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Born and raised in the heights… This vid is super valid. Ramon described the culture perfectly when he said “It’s not gang culture, it’s money culture” 💯🇩🇴💯🇩🇴💯
Yea north Philly and Camden and Baltimore don’t really do gangs like New York ….they make way more money then heights as far as drug money ….herion/ fentanyl is crazy in those areas and open drug market ….they care more about money ….New York definitely focuses on gangs but the heights and Dominicans are definitely leased focused on that dumb shot
Been watching your videos since day 1 and i've commented before about my ties to Washington Heights. I was born and raised on 190th literally 5 minute walk from Dyckman. So happy to see my community getting some love, thank you for this Johnny.
I'm from east new york but I've been living in Portland for the last 2 years. This is a dope kind of like origin story of the things I've seen growing up in the city. Keep up the good work bro
I'm from Paterson NJ 5 minutes away from the bridge speeding. Everything he saying is on point. The Heights an Dominicans were from the most trust worthy when it came down to everything from Respect to money Dominica didn't play little kid games or greedy games at all at all. Dominicans are good good people. Very few do you hear are bad blooded.
This dude is the biggest FRAUD running.. just show literally ANYTHING about his arrest… I’ll wait .. there’s NONE he proffitt ing of the backs of people who have dudes a bozo
Dominicans have also had the heroin game on lock in NYC for decades now. Both the LES and the Heights have kept the whole city high on dope since the Blue Magic SEA supply dried up and the good number 4 started to flood in from Colombia. Dominican dboys are always business people. Period.
Back in the 90s, me and my dude would drive from Cleveland, Ohio, to Washington Heights to see ''Papi" at his pizzeria, a few times a month and go half on a quarter or half a brick, grab something to eat, and jump right back on the freeway. We usually didn't stay in NYC for longer than an hour or hour and a half, and right back on the freeway. We stuck the chunk right in the glove compartment, pretended like it wasn't there, and never got pulled over once, out of dozens and dozens of trips. It took us anywhere from six and a half to eight hours. It took longer to get home, because we obviously drove a lot safer on the way back. Everytime I passed a cop on the way home, I made sure to make eye contact with them, and maybe even gave him a head knod, just to show him I wasn't scared or worried about him, trying to show him I wasn't afraid of him and had no reason to be afraid, even tho we was basically sweating bullets lol. We would buy bud sometimes too, but we basically could get better quality and prices back home on the bud lol. Plus we didn't want that smell of the bud in the car with the white girl. We were two white guys, with no hats or hoodies on, as low key as we could possibly be. That guy mentioned putting wood chucks in the bud, I've seen that, I've also seen pieces of glass, and nickels (which are really small but weigh 5 grams each lol. I've seen a lot of their tricks of the trade, but I basically just stuck with "Papi", because his product was great, and he did great business. I would call him around 11:00-12:00 at night, and tell him I'll see him at the pizzeria around 7-8am. We never had any problem with Papi, other than it being literally just a few grams short, which he would make up for the next trip. If he shorted us a quarter oz one trip, he would give us back an extra half oz the next trip. He was a great businessman. Then one day his phone was going straight to voicemail, and I was never able to get ahold of him again. I assume he got busted. If you see this Papi, it's "Blanco" lol. I have the same number on my work phone, or find me on Facebook. Would love to get back in touch with you again lol!
After they busted this guy, papi, they struggled to find one of his best costumers, blanco. Now they know, blanco is Charles Carter…. Jokes 😅 stay safe
What about the other tens of thousands of "blancos" across the northeast that were doing the exact same 🤔 thing ? How do they remember who's Blancos were who's ??
Your weed might have been uptown but the Dominicans where selling haze for years before your pounds hit the block Johnny. Haze and sour weed besides anything else up there is real nyc marijuana and the heights was the area. The haze came from Miami since the 1990s. No hate but that’s the truth Johnny. the Dominicans always had the money and knew how to run a business. Great video Johnny
@@XloMotion in 95 the Dominicans where selling haze but yes the Jamaicans had raw thai in bk. Still wish I can get some chocolate thai. That shit would knock you out like a dope head
Alot of Dominicans in the Heights were gettin serious weight from the Netherlands tho. I'm talkin about early 2000s through 06 etc. Alot of that serious weight of Haze came from the Netherlands and the Dominicans were movin it in Uptown and all over the city & tri-state etc. Good vid tho 👍
I'm from Westchester ny and as a kid I was 16 and heard about the heights. I walked out on 155th and broadway and walked up got my 1st plug for the larry and then Sherman for the puff. Washington heights home of thr haze! And pedricooo..
Dominicans always have the most organized money in that shoebox Those were the only times I ever saw somebody have the patience to organize them money like that
I'm still not sure just how much I believe about the whole deal, but a lot of these stories go with my own or ones that I've heard while locked up, so it is interesting at the very least.
That’s just a small part of the story they left out a lot of the real street stuff that really went down in Washington heights. Today’s Washington heights ain’t nothing compared to 80s 90s Washington heights it was open drug market back then it was a very dangerous area. A lot of how it really was wasn’t said in this video.
Yep. I used to make trips up there in the mid 90s. Off of Amsterdam Ave. Very dangerous. I'm lucky never to have gotten robbed, killed, or arrested by DTs. I just looked it up recently and read that around 20% of all the murders in the 5 boroughs happened in that one police precinct in some of those years.
Man can I just say shout out to the growers out west sending the Christmas packages. Cali outdoors, light deps, greenhouse, jack herer, lol. Makes me miss the early 2000s to 2010s lol
Lived off 184th for a while. As one of the only white boys hanging on the block they took me in and I made some cool friends almost immediately, showed me some cool shit around the heights. Loved that neighborhood.
@@andrewjones2133 ayyy not to far. They use to tell me shit got a lil crazy around 180th or passed that somewhere. It’s been a while so I could have the street mixed up. But I guess the gangs were a lil wild a little more uptown
The best part of buying coke from dealers in the Heights back in the day was the giant line they would make you do first to make sure you weren’t a cop! $20 grams of fish scale!!!…didn’t see that quality again until I went to Medellin a few years ago…(actually someone else went and they told me)😉
@dieselbaby yessir. Rosa parks and Godwin I believe , east 19th. Those were my spots. I hated going up on Rosa parks and Godwin, that area was extra hot
@@J_Clean_1996 uh no. Life is way easier here. Don't know why anyone would think it's worse here. Just a gripe about legalisation. It'll come eventually but it's not like it's difficult to get and the standard is high.
@@J_Clean_1996 because legalisation makes it easier and even more quality. I used to grow here. It's a lot of work but if it was legal. I could just grow in my back yard
I love that I spent my 90s in Jersey and NY. moved there from London in 92 at age of 9 till 2001. When Im watching all this stuff I know all the areas being spoken about. I workd on 79th floor at age of 13/14 in building one of the wtc then reasstaurant in battery park then South Street Seaport summer time and west 4th next to Washington Square Park during school months. alhumdulila blessed childhood.
The most coherent explanation I have heard about what Washington Heights was. If you look at it in a enterprenual perspective, there is should be more studies about it. By the way sir, I heard about you before. I thougt you were a urban ledgend.
I'm half Puerto Rican and Dominican and I think I visited Washington heights once to visit a friend but that was like 15 years ago lol. Viva mi gente puñeta! And long live our good ass food. I'm seeing lots of Mexican, Salvadoran and Colombian foods around my neighborhood and that's good because I love their food too lol. I think I'm hungry 🤣
Johnny please get fellow comedian Joey Diaz on the podcast. Hes from NY and he is also in the mix of the trade so hes definitely going to have good information. Plus hes funny asl. Please get him on, it would be a great podcast for the ages.
Yo man... I am at 3:05 in and this white kid is actually telling his audience that his "merchandise" helped shaped the culture in thr heights. Listen just cuz unique is co-signing this BS doesn't make it true either. WAKE UP KIDS THIS GUY IS AN ACTOR
My new fav channel the connect is tf legit af he’s a real 1 stand up guy. Balls of steel this guy has pause! If you all want the real talk about the real game tune in!
Everything he said is the truth just I don’t know where it was coming the smoke for sure but everything else is the truth. If you know where if you can find the weed please please tell me I’m in Ohio but I go back to New York and I don’t see the smoke and I’m Dominica 💯
sorry my guy but the haze is a Heights/Dyckman thing not from Cali. That official NYC haze had that humid basement taste from being grown in the basement of the buildings/where the super of the building lives.. iYKYK. 😎
When I was younger, I used to drive through a part of town when I wanted something and it was easy. Now days, I stay fairly clean and I go fishing in that neighborhood and I haven't had a single person approach my car.
This was spot on. My main spot to this day is an old 5 empty five story with a few people from the DR selling. It was sketchy though, when you say the entry word and walk up the stairs you walk into a room with 4 guys at each corner with semi auto weapons one one guy sitting at a table with a scarface pile. No chit chat allowed, u tell him a number the money and bags it up for you. btw i thought u might want to know that i made a direct connect. How it happened would take a few pages to explain.
@@MRB1199 I have no reason to lie. If you grew up in nyc during the late 70's - 90 and didn't have a connect in Washington Heights.... Well then u didn't grow up in nyc. Just lookup nyc in 70's-80's son it was a warzone back then not disneyland like it is now. There was a lot worse going on then 4 guys with guns and a guy with a ton of stuff on a table.
@@mikemaldanado6015 lmao I'm from there and my fam was deep in the game if you know anything about coke you can't just leave it on a table open allllll day it will lose its efficacy maybe you right but there are alooooooot of reason why it won't just be on a table like the movie's
@@MRB1199 Yes my younger brother married into a DR crew. I am just telling you how it was. It was not scarface big but probably half a cakes worth.. The place was very busy so they sold it quickly. And yes air plays a factor but the bigger problem is the temp. it it's too hot i will just turn to liquid. I buy k's here in colombia all the time and leave at least an ounce out for a few days, the product worked the same. The temp here though is the same everyday. Plus this spot in nyc required u to buy at least 20g so i guess it was just easier for them. No unwrapping every time... you would give them a number and they would pack it up for you. If you want to pm me i can give u the address - they are still there but only sell to musicians . The price is still 20 per g but they won't let u in if ur not a musician. Sort of like a co-op.
@@MRB1199 they were probably still in the process of bagging it up. At some point you need to break the keys down and it’s messy. The humidity etc won’t have any effect on powder unless it’s left out for hours or days on end.
I’m about 95% sure the apartment complex that Johnny is standing in front of the entrance is where a family friend of mine lives😂😂😂 I remember staying at her apartment and checking out the area, definitely a funky area but not too bad, definitely one of the worst neighborhoods in Manhattan but that’s not saying much tbh. Never saw drug dealing as in the open as when I stayed there, only one night too. There was an old Dominican dude you could tell played absolutely zero games sitting on the corner waiting for cars to come speeding by and he’d do the handoff
Big facts for a lot of CT (Bridgeport to Stamford) niggaz it was either a quick drive or a metro north train ride away to get to Washington heights.. without traffic Washington Heights about 45 mins from Bridgeport CT
Cubans were growing the black down here in Miami late nineties all through the 2 thousands until we got legal then everybody started leaving to either Cali or Colorado but we were getting 6 racks a pee back in the day When you drove it up to New York definitely a lot of good times
I'm from pa and had a good freind who I use too hook up with ! Dominican! Great product! But 1 of the most honest guys ever ! Never ever ripped me off ! The G man was the best ! Hope he is still alive and well 🤞🤞👊👊👊
This is my neighborhood where you filmed, one correction once you go into Dyckman st you are in INWOOD wash heights starts at 193rd st. I was born and raised on post ave back in the 80s as you mentioned my block was and is the biggest spot in NYC I no longer live on post ave, but everywhere I go I rep my block because I never became a product of my environment, and for that I'm proud.
I remember when I used to roam those streets. Early 80's, all the weed spots in Inwood were on Nagle Ave (the "record Stores") . Every other business was a record store with pampers in front lol. They mostly sold shit weed - the best spot was off Dyckman, near Post Ave I think - called it the "hole in the wall". Also, I remember hanging in Jew Park off 175th-there was a code back then - H was being sold there but was not sold until it started to get dark and the kids left the park-there was more respect for the neighborhood. When crack hit, it became the Wild West, especially around 163rd and Ft Wash. Glad to have survived that era for sure
Back in early 2000’s in Connecticut. .8’s were $20 all day. When Blue Dream came in the fall that’s all we had till next season. Haze and Blue Dream. Eventually I got fronted a zip of White Widow and that go me moving. .8’s out of the pet store made me more then my $7.00 an hour wage. Never did I imagine I’d end up growing thousands of lbs on the west coast. Times have changed. We would get shaked down over a nickel bag on Wood Ave, in Bridgeport by the cops. Decades later not even moving for less than a box. I only wished I moved west before the flood. Eventually we were letting lbs for $300 just a couple years ago and that was the end of days.
some of the very best flower I've ever smoked here in WV come outta Philly back in the 90s and early 2000s. it was fire you don't see today except in very small circles. shout out to my Jewish friends
you are the reason why that haze kush and sour was booming uptown. i remember getting in the system cab and getting heading up to the heights from 07 to yeah like 2010-13 weed fell off in Harlem and NYC
145th & Broadway introduced that bomb ass Haze to buddha heads in NYC over 15 years ago. To me that was out 20+ years ago. Before that "triangle" Branson was the man for high grade or Audubon spots.
I once went to a party with this girl we parked and went to the part. When we left a few hours later my car was in the middle of the street. Everyone had double parked I was only car left as traffic went around.
$15 a gram is priced coming down?! I’m in Florida and if I want an oz of dispensary grade weed I’m expecting to pay $6 a gram. If you buy just a gram you’re still only going to pay $10 max
All the different Burroughs, all kinds of different cultures & the food is all kinds of different you know all the different ways of living & shit would be so freaking awesome to live there & experience all of it!!
