im not crying, you are!! | FIRST TIME WATCHING *Boyz N The Hood* 

Its never too young to talk to your kids about sex when they are at the age of accountability

As a kid who grew up in the hood at a young age I will say...this is very accurate in that we were 8 9 and 10 cussing like a sailor and getting into bs

REST PEACEFULLY: Lloyd Avery II (Guy who shot Ricky), Dedrick D. Gobert (Dooky), Lexie Bigham (Mad Dog. He gave little Ricky his football back), Jessie L. Ferguson (Angry Black cop), Whitman Mayo (The old man who was angry because the youth in his neighborhood was killing each other and selling crack), Esther Scott (Ol girl's grandmother who went upstairs and chased Tre out of the house with that cleaver), and John Singleton (the director)

I had forgotten how many people were in this cast. Looking back, it is insane the talent in this movie and how much success the cast had in their careers.

The guy that killed Ricky went to prison for murder and was killed in prison years later

12:32 He said that because black soldiers would be subjected to racism at home and overseas. America had yet to address the institutional racism here towards black people. The government used them as soldiers then disregarded them. Didn’t award or honor them, didn’t provide them with help for ptsd, and not many benefits to keep them financially afloat when they returned home. If you watch interviews of black soldiers back in the day they shared these sentiments.

Doughboy killing that dude for Rick was one of the most gangsta moments in cinematic history! Cube KILLED that role!

Watching the new generation watch this movie really showcases how different things are now and what they think is right 😭 I was watching the reaction so confused but it is good that she took the opportunity to watch it, she needs to try and process why it was like that instead of saying it was wrong. The movie came in the 90s one of the most dangerous times. Real rap

LOL She is so sheltered, but obviously she grew up different.

Doughboy was never appreciated by his mom at all. He barely coexisted. Ricky was the favorite son.

This movie is the truth. It tells it like it really was in the hood in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. John Singleton grew up in south central Los Angeles and that’s the main reason why he did this. He wanted too bring an awareness too the gang and drug problem in the area because it’s a movie that has never been done before. Dennis Hopper did Colors of course but that movie didn’t deliver such a powerful dramatic story about surviving in a poverty and gang stricken neighborhood like Boyz N The Hood did. This movie delivered and made quite an impact.

I’m so thankful for being a 90s baby cause this new generation are so lost and unaware of anything

Fun Fact. The scene when dude was firing his Uzi from the trunk was real. The actors' reactions to the gunfire are not scripted. Ice Cube confirmed Director John Singleton never told any of the actors that real gunfire would be used for this scene.

It’s interesting watching a younger generation watch this movie. Yes, this is exactly like a lot of us grew up in certain neighborhoods, almost no exaggeration from the young era at the beginning up until the ending. It’s funny seeing how some things that are normal to me, were pretty foreign to you.😂 I’d say times have improved in a way. 😊

"You ain't gotta shoot this man" mf literally in yo house uninvited 💀💀 hell yeah I'm blastin his ass

7:30 that was a 357 Magnum bullet hole, they definitely will put a hole that size in your chest, or your door.

9:25 Nah the depiction of the kids is accurate. I grew up in South Central in that era, and kids were very much so this mature, somewhat independent, and this vulgar. Some did well in life and some didn't.

That 357 will make holes that big

Being afraid of having sex is understandable, using protection does not guarantee that someone won't get pregnant, more than that, STDS/AIDS are always a possibility. Once you start to think about these things, you start to think about "what if I do have a kid", which leads some folks to think about their financial stability, environment, and they start to question themselves, "can I raise a kid?" and things of that nature. Sex is a beautiful thing when you fully trust a person and can be fully intimate, not just physically but psychologically.

he passed the SAT. he needed a 700 or higher and he got 710 on the test

This is real life young lady. We need more empathy and understanding or something out of u in regards to this world.

They're blaming him because his lifestyle got his brother killed and the mom wanted Ricky to escape that life.

July 1991, I was 17 when this movie came out. I spent the summer in Chicago and saw this in a movie theater on the North Side. Here’s the weird part though: The movie theater was PACKED and I was the only Black cat in there (Maybe a couple more). The part where Doughboy and Monster got their revenge on Farris, and you saw the slo-mo of Monster firing that AK, that whole theater cheered! I was tripping!!! 🤣🤣🤣

12:30 That don't even make sense? WRONG! "Black Man Ain't Got No Place In The Army" Makes Perfect Sense if you know your history. He was not saying that black people are not allowed to join the army, he was saying it would be the worse thing to do to yourself. You just focused on how the army helps save their country when you have no idea how the government treats their soldiers, especially black people. They say they want you to serve your country like it's something to show gratitude to gain a hero title, when in fact you're just another statistic to add for their profits while stealing or colonizing resources from other countries. Or just another dead soldier to sacrifice for their gain. I mean You think all the veterans got better opportunities? This movie's time period took place long after the Vietnam War, the most meaningless war we ever got involved in (seriously there was no good reason) and so many became homeless and gained Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from it. Most Veterans committed suicide while living harsh lives afterwards or they couldn't face what they had to do to survive, trust me The Veterans mostly never got any help from the government despite what they did for them; and this has been going on for many years. You clearly did not know what you were talking about when what he said is the most real advise he gave to his son. I know this because my dad served his country and he told me "don't be fucking stupid", he may be Hispanic but he had a dark skin complexion, and he never once wanted to tell me what happened. We once had a VHS of PLATOON and it was about the Vietnam war, he was always hide it in the cupboard of the kitchen and he never let me watch it as a kid. But once I grew up I realized why he didn't want me to know. So do your homework, because Racism existed a lot more back then in the Military/Army/Marines etc etc.

Ice Cube is and always will be a legend 🙏🏻

He said black man don’t have no place in the army because after we went in the military after every war we came home and got treated worse in its own country then we did over seas

As a kid i absolutely talked like they did growing up.... We was some bad ass kids😂😂😂😂

Everything in this movie is realistic and it all happened mid 90s in every hood in America

“There’s no threat” literally someone shoots an automatic weapon in the air lol 🤣

Gen X, we were living pretty much like adults on our own at 9 yrs old. Pre-cell phone, no internet, crazy times.

John Singleton really did an excellent job on shining a light on what goes on in the hood. You should also watch Higher Learning, a great impactful film.

The movie was based on John Singleton’s life. When this first came out, I think that we all bawled when Ricky got shot, I cried from when he got shot till the end 💯 and yes a lot of us grew up this way. I thought that Doughboy was the real victim in the movie. He never had a chance.

Ricky and Dough boy's mama blamed dough boy and treated him different becuz she hated dough boys daddy but still had some love for rickys dad. Dough boys dad probably traumatized her in some kinda way and she never healed. Rickys dad was probably a good dude that tried to save her but eventually he either died OR got hooked on crack and left her. Either way it goes, i think when mothers treat their sons like shit, there's always some hatred for that childs father in the mothers heart.

you gotta do Fresh(1994) that movie is a wildly underrated. i think you'd really enjoy it

I was 19 when I saw this in the theaters. And, I can tell you it's more racist these days than it was back in 91.

I was a little younger than them when this came out and we all spoke like this in like 3rd 4th grade 😂. You gotta understand we was really outside left to our own devices. This is one of the most realistic depictions of life in Cali back then.

MJ : I never seen a kid with a jeri curl! ME : I was a kid with a jeri curl 😂

22:30 They were drinking 40 oz bottles of Malt Liquor. That was the thing back then. 😂

Its crazy how a good Dad makes her feel uncomfortable...man...sign of the times

“Wtf these are children” I’m 36, and as a kid we used to talk like this and I went through that football situation even the cop situation 4real but I don’t have no baby mama’s thank god!

You keep calling Ice Cube "this dude" is Hilarious.. 😂😂😂😂

31:08 Ricky and Doe Boy’s momma was hitting DB out of grief. The metaphor is really that she hitting him because he is the closest embodiment of “the hood” to their family. So realizing your other son was killed like that, gave a natural reaction to the connotations that took your son away (which in her eyes was DB). Very intricate movie, as my 2nd ‘hood’ cinema that I watched (Friday was 1st), I still ride behind this movie, although I wasn’t born until the mid 90s lol.

Tre's character is based on the creator of the film John Singleton, and Doughboy's character is based on his child hood best friend "Fatback". In the 1980s Fatback was a reputable Hoover Crip who was known for confrontations, fights, and shootouts. Boyz n the Hood is really a homage to Singleton's life, and how he grew up before he went off to college.

This was back in the early 90s. South central LA, Compton, Long Beach was crazy back then with all the gang violence. Back when gangster rap was at its peak. It was worse than what Chicago was

The reason Furious didn't want his kid to go in the army is because they used to put all the black men up front so they can get shot first. I forgot the name of the soldier, but he has a story on RU-vid about how black men were often looked as pawns who's lives didn't matter, and that they'd get shot and killed by "Friendly Fire" too (not an accident).

Among the best things I love about Boyz n The Hood is Doughboy for his character and story development and Ice Cube’s performance in the role. Cube at the time was among the emerging hip-hopers in the 90s with his debut solo album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted after leaving NWA. The guy may not have had attended drama class in school, never did a film, never did a TV show or a stage show but it was the encouragement from John Singleton due to their friendship that convinced Cube to get the part of Doughboy. John Singleton met Ice Cube when he was a member of backstage crew at the Arsenio Hall Show and even though Cube turned down the offer a couple times, I’m beyond glad he accepted the offer. For an inexperienced actor in a cinematic debut, Ice Cube did an awesome job playing Doughboy. He played the role as if he (Cube himself) never had a dad, is the subject of ridicule and verbal abuse by his mum who favours a brother of his and ends up as as a Rollin 60s Crip. He did it so damn convincingly that he should’ve got an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe - all three for “Best Supporting Actor” and MTV Movie Award for “Best Breakthrough Performance”. This was long before Cube did the Friday films (film series he also wrote/produced), Are We There Yet?, xXx 2 and 3, Fist Fight, Ride Along, 21/22 Jump Street, Ghost of Mars, the Barbershop films, Rampart, Tresspass etc If the Marc Webb-directed and Andrew Garfield-starred Amazing Spider-Man films were to conclude with a 3rd film (a 4 hour 3rd film to end the story) and if Ice Cube appeared in it - he would’ve been J Jonah Jameson (Daily Bugle newspaper boss). Imagine Andrew Garfield and Ice Cube in the same room! Wasted/missed opportunity in my opinion.

Thanks for the powerful, emotional reaction. Keep 'em comin'.

DAMN….that ending with Ricky is…so….damn….tragic. Such a classic movie! LOVE IT! 😑

It's not the gun that makes whole that big, it's the type of bullet

Good video. Your age, naivete, and strong opinions are interesting and comical. A lot of your questions were explained, and context provided while you were talking.

My daughter is your age group. I grew up like those guys in the movie. I'm their age... I did enlist in the Army and I retired after 24 years. It kept me on a path to provide and well. It isn't meant for everyone and I was meant to be there. My kids saw this movie and said my parents told them I grew up like that but I'm happy my daughter showed me your upload. Good job Ms. MJ and do you.

I wanna talk about the Black Cop and there's just something so cruel about a black cop not only looking down on his own people but wanting to kill them out of hatred

Since we talking about love movies. I HIGHLY recommend “Love & Basketball” it’s a classic. It’s my favorite love story of all time and i definitely think you’ll feel this.

Fishburne killed this Role

Idk how young you are, I wasn't even born in the 90s and I saw this movie when I was a child, and it's always interesting seeing someone's first impression of a classic movie and tv show. By the way you are so pretty 😍😍😍

LAPD was so corrupt in the 90s that it was insane, back then there were no cell phones no cameras no internet no social media nothing. Communication was just word of mouth. South Central LA was scary as fuck in the 90s I was just a kid my father owned an apartment complex in the Crenshaw area I was 14 years old he would take me with him when he had to go down to collect rent or do maintenance. We would come from the San Gabriel Valley that's where we lived and I couldn't wait to get the fuck out of the inner city. This movie portrays SC LA so accurately what an amazing movie.

This movie a classic one of Cuba Gooding Jr best movies him, Morris Chestnut, and Ice Cube acted their tails off in this

8:18 I can't help but snicker at this.

“You ain’t gotta shoot this man” You want him to bust out a game of UNO to play with someone breaking in to your house or something?

Just stumbled upon your channel(looks like you're a Spidey fan!), dug this reaction! You're young so it's no surprise you hadn't seen this movie before. Glad you liked it. The actor who played the character who killed Ricky was arrested years later and killed in prison. What happened to him was pretty foul so I won't recount it here. If you haven't seen Menace II Society, that's another good "hood movie".

Old man stopped me one day at my job to have a talk and told me how his time in WW2. One day after all the fighting was done they got the mind to beat his ass. 2 of his white squad mates had beef with him I guess. Broke his collar bone. Here in our lovely land of the free 2 of my cousin's and several other lil ethnic boys got 20 years for a murder they didn't commit, had no DNA evidence for and have video footage of the officers conducting an unlawful interrogation on a minor with a learning disability. Them boys served their full sentences even with the actual perpetrator behind bars. That's why black men ain't got no business in the army. Do it if you want, it won't always be like that but laying your life down for a country that treats us this way seemed too big of a risk for my life to be in danger living here.

MJ great reaction you are absolutely hilarious!! Dont feel bad about the tears. I saw this while I was still in high school and the next day girls were literally crying in class saying "I can't believe they shot Ricky...he's dead"! The teachers were like "who's Ricky?!...who shot him" lol

Been waiting on this one!

Some other gang/crime movies u should check are “Blood In Blood Out”, “American Me”, “Training Day”, “Goodfellas”.. classics

You have such a beautiful heart the way you said you didn't like seeing the kids talking mess

There's nothing wrong with crying. I cry sometimes when I'm feeling morse.

Do Menace II Society next 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Literally my favorite movie of all time. I enjoyed your reaction. On to the next.

That gun 100% leaves holes like that also this was our lifes a lot of us needed a Furious in our lives.

your channel is a hidden gem. i’m so happy i found you 😂

Man ain't got not buisness helping no country that hate em.

You must be a 00's baby 😂

That cop is literally Uncle Ruckus also you gotta see Dont Be A Menace After you watch Menace To Society

still my favorite content creator after all this time, love seeing you grow mj

I guess it’s fitting and in some ways good you younger generations found some of things in this film crazy or shocking. But this film is VERY accurate at that time. I grew up around this kind of environment. If you were lucky there was someone like Tre’s dad to try to really teach you about responsibility and living up to your potential. I can remember cousins and even some “friends” who did nothing but hang out all day drinking and doing drugs and then at night commit crimes to get more alcohol and drugs. A vicious cycle. I hope young teens really watch this movie and see how life has a really sad ending if you go down a dark path. You’re right in saying “It shouldn’t be like this.” But it was a crazy time. How messed up was it that if you wore the wrong color clothing...you could be killed for a rival gang colors. That’s how crazy it was. And John Singleton was praised for portraying an accurate slice of life “in the hood” with an incredible cast of talented actors.

Girl stuff like that does happen though! It was a different time and era.. but people some of them they meet and instantly.. click or hook up..! Also because it was a different time, the rating of what can be allowed to show or not show was also different.. it's a product for it's time but still has alot of lessons, morality and realism that still applies today.

Lol they're drinking 40s. Old E is a malt liquor beer that was very popular in the late 80s and early 90s

He was afraid because the aids epidemic was extremely big in people were catching HIV left and right especially in LA.

"THE CLASSIC WE ALL LOVE THE LEGENDS"🔥🔥🔥🐐🍿🎥🎬

We were definitely talking like this when we were in elementary back in the 90s

You know what show I think you’d like? ‘The Wire’. If watching the kids at the beginning of ‘Boyz N the Hood’ hurt, wait until you get to the fourth season of ‘The Wire’.

Tales from the Hood(1995) Underrated gem. Watch with the lights out.😁

"New Jersey Drive" is a underground classic film from the 90s about teens stealing cars and "Blood in Blood Out" is another sad but great underground gangster flick

The "afraid" thing has nothing to do with STD or using protection. Some people are just shy. Some people are scared to just speak to people. And sex is like the most intimate thing one can do.

I seen this movie in the theater when it first came out, when the movie was over not one word was spoken when everyone exited theater. It was that deep.

Na Ricky actually did pass the SAT... He got the scholarship... but the hood got him...

That's how it really was in the 90s for me growing up

clasic g movies: fresh south central juice menace to society baby boy house party

Im New To This Channel And Let Me Say This Im Glad You Checking Out These Hood Classics You Gonna Love Them Keep Doing Your Thing Sweetheart 💙

31:55 Right there the reason why single mothers are a bad idea for a young boy! Emotional response just like the young man. Furious being a true father and an grown man understands Tre's emotional reaction but also understands that if he allows him to go and take revenge someone else later will come after him. It's a never ending cycle! This is one of the main messages of the movie and it resonates to the realities in the black community to this day! Didn't Doughboy take revenge and got put out two weeks later?Yeah! Just like Denzel once said:"My childhood friends most are locked up or dead because unlike me they had no father around". Doughboy's mother also had a horrible influence on him and the reason why he was so harsh with women is because he resented his mother and her lack of love for him. "What am i supposed to do let a fool smoke me,I'll smoke him first" that young man said to Furious. 25:18 Furious:"i want you to think about your future young brother"...Furious was dropping life lessons all along this movie.

"And when Doughboy disappeared After his brother died and he said nobody cared I still do, after all these years Because he should've played ball Ricky ain't deserve none of that at all These are just a illustration Of a few scenes that helped raise a generation"- Lupe Fiasco

I dont know if u doin the editing or not but its a chefs kiss 👍🏽

I always say this is one of THE best movies ever made, if not the best. I have seen it a million times since it came out and will cry every. single. time. So many jewels and gems. So much deeper than a movie. Damn. Thanks for watching this. Even though it was 1991, the message is the same. New players every generation but they are all playing the same old game.

When Morpheus shot at the criminal and hit the door the reason it was so big is that exit wound creates a far larger wound Then the entrance wound. That was probably a 45 colt that he shot with So yeah, that’s pretty accurate. Just imagine what that does to peoples bodies.

No it was spot on. Us as little boys really was talking greasy like we was teens/adults.💀 Y'all never played hide and go get it? Whatever girl was found got "hunched on". Shit was wild af 😂😂😂

5:11 Why? Because that was a very popular hairstyle back in the 80's. I had it as well 😂

The 90s were a wild time

7:59 lol Bernie Mac?!.. No you did not just call that random man Bernie🤣😅

It took me awhile to watch it also. Love and miss my little cousin. John John Singleton. You had so much to do. Rest in love ❤️.

Im 47 now, and I grew up in the Hood. I saw this when it came out, this movie is very accurate. This was the "normal."