This was a masterpiece slim! I grew up in ward 8 Southeast when DC was the murder capital. I attended Anacostia High sch class 99. I’m from one of the neighborhoods mentioned in this doc. (Condon Terrace). It’s a blessing to be alive and now raising my sons in a suburb just outside of ward 8. Love your work champ!
I’m from Richmond & it’s Crazy how DC, Richmond and Baltimore literally a few hrs apart but they three totally different worlds. This was a great piece bruh 🤝🏾
And only Richmond and DC was the murder capital of the USA!! Baltimore real too…the 757 is nowhere near in comparison to DC,Baltimore or Richmond and it’s in the same state
@@jevarbankston2743 COMPLETELY different and only Richmond and DC was the murder capital of the USA but Baltimore LOOK worse then Richmond and DC combined
Going to Hart MS right down the street from Ballou . Ballou was supposed to be my neighborhood school. I thank God to this day for my Hart MS football coach Jason Lane . He got the Head Coaching job at Coolidge and asked a few of the players to go uptown and play for him. I thank god for him and my Pops. I saw all of the Ballou craziness from the outside versus being in the middle of it all. I remember J Roc being killed my Freshman year. Then they had the mercury outbreak. My pops always said I’m glad we made the choice to send you uptown. Uptown wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t have nothing on SE .
Yessir! I know exactly what you talkin about. I went to Johnson. Coach Jason was tryin to get us up Coolidge too. I ended up goin to Ballou while all that was goin on my 10th grade year. The mercury and shooting.
Why spend your life dwelling on the past. DC was way different than this long time ago. Focus on the past. You can’t see something that’s already gone. Even though crimes still happens but you’ll find your mental mind focused on the past that you can’t focus on the future. Get over it! What’s the point of living when all you are is focusing on the past? A lot of people know about DC but never leave their memory and they are moving on. A lot of them I’m for sure their mentality are only in the past and they can’t even focus on the future because they are so stuck in the past. Who wants to think about all the pain and suffering they’ve been through and family members killed etc? And the damn cycle only continues. Stop being part of the problem when there’s no solution you’re giving.
When I was a teen , I was in Florida at this somewhat boarding school that had people from a lot of different places and Dc was one of them 😂😂😂 They all was from southeast dc. Jeans and boots and coats in 80 degree heat. Banging on tables , chairs, desk everyday singing go go music😂
I'm a born and bred new Yorker who lived in se DC for 5 years I lived on 10th and wheeler and I lived on 30th Street where they call it the big 3-0 and I tell my new york homies all the time they play for keeps out there in se DC ....s*** was no joke
I grew up in the heart of all this. 6st se, 3rd and 4th st was my neighborhood and went to Ballou and PR Harris. I’m a 80s baby and to be alive now at 37 is a blessing 💯💯💯
Woodland Terrace aka Lynch Mob is where my early upbringing was. Not alot of coverage on them projects but that's SE all day. If u can survive there u can survive anywhere!! RIP Hosay 💯💯
This was a good video i grew up around 6th street se i went to hendley 1988-1991 . This is sad what happen those these young men and young girls. R.i.p
I went to Ballou and had my fair share of tussles, but there wasn't any killing in the school. I grew up in Barry Farm and graduated in 93. Excellent job my man. I just found your channel and subbed. You're doing great work documenting D.C.💪🏾
My son was born in Simple City in the late 80's and I up and moved 500 miles away but eventually I had to come back home. Daughter graduated from Ana in 2019. There's no place like home.
Great content man keep up the amazing work. For us who grew up in SE and made it out seeing this hurts your soul. My mother told me when I was running the streets "Son if you mix your book smarts with your streets smarts you would be unstoppable" We have a lot of pure gems on "our" side just need to catch a break.
This some good work slim.Class of 1992 from Big Bad Ballou. Southeast is real different. If you can make it out of ward 8 you can make it out of anywhere.Rip too all the kids that was lost in these mean streets.
Great video. I watch your catalog of videos everyday n am a fan of your work bro. You can tell you put alot n2 your videos n i thank you for bring us the RAW N UNCUT of DC's streets alot of people kno nothing about
man I remember that Thug Life in DC doc. I'm 35 and remember my Mom sitting me down and making me watch it, that shit scared tf out of me. I never really was a bad kid but that doc kept me line for sure.
One of my other former Rocketship students STEPHON SHREEVES was murdered around Barry Farms last month. Just 14 years old man! This shat is just depressing. Idk how I came across this channel/video but THANK YOU for taking the time to highlight the reality of what’s STILL going on in SE! Taught in Ward 8 for 8 years and it’s only gotten worst. 🙏🏽 #RIPStephonShreeves
I thought the school where I teach is rough. My God! After watching this video, I'm very grateful that our kids come in and leave school alive everyday. RIP to all of the kids who died there at Ballou and all over the world.
Don’t look like allot changed since I left DC, born and raised there. Lost allot of friends in the 90’s . Coming from ward 7 N.E. Allot of memories good and bad.🙏🏾RIp to all the kids that lost their lives to early🙏🏾 Rip to everybody that lost their lives to the streets🙏🏾
Man video crushed me. I attended Ballou the year that J Rock died. Actually suffer from PTSD from events I've witnessed growing up in SE. Thanks for posting this video, really brought back memories and was able to see some familiar faces.
I am a Puerto Rican dude from North VA.....I used to buy weed at a lot of these neighborhoods in the 90's when I moved here from Rhode Island. I like all your videos, man. Keep em coming!
When I seen that picture @19:29 yea it’s rough in these inner city ghettos of America for our young Blk youth but they still smiling and push’n fwd💪🏾they the Roses🌹bust’n thru concrete, they the most Roughest n Toughest Diamonds💎and they set trends and inspire the world🌍they dnt evn realize how much influence they have, cause it just be a friendly comp with the hood or at school or to get the attention of some girl/boy, but they star is bright and the world see’s it✊🏾
He didn't let them use his phone because in DC when someone ask to use something it's just a nice way to say I'm taking your phone. That's how it was in the city if someone ask to use your bike you not getting your bike back so you better say no and be willing to fight to keep it. So i understand he wasn't going to let them just take his phone.
I went to night school at ballou 99-2000 and that was the safest time to go and you could easily get a number because a lot of girls went to night school because they didn't wanna go in the day.
Damn bruh, your shorty pop video appeared on my feed earlier today, sometimes I'm blessed by the TH-cam algorithm, every video I've watched so far is 🔥💯
Yeeeaaahhh man it was wild. I graduated in 06. My tenth grade year was that year we stayed on the news. I felt like the news channels blew it outta proportion tho.
You like dat fool‼️ Joint gave me chills..Growing up I anticipated the DAY,Time,HOUR when I would be a resident of LORTON(Behind the Wall) like my father&Uncles I never made it instead God had another plan for me & the Feds was my destination where I learned how to be a Man My College… Keep Going ‼️
Wow, this is the saddest video I've seen in a long time. Poor babies. My heart goes out to their parents, families, friends and the community. We're killing our future every time a child dies.
WOW JAYLEN WHEELER 1:05 was my 6th grade student when I used to teach at Johnson MS back in the day! His murder hit me HARD when it happened. He was just 15. Got killed while trying to stop a fight. We marched all the way down Alabama Avenue to the corner store where he was killed - across from the old Democracy Prep. Damn. RIP Jaylen! 🙏🏽🤎
Yeah knowing I grew up in SE on Douglas and Stanton RD to moving to Benning RD to going to LA and going in porn HALL OF FAME graduating from Eastern looking back at these brings me back to where I can look back and say damn momma I made it. To grow up in the murder capitol of the US and coming out with no priors and have done my fair share of dirt. I'm lucky, blessed and fortunate. DC will always be my home no matter where i am on the planet. Love you DC. Rock The Icon
Great documentary I was born and raised in SE DC Arthur Cappers we moved when I was 12 to pg county was only a lil better but I thank God I was able to leave at the age I did who knows how my life would’ve turned out
I graduated from Ballou in 97’, went on to Delaware State. Then I came back and was the varsity boys basketball assistant coach. I coached when J Rock was killed. That was a great dude. Ballou wasn’t as bad as people make it. Hart was like Eastside High though before Joe Clark.
As always a MASTERPIECE again night rider. I truly enjoy your stories of truth and education my brother ❤️❤️❤️. Id like to know who is singing at the end of this story. Such talent and effort !!! Please hip me id like more from that group. Ty keep trooping Fam 👍🏾✌🏾🫶🏾🪖
Let me tell y’all , I work for Metro and would get some kids from Balloue High on my bus and those boys were bad as HELL . Very very disrespectful , full of hate and as evil as they come. I would hate picking them up, one day I refused and drove by them because the elder’s and working ppl would complain and rant “DONT STOP DRIVER, PLEASE DONT STOP!! By the time I came back around they were waiting for me with rocks and bricks… deep sigh… by the time I saw them it was too late and I was ambushed, all I could hear was GLASS shattering on my bus at the time I thought it was Gun shots. God kept me safe, I had small pieces of glass in my eyes from that incident. I say all that to say , from the kids to the adults ain’t no joke ! So for y’all who think NY and Chicago is all that, do your research . It’s real in my city!
I'm from NY and I definitely believe you smh. Sorry you had to go through that, kids at that age are terrible especially in the inner-cities. They think they know it all and lack respect!
I just got up on this channel yesterday, much respect bro. I use to tell my people in Plainfield, NJ about DC. I was going out there with my cousin, who owned a Dapper Dan clothing store in DC. PEACE 7
This doc hits home for me......i grew up in the murder cap era......im from uptown doe.........the south side was wild af........niggas from the south side would come uptown to the go go......but uptown niggas would not party on the south side 💯
I also played football for Coolidge and we hated going to play at Anacostia......Ballou.........spingarn......and mckenly tech.......winning them games came with extra shit.....
I was born in DC in 1971 & grew up in the DMV & I remember a buddy of mine had a few cousins who went to Ballou & it was wild then …..I’m talking 85-88….fights after school EVERYDAY…..also if you’re not from there or don’t know anyone there do yourself a favor & stay away from the east side of that city especially at night…..dangerous doesn’t even begin to describe it
Class of 92 from Big Bad Ballou. I went there from 10th grade to 12th. Anacostia was my neighborhood school but heard it was rough. Crazy thing is I found out Ballou was rougher before I got there. But we had Mr Richard Washington as a principal doing my time there. Ballou was like Eastside High when Mr Clark was principal. School was safe. Security tight. Only fights I saw were the girls getting into it. No stabbings. No shooting. We didn't have no metal detectors or got searched. During my time there, we had no home football games because the field was messed up. Only been in the gym 2 times because it was supposed to be renovated. I remember walking to the McDonald's on MLK for lunch & be late coming back cause half the school would go there until some of us got our license. I never got in trouble at school but one time we were hooking class like them dudes on Lean On Me. We in the old wing, coming down the steps, come around the wall, Mr Washington standing right there. He said I know these not my seniors just walking during class time. He called each of us by name. I NEVER been to the principal's office or had a conversation with him. This is how together that man had the school. Before Mr Washington, heard Ballou was hell. After my 3 years there & after he left, the word hell not strong enough to describe it. Moved out of DC in 96, came back in 2015 with my kids to show them where I came from. Had no idea the school had been rebuilt & parts of Anacostia been gentrified. Crazy finding these old videos on here.
I hate bullies. I weighed 130 in high-school. I use to see bullies picking. So i use to be the bullie stopper. My Dad rest in heaven. Use to know I packed 2- 25s for bullies. Weather you picked on me or, especially someone who really couldnt fend for themselves. I TEAR A BULLIE ASS OUTTA THE FRAME. REALSPILL ☝🏿 👑 KAABATALK ENOUGH TO MAKE A BABY WALK ☪️!
I took the MPD test at Ballou 1981 and made my 1st arrest there. A burglar. I worked 7D midnights for 17 yrs answering radio calls. I seen all that carnage close up.
Graduated from Ballou in 1989. It was a long time ago, but this was during the crack era so the violence was similar if not worse. I love SE and Ballou HS but this is painful to watch.
I was born and raised on the Southside. Don't get me wrong, DC period is a violent murderous city, but SE always been more fucked up and more violent and cruddy than any part of the city. Everybody I fucked with from other parts of the city that I used to bring to the Southside was always saying "man SE is terrible slim I'm bout to go back on my side" If u make it out da Southside you did something slim!
What's so sad is these mothers know the hopelessness in these areas and yet they won't move their children out.. When that young man told his mom to move his little brother out the neighborhood, she sat there and smiled as if it was a joke..😭🙏🏾😭💙
The thing most of them probably can't afford to move. I grew up in a bad area I was one of the kids that wanted to be a thug what crazy the thugs I knew was on me about graduating and making something out of myself. I remember getting jumped because I had a bad grade on my report card. I'm from Fayetteville NC
@@wy-liethetruth7399 Right‼️ppl act like it’s so simple to Just move🤷🏾♂️and if you do get help and move, where you end up might be worser, it ain like mama got richer, poverty and crime ain just in SE DC. Now you the New kid on the Block/LocalSchool, you gotta Fight for sure now!
It’s not always easy to just up and move. You gotta have the funds to make a big move to a better neighborhood. Idk why ppl like you think it’s so easy to do things like this.
He knew if his little brother stayed in DC he would end up in prison and that's so sad I wish that he didn't speak it into existence though and when he was talking to his mother he was being real and I blame the mother for her sons going to prison cuz when her son told her to get his brother outta DC he meant it and I don't know why the mother didn't listen to anything her son was saying and when someone tells a little kid that they will end up in prison when they get older the child would usually say No I won't, but little boy said you're probably right I might end up here when I get older and he did end up there smh that's so sad
Yup! 1986. Crack baby era. I was 16 years old watching those mothers on those cheese lines in South Jamaica Queens. I told my mom she's lucky none of her children got up in any of it.
When you have the time do some videos on Southeast hoods that has been torn down a.k.a. gentrified like East Capitol dwellings, Valley green, and Author cappper/carrollsburg/ 501 boys just to name a few 👊🏾
15th Pl where I’m from….(Stanton Dwellings ) hit me up , I got info on a lot factual detail and stories ,, I’m official around there 1991-2000(Closing)
The realest documentary I ever seen . Growing up in ward 8 SE dc Original. I’m blessed to see my life transitioned the women I’ve became and the mother god blessed me to be … the uniest days mlk parades and block parties
This was a masterpiece slim! I grew up in ward 8 Southeast when DC was the murder capital. I attended Anacostia High sch class 99. I’m from one of the neighborhoods mentioned in this doc. (Condon Terrace). It’s a blessing to be alive and now raising my sons in a suburb just outside of ward 8. Love your work champ!
Salute to you! Thanks a lot
Did you play sports when you attended ANA?
Wahler Place ? Ant glitzy say that’s top 5 most dangerous places in DC!
Im from the high rise and to see anyone from 8th ward make it is a blessing.
@@realmontana6838 shut up goofey u not from DC asking what place is more dangerous u real live weird eshi
I’m from Richmond & it’s Crazy how DC, Richmond and Baltimore literally a few hrs apart but they three totally different worlds. This was a great piece bruh 🤝🏾
Yea y’all different up there I’m from the 757 we different down here more like Carolina cities with a different attitude
Really is I’m from Good Hope road in southeast. Shit wild in these streets, never getting better.
And only Richmond and DC was the murder capital of the USA!! Baltimore real too…the 757 is nowhere near in comparison to DC,Baltimore or Richmond and it’s in the same state
Well said
@@jevarbankston2743 COMPLETELY different and only Richmond and DC was the murder capital of the USA but Baltimore LOOK worse then Richmond and DC combined
Going to Hart MS right down the street from Ballou . Ballou was supposed to be my neighborhood school. I thank God to this day for my Hart MS football coach Jason Lane . He got the Head Coaching job at Coolidge and asked a few of the players to go uptown and play for him. I thank god for him and my Pops. I saw all of the Ballou craziness from the outside versus being in the middle of it all. I remember J Roc being killed my Freshman year. Then they had the mercury outbreak. My pops always said I’m glad we made the choice to send you uptown. Uptown wasn’t perfect, but it didn’t have nothing on SE .
Yessir! I know exactly what you talkin about. I went to Johnson. Coach Jason was tryin to get us up Coolidge too. I ended up goin to Ballou while all that was goin on my 10th grade year. The mercury and shooting.
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I can’t lie to you Holmes. This was necessary. The world gotta see the real DC
Facts💯
Why spend your life dwelling on the past. DC was way different than this long time ago. Focus on the past. You can’t see something that’s already gone. Even though crimes still happens but you’ll find your mental mind focused on the past that you can’t focus on the future. Get over it! What’s the point of living when all you are is focusing on the past? A lot of people know about DC but never leave their memory and they are moving on. A lot of them I’m for sure their mentality are only in the past and they can’t even focus on the future because they are so stuck in the past. Who wants to think about all the pain and suffering they’ve been through and family members killed etc? And the damn cycle only continues. Stop being part of the problem when there’s no solution you’re giving.
When I was a teen , I was in Florida at this somewhat boarding school that had people from a lot of different places and
Dc was one of them 😂😂😂
They all was from southeast dc.
Jeans and boots and coats in 80 degree heat.
Banging on tables , chairs, desk everyday singing go go music😂
Dinn soun funn ta mehh, accin all harr accin all tuff
😂😂😂😂😂you was around ppl w culture
That was a culture....
DC is wild and has been since the 80s. Jeez.
One of the best channels covering real DC topics. Keep going, each one gets better and better.
I'm a born and bred new Yorker who lived in se DC for 5 years I lived on 10th and wheeler and I lived on 30th Street where they call it the big 3-0 and I tell my new york homies all the time they play for keeps out there in se DC ....s*** was no joke
We don’t care bout dc stories we tough too man
@@jacobmartinez8414 why are you here then 😂😂😂😂😂😂
😭😭I’m talkin bout ur stories, as if ny not wild asf
@@jacobmartinez8414 once again why are you here bro ?😂😂😂😂
@@mattjosephjr9981 spanked him
I grew up in the heart of all this. 6st se, 3rd and 4th st was my neighborhood and went to Ballou and PR Harris. I’m a 80s baby and to be alive now at 37 is a blessing 💯💯💯
Take me back lol miss them small courts at friendship
I’m not from D.C but from Baltimore. But I had a great amount of friends from D.C. When I was in Hagerstown. Man they were some good dudes.
Woodland Terrace aka Lynch Mob is where my early upbringing was. Not alot of coverage on them projects but that's SE all day. If u can survive there u can survive anywhere!! RIP Hosay 💯💯
He was voted best dressed in highschool RIP
This was a good video i grew up around 6th street se i went to hendley 1988-1991 . This is sad what happen those these young men and young girls. R.i.p
I went to Ballou and had my fair share of tussles, but there wasn't any killing in the school. I grew up in Barry Farm and graduated in 93. Excellent job my man. I just found your channel and subbed. You're doing great work documenting D.C.💪🏾
Man you put together some good ass videos. I like the editing I appreciate the authenticity, 10/10 photo selection and music
I graduated from Ballou in 2001, times were crazy. I went to school in the south and never came back….hope things got better
Southeast DC Born and raised 80s baby keep up the good work 💪🏽
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WOW you came to the belly of the beast SOUTH EAST different breed on this side of the river ,we moved different
My son was born in Simple City in the late 80's and I up and moved 500 miles away but eventually I had to come back home. Daughter graduated from Ana in 2019. There's no place like home.
Great content man keep up the amazing work. For us who grew up in SE and made it out seeing this hurts your soul. My mother told me when I was running the streets "Son if you mix your book smarts with your streets smarts you would be unstoppable" We have a lot of pure gems on "our" side just need to catch a break.
Good Work, Great Video. I Graduated From Ballou In 1992
Excellent work. Great Content. Praying for all the youth to succeed and go on and be the best they can be. 🙏🙏💯❤️
Thanks! And facts! They the future💯💪🏽
This some good work slim.Class of 1992 from Big Bad Ballou. Southeast is real different. If you can make it out of ward 8 you can make it out of anywhere.Rip too all the kids that was lost in these mean streets.
Im class of 94 bro. We had to be there at the same time
Ballou Class of '94
Great video. I watch your catalog of videos everyday n am a fan of your work bro. You can tell you put alot n2 your videos n i thank you for bring us the RAW N UNCUT of DC's streets alot of people kno nothing about
The gogo in the intro Is sooo nostalgic 💜keep doin ya thing! I'm subscribed
Coming from a balllu student who actually did the right thing to graduate 2017 on that hot ass football field, this shit break my heart Moe💔
On Muvas Moe
Who is Moe?
@@prettygirltee8 it's DC slang
@@liquidlightz O! 🤣. What other slang y’all use? Some of it be funny but I never thought most of it be slang.
1992 KNIGHT nothing else ❤🎉
man I remember that Thug Life in DC doc. I'm 35 and remember my Mom sitting me down and making me watch it, that shit scared tf out of me. I never really was a bad kid but that doc kept me line for sure.
Real shit bro. I’m born 88 I remember my father taking me in the trenches like “you want to end up like this?”
@@MyOwnBossPR Real shit, it’s too glamorized now and these kids don’t realize they’re caught up in it until it’s too late.
Binge watching these videos good content man for us "Fans" of the "Real" stories this is American history 🇺🇸 keep doing your thing 💯🎯
You too? me too I played hookie from work and I'm All in but it ain't enough videos for me I like a week or better 😉
One of my other former Rocketship students STEPHON SHREEVES was murdered around Barry Farms last month. Just 14 years old man! This shat is just depressing. Idk how I came across this channel/video but THANK YOU for taking the time to highlight the reality of what’s STILL going on in SE! Taught in Ward 8 for 8 years and it’s only gotten worst. 🙏🏽 #RIPStephonShreeves
R.I.P smh 14 years old 🙏🏽
Man I went to Eastern High left in 82. Dc was wild man
I thought the school where I teach is rough. My God! After watching this video, I'm very grateful that our kids come in and leave school alive everyday. RIP to all of the kids who died there at Ballou and all over the world.
Don’t look like allot changed since I left DC, born and raised there. Lost allot of friends in the 90’s . Coming from ward 7 N.E. Allot of memories good and bad.🙏🏾RIp to all the kids that lost their lives to early🙏🏾 Rip to everybody that lost their lives to the streets🙏🏾
I love my city dc born and raised
Man video crushed me. I attended Ballou the year that J Rock died. Actually suffer from PTSD from events I've witnessed growing up in SE. Thanks for posting this video, really brought back memories and was able to see some familiar faces.
I am a Puerto Rican dude from North VA.....I used to buy weed at a lot of these neighborhoods in the 90's when I moved here from Rhode Island. I like all your videos, man. Keep em coming!
Another very good piece of work! Sad, but well put together. I pray for our city and the youth out here.. Keep doing your thing my man! 💯💪🏾🔥
When I seen that picture @19:29 yea it’s rough in these inner city ghettos of America for our young Blk youth but they still smiling and push’n fwd💪🏾they the Roses🌹bust’n thru concrete, they the most Roughest n Toughest Diamonds💎and they set trends and inspire the world🌍they dnt evn realize how much influence they have, cause it just be a friendly comp with the hood or at school or to get the attention of some girl/boy, but they star is bright and the world see’s it✊🏾
He didn't let them use his phone because in DC when someone ask to use something it's just a nice way to say I'm taking your phone. That's how it was in the city if someone ask to use your bike you not getting your bike back so you better say no and be willing to fight to keep it. So i understand he wasn't going to let them just take his phone.
That's a fact I barely use to let my best friend ride my bike
@@Davanillaguerrilla my mother and father told me “you better not let nobody ride your bike EXCEPT your bestfriend”😂😂It’s was fucked up back then moe
@@fuckthestreets4280 hell nah my mom knew better lol I got more bikes stolen as an adult than I did when I was a kid 😭
South East [SE] those two letters hold alot of weight. Salute to my ppl on that South Side. Live forever to the fallen. SESHIT
I remember in the late 90’s living on the southside. As a teenager i saw some wild shit. That country road was wild. Ward 8
I went to night school at ballou 99-2000 and that was the safest time to go and you could easily get a number because a lot of girls went to night school because they didn't wanna go in the day.
Awesome content , witnessing the growth weekly
Damn bruh, your shorty pop video appeared on my feed earlier today, sometimes I'm blessed by the TH-cam algorithm, every video I've watched so far is 🔥💯
Graduated from ballou in 04..all you named in the vid from 02-04 I was there..shit was wicked in the years
Yeeeaaahhh man it was wild. I graduated in 06. My tenth grade year was that year we stayed on the news. I felt like the news channels blew it outta proportion tho.
Ballou definitely always been wild class of 96 come from whaler pl went to Draper and Hart to. This video was definitely on point
Takes me when I went to Potomac job corps all the way from Atlanta but I had a good time while I was there
You like dat fool‼️ Joint gave me chills..Growing up I anticipated the DAY,Time,HOUR when I would be a resident of LORTON(Behind the Wall) like my father&Uncles I never made it instead God had another plan for me & the Feds was my destination where I learned how to be a Man My College…
Keep Going ‼️
🙏🏾
You have been doing an amazing job
Wow, this is the saddest video I've seen in a long time. Poor babies. My heart goes out to their parents, families, friends and the community. We're killing our future every time a child dies.
I'm from the Soufside, but I don't miss this place one bit! Saw too much death in D.C. and P.G. county to have any fondness of them places.
WOW JAYLEN WHEELER 1:05 was my 6th grade student when I used to teach at Johnson MS back in the day! His murder hit me HARD when it happened. He was just 15. Got killed while trying to stop a fight. We marched all the way down Alabama Avenue to the corner store where he was killed - across from the old Democracy Prep. Damn. RIP Jaylen! 🙏🏽🤎
man this chanell str8 reality. keep up the good work
What’s the go go band and track 🔥🔥🔥
Awesome journalism. You are a voice for the voiceless. Thank you for doing this.
Yeah knowing I grew up in SE on Douglas and Stanton RD to moving to Benning RD to going to LA and going in porn HALL OF FAME graduating from Eastern looking back at these brings me back to where I can look back and say damn momma I made it. To grow up in the murder capitol of the US and coming out with no priors and have done my fair share of dirt. I'm lucky, blessed and fortunate. DC will always be my home no matter where i am on the planet. Love you DC.
Rock The Icon
Hey Homes your like Jordan in 96 you dont miss keep doing your thing
Damn thanks bruh! 💪🏽💯
I would hear stories about SE when i was growing up in the 70's and 80's.
I watch this joint like once a year hbo had the best documentaries back then…
Great documentary I was born and raised in SE DC Arthur Cappers we moved when I was 12 to pg county was only a lil better but I thank God I was able to leave at the age I did who knows how my life would’ve turned out
I graduated from Ballou in 97’, went on to Delaware State. Then I came back and was the varsity boys basketball assistant coach. I coached when J Rock was killed. That was a great dude. Ballou wasn’t as bad as people make it. Hart was like Eastside High though before Joe Clark.
Ima have to look thru your shit my guy... we put together I must say. This is art
I'll say it every time. Aboslutely necessary for DC.
Class of 06… I was there for it all. Ballou made me thorough on everything.
As always a MASTERPIECE again night rider. I truly enjoy your stories of truth and education my brother ❤️❤️❤️. Id like to know who is singing at the end of this story. Such talent and effort !!! Please hip me id like more from that group. Ty keep trooping Fam 👍🏾✌🏾🫶🏾🪖
Awesome enlightenment video!! Great narration ❤
Let me tell y’all , I work for Metro and would get some kids from Balloue High on my bus and those boys were bad as HELL . Very very disrespectful , full of hate and as evil as they come. I would hate picking them up, one day I refused and drove by them because the elder’s and working ppl would complain and rant “DONT STOP DRIVER, PLEASE DONT STOP!! By the time I came back around they were waiting for me with rocks and bricks… deep sigh… by the time I saw them it was too late and I was ambushed, all I could hear was GLASS shattering on my bus at the time I thought it was Gun shots. God kept me safe, I had small pieces of glass in my eyes from that incident.
I say all that to say , from the kids to the adults ain’t no joke ! So for y’all who think NY and Chicago is all that, do your research . It’s real in my city!
I'm from NY and I definitely believe you smh. Sorry you had to go through that, kids at that age are terrible especially in the inner-cities. They think they know it all and lack respect!
@@josephbovain2536 Absolutely
I blame the gucking parents! Cuz wtf yall keep having them for just to be menaces
Lived in the neighborhood for years. Gotta be on ur square ppls. All my nephews n nieces went there. It's like that. Old Ballou
the gogo on the intro is on point
I just got up on this channel yesterday, much respect bro. I use to tell my people in Plainfield, NJ about DC. I was going out there with my cousin, who owned a Dapper Dan clothing store in DC. PEACE 7
This doc hits home for me......i grew up in the murder cap era......im from uptown doe.........the south side was wild af........niggas from the south side would come uptown to the go go......but uptown niggas would not party on the south side 💯
I also played football for Coolidge and we hated going to play at Anacostia......Ballou.........spingarn......and mckenly tech.......winning them games came with extra shit.....
I was born in DC in 1971 & grew up in the DMV & I remember a buddy of mine had a few cousins who went to Ballou & it was wild then …..I’m talking 85-88….fights after school EVERYDAY…..also if you’re not from there or don’t know anyone there do yourself a favor & stay away from the east side of that city especially at night…..dangerous doesn’t even begin to describe it
Class of 92 from Big Bad Ballou. I went there from 10th grade to 12th. Anacostia was my neighborhood school but heard it was rough. Crazy thing is I found out Ballou was rougher before I got there. But we had Mr Richard Washington as a principal doing my time there. Ballou was like Eastside High when Mr Clark was principal. School was safe. Security tight. Only fights I saw were the girls getting into it. No stabbings. No shooting. We didn't have no metal detectors or got searched. During my time there, we had no home football games because the field was messed up. Only been in the gym 2 times because it was supposed to be renovated. I remember walking to the McDonald's on MLK for lunch & be late coming back cause half the school would go there until some of us got our license. I never got in trouble at school but one time we were hooking class like them dudes on Lean On Me. We in the old wing, coming down the steps, come around the wall, Mr Washington standing right there. He said I know these not my seniors just walking during class time. He called each of us by name. I NEVER been to the principal's office or had a conversation with him. This is how together that man had the school. Before Mr Washington, heard Ballou was hell. After my 3 years there & after he left, the word hell not strong enough to describe it. Moved out of DC in 96, came back in 2015 with my kids to show them where I came from. Had no idea the school had been rebuilt & parts of Anacostia been gentrified. Crazy finding these old videos on here.
I graduated in 93 and we did have metal detectors through the cafeteria entrance from the outside
brothers had my back ok i went to anacostia high school iam 50 years old now man i went to college down in winston salem north carolina
I hate bullies. I weighed 130 in high-school. I use to see bullies picking.
So i use to be the bullie stopper.
My Dad rest in heaven.
Use to know I packed 2- 25s
for bullies. Weather you picked on me or, especially someone who really couldnt fend for themselves. I TEAR A BULLIE ASS OUTTA THE FRAME. REALSPILL ☝🏿 👑 KAABATALK ENOUGH TO MAKE A BABY WALK ☪️!
PG county checking in, shout out DC ✌🏽
Love the content!!!👊🏿👍🏿
Just Stumbled up on this Channel, I’m now a subscriber!! Keep the 🔥 🔥🔥🔥Content Coming !👊🏽💯
I took the MPD test at Ballou 1981 and made my 1st arrest there. A burglar. I worked 7D midnights for 17 yrs answering radio calls. I seen all that carnage close up.
We under a vicious spell we gotta wake up black love is the only thing that can save us. We all we got
Man u right black brown and yellow gotta come togeva I'm latin but u right focus on the real problem
My deepest condolences too all the mother's who loss there Chile this is so sad😭💔🙌
Well put together documentary from start to finish 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✊🏿
Thanks
Graduated from Ballou in 1989. It was a long time ago, but this was during the crack era so the violence was similar if not worse. I love SE and Ballou HS but this is painful to watch.
godsonal,so glad you made it out.and raising your children. Good luck and may God Continue to bless you.
Much respect puttn these stories together
I was born and raised on the Southside. Don't get me wrong, DC period is a violent murderous city, but SE always been more fucked up and more violent and cruddy than any part of the city. Everybody I fucked with from other parts of the city that I used to bring to the Southside was always saying "man SE is terrible slim I'm bout to go back on my side" If u make it out da Southside you did something slim!
What's so sad is these mothers know the hopelessness in these areas and yet they won't move their children out.. When that young man told his mom to move his little brother out the neighborhood, she sat there and smiled as if it was a joke..😭🙏🏾😭💙
The thing most of them probably can't afford to move. I grew up in a bad area I was one of the kids that wanted to be a thug what crazy the thugs I knew was on me about graduating and making something out of myself. I remember getting jumped because I had a bad grade on my report card. I'm from Fayetteville NC
How can u move with no money
@@wy-liethetruth7399 Right‼️ppl act like it’s so simple to Just move🤷🏾♂️and if you do get help and move, where you end up might be worser, it ain like mama got richer, poverty and crime ain just in SE DC. Now you the New kid on the Block/LocalSchool, you gotta Fight for sure now!
It’s not always easy to just up and move. You gotta have the funds to make a big move to a better neighborhood. Idk why ppl like you think it’s so easy to do things like this.
@@Jmelpegues wrd wrd I'm straight outta Durham NC
He knew if his little brother stayed in DC he would end up in prison and that's so sad I wish that he didn't speak it into existence though and when he was talking to his mother he was being real and I blame the mother for her sons going to prison cuz when her son told her to get his brother outta DC he meant it and I don't know why the mother didn't listen to anything her son was saying and when someone tells a little kid that they will end up in prison when they get older the child would usually say No I won't, but little boy said you're probably right I might end up here when I get older and he did end up there smh that's so sad
Great piece of work
man’😢 So Sad indeed… SouthSide Across The River… Most Definitely!!! a Struggle’ and Big Challenges… Allah Grant Peace & Bliss Over DC’🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Intro CRANK HARD!
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Good video made me cry with baby girl I have a 16 year old daughter also seeing that mother crush me
Yup! 1986. Crack baby era. I was 16 years old watching those mothers on those cheese lines in South Jamaica Queens. I told my mom she's lucky none of her children got up in any of it.
Incredible work my guy!!! 💯
Ballou was a wild place but 3 of the best years of my life class of 01
When you have the time do some videos on Southeast hoods that has been torn down a.k.a. gentrified like East Capitol dwellings, Valley green, and Author cappper/carrollsburg/ 501 boys just to name a few 👊🏾
And definitely Robinson Pl., Southeast a.k.a. 1 deuce, and all the old housing projects that used to be on Stanton Road
I Got you! I did Valley Green
15th Pl where I’m from….(Stanton Dwellings ) hit me up , I got info on a lot factual detail and stories ,, I’m official around there 1991-2000(Closing)
It's crazy that Dre aka Bruno's lil brother Kevin chose the same path
Big facts on the music playing in the city Scarface and pac Heavy in the rotations 💯🔥
I lived in Langston Lane in the heart of Southeast DC.. WHOLE DIFFERENT 🌎 trust that
Damn brah I went to Winston and I remember that stairwell always being closed and I never knew why
The realest documentary I ever seen . Growing up in ward 8 SE dc Original. I’m blessed to see my life transitioned the women I’ve became and the mother god blessed me to be … the uniest days mlk parades and block parties
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The wild thing is the son of the officer that was shot by Andre ended up in prison for a similar crime as well.