YNW Melly Hood ~ Gifford, Florida

[@jermaineflowers1538]

My mom is from Gifford/wabbaso. Right across the causeway there’s millionaires and million dollar houses.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Yeah its a weird place. I remember when i got in trouble in Naples my parents sent me to this area to “calm down”… probably just got worst lol - well anyways a hurricane had came thru and knocked down half of the houses along the coast.. it was soo cool you could literally walk inside these mansions that the side facing the ocean had got wiped away and the other half was still there with furniture and all! It was awesome. Good memories out there and yes there are huge homes.. some of which were destroyed by hurricanes!

[@ryanpadgett9018]

Ay you know lerissa flowers ?

[@djmotion4305]

@@ryanpadgett9018 I do thus my hood fr

[@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy]

I picked up YNW Melly’s mom one night doing Lyft. She is young. She told me who she was and I googled her later.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

interesting

[@PlayboyChrisATL60]

YNW Melly ?

[@Dercudez]

When

[@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy]

I did not believe her at the time.

[@doctordef324]

​@@TheInsuranceAndTaxGuy You probably telling the truth. You never know who people are until they actually tell you.. I was at a Concert and Lebron's James mom was standing right beside me. I didn't even realize it. I thought she was a regular chic until my cousin noticed her and said something... Look totally different in person.. way smaller stature than you think..

[@InvernessFlorida2023]

Excellent video Jose and Katie, such wise words to the young and old ….. life is not measured by money but by character of how we have lived it . Very uplifting message and especially in hard times …, blessings to you both 🥰

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Thank you!!!

[@colleeng.994]

Excellent message I agree.

[@drfoulcheese]

00:41 my friend got shot in the neck at that gas station. He moved down from Boston and got a job with me. I told him not to go to that gas station because he's white, bald, wearing a wife beater and gold chain with a black girl he met at the old Bombay Louie's club. He didn't listen, they stuck a gun to his neck through the window and told him to give up his money and chain and not to try to drive off because they'd kill him. He floored it and got shot and crashed into the tree. He had to be flight lifted to the hospital but he survived. It's one of the most ghetto, dangerous little hoods I know of and I've lived in Philly, Indianapolis and Columbus Ohio. Gifford is extremely small but extremely dangerous if you don't know how to move. Wabasso is also really good. It's north about 10 mins. I used to hang with my homeboy from wabasso that I met through work so I was known around Gifford and wabasso.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Dangerous areas for sure

[@mcnustain]

🧢show the article

[@colleeng.994]

I lived in Port St. Lucie many years ago and this town was really bad then so thanks for the updates. You are the most amazing couple. Number 1 fan....love from Cocoa a.🙂💖🌄

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

CocoA with an “A” 🙃

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Next time i do a cocoa video ima say “you must put emphasis on the A and drag it out like this… COCOAAAAAAH” 🤣

[@colleeng.994]

Cocoa Village is so 🙂

[@yanickisma]

St. Lucie is doing great now. they are buliding so much houses and bulidings now,

[@grindn4jits432]

So true. In high school my homies and I did everything together. Got in a ton of fights with other crews and swore we’d be together forever. NOT ONE of us talk to each other today. Don’t know where they are at or what they are doing. I’m 30 and life moves on. Be lucky to have one real friend in your life

[@nicholaslovett6248]

Jose - for us Vero-ans, the lack of growth is a feature and not a bug. We could use more industry, but outside of PSL, the Treasure Coast is an anti-growth area. The cost of living and inflation have been rough, but most of us bought our houses for >200k. The rest of Florida is moving too fast and getting crowded. We still have abundant fishing and natural resources. Professional services are in high demand. But you’re right, if you’re looking for somewhere to move in Florida to get established, Indian River County ain’t it.

[@nicholaslovett6248]

We did get priced out of PBC, to add some color to what you said.

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

@@nicholaslovett6248 i used to live in palm beach gardens from 98 to 2001, i loved it but now its too crowded and waaaayy too pricey, but i love vero beach, yeah,its got its sketchy neighborhoods, but its also got plenty more nice areas, i love the nature,te parks, being outdoors, i bike everywhere so its perfect and i can easily access Sebastian, port st lucie, fort pierce and more, i like the fact its not over populated and overly flooded with industry, we have a lot of medium and small chains as well as mom and pop / family owned type things which we need more of, we need a balance of that was as well as bigger industries, but we dont want it to end up a huge over crowded metropolis like so many places have become.

[@cbx500cbx]

Gifford, just north of vero bch, orange tree plants. Did you do kings hwy,

[@franciscorodriguez8841]

Great talk, one thing u miss is marry the right person 👏 both of you lift up together and make ur life stronger and nicer

[@DailyPositiveReport]

preach my dawg, these young bucks need to focus on themselves, get that mind right, walk that straight line and stay square...nothin but distractions out here #727

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

💯

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

its because they are proud of acting ghetto, the loud boom boxes, loud, obnoxious, no respect or courtesy for others, just as loud as they please, never mind that they are bothering folks who are inside their own homes.

[@FindtherealRachel]

YNW MELLY is from Gifford. He did what you said , made videos , music , and now he’s in jail, for murdering his friends

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Opportunity wasted

[@mrpimpston2156]

Been getting back in to making beats, use to have a studio back in the day, but due to haters they broke in and stole our stuff

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

You can’t let anyone known you got that. Glad i don’t have to worry about that where i live now.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

FL studios is fun. sorry you wen thru that. nothing sucks quite like that.

[@mrpimpston2156]

It was a inside job a group our engineer brought in, ya been hearing ya stuff , I can tell u just starting , more u learn your DAW and practice it start shaping up better, it ain't easy it take time

[@mcamman6193]

Back in 2003, me and my family used to live off one of the apartment complexes off of 49th street. The area between Gifford and Wabasso seems to be growing the most in the Vero Beach area, but the inner parts between US-1 and 58th is definitely the slumps of it. It is kinda weird though because it's very affluent along Indian River Drive. We ended up moving over to Vle. I like Vero Beach as a city but there are areas there that definitely need to be worked on. Great speech as well. I just graduated a few years ago so it speaks to me.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

stay focused dont let anyone drag you down you got a future

[@fleischmann110]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS ? 😂🤔🤣🤡

[@fleischmann110]

​​​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS must be a bot ! Wtf soo random 🙈

[@RicaRamsey-y9q]

Dam the struggle is real 😫

[@patwillis1893]

Great advice for young people who fill hopeless. you can make a good life for yourself with a lot of hard work and determination to succeed. 🤔😊

[@mickeymouseclubhouse1999]

living there right now and havin the best life ever ong

[@davidmyles4865]

Bro you said you grew up in “Naples” stop the cap Naples is luxurious bih!

[@Norman3869]

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[@malcolmlampkin3291]

I love to see my hometown born and raised in Gifford on KZbin 😊

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

☺️👌

[@mandysimmons2769]

I was too poor for Prom high school but I'd met and married a hard working "nerd" as he was called by the cool kids. But he worked hard in school and eventually got a good job with a government entity. That place had rubber chicken dinners and community awards events and such so one night I was sitting at a banquet table and laughing hard to myself because I had on a sparkly dress ( one I could not have for prom ). I was seated at a very pretty table talking to ex governor this, Mr. Senator that, Congressperson Dude, a lady Judge Whomever, Sherriff what's his name, blah blah blah. I knew what street I grew up on but they didn't so I just acted cool and confident. I looked em in the eye and talked to them like I was really some body. I retired at 53 too after years of taking care of the same relatives who'd made my prediction that I'd never be anything. I think it's funny that "Mrs. Nobody" has mingled with big wigs. I have worked side by side with my Nerd but I never expected that sort of thing. Now we are saving up for assisted Living and stuff like that.

[@0906blue]

The first will last and the last will be first. My father came from a poor family of 12. The dad worked but drank up all the money. Everyone called them white trash that would never amount to anything. 9 became millionaires, 2 did just fine, and 1 didn't turn out. They left their home town, made money, came back, many of those who called them white trash wound up renting from them or working for them.

[@francescamiller4340]

Hola, Jose & Katie what about Jacksonville or Tallahassee do y'all know anything on what kind of town it's like if they living in poverty? I've herd of those towns, but didn't get to visit it.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

jax has horrible crime and the locals are hostile at times. Tally is safer, but its just a college town lacking the culture and food jax has. has has more fiber and culture to it. tally is just.. bland and boring

[@francescamiller4340]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Ok,Thanks 4 sharing the info!

[@pdb2k154]

One of South Floridas most notorious rappers in jail for murder….. Gifford definitely ain’t no Vero Beach

[@ol305stunna]

Gifford is not South Florida

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

@@ol305stunna everyone wanna be south Florida now days! I already said Fort Myers is in 🤣🤣🤣

[@pdb2k154]

@@ol305stunna close enough

[@0906blue]

@@ol305stunna If you look at the map of Florida where it is divided in 3 sections, northern, central and southern, Yes Gifford is considered southern FL.

[@ol305stunna]

@@0906blue South Florida is The Miami Metropolitan area which is West Palm Beach, Broward and Miami Dade County

[@tracewebb]

Everybody talking about across the causeway if you go across the street they have a place called grand houbour where millionaires live

[@daleupthegrove6396]

Word to the wise: When people go out of their way to fuel their egos and look ''cool" just remember there is only one letter's difference between "cool" and "fool".

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

amen ! 100%

[@Dfrmdabrickz]

When you coming to belleview fl show you the real hood over here

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Where they at

[@Dfrmdabrickz]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I’m belleview there’s lots of hoods by the elementary school go thru the back roads Southeast 57th st

[@Dfrmdabrickz]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS and go down 112th st road

[@erikh3867]

great advice. tell poor young men how to get a free demo so they can learn how to make beats, because we're surely lacking young wannabe beat makers.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

its a career. i make videos traveling to hoods.. so what?

[@MitchellAbner-m8m]

Man fuk dat Gifford is very beautiful I rather live in Gifford than in a poor neighborhood in Dominican Republic, 10000% ,come get me!!!!

[@kooloneism]

good motivations

[@cleot151]

I disagree. I lived in Vero forty years ago, and I went back recently for a visit. Vero was sleepy for a long time, but lately it has grown a lot. There has always been money there. Unfortunately Gifford is another story.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Compared to other places in Florida the growth in vero is nothing

[@ol305stunna]

You guys are everywhere lol

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I wanna go to Miami but i cant afford the gas no more LOL

[@ol305stunna]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS lmfao 🤣

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

@@ol305stunna Miami has become a destination for the rich now LOL

[@Brian00007]

you too lol

[@italiansister8069]

Hi Jose hi Katie 👋🏼

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

gas so expensive we stay home LOL 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴

[@Thedude897]

Should go to Kodaks old hood.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

We did!! I got alot of views too! About a year ago

[@Thedude897]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS oh cool I'll look it up.

[@Gage888]

Indian river county is a retirement area places like Gifford and wabasso ain’t as savage and gangsta it ain’t nttn like that shit happens but it what outsiders think over hyped

[@soulsurfer639]

The residents there should move to where the industry is.... just saying

[@carlosmccall6221]

He murder 2 of his best friends in Fort Lauderdale Fl

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

rumors also accuse him of killing a cop? crazy stuff. hard to believe

[@00ff-t9z]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS crazy bro

[@MikeShlong-ue7kk]

Back in 99 the g was live wimp right off mlk 33rd was where I was at only white Boi round there that had a pass

[@doctordef324]

At least they have city buses!!😏

[@MikeShlong-ue7kk]

Had a sky blue 4dr Malibu back then.

[@fijiwater7484]

Gifford is a country place

[@InvernessFlorida2023]

First 🇨🇦💕💕🌴

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

thees people need to clean up their damn neighborhoods, it dont cost nothing to be clean smh, i live in vero beach and i love it, there is a ton of things to do, its beautiful, most people are very friendly, its pretty safe.

[@jonathanwalther132]

Lucky you aint get shot peepin like dat

[@tracewebb]

Yea fr specially on the left side of mlk😂😂

[@bigmoo9375]

First comment !

[@henrylee1523]

cool. fun fun.

[@malcolmlampkin3291]

772

[@DEE_WAR]

Being from Gifford this is disappointing.

[@Dercudez]

Why

[@gilmet27]

Shout out from 44th street gifford, the struggle is real, but the people here are good and its a faily safe town. I enjoyed the video 👍

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Thanks

[@colleeng.994]

Fat fingers lol

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

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