My roommate in college in the mid 90’s was a Flying Dragon. Machine gun Johnny is the real deal. Those dudes were supplying nyc with the best dope around at the time. I used to love going to Canal St and checking out all the counterfeit stuff.
This is interesting. NYC's criminal history is pretty fascinating. The NYC Mafia (once becoming an oiled machine) rarely cared or wanted to fight against other groups, rather work together to make more money for both sides.
It’s still like that. Latin Kings working together with the Italian mafia is something I’ve heard about first hand. That’s just one example I can think of.
@@SixHundredandThirteen obviously some areas are dangerous but like people from st Louis or Detroit never try to prove there city is dangerous there not proud of that and u shouldn't be either
The crazy part is ppl not from New York don't understand how extremely small china town is like 8 blocks all together and these blocks are small alleys
1977, i could be wrong but didn't the pagoda theater had a live band playing at the time? i was but a kid in that very theater heard the shots ring out and everybody grabbed their loved ones and ran.
People who think NYC is still dangerous have no clue what the deepest levels of the subways were like back in the day. Just the subways alone would eat the current NYC scene no problem.
Yep. Most dangerous train was the # 2. NYKers call it the murder train. I used to take it at 4 am from penn station after work. And yes i had a 9mm with a spare clip. Just trying to get home to my young daughter.
@@zumaanandrade3961 There were a lot of dangerous trains out there, wasn't just the trains themselves though it was the entire system. First time I watched the movie 28 days later, it gave me the same vibes.
@@luiszavala2361 everything isnt what it always seems to be yeah no city is like the 80s and 90s , but from east to west crime is rising. Now it's summer time. That makes people crazy
@@SixHundredandThirteen of course but I don't think New York City will as bad as it was ever because in the worst day of New York City was when the mafia was a thing and nowadays the mafia can't get away with what they got away with back then
@@luiszavala2361 I know times are different , things are done differently in the dark. People don't go out and just kill in broad day light. It's all in the shadows , think about everything that happens that media dont cover. History always repeats itself
Wrong. China white was the first synthetic opioid, phetanyl, that came into the United States. Before that it was real heroin that was brown or black. I watch alot of documentaries 😂
Asian organized crime in the US is so interesting and people don't talk about it enough. I grew up near a lil Southeast Asian neighborhood and have friends from there, so I have my own experiences with Lao & Cambodian organized crime. Them mfs absolutely do not play.
New York City is safe 🤔 Fast forward to 2024. Lol. New York City goes in phases and in a bad one currently but when on point it is the greatest city in the World.
Unfortunately, most of his numbers are wrong (eg’c 100,000’s of Chinese immigrants after 1942 lifting of the exclusion act. Reality was the the quota was only 200 Chinese immigrants per year.)
@@Porschedoctor1 Do you not know about the rush of chinese working immigrants to america in the early 1900s even late 1800s? There were already large established Asian communities from the East to the West.
The story from China Mac interviews goes like this. His Dad was a big dailo in the Flying Dragons, 2nd from the top. Flying Dragons went down and his dad talked. The boss who went down told the Flying Dragons to leave China Mac (child at the time) and his Mother alone. Pissed at what his father did, China Mac grew up and joined the Ghost Shadows back in the 90s-00s when things were very active. He would goto jail for 10 years on Rikers Island when he tried to jack a rapper named MC JIN, in the scuffle he shot Jin in the back once, and when CMAC went to shoot his head, the gun jammed. Saving him from life in prison. He has now turned his life around and does vlogs and the show Mac Eats on youtube.
@@donjp6553 look it up! Innocent kids getting killed by stray bullets ages 1 years old to 11 years old,gang indictments,gang beefs,shootouts in broad daylight,killings everyday.it’s insane and the sad thing is a lot of the people doing these killings is 13-17 years old kids bro
As far as 1977 was concerned, NY was WILD that year! Son of Sam was running around, the biggest blackout in the history of the state of NY happened that summer, the city's economy was trash, the Bronx was burning everyday, gangs were prevalent and HIp Hop culture was all of 4 years old. So much happened in NY that year so these cats were just a part of the wave of madness that too place that year. I am from NY and I was 6-7 years old at that time...I remember the blackout!😳💯
As someone who didn’t experience it (wouldn’t even be an embryo for another decade) I always find it interesting how many movie & TV portrayals I’ve seen of that era, and of the ‘77 blackout especially, romanticize it in some kinda way... Because to an outsider it sounds so objectively shitty 😂 p.s. I’m a fan GL! ✌️
That would be a phenomenal video. Could make it into a series breaking down all the events of that year. Before my time, but just reading about it, seeing certain events depicted, etc, but a really comprehensive deep dive into it
Iv watched a LOT of your videos and my favorite thing in all of them is, other than your comprehensive coverage of every group and person involved, is the fact that you cover the history of each group of people extremely well.
1977 the year I was born. My father fled being a member of the Hop sing I think a year or more before 1977 and stayed there until things cooled down in San Francisco. Still today my family won’t divulge my fathers role or what he did but I’m sure my aunts and uncles know they just don’t wanna tell me.
1977 was the gas crisis. OPEC had limited the oil sold to USA and you were only allowed to fill your car one day a week based on the last number of your license plate. It was a time of economic crisis and cultural instability after the end of Vietnam.
Tacoma, Portland, St Louis, Kansas City mo, Phoenix, Little Rock, west Palm Beach. You got a lot of rough cities right there. I see you tend to go with cities with popular rap beefs tho.
The last few seconds of this video weren't accurate because it's been hot n getting real worse real fast up here in nyc but the rest of the video was super dope great content 👌
Yea I was just gonna comment this. NY has been getting bad the last few years. That whole Justice for Junior thing wasn’t too long ago and that was brutal asf.
@@youngthieff other people put it plainly in the 90s NY averaged 2000 murders a year and its hasn't come close to touching those in the last 22 years. Are people still getting hit sure but its not like it was in the 70s-90s
What’s the point? China Macs story has been told and put to rest already. No beef between C Mac and Jin. They already had a one on one to go through the history between them.
From my knowledge Jin had disrespected the wife of Mac's homeboi who was locked up at that time. And on what happened next I'm not goin to say too much but obviously things got sticky.. facts 💯..
The Michael chen murder was definitely an inside job. You'd have to have the support of the Tong and Benny Ong in order to do that and then be made head of the gang. Side note. Johnny's wife got murdered right around the same time that he was released from prison
Yea the guy who murdered her was a flying dragon she was involved with and she was leaving him to go back with Johnny and he couldn’t bare the fact she was leaving him to go back to Johnny so he shot her and then himself his name was David chea
