La Perla: Inside Puerto Rico's Most Notorious Neighborhood 

These Joe Ass Nggas... Culture Vulture POS TOURIST. DELETE THE FKN VIDEO

Just came back from Puerto Rico and can not wait to go back! We visited old San Juan and were told not to go to la perla at night so you were spot on about it all. New subscriber here!

I was just there this weekend and I walked all the streets with my little son and I didn’t feel any danger. Nothing but friendly people and just mind my business . Yes it had its flaws but I had fun and eat good food and listen to good merengue music! I definitely will go back !

Thanks for this video, as a Puerto Rican I really enjoyed it. I have never been inside la Perla but I am from Bayamón and the things I’ve seen here makes me think this is the most dangerous city in PR. It’s always the forgotten projects far out of sight from tourists, some areas are known for shooting at police and it has happened where they shoot at unfamiliar cars, mistaking them for enemies… lots of towns next to San Juan have this hood, I advice to avoid these areas at all costs.

Thanks for sharing and loving to be a part of the Isla , I just came back from there for a weekend visit . love puerto rico home away from home

Great video! Love Puerto Rico. Love watching Bomba dancing. Me and my son got a chance to see it in Fajardo years ago when we visited.

Good job on this one I’m actually editing my la perla video right now I just got back last week. Good job

Thank you for talking about the good things and problems of the island in such as respectful way. God Bless

Outstanding job! Very enjoyable and we’d love to visit the country one day

Great video love this channel 🇬🇹🇺🇲

Glad you enjoy it. Come back soon brother

I like your channel Bro and your love for our 🌴🇵🇷🌞 good health & blessing

Preciate the love! Great video! Props for being able to go in and record in la Perla lol Very few can do that!

I was in puerto rico November of 2023 for a week on my honeymoon. Medalla is very good. The food there is FANTASTIC. pina coladas are on point. All i drank there were medalla and pina coladas.

Not yet!!!! The island will never die we will still manage to survive #puertoricostrong 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

This is really cool!

Was in la perla a week ago and it was lovely made a friend in a bar in a ladies living room. Took my dog so easy to chat with people re cute pup. I grew up in Los Angeles and live in the Bay, never once was i afraid.

Great video .

I love your voice ! Hostel seems really cool!

In 1985 I traveled to PR from NYC with my then wife and spent a couple of days in old San Juan. We wanted to visit EL MORRO so we started walking and when saw what we thought was the entrance to EL MORRO it looked kind of scary which is weird coming from NYC so we asked this police officer instead before going in and I'll never forget his answer. "If you go in there, you'll never come out alive". Instead he told us how to get to our destination and to this day I thank him for it.

We did a tour and the driver took us through there. I felt safe and comfortable. ❤

You have an amazing voice thank God.

Rafael Cordero y Molina and his sister Celestina Cordero where more than educators, they where ahead of their time. Their parents had been slaves yet they believed in the integration of all people regardless of the color of their skin, Cordero's school taught many important puertoricans including Roman Baldorioty de Castro, Alejandro Tapia and Jose Julian Acosta. Their respective schools where also essentially the first public schools in Puerto Rico as they did not charge nor where they linked to the church.

I was born in PR in Rio Piedras San Juan I also lived in Bayamon and in Trujillo Alto when I was a kid ...the island is beautiful just dont get involve with drugs or sell drugs thinking you are a gansta . Young Boricuas thugs dont play in PR..

Me and several of my homeboys are head to the island later today..I probably gonna visit la parla

Beautiful art

3:03 this part is gold.

Started your first video about cuba last nite then subscribed been binge watching your videos all day. Good content and you mad funny! You definitely right about la perla went there 2 years ago and I was FaceTiming my boy when 4 dudes came outta of nowhere and said no cameras..but they were polite tho. La perla is not that bad but still gotta be in point. Brooklynite here too! Keep doing your thing

GREAT VIDEO BRO!!.. I'm considering shooting a music video out there near the moro and possibliy in la perla but you right i personally just shooting video any where.. i want this to be a great expirience..

Yay that's so cool place Keenan.. love the view of the beach..arts everywhere and the foods looks soo delish. Looks a peaceful place..nice tour

Your audio is really good what kind of microphone do you use?

I love Puerto Rico !! ❤❤❤❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I went to the Perla by accident with my wife and I immediately started sayin hi to everyone and that worked but it wasn’t night time

"Let's go do some ill-advised stuff.." LOL love your sense of adventure! I'm over here like lehgooooo! 😂😂😂

We just visited La Perla today during our first time ever in PR from a cruise ship. Everyone was nice to us, we filmed with our GoPro and took lots of pics...1 local young man even took pics with us. Will definitely visit again, we had an amazing day and saw many beautiful places and ate the best food!

La Perla is one of the most dangerous ,drug infested hood in the Metro Area and the fact that you are not allowed to film tells me things hasn't changed . As a Puertorrican who grow up right next to La Perla I would advice people not to venture down to La Perla specially after dark . Cops don't do it and neither should you !

Im from Residencial Nemesio R. Canales nice video!

I love how he has gunshots playing as he’s walking into La Perla, but then right after says how friendly the people are and that the violence has been over blown. So why contribute to that stereotype by having third party gunshot audio playing? Literally just made himself part of the problem.

Just came back from pr first time deffly not the the last La perla night life is crzyyy like a movie deffly sketch but dope the festivals in San Juan where gnarly too

Knee deep in the culture indeed!

Went to La Perla in the evening and at the night and felt entirely safe for the most part.

When did you come to Puerto Rico how did i now know u were here? Hit me up next time!

Just left PR and we (me and my boyfriend) got permission to drive through La Perla but was asked not to record or film . Craziest Shxt ever . Literally just landed . I’m glad I experienced it though and I was safe. . Do not think this is a game ‼️

Great voice, "Locutor Keenan!"

The worst time to wander in La Perla is in the night. Also Bayamon has a high crime rate index! But that's only when people go there and look for problems then they'll get what they look for, besides that nobody bothers you at all, like most places.. state clear from drama and you'll most likely be ok..

Ahh you past through el hollo 🕳️ lol 😂 and they politely told you “pssst papi no cámara 🎥” lol 😂

My family from that varrio! 🇲🇽🇵🇷 Where’s the Tiano art? The real PR

Being born and raised in Puerto Rico I see how dangerous things on the island have become over the years but that is not to say every place on the island is dangerous and should be avoided. I currently live in Florida and every time I go back to Puerto Rico to visit my family I ask my abuelo to take me to La Perla so I can take pictures but my mom refuses to let him take me. She keeps insisting that I will get killed and that La Perla is not what is used to be. I just want to visit the filiming areas and murals used when they filmed Despacito. My mom says the producers had to ask permission from the drug and gang cartels before being allowed to film the music video there. I have no clue if that is true but I see pictures online where tourists go and visit that area all the time and it looks safe enough to me.

I be at the basketball court a lot when I go no problems

I went to La Perla yes the drugs are there! Just like an urban city! If you are ok with living with that La Perla is gorgeous ok. Some people are comfortable in those environments not cause they are bad but because it teaches them how to be more aware and maneuver in dangerous areas without getting in any danger. You can get shot right in your bed right now at any time. Safety isn’t in police or from drug activity! It’s in your mindddddd!!!!!!

The young boys from my city (Wilm, DE) got attacked in La perla on vacation .. pretty much for filming ..one of them murdered and founded burnt on a beach few days later .. think it was last year .. look it up .. be careful bro

there are many other NOTORIOUS hoods in the San Juan metro-area as well as in the east coast, south, w3st, north & do not forget la isla nena(muy caliente)

Loiza is worst bro and u went in if u wouldv gone deeper you woulde liked it have fun la perla isnt how it used to be there worst places that police really dont even pass by but as long as your humble and respect everybody will be good wt u much respect brother

Not yet? Nah bruh Puerto Rico will never die!

What is the song at 6:00???

Bro 😅I been to that Hostel in PR

Need to get some alcapurrias next time you are in pinones

What month was this? I personally do not like rain 😁

His voice is so sexy! But bro....if you're being told not to be in the La Perla area, and not to film there....why in the hell are you doing it?!?! I know some people who went to La Perla. One made it out barely alive and one didn't. I'm planning a trip to Puerto Rico for the summer, and I'm not setting foot in that place!

Dam i was just about to book a room there nah nevermind lmao

THAT'S MY GETAWAY STATE IN THE CARIBBEAN, 40 MILES EAST. VIRGIN ISLANDS PEACE ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

I wanted to hit but my bro in-law wife she is an Afro PR. and she said not a good idea but when I come back I will go. It weird how we look down in to La Perla and Carmelo basketball court is next to it. They had a sign that says want drugs come to La Perla 😂😂😂

Saying Puerto Rico is not Caribbean enough is insane..

There many more neighborhoods in PR that are much bigger and are just as bad or worse , but yeah this one also..

Look people you can go their and have a good time just be careful around you and don't take pictures or videos unless they tell you its ok to

Yeah it's chill until you get into some shit and they throw you in the ocean 😂

Bro you're not rocking a button down on the thumbnail 😒 jeez lol you look like they held you over the weekend with no bond 😂

Never going to pr I remember someone stole my camera and my bookbag there

So, maybe he went into La Perla, and maybe he didn’t. We will, likely, never know. 🙄

Try to go in deeper in Perla .

3:46 This!!😂 People really think PR isn’t Caribbean or “Caribbean enough” due to the fact that were not like the Anglophone-Speaking Islands

Can this get 100 likes?

Dude, Why do you say it’s not that dangerous When the cops don’t go there?

Puerto rico will never die don't like the yet comment

Great video but They wouldn't get my hard earned money...forget them and their hood. I dont go where damger lurks 💯🤷🏾‍♀️

Go to Caguana in Utuado

it always ill's me when foreigners try to tell me about my own culture it's usually the limey's ( brits ) who try to but 1' doesn't know his own bloodline and culture they'll speak on others

There is hoods every wheee around the world it’s simple respect have manners as if you were visiting your grandma house , I was there 2 weeks ago so don’t believe the hype

It’s not that bad no more it clam down back in the 90 early 2000 was bad there wrost housing project then la perla and barrio u can’t go if people don’t know there the locals

Wrong doing againt. La Perla is not a Favela, nor a Chanty town . The slums of Detroit are favelas in the middle of the most richiest country.

I know who was Garvey and Mainley. If I was right, Garvey was in Cuba, but never in Puerto Rico.../ In fact, I was once in Kinston in a restaurant with a mulatto dominican colleage and the black jamaican waiter refused to serve us. Me a latino arab resemblence and this african descent lady. ask to your black friends in the US what they think about Melville J. Herskovits.

Ok, so far a I’ve seen a picture of a piece of chicken in a plate ??

I went to La Perla trying to get to the Fort by following some white family, I came under the bridge by La Perla and didn’t see the family no more.. but three people approached me with BAGS of different drugs. I felt intimidated because they circled me so I had to buy some weed off them…which was trash.

La perla is good place follow the fking rules. ask permission to video tape

Dieting the day vs at night is two different things. Go somewhere else and leave them alone. I wouldn’t tell people to go there.

Just visited the this area and we got our drugs no problem! Dont pull your phone out!!! Thats 110% a rule..

By the way Puertoricans don’t migrate , we move

No way that's the worst hood in PR

All this video outside the tunnel doesn’t count tbh that’s not la pearla

How you gone title the video “La Perla” but show little of it or about it?🤦🏽‍♂️👎🏽

The one thing I wanted to see, and the title you chose to use, is the one thing you didn't film...

PLEASE don't go by the exception to the rule. Many get killed in that place just for looking the wrong way. I am PR and lived there for years.

Don't go there people unless you are into substance consumption

Yall aint from la isla la perla is the least dangerous place in pr it use to be when the mafia was around but it not more like that

Good video Mr. Lambert. However, Puerto Rican citizens are NOT migrants or immigrants when they move to the States. Since 1941, anyone born in Puerto Rico is considered a US citizen. There are a few exceptions for persons born berween 1899 and 1941. Unfortunately, Puero Ricans on the island cannot vote in a presidential election, but they cn if they move to the States. So, our brothers and sisters on the island are US citizens!

😂 lol

Excuse me sir we are not migrants we are American citizens I'm sure when you went to Puerto Rico you didn't need a passport did you ?

Allah tauba

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Harlem is much more notorious than La Perla. Be careful to come here and labeled others