00:00 Spending evening in Central Harlem at Stephen Foster Houses ( Martin Luther King, Jr. Towers) aka Fosta 00:41 Inside one of the most dangerous hoods in Harlem with Nyy Millz and Skeeter Millz 02:07 Basketball courts 03:05 Hooligan Pratt ( instagram.com/hooligan_pratt_bmf/ ) 03:13 Community Center 04:24 Nyy Millz ( instagram.com/nyy_millz/ ) 04:53 Harlem Twins "Twin Towers" 05:02 Lenox Avenue in Harlem 06:03 Outsiders in NYC housing projects 07:22 Inside the projects 08:24 Rooftop view at New York City 08:52 Pebble Beach 10:52 Dealing with NYPD
As someone who grew up in the hood in NYC, seeing them glorify this lifestyle is definitely embarrassing. This is nothing to take pride in. The people in this video will never break the cycle.
Well yea it’s not something to take pride in I agree. But at the end of the day that is life, their life and lifestyle. They all connect w the same kind of struggles. So in order to keep moving ofc their gonna hold down an integrity of hope and positivity. They not bouta start the video off w having the mentality of ohh you can’t make it from living in the hood.. bc that is not true. Ofc they’d prefer if they were more privileged. So it’s really bout having the perception that’s gonna get you farther from where you began.
I'm from the projects in Brownsville and I got out and raised my kids in a better environment. This is what mental slavery looks like and I am feeling second hand embarrassment.
Fighting over apartment buildings, streets, and neighborhoods that they don't even own. I can't wait until my people wake up and stop playing "their" game.
Its called stupidity. Ive been saying it all my life. You claiming a streeet corner and projeoyou dont own! The city of NY owns it dummies. Smh… sad after all these years people still moving in circles
Robert Moses was the creator of the buildings called projects. They were originally for soldiers coming back from war. Those soldiers lived in the projects until they eventually moved out. Robert Moses devised a scheme to have other individuals move in so the cities won’t lose money. Those individuals that moved in sadly never left. Black snd Hispanic people. I am a New Yorker and still live in NY. I know my history. Look up Robert Moses and who he was and what he did. His name is all over NY. He was the head of many government agencies AT THE SAME TIME that dealt with real estate. Long Island Ny is segregated because of him
cant lie when your young its all fun and games, but when your over 40+ and still doing it, and creating future generations of the same loop it makes it sad.
Yeah that mentality, low value gutter mentality only works when you're young enough to make mistakes, it's a life of eating shit if your over 25, 35 might as well die
@@morecarstuff yeah i agree with that I just said 30 for the heads who do time. You can go in at around 18-22 and come out at like 26-28 by 30 you shouldve never went back to the block or with the lil homies
@@cacoca79 only in your world bud, if your talking about this video , its a white guy is interviewing a group of low to middle class blacks in a projects for clout. These types of neighborhoods are usually a mixture of races of all types. Usually they are separated by income class. Maybe where you are you see what you’re talking about.
I was born and raised in these same projects. As were my brother and most of my cousins. Grew up rough: No father, mom worked her hardest to keep us safe and out the streets. Got in fights, jumped, shot at, stabbings, all kinda crazy shit. But, never been to jail, never been arrested, finished high school, went to college and everything. I moved to Florida four years ago, got married, have a kid, working on buying our first home. It pains me to see shit hasn't changed.
when that's all you have, if course you will be "proud" of that. on a basic level, human beings need to feel prone in something. when you have nothing else going on in your life, your neighborhood (however terrible it might be) can easily become that thing.
WoW.. its great to see how much pride they have in living and protecting government owned housing. No outsiders allowed... what a great sense of community they share!
@@jacobjones4766 Because people of other colors fail to see that this is a problem of all races. Then cite this as a reason why our other struggles don’t deserve to be heard. We should all get punished because a few people are allegedly “ghetto”.
@@numbertoxy lmao. Yeah because everyone should just mind their business when kids kill each other in the street. Fucking ignorance at its best. The best part is you don't see the hypocrisy in that statement.
Good for you! For real, congratulations. I can’t believe these lack of awareness idiots in the video are not aware of their own actions words and decisions. In 2021 everyone has never had more freedom to do as they please with their life. Bottom line none of these people are in better places and situations because they CHOOSE not to. Of course it won’t be easy but it’s their lack of dealing with discomfort that stops them. Just like anything and anyone else that doesn’t improve in (fill in the blank).
This video hurt my heart... Trauma bonding, misdirected energy and aggression, much needed therapy. I pray for my people, a new environment and different exposure would change a lot of this.
@@ordinaryextraordinarybrotha human beings are tribalistic in nature, our vibe attracts our tribe. I often think back on all the circles I was amongst in my past and we literally do about 90 - 95% of everything our peers do just because. We adapt to whatever we're around if we're there long enough.
The hood mentality is like a drug. Its fun but after awhile until you get conditioned. Sometimes u find comfort in the chaos cause its been around so long, but you cant see anything past it. Dont settle for less and dont get distracted by the glitz and glam. Underneath its painful and self reflection hurts more than conditioning yourself to your enviorments. God speed anyone still in the projects and prayers to those trying to hussle and get out
Rather the streets, than another man, my boy. I'm sure it's an expression, saying she knows where shes from and won't ever forget that. If you were raised on the streets, MAYBE you would understand? Idk✌🏽I think you're getting confused for the song "she belongs to the streets."😂🤣
I really understand being proud of where you are from, but these people seem so proud and happy about how violent it is.. this is why things dont change. this is when oppression comes from within.
The wildest part of this is that they sound like they speaking with pride as if it isn’t sad that things are that way. They sound very proud when they’re talking. Shawty was flashing money asking the camera what we know about that but she admittedly is living in one of the poorest parts of the city.
I smoked a joint shortly before watching this. I think I lost more brain cells from the video. It’s been glorified long enough to realize that glorifying has gotten nobody anywhere. And yet they keep glorifying.
Harlem is fine but the projects are a shithole. Funny enough in Williamsburg there are hasidic jews that live in the projects too and its safe af. Its the culture of young black people that keeps them down. Especially gangsta rap music. It did a number on black people.
Big Sean said it best “banging over blocks that they don't own, thinking that's home Boy, you think that's where you're from? You don't really know where you're from You don't know how deep your roots is or what your ancestors had done”
It's a shame mother Africa sold ther own people to Arab nations the African ansters have a lot to answer for. And slavery is still very promernent in Africa today. What a mess.🤨🤨
most if not all of these people can’t afford to live anywhere else and it’s not their fault that that’s where they live… why are you assuming that there is no community at all in such a large amount of people ?you’re just putting all these people in the same box assuming they’re all out to hurt each other… i think we all know why you made those assumptions…. lol
@@giannalynne5502 liar. If you can afford 200 dollar shoes and a big bundle of marijuana you can get out the projects. But a snow bunny like you don’t know anything but getting tossed up in the first place Snow bunnies be hilarious, you’ll never be down snow bunny. Not in a million years, no matter how many times you get on your knee’s. You’ll always be a snow bunny
I will never complain about having grown up in a "boring" suburban neighborhood ever again. Very grateful that I wasn't born into or raised in this sort of culture.
This environment is like being in an abusive relationship and thinking it's normal. You get out of it and meet someone who loves ans respects you and suddenly you start to realize you were living an abnormal life.
But theyre proud as hell. Look at that first girls face, smiling ear to ear when shes says you coming in her neighborhood might be the last thing youll ever do :) She loves the idea that you might get murdered. They love violence, and yet these are the BLM crowd. They kill more black people than any cops ever have.
Man these hood vlog videos are a little annoying. Most Black folks in the hood are just every day folks trying to make it. Yes you have your gangs, violence, drugs, etc and you have to have good street sense but the whole "don't come here ever" talk is a bunch of cap. None of these places are the complete war zones that people in these videos try to make them out to be. Folks try to hype up their hoods by overglorifying the violence. Same stuff happening in every hood.
They do talk like it’s a war zone…i bet on any given day its peaceful…theyd have the national guard out there if were just that dangerous. These ppl need to go visit war stricken countries so they can truly see what goons are
Bro move to MD , you be in the best community in all of usa in Frederick ,Montgomery County, 16$ a hour just working in a gas station . I make bout 1400 every two weeks after taxes and im a drop out. You would love it here. I came from Hardee County in Florida they be paying like 7-8$ a Hour . Fuck that. You be next to DC -bmore you can always drive to PA , WV, DE SC VA . Even New York, just 5 hour drive . You can even live in PA and work in Maryland to build up even more money . College is free here for the first two years too. You have evey big commercial store here that are all new new and keep getting bigger.
My people stuck. I don’t get it. By the time I was 19 opened my own business got a bag and got out the hood. Nothing wrong with reppin your hood. But if you over 21 and still reppin a block. You are not growing as a man or woman. You stuck. Her parents look like cool people. They just never grew up 😔. And lil mama headed down the same road. I like where I live now. The burbs. The sticks. No R.I.P shirts. No arguing and fighting every day. No pissy elevators or stairs. Nobody breaking into the whip. No daily police interaction. Nobody getting robbed, Jumped, stabbed, shot killed or Houses broken into. The projects was a stepping stone for struggling families. You grind. You hustle. You get up out the projects. I don’t care what nobody say. The hood has no love for anybody. The streets will take your family, your friends and even you. There’s a whole world out there. We got one life. And I’m so glad I didn’t let the hood swallow me up and leave me stuck. I go home. I see the fam. They still talking the same ish. Who got shot. Who got killed. Who got locked up. Who on the run. Same convo every year when I go visit. I appreciate what the hood taught me. I appreciate my homies from the hood. But I wanted way more in life. Way more. And I wanted way more for my kids. Way more. Bless to everybody out there in the projects. Don’t glorify it. It’s a prison. Cell blocks. The main yard. Recreation Center. Preparation for a smooth transition from the projects to the prison. Hell no. Not me. I saw that from I was young. You will always love where you were born and raised. But be truthful about it too. Just because you were born into poverty don’t mean you have to stay there. Especially when you in your bag. If you from the project and you got 5 bands on you right now. Move. Texas, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, Tennessee. Someplace nobody knows you. I guarantee within 1 year your whole life will change. You will see your vision, hopes and dreams clearer. And you will accomplish things you never would have imagined….
Hey brother give some games to young kings too show them the way not everyone is smart enough to see the mess their in them selfs sometimes u show people the mess their in so that they can be woke and change them selfs
@@kingstone2457 that’s a fact. Life isn’t easy. Sometimes the most difficult thing we can do is walk away from the life we know to the life we don’t. The crazy part is. It’s the easiest and the fastest path to real growth and self preservation. We all have a purpose and a skill. If you good at selling drugs you can be good at running a business. If you good at writing rhymes you can be good at being an author. If you’re good at stealing cars you can be good at running a repo business. If you a wild boy and like that street action you can put in that same work in a private security company, military, U.S Marshall or the Police. We all have god given talents that we can use for our advancement or our demise. It’s just a matter of choice and making that firm decision to make a change. Even if it means walking away and living thousands of miles away from people you know and love. Our fear of change unfortunately is the reason we have so many of the people we grew up with either dead or doing football numbers in the Penitentiary. We all couldn’t wait to jump off the stoop and run the streets. We need to apply that same passion when it’s time to jump off the streets and into manhood. Many of us wasn’t scared of those streets. Even though we knew what was out there. We heard a million and one horror stories but it didn’t phase us. We were going to make a name for ourselves in the hood. By any means necessary. Even if it meant going up against known killers. We did that. So why would we be afraid to recognize that the streets have an expiration date of 21. If you make it past that, it’s time for phase 2. Take all that you’ve learned. All that you’ve earned. And find your true potential. Leave. Leave the hood. Leave the streets. Go be uncomfortable again. Suburbs. Corporate America. Business ownership. Stand alone again. No friends or family. Just you and the world. Nobody in your ear telling you what you can and can’t do. Just your natural street instinct helping you navigate this thing called life. And when you reach that level of success or accomplishments you never thought you would get to. Go back home and show them what happens when you walk away from the streets and everyone you know. Show them proof that there is a life outside of the hood. And it ain’t that hard. You just have to overcome your self doubt and fear. The reason many of us never see success. True success. Is because success lives on the other side of fear. And once you can push past that fear. Everything you ever wanted is sitting right there waiting for you. 💯🍾🥂
@Black Ops Everything you said is so true and inspiring. I’m trying to get out of the hood (Bronx) and I’m not even apart of the hood politics. I’ve been racking my brain for years. I have a vision for my children and I and I’m not letting it go. Thank you for you words of wisdom. If you have any of your own organizations and or businesses to share please do so we can support.
U can tell the girl with the braids is suffering from generational trauma and mental illness both her parents mom and father are involved with the streets the cycle continue smh
Our people are so lost man. Proud to be living in crime, violence, chaos & pain. We glorify the dumbest shit. Who in their right mind would want to go there ?
This shit sad... embracing misery. The chick happy her moms raised her that way and moms even happier. Everybody showing money and supposedly rich but didn’t take that money to move out the piss, rat, broke elevator infested community. Chick told the cops go home to your wives yet she may never known what a wife is. They said if you’re not from around there don’t come there, referring to ppl who look like them but other colors and cultures come there and take over yet they’re safe.
@@davidnoble6766 And did she say she wanted to be a wife is every woman’s duty to be a wife to someone some peoples nightmares or other peoples dreams and vice versa
They don't want people of other colors, races and cultures to go there and nobody brings it up that that's racist right there but if they go to a nice town and start problems and chaos and we say we don't want them not because of their color but because of how they act, we get called racists and put on blast on social media. I will never understand the mindset.
This is your life when u see nothing else.. no overseas travel no learning other cultures.but we glorify this aspect .. Hold the L for this mentality..
ye23 they have education but take it for granted. I know people in 3rd world countries who would kill for their spot, these people are complaining about the conditions smh.
@@bobbyonasis stop using that Weak ass excuse all black people always want to say they was born into it like shut up stop making excuse for not getting off your ass I’m young and black that live in the hood Biggs not trying to hear them excuses
"If you ain't from here don't come here" who the fuhk would want to go there in the first place? Growing up I couldn't wait to get out the hood and be a productive citizen.
Same bro. It's crazy because you'll have some dudes that you look up to. The. You grow up, get out and look back and see those dudes are still doing the same shit at 26 they were doing at 16. Crazy
I'm in South Africa, and I think hoods are the same everywhere in the world. Our mentalities are screwed up by all the poverty and oppression. We fight and compete over the very little we have (play grounds/blocks/streets). People are acting tough as a defense mechanism. It's sad, but it is slowly changing. ❤️
This is some form of emotional distress or mental illness. The fact that you can be proud to be in or from a place where you’re so oppressed by your own kind that the defenses to not become a victim take precedence over everything. It’s terrible and mind blowing but only from the outside looking in
@@Oldheadontheblock they dont just survive...it's almost as if this is what they want in life and don't want to improve their situations. Ironically, the cops they dismiss actually had to attempt to improve their lives by working their way up. These people appear to survive by engaging in illegal activity and threaten violence proudly.
@@Oldheadontheblock. Even with criminal records, there are ways too move out. They're not the first with criminal records. Not an excuse.These people are grown adults and need to be educated. The fact that the girls mother is proud that her daughter is living this life tells me everything I need to know.
I wanted to say theyre just young lost kids but the girls father and mother were also encouraging it. Some ppl are just stuck in that cycle and will never get out
When I was living in Jamaica, I remember my friend telling me all you need to do is land in New York and you’ll be good. Now that I’m here there are SO MANY FREE PROGRAMS to get jobs, certificate, degrees literally ANYTHING. It’s crazy how people glamorize living like this instead of bettering their life. Stuck in an illusion.
Fact of the matter is a lot of people dunno about all those programs, and on top of that, there is also the environment and pressure to take into account. A lotta people really do grew up getting told and believing the only way out is trap, hoop, or bang. Plus trappin and banging is quicker money than spending a bunch at college for a degree so people go for that. It sucks and hopefully things change but shit is gettin even tougher out here with everything getting even more expensive in NYC.
@@KiraDaBeastNY um college is actually free for those who can’t afford it. They could all be in college right now bettering themselves. My parents came here with a language barrier and my dad retired from 2 hospitals in NYC. My mom used financial aid to go to college. My husband is American and I make sure he uses financial aid for school. They don’t want to know about it. I guarantee they all have Smart Phones.
@@arleneaugustahair8393 financial aid is not free. They will have to pay it back 6 months after their graduation date. And it’s not guaranteed that you’ll get all the funding for school from financial aid or any at all. That’s why so many people drop out because they can’t afford it, or they can get into school but they can’t make the payments consistently. Schooling is really a privilege and congratulations to your husband and yourself.
@@JaylaCharlese I got a bachelor's degree that was paid for with financial aid. And no, I didn't have to pay anything back. Literally a free education. The people in the video are the type to enroll in school, get a few financial aid checks and never return. I've seen it with my own two eyes.
I grew up in a NYC project. He's not lying when he says certain things are normal. Wasn't till I got out and I look back at what I use to call normal. I wish better for all of them, and I wish even more for those that want nothing to do with the street life but live in those parts by no choice of their own
@@theverbtechnician exactly… he talking like it’s the most dangerous in the world… this how you know they broke and don’t travel😂 this all they know lil dirty ass
I know they're trying to be hard rock but Harlem isn't that tough. A lot of shit talkers. I'm a 30 year old white guy that moved up to Harlem & lived there for 4 years and never had one problem. I was out all hours of the night, walk home down Lenox from 135 to 112th where I lived multiple times a week.... Had a lot of guys talk shit but no one ever did anything. Just a lot of noise like in this video. They all think they're in a rap video and a camera is following them all the time.
Trust us, we do NOT want to come there. My mother put herself into debt to make sure my sister and I didn't end up living in a place like this, and I'm so grateful for that. I can't believe these are grown ass adults. That woman's mother was even out there on the street in the dead of the night. who is proud of living like this?
People with severe mental trauma, lack of education, lack of understanding, bad mental habits, etc. people are really simple minded creatures at the end of the day. We have created a lot of fancy shit but we are still simple dumbass animals. Being cool is being cool whether it's in Hollywood or Harlem. Some people want to be cool and powerful. These people feel cool and powerful in this environment. They would feel weak, exposed, and more scared in a corporate job.
Trust me it’s not as bad as they are making it out to be. If you’re not from New York and you watch this video you would think it’s the worst place in NYC. I’m not in any way saying the neighborhood is so far anything but it’s far from the most dangerous neighborhood in New York. I know people from that neighborhood, used to pass through, it’s just Harlem and along with people from Harlem will tell you you got to go to the higher numbers for it to really get wild. I’m not gonna tell you where I’m from but nobody should be bragging at this point about the buffoonery in our neighborhoods. Respect
Wow listening to someone talk about how bad it is how many crimes going down then get mad when cops show up some things just done make sense but hey it is what it is
I was raised in the projects and did not realize at that time that I was growing up there that I didn't know shit about real life. I graduated school and went to the Air Force, I was so fucking behind the mentality of the other kids, I had to catch up quick. The hood did teach me the art of the hustle, how to read people's intentions, and it put that fight in me but I had to learn some self-control and gain some wisdom. No judgment on my people but man this is definitely an alternate reality. I will always have an affinity for the kids that came up in the bricks like me but I got to let them know there is another way. Much love yall, stay alive, and when you see a kid trying to get out, let him out, let him live if chooses another way.
I'm originally from Bed-stuy. I currently live in Harlem. I have a job and a bachelor's degree, working on my masters in public health. I say this to say that the way they are living is a choice. Here in NYC you can go to community college for free. There are so many programs to help people better themselves. Black people, we have enslaved ourselves. Sad
You right except for that last line, WE didn’t enslave ourselves. THEY did, the system is working just how they want it to. Jails are modern day slavery & the powers at be keep pumping the bullshit to promote this lifestyle. Hip hop & rap plays a major part of this shit, glorifying it. We as a ppl are definitely learning & getting more hip to the fact that there’s so much more to life then what they showed us
FACTS salute to you. I am from Brooklyn to East New York so even though the dude on this neighborhood might be upset you and I both know that is not one of the worst neighborhoods in New York they need to cut it out and go do some with their lives
Wow! This is so sad but eye opening. My mom have moved us to certain areas but nothing like what I have seen in your videos. I see why my mom moved us from the city to the suburbs. City life isn't for the faint of heart, and nothing really strives. It takes strong people to break those generational curses.
How you almost caught a heart attack by getting stuck in da elevator but not catch a heart attack by living in these conditions😩. Thank you LORD FOR MY MOTHER AND FATHER!!
It’s truly sad that they not realizing how trapped their minds are . Young sis locked in like her moms. FDNY AND NYPD work the area and go back to the burbs paying good money to be far away from all them.
and that's the point ppl like you still fail to understand. if most NYPD actually came from and lived in the community they would care wayyy more abt it and the ppl would care more abt them too.
Same not from the projects but from the BX I’m tough I can fight but I’m also very feminine and chicks would get me twisted until they put me in a situation where I got to put paws on them. In my 30s and still till this day I can’t help but talk proper but don’t take ish from people.
5:14 when you meet your mom outside a local liquor store drinking and you try to make it look like a cool thing, that's when you really need to take stock of your life.
Amen! & I meen that in the humblest way . W/o any judgment but it's sad. I was thinking to myself an apartment complex, house or community can't be hood or ratchet by itself. It's the mentality & personality of the ppl that lives there. Some of the homes& apartments are nice looking on the inside. But a person/ppl that don't have that hood/ratchet mentality don't want to be in the mix of all that mess.& I couldn't blame one for not wanting to be.
As a mother I wouldn’t be bragging on the side of the street knowing the hardship and wanting my children to be included in that, hyping knowing how tragic it all is. It’s a sad cycle and it is really distressing to watch and listen too.
Thats what these people do though. They dont know any better and they dont want to learn. Its taken them 160 years to recover from slavery and still havent, and yet we got poor Vietnamese farmers that survived the war and lost everything that arrive in LA and 5 years later theyre putting their kids through college and buying a home because they give a damn about this country and this world, unlike some people...
Braids :Don't come here! Gurl we not , we don't, we won't. It's all yours. Nothing going on but nobody's proclaiming to be somebody. Take that money and invest it on a life. A real one💯
Shame honestly. All that money they show it’s because they don’t have bills. They don’t have investments. My tenant moved from newark to nyc. She moved into my side apartment I had for rent. She now is my neighbor. She owns a house half block down from me. Why? Cause she killed her self to give a life she never had to her kids. She used to say “people where I’m from could run businesses, be CEOs they have this drive but they are so brainwashed, they want to flash FUN money, they rather roll up in expensive cars to impress people they hate or don’t even know and then before you know it they are all dead”
True! I have family living in the hood, thinking that if they would spend less on vacations, clothes, and “fun” they could be so far into a “normal” life. Idk. It’s crazy to witness first hand
He hasn't gone to the projects in Brownsville Brooklyn those are the most ghetto and dangerous. i think hood vlogs is really afraid to go out there, that's the only NY hood he hasn't visited yet. If i was him, i would be afraid to go out there also.
the amount of unnecessary violence is so sad tbh. NY projects have a lot of heart but a lot of those hearts been bleedin for years. love the strong camaraderie these few have though. its a blessing to have that in a project.
This is definitely a mentality. I grew up in the hoods of Los Angeles and I got out. I refused to start a family in that environment. I moved to a whole different state. My babies are sheltered frfr. I plan to keep it that way. I know what the streets can offer. I refuse for my children to take any parts of the offerings. As much as I use to love the hood cause it help make me who I am I also despise it for the trauma it's caused.
@@ashidothemadman thank you for parenting advice I didn't ask for. I'm sure your advice will work well for your children though. I'm from the streets, I think protecting them is a good thing. You have no idea what I've seen in them streets. I be damned if my daughter turn 12 and start hooking. I be damned my son turn 12 and kill somebody or they both end up on drugs. Make sure your children don't. 🤦🏾♀️
Good for you! I’m sure it was not an easy road to get yourself out of the hood. You clearly have a good head on your shoulders and are smart. You wanted better for your kids and did what you had to do in order to elevate your situation and circumstances. If more people had your mindset a lot of people would have better outcomes in life and the cycle would hopefully one day be broken for good! Too many people have a victim mentality and that doesn’t get anyone anywhere! Only you have the power to change your surroundings and change your path in life! I commend you!
Trust me everybody in Foster doesn’t think and act the way they do. I hate it when people look at a video and think that the people that get interviewed are speaking for the whole community. Y’all gotta be smarter than that
@@williamneuzil7403 It’s not about what I expect from hoodvlogs bro it’s what I expect is common sense from the people that are watching. He seems like a good dude. He did a good blog in East Harlem with an intelligent brother. Watch that one
@@chrisrobinson3565 Just because someone is portraying something that definitely doesn’t mean that it’s the truth. That’s my point. If anybody watches this and thinks an entire housing projects is about gang banging, hustling, chillin on the block all night they either have no brain or they aren’t using it. Simple as that. Stay up
Seek wisdom you should find it. This is not what they know. They choose not to know how to get out. It is all mind set of a person. You choose ignorant then you live that life of not wanting to know more. If i made it from civil war and lost all i had and live in refugee camp and got out guest what they also can get out if they choose to. It is the mind set of them. To much excuses are use by those who live in the projects. America have more opportunities then away where else in this world. Some just choose to close their window of opportunity at young age before they reach 20. You have to know how this system works. No excuse for them on my end.
Like the man said: If you ain't from here you wouldn't understand! I'm from Harlem myself, Manhattanville PJs! We the same way! To the outsiders, it looks crazy but to the insiders, we all have a family vibe as we hold each other down! DON'T COME HERE WITHOUT A PASS IF YOU AIN'T FROM HERE....PERIOD!
@@BlackOcelot0095 Unfortunately, your HOOD is government owned, NOT PRIVATELY OWNED OR TRESPASSERS ARE VIOLATED. It’s colloquialism that enables the conditions to be regarded as that.
This is so sad but what was sickening was to listen and see the mother 🤦🏽♀️ she’s destroyed her beautiful daughters future & neither one of them will ever know it. Live by the gun, die by the gun…
It’s not sad bro it’s just reality out there or in any hood that is the only way to get really weathly u can go to school and get a career but these kids that grow up in these hoods have the mindset of getting millions to take care or there people and move there whole family out of poverty it’s not just about one individual trying to get out of the hood that’s easy but if u become really successful u can change a lot and unfortunately sports and music is 2 if the biggest ways to do that
Me too! My mom started to see my bro slipping down that path and took our behinds from the projects to the boondocks lol. Country as heck town. Only cornfields around. I hated it with a passion growing up. I felt so far from my original friends and like I was missing out being not in the city. Now I look back as an adult and I recognize the blessing that that truly was and that my mom truly is. My bro graduated college went into the military and I snagged me a career traveling the world for a living. Who know what would have happened if we had stayed in the gutter and got caught up in this lifestyle. So grateful. Mom's that get us out of this are heros and the ones that are still there but fighting to get out God bless you! We love you too!
If you're not from here, don't come here. 😏What if they raise the rent to $4000/month or evict you and demolish the project building? Oh wait...that's already happening. I see new luxury properties that used to be a trap for sale online. 😄
I’m from Brooklyn where i raised two sons, i didn’t want my sons to become one of these men, so i moved down south, raised them as a single mother on a correctional officer salary, i thank god everyday that i moved, in my eyes i saved my sons from the environment they were born into.
@@heightsfynest6023 wasn’t nothing negative about what i said, i made a decision to leave for something better and i stated as much. I can comment on what i want. It’s Easter Sunday have a great day 🐇
I've lived in the bronx all my life & all I can say is I HATE HATE HATE new york. If I could I would get up today and move away. One day I will be glad to leave all this behind. People be proud to be living in the ghetto, there isn't anything cute about it. Being a thug is so played out and corny af in 2021, girls talking like men all gangster'ish is far from cute and annoying to hear. Hanging out in front of a Bodega after 20 years old is not the look whatsoever. Ugh, I'm tired of it out here.
They dont realize how pathetic it is to glorify staying in a place like this. Glorify the ones who got out and did something with their lives. Those are the ones who should be proud of themselves
"Don't come here if you're not from here." Never in my life wouId I want to come there. Thank God my poor single mother busted her ass so my brother and I didn't have to live like this.
The only one not fake and corny to me is the Mother.... she's definitely from Old NY. Everyone else here is embarrassing and lame. There's a lot of intelligent people in Harlem, please find them next time
Like the man said: If you ain't from here you wouldn't understand! I'm from Harlem myself, Manhattanville PJs! We the same way! To the outsiders, it looks crazy but to the insiders, we all have a family vibe as we hold each other down! DON'T COME HERE WITHOUT A PASS IF YOU AIN'T FROM HERE....PERIOD! The people that's focussed on making a better livihood are among the wolves!
I bet he walked to school uphill through snow both ways. “Back in da day, get shot just playin ball”. 😆😆 they been waitin they whole life for someone wit a camera to come along and listen to their story.
I was just there for a sandwich...this cap as fuq....they weird ...and want to be California soooo bad🤣 nobody scared of yall poor broke bored asses... The south we got 100 round drums waiting for city slickers
