"Diamond" Talks About Asian Gangster "Grasshopper" Fighting Everyone on Rikers Island C-74
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2022
- Introducing "Diamond" to the channel. Diamond is a black West-Indian former stick up man part of a notorious robbery crew from Brooklyn. Diamond was close to many Asian gang members from NY. In this clip he talks about the infamous Asian American "Grasshopper" who he met in Rikers Island Correctional Facility, and how he could win any fight outnumbered.
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I am 48yo and I am born and raised and still live in Brooklyn, NYC!!!! I have been hearing this story for years. This is the first time I've heard the actual name of the actual Asian brother that was responsible for this legendary story!!! This is definitely true!!!!
Word I heard the same story on the Island bro!!!!
I heard this story in high school, from a kid who had older people, maybe fam in lockup. I thought he was just exaggerating about the whole thing.
I heard it happened in 1974 in c74. I have reason, to believe these dudes are lying
we gotta hear more from this guy about this story! He is like one of the best story teller and the story that he got right here is amazing!
Epic! A book or movie needs to come out of this story. Can’t wait for more!
Epic. 👏 Can’t wait for a part 2.
Love this Brooklyn love,rare stories😎😎
Great interview. Shout out Grasshopper the legend.
Some of the old school Asians that came over on the boats back then had fought over there in the wars, sometimes with CIA and US special forces. They were a different breed. They grew up dirt poor much worse than any ghetto in the US and were as tough as nails.
Only people that have fought in a real street fight understands how long a fight feels like. A two minute fight is a while.
Absolutely when I got jumped 2 min felt like 10 lol
2 minutes is unbelievably exhausting. No one knows unless you're a fighter.
Adrenaline does crazy things to time perception!
I always felt like I was living in slomo
That means if you fight a lot your life will be long. The key to a long life.😂
REALLY GOOD VIDEO. 👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I heard about this story multiple times from other inmates when i was locked up in rndc 9 years ago. This story was like the conversation starter for inmates trying to talk to an asian person at rikers.
What were you in prison for and how long if you don't mind me asking?
That's funny, we had a similar story in LA county, almost 20 years ago. They always used to start conversations with me about an Asian guy that beat down 4 COs.
The last part of ur comment sounds like something they would do in the HBO TV Show Oz lool
@@dnam727 Bro you talking about the Korean guy?
@@Rakasha30 I think so, can't remember exactly. But they said the Asian guy was whooping multiple COs, and they had to bring his father down (who was also locked up) to make him stop. This was around 2004-2005 from my memory. Speaking of Koreans, not long before this story, there was the another incident where two Koreans killed and wrapped their enemy in sheets, then threw him down the laundry chute in LA county. Remember that?
Can we have a part 2 please
Legend
The story I heard in 85-86 was that there was 2 Chinese guys named Grasshopper and Butterfly that would line up back to back and rumble against a whole house.
One of them did a back flip off the chow table, over the turtles and started to beat the shyt out of the CO’s. These 2 were live wires. 😂
@@yankees29 wow that's crazy
Sounds wild 😂
Its was 1979 C-74 not 85-86
85 was another 2 Asian Batman and Robin
big ups to Diamond
A badass Asian is the baddest thing I have ever met, had the privilege of meeting two, one of which i work with at my current job, Vietnamese, other dude in my younger days was Japanese. Both were not only way more than you want to tangle with, but both are men of honor and unbelievably hard working.
This story I’ve heard in LA county men’s central jail that’s how far this story reached.
I heard the LA county jail version of this, he was laying people out with his feet, because he was in cuffs, the manz called his dad to calm him down
@@marvinduran2953 that was another Chinese king fu guy not these brothers
I also heard about this story when I first hit the 4 yard in Salina’s valley.
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That would make a great movie
Need to make a movie about grasshopper
Heard stories about similar situations in Fort Green with an asian holding the house. And them beating on the "the turtles" (COs) during a crazy riot. Some legendary stories behind them walls.
If there’s multiple versions I gotta wonder how many are myths, how many are exaggerated, etc. It seems like the kind of thing that actually happened once, then went through the game of “telephone” constantly being passed around word-of-mouth with every new storyteller adding their own details to make a better story.
I don’t doubt it happened but I’d bet some parts is just literal legend
Turtles didn’t come around until the 90,s not the 80,s so that can’t be true.
I've heard a similar story with someone named Shadow Boy or something.
Myth of these guys were for real they were the truth more of these stories the better
Respect the authentic NYC underground street culture,it has its own underworld culture mythos ,this is the NY Chinese thug chapter,I'm 42 yo from Brooklyn and group up in Flatbush/Coney Island neighborhoods in the late 1980s and early 1990s,a rough era in the NYC,while in junior high I use to know this big stocky Polo(Ralph Lauren) dressing Chinese kid who use to always mention in the lunch cafeteria about his connections to the flying dragons in China Town Mott street,now this is the golden age of hip hop and he was a hip asian cat,than my second encounter about the flying dragons was in the Bronx with Detective Hung NYPD he assisted the security guards at one of the Bldg's were working at in the BX off of Gun Hill Road,the guards liked Hung because he treated us well,Detective Hung was a big husky Chinese ogee plainclothes and he owned a slew of vending businesses via his connections to Italian Mob,so we liked Detective Hung for his conversations and the free soda's and chips he would always give us,in one conversation Detective Hung NYPD would tell us stories about his policing that part of the North Bronx,and would say that one of the gangs put a gun to his head while in some police skirmish out there,and than Hung allegedly told the gun man that he'd better kill him because if he doesn't he's going to do him in allegedly,all facts and than Detective Hung in the same Convo mentions his families connection to the Flying Dragons fromManhattan.If detective Hung wasn't a cop he could of been good bodyguard,he was one of the biggest asian cats I ever seen with a black mustache and alot of hair,peace to the Flying Dragon Older heads I enjoyed those chips and soda's.Confirmed my step pops just said that the grasshopper story is the real deal and that they can walk on walls,been hearing about this stuff for years,glad it's being told...
There’s a famous story of a Asian dude in the LA county jail defeating multiple guards by himself!
I heard the same! Korean guy, I believe.
@@timtim7857 yup! Maybe a black belt I wish i was there to see it!
@@timtim7857, Old Japanese!
@@lakanron640 Nah he talking about the Korean dude who did that shit. Kinda famous story at LA county jail.
Is it possible that this story went around the prison system & eventually details were switched, embellished etc?
MY UNCLE IS "GRASSHOPPER!!!!!," Hes Vietnamese and his friend he was locked up with was his associate who i called uncle J (R.I.P)...
Should i get my uncle to do an interview?!?!
Also, they did Muay Thai, and BJJ with kung Fu before any of it was even on topic!! He sid 7 years in Rikera i believe and transferred to upstate
Our email is listed on this channel. Please email us. Thx!
Put that in motion...✌🏿🙏🏿
@Brian D the old heads in East New York use your uncles name as a verb when they talk about washing up multiple people at a time…bless up yo
Would be very nice to hear from grasshopper Bless 🙂
He definitely needs to be interview! Legends needs to be remember!
Realest fact: If you are in a fight for 2 min, it feels like 2 days !
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Damn, someone find Grasshopper and his boi.
Want to hear more about this story!!!!
Coming soon
When's the next forgotten streets
Damn we need a Grasshopper and his boy interview if they’re still around
His older brother aint here anymore, so both of them would be impossible
@@LorFire they both alive
Older brother die long ago
I heard one of them got beaten to death by CO’s up north
@@henrycruz4966 No that not true f.cking co in Rikers 6 upper
Damn I heard about Grasshopper and his brother crazy stories 12 years ago. This guy just confirmed everything to be true. Holy shit. I wonder what martial arts they learned.
52 Blokzz
@@fredletel7276could be…. Because 52 blocks started in New York right. I’m from down south
@@fredletel7276 na bro. They knew real kung fu 🥋
@@LaymanGamin52 blocks not real kung fu?
Very true story ask Eddie pagan ave d was in rikers at the time
Time to find grasshopper and interview him
I would like to hear grasshopper tell his story
Where is Grasshopper now? I’d love an interview with him lol
I heard this story in 95 when I hit the island..
Ohh shit that the thing I tell people I never forget seeing that captain,slap the mess of if this boy everytime he walked pass on the yellow line . Over and over crazy,first thing I saw intake C74 1994.🤦🏽 And I was in the pins with an Asian and two blacks talking about grasshopper and homeboy because they wanted to press the Asian but was afraid 😂😂👊🏽 wild times
I heard this story the first time I got locked up and every time after but they said it was two brothers and they also said one of them got killed up north
I’m pretty sure that’s how it goes. One of them is alive still. The other got killed upstate I think.
We gonna get some stories from FDS?
I seen him do it.
Are you the same guy behind forgotten streets?
This dude telling the story is definitely Guyanese, could tell by his accent
That's correct buck
Definitely Guyanese 🇬🇾 my schoolmate in Guyana and in New York. Saint Sidwells and Lefferts JHS. Now Attwell JHS he was the Principal when we attended there. He died of a heart attack. Big up yourself Peter Diamond.
I herd grasshopper little mans got killed and grasshopper lost his mind and now he in the crazy house.
Yea I thought they were brothers once they separated them and send them up state one of them got killed its this story and Mother Dear thays like legendary stories
He has GOT to have a COMBAT SPORTS BACKGROUND, wonder what style type it is ?
Probably grasshopper type Kung Fu, there's different forms named after animals. Sounds like a lifetime martial artist that had plenty of sparring and competition.
@@critiquemytechnique2.0 Grasshopper is his nickname. Base off Kung Fu the TV series. He does Wing Chun, Hung Kuen, Bak Mei, Hung Kuen and other Kung Fu stuff.
In an interview of Jimmy Tsui, Grasshopper practiced Hung Gar, and Iron Palm. Jimmy also said Grasshopper could thrust his fingers throw wooden boards.
i think i know who you talking about his name was jacky i think it the same guy and no not jacky chan lol but i heard this story from when i was growing up
ghost shadow stories made it all the way to NC lol
Grasshopper was a Ghost Shadow?
@@LorFire if he the one who beat all them co's at the same time yes
@@ncnyc4418 the 15 Riot Squad KO guy u talking about? And the one who snuffed all them 5 Percenters with his brother?
@@LorFire believe so...
Any picture of grasshopper. how he look , is he still alive.
Was “the other Chinese” inmate Bighead Tsui?
Back in the days, there were a lot more real martial artists that learnt the real stuff, and this proves the shit works anywhere except tournaments, coz real king fu is to kill or do serious damage within seconds
Kung Fu is not “real stuff” that’s not the real dangerous Chinese martial arts.
Because these dudes had real street fighting experience, the "kung fu masters" you see getting their ass beat by MMA guys never had a real fight in their lives and practice their moves on practice dummies lmao.
It works in tournaments too just hard to find
Fighting was different back in the 70s. You stood up and fought... Even as kids if it went to the ground you got stood back up to fight
These old school guys came from the war and fought with the CIA and Green Berets. They weren't your average street gangster like today. I knew some of them growing up and they were tough as nails. They didn't look like much, but I knew that had killed plenty of guys in the war with guns, knives, and bare hands. It was kill or be killed.
Grasshopper is one of my street brothers.
@@ReVolt_e-Vlogs I will try, I don't know he want an interview or not, he was inside for murder.
@@jimmytsui9329 how old is he now he must be old if these stories were from the early 80s.
@@rohulla94m65 He is very close to 70 now.
Is that Grasshopper in that picture? 00:02
Toothless Villain
I've heard this story before,this is my 2nd time and the story is the same
Gang asian pride
I've heard Grasshopper trained fanatiically in gung fu.
Maybe this is proof gung fu can be real depending on how and what you train for.
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What's grasshoppers name?
I always heard about this Chinese kid from canal street that gets wild Heard about him on the island
Then he was probably Vietnamese
@@jasonh8890 you definitely could be right when I was younger I thought all Asians was Chinese until I learned geographics it comes with being uneducated at the time
@@roberthendrix6521 I'm part vietnamese and many people in the 80s and 90s would assume I was chinese
@@edgethawavestar2855 see I was Lost as a kid I had many questions and needed many answers
usually in prison, one guys would go for the legs and hold, while the other guy start punching and kicking to the face.
That's how people sell drugs in the streets also.
Always heard about a Asian dude who was kicking shit in on rikers and a lot of people think it’s a myth . Glad to see it’s actually true . I’m not suprised I figured atleast one of these Asian gang members could pull some wild shit like that
If you think about it , there is two other guys you try to avoid and thats Genghis Khan and his boy Subutai and they are both dead.
I herd the story I thought they were brothers and I wonder if Diamond know the Stickup kid Shoe Shine that's where the rapper Shyne took his name from cause folks said they looked alike
Yes I did know shines
@@bulletproof9456 did Shyne run with the brothers as a Belizian?
@@TB-jk7hq shines ran with a lot of people but mainly jamaicans
You Guyanese?
Bounty hunter BJ confirmed this story recently on the cam capone interview
Bounty Hunter BJ On The Worst Rat Pack He Had In Jail When Landing on a Crip Tier
The other guy you are talking about must Be Big Head He has done a Vlad interview and several others this years where He tells this story said he was the only other Asian guy in there with Grasshopper and He learned English during his two years in C -74 He said He knew dude since the outside and coased by with no issues off Grasshoppers name and Rep.
What about big U hahahahahhaah
China Mac?
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Back then the Asian gangs in chinatown also had blacks and puerto ricans down with them.since they live in the same projects. The flying dragons used to be deep in Alfred e Smith projects
What year ?
@@chinatowngangstories 70s through the early 90s. I'm puerto rican and vietnamese going on 40 years old grew up in les in the 80s and 90s.
@@edgethawavestar2855 in Boston and New York?
@@chinatowngangstories I wrote you earlier about Nick Louie.Well I heard some black dude thought he had his "dinner" when he saw Nicky.Well I heard Nicky broke this guy's neck!True?
is this story pre-two asian brothers fuckin shit up? sounds like it
Same guys I’m pretty sure
They were kicking peoples in the air like dummies. I mean like come on dog lol. For real for real? Lol
It could also mean they knocked the other guys out.
maybe it was a body throw like in judo, to a untrained eye it looks like he got kicked to the ceiling
What gang was grasshopper from?
Ghost shadows Chinatown
1st
What gang was grasshopper in?
He was with the Tung-On gang. There was another interview where big head talks about him.
@@netgiant2592 someone said he was ghost shadow
This dude sounds like he's from the Islands. Local Hawaiian
Big head 大头
宫保鸡丁 🐲🐉
Damn he is 🚫 LIEING
I know about that captain. But the rest of the story is a bunch of nothing
You're entitled to your own opinion friend
Nothing? Probably the most legendary story out of Riker's Island
I’m 45 from England and heard about this story never knew if it was true 🫡💯
Wow! The story traveled all the way to England?!
@@chinatowngangstories yes sir mostly info about bloods crips ect but the story about the Chinese guys frucking up guards on rikers is legendary