Me it randomly pop popped up. But the version where I think it's a police officer that worked during those years talking over it so I switched to this original one.
Al profit documentaries are the TRUTH...Especially for a former Detroiter like myself.....Keep them Detroit Documentaries coming Brother Al profit.....you make us Detroiters proud by showing our hardships from the past....love you man.
"Boone" was one bad dude. I salute him for telling his story and keeping his head up. He is not bragging about his past, instead trying to prevent history from repeating itself.
And trying to get a movie deal, he is great at sensationalizing his story. According to him He was runnin shiznit a 9 years old with a brand new cadillac 😆 might be true with a couple curves in the story
What happened to Detroit is a shame. A once beautiful city that now lies mostly in ruins. I was fortunate to spend my childhood in the nice northern areas of the surrounding neighborhoods, but ended up going and spending most of my free time on the east side as I got a little older. The people who were raised and live there are as real as it gets. I generally recommend most people to stay out of the city neighborhoods, but I always love to go back and visit when I am back in town to hangout or help someone out who needs some simple items that will make a big impact. The bluntness, no nonsense attitudes, and wildness is refreshing. The years I spent there gave me a lot of appreciation and experience that has stuck with me.
SAD CITY TODAY BLK MEN DID NOT LEAD THEY TORE THE CITY APART PIMPED WOMEN SOLD DRUGS GANGS BLAQ MEN FAILED EVERYWHERE ITS THE SAME STORY DIDNT BUILD ANYTHING IN ANY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE USA NOW ITS GENTRIFICATION YALL ARE DONE SMH
I LIVE in Virginia, but Im from Detroit. I grew up middle class, and I used to HEAR about crime and street life, and the dope boys used to make their lifestyles look very appealing on the West side. People used to get robbed of their Shoes in the middle 80's. Adidas Top Tens and even the first jordans. CHECK IT IN, they used to say. In the 80's the factories started to become more automated and that caused alot of unemployment. My grandfather was fortunate enough to have been retired from Chrysler when I was a kid in the 70"s and 80's. And was fortunate enough to NOT have to endure STREET life. But as a kid and teenager I was impressed by the dope dealers.
I was a kid in the 80s and grew up in the 90s so i know bout how it was laying with that ya and crazy with min. wage was what it was very low and check it in led to guns getting crarried
That just blew my mind. It's 4:30 am I couldn't stop watching. Thought I was bad a teenager and young man. People called me OG. I'm no OG compared to these dudes.
I grew up in Chicago in this era and when I think about the guy talking about cashing out on cars it hits home. I was 16 and went to a BMW dealership in Evergreen Park and tried to buy an M3. The guy asked me how old I was when I told him he laughed at me! He asked what my parents did and my dad was in the Air Force and he wasn't trying to even address the situation. The older guys ended up getting killed or caught, the gang heads got locked up, and here are young guys out here trying to act grown! All I can say is I'm glad I avoided death and fed time, but they still got some time out of me! I'll take life on the streets any day!
I watched this documentary last night while doing the dishes. Wow, excellent job AL, you got all of these interviews from so many guys running in that life back then. Amazing!
AI I really appreciate how you pay homage to the stories in these inner city streets. Not to glorify a certain lifestyle but to show and tell the story of how we are all faced with choices in life. You always handle these stories with respect and realness. ❤
Damn, this documentary for me is the gold standard into the goings on in Detroit back in the day. It makes no bones about the subject matter, and tells it from a street level perspective and that makes it beyond real.
Very real my dad was born 1930 in Detroit, I am the baby out of 8 ..I was born 1975,my dad was the truth out in dem Streets....I have seen and witnessed alot
U can't get beyond real!! Other than that, well said. I was n Cleveland wen th 2nd wave was puttin it down(mid 2 late 80's) so I Kno of Detroit Boyz movez✔️
Discovered this channel maybe 4 months ago. There's no better crime history channel and I've watched many. Writing, editing, research - There's nothing to compare it to. Thanks, Al - keep bringing us that raw American Dope.
This is a story that can easily be told about Memphis, St.Louis, Chicago, especially Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Not just Detroit. The decline of other rust belt manufacturing cities happened the same way as Detroit.
are you saying that all of these big cities that are run by the democratic party are shit cities. if you are than welcome to the club. the club is the party that all working people belong to.
I live near Detroit in the neighborhood, man its so fucked up for people. Every time I pass a certain area you got like 10-15 lil kids all selling water together. I pull up to the side and call them over. I try to give them 20 bucks for a bottle of water. But most of the time it was 10 bucks and they were always grateful and would tell me to blast a song from my car so I will and they start break dancing lol. Their cool as hell but its rough for them. I haven't seen them since the winter but I got a few iPods and small but decently loud plug in stereos/Headphones. Hope I run into them again this summer or even spring because I still take that route home.
People don’t want jobs. They want to hustle and make fast money.. many people in Detroit would have to settle for minimum wage jobs because they only have a high school education..
I do the same thing. I grew up on west Warren live downriver now but I have family that still lives over there. Every time I drive down Paul there's a young boy who is selling water and candy. It's sad but at the same time is it? It's not a bad thing. He's making money. He's learning how to make a dollar. I gave him 5 bucks and didn't even take the water. I had a skateboard in my back seat he noticed it. On my way back I thought about giving him a extra skate deck in my trunk but he was gone. Next time I roll through there I hope to see him
Excellent reporting. This was one of the best documentaries I have seen on gangsters. Straight from their mouths. No speculation. Glad this came up in my queue. kudos.
@@stbx43z A lot of this was going on long before the CIA got involved that was in the 80's drugs been in the hood since the 40's fam and a lot of it came from our ppl along with mobsters and other criminals.
You see that shit? Lightning strikes a lot on these phones. Uve spiken about something and then start getting ads on subject matter!! Not the odd time but continuelly.
Tommy hitman Hearns, Sugar Ray, Marvelous Marvin Hagler were the premier black fighters during 80s. Whute oeople World wide loved their Black Arses. Bad man destroyers.
I would be way to embarrassed to even talk about selling drugs to my brothers and sisters and destroying my community. I would be begging God for forgiveness.
Black people in the USA are already mentally and spiritually dead the only death left is physical death. Drug dealers just finished a bunch of them off physically.
I WATCH THIS AT LEAST ONCE OR TWICE EVERY YEAR- Al you are one gifted brother- we love u in DETROIT you are a legend to us for making all the stuff you have. Im 42 Ive been watchibng your work litterally since the music video days
The decline of Detroit and GM, Ford, Dodge, and Chrysler started 50 years ago when the Motown Record Label relocated to LA. That's when the narcotics really started coming into the City. Narcotics devastated Detroit as well as the rest of the state of Michigan.
Now I know why my parents moved us to Northern Michigan in 1968. They grew up on Beniteau Street on the east side. My grandmother lived on South River Road in Harrison Township until she died in 1990. We were never allowed to venture into Detroit when we visited.
Detroit, What Up Doe!? 🥰 ✊ Detroit. . . Born and raised! Detroiter. . . West side/East side North side/South side Detroitest. . . I Love ❤ Detroit 💯 #DetroitStrong👊
Yes I'm a product of this documentary and it's so much more than is mentioned in this piece of truth about us. Being the most defined human beings in the world 🌎
I remember sitting across the river when i was only 5 with my dad and other siblings watching all of the smoke from the fires and gunshots going off night and day during the 67 riot's. I remember when YBI got into the game. I still go shopping in Detroit along with concerts and sporting events. The D has always been our team!
Same here, Brenda. I was 5 too, and I remember National Guard tankers driving down Plymouth road telling everyone to go inside their homes. I remember when we had to stop playing outside at grandma’s house on West Grand Blvd and Vernor as it wasn’t safe to play with the neighborhood kids due to random shootings. Once, when coming home from a show at Cobo hall we stopped to buy more beer and the cops pulled up next to us in the parking lot and we thought we were gonna get busted for buying beer underage. Instead, the cops told us to get the hell out of the neighborhood we got lost in and said “get outta here, we don’t even usually drive down here”. I’ll never forget it. They also showed us the way to the highway. I could go on and on telling you crazy stories about the D. There was no better stadium in the country than Tiger Stadium. That place was rockin in 1968 and 84! I was there too in the latter win
I was born and raised in Detroit and still here and I was brought up on YBI and all the gangsters we had the Chamber brothers who made the Carter witch they made the movie New Jack City was based off of were a city of Hustlers the game aint to be glorified but believe there are some real crazy stories that should detour young guys to not wana follow in these street legends yes the money can be really good but the consequences are horrific 💯
My DAD GOT VERY LUCKY. HE GOT A JOB WORKING FOR THE DETROIT FREE PRESS. AND WAS A DISTRICT MANAGER. When my mom went and found him in 1989. And I worked for my dad with my brothers. NEWSPAPERS SOLD VERY WELL BACK THEN.
That red dude B clearly is very proud of his corrupt past. He tell his story with such passion and excitement you can tell he wish he could relive it again.
I appreciate the story telling in that form because it kind of transports you back in time with the energy, but also very sad to see because he’s obviously not doing to well mentally, and has never grown up
i pride myself with knowing the history or organized crime , this is the firs i heard of it , and the documentary is so well put together , everything is in perspective , it not just some dude babbling about the good days
@@kevinlambert5310 hating on the middle class built by the auto industry? I got a different vibe like he was referencing a golden era before the economic hardship and drug epidemic
I use to see Pimp,Big Man,Smiley,Randy Blount and Snake from Pony Down Crew (BGD) I wanted to be just like them as a child up to young adulthood. Looking back it wasn't nothing but Death/Destruction. Underneath the glitch and glamor was misery as I look back and I pray that the youth take notes and go a different route. God bless the Real
@@marklaurie5723 your uncle must didn't know me. Wasn't no running home. 7mile/Prevost was my home. Mom's and my sister use to look for me but I would hide in Black Ants basement Goofy
This channel has some of the best documentaries! I’m so glad I found it! Great job and thank you for putting these out so the rest of America ... and the world ... can you maybe take an opportunity to try to educate themselves and try to understand. I posted on another channel that a lot of people have very strong opinions on shit they know nothing about. I grew up in a safe neighborhood… It was poor but it was also safe for us to go out and ride our bikes after school. I came to TH-cam to try to educate myself to understand what others have gone through and why they feel the way they feel. I had wonderful parents who taught me to respect everybody and for those who are lucky to find love, you love them back no matter what color they are… just like every other hippie parent taught their kids! And as a mother of a mixed child who is now an amazing grown man, I never experienced some of these things that folks talk about today on the news but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. I wish more people would try to educate themselves before they start throwing their verbal diarrhea everywhere. Understanding is the first step to change. Thank you!
Thank you for the long and logical and passionate comment. I have become somewhat disturbed by how locked in so many people are to their existing ideas. We should all be ready to learn new ways of understanding society.
Is it just me or is the commentary a little racist? 😂 the blacks think they are going to take control? Black people were the only ones committing crime?
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Love the history lesson!!! This is the type of history that has always piqued my interest. Real, everyday, street history. The kind that you won't get from approved school curriculum
The stupidest thing I've read this week. Maybe for lazy, criminally predisposed and ignorant fools. Not any young people I know. Then again, all I know are really decent young people.
When a company and major employer and investor loses confidence in the safety of their facilities and plants and depots etc, they decide to move to the adjacent suburbs, which means that they encourage other companies to do the same and also many of the well paid employees. This means that they no longer pay their taxes to the city government but to the new suburban authorities, they leave behind empty factories and I facilities and empty lots, the workforce leave the city shops and restaurants and bars and banks etc which now decide to relocate with their customer base, the lost tax revenue means that public facilities and street lights, road repairs, public schools and libraries, leisure facilities, police and fire departments etc all lose staff and money for new equipment and buildings etc. This has a snowball effect when every new company that leaves the city for 25 miles away in the local suburbs leave more empty lots and housing, underperforming schools and low morale police and fire and public health departments, closed shops and unrepaired roads etc and anyone with a property and a family to consider is scared of being left behind when the other white people quickly leave for new housing in the adjacent areas. The previously owned houses are then rented out to single mothers and unemployed families and badly paid people who are desperate for somewhere to live and before long the whole city is in a state of virtual panic with worried people trying to sell up and move to the safety of the local neighbouring areas and the number of companies and ships and businesses that are planning on going to be with their customers increases quickly the whole city is becoming poorer and less confident all of the time. The riots of the 1960's sent Detroit into a downer spiral of increasing crime, higher unemployment, higher poverty, less private and public investment and a genuine negative view of the near future. I think that the term is 'a perfect storm' of negative factors.
Same thing happened in my city early 80's in Bridgeport, CT. And my people didn't understand how economics worked so they blamed it on racism. But yeah. The new economy was Crack Cocaine. And we worked in shifts n what not.
I was born and raised in Detroit, 8 mile and Ryan (south of 8 mile) and this was an incredible doc! I worked at spring and suspension shop just N of 8 mile and Dequindre and Maserati Ric brought his Bronco II in for a lift kit. I had the job of test driving it once we were all done with it. We knew who he was but you NEVER brought shit like up if you knew what was good for you, growing up S of 8 mile I knew what was good for ME😉
@@dboyvseverybody7327 my parents sent me to Catholic school for GS qnd HS so I didn't go to Pershing but I did take drivers training at Osborn though. I walked to GS and it wasn't unusual to see a stripped and/or burned car in our school parking lot or in the alleys.
I've literally watched this 20x if not more , it never gets old, Al's research and reach into this topic is second to none, Amazing , this doc needs to be In a actual history class , Al is the real crime historian of our times. Thanx Mr.profit for the amazing content and all ur hardwork. Happy holidays and I wish u and your friends and family the best in the new year, from across the bridge here in windsor always peeping that Detroit game. Holla at ur boy .
Spent time in the Wayne County Youth Home with a lot of these fellas back in the day. So glad I got my life together. I was a square peg in a round circle while my stay at E. Forest Street, but earned respect 🫡
Yes!!l... love a good Al profit documentary.. pls keep it up my guy...theres a lot of stories all over the world need you attention...more power to you my brother
4:27 I'm 54 and I can write up in the heart of this era right where everything is actually going on and with respect completely the hood did not sa. BIG FOUR It was... BIG FO' PURPLE 💜 GIRL DETROIT MICHIGAN
The African American community commands so much wealth today, we could use that money and change our communities. Build better schools, better housing projects, encourage STEM Programs in Schools, there is so much that can be done to change the outlook
Well maybe all these churches we have on every other damn block could get together and start something to build us up. Other wise it's just another hole to throw money in.
In the 80s and early 90s I was growing up on the Eastside of Detroit… everyone on my block had at least one person in their family on crack. There were always 2 crack houses working. Detroit was beautiful even then but the signs of decay were there. I can rem so much and I was in my 30s before I understood why my mom moved us to Alabama.
You know what’s a bigger shame is that this will wind up been America’s future nothing but hopelessness & poverty including more people turning into the life of crime, especially since our government is to busy taxing the poor & middle class while the rich 🤑 is getting richer without paying a dime of taxe at all,, thus let’s not to mention that last year during the pandemic 😷 our politicians along with former President Donald Trump were in Las Vegas spending our tax paying money 💰 on the casinos 🎰 and how do I know this well I got a friend who works at the MGM Grand and spotted a lot of our Congress, US Senate along with Trump & a bunch of those Rockefeller elites having a good time and getting pampered at the hotels 🏨 while we were all in n lock down 🔒. Also, what’s a shame is that our governments solution is to build more jails than creating more jobs, affordable Medicare 🏥, and schools 🏫 especially since nobody can get unemployment benefits anymore which is stupid considering that the pandemic 😷 laid off a million people and even when businesses started opening again nobody couldn’t be able to get their job back, so until we as an American 🇺🇸 society start changing all that then we can see the crime rate go down along with seen more descent middle class people having nice descent money 💰 as well.
@@DanielMartinez-el3uz I hear you and I agree for the most part. The Congressman & women are who they are along with Senators & other political figures because they’re voted in! Including Mayors & Governors as well. When they’re elected they now have a completely Compt. Life! The lowest paid politician gets around 250 grand a year for a salary! And that’s the lowest paid! We as a society need to start voting more and not just the bigger elections! Not to mention start teaching Civics in school again so that when the kids, who are the future will start voting and understand what & how the branches of the government are and so forth. We are the ones who put these people in charge of the country and all that entails.. even if we don’t vote that’s worse actually! I’m realizing this as I get older.. I used to say I wouldn’t vote because I wouldn’t encourage the bastards! It’s all on us to change shit we don’t like. As a democracy that’s what this country was supposed to be built upon. All that being said. It is possible that Trump at least was spending his own money! As he does have plenty of it! You can’t say for sure that he was spending tax dollars to gamble, which would be highly illegal. Society needs to pay more attention and choose better leaders, change or amend certain laws, restructure the entire system from the top down, stop allowing certain groups who are just as full of shit as the politicians spew their hateful racist opinions that for fear of being politically incorrect get millions of dollars and sponsors to support them though they spend not one dime on their alleged causes and their people! Stop letting these insane groups completely rewrite history because of some dark stains in it (like literally every part of history and peoples) also change definitions of words that they claim are offensive (to only them) and make up a few new ones too! Wanting to teach this Bull Shit to our children! Literally teach them HATRED AND RACISM! With this ‘Critical Race Theory’.. The country, hell the world is beginning to go mad and thankfully a lot of people are taking notice of it and starting to stand up and say enough is enough now!
@@coffeecrimegal5968 so what your saying is you all want to continue telling lies and white washing truths while you run roughshod over the rights & priviledges of others ? You want to leave out the truth of history which offends you because your ancestors are guilty as hell and your living of their spoils. Ok we get it !!
@@alprofit hey Al why haven’t you done a story on Quasand Lewis? He had a huge organization one of the best I’ve seen! And he didn’t tell on anyone or none of his people snitched on anybody!! Hope you’ll be telling it soon
Dude love you doc's ...mostly the Detroit ones cause it's my home....love how you ask the right questions....you have a way at asking questions to get the detailed answers
This documentary is true and I am amazed how Al got all this info, yes all those stories are true. I seen it, lived it, and fled it bc Detroit had become to bad to live in at that time.
Detroit was a great place to live. Yea it had his violence. Just like any where else in this world 🌎. Detroit was counted murder cap and dangerous place by government. Because it was the cities in Detroit. Government couldn't control or ride threw doing whatever. If anything The South is the murder cap back in the racists was deep. We blks getting killed. But still this day KKK not counted as a gang. Which they are a gang killed more of us. Then the streets these days and back in Detroit. Also any area in the world. Hard drugs came into here, because of the government. Even a man apart of government said the same thing. Detroit taken back over and ecr
Watching the news from 1970’s speak on the problems back then...in the exact same order that we speak about us having these problems, today. Nothing changed except peoples ages huh?
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You not from ROLLIN... Stop! That's a gang from California
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Why can’t we watch Bretts other videos ?
@johnson oney me I have been
WHO HERE IN 2024 BABY!!!!
What up Doe! ❤️ Tha Dee
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Me it randomly pop popped up. But the version where I think it's a police officer that worked during those years talking over it so I switched to this original one.
I’m mad ash he tired to hoe my city talking about we ah memory😤
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Al profit documentaries are the TRUTH...Especially for a former Detroiter like myself.....Keep them Detroit Documentaries coming Brother Al profit.....you make us Detroiters proud by showing our hardships from the past....love you man.
"Boone" was one bad dude. I salute him for telling his story and keeping his head up. He is not bragging about his past, instead trying to prevent history from repeating itself.
And trying to get a movie deal, he is great at sensationalizing his story. According to him He was runnin shiznit a 9 years old with a brand new cadillac 😆 might be true with a couple curves in the story
What happened to Detroit is a shame. A once beautiful city that now lies mostly in ruins. I was fortunate to spend my childhood in the nice northern areas of the surrounding neighborhoods, but ended up going and spending most of my free time on the east side as I got a little older. The people who were raised and live there are as real as it gets. I generally recommend most people to stay out of the city neighborhoods, but I always love to go back and visit when I am back in town to hangout or help someone out who needs some simple items that will make a big impact. The bluntness, no nonsense attitudes, and wildness is refreshing. The years I spent there gave me a lot of appreciation and experience that has stuck with me.
SAD CITY TODAY BLK MEN DID NOT LEAD THEY TORE THE CITY APART PIMPED WOMEN SOLD DRUGS GANGS BLAQ MEN FAILED EVERYWHERE ITS THE SAME STORY DIDNT BUILD ANYTHING IN ANY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE USA NOW ITS GENTRIFICATION YALL ARE DONE SMH
Same with me. I’m from Louisville Kentucky. I totally agree about returning to your native environment is always refreshing
People don't have to stay outta here they just need to know how to move in certain situations and environment's 💯#Eastside #MackVanDykeway!
Detroit still good b an so many big investors are here. Also are downtown is a must see
Not anymore
I LIVE in Virginia, but Im from Detroit. I grew up middle class, and I used to HEAR about crime and street life, and the dope boys used to make their lifestyles look very appealing on the West side. People used to get robbed of their Shoes in the middle 80's. Adidas Top Tens and even the first jordans. CHECK IT IN, they used to say. In the 80's the factories started to become more automated and that caused alot of unemployment. My grandfather was fortunate enough to have been retired from Chrysler when I was a kid in the 70"s and 80's. And was fortunate enough to NOT have to endure STREET life. But as a kid and teenager I was impressed by the dope dealers.
Yeah back then was hectic.virgina sounds nice.💯
I was a kid in the 80s and grew up in the 90s so i know bout how it was laying with that ya and crazy with min. wage was what it was very low and check it in led to guns getting crarried
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You can't deny it, gangsters back in the day had real drip.
Ric Flair drip. It went WOOOOO on a bitch
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What's drip? Like another word for swag?
@@falconone7230 lol pretty much
😁😁All over Michigan💪🏾💯 love my state💯well kinda👀😂
Despite Detroits checkered past I can’t be prouder to be a native metro Detroiter for 43 years.
Then you are a lunatic, brah
@@mojomojo5779 how is being proud of where you are from make you a lunatic. I know Detroit is off the chain but its my hometown
Key word "metro". Go live in the trenches for a week
@@flammingdragon is 7 and Hayes or Clark and vernor in southwest trenches enough for you?. I lived in both Detroit proper and in suburbs.
@@michaelbettisworth8938 then u shouldn't be proud of where you're from
That just blew my mind. It's 4:30 am I couldn't stop watching. Thought I was bad a teenager and young man. People called me OG. I'm no OG compared to these dudes.
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I grew up in Chicago in this era and when I think about the guy talking about cashing out on cars it hits home. I was 16 and went to a BMW dealership in Evergreen Park and tried to buy an M3. The guy asked me how old I was when I told him he laughed at me! He asked what my parents did and my dad was in the Air Force and he wasn't trying to even address the situation. The older guys ended up getting killed or caught, the gang heads got locked up, and here are young guys out here trying to act grown! All I can say is I'm glad I avoided death and fed time, but they still got some time out of me! I'll take life on the streets any day!
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I lived in those neighborhoods in the 80s!....we heard about all of this! These guys are legends, it was crazy back then!...... Al profit is a true g!
You lying 🤥 but ok
If you lived in that neighbourhood, you would have had a life expectancy of only 30, you'd be dead by now.
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Legends?
Yeh I grew up on lillibridge in and Mack… my mom, her sisters and brothers grew up with a lot of those cats.
I watched this documentary last night while doing the dishes. Wow, excellent job AL, you got all of these interviews from so many guys running in that life back then. Amazing!
Bro 1hr 35mins, that alot of dishes. Lol
This is incredibly well made.
AI I really appreciate how you pay homage to the stories in these inner city streets. Not to glorify a certain lifestyle but to show and tell the story of how we are all faced with choices in life. You always handle these stories with respect and realness. ❤
Damn, this documentary for me is the gold standard into the goings on in Detroit back in the day. It makes no bones about the subject matter, and tells it from a street level perspective and that makes it beyond real.
AGREED!! --MoeHoward
Fordham and Gratiot bound 7 mile runnin
Very real my dad was born 1930 in Detroit, I am the baby out of 8 ..I was born 1975,my dad was the truth out in dem Streets....I have seen and witnessed alot
You miss the lick don't you sir?..lol just kidding!
U can't get beyond real!! Other than that, well said. I was n Cleveland wen th 2nd wave was puttin it down(mid 2 late 80's) so I Kno of Detroit Boyz movez✔️
Discovered this channel maybe 4 months ago. There's no better crime history channel and I've watched many. Writing, editing, research - There's nothing to compare it to. Thanks, Al - keep bringing us that raw American Dope.
noticed it wasnt on AMazon Prime no more. Done watched this like 50 times. Thank you Mr profit
This is a story that can easily be told about Memphis, St.Louis, Chicago, especially Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Not just Detroit. The decline of other rust belt manufacturing cities happened the same way as Detroit.
Sad but true.
are you saying that all of these big cities that are run by the democratic party are shit cities. if you are than welcome to the club. the club is the party that all working people belong to.
Don't forget sad buffalo NY. Not as big as some of those cities but at one point it was. Let's GO Bills !
@@geraldmiller8973 I hear ya brother.NY is some of the worst. Cuomo is a Joke
@@joshapples88 he is a cokehead!
I live near Detroit in the neighborhood, man its so fucked up for people. Every time I pass a certain area you got like 10-15 lil kids all selling water together. I pull up to the side and call them over. I try to give them 20 bucks for a bottle of water. But most of the time it was 10 bucks and they were always grateful and would tell me to blast a song from my car so I will and they start break dancing lol. Their cool as hell but its rough for them. I haven't seen them since the winter but I got a few iPods and small but decently loud plug in stereos/Headphones. Hope I run into them again this summer or even spring because I still take that route home.
Mix in a book or two💡🛎 Your making a difference, tip of the cap to you!
Rock, I hope you see them again or other kids, that you can bless with your attentions and good intentions.
People don’t want jobs. They want to hustle and make fast money.. many people in Detroit would have to settle for minimum wage jobs because they only have a high school education..
I do the same thing. I grew up on west Warren live downriver now but I have family that still lives over there. Every time I drive down Paul there's a young boy who is selling water and candy. It's sad but at the same time is it?
It's not a bad thing. He's making money. He's learning how to make a dollar. I gave him 5 bucks and didn't even take the water. I had a skateboard in my back seat he noticed it. On my way back I thought about giving him a extra skate deck in my trunk but he was gone. Next time I roll through there I hope to see him
TY 💛 kind sir
Excellent reporting. This was one of the best documentaries I have seen on gangsters. Straight from their mouths. No speculation. Glad this came up in my queue. kudos.
From Ireland, mind blown. Ireland never saw anything like that. Things were bad, but only in the capital. The rest of the country was virgin.
Yeah, ALL of the documentaries from this channel are really good! American Dope narrated or hosted (which ever you'd call it) by Al Profit!
He said nothing about CIA an DEA profiting from dope! weak reporting
@@stbx43z A lot of this was going on long before the CIA got involved that was in the 80's drugs been in the hood since the 40's fam and a lot of it came from our ppl along with mobsters and other criminals.
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One of the best crime documentaries on the internet‼️
I know the advertising is different for everyone on TH-cam, but its quite funny that Arm & Hammer Baking Soda is the advertiser for this video. Haha
I got Cheech and Chong Bud Farm 😁
Only thing missing is a Pyrex commercial lol.
Business don't care where the dollars come from. Not ironic at all. Look at the money they have made! It's just business.lol
You see that shit? Lightning strikes a lot on these phones. Uve spiken about something and then start getting ads on subject matter!! Not the odd time but continuelly.
Tommy hitman Hearns, Sugar Ray, Marvelous Marvin Hagler were the premier black fighters during 80s. Whute oeople World wide loved their Black Arses. Bad man destroyers.
I would be way to embarrassed to even talk about selling drugs to my brothers and sisters and destroying my community. I would be begging God for forgiveness.
No no. I have a better ..way for u. Just blame cia and dea.
Don't judge until you have walk through that man's shoes !!!!!
Spoken like a true square
Black people in the USA are already mentally and spiritually dead the only death left is physical death. Drug dealers just finished a bunch of them off physically.
@@deloreanwilliams8650proud to be a square
Al your documentaries are next level. They flow so good.
I WATCH THIS AT LEAST ONCE OR TWICE EVERY YEAR- Al you are one gifted brother- we love u in DETROIT you are a legend to us for making all the stuff you have. Im 42 Ive been watchibng your work litterally since the music video days
When I first started watching AL I was like who is this dude he don't know who he's talking about now I know better this man got all the info
Yeah dog from this shit.he be on it.he from the hood.has spoken to real Detroit hittas.he A-1.
he got all the facts
The decline of Detroit and GM, Ford, Dodge, and Chrysler started 50 years ago when the Motown Record Label relocated to LA. That's when the narcotics really started coming into the City. Narcotics devastated Detroit as well as the rest of the state of Michigan.
Detroilet
Yep, Major industries left the city. Major industries are leaving America as well. America will soon look like Detroit. We need to make stuff "Again."
Weed is just as bad, just takes longer to ruin you.
The roit of 67played a big part too.
@@313-v9klmfao, weed will never be as bad. You are trippen!!!
Great video and a truly shocking insight into gangs, drugs and unemployment and the plight of young men who only saw limited opportunities in life.
Now I know why my parents moved us to Northern Michigan in 1968. They grew up on Beniteau Street on the east side. My grandmother lived on South River Road in Harrison Township until she died in 1990. We were never allowed to venture into Detroit when we visited.
Detroit, What Up Doe!? 🥰 ✊
Detroit. . . Born and raised!
Detroiter. . . West side/East side
North side/South side
Detroitest. . . I Love ❤ Detroit 💯
#DetroitStrong👊
Northwest side!!!
Yes I'm a product of this documentary and it's so much more than is mentioned in this piece of truth about us. Being the most defined human beings in the world 🌎
"The fine art of saying less" - love that wording // excellent doc . thanks g
This one is number one in my book. Don't get me wrong Profit. All of your works have been special. You are the GOAT.
gracias
@@alprofit yeah you the Truth when it comes street documentary's....hope u get to sit down with DR.Fisher 💯
AL PROFESSIONAL
Al profit, our hats are off to you
Back again in 2023 love Al profit great documentary maker and helps me relax considering the subject at matter
I remember sitting across the river when i was only 5 with my dad and other siblings watching all of the smoke from the fires and gunshots going off night and day during the 67 riot's. I remember when YBI got into the game. I still go shopping in Detroit along with concerts and sporting events. The D has always been our team!
Wow.. Tell us your story!!
Same here, Brenda. I was 5 too, and I remember National Guard tankers driving down Plymouth road telling everyone to go inside their homes. I remember when we had to stop playing outside at grandma’s house on West Grand Blvd and Vernor as it wasn’t safe to play with the neighborhood kids due to random shootings. Once, when coming home from a show at Cobo hall we stopped to buy more beer and the cops pulled up next to us in the parking lot and we thought we were gonna get busted for buying beer underage. Instead, the cops told us to get the hell out of the neighborhood we got lost in and said “get outta here, we don’t even usually drive down here”. I’ll never forget it. They also showed us the way to the highway. I could go on and on telling you crazy stories about the D. There was no better stadium in the country than Tiger Stadium. That place was rockin in 1968 and 84! I was there too in the latter win
Watching it AGAIN lol! Much respect to the work you been putting in with the research Al.
The soundtrack instrumentals is everything, this is very well put together.
Needs more MC5
Sounds like speciasl aka
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U very observant 👌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I was born and raised in Detroit and still here and I was brought up on YBI and all the gangsters we had the Chamber brothers who made the Carter witch they made the movie New Jack City was based off of were a city of Hustlers the game aint to be glorified but believe there are some real crazy stories that should detour young guys to not wana follow in these street legends yes the money can be really good but the consequences are horrific 💯
My DAD GOT VERY LUCKY. HE GOT A JOB WORKING FOR THE DETROIT FREE PRESS. AND WAS A DISTRICT MANAGER. When my mom went and found him in 1989. And I worked for my dad with my brothers. NEWSPAPERS SOLD VERY WELL BACK THEN.
Al you never disappoint thank you for all your efforts!!!
That red dude B clearly is very proud of his corrupt past. He tell his story with such passion and excitement you can tell he wish he could relive it again.
I appreciate the story telling in that form because it kind of transports you back in time with the energy, but also very sad to see because he’s obviously not doing to well mentally, and has never grown up
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Hes about 60 and needs to grow the fuck up. Matter fact no he don't, its too late for him. He's just another victim whether he knows it or not
@@ssherrierable he is dead
@@russblack443 holy!
Detroit never recovered since those days it’s crazy‼️
Dam stupid ass drug dealers ruined Detroit!!!
For a city not to recover this had to have start at the top with the big wigs(oops)!!🤔🧐🤑
@@karenfrierson9550 facts and it's still money here
He is out and he fucked up Detroit and stole money from the city that’s is already damaged
@@karenfrierson9550 nothing but fact! Politicians had/has there hands in the bs.
if you just listen to Steve Fishman guy sounds like that lawyer Levy on The Wire. This was an excellent Documentary. I love this channel
Thought i was the only one that heard him like that lol
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He definitely does. Maurice Levy.. he had the briefcase, Omar had the shotgun 💯
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What I find amazing is ,not the dealers ,the pimps or killers ,it's the amount of people in the comments that actually sound proud of all that.
Yeah, UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE !!!
THEY DESTROYED THEIR OWN PEOPLE
Definitely nothing to be proud of.
damnnn 😂 right ? 😳
You had to live it to understand it.
Right sounds like Gotham city
Steve Fishman has got to be one of the most interesting people I've ever seen interviewed.
ikr i get caught up im callin him for sure
Fishman reminds me of Bill Murray
Great lawyer
Fishman would get you off.
Totally agree! Love that guy!
i pride myself with knowing the history or organized crime , this is the firs i heard of it , and the documentary is so well put together , everything is in perspective , it not just some dude babbling about the good days
this came out 2010
Wake n bake with Al before work, it’s a must.
Lls that's exactly what I'm doing now haha
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I can't do that anymore. I'm self employed, now and it's easy to go off the rails after a breakfast like that when your boss makes excuses for you.
Lol, I love the DEA agent, "everybody was drinking good whiskey, eating good and taking trips" 😂😂
He was low key hatin
@@kevinlambert5310 hating on the middle class built by the auto industry? I got a different vibe like he was referencing a golden era before the economic hardship and drug epidemic
not everybody people was poor in the early 80s
@@brandonroller9524 That's the feeling I got as well.
My kinda guy with that statement , I thought the same
I use to see Pimp,Big Man,Smiley,Randy Blount and Snake from Pony Down Crew (BGD) I wanted to be just like them as a child up to young adulthood. Looking back it wasn't nothing but Death/Destruction. Underneath the glitch and glamor was misery as I look back and I pray that the youth take notes and go a different route. God bless the Real
My uncle said you use to run home
@@marklaurie5723 your uncle must didn't know me. Wasn't no running home. 7mile/Prevost was my home. Mom's and my sister use to look for me but I would hide in Black Ants basement Goofy
This channel has some of the best documentaries! I’m so glad I found it! Great job and thank you for putting these out so the rest of America ... and the world ... can you maybe take an opportunity to try to educate themselves and try to understand. I posted on another channel that a lot of people have very strong opinions on shit they know nothing about. I grew up in a safe neighborhood… It was poor but it was also safe for us to go out and ride our bikes after school. I came to TH-cam to try to educate myself to understand what others have gone through and why they feel the way they feel. I had wonderful parents who taught me to respect everybody and for those who are lucky to find love, you love them back no matter what color they are… just like every other hippie parent taught their kids! And as a mother of a mixed child who is now an amazing grown man, I never experienced some of these things that folks talk about today on the news but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. I wish more people would try to educate themselves before they start throwing their verbal diarrhea everywhere. Understanding is the first step to change. Thank you!
Thank you for the long and logical and passionate comment. I have become somewhat disturbed by how locked in so many people are to their existing ideas. We should all be ready to learn new ways of understanding society.
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Is it just me or is the commentary a little racist? 😂 the blacks think they are going to take control? Black people were the only ones committing crime?
Totally agree Sister 🔥And check out Pastor Vlad and Isaiah Saldivar and Jon Ramirez on Spiritual Warfare 💥😈💥and Deliverance and Healing and Breaking Generational curses off you and Oaths Spoke off you and Witchcraft off you and Spirit of Depression or Spirit of Addiction anything like that 🔥👈🤔🔥And check out Pastor Jennings and Bishop Wooden on Beyonce 🔥🐍🔥Amen 🔥Spiritual Snipers 🔥But Spiritual Warfare is Real People 🔥🐍🔥So better to Know about it 🔥And I Pray that you never need it 🔥👈👿🔥Especially if you have children ??🔥So enjoy people and God Bless 🙏😇from Not so Sunny 🌞England🔥🇬🇧👈😊📖📯🎶🇬🇧🔥
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I’ve watched this before but it never gets old, excellent documentary.
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Felt like I was watching Drugs Inc from history channel. This is a superb documentary.
The best voice for this type of documentary 👏
Love the history lesson!!! This is the type of history that has always piqued my interest. Real, everyday, street history. The kind that you won't get from approved school curriculum
Facts Terry!
We have exactly the same issue with our young people in the UK.
The drug economy is to many young people the only way to make realistic money.
only way 2get rich AF fast, big risk big reward/fail. business 101
Rather work at McD than sell drugs!
Yep. But not one of them smart enough to make a big grip and walk away. Stupid is as stupid does.
The stupidest thing I've read this week. Maybe for lazy, criminally predisposed and ignorant fools. Not any young people I know. Then again, all I know are really decent young people.
Detroit is still the blackest city in America still.
Take a good look atcWHAT YOU SAID and WHERE DETROIT IS... you allll set
When a company and major employer and investor loses confidence in the safety of their facilities and plants and depots etc, they decide to move to the adjacent suburbs, which means that they encourage other companies to do the same and also many of the well paid employees.
This means that they no longer pay their taxes to the city government but to the new suburban authorities, they leave behind empty factories and I facilities and empty lots, the workforce leave the city shops and restaurants and bars and banks etc which now decide to relocate with their customer base, the lost tax revenue means that public facilities and street lights, road repairs, public schools and libraries, leisure facilities, police and fire departments etc all lose staff and money for new equipment and buildings etc.
This has a snowball effect when every new company that leaves the city for 25 miles away in the local suburbs leave more empty lots and housing, underperforming schools and low morale police and fire and public health departments, closed shops and unrepaired roads etc and anyone with a property and a family to consider is scared of being left behind when the other white people quickly leave for new housing in the adjacent areas.
The previously owned houses are then rented out to single mothers and unemployed families and badly paid people who are desperate for somewhere to live and before long the whole city is in a state of virtual panic with worried people trying to sell up and move to the safety of the local neighbouring areas and the number of companies and ships and businesses that are planning on going to be with their customers increases quickly the whole city is becoming poorer and less confident all of the time.
The riots of the 1960's sent Detroit into a downer spiral of increasing crime, higher unemployment, higher poverty, less private and public investment and a genuine negative view of the near future.
I think that the term is 'a perfect storm' of negative factors.
Same thing happened in my city early 80's in Bridgeport, CT. And my people didn't understand how economics worked so they blamed it on racism. But yeah. The new economy was Crack Cocaine. And we worked in shifts n what not.
I still come back and watch this to this day. Thanks for the hard work you put in all these years Al your a legend in your own right brother.
I love the way al covers my home town born and raised in Detroit still living here born in 71 💯
Best free content you’re gonna get on TH-cam
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I was born and raised in Detroit, 8 mile and Ryan (south of 8 mile) and this was an incredible doc! I worked at spring and suspension shop just N of 8 mile and Dequindre and Maserati Ric brought his Bronco II in for a lift kit. I had the job of test driving it once we were all done with it. We knew who he was but you NEVER brought shit like up if you knew what was good for you, growing up S of 8 mile I knew what was good for ME😉
I'm from Brightmoor west side detroit.
@@georgewashington5761 8 mile and Ryan here
I was raised on 7mile and Ryan
@@dboyvseverybody7327 my parents sent me to Catholic school for GS qnd HS so I didn't go to Pershing but I did take drivers training at Osborn though. I walked to GS and it wasn't unusual to see a stripped and/or burned car in our school parking lot or in the alleys.
Lumpkin St. Near I-94 . It's been 28 years and aint a damn thing changed but the Coney Island
Al Profit is a straight legend. Introduced the world to everyone from Nate Boone to Ryan Leone. He even sued Takashi 69🙏👍 Keeping pushing Al!
Once more in English??
What did he sue snitch9 for
Yeah, Nate Boone...that's the first video i saw from Al Profit....a few yrs ago.
@88Keez did he win?
MY GUY
My grandpa buried Maserati Rick and was telling me about the big shooting they had at his funeral
Impressive Documentary, Thank You for your time and effort in making this Film, educational too
Thank you very much
I've literally watched this 20x if not more , it never gets old, Al's research and reach into this topic is second to none, Amazing , this doc needs to be In a actual history class , Al is the real crime historian of our times. Thanx Mr.profit for the amazing content and all ur hardwork. Happy holidays and I wish u and your friends and family the best in the new year, from across the bridge here in windsor always peeping that Detroit game. Holla at ur boy .
Detroilet lol
I hear ya l put his channel on when l got to bed and fall asleep to one of his docs
@@EmperorNerox
Stay away.☠️
@@mostuf313 be there on the 20 th unfortunately
Spent time in the Wayne County Youth Home with a lot of these fellas back in the day. So glad I got my life together. I was a square peg in a round circle while my stay at E. Forest Street, but earned respect 🫡
Yes!!l... love a good Al profit documentary.. pls keep it up my guy...theres a lot of stories all over the world need you attention...more power to you my brother
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I'm 54 and I can write up in the heart of this era right where everything is actually going on and with respect completely the hood did not sa.
BIG FOUR
It was...
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PURPLE 💜 GIRL
DETROIT
MICHIGAN
Imagine if they would of bought up property in Detroit and got out the game and left future wealth. There kids kids would be good good til this day
Great documentary, but also very sad to see how a thriving black neighborhood can go down and become overrun by drugs and drug dealers.
Detroit what up doe it’s 2023 October 17 on a Tuesday🗣💪🏾I LOVE MY CITY NO MATTER HOW WICKED IT IS
@@MoneyManLo313 That's my b'day.
The African American community commands so much wealth today, we could use that money and change our communities. Build better schools, better housing projects, encourage STEM
Programs in Schools, there is so much that can be done to change the outlook
Well maybe all these churches we have on every other damn block could get together and start something to build us up. Other wise it's just another hole to throw money in.
@@rasheed12th38 Be the change you want to see!
In the 80s and early 90s I was growing up on the Eastside of Detroit… everyone on my block had at least one person in their family on crack. There were always 2 crack houses working. Detroit was beautiful even then but the signs of decay were there. I can rem so much and I was in my 30s before I understood why my mom moved us to Alabama.
Also how old was this badass attorney back then like 28. Legend.
The Wonders of "Outsourcing of Our Manufacturing!"😭
@@terriarnold4364 this guy gets it
Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil.
@Mon Deezy quite fool!
amen.
“For the lack of money is the root of all evil” Rev Ike
I like how Al chops up interviews and reuses them to explain things more thorough... 💪🏋🏌
Al's interviews and documentaries keep evolving, I love it!.
Teh Als hit the nail on the head with this documentary style.
I love his work
Imagine having tons of footage, and then being able to use pieces to make a timeline of whats was happening
@19:15 that's from a damn movie...... c'mon nah
@1:28:00 This is a narrative the world doesn’t want you to know about the overwhelming of the youth in Detroit & other urban communities.
What a sin what happened to Detroit! From the epicenter of the Auto Empire & the birth place of Motown to filing for bankruptcy!! Such a shame.
You know what’s a bigger shame is that this will wind up been America’s future nothing but hopelessness & poverty including more people turning into the life of crime, especially since our government is to busy taxing the poor & middle class while the rich 🤑 is getting richer without paying a dime of taxe at all,, thus let’s not to mention that last year during the pandemic 😷 our politicians along with former President Donald Trump were in Las Vegas spending our tax paying money 💰 on the casinos 🎰 and how do I know this well I got a friend who works at the MGM Grand and spotted a lot of our Congress, US Senate along with Trump & a bunch of those Rockefeller elites having a good time and getting pampered at the hotels 🏨 while we were all in n lock down 🔒. Also, what’s a shame is that our governments solution is to build more jails than creating more jobs, affordable Medicare 🏥, and schools 🏫 especially since nobody can get unemployment benefits anymore which is stupid considering that the pandemic 😷 laid off a million people and even when businesses started opening again nobody couldn’t be able to get their job back, so until we as an American 🇺🇸 society start changing all that then we can see the crime rate go down along with seen more descent middle class people having nice descent money 💰 as well.
@@DanielMartinez-el3uz I hear you and I agree for the most part. The Congressman & women are who they are along with Senators & other political figures because they’re voted in! Including Mayors & Governors as well. When they’re elected they now have a completely Compt. Life! The lowest paid politician gets around 250 grand a year for a salary! And that’s the lowest paid! We as a society need to start voting more and not just the bigger elections! Not to mention start teaching Civics in school again so that when the kids, who are the future will start voting and understand what & how the branches of the government are and so forth. We are the ones who put these people in charge of the country and all that entails.. even if we don’t vote that’s worse actually! I’m realizing this as I get older.. I used to say I wouldn’t vote because I wouldn’t encourage the bastards! It’s all on us to change shit we don’t like. As a democracy that’s what this country was supposed to be built upon. All that being said. It is possible that Trump at least was spending his own money! As he does have plenty of it! You can’t say for sure that he was spending tax dollars to gamble, which would be highly illegal. Society needs to pay more attention and choose better leaders, change or amend certain laws, restructure the entire system from the top down, stop allowing certain groups who are just as full of shit as the politicians spew their hateful racist opinions that for fear of being politically incorrect get millions of dollars and sponsors to support them though they spend not one dime on their alleged causes and their people! Stop letting these insane groups completely rewrite history because of some dark stains in it (like literally every part of history and peoples) also change definitions of words that they claim are offensive (to only them) and make up a few new ones too! Wanting to teach this Bull Shit to our children! Literally teach them HATRED AND RACISM! With this ‘Critical Race Theory’.. The country, hell the world is beginning to go mad and thankfully a lot of people are taking notice of it and starting to stand up and say enough is enough now!
@@coffeecrimegal5968 so what your saying is you all want to continue telling lies and white washing truths while you run roughshod over the rights & priviledges of others ? You want to leave out the truth of history which offends you because your ancestors are guilty as hell and your living of their spoils. Ok we get it !!
What happened to that city that didn't have water umm flint I think it's called wasn't it sludge that was coming out the sinks.
@@taco_fetish5178 yes
Boone says he rated because they killed his little brother, all the people he killed,don't you think,they were people's little brothers ?
These docs are so long but so good. 👍🏽👍🏽
You can't put decades of history into 30 or 40 minutes of footage, that's a disservice to everyone involved. Peace to you and yours.
@@JamesBrown-rn1om so true. I love these docs tho.
I Luv Al Interviews And Documentaries He Know How To Ask Questions Without People Incriminating Their Self .
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@@alprofit hey Al why haven’t you done a story on Quasand Lewis? He had a huge organization one of the best I’ve seen! And he didn’t tell on anyone or none of his people snitched on anybody!! Hope you’ll be telling it soon
Dude love you doc's ...mostly the Detroit ones cause it's my home....love how you ask the right questions....you have a way at asking questions to get the detailed answers
Love the soundtrack and thanks for the Repost, keep the fire going Al....
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Al where is cocaine condor we've been waiting for it for years now. Thank you for all the other great content but where is cocaine condor
That defense attorney made ALOT of dirty money lmao
I ain’t mad at him 😂
Loyalty was real back in the day.
yaaaawwwnnn. At least be original with your fake gossip.
No such thing as loyalty just money 💰
It don’t matter what era it was
Loyalty's a commodity throughout all times. Nothing like it
I love this when its called Rollin and the original music
Systematic destruction. Thus was fine to every thriving black community. The sad part is we always fall prey to it
Seen a couple of your pieces. Awesome work, going to watch it all now
the way YBI brett was explaining that beat down on woodward and mack was funny as fuck
He still seems like a cartoon character…
Whenever you hear "boy you dane boy you dane boy you daaanne" you know its gonna be good
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My dad lived in Highland Park since 51 and worked at Detroit Axle. No wonder he’s so chill. He’s seen some things. He has some stories…
January 22nd 2023 and I’m still coming back to hear these stories
This documentary is true and I am amazed how Al got all this info, yes all those stories are true. I seen it, lived it, and fled it bc Detroit had become to bad to live in at that time.
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Its crazy bruh how he's so precise
Detroit was a great place to live. Yea it had his violence. Just like any where else in this world 🌎. Detroit was counted murder cap and dangerous place by government. Because it was the cities in Detroit. Government couldn't control or ride threw doing whatever. If anything The South is the murder cap back in the racists was deep. We blks getting killed. But still this day KKK not counted as a gang. Which they are a gang killed more of us. Then the streets these days and back in Detroit. Also any area in the world. Hard drugs came into here, because of the government. Even a man apart of government said the same thing. Detroit taken back over and ecr
Al you should make a standalone doc Maserati Rick, that guy was a real showman of that era.
Detroit wasn't a Joke and only the strong & smart made it through real talk 💯
Real Talk 💯 Folks Truth
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Correction.... We called it
" DAH BIG FOE' "
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Purple 💜 girl
this is a underrated documentary
That intro beat is crazy plus the other's are bananas the story is a classic history
Watching the news from 1970’s speak on the problems back then...in the exact same order that we speak about us having these problems, today. Nothing changed except peoples ages huh?
Same old greed
That’s a big 💯 right there Fam
Pretty much...it's sad that our communities haven't progress much. I still have faith though. 🙏🏾