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Basically what is happening in Brixton is happening all over London in working class areas. There is a massive agenda by the right wing government to gentrify all the working class areas of London, by building expensive new high rise apartments that make the area super expensive and push minorities out of London. It started with Canary Wharf in the 1970s where they change a rough part on London into one of the most expensive areas by building luxury apartments, but now they are doing this all over London, meaning there is no more affordable housing in London or South East and these new apartments are not going to local people, but international investors, meaning there is even less housing for people.
The Jamaican influence in Brixton isn't what it was in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, etc. They're now part of the 'Windrush' history, with a square in Brixton being named Windrush Square in 1998, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship in 1948 on which the first set of Jamaicans and other Caribbeans arrived in London. Brixton was never a ‘hood’ just because it had a Jamaican community, and it has now become a trendy area with many nationalities running bars, restaurants, etc. Small snippets of the Jamaican influence remain but for the most part, most of the early generation sold up their huge houses that they worked hard to buy - because they couldn’t get places to rent, nor did they qualify for social housing at the time - and moved on - either back to Jamaica or other areas in London. Their offsprings live all over London and other parts of England because it's now become very expensive to live in Brixton. Jamaicans have now become part of the history of Brixton. Brixton was never a ‘black’ area, but had a Jamaican community which is now part of its history.
Contrary to the belief that Jamaican influence in Brixton has faded, it is clear that this cultural heritage remains strong and vibrant. Windrush Square, named to honor the arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948, highlights the deep roots of the Jamaican community in Brixton. Despite gentrification and an influx of diverse nationalities, the Jamaican influence is still very much alive. Jamaican music, food, and festivals continue to be a core part of Brixton's identity. Many Jamaican-owned businesses, such as the famous Negril restaurant and the long-standing Brixton Village market stalls, thrive and attract visitors from all over London. Community centers like the Karibu Education Centre and the Black Cultural Archives actively preserve and promote Jamaican culture and history. The older generation and their descendants, many of whom still live in or regularly visit Brixton, keep the cultural legacy alive. The sense of community and pride in their history is evident. Brixton may have evolved, but the Jamaican influence is far from gone-it's still a vital part of what makes the area unique and special.
@@HappyCamper84 Brixton hasn't been brixton since the late 90s, mate. The Jammos and carribeans had a chance to make it theirs (like Asians in East Ham or Harrow who now OWN properties and rent out). But they were too busy being either loud, partying or stoned whilst the Asians (who love a drink btw), kept their heads down and planned ahead. Now even Africans in uk own more properties than Caribbean's and i believe outnumber Caribbean's in the uk...Brixton should of been to Caribbean's what East Ham is to Pakistanis, Bengalis and Indians, but hey...Nobody else to blame but themselves...it's the mentality.
I once ended up in the ER (non related), got discharged and didn't know where tf i woz, ended up just walking around and ended up in Bricky. 4am I walk up 2 a dood, he's offering me herb, charley all that.....I simply explained my situation and my man had me on the correct bus with proper directionz to get home safe. Sincerely: A very white man
end of the day, nobody wants to draw attention to the ends. Just because someone is serving up, doesn't mean they dom't care about people. And a dealer is way less likely to screw a 'civilian' over than a mugger.
Correction:Brixton used to be predominantly Jamaican but these days it’s mostly Africans, Portuguese and affluent city workers. lol Brixton isn’t the worst part of London by a long way! You’re basically in an extremely gentrified, and affluent part of SW London. So you’re about 30 years too late with your ‘ Jamaican Hood’ nonsense! Like any major inner city area Brixton has a rougher side, but a lot of the serious violent crime is Gang/Organised crime/Drug related, so unless you’re involved your not likely to become a victim of crime. Brixton is generally a safe area to live for decent law abiding citizens. Next time you’re in London go to Tottenham Northumberland Park Estate. If you want to experience a real Hood vibe 😂These days Brixton is considered a more upscale hipster type area with some of the UK’s highest house prices.
Thanks for the education. I haven't lived in London for 30 years, so I did not know how it has changed. I don't visit either because of Saddick Khans ULEZ and other charges on driving into London
@@Meloncholymadness Why do you have to be so retarded? Why? Like when did I say deprived?? Why do you have to be a fucking twat seriously and make up words?
I wirked in Brixton about 15 years ago painting decorating a black couples flat..it was predominantly black area..I was treated with respect and a welcome everyday I was there..had no problems at all there..❤
@@Janae_22 Even then. My mate lives in Loughborough ends, I visit him from Devon every so often. Park up in the estate, my car is fine, I feel safe. I greet everyone I cross paths with respectfully, I say I'm visiting a mate, everything's cool. Acting scared and sketched out might well end in different results.
@@ColonelForkEyes I'm from Loughborough endz...I was saying if you want to see the real Brixton. You gotta go Angel town, somerleyton etc. To experience the urbaness
@@ColonelForkEyes Crime rates are high in lambeth that don't make it to the BBC news etc. Nearly every male youths from the endz carry flickys, zombie knifes etc. Most outsiders always tend to say they feel safe, and have the most opinions!!
I used to deliver to Brixton 3 times a week. I found all the people very friendly and nice and the truth is you have more chance of getting robbed in the city of London than in Brixton.
3000 wow. I stayed with a friend in 2006 when I went to Brixton academy to a show. He was paying 500 a month for room in shared house so can believe it. Crazy.
@@bookinsights1092I'll try my best to summarise an explanation. So, in 1981 the Brixton riots happen after growing tensions between the black community and Met police over abuse from majority white officers seemed to reach boiling point. The aftermath of this riot left a lot of the younger male members of the black community now disillusioned with not only the police as their public servants but also in what they have to take and fear - like with a bully, when the Brixton folk fought back they realised they're tougher than they thought. THIS in kind lead to the perfect grooming ground for older, established white London gangsters who were controlling rackets such as the drug trade and now could see a fresh anti-police pool of new footsoldiers to continue to there work as they step back and legitimise somewhat(think Terry Addams sort). Couple all of this with crack cocaine hitting popularity on our shores around the same time and you had a recipe for disaster. A final point of interest is that in 1996, possession of legal handguns were banned. When something gets banned, there's a lot of money to be made grabbing a few before the ban and selling them after.
My friend just sent me your video. Glad you’re enjoying London. Most people usually just go to the Buckingham Palace and the tourist spots cool you’re seeing the real London
As a white guy lived in Brixton the place is a good vibe you get good bad everywhere alot of crack heads asking for money its london so what else do you expect. Am just working class man just have common sense
I used to drive a bus through Brixton - lived in coldharbour lane - loved it! Love the Jamaican culture, love the muslim folks.. the bus used to break down at all hours - this white girl got loads of help and love from the community.. there's dodgy everywhere! Prefer to be with a broken bus at 2 am in Brixton than i would in central London at 3 in the afternoon.. ❤
Brixton is now so gentrified that it’s only a shadow of its past. In the late 80’s and early 90’ you couldn’t walk around Brixton like that with a camera. It was Yardie town
The fact that you couldn't walk around Brixton with a camera in the late 80s and early 90s shows how tough things were back then. Was that a good thing? Gentrification has brought safety and new opportunities, making Brixton more welcoming. It's obviously important to preserve our rich Jamaican heritage that makes Brixton unique. While the area has changed, the goal should be to keep its vibrant history alive while enjoying the benefits of a safer community.
Exactly! Brixton has changed a lot but jt was never a hood. It’s always been a community for Caribbeans and African people. My childhood was spent going to Brixton to buy real hard dough bread, Jamaican patties, food and even buy African fabrics in bulk. Respect to Brixton.
@@maxanderson9692 100pc but then as a new arrival to the area you have to go looking for issues or project a persona that rubs locals up the wrong way on early impressions. No matter where you grow up, if you're there from childhood and went to school/grew up in the ends, you're always going to have a bigger job staying away from all that shit. Even small towns in the countryside it's possible to slip into shady lifestyles just because of who's round you in your formative years.
Glad you got tp put a Vlog on Brixton even with no one trusting the cam. Went there from Australia few years ago and had a great time. Thanks for sharing.
I've lived in Brixton all my life. I'm south Asian. The area is safe if you mind your business. If you're a normal person people have no reason to trouble you. They only trouble the trouble makers. Also Jamaican can cut hair. Best fades.
Grew up in the 70's and 80's in a borough of Birmingham that was mostly Irish and Caribbean. We are still friends today. You had your arseholes, junkies, thieves, violent people and wrong-uns. They all end up where they end up. The good people are still friends today, 54 tears later we are still meeting up and drinking together.
Glad to hear Twin is still doing his thing.. I had class mates in the 90s that would come in monday morning with the freshest cuts talking about the legendaryTwin barbers.
The barber in the red hat, and the man who came into the shop with the motor cycle helmet are identical twin brothers.They were gang leaders in their youth,but are doing more positive things now.
The stats come from going to Brixton after dark!! If you've ever come out of a club in Brixton at 0400 in the morning you'd know why the stats are so high. On the whole a great place and fantastic people, but the same as any city you have to be careful what you say to people, what street you walk down and how streetwise you are 👍 Great viddy as always man, it's great to see you lapping up the London scene
Good video bro, im glad you bumped in to kind hearted people. I love brixton, used to go to get my hair locked and then walk around the market and go to the caribbean vegan/veggie food stalls. Theres a few people with mental illness hanging around by for the most part people mind their own business.
Tbh London doesnt have any full blown hoods anymore I feel like. Its getting more gentrified everyday. Areas like Tottenham, Brixton, Peckham, Newham, Harlesden, South Kilburn, Croydon, Tower hamlet, Hackney etc etc used to be very hood but London is one of the most expensive cities in the world right now and they keep upping the prices by pushing people out of the city and push them further away outside of London. For my Londoners in the comments what would still be considered hood hood?
You are crazy. Over the last 25 yrs I've been to the Bronx,Brooklyn,Queens, etc in NY. Compton,watts,skid row in La. Plus all over Seattle,Portland,Sacramento,Sanfran,Oakland... I've never had a problem anywhere. Same as bad parts of anywhere,if you're streetwise and keep yaself to yaself ain't nobody bothering you! Act like you belong wherever you go!
Not the oldest reatuarant, in fact only opened a few years ago, 100 meters from this place is the Atlantic bakery they have been doing food for 50 years and much better than this place.
That guy on the metro was chatting absolute nonsense. Sure he used to attend community meetings back in thx day too, so he's the last person I woukd expect to talk so disapprovalling of Brixton. You should have gone to Brixton Black Cultural archives and learnt some of Brixton's history.
My father who is from Switzerland a heavy truck driver once went to Brixton and said there was dope being sold every where and stunk of cannabis 😄😄😄. One of the locals was selling stolen bicycles for £10 he was black.
Jamaicans were offered good money for their properties and some moved to placed like Croydon, where they bought cheaper houses and didn't invest the rest.
I lived in Brixton in the early nineties for years trust me it was bad then but now it’s not bad at all it’s pretty much gentrified so noway near as naughty as it used to be it got its reputation as dangerous in the 80s and 90s but now it’s safe as anywhere else in London really
@@seany8787central London west London and Wimbledon and clapham in south London are safe pretty much most of London including the dangerous areas are getting more busier and developed each day but obviously there is crime
@@Leojw10mate you've probably got more places you need to watch yourself between Clapham north and Clapham junction than anywhere else southwest. Everywheres gentrified in London but you gotta remember that where money comes,crime follows.
Deluded, it's dangerous as ever if you get caught up in the wrong activity!!! Obviously if Ur just walking round as a random civilian Ur just going to blend in. Dangerous doesn't mean you'll get robbed for your camera the people that are really dangerous aren't robbing people for they're cameras or phones
I live in Brixton. It's much more of a racial mix now. It's less dangerous but there is a large number of mentally disturbed and crack addicted people.
I love the barber twin barber. and his shop was so happy and friendly. Black and white wow!!!! that was amazing. such quality traditional food. Thankyou for sharing
Great video my friend! You represented the Jamaican people and Brixton well. The media always try to divide different races and cultures so we don't get together and live in peace. Firsthand proof only - get the truth 'straight from the horses mouth' so to speak like you have. Never trust the gossip-mongers. I just subscribed, much respect!
After World War 2, Brixton saw the arrival of the Windrush Generation into Britain. They would first be housed temporarily in deep air-raid shelters in Clapham Common, close to Brixton, and several of them would go to the Labour Exchange in Brixton to find work before ultimately settling in Brixton. Jamaican connection to Brixton started in 1948 when they arrived on Empire Windrush. There’s no Jamaican ‘hood’ in Brixton - there never was. All the Jamaicans left the area in the 80s, 90s etc when they sold their big houses that they worked hard to buy, and the yuppies started moving in and gentrification took over. All those people you see there now are not all Jamaicans. Brixton now have many nationalities and very few are Jamaicans. There are a few but the majority moved back to Jamaica or to smaller houses in cheaper areas of London. Stop calling the name ‘Jamaicans’ because they do not live in any ‘hoods’ in Brixton. Those people are mostly Africans or other nationalities. Brixton was never a ‘hood’. Jamaicans bought their large houses which they sold and are now worth millions. So this myth about Jamaican ‘hood’ in Brixton is played out and doesn’t exist. Jamaicans left there decades ago and moved on. The danger - if it exists - is not from Jamaicans. Leave Jamaicans out of your narrative!
I go here quite a bit its a really great vibe but it can be dangerous but you have to show respect and be mindful. The people really look after you if your respectful. And they are super fun ❤
If that’s considered the hood they are living pretty good. I live in the MIA like you and you know what the hood is like in MIA. You don’t want to go to the wrong here you ain’t getting out. The food looked sick!!
@@OneLove-oj4sz looks can be deceiving, you can't tell how treacherous ous a place is just by how run down it is, Brixton has a lot of really really bad people those people are not just standing on street corners like bums, they're whole thing is not to be seen. Get caught up in the wrong crow and with the wrong people and it's as bad as can be!
Bro that’s not Brixton hood that’s Brixton centre to go to the hood u need to go to the project like angel town estate Loughborough est tusle hill mayfield estate
There are so many places in the uk other than London 😴 why not venture out of the city and into the countryside and visit our lovely villages or costal towns?
All the dangerous towns/areas of London are getting busier and more developed each day. I live an hour from London by train and never felt unsafe in London central and west London are the safest. But some parts of south London like Croydon is unsafe with Wimbledon and clapham being the safest parts of south London. and i will have to visit brixton one day my grandma is jamaican and i love there food
I lived in Croydon back in 2018/19 and never felt menaced or saw anything weird happening really. I commuted to work mon-frid to Blackfriars station. Walked the central streets of Croydon with wife and baby daughter and felt safe.
Im so happy you went to maureens!! best jerk chicken in all of brixton! Brixton is not dangerous at all unless you are involved in Gangs or Trappin etc. If you just a civillian.. its one of the most welcoming places in all of London... the people are amazing and its full of rich culture! Im from nearby camberwell
You're doing well bredrin. Keep it real, you seem to have a lot of prior knowledge and understanding of this ya London ting. ❤ Bless up my Yankee your.
Be careful who you speak to if you see them holding a phone aiming at you. Some people are less genuine than you. Plus, some people are trying to stay off the radar. You never know if someone or woman is running away from her ex or something. Its not a thing if you've got enough to hide then dont worry. 🤔
