More heroin more drugs on streets back then

[@jc_9787]

@@user-so9nb5rn8n Facts

[@poopstack]

theres rough areas no matter what city youre in. i think its kinda stupid to argue over who has it worse, who kills more, because those things are nothing to be proud of.

[@Babania1]

the track goes so well with the images!! well put together, at the same time a bit depressing to think that our capital has all these places in the year 2010!!

[@thornbird6768]

These estates were good homes for many ! Piss poor councils who left them to rot so they could sell them off to private developers for a quick quid 😡 happening all over the country ! It’s wrong , now there’s a severe lack of council houses / flats . Great video 👍🏻

[@smd4246]

The crazy thing about the UK is, you dont really see concrete jungles like this on other parts of the UK, only London

[@stephanieclarke6963]

To be fair loads of these have now been torn down, but plenty more to go. Social cleansing on its way Carpenters Estate in Stratford Newham still stands Empty and decaying for years now. its tall blocks look weird in the night sky not a light or in any of them. just waiting to be pulled down, as new trendy apartment blocks rise up around them. I miss the old Stratford.

[@jc_9787]

Factual

[@dmbillustrate]

greatest city on earth

[@MrBuzzoVerde]

every big city have "poor" area... not only london

[@brokenbritain1930]

Gabriele bernabini Gabriele bernabini London has more than most cities tho, Croydon, Wood Green, Tottenham, catford, areas of lewisham, peckham, brixton, some areas of hackney still, East Ham, Upton Park, Plaistow, barking, Dagenham, Ilford, Chad well heath, Leyton, woodgrange and even Edmonton. there are also some areas in west London like Hounslow East, shouthall and even Harrow

[@aa.gb.8389]

@@brokenbritain1930 lol I remember I was for vacations in london but the hotel was in Croydon I only saw many inmigrants but I felt safe and There was one inmigrant who looked and espected the hotel that Was a little Bit crazy

[@brokenbritain1930]

Caniloko 03 the immigrants are fine very nice ppl tbh, Croydon has its moments but on the whole it’s starting to improve

[@hackstaoj3731]

@@brokenbritain1930 lol I live 8n hounslow east

[@Joe72399]

Yh but not every city has deprivation of this level seen as London is bigger then 90% of the worlds cities and due to its deep routed Victorian slums that still house ppl now

[@raskltube]

calling all my fellow hip hop heads, this right here is a masterpiece, made feel emotional, one the most beautiful pieces of music i have ever heard.

[@AlinaAnn]

I love this video, perfectly put together, good song too! Would've been nice if you put more of West, but never mind! Still wicked. To all the yanks, Eastern Europeans etc saying how nice these estates are compared with where u live... shut up, we don't care. Try living in one and find out.

[@aa.gb.8389]

Spanish guettos are crazy

[@armandssssful]

Can someone please tell me the name of the instrumental in the start of the video i would really appreciate it thank you :)

[@hahahahahaha2214]

0:40 does anyone know where this is?

[@1980swartz]

The design aesthetic of New Brutalism is, raw natural concrete, mainly formed into textures, elements of texture or abstractionistic forms, and the composition of many of these structure have been relatively though out well, though there are design flaws, what architecture does NOT have design flaws?? When you understand design and aesthetics from abstractionistic designers from the 1920's through the 1970's , it will be understood that the majority of these are NOT a slums, though pleasing!!

[@81philbert]

missing a few in west! white city, queen cal, peabody, worlds end,north acton, edward woods, nuff little 1s in grove, fulham & lancaster courts, west ken, green man, pilgrim, copley, white flats, golf links, windmill, havlock, green dragon! couple more.

[@ElizabethSmith-fu5nn]

I remember 70s 80s ♥️🌹♥️👌Camberwell

[@duncanSE18]

bare ferrier, take it ur frm the ends. dident see any of woolwich common, or of glyndon estate- which was voted in the top three most dangerous estates in london?. but nice vid- with sik music

[@antisocial.b2763]

Wooly dockayrd too

[@bushcelt1]

looks like its a pretty naughty area!! i'm from grove over the west(QPR). I've seen some proper rough manors in my time but check out southill- limerick-....its proper poverty. this is a country that really prosperd in the last 10 years but some fell by the wayside...don't feel too bad-just look at the way some people have to live!

[@blondeandchatty7842]

A thought provoking video and though comments have been made on here that 'all' cities have 'less wealthy areas' I do feel that the poverty divide is greatest in London where practically the whole of City of Westminster district is rich bankers, for example. Also, I like the fact that the video is a blank canvas - we draw our own conclusions from the images - it is not necessarily saying this is bad in all cases or implying this - there could be community spirit and 'real' people living in these estates. It is pointing out something that is often ignored - that London is not the wealthy image it is often portrayed and actually more should be done to improve people's environments and the 'gentrified' areas do not always benefit the locals.

[@cake5000]

If I had the money I would invest on refurnishment on these plot and turn them into sky scapers rather than tower blocks.

[@inkjet224]

Its like this everywhere, however, we don't feel the need to go posting it and screaming it on youtube !! YOU MADDDDD BLEDDD

[@kdotman]

east london keep grindin.

[@chits93]

yea videos hard still, see my hood ladbroke grove westsiiide. only 1 ting, see stonebridge estate aint north london, its north west, and if north west had to choose between west or north it would be west still. still keep dese videos runnin g

[@Sslyone]

whats dis instrumental @southsider

[@northweezie1]

This is scary.

[@MrBuzzoVerde]

Song : roots manuva - all things to all man

[@jcEightySeven]

Did i miss it, i saw South, East and North. wheres West?/NW

[@trackstr400]

Total crimes in NY 2008: 117,669 Total crimes in South London 2009: 342,292 (only 11 boroughs used not ALL BOROUGHS SOUTH OF THE THAMES) And if you say NY soft and that NY in the 1990's was way worse than London: Total crime's in NY 1990: 527,257 Total crimes in London 2009: 844,255 NY pop. 8,274,527 London pop. 7,556,900

[@abdos5033]

Londons and new yorks population are both around 9 million now

[@1980swartz]

By the way. Very nice Jazz riff at 8:30 and on!! VERY NICE! The clean well maintained properties with building clusters, and the sheer vertical high rise effidice's are VERY elegant looking, again these DO NOT look like slums, but like LUXURY FLATS!! The low rise very long buildings, yes, have a militant prison camp look to them, and design flaw that could be easly corrected by retrofitting the facades, altering the builings, adding vertical elements, theres alot that could be done to improve!

[@Foxxyjazzminee]

This is depressing to me but its the truth. Nice vid- will open a lot of peoples eyes.People who think they gonna go to london and b successful like what they see on TV. Most foreigners end up living in areas like those even if they rent privatly cuz thats all you can afford these days.

[@antisocial.b2763]

all of yous sayin abt dis ain't the real london the meanin of dis vid is to show dat the way london is portrayed to ppl is wrong. ma marj was from. jamaica and always thought london was all sky scrapers and big buildings and da but wen ma dad brought her to london, she were shocked to see dat MOST of london were council estates. i was born in homerton but grew in peckham yh and i think london needs to start being hella honest abt wat it rlly looks like becos icl the way dey make it out to be is not all dat

[@YungStatikz]

How you gon say " aint nothing hood about this "There's not one project in NYC that is worse than the Aylesbury Estate in South London

[@arianjohnson355]

SKUDUSKUR sorry but your claim is way too ignorant NYC has calmed now but if you take it back to 1970-1995 a single housing project from any NYC ghetto was worse than what you named much worse than what you named and four or five other estates put together. Look at Queensbridge housing projects, Marcy housing projects, Stapleton projects, park Hill projects there were plenty worse than what you named guns and drugs were more out there and the poverty was way worse you lost your damn mind to compare London estates to NYC projects, London is like heaven to NYC. I understand Londons estates have had bad reps as well but it's nowhere near to NYC.

[@nicolegriese4573]

arian johnson bruv shut up nobody talking about the past were talking about now london has a higher murder rate then new york lol.

[@SlipperyBream]

Well, whatever happens, I do think it's definatly time for a change. Clearly what we've got at the moment has proved to be a monumental failure.

[@pokeyd85]

I heard that London has a lot of muggings, car jackings and shit like that(shit the way knives are so prevelant). But in the U.S., this is the land of no snitching. Ya'll gotta realise how many crimes here never get reported cause people don't talk to police in the first place, police here don't even report crimes in some cities just to make crime rates look lower than they are. Im not saying that fully explains the crime rates, but don't take them for what they are

[@nicolegriese4573]

Amani Ndeze london can be as bad too lol people get robbed and don't report it in london

[@theHipHopHead]

kno what u sayin comin out romania

[@jackyblue67same10]

Wow that's a whole lotta apartments there had no idea that London was that big .Wonder how many people live in London today.......That big place would swallow me up whole quick like I've never been nowhere even close to that size of city would love to go there

[@THISISLolesh]

google.

[@simonyip5978]

Jackyblue67 Same the official figure is 8.9 million, but some estimates say up to 12 million including people who illegal immigrants and people overstaying their tourist and work and student permits.

[@kirstyforjinn]

It's being pulled down> Whats your point?

[@evancp]

@ 6:18 that is Canary Wharf in East London, which is a skyscraper financial district, not a south london council estate!

[@AreYouOnTheBangTho]

turists only see one face of london the west end and not where i live or these plces

[@Nevafound]

lmao, i live not too far outa london in a nice big detached house with my own room the size of one of these flats, my own pc, 32" TV, laptop, guitar, drums and balcony. none of which ive paid for. living like this would kill me! lol

[@alleyezonme2982]

Nevafound good for u you have had everything handed on a plate to u maybe u should come down to the hood sometime see how we live cos I would love to see how u live would be a blessing to be were u are right now so make sure u appreciate everything u have got

[@hahahahahaha2214]

would pay to see a posh boy like u come down here and see what happens 🤣🤣wasteman tory

[@AngelWingzzz]

The best part of this track is sampled from original 60s composition.

[@janech4451]

2023 I see everything looks same

[@northweezie1]

What do you mean?

[@evancp]

@jamesrolandparker South London hasn't always been rough, areas like Brixton and Peckham used to be middle class suburbs up until the mid 20th century, when they became cheap and rundown. East London on the other hand has been poor for centuries, thats the big difference between south and east poverty

[@chrishenniker5944]

Evan Parker I've heard that said about Brixton while researching my book about the south London music scene, which I've been working on now.

[@trackstr400]

WHY IS AYLESBURY ESTATE ALWAYS ON A VID LIK THIS i mean i rep their cuz i'm frm there but DAMN it's on every ldn ghetto vid

[@kyoushuu_]

It's apparently the biggest estate in Europe

[@calibar38]

London is harder than NY, but not harder than Los Angeles, the Bay area or st. Loius

[@sakkmatt]

There are also drunk homeless people in Hungary but they do not eat drugs. We are a cultured people. q:)

[@kdotman]

this video is way too laggy cant even watch 20seconds

[@ivorbigonee]

@mrblackversion what?

[@sakkmatt]

I'm not surprised at the ghetto. There have always been unassuming people and slaves. Now they are called differently. Bill G. also started in a garage, but he must always have tidied up.

[@Izakokomarixyz]

You talkin to me?

[@plomovic]

lol exactly you live in dublin know nothing about ldn it is either poor immigrants or first or second generation black british asian british brown british irish etc that live on them but some are english aswell...most of these blocks have or are being demolished

[@alexwoodrow260]

This is why all centralized government must go, so then we will live in a people's deomcracy.

[@smileyg1648]

This video is big....

[@Izakokomarixyz]

IDK man i'm not the one sayin "why does everything have to be american?" your own people say that.

[@1980swartz]

Shopping? Thats really good and creative...The post above points the architectural style -It is actually called "New Brutalism" The roots are from the BauHaus school of design from Germany...The soul destroying "effect" is only that individuals personal persception. The properies that are well taken care of, INDEED DO NOT look like slums at all. But luxury flast that would be the envy of any city! Change your perception and understand. REAL slums are in non western nations, see for yourself onYT

[@lcfc1985]

@uncleduzz GOOD FOR U!!

[@Nevafound]

mansions dont have 10 rooms..i live in a mansion area and my mates have about 40 with summerhouses with 20 in there back gardens..

[@GingaC]

catch me at woodberry down estate!!!!

[@trackstr400]

As for the low murder rate, I'M GLAD AS FUCK IT'S LOW. I'd rather do my hustle with a nigga i can trust and not have to deal with the fakes and the snitches cuz my real homies are being shot . And hustle on a block that's don't have police attention cuz someone thought picking up a gun made them hard.

[@traddie]

Hideous buildings. Typical 60s and 70s brutalist architecture that litters most of the capital. These concrete monstrosities are so grim and soul destroying they inspire nothing but depression and thereby contribute to crime itself in these areas.

[@chits93]

na it rilly aint dumb, u kinda people woudnt understand aboutt road, where ur from means a lot and west and norf west is affiliated aite. and one more thing, no such postcode as NE, AND IT aint like sayin dt bout peckham coz peckham is south east, se15, stonebridge is nw10, not n10 aite.

[@kdotman]

this video is propa laggy

[@phantomcouncil]

what people expect building homes to look like prisons and hospitals or fucken mental homes they human and humans treat things the way they see it. With all knowlege we have today we still living like animals?

[@Izakokomarixyz]

wrong country, you talkin bout iraq with the wishing to be blown up...

[@JamieMayes89]

2:33 taveybridge aint like that no more

[@JamieMayes89]

@TheOneTheTrev I know and a part of thamesmead is / was called tavy bridge

[@plomovic]

balfron tower in poplar

[@plomovic]

scotland and wales are countries..ldn is a city and it does run uk ldn has the highest crime and most gangs and shoters by far in the uk we set all da trends outta london jus follows...all u kids wish u wer frm here...we make grime music u guys copy and listen nuff sed

[@MiSScG4life]

im from tha hood wtf!!!!!!!nobody cares who is better america or england still ameica things they are the best and we british people think we r the best whats the point arguing there will be alway a figth britain vc america

[@tomek45654]

seriously people... it's not that bad at all!!! i lived in E3 for 2 years and never got mugged or stabbed, stop saying how bad it is, because it's not that bad

[@PaulGarrett555]

Well then your just lucky. I had the same experience as you did.

[@trackstr400]

Why would i chat shit about someone close to me dieing? I was there, you don't even know who he was!

[@alexwoodrow260]

So when has communism lied. Give me an example of communism ever being put into practice before?

[@plomovic]

lol woodberry down got demolished

[@brokenbritain1930]

plomovic some of it did, there’s actually still two flats left on Wood berry down

[@DuttyStar9]

but we dont live in bulgaria we dont really give a fuk.. we got it bad for our standards u got it good for urs say no more

[@kz782]

100 x better then in eastern europe

[@alexwoodrow260]

How is communism a joke?

[@thegarbeen]

@dagrimeyone12 You sound like a canvasser for the BNP.

[@dmbillustrate]

apart from the hipsters.

[@BurkeHare1]

Das good ya?

[@DuttyStar9]

u have a computer n u can speak pretty good english so i dont fink u got it dat bad son

[@alexwoodrow260]

Sorry but, do you know what communism is?

[@jacjoshaha123]

no it didn't

[@wewantyou96]

THE GUY RAPPING SOUNDS LIKE A BRITISH VERSION OF CHEF FROM SOUTH PARK LOL

[@iMerkss]

Lufc1985, northers aint tuffer for years on end the top 3 football firms were from london that was west ham, millwall, chelsea? And this day n age alot of northerns talk and think there from london where the fuck do u think the grime scene started?

[@ayvta]

I don't understand your point, those type of estates exist in every big city... what were you expecting? Why poverty and estates have to be the real London?

[@Izakokomarixyz]

this is where real hip hop and graff originated NYC muthafuckers!!! watch?v=2Uu1B-AYZhI stop copying nyc subculture

[@alleyezonme2982]

Listen hear now I’m from west London and in London it ain’t about what colour u are I grew up on an estate/project housing for Americans and all my friends are mixed I have 80%black 10%white and 10% Asian London ain’t what they portray it on tv I’ve grown up around shootings stabbing my friends doing life in prison or killed I remember playing out at like 10 years old and my mum always telling not to go down the ally’s cos of crackheads and the needles they leave on the floor I even went down there once and see a girl dead on the floor cos she took a overdose back then it’s just normal to see but as I grew up I realised that it wasn’t right for kids to grow up in places like this and then they blame teenagers for the stabbing and killing it don’t make senses in some way I’m glad that they are demolishing these places even tho they are our homes something got to be dun since they demolished my estate it has change abit obviously some crime is still there but it’s a lot more cleaner and abit safe for kids to go out and not have to worry about a crazy crackhead chasing them down the street. I really do hope London gets better for the children to many young kids are expose to things they should have never seen and for the people in the comments saying London isn’t that bad come walk a day in my shoes and it won’t take long for u to get back on that plane back to your nice country.pray for London/uk🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@brokenbritain1930]

All eyez On me by demolishing these places, they are kicking out the poor ppl, this creates a whole another problem, they are being forced out to live in places like Birmingham and that, believe me u don’t wanna live in Birmingham, like now u have incidents happening like what happened in star city, when they looted Aldi, Birmingham is like one massive ghetto now, the rich moved into London made it neeky and then Birmingham became a shithole. I’d give anything to live in any where in London

[@alleyezonme2982]

BROKEN BRITIAN were u from Birmingham

[@alleyezonme2982]

BROKEN BRITIAN and yh i see what u mean I’ve been told about that shit London ghettos are slowly disappearing and people are getting moved to brom and manny and them city’s have got really bad not just for gangs but poverty and unemployment rate if u from brom or manny and u living in the hood I pray 🙏🏻 for u bro

[@lcfc1985]

@dagrimeyone12 London dont come close to parts of northern England, trust me.

[@Qwertygghisvgj]

I live up north and trust London it 10x worse fam