TheRealStreetz of Boston, MA 

Boston, Massachusetts, got the most educated thugs I've ever seen

The first and only place free Blacks could go was MA...so by default all individual black expression of culture started in Boston

Boston got the nicest looking hood Ive ever seen

Very proud of y'all putting this together n letting everyone know the culture, the history n the struggle ( gentrification , economic struggle , gang violence ) .. we have endured in our city .. There's not enough words or bandwidth I can express on how much love I have for " Boston " ... also theres nothing these cats haven't said or shown that wasn't on point ... Great job on making this short documentary of our hometown.

MA is my home state, and although I've lived elsewhere for several years, I still consider Boston my home. And it breaks my heart to see so much of what made Boston unique be destroyed. What makes a city is its neighborhoods and the people who reside in those neighborhoods. I find it infuriating, let alone embarrassing, that Boston residents are being forced out of their own homes and tossed into far-away cities like Brockton and Fall River like so much garbage to make room for the invasion of upwardly mobile aliens who can afford to live anywhere else.

This is honestly one of the best tours of Boston videos I've ever seen. These guys know all the spots, streets, the old beefs, and what's changing. Classic old school Boston!

BOSTON is 23% black (more than nyc) and it is ghetto/hood but in a carribean/Cape Verdean sense with some African-American. It changed a lot. There is killings with the youth, there’s ghetto things happening like philly, Chicago but in a smaller ratio because our hoods are not as big as Chicago and nyc, Philly. Boston (proper, in the city) is one of the smallest major cities in America so our crime rate isn’t gonna be as bad as other big major cities like Houston Chicago and Detroit. Early 90s it was murder capital at a point and for a city this small, that’s scary. It portrays itself to be a nice city with education but this is to get college students to feel comfortable to come and live in boston with the best colleges/hospitals in the world. But to say I’m not afraid of anyone from Boston is just ignorant. You can get killed in Boston for just looking at someone the wrong way because that person has had it with life just like anywherelse. Boston black communities/hoods/city black sections consists of Dorchester/Roxbury/mattapan/south end if anyone interested in seeing the “the hood or ghetto” ( it does look nicer than other hoods around the country but some of the people aren’t) most of y’all need to travel. And for New Yorkers it’s not much different than Brooklyn/Bronx/queens/Harlem. We have our own like I just stated but in a much smaller compact version. (I lived in the Bronx/ and Philly). I’m out. ❤️💪🏾 BOSTON 617/857

Boston has been getting gentrified since the 90's early 2000s. What were once dangerous projects are now luxury apartments. Still some small hoods but nothing like it used to be

The whole entire East Coast need to leave those trap beats or new era production alone and get back to what put the East Coast on the map.Elevate true lyricism and dope production(Boom Bap).I think it's okay to have a little of that dirty South sound in your arsenal but don't lose your identity.East Coast Hip Hop for life.

Black folks in Boston are very fortunate. Only those of us who have lived other places know this. I am very proud of my city and the racial divides we have closed over the years. When I was a little girl growing up in the 70’s Boston was racially divided. We could not go to certain parts of town. And white folks could not come to our sections either, without consequences. It was all bad, a scary time for a little girl growing up. Fast forward to the 80’s n early 90’s .Grovehall was invaded by drug dealers. As crack cocaine took over our nation, Boston had many casualties during this turbulent time. Fast forward again to the 2000’s. My son was able to take the train to Ashmont St n walk to South Boston High with no problems. We have been fortunate compared to other cities because we are not over populated like other parts of our country. There are many opportunities available if u looking for them👀👀. The video shows how our streets look now. They are clean in comparison to parts of Los Angeles, the Bronx n the filthy streets of New Jersey. Back in the 80’s these same streets were a mess.

You Gotta Hit The Streets Of Boston At Night

I'm from Hartford, Connecticut and I love music regardless where artists are from. Music solves the savage beast. Especially if you pay attention to the words not just the beat,the hooks tell alot also. Real life is told.

The best city in America.

driver is my MAN behind the wheel he was educating and using a turn signal like damnnn

Was I the only one waiting for Stizz to pop up w a bottle of henny ? 😭

They forgot bout bluehill we poppin

nigga really linked the Boston tea party to rap tho, cmon bruh

Love that they mentioned the gentrification going on.

Cities like Boston, Charlotte, Philly, Heartford just feel different, even just being in them.

Coming together Blacks Young & Old, Black Business THAT'S WHATSUP!! I See my People's in this Boston Documentary Movie BossCity BossUp. I was looking at our Family Documentary Movie STRAIGHT OUTTA FRANKLIN FIELD PROJECTS and then this one Popped up, and I had to check it out, Since it was from our City & regarding our People in Boston!! Good to see, and good to see my fam in this joint Fragg BossCity BossUp.. Keep up the good work. Reppin our City & Folks. God Continue to bless. One Love!

Great video Boston is beautiful even in the hood.

It's good to see my home birth city doing positive community giveback.. I see y'all road rt past JP over by Jackson Square. That's where I grew up.. good shit.

It might be a "hood "but its beautifully cultured and the people r amazing

Not as rough as it was back in the 80s - early 90s- not surprised to see Humboldt get mentioned, but who remembers TGB, Blue Hill Ave, lots going on back then..

sht changed a lot damm , i like this video

Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park, JP. 💪🏾🤴🏾

These Bostonians sounds nearly like New York, but slower, yet Proper. Very British as well.

Yoooo he aid the Boston tea party! Yoooo respect 617, I miss the Rox

i used to cash checks right there at that check cashing place across the street from them projects

Born and raised in Boston. There’s no place like home...we’re all family! I moved out two years ago but, I miss it. I miss hanging in the square and Franklin Park. I’ll have to roll through this summer for Carnival. 5 years in...still holding down my man MIZZ. ❤️

It’s so weird knowing where there were for 9/10 of the video

LIKE THE G.O.A.T. RAKIM SAID IT AIN'T WHERE U FROM IT'S WHERE U AT LEARN FROM THAT

bro need the change those brakes

I live in Dorchester, but I moved from Baltimore. Trust me, Boston is in good shape. Much safer.

yeah, check out "Cool do" the online Facebook store hood things, hood pricing

Dorchester ave and king St. Born and raised. living in North Carolina now for so long people dont believe im from there because I took on the southern accent. But i tell em its not the talk but the blood. 617 always going to be me.

3:48 They contribute to that. If they themselves got money, what would they do with it? It's the overall black community; they want to stay in the hoods and blame everyone, while patting themselves on the back for coming up with that discovery. If you want to practice what you preach, go to the children. Talk to them, stay in school( go to the government as well, draw out a plan in which you can educate the black children "show" them what they should work towards. That there is more besides worship to nobody celebrities, drugs, a non-existent community, etc)... don't advocate for the "black community" because what it is now is no good(how can you become more or get out of your current state if you settle for where youre at?). Advocate for the future, for what it should be and what should be striven towards.

I used to live in the Jamaica plane area. I live in Jacksonville now. I miss Boston. There's allot more racism in the south. good people in Boston

I grew up in Mission Hill and although Boston isn’t my favorite place in the world, I got nothing but Love and Respect for my Brothers and Sisters from Boston. If you find yourself in Boston and need a haircut, I highly recommend “EVERYTHING IS REAL” barber shop in Dudley Square. Ask for ALLAH, he is the Best Barber in Boston. Peace and Love.

Salute to my street smart Boston brothers for this 👌🏽💯 I'm a Dorchester kid no matter where I go you can tell

i grew up in codman park across from academy homes those were the real niggas back in the day shout out 2 T.C B.M K.M.W.M D.H S.H those were the good out days i hope all yall r doing well

Prayers and Love for my city of Boston

why everybody in the comments competing for who got it worse. Im glad my city is safe... Yall niggas look up Dudley back in tge 80s and 90s.. we moving forward and that some good shit man

9:55 they was next to Morton street

you seen 1 ghetto, you seen them all..more things change more they stay the same..they can talk all that yah yah all they want..while the rich folks laugh at them.

Wheres the Columbia Point Dogz at? Are they still in Boston?

My auntie Rene lives in opp we lived there since black top and candy girl stop playing it's the Bean 💀

ride the 23, 28, 45, 26, 15, 22, 15, 19, 29......mbta

real talk everything in this video is facts for me as i see it too and im hlaf white half spanish. in Boston its still segregated in 2018 and everybody in this state in the suburbs thinks bc they seen or went to school a couple black kids that were not racist anymore but they actions arent the same as there words there just mad low key stereotypical or even more like silent Racist subconsciously its wild man i be looking at some my friends or therppl i meet out here and they really are just more ignorant towards the history of our city and how if you just at inferstructure alone like they talked about all the black communities were snadwich on top each other. lastly all these dude you heard from i got mad respect for its hard to explain this city to outsiders but i feel like this is truely juust REAL and if i need to get this a point about the city across im pulling this up

and southbay mall is the hangout now right next to andrew projects. 2020

Point of correction: It's ""Boss Town"" Not boss city.

these nikkas better watch the movie "SQUEEZE" have u wanting to run outta bean ..

I'm proud to say my city of Boston is one of the safest of all major metropolitan cities in the country. Even our most dangerous parts have very little boarded up, dilapidated homes and closed up out of business stores. much of these neighborhoods are made up of well maintained expensive homes owned by the very middle and upper middle class blacks that reside there. Monday thru Friday during rush hour these streets are bumper to bumper with traffic with folks coming to and from their professional careers. This is why boston African American's aren't protesting to these absurd causes that have been going on for years now in other major cities. People actually have lives here. (those protestors 2 weeks ago were a majority white commie race traitors, btw)

1:06 “we use to set the presidents…” that’s that good old Boston accent huh

who remembers what street corner was the CHALLENGE lock up ?

I remember that area and it was a hell hole back then.. white people moving to the hood now 😂 my whole life hun

personally I would stay the he'll away from this part of Boston, had some really bad experience there years ago.

I'm curious which city was more dangerous in the 90s? Washington D.C. or Boston?

MASS YEAH im south from boston in newbedford.

Boston is a safe city, even southie isn't that dangerous anymore...

Love Boston but im glad i grew up in the north shore suburbs

yes that's what I ment. I use to take the red line to forest hills station. from there we got on a bus and went down Washington going toward Dorchester. We would get off at MLK park. There was a family housing project called sajoyner house. I lived there. 20 years ago.

I Got Shot 8 Times I’m From Thetford Ave In Dorchester It’s Real

Yeah for some reason they seem a bit more intelligent than other black people I've met. Whatever Boston is doing to its black people is clearly working and seems to lead to a better life, clearly for everyone.

Original gangsters, one of the first east coast cities to start banging in 1988. Before all the blood and crop surge, it was Cali, Chicago, and DC. That 3's is the o.g. sign in the bean. All that b boy hood shit started in Boston and New York. So, yeah we originated a lot of these styles that these cities live off of... Salute us nigga, and stop all that female dissing shit..... braveheart homez

I fuck's with boston I got fam there I'm from neworleans an them there dude's always showed me love good stand up niggas..... Shots out to them blue hill boys an stanwood my peps

Man I’ve been to Boston, beautiful city, even the hood was beautiful compared to other cities I’ve been. Not saying shit won’t pop off, but I went to the projects by myself and shit was smooth, I’d go back to Boston great time

Doesn't appear to be a dump like Philadelphia.

Boss city real shit 💯

Ayeee shoutout mah street in tha beginnin

I know it was this was the SHITTT...when the first place I see is Lenox Street projects Shawmut Ave💯💯💯 #617ForLife

People always talking about how our Boston streets are clean compared to their hoods like they glorifying filth. I guess we teach our youth better manners than they teach theirs.

Best fucking intro I ever seen

A yo who rockin with ya mans Darrin Brown with dem lit🔥🔥🔥 beats???👀👂

I'm thinking about leaving NY and doing my Master's in Boston. Just making sure it would somewhat feel like home.

The bean the fucking realist city every b

boston seem similar to the Bay . I diggs the scene

Yall need to check out Sunnny South or Peachtree or Thomasville AL.

Roxbury crazy out there. I'm in North Cambridge there's sirens and gunshots sometimes.

It’s expensive to live in Boston Massachusetts

LENOX ST I GREW UP THERE NOW IM IN MIAMI , FOR EVER REP THE BEAN 3S UO

At 5 :18 that’s the school I go to it’s a high school

How come Bronx, NY don’t got one and Boston got one I’ll personally give a tour of the Bronx

City of champs 👌🏾 Big B’s

617 all day baby 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Y’all shoulda came up to Eastie, shits poppin here as well

I remember watching th Villa and Cathedral beefing. Lennox and 4Corners. Heath and Field...Runnin round Adidas Park, Franklin, Jim Rice, MLK, Blue Hill...as wild them times were...I miss it alil

Nobody mentions Heath Street

S/o to y’all for this Boston stand up !!

Where the hell are these people coming from? I thought my home town in MA was safer than this. Coming from a black person so not racist.

a settlement needs our help, i`ll mark it on your map!!

I live in heath street

I lived in Boston for most of my life(Southie, Dorchester and Mattapan). But I've also traveled to other places(Philly, LA, DC, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, Cleveland, Baltimore, Miami and Memphis). Before I visited these places I used to think the same as these guys. That Boston was the coldest most dangerous city. And that's because that's all I knew and wasn't well traveled. And sadly that's these guys and majority of the people here's problem. All they know is the Bean and the Bean mentality. And honestly that's not enough to survive any of these other cities I mentioned. The shit that fly's here in Boston just doesn't fly in any of these other places. Gangs activity/Crime is a lot more serious in those cities than here also. In Boston we have blocks and hoods that beef on occasions. In those cities they have actual gangs like Crips, Bloods, Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples + Drug Crews + Blocks/Hoods that war with each other everyday. Boston is mostly a college city with a suburban atmosphere. We do have hoods/ghettos but they are nowhere near as horrific as the other cities. Boston's hoods would equal most of those cities suburbs. I'm proud to be a Bahstonian and I love my city. These other cities can have their dysfunction, crime and gang bangers. I would gladly stay my ass in Beantown any day.

I don't see it as hood! I see it as a community of civilize people who is trying to keep up their community in the positive light! I like that!!! I wish that Boston energy can spread to other places.

not the taylor port tho lmao

Y’all slept on Brighton fidelis and fanuel they was getting it in in the 80s and 90s and 2000 heavy

Buffalo,ny baby

Matapan 💖 and Roxy I love my city in college in Florida now I'll be returning home can't wait 🙏

Givem the History ~ Hardcore

I'm from Pittsfield mass and I spent a whole lot of Time in Springfield but we got mostly bloods crips Latin Kings nétas and ms 13 up here and my family who's roots are in the hells angels but there are other gangs like young ready die and then the rapper groups like problem gz (they are more nyc) and LBR to name a few