Welcome to North Philadelphia: Blumberg Projects, Hunting Park, Erie Ave, Kensington

[@checkmate2049]

No ownership of nothing, flossing cash while living in the ghetto, zombie land, gentrification etc. This video is just sad all around.

[@ilovejesuschrist992]

🎯💯

[@TitleTownStacker]

Wow what trash build a wall around that dump

[@AAA7702ATL]

Facts!!!

[@thesleezer1711]

I watch videos like these weekly to keep me on my grind in college lmao

[@freein2339]

And waiting to get locked up...

[@jacquelinemonahan378]

I was born and raised in North Philly- Hunting Park. 7th and Butler! Will never forget where I’m from but I couldn’t wait to get outta there! College was my ticket outta the hood in 1994! God bless y’all!

[@rubyclay8477]

Yes

[@elicorcarwilson6675]

Never forget your roots but also respect for getting out to make a success of your life

[@infinite3995]

Brutal part of the world, that's for sure. That's good you could go do your thing somewhere safer and happier

[@projectdemon592]

Congratulations

[@SadiqMadison]

Yea it's still bad around there

[@Strength860]

Everyone that’s watching this going through the Struggle/Pain hang in there i wish y’all Health, Wealth and Blessings

[@cincin54]

Sending that same energy back to you as well

[@bornwithclass2365]

Thank you and same to you

[@williammoore3480]

I was born and raised in West Philly, when I was younger I was proud of that lifestyle. Now I look at that hood life and glad I got out of it.

[@clarkbar]

good to hear. Its crazy these dudes relish in it.

[@sonofsoweto]

Glad u are out of this lifestyle

[@horizontoday7874]

Me too ❤️❤️❤️. Poverty is nooooo fun!!!

[@jimmike8029]

A lot of my gen is fucking stupid 😂 I'm 19. Think it's cool to grow up in bad neighborhoods, it's really not. Be blessed not naive.

[@armanddeblasio2888]

Real G's stay in the game. Y'all must have forgot

[@Driver_Eddie]

There's more truth about our city in this 15 minute video than the local news covers in a year. New to the channel man, love it thanks for doing what you do

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

you wouldn't say the last sentence to somebody with a low number of subscribers. it makes me furious when people only support people with a large following

[@spamlogs2701]

@@dassolosyndikat5113 there is a reason why no one comments on those channels.. and there’s also a reason why they have no subscribers 😂 not everything is free snowflake, work hard, be creative, and put effort into your videos.

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

@@spamlogs2701 you are one of those with no subscribers 🤦‍♂️

[@DeathB4Dish0n0r]

@@dassolosyndikat5113 coming from a dude with 200 subs 😂 gtfo bruh

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

@@DeathB4Dish0n0r comin from a dude with no subscribers gtfoh

[@crema37]

The truth is most Philly residents who were born and raised in Philly respect street rules and guidelines whether people like it or not. No Gangs yet cliques.

[@flacco1679]

Same shit is in Puerto Rico

[@flacco1679]

@fantomas it’s because all the OG’s and powerful street people are locked up . The kids are the ones doing all the killing but once they go in jail they get killed by the people in jail for not respecting the codes

[@flacco1679]

@fantomas yup

[@horizontoday7874]

Having to respect “street rules and guidelines”. Oh, hell no!! I could NEVER live in a poor neighborhood which holds conditions such as this. I’m not going to live enslaved. Sounds like Jim Crow of the south in the 50s! Lol

[@nomadicnurseluh4306]

@@horizontoday7874 ur not from here. This no Jim crow. Disrespectful

[@MoreN24]

Strawberry Mansion 80s to 90s that was the best time. It was still a black community with some small black businesses. We had block captains, street cleaning and beautification. Kids played outside, walked the neighborhood and never heard gunshots. When the elderly began dying and their children inherited their properties, many were addicted or couldn't afford to maintain and the blocks suffered leading to community suffrage especially since the city didn't reinvest. I lived to see the decline and its sad that with all the money that came through those blocks the hustlers, as we called them back then, didn't have the knowledge of the importance of ownership.

[@yeoldewomynofportlandorego6905]

29th and York here You speak truth

[@johnn2638]

Makes sense

[@Anonymous38572]

Bad parenting and family values

[@midcharles7989]

Walking down Kinsington will make you feel like it’s a Zombie apocalypse going on

[@amaxwel3277]

They could use this place for a scene in the walking dead

[@zerdythuggy5150]

Wild 🙏🏿🎯

[@leodell502]

2021 my God they let this go on Lawlessness

[@rubamann]

Who the fuck walk down Kensington Ave, unless you are from that area.

[@smackflack5771]

Sure u helped that cause

[@notmichaelblackson9512]

Philly isn’t ganged out , Philly is geographical . It’s all about what part you’re from

[@BlazeOfGlory742]

Yuuup. Is about ya hood and block.

[@devcooper9282]

Just like dc

[@ogamiitto8056]

Gangs rep a hood/block too

[@kaucionpier8291]

Ngga that's gangs df

[@notmichaelblackson9512]

@@kaucionpier8291 if you come to philly you’ll understand . We ain’t ganged out , never have been

[@Ayoalfie]

I lived in Philly all of my life, and my experience is entirely different. I feel as though if you’re looking for that type of riff-raff, you’ll find it. But, there are tons of positive things about this city that this video doesn’t cover. It’s not all about negativity- when there are actual heroes in the hood trying to save the drowning. This video only promotes the ones that are providing the cinder blocks to weigh them down.

[@Ricanbullmusic]

How i showed how We meet up wit the cars and bike and have a good time , i showed how we love we each also , but we gotta show wat people don’t show and build awareness. But watch out for part 2. !

[@TheRealEricaKelly]

totally agree

[@jtommyboi]

Yeah there’s good people everywhere but you have to be willingly ignorant to deny that philly is a shithole filled with the worst bottom feeders the united states have to offer. It doesn’t have its reputation for having some of the roughest streets in America for nothing.

[@CASTRO45ACP]

@@jtommyboi Those tough streets are just a very small part though, I should know, I grew up in those streets.

[@marcalmonte2626]

If you really think about it bud there the ones holding it down along with all the lower income, and minorities that live there, they hold it down by spending the same exact money they make within there community, I live in Delaware and Philly is the closest thing to fun and I'm 28 I've gone to Philly since I was 17 and there's nothing different about it, same run down buildings no new businesses except for clubs, the rich and the politicians take all that money and spend it elsewhere, they spend no money on the city, which is why it's still a shit show its sad but true

[@TeamBaconBoy18]

Philly, solid over here, we dont need no bloods no crips no GDs no vice lords, they tried to bring that shit over here and got sent home.

[@treasurethetime2463]

It didn't fit into the culture. In Philly your hood is your hood. People don't have time to be dealing with some foolishness from across the city that has nothing to do with them. You can have a problem a block away. I remember seeing "Colors" as a kid and scratching my head. "Let me get this straight: they have problems with people they: 1. Don't know 2. Live far away 3. Could be a blood relative So one cousin is this and another is that and somehow an "OG" is going to convince them they are enemies? Sounds pretty stupid.

[@hitek9too255]

True. New Yorker tried to bring the Crips and Bloods to Philly and got ran the hell out lol.

[@chosenone3119]

GDs VLs not heavy on expanding outside the Midwest or south trust me Chicago Mf s didn’t care about philly

[@ThirdDimensionalBeing]

Plenty of bloods in Philly.

[@TeamBaconBoy18]

Third Dimensional Being thats big cap

[@armygirl610]

Philly is rough but it’s still one of my favorite cities in the world. There’s so much history and life there. Yes there’s bad but just as much, if not more, good! Much love ❤️

[@bornwithclass2365]

Me too I love Philly. I lived there for 3 years.

[@MishaElRusito]

Philly. The land of boxing!

[@garygonzalez2774]

Rocky"The Italian Stallion"Balboa!!!!🙂

[@OsamaBinBombin]

Philly shell you already know that’s wha Floyd use for his defense

[@lennylenn4009]

WTF Is " Alotta More " and ALWAY'S cmtfu when someone that shows a Stack of Money. Fool's that do that won't last long plus they ain't ever had money so they need to show it off when they get a little stack.

[@canibusnj]

@@garygonzalez2774 He was fictional character. Joe Frazier, toughest fighter boxing has ever saw!! Meldrick Taylor as well!!

[@renerivera9204]

Jajajajajahahahah The Land Of Boxing.

[@thebookofronism.723]

I'm a REAL Philadelphian. I take pride in its art, culture and style which is inbred into its REAL gangsters who know how to conduct business. These are a bunch of broke dusty dudes who are bringing down their own community thinking that they are tough when they are nothing but reckless. The old and the young are supposed to feel safe when they see you. Not be afraid. Start with picking the trash up!

[@jennymac7938]

As a lifelong Philadelphian, I agree buddy.

[@byquillmosley8356]

Y’all need more liaisons outside of North Philly it’s more to the city besides North. But all and all thanks for shining the light on Philly keep It up 🙏🏾

[@userace1117]

Not only that, there are many sections in North Philly. North Philly is big (like city in itself).

[@Kaemor]

*I been waiting for you to do the Philly jawn*

[@NahTerrific]

We be watching the same shit 😂

[@nasirarmstrongz4006]

Real shit 💯💯

[@Kaemor]

@Nah Terrific Real Rap 😂😂

[@mowglifromthejungle5614]

Philly lingo

[@thousandstand123]

Kaemor is that you? What happened to ya lad???

[@gemoxcore]

If you ever get an opportunity to check out West Philly I think you'd find yourself a completely different hood in Philly. It really is wild how different each section and neighborhood of this city really is.

[@Kikibfancy]

University city is nice but not past market street

[@gemoxcore]

@@Kikibfancy That's my whole point. While U City is technically West Philly. Shit is NOT the West Philly I'm referring to.

[@userace1117]

@@gemoxcore Where are you from?

[@gemoxcore]

@@userace1117 Originally Mass but I've been bopping around different neighborhoods in Philly for around 13 years. 40th and Preston was my first neighborhood like ten years ago lmfao

[@userace1117]

@@gemoxcore Have you mostly lived in west? You been to southwest?

[@Frenchiev]

I wish ppl would stop saying Kensington is north Philly, that place is it’s own world 🙄

[@phillosc]

Technically it is north but yes it’s it’s own section to the people

[@ashiacameron]

Of it owwwnñnn

[@chill-regulartrzy7751]

I used to hate it too,esp because its associated kinda with fishtown and I still hate fishtown, them cracks was on angles when we was lil going through there.. but if you wanted to come up you could go hustle n cake up

[@phillyrocks3847]

It is a river ward. It east Philly. Not that North Philly has shit to be proud of. The schools are shit and trash blows like tumbleweeds. When these were all white neighborhoods you could eat off the sidewalk. Why do minorities litter?

[@phillyrocks3847]

@@chill-regulartrzy7751 When a man gets to his home after a hard day of grinding, does he step over the fast food trash or empty chip bag before he goes in to see his family? Or does the man pick it up so his kids don't have to see the filth? That is the difference between northeast neighborhoods and North Philly. Mad love to my airy and east oak lane for being good neighbors

[@jgwphilly1969]

I worked in Kensington as a middle school teacher, i worked as an in home psychotherapist, i worked at Temple’s psychiatric hospital. I’ve been in every project. Abbotsford. Bartram Gardens. A lot of drugs. Poverty. Gun violence. I’ve been in every neighborhood. It’s still a great city. I work mostly in NJ now. I think Philly prepared me for anything. I look forward to working in NYC and Baltimore.

[@isaiahb.7956]

When boul said there’s a difference between West Philly, North Philly, etc he was speaking facts. I was born and raised in North Philly. In north, we have our own style, mannerism, fav food choices, etc. Its a whole different vibe in North vs other parts of the city.

[@Hot33333333]

It’s cause yall big as shit 😂😂😂

[@armanddeblasio2888]

Dat pfp 🤣 that alone tells me you ain't on that time

[@Noetik5000]

That story about the "18th floor" crazy wild 😂 real shit.

[@THEsoulquarian]

Philly's a real rough town but I like visiting and have nothing but love for the city. ✌🏾

[@mrcee747]

If you know how to get around and mind your business you can have some fun

[@supersaturn956]

The City of Brotherly Love

[@hitek9too255]

Mr Cee Yea like the 55 year old man hit by a stray bullet eating dinner with his family on Thanksgiving?

[@matdote9955]

@@supersaturn956 Not anymore

[@Hr-dy1xv]

The boys soft when they hit the pen though

[@Dana-vf7zu]

I'm North Philly ! The heart ❤of it! It is so crazy than when I was younger. Thank you for bringing awareness my brother, this helps us !❤

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

GOD BLESS EVERYONE ALWAYS Thank you very much Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Go MILITARY ⚔

[@inquizative44]

Blumberg Projects was so bad, they had abandoned apartments in the high rise which people squatted in. The inside of the building was a hood.

[@nic_4849]

Great interviews. Love from DC to the philly cats.

[@mrcee747]

Salute to DC from Philly I herd about DC back in the Day a lot of Money getting 💰

[@dlxinfinite7098]

Philly Love to DC and the whole DMV...we vibe together..East Coast

[@QuinnSmalls215]

Shoutout to DC and the whole DMV. Respect and love from Philly

[@dboyz215]

Shout out rican bull putting on for the city 💯 streets of north philly unlike any other in the world!!

[@Nobuckets]

@@Hot33333333 west philly def do get active but u can’t compare to north especially badlands

[@dboyz215]

Badlandz get the most money in Philly bro they still got dope moving on every corner, west Philly get a dollar too but the beef be more personal

[@TitleTownStacker]

Yeah a Giant DUMP GHETTO Grats on your awesome city Fricking Morons

[@kingofuseddurablecars.ls6040]

They sell Dope too up Gtown in every part too.

[@Nobuckets]

@@dboyz215 fr

[@shanaqueenbee]

I hope that everyone in this video displaying money take care of his kids gets there teeth cleaned every six months and gets a yearly check up

[@jjones8294]

Probably not but I hope to..

[@robthomas9070]

Very good point sis.

[@staceydupree8488]

Exactly! Their community is suffering they are draining it from anything positive that could happen. Lord black people if y’all don’t quit taking money out your pocket and spreading it like that’s cool. Quit making money the be all end all. Love, honor, and respect is.

[@lookatmyhands2465]

Nah they gonna buy shit clothing to impress others who have no cash lol

[@kyonsenzu8799]

@@lookatmyhands2465 why are you so mad at somones clothes? weird asf

[@getmoneypro12]

This is so interesting and u have the world watching these type of videos...it’s way deeper than rap, hoods and gangs and what u see on the internet trying to mimic it...It’s families and generations and histories. Keep it up 💯💯

[@RyanFila]

Yooo what you're doing is dope. I love that you're showing the real and raw shit that's hard to find on KZbin. Fr Fr keep the energy.

[@DialloMoore503]

My Puerto Rican brother said the only thing to do around there is “Rap or play basketball.” Having that belief is problematic, because it’s not true. People from the inner city can be anything they want: Doctor, lawyer, pilot, veterinarian, engineer, etc. We have start presenting other careers to black youth. It’s hard to become interested in something you don’t know about. Peace.

[@zaytime4156]

You said black youth but he clearly Puerto Rican and come from a Rican hood lmao tf

[@DialloMoore503]

@@zaytime4156 Same shit. It’s not hard to understand what I’m saying; Youth that grow up in those environments, which is usually black and Latin people.

[@AbdallahEsa]

@@zaytime4156 Yes he is Puerto Rican but it's a nationality not a race. He looks like a light skinned black man to me although I know many Puerto Ricans have African DNA because the Spanish had African slaves too just like here in America the British/English enslaved Africans.

[@billyjacc]

@@zaytime4156 I'm both... grew up in West Philly, and have had family in Hunting Park since the early 70's. It's the same struggle. If you want the drama and Street stuff 24-7, then you can have it. If you want to attend one of the 20 plus area colleges or join the military, or move to another state for a fresh start It's highly doable.

[@JR-ju3kj]

I agree. That's pretty much the exact same thing that Remi Adeleke, a black U.S. Navy SEAL, author and actor( who has an incredible life story and his journey into the military sounds like a movie) who was raised by a single mother in the projects in the Bronx in New York City said, too. That problematic belief that the only legal thing you can do if you're from the inner city is rap( and Adeleke even originally wanted to be a rapper) or play basketball needs to change and like you said, it's not true.

[@WhoShotYa3X]

I lived in and worked in Philly before. Trust and believe everything in this video is 100% facts.

[@vaughnreedjr6592]

Baltimore heroin capital.

[@gregorycampbell7921]

@@vaughnreedjr6592 lol philadelphia has the largest open air drug market on the east coast. why is that even a competition to u

[@paidmeek3690]

Long waited for the Philly edition 💯🔥💪🏾

[@WealthbuilderzTV]

I love Philly I’m from Jersey but I had some real wild nights in Philly.

[@keesa5650]

. If you from Philly you already know what type time they on. I hate that I love my city. If you can survive in Philly, you can survive Anywhere 💪🏽💯.... you just gotta make it. It's a dog meet ,dog eat world in Philly.

[@DBLOCKJERSEY]

Crabs in a barrel mentality

[@shawandasmith3818]

Real ish

[@Hr-dy1xv]

They not on nothin fr

[@kennethj.knight6892]

Let’s go show Philly some luv! That’s just 25% of the hoods. Still got uptown south Philly west Philly southwest Philly west oak lane n Logan

[@donnelladams8362]

Yep and I'm from North. Broad and Erie Erie born and Abbottsford Projects raised

[@george91871]

66th and Ogontz all muthafuckin day!!!

[@drogokrazyy8985]

Fr! I’m from Frankford, it’s a lot of areas they gotta get too

[@zaytime4156]

Yeah philly between the drugs and killings is BAD I never realized this until I got older

[@zaytime4156]

@Dan Jenkins I was born in 96 so Iont remember the 90s but between the drugs and shootings philly is really different

[@anthonycox3493]

The sign of mental health. When ya repeat the same thing over but expect a different outcome.

[@neymar9661]

That’s insanity

[@anthonycox3493]

Quoted today but true.

[@TitleTownStacker]

Holly Hell

[@blacknomad_8413]

HoodVlogs - I appreciate you and your consistent content big bro. Wishing you continued success and prosperity.

[@miekaelshabazz6716]

I'm from Brooklyn but spent a lot of Summers in Philly,,,,BIG SHOUT OUT TO PHILLY... 18th and diamond.....as well as Glenwood Ave...

[@katelynkeenen5218]

Crazy how people can live in/grow up technically in the same city but in two completely different worlds. I live in the Chestnut Hill/Mt.Airy area and have never really been to or seen these parts of Philly and this was quite shocking. Thank you for sharing❤️

[@Bman0720]

Huge city+ two different income sections of the city. Just reality

[@jessicajackson8564]

I was born in North Philly and lived in North Philly and later my family movie us to Oka Lane section to me I enjoy both section . To me I just look at it is you have hard times no matter where you live it's up to the person to try a make your life what you want it to be its call mind set . My life wasn't all good but I chose to not fail my self of what I have gone through, still living near Hunting Park and the same old stuff is going on , but I don't like what I see at K& A I hope the city can make some changes to bring back some peace . Thank you guys for the video please do more

[@trublu4147]

I also live close Germantown/Mt.Airy

[@patriciafields7221]

Absolutely I'm from north philly

[@rhashedahenley4041]

I'm from West Philadelphia. But I love chestnut hill and mt airy.

[@naimsalahuddin-bey2919]

Shout out to the producer of these vids. Dude go all over & is well respected. Philly got luv for ya.💪🏾

[@thatGuyQuincy]

A russian man(“we got love for ya”), meanwhile if he was black.... lol we azz backwards (from inheritating religions of oppressors to self genocide) ..but yeah shout out to philly (southwest specifically)

[@user-ur2kt5hm5b]

They killed a dude doing a video to stop gun violence tho. ✋

[@xistaticxi7243]

@@thatGuyQuincy your comment is a prime example of advanced nonsense……. Nobody wanna here that bs bro get on somewhere

[@thatGuyQuincy]

XI static XI it dont matter what the fk u wannna hear nggh it was my opinion if u truely dont wanna hear it skip my words & keep it moving..facts is facts when it come to our people...if u dont wanna hear it just skip my comment but imma still say my opinion

[@timmarmontelo3256]

Crazy he blaming the feds but bragging about living like that. Can’t have it both ways sir

[@marcusjones9160]

Typical hip hopcrisy 😆

[@Cheersthewinners]

@1MaineTV those “wrong guys” are probably rotting in prison because the refuse to snitch.

[@urbannuance5151]

Let's go!! 215!! Perfect timing, Meeks album just dropped, it's about time!

[@zerdythuggy5150]

Lol swear 🙏🏿🎯

[@rstrakovsky]

I lived in Fishtown for 10 years and it's less than a mile away from K&A and it was like a different world. You can just drive under the El and watch things transform in on city block. It's a damn shame, so much poverty and addiction, right next to an area that was thriving and growing with young folks living their lives. It's been this way as long as I can remember. A tale of two cities.

[@Shallowwam]

Hipster

[@FRANCISPOLLARD-r3p]

Braddock St & Lehigh Ave, Memphis & York Sts. Got out in 1999. Now in SE Asia.

[@brendayoung6738]

Wow, I was born and raised in Philly on 26 N Thompson Street. Went to Robert Morris Elementary school. My father was murdered on Columbia Avenue in a barbershop 1995. Yes North Philly is dangerous but most inner cities are I’ll never forget where I came from it was beautiful times when I was coming up as a child my father was known as Young snowballs he sold water ice throughout North Philly.He was well love godly man, but he ended up going to the barbershop The owner was cutting his hair. These young guys came into rob the place it was a shoot out. The owner got killed and my dad. They passed away a week or so later at Temple hospital. My father was in the military. He was in the army, but he lost his life on the streets of North Philly. The story was on America’s most wanted, and they found the killers Thanksgiving eve of that year. It happened in October I think 1995 I’m moving to Bethesda Maryland in 1976.

[@holladirecttv]

I love these stories because it's ALWAYS some positive people on these vlogs giving out good energy.

[@blast4me754]

I didn't see any positive worth a dam people in this video ..All I saw was a bunch of overgrown men acting like juveniles ...

[@CapricornKidd90]

Right

[@goudjomichel]

I live in the Dmv, and my gf used to live in Philly so I'll go see her often.. Man I love the city but I've never seen a city with so much potentials that's barely used as Philly. Baltimore is very similar but Philly is just sad. And I'm sure it's not the money that's missing, just politics and people who refuse develop their city. Smh

[@brandymurrell6961]

Baltimore and Philadelphia are both shit holes they are interchangeable but Philadelphia takes the Cake Everytime

[@goudjomichel]

@@brandymurrell6961 I live in Bethesda, not Baltimore, relax.

[@HDVisionsMedia]

We need to start investing in the houses and flip them ourselves.. So many opportunities now. Never thought I would see the day where there's $400k+ houses in north philly. Philly will be NY City 2.0

[@cinquebleuu9408]

The rats from NY City are already here and not just the 4 legged kind. The developers are cashing on the cheap real estate, because the location between Washington and New York is continent for travel. Beware Delaware and Maryland!

[@ashiacameron]

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@phillyrocks3847]

@@cinquebleuu9408 So true. Germantown isn't in their radar. Next big jumpoff.

[@ilovejesuschrist992]

@@cinquebleuu9408 gentrification

[@kingofuseddurablecars.ls6040]

Germantown will be Chestnut Hill by 2027

[@JayNaethan]

I haven’t been in Philly for a year. I normally visit home yearly. Watching bring back so many memories from my upbringing man the stories I could tell. And walking through Kensington just go to high school man just seeing it is crazy.

[@Ramavelli]

PRAY FOR MY CITY!🤲🏾

[@jtommyboi]

I’ve never seen someone so filled with pride over flexing the cash equivalent of 1 rent payment 😂

[@kurtyoung6769]

LOL!!!!! They don't pay rent. $1,200 is a lot of money when all your bills are paid.

[@jtommyboi]

Yeah I dont have the heart to tell these poor suckers I make that in like half a week sitting in my AC apartment, with my square work from home corporate job, taking breaks to play with my dogs

[@tonycondegnimustafa435]

@@jtommyboi meanwhile these brothas be grinding day & night for scraps

[@2ant1man5]

@@jtommyboi how much debt to asset ratio you have? And your must be lonely beta make if you own a dog lol.

[@shawnaalston9233]

💯💯💯

[@cinquebleuu9408]

This is the new "Oregon Trail" in other words gentrification. What is amazing is the normalcy of it all and the disconnect having money and not wealth, having money and don't own anything.

[@lilme2me]

There's a Dead Prez that hints at that incongruity. I can't recall the exact line but it's something like "fighting over corners that you don't own."

[@ourcultureourmusic3299]

Hard to buy a property with drug money

[@ourcultureourmusic3299]

And to be honest in philly dudes like that actually did buy cribs and the he paid off cause they was so cheap And they sitting on money

[@melanieanderson8357]

Yeah so basically they're "hood rich"!

[@bambamrubble151]

They need to gentrify that shit unless you want murders to continue

[@lutherbrice1316]

I see you standing on 23rd Nic and 23rd Turner. I played on the dirt hills in 1966 & 67 before Blumberg was built. In the 60's & 70's Philly was dominated by gangs. There were gangs from east to west and north and south. The rival gangs bordering Blumberg were 24th Redner to the west, Demarcco's (23rd Sharswood to the east and the Valley to the North, but you also had 28th Oxford and 24th Thompson. Those type of gangs became extinct in the mid 70's and were replaced by organized drug operations. If you stand on 23rd Ridge today and talk to many of the senior citizens, 9 x outta 10, you're talking to a former gang member from that era. I've lived in Harrisburg the past 35 years buy I'm a North Philly boy till I die. Love Philly for all its good and bad. Peace

[@userace1117]

OG wasn't there a gang called oxford/zulu nation? Also, you meant Moroccos or demarcco's?

[@lutherbrice1316]

@@userace1117 Yeah there were gangs all through the city. Oxford Street, ZuluNation, Morroccos and Demarccos were among them.

[@ItsDJNuName]

I'm from 24th and Master, born and raised in North Philly. Where homie is talking at 5:23, i lived three blocks down on Master st. I used to walk past these projects all day, going to that library, waiting for the 3 bus to go Broad St. or the 61 to go downtown. Wow. and let me make something very clear to anyone watching and reading the comments: what the Rican bul said isn't true, that you can't just walk around anywhere at 7:23. You can go anywhere! Just be mindful where you are. What he's referring to is if you are in that LIFE and you have opps. Regular residents don't worry about that nonsense. as someone who was born and raised there, went to Simon Gratz High School, walk and caught the bus around all these areas, trust my word! Cats know who to press and who not to bother.

[@thelast1gotu]

So in othet words, the community has changed for the better, The quality of life has improved dramatically, Good for the community, Get rid of the bad elements,

[@markshowtime7073]

It’s crazy how this is what is being showed. I get it these things happened, but there’s more to Philly than these blocks. I get it’s the content you choose to display, but it’s more to Philly than just this…. It’s certainly more than rapping and Ballin!! People out here starting businesses. Let show that and how they looking to get out the hood or their story of how it started to where they are now.

[@ashiacameron]

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@givingyousportsfrommyview]

He stated the good in the end tho bro

[@markshowtime7073]

@@givingyousportsfrommyview I hear you on that but it doesn’t compare the the 11 minutes of just hood drama that happens. I understand that’s his content bro, but as a community I think we should shine the light on more positive things. To many of our black men and women are dying, because the idolize stuff like this. I just want to see our black kings and queens in a different light

[@givingyousportsfrommyview]

@@markshowtime7073 and I hear you as well but this is our reality it’s life , you have to take the good with the bad

[@markshowtime7073]

@@givingyousportsfrommyview yeah that’s true it’s just tiresome bro. Let’s Vlog on building these hoods. We have the ability to create a new reality.

[@mikeh7220]

It always amuses me when dudes who live in the poorest places show off money. 😂

[@stayactive450]

most money in the trenches .

[@notmichaelblackson9512]

You ever been in some of the hood houses ? Yea they look like a normal row home but go ahead inside . You’ll forget where you are

[@mailainathrone8241]

That comes from them not being used to having anything especially money. They have all this money and stay in the hood because that's all they know. It's sad actually. They buy cars, jewelry, clothes and drugs. Their priorities are way off point

[@PopePlatinumBeats]

@@notmichaelblackson9512 i know alot of spots in the hood like that...inside be plush

[@shantedewise7345]

It's bc they grew up without, now they have a chance to show up!

[@Danzines1987]

10+ years back I lived off Howard and Girard and it hurts seeing how bad some of those areas have gotten, not saying they were good but it's like they regressed to early 90s late 80s levels

[@SadiqMadison]

Somebody punched another bul right in between 2 cops in front of the masjid right there two weeks ago. A lot of activity around there because of the El

[@Danzines1987]

@@SadiqMadison too many lives lost over there, I still tear up remembering talking to the Trax guy about his upcoming vacation a half hour before he was killed in a robbery gone wrong. Living there even briefly etches itself into your soul.

[@IsmailAbdulMusic]

I might film my next music video there. We'll see

[@Zero-tn8yg]

always liked how a stack of 50s looks over 100s I know 100s is more but 50s just look better to me for a reason lol

[@jeromegaines8062]

Well, you keep the 50's and give me the 💯 's

[@mrt445]

Are you 12 years old?

[@Zero-tn8yg]

@@mrt445 13

[@mrt445]

@@Zero-tn8yg Your comment depressed me. You should like the most amount of money in your bank account and not less money because notes that are worth less look good, lol. These videos are starting to depress me.

[@mikhai5317]

@@mrt445 after he said he’s 13 then it was nothing else to be said

[@cgreen7711]

Philly is the shit !!! So much culture landmarks the food the skate parks the downtown night life it’s so much more then just the hood

[@phillosc]

Rican bull did a good tour/breakdown, a lot of guys get on these jawns and get all hype and drawn telling on themselves like youngbuls, they just told what it is

[@ashiacameron]

Periodttttt

[@Ricanbullmusic]

Appreciate it folks 💯

[@flacco1679]

@@Ricanbullmusic good shit bro but cut that “Spanish “ shit u Puerto Rican ya self and that shit disrespectful . We wasn’t born in Spain nor raised to be called Spanish . Desde toa baja Puerto Rico bebo 💯

[@brownjatt21]

@@flacco1679 i feel the energy dawg but that word been used for decades and ain't going nowhere in the northeast, It's stuck now.

[@flacco1679]

@@brownjatt21 that shit gon change little by little then

[@zanquilladus1]

I am glad my neighborhood has change to a better environment.

[@PGMarley]

Much love 2 Philadelphia ❤💪🏾💪🏾💯💯

[@DragonEstew]

I'm from SWP Kingsessing park area lived their my whole life until I was 28 and moved to Delaware I seen mad people get gunned down on my street and at the park down the street from my house over a basketball game, and I'm glad I got out. Philly def not big on gangs like that it's the blocks and little crews but there's hitters everywhere and you constantly gotta be on point and I'm glad I don't really have to live like that anymore especially cause I got kids. I will say growing up there made me feel comfortable in other hoods in other states on how I move and carry myself. Respect to those that's still rockin tho out there that's my city for life and stay safe.

[@Guttagangboosie102]

Dope vlog bro shoutout to Philly 🔥🔥🔥

[@southbound141]

The more I watch these videos the happier I am I live in the middle of nowhere.

[@alldayallnitelv]

That's where all the crazy shit happens in the middle of nowhere

[@southbound141]

@@alldayallnitelv hasn’t yet, it’s been 5 decades but I’ll be hopefully ready if it finds it way to my door

[@Iwanttoplayagame1998]

You right about that just enjoying the good ol country

[@jamesmckeon9139]

Having stuff to do though stadiums concerts can go to bars a sports book casino late night restaurants it has benefits

[@Bloodmagikonmyblock]

@@southbound141 same thing in the city if you move the right way dude , not everybody who lives in the city deals with bullshit

[@dylandecicco6883]

I've been in Philly for 20 years but I really haven't been anywhere else other than northeast Philly but I work at home depot on castor Ave and I even see crazy things. But i still want more info about North Philly. Hope everyone stays safe 🙏

[@billyjacc]

Just go down there to visit. 😉

[@SmittyRu169]

Philly Up! Moved from Los Angeles to Philadelphia in 2013 and it's been Home ever since!! Philly not big on Bloods & Crips. Blacks & Puerto Ricans are mad tight. The City & Culture is really welcoming they showed a Cali Nigga Love!! I'm here for good!!! Boul & Jawn...Brotherly Love. ❤️⚾️🔔🏙2️⃣1️⃣5️⃣

[@you-in5iy]

White people are the best

[@keithjohnson5885]

I remember those days... But im talking 90's though. Loved it.

[@suchtling9087]

Germany is watching u bruhh He did it again top 👍🏼

[@malih7777]

What about starting a company and buy all the block?! One by one!!!

[@metadata5638]

Bingo Legal hustle

[@checkmate2049]

The prices gone way up these guy’s missed the boat. Philly is going to be the next nyc

[@zaytime4156]

Let’s be honest they white folks won’t let them even if they had it and really wanted to.

[@brandonburns5365]

@@zaytime4156 not true. You shouldn't think like that. You sound defeated

[@brandonburns5365]

@Dan Jenkins dude I've been buying property for a while now. Y'all really think white people can stop you from buying things. And what did anybody steal from you if you never own it, genius

[@MoneyAli75]

Great video ..I always love Philly hip hop they got a talk to em n bro break it down what it’s like out there 💯

[@stanleykelly1828]

The 80’s in North Philly was really bad…8th & Butler. Sad to see things have not changed. Hope y’all get it together. Philly is a great city despite all the crazy stuff going on

[@magnetic100]

A lot of people from the hood in every city brags about their hoods murder rate. And that itself is a problem. Dont brag, complain.

[@dononeeye9912]

Man philly, was waiting on this!

[@mrme2653]

No we not!!!

[@MrAngelroc]

@@mrme2653 😂😂😂😂

[@_Dennis2Society215]

I wasnt. I live in this shithole lol i dont need to see a video😭. Jus came up on my timeline

[@bobbydouglas7909]

Me to and I'm from Alabama I love philly 😃😌✌️

[@mkofismith]

@@mrme2653 SAY WORD!!!!! GTFOHWTBS sadness man

[@johnmol4132]

Kensington!!!!! So sad and shocking the dope fiends you see lined up for blocks and blocks is almost like a movie much love to Philly I’m a New York kid that love going out there 🗽🇩🇴🇵🇷

[@vaughnreedjr6592]

That was back in the 80s. Crack not selling like no more.

[@ryonworthy7990]

@@vaughnreedjr6592 Nicca he said dope.

[@manden7510]

Clearly you ain't from philly or been to Kensington. He didn't say crack anyway, but trust me you will hear 10 people yelling 'hard' (crack) right with the dope within a 2 block walk. Crack is alive and well down there

[@KOBE24-BlackMamba]

@@ryonworthy7990 he confused because people call it different things in different cities. Like New Orleans/Philly/Baltimore-heroin is dope..Atlanta-they call weed dope..New York-they call crack dope..

[@DjTheDon614]

Its herron now

[@kowanabrown7342]

I was born and raised in Philly. Haven't lived there in 25 years Yes its changed but I still love my home city 💙

[@randymack8564]

I hear u me too

[@blakerussell2514]

No one talking about the Muslim populations here in Kensington and Newark that most people like this won't go near. Philly and Jersey is fucking wild.

[@hernandezmarkie7382]

Everyone from Philly got that meek mill struggle beard

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

lol why everybody in philly got a beard like that?

[@jfraz1992]

@@dassolosyndikat5113 it’s comes from Muslim culture

[@yushaq2434]

We call it a Sunnah beard. Lot of Muslims in Philly.

[@ourcultureourmusic3299]

And to be honest this was a pg 13 version to philly they could if really showed the hood This the safe tour

[@mrme2653]

Facts!!

[@kohnbonn9744]

Daytime

[@daboul8357]

No bap

[@ronnielister1023]

facts hoods in south philly worst then that but it's bad all around

[@oureraboxing87]

That is the hoods you have to be through them lil blocks at certain times and you will see raw... but come see it yourself folks... my city is not all bad as media makes it...

[@antwionedouglas3151]

I'm from west Philly and I love Philly it's kool. I tow in north Philly, this city is not all bad despite K&A. This my city and I love my people

[@nellalove9298]

Respect Philly a vibe 🙌👌💯

[@jorgereyesorobitg5992]

I use to live in Madison street 1 min from Kensington, I love Philadelphia but I won't ever go there to live again. Philadelphia saw the worst of me, the streets ain't no joke over there, I saw many friends from PR get killed and I was shot too. If you trapping over there you settings your self up to get killed or arrested.

[@Ramavelli]

REAL MEN IN PHILLY 🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾

[@giadiana4881]

This is the shit that people need to watch before moving here. Center city is one TINY part of this place. Thanks for showing the real philly ❤️

[@giadiana4881]

@@okaeT lolololololololol good luck 👍🏼

[@dlxinfinite7098]

One thing....this is not the REAL Philly....just very small parts of it. Stop sensationalizing the shit

[@billyjacc]

So this represents the rest of the entire city? 😴

[@giadiana4881]

@@billyjacc more than the five blocks of center city that is usually used to represent what Philly is like. Nothing will totally engulf what we are but there’s more people like this than the rich mother fuckers sitting pretty in Washington square or Rittenhouse. But that’s just my opinion

[@barty2381]

I grew up listening to N.Y and Philly Hip Hop in the late 80s and 90s. If I came over from the U.K to get a different perspective on how others live would I be welcome. I been into Hip Hop all my life and I have a passion for the Hip Hop culture!

[@FRANCISPOLLARD-r3p]

MY PART OF TOWN album. Know it?

[@cindyboyter693]

I'm white im gonna tell you I had some good times in north Philly everyone has it twisted if you don't act like a ass nobody gonna treat you like one and thats facts alot of good people in the badlands...its like anywhere else you look for trouble you gonna find it ...love you all

[@frankturcios6075]

I lived in the hood but i was lucky that i am 9 and a half inches endowed and was able to work as an adult film actor and get out of the hood

[@forexmarkups]

40% of Philly is white and a lot of them live in the hood or ghetto lol

[@forexmarkups]

40% of Philly is white and a lot of them live in the hood or ghetto lol

[@kwministry_mission_movement]

Praise the Lord for your deliverance. Thank you for sharing your story.

[@arkelbridgewater5351]

I would never forget me and my girl and my man were visiting Philly, zooted listening to Tony’s story in north Philly..the grim was real

[@metadata5638]

Remember this city dropped a bomb on a neighborhood literally !

[@kayhumph9109]

84

[@thtbulumad7290]

‘85 Osage Ave West Philly bombing

[@DialloMoore503]

MOVE

[@terrybrown5114]

Might be time to do it again.

[@lambcast]

Love Philly and love the beautiful side of the people and communities in the videos!

[@objectivedetective1981]

Shyytt he ain’t lying about the Blum I first moved to Philly on Croskey and Cecil B Moore and when we wanted weed we had to go to like the 13th floor it would be pitch black shit was wild good times 😂

[@malcolmimightgopositivesmi6047]

I use to walk through Blumberg every day going to school at Boone 😂 you know Boone kids was built to be in any section of the city 💯

[@objectivedetective1981]

@@malcolmimightgopositivesmi6047 facts I remember that too

[@kingofuseddurablecars.ls6040]

@@malcolmimightgopositivesmi6047 FACTS. I went to Boom in 1995 the Berg was Sweet. Philly is the best city we never been on Gangs shit can't walk through certain hoods gtfoh Philly went everywhere any hood.

[@allenlamb8240]

@@malcolmimightgopositivesmi6047 forgot all about Boone lol ain't that where everybody that got kicked out they neighborhood school got sent? You got any stories to tell, everybody got a few

[@allenlamb8240]

I'm a WP but but once I got older i linked up with some NP buls and ended up movin on 23rd between Cecil b and Montgomery then I moved to 23rd and Nicholas. I hit a chick that lived on croskey and Cecil b lol

[@GTMASSIVE7]

I'm happy to hear that the dude at the beginning changed things around.

[@rickmason6157]

Big love to my Philly fam.They showed me the weed spot and I linked up with some real ones over the years and was good when I came thru.Nice friendly people too.The media would never understand.Salute from south jersey.

[@alpizzle2963]

That's how it went in Projects that was knocked down. No matter how much we beefed in the Pjs when we went out there it was us against the rest of jersey city

[@joeblack007]

I am probably wrong but to me, North Philly is getting smaller. When I was a kid, I thought North Philly was everything between Huntingdon Park Ave and Spring Garden Ave. Maybe 28th street to American Street. Now, gentrification have apartments on Girard Ave listed as 'Center City North'. I'm like WTF? When is Girard center city. Temple University is like 1/2 mile from there.

[@trublu4147]

Yeah like the area my dad lives in is South Philly but some people consider it Center City South

[@Gaza_Saye]

I love North Philly💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@MrJaypltd]

Ayyy u got Rican bull on this jawn that’s a good brotha from EA Philly let’s go !

[@tkso.philly-7868]

I truly feel this.Im from Passyunk Homes in South Philly.They tore down our neighborhood to make way for,"Others...-"