I have read that the process of gentrification works something like this. Immigrants and poor people move into areas where rents are cheap. They work tirelessly to save money and purchase the cheapest property's in that location. When the system realise that the immigrant population are increasing in numbers and gaining more control, they pull locall government funding and the local resources and amenities slowly but surely disappear and the area becomes run down. The inhabitants move out, often selling cheaply and going back to their county's of origin and the new wave of investors arrive, buying property at a favourable price. The system realises that new money is moving in and then comes the rush of government funding and the area becomes attractive again. It's said to be a 30 year cycle.
In the UK that hasnt happened in Asian communities much. Look at placed like Southall. Still dominiated by Sikhs/Pakistanis. Difference is whilst 2nd/3rd generations moved out of Southall, new arrivals from South Asia just keep on coming in
Oh I thought all the West Indians had come in rebuilt the place after the war, don't tell those backwards Brits had electric lights back in the 19th century.
Used to live up the hill back in the 80s. Used to love a trip around the record shops on a Saturday. Red records (opposite the tube station) super tone, blacker dreads, all tone, etc. Great times back then. Nice people around there, more life more strength.
Great Vlog Chris. As a Senior Person currently who grew up in London and currently a long time US citizen, we had a different experience growing up in London. Jamaicans owned a lot of the homes back in the day, that are now selling for Millions. Many sold and went back home to Jamaica in the 80s and 90s and even moved to the suburbs of London. Many of your guests are the new generations and probably grand and great-grand, children to them. Hope you had fun and wish them all the best.
Chris in the 60s and 70s Brixton was a beautiful clean place. It was just know for Jamaicans, it was Africans and all West Indian mixed in the Citizens. We all lived peacefully with each other. No graffiti, no rubbish on the street, as a matter of fact like u say about litter, it’s so ingrained in me here in USA, that I still don’t literally or walk on the grass. Brixton in the 60s, I walked at nights on my own coming from School. No fear. Now the 3rd and 4th generation Hooligans. Lost their minds, there grans and great grans must be up there 😢
Gangster rap timeline influenced violence in the UK to this degree but the main blames goes to the stupid ones soaking that music ul and wanting to do or act how people are chatting in their raps... music is the main cause of this!
I lived in Brixton at the end of the 1980s and then moved around the corner in Camberwell. I loved it! The old beautiful London that has all but disappeared. Great videos!
Every time I see a video of Brixton it brings back so much precious memories. My hometown. Born & bred. Chris since you were asking about the riots & causes. 1 of them started when the police was looking for a man by the name of Michael & raided his mum's house on Normandy rd (further up on Brixton rd) & shot & paralysed his mother Cherry Grose. Back in the days Somerleyton & Stockwell estates were the worst. Having said that you could go any area you wanted without being randomly stabbed/attacked. The youth today have completely lost their way. I'm not saying everything was Rosie & good but community spirit was lovely we all got along for the most part Africans, Caribbeans & whites. I grew up in the "28's" era. If ykyk. Big up to the original Brixton people..
Even the 28s,well around my age , wont call no names...were sensible though...trouble can happen anywhere you are in the world at any time, is just the media jumping on what little they know and mutilating facts
Nice history information with great guides. Interesting how Jamaicans always cooking - they are good at blending delicious taste. Real estate highs worldwide. Travel good🇯🇲in🇺🇸
@@extrabigman 20/30,000 Jamaicans rebuilt the country while all us white folk sat around with whips in our hands lol. The origins of British culture have NOTHING to do with the west-indies, Britons are English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish for hundreds of years, Jamaicans have been here roughly 60yrs and carry on like they built the place, Jamaica's biggest exports to the UK are gang culture & Bob Marley... well done
The Jamaicans did not build Britain. It was built by the indigenous people, Jamaican people were invited to come to Britain because there was very little Work in Jamaica. Also they were part of the British Empire at one time and their ancestors were sold by Black Kings in Africa to the white man they were scattered and sold into slavery all over the world by different countries.
That's not true...where did you find this?@@itzjustmolly8509. People from all over the Caribbean came to the UK to work and build lives, many came with the intention of staying in the UK for a limited amount of years with the intention of returning to their country of origin (including my parents)
@@extrabigmanstop 😄, they came for work and better life they wouldn't of had in Jamaica. The indigenous Britons built Britain and made one of the best countries to ever have existed which then drew all these other ethnicities and cultures which is now changing it into something else, no hate, but don't talk bollox about "minorities" built Britain, Irish went there in huge numbers and worked in construction but I wouldn't say the Irish built Britain
Yes, it's funny because the reason I originally approached them is because they were in a heated debat about the changes in the community. It was perfect timing!
Hi I have just come across your channel and it’s nice to see you talking to the Jamaican men who came here in the 60’s &70’s! My parents came to the Uk from Jamaica in the 60’s and settled in Birmingham the second city. With regards to how things have changed with rubbish and no concern about the environment I really think a lot of people come to this country and really don’t care. They think England, America and Canada owe them something. They get what they can and some go back to there country! I’m not talking about Caribbean’s I’m talking about other nationalities!
@@SK-kh2rs Why is compensation funny?? Most carribbeans believe that white people are innocent of slavery. Like yoo they misunderstand the whole thing.
The same thing that is happening here happened in NYC as well hells kitchen use to be full of Irish and Italian culture now its just all bought out collage kids all live in the area nothing like it was during the 90s
The ironic thing was Brixton and Tottenham used to be very middle class areas originally. Brixton got bombed in WW2 so then that made it decline as the government didn't want to repair bombsites so then grand townhouses became flats as opposed to one house. Van Gogh and Chaplin used to live there, now the reverse of gentrification is happening. It's obviously bad for people who have lived there for a long time. But historically Clapham Brixton were posh area before WW2. But the War bombs damaged the areas then houses got damaged and it became flats from there. Even Notting Hill and Fulham were very poor and full of slums until the 70s or late 60s.
Chris when u are in a Council Flat for a while u have the option of buying at a better Cost. No one tells you that, USA doesn’t have that and I don’t think Canada either
Good video. Next time you come England check out Tottenham, Kilburn, Harlesden and some of the smaller community’s to see grimey part of London. Places like brixton are very gentrified
Truth be told, you should know that over the last 30 years the Caribe community has not increased enough to sustain the area without the influx of Africans and the Indian as well as other communities. Besides, the Jamaicans know what’s good for them and have sold up and moved away. Gentrification was bound to happen sooner or later. I grew up in when it was almost all West Indians in Brixton. What the man in the glasses is saying is absolutely true. He even lost his Jamaican accent! When I visit London, i always make a point of going to Brixton and spend money in Caribbean businesses like the bakery and the market. Chris, I am so glad you got to see Brixton. A crying shame you could not have reach before it went uptown!
Totally agree. The decrease in the Carribbean population due to interracial relationships and as well UK government preventing people from Jamaica and other Carribbean countries have played a major role. No one wants to speak on these two key elements, but it is true.
Alot of people from many race's do not respect the street's of England, lots of litter, rubbish, garbage, crap, every where, so sad 😔, no street cleaners visible as before to maintain street cleaning. Massive eyesore and health and safety on the street's of England, sòooooo disappointing. 😡
❤ you Chris your so amazin wish I'll travel with you someday. Reach which part of the world unno reach. Blessings to you Chris Must Lust 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 ❤you more
born and brought up there till the age of 11, mum moved us to hampshire and I hated it, came back to south london at 18 and been there ever since, its home simple as that, great memories of my childhood in Brixton and Tulse hill in the 70s, now live down the road in Camberwell, Brixton has changed so much and not all of it for the better.
This is the area of Brixton that I want to visit, near the mural of hip hop artist. I see Tupac, Biggie Smalls and Big Pun on the mural behind them. 🌹👏🖤🤎✊
I assure you, the trash problem never used to be that way. People in Brixton and other parts of London used to have more pride in their community. This saddens me.
You take care on your travels Chris and enjoy the rest of this journey you are on my friend. Being stuck in the house most of the time and living alone i really do enjoy content like this. Giving me a look at places i will won't make it back to myself. Travel safe and well man. :}
Knew u would get good content in Brixton and wow bringing back lots of memories al the places mentioned. Its also sad that they are affecting community everywhere by the same thing! Where i live to its developers maybe councils and!! Etc. Its not about colour necessarily, money/greed and so on. I used to go Brixon alot in my youth loved the markets roman road, Brixton good few others, the the people, community all all naionalities/cultures! There is also a issue with gangs young children, they are also taking the community, good guidance positivity is lacking 😐... hopfully that will change in the near future ❤
In 1985 I got caught in The Brixton Riot which got started after the police accidentally shot a woman in her home while looking for her son. Cand a Jamaican dry cleaner (Mr. Linrus Earl Scott) allowed me to use his phone to let my family know I was ok. There was a Tandoori restaurant a few doors away and the staff and owner absolutely refused to lend me their phone. They were scared shitless since businesses were being looted further down the road. When I got off the bus earlier, folks were running with with cases of molotov cocktail bombs. Cars were being pushed off car lots and fire bombed. I was determined to complete an errand of getting money from an ATM machine for my Aunt. The bank card got sucked up, I had nothing but a bus pass. The cops cordoned off Brixton Rd. to prevent the looting from spreading to the market. This was a long and very interesting day, which ironically began with a visit to The Imperial War Museum.🤔
I visited Brixton in late September and found it to be friendly and interesting. Had vegan lunch there with several friends. As a woman of color, I couldn't visit London and not go to Brixton. Looking forward to returning.
No sympathy for them. They didn’t have the foresight of the Indians despite the fact they came before everyone else and did a lot of social activism that made life easier for new arrivals. They should have built more businesses, stronger communities and left inheritances to their children. They didn’t do it.
I agree to a certain extent with this point. However, the Carribbean people who came to UK could not get jobs, rent a house etc, it took them longer than the other ethnic groups who has come after them and benefited from their struggle. The jobs were nurses, bus drivers, etc, that lower paid. Plus, UK banks would not lend to black people back then. This is a fact! On another note, when Carribbean people started their own businesses such as hair care, Indians came into the industry and dominated it, took it over by ganging together.
American 'yardie', who visited in 2004. Took the "tube" to Brixon station on the way to Streatham to meet cousins for the first time. Surreal for both, me with an American accent and them with an British accent, that said, after coming out of that station from Heathrow I felt like I was in Brooklyn's Flatbush section back in the day. Now we know the problem, so what are the solutions. Videos like this in America, UK where ever Black areas are gentrified, its 'look there is gentrification' here and no collective action. Akin to there is a fire and you need a group to get the fire hose to put it out and no one is.
I grew up in Brixton and honestly I feel like the bad reputation used to protect it from outsiders. It is one of the only places in London where people talk to each other on the street, it had real community. I miss when their were lots of Rastafarians because they looked after the community in so many ways. Their used to be lots of families that lived here and now it is 'professionals' and it used to be a relaxed area and now it is busy like another oxford street. The gentrification goes deep and the people that I met who moved to the area did not respect it or myself or other people from the area. It is really bad. The way they conducted themselves is despicable and they still live in the area in houses that are no longer affordable to people like me who grew up here. I have witnessed people capitalise and commodify the name and reputation of Brixton and do nothing to help the area and invite bad people in who disrespect the area and our community.
Why we Africans have to sell everything, you never hear ah Indian say he grandparents sell land or property. We always looking for the party and easy money. Indians came and remained, build businesses and progressed. We blacks just wallow in our sorry. Sad
I think it is a clear sign of our lack of generational wealth development. I grew up in Stamford hill, which has a large Jewish population. And, one thing I observed is, Jews don't often sell property. I suppose it's a case of holding onto assets, which is something we never thought was important.but what is most heart breaking is, we buy property here in the UK, sell it and move back home, live until we are too sick to manage,. We then come back to the UK and leave our investment to rot, because our children have no interest in it. Poor planning...
@@868AIB wdf e/one have to pick on indian ppl ..whynu don't compare Chinese European etc ..e/were ppl only picking on Indians..in uk the blm movements make a indian s=k had to shut shop and go in hiding 4 detaining their sister from stealing stop ..it now attacking Indians
The guy singing I can imagine him with some beats behind him he would be cool to listen to. Everyone there seems really chilled in that neighborhood not all uptight.
Why would he be good to listen to? Can't you hear him just glorifying gun violents and bad man ism? So how the hell is that good to listen to? He's a Trinny wannabe JaFakeing reggae vocalist that can't even sing too tuff!! Every so called reggae singer/DJ/MC is following the ones before themselves, and they're ALL chasing the MARLEY DREAM!!
Was known as little Oxford Street at one time. Charlie chaplin was a lambeth boy...if you look up sir john speed map of Surrey from 1630 i believe..Brixton appears illustrated to be almost a city? ..said to be a saxon town originally = Brixtaine..
Manners and respect is no longer in the UK. You speak with someone about their wrong doings, you may end up in a confrontation or person's saying that you should have said nothing as it's nothing to do with you. There are to many people today who feel it's okay for others to clear up after them whenever they discard their rubbish. In my opinion and which is very sad there are some places not only within London, around large parts of the country resembles nothing more than a cespit.
I have read that the process of gentrification works something like this. Immigrants and poor people move into areas where rents are cheap. They work tirelessly to save money and purchase the cheapest property's in that location. When the system realise that the immigrant population are increasing in numbers and gaining more control, they pull locall government funding and the local resources and amenities slowly but surely disappear and the area becomes run down. The inhabitants move out, often selling cheaply and going back to their county's of origin and the new wave of investors arrive, buying property at a favourable price. The system realises that new money is moving in and then comes the rush of government funding and the area becomes attractive again. It's said to be a 30 year cycle.
It was all planned out since the sixties &seventies
In the UK that hasnt happened in Asian communities much. Look at placed like Southall. Still dominiated by Sikhs/Pakistanis. Difference is whilst 2nd/3rd generations moved out of Southall, new arrivals from South Asia just keep on coming in
I can believe that. Like baggy flared trousers made a comeback. Fashion dies and comes back again.
Notting Hill Gate. Parts of Willesden/Harlesden. Kilburn. Hoxton. Shepherd's Bush Green. Wembley Park. Ealing. And so on.
@@SelenaKnight-n7hHackney too
Fun fact - Electric Avenue was the first street to receive electric lights in the UK in 1888
They have a song about Electric Ave! So, it's a real place? Cool!
@@EvelynReece-w5o I like the pras and ky mani marley version
We gonna rock down to Electric avenue ~ Eddie Grant. Big up me Guyanese people in UK.
Electric Ave a nue 😊
Oh I thought all the West Indians had come in rebuilt the place after the war, don't tell those backwards Brits had electric lights back in the 19th century.
Used to live up the hill back in the 80s. Used to love a trip around the record shops on a Saturday. Red records (opposite the tube station) super tone, blacker dreads, all tone, etc. Great times back then. Nice people around there, more life more strength.
@@anthonywhelan8220 yep, good memories brought me bk whilst watching, thanks chris must list 😉
@@Dee-t9k good memories for sure. Must make a visit over to London again soon.
Look how times have changed. Back in the early 80’s many folks from other parts of the UK would dread to visit Brixton just for an hour 🙂🙂🙂
Brixton still has a high crime rate, knife crime is on the rise
Not true. Brixton began to "gentrify" in the eighties.
Chris getting the love all over London! Massive👊
It was nice to hv you rolling with us chris, see you when we come to Canada 🇨🇦 blessup brother 👌🙏🇹🇹
Great Vlog Chris. As a Senior Person currently who grew up in London and currently a long time US citizen, we had a different experience growing up in London. Jamaicans owned a lot of the homes back in the day, that are now selling for Millions. Many sold and went back home to Jamaica in the 80s and 90s and even moved to the suburbs of London. Many of your guests are the new generations and probably grand and great-grand, children to them. Hope you had fun and wish them all the best.
Chris in the 60s and 70s Brixton was a beautiful clean place. It was just know for Jamaicans, it was Africans and all West Indian mixed in the Citizens. We all lived peacefully with each other. No graffiti, no rubbish on the street, as a matter of fact like u say about litter, it’s so ingrained in me here in USA, that I still don’t literally or walk on the grass. Brixton in the 60s, I walked at nights on my own coming from School. No fear. Now the 3rd and 4th generation Hooligans. Lost their minds, there grans and great grans must be up there 😢
Hmmmm what u chatting about nyc fulll of garbage and huge rats
Gangster rap timeline influenced violence in the UK to this degree but the main blames goes to the stupid ones soaking that music ul and wanting to do or act how people are chatting in their raps... music is the main cause of this!
@@pwelly7717 so true
Come visit us in south , its better to read the book than just looking at the cover , we await your presence lyrikal monster @mrgrizzle6673
@@mrgrizzle6673 what about xbox gta 5, there are what they are...off with a head
I lived in Brixton at the end of the 1980s and then moved around the corner in Camberwell. I loved it! The old beautiful London that has all but disappeared. Great videos!
London has always been horrible. Who we kidding 😂
@SK-kh2rs well, you can have and express your opinion. I do. And I beg to differ.
Every time I see a video of Brixton it brings back so much precious memories. My hometown. Born & bred. Chris since you were asking about the riots & causes. 1 of them started when the police was looking for a man by the name of Michael & raided his mum's house on Normandy rd (further up on Brixton rd) & shot & paralysed his mother Cherry Grose. Back in the days Somerleyton & Stockwell estates were the worst. Having said that you could go any area you wanted without being randomly stabbed/attacked. The youth today have completely lost their way. I'm not saying everything was Rosie & good but community spirit was lovely we all got along for the most part Africans, Caribbeans & whites. I grew up in the "28's" era. If ykyk. Big up to the original Brixton people..
Even the 28s,well around my age , wont call no names...were sensible though...trouble can happen anywhere you are in the world at any time, is just the media jumping on what little they know and mutilating facts
Chris you ran into two nice story tellers I enjoyed them 🎉🎉🎉
@@QueenLotty me to! 🙂
Big up chris must list that was my lil brother Nathan foster that u showed some love to nuff respect ❤
I'm very sorry for your loss.
Reds from the record shop should've also told you that 'Electric Avenue' was what 80's singer Eddie Grant sang about on his global hit song 💯🔥🔥
I've been wondering that for years..good to know
And living on the front line.
Nice history information with great guides. Interesting how Jamaicans always cooking - they are good at blending delicious taste. Real estate highs worldwide. Travel good🇯🇲in🇺🇸
Things change, how they feel is exactly how the people of Brixton felt when the Jamaicans came 🤷🏾♂️
@@extrabigman 20/30,000 Jamaicans rebuilt the country while all us white folk sat around with whips in our hands lol. The origins of British culture have NOTHING to do with the west-indies, Britons are English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish for hundreds of years, Jamaicans have been here roughly 60yrs and carry on like they built the place, Jamaica's biggest exports to the UK are gang culture & Bob Marley... well done
The Jamaicans did not build Britain. It was built by the indigenous people, Jamaican people were invited to come to Britain because there was very little Work in Jamaica. Also they were part of the British Empire at one time and their ancestors were sold by Black Kings in Africa to the white man they were scattered and sold into slavery all over the world by different countries.
@itzjustmolly8509 finally an honest take
That's not true...where did you find this?@@itzjustmolly8509. People from all over the Caribbean came to the UK to work and build lives, many came with the intention of staying in the UK for a limited amount of years with the intention of returning to their country of origin (including my parents)
@@extrabigmanstop 😄, they came for work and better life they wouldn't of had in Jamaica. The indigenous Britons built Britain and made one of the best countries to ever have existed which then drew all these other ethnicities and cultures which is now changing it into something else, no hate, but don't talk bollox about "minorities" built Britain, Irish went there in huge numbers and worked in construction but I wouldn't say the Irish built Britain
Big up yourself number one place Brixton little Kingston❤❤ welcome
those two ealderly guys were lovely well mannered realy nice guys well spoken
Wish I could get elder in a music vid
Yes, it's funny because the reason I originally approached them is because they were in a heated debat about the changes in the community. It was perfect timing!
Really love the vibe in Brixton! Thanks for taking us along sir.
Yes CML welcome to little Jamaica aka Brixton 🤔 used to Be .🤣
I'm in London, shame i couldn't link up with you in Brixton .
Raspect 🇯🇲🇨🇦
Hey Chris. Just met your Parents, installed their internet. I just subscribed. The content you create is craaazy. I'm hooked
My father, yes he spoke about you. Thank you for your kind words.
Hi I have just come across your channel and it’s nice to see you talking to the Jamaican men who came here in the 60’s &70’s! My parents came to the Uk from Jamaica in the 60’s and settled in Birmingham the second city.
With regards to how things have changed with rubbish and no concern about the environment I really think a lot of people come to this country and really don’t care. They think England, America and Canada owe them something. They get what they can and some go back to there country! I’m not talking about Caribbean’s I’m talking about other nationalities!
Silly slurs.
Niot that many leave the UK. The English are nowxa minority in their own capital city whilst racism towards white people is on the rise
Carribeans still ask for compensation for slavery 😂 and you claim its others who think england owes them?😂
@@SK-kh2rs Why is compensation funny??
Most carribbeans believe that white people are innocent of slavery.
Like yoo they misunderstand the whole thing.
@@SK-kh2rs Rubbish 🗑️
Carribbeans think that whites are innocent.
Yoo are disgusting.
Your treatin' us Chris 👍🏼
Big up, Chris Must List. I wish I had gotten the chance to meet you, but next time 🇯🇲🇬🇧
Sounds like a plan. Thank you for watching!
A Thin Line between Bought out and Sell Out.... Stay Blessed !
I hear you!
The same thing that is happening here happened in NYC as well hells kitchen use to be full of Irish and Italian culture now its just all bought out collage kids all live in the area nothing like it was during the 90s
Beautiful place chris Amazing!
Loving the content from the UK 🇬🇧 keep it up Chris! 🙏🏻👍🇨🇦
That was 'Teacha' the first guy you talked to? I used to live in Brixton up until 2009 and used to hang with him. Glad he's doing well.
Big up chris always a pleasure i so fulljoy the video respec and blessings 🇯🇲🇺🇸
The ironic thing was Brixton and Tottenham used to be very middle class areas originally. Brixton got bombed in WW2 so then that made it decline as the government didn't want to repair bombsites so then grand townhouses became flats as opposed to one house. Van Gogh and Chaplin used to live there, now the reverse of gentrification is happening. It's obviously bad for people who have lived there for a long time. But historically Clapham Brixton were posh area before WW2. But the War bombs damaged the areas then houses got damaged and it became flats from there. Even Notting Hill and Fulham were very poor and full of slums until the 70s or late 60s.
Was in brixton in July …. When I say I love the place . Full of culture . I’ll be back for the holidays and cannot wait
Chris when u are in a Council Flat for a while u have the option of buying at a better Cost. No one tells you that, USA doesn’t have that and I don’t think Canada either
Good video. Next time you come England check out Tottenham, Kilburn, Harlesden and some of the smaller community’s to see grimey part of London. Places like brixton are very gentrified
You should come back to Ireland next year for the riverfest in limerick city
Sounds like fun!
Ireland is too green
Chris check out the song - Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant
Yes, i'm well aware of the song but didn't put 2 and 2 together at the time. Thank you!
Truth be told, you should know that over the last 30 years the Caribe community has not increased enough to sustain the area without the influx of Africans and the Indian as well as other communities.
Besides, the Jamaicans know what’s good for them and have sold up and moved away. Gentrification was bound to happen sooner or later.
I grew up in when it was almost all West Indians in Brixton.
What the man in the glasses is saying is absolutely true.
He even lost his Jamaican accent!
When I visit London, i always make a point of going to Brixton and spend money in Caribbean businesses like the bakery and the market.
Chris, I am so glad you got to see Brixton. A crying shame you could not have reach before it went uptown!
Totally agree. The decrease in the Carribbean population due to interracial relationships and as well UK government preventing people from Jamaica and other Carribbean countries have played a major role. No one wants to speak on these two key elements, but it is true.
The Caribbean’s don’t procreate with each other so they are dying out
Yes they have bred their way out of existence!
@@Missylife-t7mit’s mainly because of the interracial relationships the men have
Toronto is a beautiful clean place
don't be fool some place
My Home Town !
Alot of people from many race's do not respect the street's of England, lots of litter, rubbish, garbage, crap, every where, so sad 😔, no street cleaners visible as before to maintain street cleaning. Massive eyesore and health and safety on the street's of England, sòooooo disappointing. 😡
Chris you're a superstar man..thanks for representing the people !!!
47:04 Chris is 2 funny 🤣 hope u had a good time in London bro. Be sure to visit Peckham in south London next time your down 🙏
❤ you Chris your so amazin wish I'll travel with you someday. Reach which part of the world unno reach. Blessings to you Chris Must Lust 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 ❤you more
Greatly appreciate your kindness.
Everyone tries to make where there live is worlds apart from somewhere else when its not but that's the fun in it represent where you from
Well, it’s nice to see Brixton London .I miss England Beautiful country . Living in America now lennetta depusior
Your videos are great bro
Thank you for watching!
Up to the time Chris
💜Chris Cool Must Come Up 2 L'Pool 🖤
Proper enjoyed Your walk through Brixton 🖤💪🏽
Big up those First Gentleman 🫡 also Brixton chip shop 💯💯💯
born and brought up there till the age of 11, mum moved us to hampshire and I hated it, came back to south london at 18 and been there ever since, its home simple as that, great memories of my childhood in Brixton and Tulse hill in the 70s, now live down the road in Camberwell, Brixton has changed so much and not all of it for the better.
You got politicians, thenyou got Chris. Thank you for sharing the real!
Thanks for watching Matt
@@Mzungu_matt lol, yep
This is the area of Brixton that I want to visit, near the mural of hip hop artist. I see Tupac, Biggie Smalls and Big Pun on the mural behind them. 🌹👏🖤🤎✊
I assure you, the trash problem never used to be that way. People in Brixton and other parts of London used to have more pride in their community. This saddens me.
Big up yourself bro Nuff love
Yes, I hope all is well my friend.
Blessup chris, one love from jamaica
You take care on your travels Chris and enjoy the rest of this journey you are on my friend.
Being stuck in the house most of the time and living alone i really do enjoy content like this.
Giving me a look at places i will won't make it back to myself.
Travel safe and well man. :}
Thank you very much for your kind words. All the best!
Knew u would get good content in Brixton and wow bringing back lots of memories al the places mentioned.
Its also sad that they are affecting community everywhere by the same thing! Where i live to its developers maybe councils and!! Etc.
Its not about colour necessarily, money/greed and so on.
I used to go Brixon alot in my youth loved the markets roman road, Brixton good few others, the the people, community all all naionalities/cultures!
There is also a issue with gangs young children, they are also taking the community, good guidance positivity is lacking 😐... hopfully that will change in the near future ❤
love brixton my friend lived in streatham hill used to go to university of dub in recreation centre in electric avenue
I’ve always thought Dagenham sounds a sketchy area of London. Maybe that’s somewhere to check out?
In 1985 I got caught in The Brixton Riot which got started after the police accidentally shot a woman in her home while looking for her son. Cand a Jamaican dry cleaner (Mr. Linrus Earl Scott) allowed me to use his phone to let my family know I was ok. There was a Tandoori restaurant a few doors away and the staff and owner absolutely refused to lend me their phone. They were scared shitless since businesses were being looted further down the road. When I got off the bus earlier, folks were running with with cases of molotov cocktail bombs. Cars were being pushed off car lots and fire bombed. I was determined to complete an errand of getting money from an ATM machine for my Aunt. The bank card got sucked up, I had nothing but a bus pass. The cops cordoned off Brixton Rd. to prevent the looting from spreading to the market. This was a long and very interesting day, which ironically began with a visit to The Imperial War Museum.🤔
I was born in Herne Hill in 1951 and i have watched the area slowly being destroyed over my lifetime
Uve deffo seen a lot of
Wasn’t in bad shape after the war? I mean what do you mean ?
Please elaborate, precisely what has destroyed the area since the 1950's. I suspect I know but it would be useful to confirm.
Love you gigs mate, that's Scouse for spectacles. Where can I get those frames?
Thanks! These are from the 1990's, crazy hard to find and expensive. They are called Cazals and I think I paid about $2000 USD for them.
I don't see one white indigenous person in Brixton.. Just looks like little Kingston Jamaica
I visited Brixton in late September and found it to be friendly and interesting. Had vegan lunch there with several friends. As a woman of color, I couldn't visit London and not go to Brixton. Looking forward to returning.
The bloke who rolled up on his bike with the sheriff put hairs up on my neck with his love he showed ❤
Yes, it's always humbling for me when someone watches my videos.
Lovely content 😊❤
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*Santa Claus
Thank you for video of brixton go to Nottingham brixton brought back lots of memories-of markets great fish
@@Lovelly2259 I went
That is not the reason Brixton hill have beef with them….some ppl just chat for the sake of chat
If someone shares their opinion, remember it's their opinion.
Yo Chris U went on Bob Marley way n didn’t vist Maureen’s kitchen food round da corner 🔥
Big up the tour guy
😊big up yourself as usual Chris Must List, you are large.ANOTHER one mark off the List. Greetings going out to you and your family.❤❤❤
No sympathy for them. They didn’t have the foresight of the Indians despite the fact they came before everyone else and did a lot of social activism that made life easier for new arrivals.
They should have built more businesses, stronger communities and left inheritances to their children. They didn’t do it.
I agree to a certain extent with this point. However, the Carribbean people who came to UK could not get jobs, rent a house etc, it took them longer than the other ethnic groups who has come after them and benefited from their struggle. The jobs were nurses, bus drivers, etc, that lower paid. Plus, UK banks would not lend to black people back then. This is a fact! On another note, when Carribbean people started their own businesses such as hair care, Indians came into the industry and dominated it, took it over by ganging together.
Harsh but true. Unfortunately to many broken homes and disfunction. Attitudes are all wrong too listen to the man in the barbershop.
Chris you should visit Guyana sometime great country the only country in South America that speaks English. Love your show.
I will!
Guyana 🇬🇾 have too much tigers 🐅
"This is the kind of country where a mistake is often made to look like the truth" Facts!!!!!
Came over from billys channel love the content :)
If your lift is dirty clean it , how can you expect the Council to Clean it when you are graping the system
American 'yardie', who visited in 2004. Took the "tube" to Brixon station on the way to Streatham to meet cousins for the first time. Surreal for both, me with an American accent and them with an British accent, that said, after coming out of that station from Heathrow I felt like I was in Brooklyn's Flatbush section back in the day. Now we know the problem, so what are the solutions. Videos like this in America, UK where ever Black areas are gentrified, its 'look there is gentrification' here and no collective action. Akin to there is a fire and you need a group to get the fire hose to put it out and no one is.
1009 views chris must list needs more likes more liking videos.
The prison in this area is very famous, known as HM Prison Brixton
Wow.....the shop across the , back in rhe day i used to buy my garms from there......Baron jon😂😂😂
I live on Brixton Hill, how you managed to find such a quiet day I do not know.
Good afternoon chris don't you like Belize city anymore? WOW 😢
I've been there twice in the last 2 years. I love Belize City!
i am mixed race and used to go to black market in the 60s and early 70s with my dad who was from Jamaica.
100 ... / Sweden! Here in Sweden you get a Fine if you trow trashes around you. Isnt it the same over therE?
Depends on locality and how rigorously it's enforced.
I grew up in Brixton and honestly I feel like the bad reputation used to protect it from outsiders. It is one of the only places in London where people talk to each other on the street, it had real community. I miss when their were lots of Rastafarians because they looked after the community in so many ways. Their used to be lots of families that lived here and now it is 'professionals' and it used to be a relaxed area and now it is busy like another oxford street. The gentrification goes deep and the people that I met who moved to the area did not respect it or myself or other people from the area. It is really bad. The way they conducted themselves is despicable and they still live in the area in houses that are no longer affordable to people like me who grew up here. I have witnessed people capitalise and commodify the name and reputation of Brixton and do nothing to help the area and invite bad people in who disrespect the area and our community.
Was gonna say you should of visited in the 60s to 90s 😄
Hahaha, I would need to borrow your time machine.
@@ChrisMustList why didn’t you say 😃😂👍🏾👍
Gentrified Brixton
My mom have a house further down Acre Lane it’s over a million £s now, I still wouldn’t live there for free. , lister to all that siren 😮
Nice one 🇬🇧🇯🇲
Why we Africans have to sell everything, you never hear ah Indian say he grandparents sell land or property. We always looking for the party and easy money. Indians came and remained, build businesses and progressed. We blacks just wallow in our sorry. Sad
What about Chinese..why u have to mention Indian...moreover indias ppl work hard hard nite and day and naaaaa guuuu bun out a street
I think it is a clear sign of our lack of generational wealth development. I grew up in Stamford hill, which has a large Jewish population. And, one thing I observed is, Jews don't often sell property. I suppose it's a case of holding onto assets, which is something we never thought was important.but what is most heart breaking is, we buy property here in the UK, sell it and move back home, live until we are too sick to manage,. We then come back to the UK and leave our investment to rot, because our children have no interest in it. Poor planning...
A indian man told me one time ,he say son we indian don't sell houses we buy more
@@868AIB wdf e/one have to pick on indian ppl ..whynu don't compare Chinese European etc ..e/were ppl only picking on Indians..in uk the blm movements make a indian s=k had to shut shop and go in hiding 4 detaining their sister from stealing stop ..it now attacking Indians
@@charlesgore5827 my father does say that we grandparents sold land for small money and say they cant eat land, some places worth alot now. sad yes.
The guy singing I can imagine him with some beats behind him he would be cool to listen to. Everyone there seems really chilled in that neighborhood not all uptight.
Why would he be good to listen to? Can't you hear him just glorifying gun violents and bad man ism? So how the hell is that good to listen to? He's a Trinny wannabe JaFakeing reggae vocalist that can't even sing too tuff!! Every so called reggae singer/DJ/MC is following the ones before themselves, and they're ALL chasing the MARLEY DREAM!!
chris rocking down to electric avenue
The Electric Avenue do the dance...TriniCris!!!
I always thought of the uk looking like Harry Potter land it looks a lot like my home NY
Should have linked shumba youth reggae artist
Was known as little Oxford Street at one time.
Charlie chaplin was a lambeth boy...if you look up sir john speed map of Surrey from 1630 i believe..Brixton appears illustrated to be almost a city?
..said to be a saxon town originally = Brixtaine..
The sheriff clean like whistle, brethren pon the bike is a whole vibe to bloodclaath
Manners and respect is no longer in the UK.
You speak with someone about their wrong doings, you may end up in a confrontation or person's saying that you should have said nothing as it's nothing to do with you.
There are to many people today who feel it's okay for others to clear up after them whenever they discard their rubbish.
In my opinion and which is very sad there are some places not only within London, around large parts of the country resembles nothing more than a cespit.
So damn true what you are saying!
Hello Chris must list beautiful image think you i watch all your videos
We are the original brixtonans