My dad family is from those projects, and my uncle used to tell me about the Spinks family there, how the projects changed overnight from nice to HORRIBLE. My dad told me how the National Guard had to come there to defuse issues because the police used to get murdered in there. No jobs, no schools, no opportunities to better the life of you and loved ones, unless you move out of the city. St. Louis has been a rat hole for people of color long before I was born, and they still don't have anything to hang their hat on. So many stories about the Pruitt-Igoe Projects, sad but true.
RIP to Lil Jimmy. I remember being young and riding in the car with Big Jim (that’s what we call him). My grandmother seen me and when I came in the house, she asked what I was I doing with him. I replied, he has a son around our (my friends) age. At the moment, that’s when I started finding out who he was. I’m from the 27JCPB, in the JVL. 😉
Boi I remember my aunt staying in those back in the 80’s. One day I go to visit and she sent me across the street to the amaco gas station. Bout time I made it back from the store I got chased by about 10 project kids. To make it even worse the damn elevator didn’t work . But i dodged that ass whooping
My father in law Lester "Monk" Davis grew up there, the stories he told were wild as hell, throwing folks off the roof for coming up short on work fronted to them ☠️
As a teenager, I used to tell Woods that I’ma buy a Silverado SS and race him. At the time, he had the Ford Lightening and a 95 Impala. He used to reply, “That MF don’t run lol”. Nowadays, I just wish peace to him. I keep a railroad conductor hat on my dashboard in honor of Woods. Rest In Peace: Lil Jimmy and peace to Angie, Keith, and Von.
Do a video on John Hanson aka JHU in Frederick , Maryland it had to get knocked down when I was 2 or 3 because of all types of stories and definitely conformation on such stories
My pops grew up here, they left before it was tore down but it was 10 of them, he said they had a bunch of families in there that size better, they would have royal rumbles with errbody fighting even my evangelist Auntie😇she a saint now
Seems like this is more about the projects than the person! Understandable. What makes this place unique and seperates it from other notorious high rise housing projects in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Newark Jersey City, Patterson, NYC, Boston, Newark, Philly and Baltimore is that its height of violence occured nearly 20 yrs before similar violence spiked in these other places! It was also torn down and nothing but a memory like 30.yrs before they started tearing the others down! Way before the crack era! Also..these are the only high rise projects I heard of this far south! I know..people gonna be like what about LA, New Orleans, Miami, Memphis, Birmingham etc projects. I'm not trying to say they wasnt wild af! They was! ESPECIALLY LA and New Orleans! All I'm saying is for people from NYC, like me, and other large cities when we say "The projects" we visiualizing building like 8 to 18 stories in groups of 4 to 40 buildings spread out over a large area! True concrete jungles! With dangerous dark hallways, stairways and broken elevators covered in grafitti! Smelling like piss! What you see in these other cities look more like regular apartment complexes where we come from! For these reasons Pruitt-Igoe is legendary! I KNOW it was some next level money getters! Gangsters and hitmen up in there! It didnt even make it past '75🤔 Housing projects didnt even have a bad name yet! Respect St Louis!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The populations are the obvious reasons . There’s no need to be that high there were certainly as many people. Not to mention those cities don’t have the area to go out, so they go up common sense.
My dad's side of the family grew up here. This was the most dangerous place I've ever seen in my entire life. While I was there as a kid we would be playing and often hear gunshots. It's the place I saw my first murder victim (dude got shotgunned to the face, his entire head was obliterated). People used to get shot or killed around there on an almost daily occurrence. Everybody knew everybody. I lived there during the beginning of the crack era.
BKlyN's boi checking in .. STL is fo'sho a HotBed for Crime in the U.S Fortunately my time there was very Gud , amongst the chaos'. Shout Out St Lou nd ESt St Lou
1982 that’s when the blood & Crip Cali dudes started to come in the county then mid 80’s that’s when more came in the county putting dudes on and later on the city too in 1987 and more areas
He not lying, do jerry lewis bey. Lorenzo petty, who was on this episode, was jerry lewis beys biggest rival u can do an episode on the petty boys too. Lorenzo killed Jerry's brother in front of the court house, n beat the case.
As a teenager, I used to tell Woods that I’ma buy a Silverado SS and race him. At the time, he had the Ford Lightening and a 95 Impala. He used to reply, “That MF don’t run lol”. Nowadays, I just wish peace to him. I keep a railroad conductor hat on my dashboard in honor of Woods. Rest In Peace: Lil Jimmy and peace to Angie, Keith, and Von.
Do a video on John Hanson aka JHU in Frederick , Maryland it had to get knocked down when I was 2 or 3 because of all types of stories and definitely conformation on such stories
