Born and raised in Salas,70’s-90’s. At that point my family wanted me out and the homeboys pushed me out. I’m thankful for them pushing me out and away. I have a 5th grade picture of my classs. In that picture 16 Boys only 4 of us are on the outside or alive. Salas is no joke never has been!
The homeboys looked out for you back then and they're glad they did that whether they're no longer with us or alive. May the homies who died rest in peacen
I'm from SoCal and I lived in the hood back in the 90's. I was never a gang banger because killing your own people is lame shit. I got into wrestling and one of the coaches was born and raised in Salinas. He had SALINAS tattooed across his stomach in old english letters. He used to be a gang member in Salinas but can't remember the name of his gang. All the guys respected him because he always told the squad to never join gangs. He said he used to get into trouble and when he finally got his act together, he joined wrestling in high school (in his time) and made it to state championships. He always credited wrestling with saving his life. I will never understand why Chicanos kill each other over a piece of concrete that doesn't belong to them and never will. When I lived in the hood, the people who robbed me was my own, Raza. My father left Mexico when he was very young to give his kids a better life. I graduated high school and went to college. Gangs are stupid.
Bro I’m literally reading your comment while sitting up in my 2 daughters’ wrestling class. Wrestling is a good sport to teach kids discipline and overcoming challenges. Also a good way for them to learn to kick ass if they ever need to defend themselves!
I really dig your channel just started listening about a week ago. I have watched a lot of your vids now.Great style, you got a meta thing happening. A place where one can grasp the bigger picture. good job
I grew up in Salinas. Had many good but wild memories there. You dont have to be involved in gangs but everyone is street savy. It is the Norteno breeding ground and they are on every block. When living there for so long you never realize how bad it is because its stuff you see every day and just seems normal. Once you move out and look back you think to yourself how bad it really was. I no longer live there but love the town and when I go back to visit I always keep my head on a swivel. You can feel the tension in the air!
I actually grew up in Salinas (I now live in Monterey☺) and remember being told not to wear certain colors in some parts of the city because of gang violence. Hard to do as a Dodger fan who wore blue a lot but even as a white guy you had to be aware of your surroundings in certain neighborhoods. Amazing that something as innocent as a colored jacket or shirt can get you killed in some areas.
I grew up there to but left right before high school to Fresno. Ur right I'm white too but I remember being told this or we were also aware n told if the same car passed u by 3 times its time to leave. I remember hearing that in the 3rd grade. We were all just very aware of wat was happening around us Also one of my best frens who I spent the night at all the time, lived in a not so nice part of town. the house 2 doors down across the street was fire bombed one night. Crazy shit man
California dudes are just simply built different. If you live outside of Cali and have Crips, Hoovers, Bloods, Sureno gangs, Nortenos gangs, Hell's Angel or even Aryan Botherhood members in your state or city that simply proves my point.
Foreal it's not that theyre no down but Cali is something else honestly, I had a friend tell me that his friend from Colorado was a real Sureño, I was like bro the real Sureños are in Cali.
fake check stubs, using tradelines to boost a zero credit score to a 750 within a few weeks, CPNs to conceal their true identity, co-signers, knowing the landlord. There are a lot of ways
@@tehuti112 so ralo didn’t buy an entire apartment complex with dirty drug money in a republican state? You ignorant sheep jsut say anything nowadays 😂😂
Really saddens me that the hardworking parents or granparents of everyone involved moved there to try & start a better life for them and their kids, only for them to take it for granted, get into trouble or kill each other over territorial disputes…
Why do we assume they had "hard working parents" their parents could have been on dope, lazy, or just born here. Not everyone is a first or 2nd generation Latino in Southern California.
@@kellyrenee2173 you would NOT say that to any of our faces all the guys in the video are real killers 😂you would tremble in fear 😂😂 lmfao funny ASF you think you tough let people be and do what they want
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾 Prayers out for those trying to recover from the passing of their loved ones 🕊️ Prayers out for those incarcerated and those on that path 🕊️
When I was working at Intel a few years back one of my managers had a tattoo on his left arm which I could barely see under his sleeve. It wasn’t until one day we were at lunch when he took off his jacket and I saw his sleeve rolled up to reveal it was a pretty large 14 in an old English looking font. I asked him what it meant and he explained he got it in 2014 when his team at the time was responsible for a successful launch of the 14.009 cryptographic firmware for the Z573 chipset. BUT! I'm a project manager and know for a fact that product does not exist! I then nervously took a long hard sip of Capri Sun and said that’s cool” 😳
Salinas has always been an NF stronghold and has bred some of the most firmest believers in the cause. I’m not glorifying at all just saying, Salas don’t play around.
Damn foo on the dead hynas that I smacked the cucumber foo free the big homie dancer loco homie I out here working full time at subway you know the homies get the munchie for free foo much respect foo foo
This has always been home for me and it’s hard living here when you lose too many loved ones over a lot of bs. But that’s how it always was to be honest it’s been really quiet for a few years thank God because now I’m a dad and life is in its proper perspective. Anyway for anyone still in Salinas stay blessed glad your still alive and it’s up to us to make it better from here on out stay blessed all of you
I love the comment about staying inside. Growing up my cousins lived in that type of neighborhood (3 families living within 2 apartment units kinda thing), so the parents in the building pooled their money together and bought a SNES (this was back when the latest video game was PS2/GC/Xbox generation). I firmly believe this is one reason why hood kids fall into extreme extroverts or introverts and why gaming during the early to late 2000s became such a big thing in boys in communities of color (think that Mos Def line "They can't do math but they can rock you at playstation"). Out of concerns for safety many children (and families) turn inward based on their accessibility to technology
That shit worked for me 😂 but not sure if they did it for that reason or because it’s something I wanted for xmass and honestly it was kind of beutiful feeling of escaping the reality of living in Compton having to deal with bullies at school and I mean deal with fight I couldn’t just back down I had to always end up swinging at someone trying to press their luck I’m not saying I was tough or anything I hated fighting but I had to just to not get treated like a bitch but it was draining and at home it wasn’t any better my parents I never seen them be happy together my dad was just mentally and physically abusive to my mother my whole childhood so playing video games was for me at least Therapeutic and a way escaping the reality of what life was for me at the time sorry for this long ass reply no one ask for but yea video games are cool
Dman you broke it down perfectly. We used to have so many programs for kids to prevent gangs or at least try to intervene. A lot of my younger cousins are huge video game nerds I love video games too but they didn't keep me out the streets enough.
when you live in salinas knowing your streets is a must, u gotta know where to and not to go and you’ll be just fine.. i was in high school when salinas was hot, nowadays it’s been smooth and everyone’s laying low but who knows for how long, the cycle always tends to repeat itself.
its weird that he says its safe now cus numbers are similar to places like SF... those stats are so fixed. If your going by stats then Chicago is considered a safe city if you count residents to crime rate. Because all the crime happens in one place so its not safe if your in the place. Same with SF... or NYC... or LA. These stats these ppl read be hella off
Its said that no matter how far you run from this lovely town called salinas youll always find yourself called back .for those who made such choice in making a better life and apply the common ground of change youll always find yourself with the same talk, the same walk ,and the mindframe that is instilled within this here environment with the darkest memories ,truama and whatever else that suits one to his figure .however,it is not an aspect that shall not be taken lightly but a freindly reminder of the facts of what is .....
Norte been knockin them guys down everywhere just like Stockton,Oakland,Modesto and many other Northern Cali cities….Norte still runs Northern Califaz dont let them 13s fool you.
Salinas is beautiful and full of hard working people who are working their asses off to survive in one of the most expensive areas in the country. Sucks that the gangs are preying on them and making it such an unsafe place to live.
Yea bro,, I lived in Salinas for 8 years from 2013 -2021, I grew up in Seaside CA which is like 25 minutes away. Moved out of Cali all together and don't miss it at all. Came to a Red state and love it
@@baglifemike1535 I guess if you compare it to Oaktown for sure. But where I'm at now blows all of that in Cali out of the water as nice town and low crime go.
This was a great video, but you should have covered when bill Clinton went to salinas In the 90s and spoke about the gang violence plaguing the city. Good job and you really stepped it up and your videos are getting better with every drop
I was born in Salinas and grew up there up until 8th grade my parents didn’t want me to go to high school there cause it was a breeding ground for gangs I lived by east market and down the block was Hebron and growing up there that shit was wild crazy. But living there gave me somewhat of street smarts I knew what not to do, wear and what areas to avoid most of my childhood friends either died to street life or got locked up for murder. It was tough growing up in Salinas.
I remmeber going up there in all blue Dodger gear not knowing how serious you can be ended just by wearing the wrong colors. We done have Norte (red) in So. Cal and my cousin's son put me on game. Next day i didn't wear blue and while at the store a few guys wearing red came in. I think i was pretty lucky that day.
Your videos are great man! I promise this is truly only constructive criticism. Just talk in your normal voice and talk with your natural inflections. Again, your videos are great and I like how you found the perfect middle ground with the animations and cutaways 👌 keep up the good work brotha!
One of the murder squad members is my ex wife's son, his father was in/out of prison so he had no worthwhile father figure. The younger son has also been locked up for 8 year's for an unassociated attempted murder. Luckily I was able to go to court and take custody of my two kids with that woman and their both productive members of society who have never done time. As for her she hides under the umbrella of the Victory Outreach Church 🤷🏻♂️
@@gonzaboy0072 😭 Not only did you bail on her but her other kids too. You said lacking a worthwhile father figure but all that time you could of stepped in and at least tried.
Grew up in the El Dorado Park / Calaveras area of Salinas. One my earliest memories of the Park was a mob fight that broke out. I was about six year's old and about 12 vehicles pulled up to the park. It looked like everyone having their bbq's ran towards the groups leaving their vehicles. I just remember the sounds that the bats were making when people were getting hit, the screaming of people that were stabbed and the ladies who were watching. My mom came running down the road after a few minutes, swooped me up and chewed me out for not leaving when that started. I couldn't though, was just stuck staring at all the chaos. About ten year's later two gangster's who ended up being from LA were killed while sitting in a car that was parked in front of my house for a few hours. Neighbors said it was two teenagers on bikes who came up and started shooting through the windshield. The neighborhood was crazy from the 80's & 90's. Our house was right next to a chop-shop, but they were hella cool. After the 89' earthquake they were the only spot with power. They loaned my parents a generator, a cell phone that looked like a brick and would drop off groceries. We moved a while after most of the chaos, today there are about nine guys I grew up with that are either serving life or died being active. All together, I'd say about two dozen people I grew up with through just after HS and my twenties have died due to the gang culture. Some weren't even gangbanging, were the wrong person entirely, one had bought s hooptie from a guy who people were after, another was dating a shot callers ex, even a couple females that were active. Salinas may be small in population compared to larger cities at only +125k people, but the issues are the same and at times seem like they have been more brutal. You get through it and you either live to navigate with the awareness, or people leave for areas that are more chill. Either way, you come out of it stronger if you're lucky or traumatized if you or your family were directly affected.
I’m from Watsonville, really cool to see the video! If people don’t know, because Salas was the “hottest to watch” back on LivePD (show has different name now) some certain people didn’t like how it showed more of California then they wanted and had it pulled from the tv show. I remember when a beer spot opened in Watsonville. First few weeks were rough. Lotttttta salinas boys came around and plenty of fights etc happened. It’s all been figured out/patrolled out now though.
Grew up in Salinas and been all around live pd was lit and with all the crime it makes it worth it for the food 😂😂nothing better then seeing places u hang on tv and live pd
@@kellyrenee2173 nice try, no thats not what I meant. I mean sure try that every now and then at any and all business that serve, and ofc its bs when they do, and they legally cant. Happened where I used to worked at alot, and destroyed business for awhile. Nobody would come since theyd be down the street like 4 of em waiting. Till we had some lawyers send the sherriffs office a letterhead.
yeah, one time i dated a female from salinas, never again. its a wild place down there along with watsonville, watsonville locos take it to santa cruz and back and forth.
If youre able to make another documentary style on salinas. That would be appreciated, I was born there and occasionally visit my gma there. Interesting to learn about this
I remember growing up I use to think gang bangers looked cool then I grew up and joined the rest of the world and realized they all see gangsters as losers 😂
I feel this. I remember as a kid gangsters looked cool. Then I grew up and see 25-30 year old cholos riding bicycles because they don't have car or DL. You realize how pathetic they really are.
@@realgsdontdie5095nah fam you’re talking about wannabes. Don’t confuse a hoodlum for a gangster, a real Gangster will live in a big house, drive real nice expensive cars , and further their influence by any means, usually will have a local politician pulling strings on behalf of his interest
People don't choose to be gangsters your born into it based on where u grow up and who you're around... in these neighborhoods you got no choice ..If your brown you don't just where white and say peace upon you lol.. you get rolled up on jumped etc if u ain't you will be once you try ans stand on your own as a kid or teenager.. guilty by association..people don't aim bullets at 1 person they spray and pray and you will catch lead just living in the vicinity
Dang I never knew this video was even uploaded, but thank you for making a video about my own city man Salinas is often an ignored city and no one (not even cali) knows about us lol
Growing up in Salinas as a young teen in the 90's, I quickly learned a valuable lesson. If a Northerner approaches you and asks this simple question, "Where you from?" RUN! Because if you give any answer other than "big bad Norte" or something similar, you just gave the wrong answer and it's about to go down. It didn't matter if you said, I'm selling bibles. It was the wrong answer.
@@LittleSalex if they not making the community a better safer place. They can stay home with that imaginary child's play. Maybe sharpen those sign language skills too.
Maaaaaan I remember one summer I wanted to stay with my cousin out there and he was down and when I told my parents they’re were like “NO!!!!” But that “no” was like a real concerned parent type of No so I never questioned and as I got older I realized why, but Salas always gets my love and respect a lot of my favorite rappers are from the Dirty. 💯
@@X3rango says you. emeros shot a baby in the face. surenos fired into homes and killed Brownside Tokers little sister. salinas sur was on Americas most wanted for killing a 6 year old boy. and after that they killed a lil Paisa Girl. no respect for your people. traitors to your people
@@X3rango that's the whole reason Nuestra Familia Started. Eme abusing its own RAZA. and guess what scrap? Most of the people Eme hurt were SOUTH Cali people. orange county and all them. all the socal people coming into prison Eme would abuse
My coworker lived on market street and he always told me crazy stories and he said don’t ever go through there at night lol but salinas has some of the best weather ever I went to the mall one summer and it was 100 degrees in hollister and then you go over the hill to salinas and it’s cold and foggy which is awesome
Been to Salinas and Soledad many times, you don’t want to be snooping anywhere around any of those places. I drove trucks and worked construction throughout California and as long as I didn’t stray from my intended path I never had much trouble but there was plenty if you wanted it.
@@X3rango so quick to diss on the net. go slide for your dead homies. your criminal career will never take off. you will never be an Emero because you are a coward. you'll stay a broke foot soldier living in moms
I know about this story. I was young, my ex now, but at the time had an older brother in marine county juvenile facility. And he was locked up with the guy that did this. Told me about it, interesting to me. Took me to that moment, lol I was in the parking lot with his sister, while his mom visited him.
@@quetzalcoatl9993 Like I said its Norte land…Norteños are the deepest and most active hispanic gang in Salinas and they run it along with their allies…Sureños aint nada there even though some are there
@@calidawg510Nah foo Norte started in Africa we was 14’s straight up than we split up into 4 gangs the MS14, BullDogs, Northern Riders which is the original and deepest Mexican gang up north, and the chihuahuas mafioso.
Damn i love Salinas ❤️...one of the most beautiful places I've been in my trucking career...im from Maryland and use to go to Salinas and Watsonville weekly in 16-17 to bring back produce...had a weed plug out there that always had good ⛽️ 🔥 it was definitely parts of Salinas that got tricky tho
Crazy the difference in gang culture from cali to vegas and Texas. Here in vegas theyre pretty calm and don't have them going into each other's territories having gang wars. Seeems like they all realize there's enough money for everyone and gang violence happens rarely. Ganga are pretty active in Houston i did some jobs over there and the wards are pretty wild
There really is no border never has been. If you really think about it there's norteños gangs that used to report to mexican mafia members way back then before the NF got militant/structured and started to recruit every norteño gang that was from northern california. And the sureños have been established up north for over 30 years now. So that border you're talking about has never been its just seems that way because of the number of members and cities that norteños have
Growing up in the late 90's early 2000's was hard for a first generational Latino. The gang they left out doing a lot of the work was actually Acosta Plaza (Nortenos) also known as AP. They also left out La Posada another Sureno gang who was out doing dirt. Good watch though good info.
That’s a good point, yeah they did leave that out..they also didn’t mention the names of the sureños that fired back n killed norteños, well except for one..Salas ain’t no joke
I grew up with shocky went to middle school and high school with him too. We used to play Xbox back in 2010. Back in middle school he was nothing like that, we did kick it with homies but he looked nothing like a gangster at all. It was around sophomore year were he completely changed
I grew up in Santa Cruz/Watsonville but we would go to salinas often to go to Mexican stores etc. I remember we were eating by Sanborn and my parents would tell us to not go past that street and I never knew why. I saw this dude walking down the street wearing hella blue and I thought that’s probably not good, 30 sec or so later a car racer by and pulled a drive by. That’s how I remember salinas. Nowadays it isn’t that bad.
I was sliding from LA to San Jose in 2007. I was low on gas when I saw the Salinas exits. I already knew to stay on point. It took me bout 10 mins to find a gas station & When I pulled up to get gas there was probably 10 Nortes posted up . They asked me where I was from & I told em LA n all that. They was cool on the real but I knew it could get ugly!
@@jrjr8738 It was probably a couple years back because most hoods in Cali dont post up anymore….Everyone has a whip and be mobbin deep nowdays instead of posting up… couple years back the homeboys use to post up onna block but cops would always harass now the homies just be riding around but still keeping it active ::
It's crazy the guy came back, hands over his blower and after all that......the sidewalks still had grass on them... must have been a gas blower can we get the yard crew the new battery power model blower...
