Tommy E and the 1-5 MOB {A Chain of Events  

Southeast native here. Graduated from Ballou in 89. I am 52 now and remember all of this well. I know personally a lot of the names mentioned. I graduated from HS with Tommy's sister, Tamika. You took me back with the Young Young crew lol. They were a force on the southside. I remember (about 88) Tommy and Tech (

Excellent and accurate journalism. You most definitely do your homework

If this doesn't rang true today!!! It's eerie to hear him speak about how outta control the crime is. He literally stated this is too much and I can not handle what I've been seeing and exposed to. I give him credit for realizing this and making a decision that would benefit his mental health. This poor mom who lost 2 children at the same moment is heart shattering!! All that pain she has to endure is frustrating for me bc I watched my own mom suffer with this same exact pain and there's nothing I can do to ease it. 1990's were horrific especially for innocent children adults and seniors. Now in 2023 we are experiencing the same horrible conditions, kids are running wild, adults are enabling them, street life predators are preying on them, music specifically "drill" music, social media, terrible school systems, no fathers in the homes, mothers ok with their sons and daughters engaging in street activities that CLD case these kids their lives, poor economic upbringings, systemic racism, untrust towards police it's just so much going on. Thank you for sharing this style of content and the message behind it!!

A couple of points of correction: Stanton Dwellings (15th Place or 1-5) and Frederick Douglass Dwellings (Stanton Terrace) were demolished and combined to become Henson Ridge. Two distinct neighborhoods that were sworn enemies but across the street from each other. They didn't magically merge into one neighborhood. The bulk of the violence depicted in this video was between 1-5 and Stanton Terrace. Congress Park was a whole diff thing.

I grew up in d.c uptown all my life I love my city with every heart beat but we got to stop the killing

You gotta start linking the gogo songs you put in your videos ppl needa hear dat crank

I keep telling ppl Wayne Perry wasn't the only dude getting busy on bammas in DC if you lived in the city at that time u know what's up

This man stood on his own two .. no surveillance no evidence to the convictions but his men folded and told .. damn that’s wild

I was born and raised in southeast graduate from Ballou in 92 it was a rough city.it’s started in 87 that’s when it start too turn for the worst it was bad all public housing was still active in the 80’s & 90’s D.C was Chicago and Philly before them.D.C was The murder capital in small city.It wasn’t no such thing of no DMV it was four parts of the city S.E, S.W, N.E & N.W

Glassmanor here! The whole DMV was in turmoil. Open-air drug markets literally had people captive in their own homes. Many families were devastated. It was a sad time.

I was a kid up in his studio in Clinton. Seen a humble nicer side of Tommy E. It wasn't until I got to Howard U that I walked past a newspaper stand and saw him on the front. Big bruh used to be at my pops house just doing the music shit. His story trips me out every time.

All facts, we lost a lot during them times. Really hurts my heart how my brothers grew up together and ended in violence to the streets. It was tough getting through them days 😪. We survived, and it made us stronger for it. Love my hood. Great job 👏🏾

Your stories are official 💯 keep them coming

We need something about VALLEY GREEN !!!!!!!

You've come a long way slim. Keep up the great work!!! You should do a story on the girl that ran her car into the crowd at the Unifest ending it forever.

And they think DC is bad now smh it was crazy in the late 80’s and 90’s. Crime is down in dc but the news says different

You are n point with this one. Tommy and Tech was those dudes. They changed the whole Garfield. Back then Stanton and Alabama was crowded open air drug market in the shopping center. Bruce place was real! That YYC was no joke! Now their kids and grands are what we’re dealin with now. These politicians don’t get what they’re dealing with. Great job youngin! Keep doin your thing. Proud of you young soldier!

A large part of this problem was careless/terrible parents. No kids should be outside at 2am in the morning.

Lol 96 Blizzard i was like 7 years old, so i decided to go play outside with my older brother/cousins. As soon as i step out, i disappear into the snow 😂. I had to stand on cars so i could actually see lol.

MAN U PUT TOGETHER ANOTHER BANGER RESPECT #DCHISTORY

Ayyyeee im frm dc an im rockin witchu slim. U put the old school backyard on this jont aaayyeeee 💪🏾😂

I was in the 3rd grade that day in Winston elementary. Awesome work Slim, Keeping Our Heritage Alive.

Good content champ! I grew up in the 80's and 90's in DC on the Southside. Mario's, Minn Ave to be exact. Your videos take me back to those times. Dodge City!! Keep up the good work champ!

Yeah it really hit the fan after we did the tv interview on broadcast house off screen after the performance.. You did a 👏 great job.

Content/storytelling is evolving each time out. Keep up the great work soldier!

94-96 impala ss one of the best cars ever made.

This was amazing bro, u left out soooo much more , I’m from 1-5 , grew up there 91 until closing …keep up the good work homes

If you destroy them as boys they can never become a MAN!!! That was powerful!!! I can't help but keep commenting bc this documentary is fascinating and sad on every level....

I just recently started watching your videos as it came up in my feed and I gotta say this video is a great documentary brother. It really made me think about some stuff

Shoutouts to all the strict overprotective parents out there. Y’all are the reasons your children will succeed and thrive on real principles and morals. The common denominator with all these trash criminals are the lazy parenting/guardians they lived with.

Let me know if anybody got any video requests! I know a couple people mentioned the dirty dozen joint but other than that I think I covered just about every request💯👍🏽

I love your videos bro ….. the true definition of IYKTYK 💯🤞🏽

Salute cuzn, keep that South East shit rolling 💪, I love my section if DC that's Y my tags day SE

Aye bruh, do one on the "FARMS ". IDK if you've done it or not. First vid watching. Subscribed!!!👊💯💯

Keep doing your thing, I like the way you put visual to the story.

I really appreciate your work on this series ..I'm 53 ..I'll be 54 this month...I came up in pg County and remember alot of this as a kid

This really hits home and brings back memories,," dayday" is my lil brova and Sherman was like my play brova,, rip too all my fallen fam & homies.. but your right it was ruff.. it's a lot of str8 facts in wat ur saying champ...

Great journalism brother!111

DC was crazy in the 1980's through the 1990's.

Should have way more subscribers , content is relevant today crazy!!

Even as as a youngin,I never understood why dudes were getting killed at the go-go back then when you have plenty of females ready to dance with brothers for the sake of having a good time......now being that if it happened at clubs playing gangsta or hip-hop music creating that atmosphere I would understand it more.....I swear bruh,dudes be their own worst enemy slim....shooting ya kind at a go-go?.......that 💩 is wild slim

Bro awesome work the song at the end tells it all.

Damn it's crazy to know I was a kid chilling around there over my cousin house every weekend during these times. A lot of the violence just seemed normal at that time it was something that we just expected to happen. Now that I'm older I think back and say damn we grew up around some wild sh!t

Damn,"Force parents to be responsible for their children."

You did it again keep up the good work

Awesome video keep ‘‘em coming

I'm 3 seconds in and I know it's bout to be some fire 🔥 content/production 💯🎯 yeah I'm a fan of ya work 💪 salute 🫡

Man, just hearing this music brings back memories

Shows great detail of D.C.

My best memories came from Living in Stanton Terrace. Nothing really happened on the Terrace as much, everything happened on 15th pl, that where Tommy's operation was. The actual beef was "1-5" Congress Park and Parkland. Thry mainly got Tommy and the crew for what happened in the beef between them and Parkland going back and forth over a dope spot aka "a drug/turf war. Anthony aka spooks, Tommy and they crew did their business on "1-5", but lived across the street from me with his sister, his other brother and his sister baby's father, so we saw everybody all the time. Some of those partys were block parties, and cookouts on my side, and when the Summer came and it got hot, the crew opened up the fire hydrant so thr kids can play in the water. The fire department would close it up, and guys from the crew would open it right back up. It was only because there was a stupid rumor in the hood that people used to do number 1 and number 2 in the pool, but when i was going to Hillcrest Camp, there was no evidence of that😁. Sometimes the media makes the streets look more serious than what it is, but a DC kid from NE to SE, it was just misguided brothers who had to make their own opportunities up because the city wouldn't let everyone know there were other opportunities. Got a CDL, forklift license, security clearance, HVAC certification Thanks to DC. I love the hood.

It’s simply known as 1.5 ❤

Amazing work bro

Remember them days walking to school at 15 place going to Johnson

Song at 26:30 is FIRE!!! 🔥🔥🔥 anyone know the name and artist... it's hard to track down these songs unless you know someone from the DMV 😭

RIP to the young brother and sister that was killed together 😢 I remember that being on the news when it happened and my mom making a big deal out of it because the y poi ung girl was my older sister's age

Well put together

I last seen Brother Means in 09 in Big Sandy. He was the imam for the nation of Islam. He is a stand up guy. The way he is portrayed in the past is not who he is. He really is a positive person. It's tragic that so many had to die. RIP

Can you do A story on Steve Fuller from W st. S.E. The King of Water

I went to Harris Elementary school in SE I remember a lot of this can't believe I made it out good video fam💪🏾💯

Great Work

I grew up in NE back then my curfew was when the street light came on my mom ain't play dat

13:40 🤣🤣😭felt tht I’m like how slim finna pronounce dis. Greeks be havin sum vicious names

Tommy ran with a lotta cowards in the end.. #OY TOLD ON THAT MAN, TAKE YOUR OWN WEIGHT

Mr Earl "Tony" Edelin is the reason I'm a community activist now. Every one of those guys had 2 sides and some of us didn't know the personas exhibited in this video. #15thplaceRaisedMe #projectreachout

Great video man

Amazing footage!💜. S/O BYB Rip Polo

Do you remember that story about Bruno in that DC jail documentary Thug Life I believe he got murdered in prison have you done a story about him

Keep them coming tho bro 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

BYB is the epitome of go-go. When I 1st heard back in 1993, it was a rap. Finally, a band the streets can relate to was my thoughts. #21st&Vietnam #Yumaterrance

YESSIR 30 MINS LETS GOOOO

I remember that Unifest like yesterday.

I swear “chain of events” would’ve been my street name in another life…so and so chain of events miller 😂

I'm from VA and was in DC jail with Kevin Gray he a real dude don't know what he done but he showed me love as a young in in my teen years and told me something that stuck with me till this day he help me through DC jail at a young age coming from VA

I been around them dudes they gave me respect and I gave them respect good dudes if you really know them 💯 I been in the streets hard back then too 💯

Crazy how Dey shootin wit no aim

I miss that green and white house 😞 right on Stanton road

im really loving the south side videos I’ve lived closest to it on the pg side in temple hills off 23rd pkwy my whole life and recently moved around mississippi ave trenton pl area and i love learning the history of my area. One day I hope to put it on a larger scale like Snowfall putting the truth out there.

Good work

Good Job. I remember staying next door to Tommy in South 1 ( Dc jail ). Good dude. Also was down Lee county with Shelton ( Sif ) free them brothers til it’s backwards.

For all the loved ones! Stanton Terrace, Fredrick Douglas Dwellings, STC, F.P. 15 #Neverforget #AlwaysForward

Good doc bro 🔥

Another One Good Brother

Keep Going Bro

17:22 i was born during the blizzard when my mom told me i jih felt guilty af having her drive to pg hospital in that bliz💀💀

FREE MY UNCLE

Wow!!! I moved to Robinson pl. 2000...

I never had a curfew as a teen. My muva just wanted to know where I was going, and who I was with, and nine times out of ten I was with a female or at the go-go/strip club. Those were the good old days when lap dances were a dollar at Bumpers and the mirror's would sweat. Lol

8:13 he’s holding his head in shame in da fact he couldn’t do nuffin to change

Back at it #PLEVEL

Yall be proud of dudes who put poison in communities .... hilarious 😂.....let me guess Scarface is your superhero lol

Free uncle Tommy ❤🤞🏿💪🏿 im his nephew SE DC 1000

NorthEast Native here I went to Roper with Damien Blocker RIP 🙏🏽 was I the 7th grade then he was in the 8th grade I remember they announced it on the intercom $hit staying out the way don't mean nothing I'm 40 now

What is the name of that gogo song wen they saying 1996

Is Tommy Mr. Earl Edlemans son?

Cover 202 Mob! Dc to Va.

What he didn't talk about was what bruh was doing!!

When u be making them vids for dat gangsta 💩 your views gone go 📈 every time

Another hit

I remember the u unifest it was lit in the 90s

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