Junkyard Band: "19th and M", the early days (1985) 

Man that sounds so great. My city is a quiet one, nobody plays music out here like this. I want to get a small band together and start doing some live stuff down town. It Feels like such a different world though.

@@justmayo6097 It's an entirely different world now.

You're right. Almost like "bizarro DC"

That's THE CHOCOLATE CITY, I remember! ☺😌😉💝

Then Regan let that rock hit the city smh

This looks like a scene from Wonder Woman 1984 movie. Lol!😂😂 Being that movie had Washington. D.C. as background city, no mention of JYB. They showed a breakdance crew in movie.

This was a treat to see JYB having people dancing in the streets. Seeing the buckets and how they first started back in early 1980's, historic.

yeah. now they got thirty-year-old white guys with dreads banging on drums - and they're TERRIBLE at it.

U from D.C momma?

@@Ken-iu2zp Born & Raised 😊 Although I rolled out a few years ago

@@Lovableandgorgeous ok 👌. Have you ever heard of a diner called the Florida Ave grill in D.C.?

@@Ken-iu2zp Indeed I used to be the one to pick up my coworkers orders on Sunday Morning back in the day 😂😂

They had to go in a white neighborhood the white people wouldn’t come to Barry farms to enjoy this music

Whole time! 💯

Heavy One the reason why I like the drums

And pop

You said “Hechts”. My Grandmother loved that store.

THE SHOPPS

You took it wayyyy back.. i forgot all about Hechts!

So glad! I'm so happy you enjoyed it so much and it brings back great memories. :)

Thank you! I appreciate your great feedback and hope you enjoy my other writings and music. :)

We used to come out of the bars at night and there would be all these kids playing on buckets. They were extremely talented and everybody stopped to watch.

@amyaaron7141 Chile, "I wish those days could come back once more. Why did those days ha-ad to go?!" I love DC culture and my family, friends and neighbors were all family. Just once the wht supremacist released guns and Crack into the city, they really chased us out. I HATED leaving dc. I was born there, at GWU. Gave birth at GWU. DCGH was CHOCOLATE CITY'S hospital ran by us for us. I can write a BOOK about how much I love DC present and past. You remember DC scorpio and Red and the boys? The Big chair on Good hope road. How many of us turned on the fire hydrant 😆. Man, I'm getting homesick just at the thought of my DC memories.

@@q.t.gamingfamily also ayre Ryde

@@terencebuie4810 you're making me homesick and timesick lol. Absolutely

@@q.t.gamingfamily don't feel bad homie go go makes us feel old cuz its not youthful but its all good did you see the snoop dog go-go video with essence

i would watch them when they played in Georgetown in front of the bank building. I got all my white friends from the burbs to come down and see them. They had and still have a huge White following. When music is great and you see it from the beginning, that's all that matters

He wasn't that old here. I went to Ballou HS with Buggs in SE DC. He was one class in front of me. He came out in 88, and me in 89. He was 15 at the most here.

facebook.com/therealjyb! Check them out on Facebook. They still perform!!

instagram.com/therealjyb/?hl=en and on Instagram

Longer than that. I saw them back in 1982. Back then, the drummer didn't even have cymbols and I think his bass drum was a box with a mic inside it. Back then, nobody would dance to them because we were all amazed they could make music with what they had. Everybody would just stand around them and watch.

When kids wanted to be outside n learn bout making it thru life

And the crazy part he was a stone cold killer at that young age.

@@brogaming950 and he had kid at that time to just was living too fast

Pops was always into street stuff because of his uncle who was in the game. By around 1987 I think Pops had already caught his first body. When you say RIP I'm not so sure. Shorty Pop caught numerous bodies, one apparently being Lil Derek of the JYB. Pop killed him out of jealousy, apparently

Wich one is he??

He had to be 11 years old in this video cuz in a up to date video saying he killed somebody in 1989 and he was 15

TRUTH..I remember that well

I was there too! Right in front of the Bank building i believe. They had the crowds movin' and grovin' If it wasnt for us White people and our money and support that we gave very generously to them,they would have never made it. THAT'S THE DAMN TRUTH!!

So cool!!

That's bc it was Chocolate City back then.