I remember this in 1993 I was 13 and thought that gangs was the thing to do. I'm glad I didn't really live that life. When I thought that lifestyle was cool, I had no guidance and was so lost!! I'm grateful for still having my life and not ending up in prison 🙏 Thank you God for saving me 💯🙏
Guidance...you nailed it. If these kids had a positive male role model in the home, it would help, but I doubt any of them do though. It would have helped me, I WAS just like this! You wouldn't believe it to see me today. Thank God I stopped.
Thank you for putting this back out there!! We need this more than ever nowadays. I live in Philly and it's sad that this video is as relevant today as it was in 94.... Sad that the cycle keeps going seemingly without end 😢
SLOW,BACKWARDS,IGNORANT,POORLY EDUCATED,CLOSED MINDS,SORT OF SUMS UP AMERICA!!!! IF NOT.....REALLY WHY? WHAT A DISCRACE,THE PRISON OFFICERS TAKE PRIDE IN KNOWING WHATS GOING ON....NOT ON TOP OF ANYTHING AMERICA. THE AVERAGE I.Q WOULD BE SO SO MUCH LOWER THAN THE REST OF THE FIRST WORLD ❤ LETS CLEAN AMERICA.....SHOULD BE THE MOTTO
I was in highschool when this came out. One kid who had cable recorded this on VHS and it got passed around the whole school just like Faces of Death, UFC tapes and the movie Kids... Good times✌🏾
@@Nawojczyk defenetly honorable job. respect from France. I remember when I saw this documentary in 94 in french TV. I understand the tough reality of the street of the American ghettos. thank you!
Lmfaooo!!! She said "getting jumped in shows you have heart and will fight back" while she's cowering in the fetal position covering her head 😂🤣💀☠️ Then says "what I don't get no love?!" Hahaha hahaha this was a good laugh for the day.. For the people wondering if she's OK now, she is probably 200+ pounds with 5 kids by multiple guys and living off the state somewhere.
This was the gangster music era you might think it is now but this generation started this stuff and it was very interesting and new when it came out nothing like it!! If you didn’t quite fit in this was enticing to you no matter your color but don’t expect you to understand
Fr anybody can claim Gangbang status and normal people will believe them no matter what, bangin comes with crazy street politics and I don’t think these “crip” kids know a damn thing about what they’re spewing
Steve, I wonder if you would do a 30-year follow-up on how the gangs have changed from 1993 to 2023. It is just a thought from someone who watched this 30 years ago and re-watching it 30 years later. I think it would be so interesting to have your perspective on the issue.
Every neighborhood needs a Steve Nawojczk. If there were more men like this in the world to try and help his fellow man regardless of race, color, or creed and actually trying to relate and learn the slang, and gang politics , this world would be so different. You could tell young Blood was hearin him and if you could change just one or have one man or woman listen, it starts to catch, positivity is like negativity. If you feed them they will grow.
@@Nawojczyk I appreciate that sir. To be honest I wish more people would try and uplift each other. Is that actually you in the videos talkin with these guys and if so sir, you are a true inspiration and I know it makes a huge difference that these young men have someone to tell them there's hope and they haven't been written off because of where they come from and i know from experience, shit I was one of those troubled kids . So thank you sir for the work you do and I guarantee you have saved probably more lives than you even know. Glad I could bring a little positivity and brighten your day , God knows you just made mine.
We do have men like him out there trying to do the best work possible but sadly it'll never change. When you have media controlling the youth with it's toxic music that pushes a negative narrative in a "positive" way it'll always pull the youth in. It's sad to say that there's more people in gangs now than there are soldiers in our service.
It's just not the music specifically, it's the entire American culture(s) at hand. We live in an era where lives are treated without value, and that sentiment is expressed in our art, politics, and the youth. It's been going like this for decades and it ain't getting any better
That white law enforcement officer who went to the hood talking to young people and showing them all the kids that have been killed said "you're an endangered species" he was a real one they dont make many like that.
Are you still local Steve? I grew up in Benton and was 14 when this came out in 93..brings back a lot of memories of that era. The WM3 case, etc. Thank you for bringing attention to our community, that took a lot of courage..and you reached the entire nation before the internet era and that is an incredible feat my friend! With respect, Steve
I know some white kids are born in black areas and go school with them so they might pick up their way of talking and behaviour, but these idiots come from Arkansas, very sad they want to be seen as poor, deprived and oppressed, when mummy and daddy are very comfortable in life. They talking about straps and grenades but never a actual one on one fist fight. If some proper gang members pulled up these clowns would shit they diapers and run, they certainly wouldn't be bussing any guns back, embarrassing for their parents
Thats scene where they jumped the girl with the weird teeth into the gang is one of the most embarrassing things I have ever seen. Not a single person in that gang has scrap and if I was a rival gang and I saw that pathetic excuse for fighting I would roll on those dudes immediately for embarrassing the city of Little Rock
What do you expect? Them to beat her to a bloody pulp?? The whole point is to show your loyalty to the group. Makes no sense to want to harm someone who is trying to prove loyalty to the group. Its more of a symbolic initiation ritual. For the guys tho, theres no holding back. She is a white 100lb female. If any one actually hurt her they would be ostracized.
@@PsychotropicThunder based on how she TALKED about it, yes, I expected them to be ABLE to land a punch... they were definitely TRYING, they're just all pussy poser kids who can't fight.
When I was about 19, DJ Quik's Just Like Compton song dropped..Being from NYC, I didnt take it serious at all back then. Now look at NYC with Blooding and Cripping today!!!! It wasn't a lie.....
I was on drugs and sold drugs for many years. I’ve met people who absolutely did not care to go to prison or die. It was cool to them, it’s all they knew. The person who has nothing to lose is the most dangerous person you will meet.
I got to give Steve a lot of respect he really cared for those kids and really wanted to make a difference. Its ashame there aren't more people like him. And to the mother who lost her son u r in my thoughts and prayers hope u find peace in ur lifetime. 😔
I remember watching this as a little kid in the 90s and it stuck with me for a long time. I ended up buying a dvr with this on in from eBay in the mid 00s lol
Ah , Arkansas, a place where you can be a cousin a mother and a sister to the same person at the same time. A place to find true love at a family reunion.
Man I was born in 83 and when this came out I was fascinated even joined a gang by 13 looking back at 40 now Lord I’m thankful my son is smarter than me cause I was a stupid mf😂
I remember this show vividly. That one kid “I feel like I’m the hardest n***a to ever walk the earth, can’t nobody fade me…” stays with me to this day… he didn’t survive the filming of this show and probably 95% of the rest of the people in this show died/killed decades ago…
An internet search shows only 1 Emily Hawkins in Little Rock today around the right age....47. All of her past addresses are in Arkansas, with Little Rock the main one. Didn't do anything of significance.... probably got a few baby daddies and some food stamps. Maybe a prison stint for drug possession with intent.
These white kids really go out in gang shootings and shit? Or did drugs and prison take them out? I cant believe these white kids were shooting like crazy etc, they make that shit look like a social club.
I remember this timeframe, AND crack was on the scene. I am so grateful that we got thru that stage. I know of some who have been off of crack for over 25 years. I am in Florida, and our communities have changed for the better. I am speaking from boots on the ground. It was much pressure then, and hard to try to control.
Is the channel owner really the Coroner in the documentary? I have so much respect for him and the work he was doing. His ideas are as timely and wise today in 2023 as they were in 1993.
Denver had a similar issue starting in the late 80s, but our gang culture is actually a lot older than the spread of bloods and crips. My Grandpa was in a gang in East Denver Curtis Park area called the Eastside Boys in the 50s and 60s. There were Northside Warlords in North Denver, west side Inca Boyz (were very active in the 80s and 90s, can be traced back to the 70s or 60s), Lipan Boyz (which GKI stemmed from, and are still the biggest Chicano street gang and prison gang in Denver). It got really crazy in the 80s. 1993 was labeled 'Summer of Violence' because of the gang homicides, the five years leading up to 93 were probably worse.
Yeah there's always been gangs but at this time period it was pushed by mass media into the mainstream culture. Government behind it no question. I remember when Colors came out and almost overnight half our middle school was in a gang. It was a ghetto school and kids just needed that nudge😢
Yup. 90,s were lit. It was crazy in Jackson, MS. As bad as it is now..those that remember still talk about the 90's. Funny story about the '70s. My uncle pissed off a local gang and they chased him even through the house. My dad and the other brother were there, and their older brother came through the house, with a gang right behind him..from the front door and out the back. They better be glad that my grandfather wasn't home. He was a boxer and enforcer for some powerful people.
I'm from Denver also.... Whittier neighborhood.... I unfortunately got caught up during the summer of violence I was 13 and ended up doing time in lookout mountain.... in my mid 40s now with adult kids that definitely didn't make bone head mistakes as I did as a young man.... ur history on Denver gang history is on point.... I know a lot of GKIs and others obviously that are either in Jail or no longer with us.... I also know a lot of retired people that have lead productive and successful lives.... point is it's what u take out of life lessons and how u apply them to ur future and how u can give back to the community..... I still have family and a lot of ties in the Eastside.... Fuller Park.... Curtis Park.... 5 points... and even in Park Hill..... I was born and raised in the area...... it's still home for me
Me & my homie was just reminiscing/talkin about this the other day we was teens 13/14 when this 1st came out on HBO great memories of the early/mid 90s.
Watched this docu and read about how the prison industrial complex and the record companies had a little agreement back in the 80’s. Promote violent, crime ridden music and glorify it. Make it mainstream and make the artists household name superstars. Then the youth (mostly black and brown in already crime ridden environments) will emulate that and start their path into the prison system.
That scene with the mother wailing and heartbroken in the church has stayed with me. I hope wherever she is that she has found some peace. Heartbreaking.
Bobby Banks, the "hardest nigha to ever walk the earth" got sentenced to 40 years in prison with 5 years probation to follow it.. in 2006 at the age of 30. He'll be a senior citizen by the time his sentence is done.
I was Arian Brotherhood for 9 years. Started in jail. Getting out was the best thing I did. I didn't want my kids to grow up watching their dad hate and hurt because of race. I didn't want my girls judging others on thier color and race. This is sad to watch. Please take it from me. This is not the way. It wasn't then. It isn't now. 😢😢😢
I was 12 when I watched this and thought how eerily familiar all that looked. It was exactly what Steve said it was and is an epidemic. You were a brave and courageous Human being who saw no color just humans! If the majority of the world were filled with Steve’s who saw everyone as his family we wouldn’t be perfect we would just be a whole lot better!
Wow, I somehow missed this back when i was 22 and just discovered it. I'm 52 now and this blows my mind. I get the LA culture, but this is crazy. Wonder if this is still going on, prolly so.
i spent a lot of time in New Orleans growing up and Little Rock was legendary for some reason little rock was the place to either lose your life or waste it i personally rather be on a boat in hot springs thats just me
I’m 45 years old and I grew up in Phoenix Arizona. I have lived all over the world from 1997-2006 because I was lucky enough to have a career where I could travel the world and make money. I have seen a lot of different cultures and how people live all around the world. For the most part people are all the same. We as men want to provide and protect our families. One thing that has always tripped me out about Crips and Blood sets in other cities besides Los Angeles. They are fighting over territory that doesn’t even belong to them. Some Rich usually white people own it. A vast majority of these people claiming a Crip or Blood set have never even been to California but they claim it like it’s Mecca for the Muslins. I have always found that strange. Also with all this gang culture being out on social media and the internet why haven’t any of these gangs capitalized on the situation and made some money from it? I definitely would off.
In all honesty you don’t have to be from California to be a gang member nor does it make you a fake gang member because you’re not from California because there are ppl who kill and die for what they believe so to point out that they never been there it don’t matter anyone can get killed anywhere in any state period
gangs are very localized and block oriented now. not that they weren't in the past, but the nation wide networks are long gone. in states/cities that don't have a rich history and saturated gang culture like chicago, l.a., nyc, you might not find any GD, BD, LK, Bloods or Crips sets. but there's cliques, crews, neighborhood gangs, just the same without the nation wide affiliations. as far as social media is concerned, it's most definitely being used by gangs.
@@kidsgrowingup What do you mean that the nationwide networks are gone? New York is filled with Bloods. So is Florida and Atlanta and a lot of the southern states like Alabama,Mississippi and Tennessee just to name a few.
And because us black people have that crabs in a bucket mentality the mafia my kill each other sometimes but overall they make sure the other families eat they are organized nowadays gangs are not
