Actually this not Michigan's worst hoods. There are way more worst places in this world, it pretty obvious ur judgements & assumptions are far from from the truth & reality. Before u make a video, u should definitely educate urself about the area & overall Grand Rapids.
Agreed. You can't just hook up a camera go to what you think looks bad and say it's the hood. You know nothing about my city, and FYI you were going through the Hispanic areas, those people work hard and police patrol there cause they don't have anything better to do. Grand rapids isn't that dangerous, I lived on every side of this damn city and that wasn't even the bad sides.
My brother used to live with me. His first day here I get 10 missed calls in a few minutes around 9pm. When I finally called him back he said "dude I'm at a gas station at Eastern and Franklin and my car broke down. There are like 25 people in the parking lot talking about robbing the place, HELP!" He learned to never go there again.
There is a difference between run down and dangerous. A lot of Detroit’s worst looking areas is not where most of the crime is. There are parts of Compton that look really nice, but are deadly. Grand Rapids is a gentrified city. It no longer has slums because there is a housing shortage...which pushed people into the inner SE side to reclaim the hood for the gentry. If you define hood by homicides, he did not drive through any of the worst hoods, like Baxter. Those hoods are being gen tried though...and do not look grimy but are where the gang banging is. Charlie is looking for grimey looking areas. You will not find that much in a Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids is going to become like Ann Arbor....where you have to be rich to live in the city.
@@MamaRayRayInTheKitchen No. Charlie is from Michigan. He is a brother from the West side of Detroit. This is his thing. He travels to different cities showing you a side of America that most people do not see. I give him his props. Check out his other videos. I think he focus on the more run down sections of cities.....because that is what people don’t often get to see. I used to live in Grand Rapids, as well as Detroit.....so I know the difference. The big difference is that GR hoods don’t have a jack boy culture like Detroit. If you walk around with something nice in Detroit....in the hood.....you better be prepared for someone telling you that they need that...lol. Run it. You don’t really have to worry about that in GR...but everything else go down the same.
I spent 32 years of my life in Michigan. Can't count the number of times I've been through GR. No disrespect, but you definitely missed some places on this hood tour lol. Grand Rapids in general though really ain't that bad. I like that city a lot.
It’s interesting that this guy didn’t even drive past places like heartside park and show what’s going on with the homeless right now. Seeing all those people without a shelter in the middle of winter/pandemic is truly the worst part of GR
They choose to live there. As a native of GR. There are so many programs for the homeless that its ridiculous. Being that I was homeless once. They just don't want to follow the rules. Who the fuc posted this.
I haven't lived in GR for a few years but friends tell me it's nuts. There used to be an underground area near the park that was accessed via a hole under the freeway near fartside park but I hear it was closed off, many homeless and runaways lived down there
@@wickedmonkeylover Last I knew Dwelling Place was defunct. I imagine the other shelter programs in the City and Kent County are just as overloaded as they are in the rest of the country.
@@victorynewz630 bro I'm from Detroit I moved to GR 2 different times for like 3 years yall city ain't bad and that's a good thing frfr u think its bad come to the west side of the D or go on the east side I bet u gon wanna take yo ass back home😂😂😂
As we see, the so-called worst hoods has sustainable living. You’re not seeing miles of devastation and boarded up buildings. Driving thru back alleys and commercial lots won’t show well however people are maintaining.
Truth. The difference in quality of life in GR vs. Detroit "ghettos" is astounding. Everyone I know in the "hood" in GR has a vehicle, a cellphone, internet, etc. It's not like that in Detroit.
Don't know anything about the crime rate there, and many streets and allies need repair. The houses are old but lived in. Almost none boarded up like Detroit. Properties are pretty clean, and not full of trash - shows some respect for the properties. Perhaps poor and struggling, but there's hope.
Bookmagic Roe I live here. Actually only 1-2 miles away from where he’s driving, off eastern. Anyway, it’s not the worst city. Great economy, even post COVID. Just the price of living here is so fkn high ppl barely get by. I make 19.50 an hour, and still struggle. Rent on average here, for a 2 bed, is about $1,000.
Roads are being fixed, like at a super fast rate. Grand Rapids has strict housing codes, you'll get fined for stuff that's not up to par. Just like we'll get fined for overflowing our garbage.
The residents here are not losers! They are good people for the most part. Many people would never know this was my life from age 15 - 26 yrs. We were income but we had pride and goals. My heart goes out to those are there now. God Bless them all with health, wealth & a good life. 💕🙏💕
Stop it. Not all of Chicago or Detroit is dangerous. They are much bigger cities. They have areas in Detroit and Chicago way nicer than the nicest areas of a Grand Rapids. In other words, their hoods are worse, but their nice areas are better, by far, than what you find in a Grand Rapids. Show me a Palmer Woods, Green Acres, Indian Village, etc, in Grand Rapids city limits. It does not exists. Big cities have bigger extremes....that is all, but it averages out.
I always wonder who is it scary for? Leo's? The elitist? Because average people minding their own business never have problems. I've only had someone ask me, what are you doing in this neighborhood once. And it was at a convenient store where I needed water. Or maybe a few guys wanting my attention and all I say is I'm taken, thanx anyways. We can't live in fear.
@@Julzsavedandsetapart it’s scary for many mothers when their youth and young adults leave the house.....and they hear gun shots....sirens and not sure if they are safe.
@@antidome Not so. I lived in both cities. GR is small....the D is like 138 square miles. Hence, it has more of the bad and more of the good than GR. However, a greater percentage of GR is nice compared to the percentage of Detroit that is nice. That said, if you are AA...there is not that much absolute difference statistically. The big difference is that GR is majority white while Detroit is majority black, but the constant is that lives of AA is not that much different between the two cities.
I think every single city is going through something similar, there is a number of factors that contribute towards this.. obviously COVID, but 2nd to that is lenient bail policies and a lenient justice system
Aren't THESE American made Cars..??? Man, people who want to COMPLAIN about other people, will find ANYTHING to COMPLAIN about!!! I remember when it was PATRIOTIC to buy and own American made Cars, and your poking fun, and these are low income neighborhoods!!! Glad to see American made in Michigan!!!
Back when one of my parents still lived in East they would drive me to school in the morning and we’d almost always go down the intersecting road at about 5:14 with the apartments and it never seemed dangerous to me. Honestly it mostly just seemed like a lot of people who weren’t in good enough situations to live in the nicer part of town. On a side note: just because a place isn’t the “good part of town” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the “bad part of town” it’s not just black and white.
I am a older grandma that is a Uber driver at night and yeah, this guy didn't drive any of the bad areas, I have no problems driving where he went. As a older grandma Ubering, I know I am in a bad area when my rider offers to sell me a piece because he is afraid for me driving in their hood. This guy could have just sat at Eastern and Franklin and just recorded for a while and would have had all kinds of interesting things to show.
@@MetalDetroit 700 homicides in Chicago 323 in memphis tn 400 in new york 300 in LA all in 2020 thats what i mean by its nothing compared to other cities its all bad but grand rapids is where people that live in those citys want to be 💯
You didn’t even drive past heartside park or other hotspots and show the extreme homelessness problem going on right now... just pointed the camera at police cars and dumpsters like what is this video trying to accomplish?
I'm from Grand Rapids, born and raised. First off he's nowhere near the hood. He didn't drive through Eastern and Franklin, Baxter, Bates, Neland and Franklin, the black hills, I could go on. Secondly, GR doesn't really have a terrible area, not for real. This city was rated one of the safest places to live in Michigan. Smh
I was thinking.. a badass feature for you to combine with these videos is a google maps route of where you went. That way we can see the area. I know we can just google it, but finding the area ourselves is a bit tougher. Just a thought. Great channel.
Good job, you drove through the sustainable hood. Where homes are filled and majority of the houses are up to code. Plus this is the winter, come back when it's warm out.
For those who say he not from Grand Rapids, you are right. He was born and lived in Detroit. A few years ago I was watch some of his videos. To this day I generally know the major streets/avenues in west Detroit myself. I was born in Detroit and grew up in Detroit and later Livonia. The area in Detroit I grew up in was north of Grand River Avenue, east of Telegraph Road, and south of 7 Mile. We moved to Livonia to be closer to the Ford Motor Company dad worked at. When I got out of the USAF we settled down in Kentwood and later Wyoming. I know that picture on Franklin at 2:37 is Social Services building. Been to that place many times before. What you see in this video is what you DON'T have here like in Detroit. That is street after street in central Detroit of either burnout houses or cleared out burned houses. Now in my life, I don't have money to move to the Detroit area let alone a mile away. I list medical problems that can happen to anyone regardless of race. One that I have is Sarcoidosis. Bernie Mac died from Pneumonia and scar tissue from previous Sarcoidosis was a factor in his death. Another person who died from autoimmune disease was Reggie White who played last team was the Green Bay Packers. Black working men and women that are doing to support their family I give a thumbs up for you. You are persons of value. I haven't felt that way about myself because of medical reasons these recent years. Bye
It's about time Charlie Boy you came to Grand Rapids you been doing video for years I have seen you do videos in Muskegon Heights Benton Harbor, Kzoo and you would have went all the way around and haven't even hit Grand Rapids but I'm glad you finally made it
Gurl this ain't the hood. The police are always there cause of racism. Believe my family is from Chicago and they feel so much more safer when they visit me in gr.
@@wickedmonkeylover Racism never crossed my mind though I did think possibly robbery because of all the police cars. I was raised not be racist and to love everyone always to look for the good in people.
We have very few police in GR actually...Garfield Park has only 2 cops assigned to it, and thousands of homes in their beat. There are reports of gunshots daily from that neighborhood.....
Let me tell you this, as a former Detroiter, Detroit gets a bad rap. I once believed the hype about how bad Detroit was until I started visiting and living in other big cities. Same things go on daily. Many people who talk about how bad Detroit, Flint or Saginaw is have actually never even been in those cities. How many people writing how bad Detroit and other cities are, in comparison, have been victimized by a crime while visiting one of the so called terrible cities? I think most peoples opinions come from the media. You might know that it is safe to walk or go to most parts of Grand Rapids....because you don’t see or read about such things bad happening being shown on the media or because you have gone there many times without incident. However, because of fear and what you see in the media, you would not try that in Detroit or Flint. Nothing would probably happen to you in those cities either....you are just too scared already to prove yourself wrong.. The author of this Channel, for over 5 years now, has gone into the most crime ridden cities and the worst neighborhoods in theses cities, and from what I can tell, nothing has ever happened to him. He has never been shot or robbed or jumped. Watch his videos....he gets out his car in the hoods and at night, goes into hood party stores. He should not be able to do this if all these places are as bad a people think they are. I have read comments where people ask if they could do what the author does....but as a white guy. You see....that is the real fear. Many white people fear they will be attacked for being white in a black area. If nothing happens to a white person in a poor black community, whites will say the community is “safe” and not bad. There could be African Americans getting shot in drive-bys in the same community, weekly, and all type of assault and crimes among AA.....but as long as nothing happens to white peoples....they will say it is a safe neighborhood. History has turned African Americans onto themselves, which is why AA can be catching hell others feel it is “safe”. I recommend watching “Black Bottom” on Netflix. What happened to the Character “Toledo” in the end perfectly reflects the root of violence in our communities to this day. Displaced aggression and frustration turned inwards towards each other.
I honestly understand precisely what your saying, but its not an American thing its the same repetitious cycle time and time again, history is always repeating, it has no relevance on race, but i agree that the illusion is always present, humans cant be free because were controlled by people who through their power are in fact "god" like in theory
I can understand. I was born and raised in Saginaw and moved to the GR area twenty years ago. There are places in Saginaw that I would not drive through in the day time. Yet in GR, I've never got that sort of feeling.
It’s like only 1% of the city stop overreacting. Y’all can’t expect cities to be 100% perfect. Go check out some European and Latin American hoods then you might start to be grateful
Riding through mostly Burton Heights and Wyoming and some parts of Southeast, it’s some crime there but shit just started getting some what serious the last past year, nothing to be afraid of though lol
I used to go to a comedy show a friend had at a hotel off of Anne Street. Older part of town. Fairly well maintained. Still far better than half of what I've seen in places like Baltimore, Philly and Detroit.
You should’ve went on the north and the west and up franklin you didn’t explore enough plus you gotta come during the summer nights because that’s when shit really slap
As someone who was born in Detroit and raised in East Grand Rapids this is night and day but I agree. Whenever I’m going places or have family around I always avoid Franklin, Hall, the area near the National and Lake Michigan. But it’s still nicer than Flint, Saginaw or most of Detroit
There are hoods there other than in Detroit? Where else in Michigan may I ask? What about near Sterling Heights? My kids are there I really need to know, thanks!
The Sterling Hts area is pretty nice and stable. Its a little sketchy in Warren off of 8 mile. Detroit is very hit or miss, generational poverty. Ive only been to Grand Rapids a few times, it didnt seem that bad.
Sterling Heights was voted year after year one of the safest city’s to live in I believe across America per their capita. Really the only bad parts of the area is when you go south of 9 mile. Detroit. Hamteamick, highland park, Redford. Dearborn. All very hit or miss city’s
Anybody who thinks this is bad is soft or didnt grow up in a city in the midwest or east coast... looks like a normal working class neighborhood to me. If you look up his videos on flint or Detroit. With all the run down and abandoned houses that take up entire blocks or half of the neighborhoods... to me that's hood. These areas only look rough because its winter. The roads being messed up is normal for Michigan unfortunately..
Yeah. Poor? Yeah. Seedy? Hell yeah. Dangerous? Not very. My aunt and uncle lived on Palace for almost thirty years. Worst they ever had to deal with was neighbor kids shortcutting through the backyard.
GR doesn’t really have much of a hood or anything. It’s pretty safe overall if you aren’t involved with bad sht but as with any city there are areas that aren’t as nice
frfr, i mean as long as yu aren’t wit the wrong people yu good frfr. nobody fucks wit anyone unless they provoked for the most part. like nowadays here in GR yu can walk down any street & be good. it’s all about who yu hang wit. cuz 9/10 those the mfkers that’s gone get yu in trouble here
Yea they got shot at my job. He was right to the right of the tire shop it happened at.construction kept him from back there. He didn’t hit the dirty west or the black hills
@@donaldwalker5579 the black hills ain't so black these days, its more like little Mexico. I used to live a couple houses up from the party store on Clyde park and plett(just north of Burton). There are only house's on the south side of the street, but cops were there on a normal basis, the street to the south behind the scrap yard was worse, even so I never had any problems.
I remember being dragged to a goth bar on division Avenue that looked worse than these hoods, but that was 30 years ago and I was already half-cut when we got there.
Help support this channel, donate to: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...
Cash App: $Detroit982
DON'T FORGET TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE !
Actually this not Michigan's worst hoods. There are way more worst places in this world, it pretty obvious ur judgements & assumptions are far from from the truth & reality. Before u make a video, u should definitely educate urself about the area & overall Grand Rapids.
Agreed. You can't just hook up a camera go to what you think looks bad and say it's the hood. You know nothing about my city, and FYI you were going through the Hispanic areas, those people work hard and police patrol there cause they don't have anything better to do. Grand rapids isn't that dangerous, I lived on every side of this damn city and that wasn't even the bad sides.
Hey Charlie I'd Love To Link With You, I'm Headed That Way In A Couple Weeks
I'm JaFreeBandz A Independent FreeBandz Videographer/Entertainer & Hustler From Chicago
MLive did an article on him. This fool is not even from Michigan
Those wasn’t even the worst hoods of Grand Rapids 🤦🏾♂️ Born and Raised in Grand Rapids
Man doe 🙄🙄
Fake ass hood 🤣
💯
From joy rd n greenfield go show that shit 😂 fym
GR ain’t bad like that anyway. I love it there.
Outrageous!
How do you skip Franklin & Eastern?
The armpit of Gand Rapids!
Heavy on Eastern. 🤣 shit is mad ghetto
All over the south east side he didn’t make it near ms tracies or Franklin and eastern that’s the real hood
Clearly they don't know what they are talking about ! shame on the lier who made this video only dos on looks not the FACTS !!
@@Starboygr totally agree I think maybe he comes to places when they start having murders and stuff but that doesn’t make a place a bad place
My brother used to live with me. His first day here I get 10 missed calls in a few minutes around 9pm. When I finally called him back he said "dude I'm at a gas station at Eastern and Franklin and my car broke down. There are like 25 people in the parking lot talking about robbing the place, HELP!"
He learned to never go there again.
You ain't even drive thru the hood.
There is a difference between run down and dangerous. A lot of Detroit’s worst looking areas is not where most of the crime is. There are parts of Compton that look really nice, but are deadly. Grand Rapids is a gentrified city. It no longer has slums because there is a housing shortage...which pushed people into the inner SE side to reclaim the hood for the gentry. If you define hood by homicides, he did not drive through any of the worst hoods, like Baxter. Those hoods are being gen tried though...and do not look grimy but are where the gang banging is. Charlie is looking for grimey looking areas. You will not find that much in a Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids is going to become like Ann Arbor....where you have to be rich to live in the city.
Yeah he should have went through where im at southeast side Franklin and Eastern
Right someone paying him to do this !! Do you think it’s is the news media because he’s not from Michigan this is very sad!!
@@MamaRayRayInTheKitchen No. Charlie is from Michigan. He is a brother from the West side of Detroit. This is his thing. He travels to different cities showing you a side of America that most people do not see. I give him his props. Check out his other videos. I think he focus on the more run down sections of cities.....because that is what people don’t often get to see. I used to live in Grand Rapids, as well as Detroit.....so I know the difference. The big difference is that GR hoods don’t have a jack boy culture like Detroit. If you walk around with something nice in Detroit....in the hood.....you better be prepared for someone telling you that they need that...lol. Run it. You don’t really have to worry about that in GR...but everything else go down the same.
Thank you for tell me god bless you Happy Holidays and Happy New year Love peace and prosperity for 2021 🥰🙏
Are you even from GR? That was not the worst of GR.
@@muckfoot-4093 Franklin n eastern. Marathon gas station, miss tracies,
stupid sht on the cam - this person got no clue just a a ho
Yes they are in GR they talking smack they only are going by looks not FACTS !
You gotta be new here. He never said he was from GR and his name has Detroit’s fucking area code in it and your dumbass still made that comment
He's probably from cascade twp
You missed 99% of the hood
EXACTLY. His dumb ass thinks that's the hood.
🤣
I spent 32 years of my life in Michigan. Can't count the number of times I've been through GR. No disrespect, but you definitely missed some places on this hood tour lol. Grand Rapids in general though really ain't that bad. I like that city a lot.
I agree. I live here too.
If you from Grand Rapids it’s fasho the worst place to live just straight toxic vibes and hate
GR is mostly that good old classic early-90s type of hood that's not post apocalyptic
Where the fuck do you guys live ? Bc I’m confused I don’t know if you don’t watch the news or ?
@@Yamomluvsme if you’ve ever lived in a bigger city you’d understand that Grand Rapids as a whole is super safe in comparison
I’m waiting for the “worst hoods”... I live in Michigan this isn’t shit 😂😂😂
I live in Grand Rapids and agree.
Shit I live in Saginaw and even I know this some bullshit
Just cruising around the out scurts I guess on GPS it still say you n bad area even if you really ain't in the gut.
I'm from the old Michigan this ain't shit 😂🤣
These Hoods back in the day were dangerous asf now a days it’s all chill Still sum Violence here n there but not as much as before
It’s interesting that this guy didn’t even drive past places like heartside park and show what’s going on with the homeless right now. Seeing all those people without a shelter in the middle of winter/pandemic is truly the worst part of GR
Avoided the Heartside district completely. Unless South Division's gotten gentrified the last few years and I *really* doubt that.
They choose to live there. As a native of GR. There are so many programs for the homeless that its ridiculous. Being that I was homeless once. They just don't want to follow the rules. Who the fuc posted this.
I haven't lived in GR for a few years but friends tell me it's nuts. There used to be an underground area near the park that was accessed via a hole under the freeway near fartside park but I hear it was closed off, many homeless and runaways lived down there
@@wickedmonkeylover Last I knew Dwelling Place was defunct. I imagine the other shelter programs in the City and Kent County are just as overloaded as they are in the rest of the country.
@@darastarscream not when ones keep popping up. And working as a first responder you get first hand knowledge
Shit. A lot of these areas aren’t bad. Just old school houses and neighborhoods. I kinda like the vibe in GR.
There aren't really that bad of parts in GR. I always felt safe in these areas.
Man ain’t even hit franklin tf he talking bout worst hoods
You can always feel safe i live there
i feel safe here
right 🤦🏾♂️
@2:22 Even the tree branches decided to leave town.
do these only in warm weather on a full moon lol
My city not that bad we be chillin for real 💯
No.. the left destroyed your city. Wake up, dont be had
@@victorynewz630 bro I'm from Detroit I moved to GR 2 different times for like 3 years yall city ain't bad and that's a good thing frfr u think its bad come to the west side of the D or go on the east side I bet u gon wanna take yo ass back home😂😂😂
the source of jobs in Michigan is good there are jobs ?
@@victorynewz630 our city is far from destroyed
@@victorynewz630 Would you care to cite any specifics?
As we see, the so-called worst hoods has sustainable living. You’re not seeing miles of devastation and boarded up buildings. Driving thru back alleys and commercial lots won’t show well however people are maintaining.
Truth. The difference in quality of life in GR vs. Detroit "ghettos" is astounding. Everyone I know in the "hood" in GR has a vehicle, a cellphone, internet, etc. It's not like that in Detroit.
Exactly. Shootings have spiked this year and numbers have never been great. But the worst hoods here aren’t the worst hoods
BECAUSE this person doesn't know the REAL FACTS They are Stupid !
That’s bc this person didn’t even drive thru the bad parts of gr I live in gr born n raised he drove thru parts of gr that looks bad but actuall isn’t
Grand Rapids is more like Dayton, Cincinnati and Louisville. Nothing like Detroit!!!
No tf it aint u better get up on gunru
Grand rapids just as gangsta as Detroit
@@hotboy80baby18 lol
Thank God
Grand rapids is the second largest city in MI. Ya really don't know this city
He went everywhere except the hoods
TRUE lol
@@Starboygr are yall stupid ? rossevelt park is number one look it up buddy
@@Starboygr Black Hills is Number 2... the apt part at the end look it up..
Forgot black hills and Kenosha street
Don't know anything about the crime rate there, and many streets and allies need repair. The houses are old but lived in. Almost none boarded up like Detroit. Properties
are pretty clean, and not full of trash - shows some respect for the properties. Perhaps poor and struggling, but there's hope.
Bookmagic Roe I live here. Actually only 1-2 miles away from where he’s driving, off eastern. Anyway, it’s not the worst city. Great economy, even post COVID. Just the price of living here is so fkn high ppl barely get by. I make 19.50 an hour, and still struggle. Rent on average here, for a 2 bed, is about $1,000.
For some reason he avoided the Heartside district almost completely. Compared to Detroit it's not that scary but it is pretty gnarly.
Roads are being fixed, like at a super fast rate. Grand Rapids has strict housing codes, you'll get fined for stuff that's not up to par. Just like we'll get fined for overflowing our garbage.
Grand Rapids is really safe honestly
@@authorizeking4027 it’s really not
The residents here are not losers! They are good people for the most part. Many people would never know this was my life from age 15 - 26 yrs. We were income but we had pride and goals. My heart goes out to those are there now. God Bless them all with health, wealth & a good life. 💕🙏💕
Nobody gaf or cares
Ive walked down that exact alley in 5:45, that neighborhood is very safe compared to detroit or chicago.
Stop it. Not all of Chicago or Detroit is dangerous. They are much bigger cities. They have areas in Detroit and Chicago way nicer than the nicest areas of a Grand Rapids. In other words, their hoods are worse, but their nice areas are better, by far, than what you find in a Grand Rapids. Show me a Palmer Woods, Green Acres, Indian Village, etc, in Grand Rapids city limits. It does not exists. Big cities have bigger extremes....that is all, but it averages out.
I always wonder who is it scary for?
Leo's? The elitist?
Because average people minding their own business never have problems.
I've only had someone ask me, what are you doing in this neighborhood once.
And it was at a convenient store where I needed water.
Or maybe a few guys wanting my attention and all I say is I'm taken, thanx anyways.
We can't live in fear.
@@Julzsavedandsetapart it’s scary for many mothers when their youth and young adults leave the house.....and they hear gun shots....sirens and not sure if they are safe.
@@blkwisdom101amoah3 Theres more nicer neighborhoods in Grand rapids than detroit.
@@antidome Not so. I lived in both cities. GR is small....the D is like 138 square miles. Hence, it has more of the bad and more of the good than GR. However, a greater percentage of GR is nice compared to the percentage of Detroit that is nice. That said, if you are AA...there is not that much absolute difference statistically. The big difference is that GR is majority white while Detroit is majority black, but the constant is that lives of AA is not that much different between the two cities.
What’s sad is, Grand Rapids has its highest number of homicides in history for the year of 2020. Just had another murder last night.
That I can agree on
yeah, that isn't true.
This will be more common as America becomes more non-White.
I think every single city is going through something similar, there is a number of factors that contribute towards this.. obviously COVID, but 2nd to that is lenient bail policies and a lenient justice system
@@Total_Recall1984 u sound dumb
Never seen so many pontiacs and cadillacs in one area before
I live right out of Detroit. You have no idea how many pontiacs there are per square mile 😂💀
Its Michigan it's in our blood
GM manufacturers
Aren't THESE American made Cars..??? Man, people who want to COMPLAIN about other people, will find ANYTHING to COMPLAIN about!!! I remember when it was PATRIOTIC to buy and own American made Cars, and your poking fun, and these are low income neighborhoods!!! Glad to see American made in Michigan!!!
@@annsmith4876 it’s a joke lol
Back when one of my parents still lived in East they would drive me to school in the morning and we’d almost always go down the intersecting road at about 5:14 with the apartments and it never seemed dangerous to me. Honestly it mostly just seemed like a lot of people who weren’t in good enough situations to live in the nicer part of town. On a side note: just because a place isn’t the “good part of town” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the “bad part of town” it’s not just black and white.
I am a older grandma that is a Uber driver at night and yeah, this guy didn't drive any of the bad areas, I have no problems driving where he went. As a older grandma Ubering, I know I am in a bad area when my rider offers to sell me a piece because he is afraid for me driving in their hood. This guy could have just sat at Eastern and Franklin and just recorded for a while and would have had all kinds of interesting things to show.
Hahah right? Should've sat at the BP or near miss tracys
My neighborhood I was off Sherman lol
East and Franklin is pretty nuts
Kalamazoo and Hall can get wild too
What camera system are you using? Crystal clear Video!
Grand rapids was our party spot in the 70s and 80s. Loved the bars and the clubs. Great memories. Thanks Charlie.
*Drives the perimeter of the city
"The worst hoods of Grand Rapids"
😂😂🙄
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My hometown...this is not really the hood though lol it’s hoodish but not the actual hood.
Exactly
I'm from muskegon but grand rapids michigan is always my 2nd home
Lol, Mine Too. Not Really Hood At All... When You’ve Been To Baltimore And Philly Its A Complete Difference
it’s getting worse :/
@@terrionharris348 u trippin
Grand rapids is nothing compared to other cities trust me its a safe ass city
Exactly I’ve lived there for years and ain’t shit scary about that damn hood 😆
@@chriscarrera3128 right 🤣
38 murders this year. This city is falling apart
@@MetalDetroit 700 homicides in Chicago 323 in memphis tn 400 in new york 300 in LA all in 2020 thats what i mean by its nothing compared to other cities its all bad but grand rapids is where people that live in those citys want to be 💯
Nun of them got nothing on detroit worse city this year
My hometown! Thank you for posting this!!
You didn’t even drive past heartside park or other hotspots and show the extreme homelessness problem going on right now... just pointed the camera at police cars and dumpsters like what is this video trying to accomplish?
BECAUSE he doesn't know what he's talking about only went by looks, not facts !
I'm from Grand Rapids, born and raised. First off he's nowhere near the hood. He didn't drive through Eastern and Franklin, Baxter, Bates, Neland and Franklin, the black hills, I could go on. Secondly, GR doesn't really have a terrible area, not for real. This city was rated one of the safest places to live in Michigan. Smh
I live 5 minutes from Grand rapids everything looks so familiar 😄😄
The "hood" in GR = single family houses with multiple cars in the driveways...
Forreal, and where the grass is green and houses are up to code.
I was thinking.. a badass feature for you to combine with these videos is a google maps route of where you went. That way we can see the area. I know we can just google it, but finding the area ourselves is a bit tougher. Just a thought. Great channel.
Its just southwest Grand Rapids.. should be enough
I recently found out Breonna Taylor was from Grand Rapids
I thought she was louisville
@@chiville165 she lived there
@@chiville165 no she from the mitten
“Worst hoods in GR!”
“Provides no commentary, shows some police cars, and just drives around neighborhoods in the work day and alleys” 😂
Thanks Charlie! I asked for this one a while ago.
Show case GR but clearly NOT THE HOOD !
Good job, you drove through the sustainable hood. Where homes are filled and majority of the houses are up to code. Plus this is the winter, come back when it's warm out.
True !
😆 yall wanna be hood so bad
For those who say he not from Grand Rapids, you are right. He was born and lived in Detroit. A few years ago I was watch some of his videos. To this day I generally know the major streets/avenues in west Detroit myself. I was born in Detroit and grew up in Detroit and later Livonia. The area in Detroit I grew up in was north of Grand River Avenue, east of Telegraph Road, and south of 7 Mile. We moved to Livonia to be closer to the Ford Motor Company dad worked at. When I got out of the USAF we settled down in Kentwood and later Wyoming.
I know that picture on Franklin at 2:37 is Social Services building. Been to that place many times before. What you see in this video is what you DON'T have here like in Detroit. That is street after street in central Detroit of either burnout houses or cleared out burned houses. Now in my life, I don't have money to move to the Detroit area let alone a mile away. I list medical problems that can happen to anyone regardless of race. One that I have is Sarcoidosis. Bernie Mac died from Pneumonia and scar tissue from previous Sarcoidosis was a factor in his death. Another person who died from autoimmune disease was Reggie White who played last team was the Green Bay Packers.
Black working men and women that are doing to support their family I give a thumbs up for you. You are persons of value. I haven't felt that way about myself because of medical reasons these recent years. Bye
Lol! Headed down Burton east, right off the rip!
He ain't even go into the heart of Burton Heights! He just skimmed the outside like "Nope, I ain't going over there!" 🤣🤣
@@Talldude1980 I noticed that! Them turns came awfully quick!
Burton heights
Yeah, he should've turned left onto Division. Or gone down Palace to those side streets right by the train yards.
I was tryna see him go by 4 bros
How many miles a year do you put on your vehicle? You are everywhere. Thanks for the vid's. Peace.
The hoods aren’t even really hoods more of 1 street in each side of town. I being living here my whole life.
@non pop radio 18.7 fm Griswold Desperate to be hood ? What the fuck is wrong with people.
People want to be about that life and the hood so bad.
Man U sound dumb as hell
@@lilman02140 Why ????
Gun violence has gone way up this year in the city. Had a guy pull on gun on me driving down 28th street.
He take ur car?
Well thank your good old president and his vice president
It's about time Charlie Boy you came to Grand Rapids you been doing video for years I have seen you do videos in Muskegon Heights Benton Harbor, Kzoo and you would have went all the way around and haven't even hit Grand Rapids but I'm glad you finally made it
Hood? More like a leisurely drive through an average small city on a cloudy day. 😂
GR actually the second biggest city in Michigan lol this video jus horrible lol
700,000 population is small to you?
I lost track of how many police cars I noticed in this video, when I was a kid we use to count how many police cars we could spot on a road trip.
At least they did not have their guns drawn.
Gurl this ain't the hood. The police are always there cause of racism. Believe my family is from Chicago and they feel so much more safer when they visit me in gr.
@@wickedmonkeylover Racism never crossed my mind though I did think possibly robbery because of all the police cars. I was raised not be racist and to love everyone always to look for the good in people.
We have very few police in GR actually...Garfield Park has only 2 cops assigned to it, and thousands of homes in their beat. There are reports of gunshots daily from that neighborhood.....
This make me miss home again seeing these places again brought back memories 😢
Wished u could’ve shown Highland and Madison but still great video I truly appreciate this so I had to subscribe
Let me tell you this, as a former Detroiter, Detroit gets a bad rap. I once believed the hype about how bad Detroit was until I started visiting and living in other big cities. Same things go on daily. Many people who talk about how bad Detroit, Flint or Saginaw is have actually never even been in those cities. How many people writing how bad Detroit and other cities are, in comparison, have been victimized by a crime while visiting one of the so called terrible cities?
I think most peoples opinions come from the media. You might know that it is safe to walk or go to most parts of Grand Rapids....because you don’t see or read about such things bad happening being shown on the media or because you have gone there many times without incident. However, because of fear and what you see in the media, you would not try that in Detroit or Flint. Nothing would probably happen to you in those cities either....you are just too scared already to prove yourself wrong..
The author of this Channel, for over 5 years now, has gone into the most crime ridden cities and the worst neighborhoods in theses cities, and from what I can tell, nothing has ever happened to him. He has never been shot or robbed or jumped. Watch his videos....he gets out his car in the hoods and at night, goes into hood party stores. He should not be able to do this if all these places are as bad a people think they are. I have read comments where people ask if they could do what the author does....but as a white guy.
You see....that is the real fear. Many white people fear they will be attacked for being white in a black area. If nothing happens to a white person in a poor black community, whites will say the community is “safe” and not bad. There could be African Americans getting shot in drive-bys in the same community, weekly, and all type of assault and crimes among AA.....but as long as nothing happens to white peoples....they will say it is a safe neighborhood.
History has turned African Americans onto themselves, which is why AA can be catching hell others feel it is “safe”. I recommend watching “Black Bottom” on Netflix. What happened to the Character “Toledo” in the end perfectly reflects the root of violence in our communities to this day. Displaced aggression and frustration turned inwards towards each other.
I honestly understand precisely what your saying, but its not an American thing its the same repetitious cycle time and time again, history is always repeating, it has no relevance on race, but i agree that the illusion is always present, humans cant be free because were controlled by people who through their power are in fact "god" like in theory
Ain’t nobody reading this short autobiography fam
I was there for my daughter cheer and it isn't that bad. I liked it
🤦🏾♂️what he ain’t even go through the hoods no Ms Tracy’s Nun lol Buddy Don’t Know Frfr 💯🤦🏾♂️👏🏿🤣🤣
🤑🤑😂😂🤣😂🤣😂
I work down there and have hung out there. Can’t say I’ve ever felt scared or threatened.
hahahahaah
I can understand. I was born and raised in Saginaw and moved to the GR area twenty years ago. There are places in Saginaw that I would not drive through in the day time. Yet in GR, I've never got that sort of feeling.
I’ve walked around the places he’s showed after 12 never had anything happen
Used to live on corner of Darwin and Burton. Shits wild there! Head over to the westside. Go down leonard and head south.
When did you live there?
Your back in my hood!! I ain’t never clicked your video so fast
MichiganK
Joseph Delgado SMD pussy pull up
@@josephdelgado6257 Internet banger
Meth is a big hit there.
@@davidellis5141 meth is a big hit anywhere
Love your videos Charlie! You are documenting what many in this country never see, and have no idea exists. Keep up the good work.
It’s like only 1% of the city stop overreacting. Y’all can’t expect cities to be 100% perfect. Go check out some European and Latin American hoods then you might start to be grateful
@@muhammadhameedahmed6619 most of europe has best standard of living than the us, except for east europe
@@jimmythegentconway8690 Have you seen some Yorkshire, Milan and Paris neighborhoods ??
@@muhammadhameedahmed6619 yes, and they look better than Baltimore or philly hoods
@@muhammadhameedahmed6619 nigga slide to east chicago ur gonna wanna live in yorkshire or whatever tf u was talking ab😭
Isnt this where anxiety war is from
Yes
Yeah, once saw his camry at rivertown by the jcpenney. Saw the sticker on the back and instantly knew it was him lol
@@Bigburt- I thought he drove an olds. Anyway maybe he was dumpster diving lol
@@jxavier3876 Nah i'm pretty sure its a toyota or honda 4 door. either way it was loaded with junk lmao
Showing my city love I see you💪🏽💪🏽 it’s been bad out here very bad like never before I don’t see Franklin n eastern doe
Hello Charlie, what car do you drive ?
So this is where Floyd Mayweather Jr. is from.
Oh hell yea
Riding through mostly Burton Heights and Wyoming and some parts of Southeast, it’s some crime there but shit just started getting some what serious the last past year, nothing to be afraid of though lol
Some of the most clean allies I've ever seen
lol true !
How you ain’t go through bemis & bates, I miss my hometown need to go back soon
He was going the wrong way 🤣
I used to go to a comedy show a friend had at a hotel off of Anne Street. Older part of town. Fairly well maintained. Still far better than half of what I've seen in places like Baltimore, Philly and Detroit.
I was going to say like what hotel...
@@davidmoralez209 the riverfront
Damn...yup you right I woke up in the fire escape one night smfh
@@lyzzyhuffman7280 that shit was live for my girls after party for her wedding!!!
Ann street is tamed
You should’ve went on the north and the west and up franklin you didn’t explore enough plus you gotta come during the summer nights because that’s when shit really slap
Omg finally! So cool to see GR make the cut on here
if it was only the real hood !
U didn’t go to the hood hood in Grand Rapids lol what about Franklin and Eastern? Or even Kalamazoo? 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
I swear
Wait Kalamazoo is hood?
@@johnDoe-yt4bx umm yes...Kalamazoo St.
@@johnDoe-yt4bx Kalamazoo a street
Lol I was like wait a minute no Franklin & Eastern?! No Miss Tracy’s?! 😂
As someone who was born in Detroit and raised in East Grand Rapids this is night and day but I agree. Whenever I’m going places or have family around I always avoid Franklin, Hall, the area near the National and Lake Michigan.
But it’s still nicer than Flint, Saginaw or most of Detroit
Fuck u
Buddy said East Grand Rapids 💀
Bruh it’s trippy seeing video from someone else’s perspective of a highway that you drive on every day
Charlie, when are you going do Lansing?
You made it to my home town!!!
In what ways are these the worst neighborhoods? We need some commentary and context.
There are hoods there other than in Detroit? Where else in Michigan may I ask? What about near Sterling Heights? My kids are there I really need to know, thanks!
The Sterling Hts area is pretty nice and stable. Its a little sketchy in Warren off of 8 mile. Detroit is very hit or miss, generational poverty. Ive only been to Grand Rapids a few times, it didnt seem that bad.
Sterling Heights was voted year after year one of the safest city’s to live in I believe across America per their capita.
Really the only bad parts of the area is when you go south of 9 mile. Detroit. Hamteamick, highland park, Redford. Dearborn. All very hit or miss city’s
Move to Troy or lake Orion or auburn hills
Yooo charlie, you change vehicle,that old car dashboards sounds was driving me nuts.🤭🙄🙄😂🤣😂🤣 love from serbia 🇷🇸
It's a nice city. Definitely the best big city in Michigan.
He clearly don’t know what he talking about and had to be bored, but anything for attention
TRUE: doesn't know what he's talking about ! he went by looks only clearly !
Holy shit that mobil at the beginning I literally hit every morning before work lmfao
Come to the Capital City of Lansing; make a video there
S/o from Saginaw Michigan 🤟🏿
Im from alabama i live in detroit and saginaw love michigan they showed me love up there💯✌😎
Anybody who thinks this is bad is soft or didnt grow up in a city in the midwest or east coast... looks like a normal working class neighborhood to me. If you look up his videos on flint or Detroit. With all the run down and abandoned houses that take up entire blocks or half of the neighborhoods... to me that's hood. These areas only look rough because its winter. The roads being messed up is normal for Michigan unfortunately..
Stop comparing us to detroit nigga u don't live in our hood pussy
Gunru aka Grand Rapids my city go
Back when it’s hot
He literally passed my house lmaooooo
I’ve lived off of Burton and division for 20 years and it’s not as bad as you guys think, or maybe I’m just used to it.
Yeah. Poor? Yeah. Seedy? Hell yeah. Dangerous? Not very. My aunt and uncle lived on Palace for almost thirty years. Worst they ever had to deal with was neighbor kids shortcutting through the backyard.
Division and Burton is not the hood it's goodish but not the hood...you act like the guy dlmaking the video..division is not the hood
i live in the area as well...division and alger and i've never felt scared, but then again i have my ccw. :)
GR doesn’t really have much of a hood or anything. It’s pretty safe overall if you aren’t involved with bad sht but as with any city there are areas that aren’t as nice
frfr, i mean as long as yu aren’t wit the wrong people yu good frfr. nobody fucks wit anyone unless they provoked for the most part. like nowadays here in GR yu can walk down any street & be good. it’s all about who yu hang wit. cuz 9/10 those the mfkers that’s gone get yu in trouble here
We got plenty hoods u can’t be from gr saying we don’t got one
@@616fatracks they aren’t true hoods
@@Nintend0n how ain’t they true hoods u can’t be from here
@@616fatracks I am from here. The only really sketchy area is around Franklin/Baxter area but still not as bad as any hood of a major big city
I live in one of these "worst hoods" and people still smile to you when you walk down the street. Literally completely safe lol.
Do lansing next!!
Lmfao if y’all think Grand Rapids is dangerous😭🤣ya never really seen danger...this is baby
On god 😂😂💯
@Drew K I’m sayin all the net niggas steady typin bout what is and isn’t good while the real g’s is in the streets
@Drew K kind of sounds like you’re describing a piece of shit. You go 0G, lmfao
Facts! I been here since I was 5 and they swear the baby hoods and miniature crimes that go on are sooooooo bad. Lol nah bruh
@@johndavis9321 yeah who a net nigga? Lol I’ve seen danger. Not from rap though lol
1:45 Someone got shit a killed there last week. Crashed into the store trying to make it to the hospital died on scene.
Yea they got shot at my job. He was right to the right of the tire shop it happened at.construction kept him from back there. He didn’t hit the dirty west or the black hills
@@donaldwalker5579 the black hills ain't so black these days, its more like little Mexico. I used to live a couple houses up from the party store on Clyde park and plett(just north of Burton). There are only house's on the south side of the street, but cops were there on a normal basis, the street to the south behind the scrap yard was worse, even so I never had any problems.
I live in GR just found this video on TH-cam what's going
Just the weather can make any neighborhood look like trash .
Thank you for your videos 😘
Portraying The inner city of Grand Rapids as a bad place just to get ahead. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Good ole Burton Heights.
Do Lima, Ohio next Charlie
I remember being dragged to a goth bar on division Avenue that looked worse than these hoods, but that was 30 years ago and I was already half-cut when we got there.
Ayyyyee the BH ❤❤❤southwest love❤❤❤❤❤
depressin is an understatement
Ya
@@aharonemanuel4010 😝😝
Amazing video
not the BH being the first one😭, it rlly ain’t all that bad😭
Looks pretty tame.
38 murders this year. Sickening what’s happening to this city
These places your driving around are low income areas there not the hood your on the wrong side of town
LOL TRUE SO TRUE !
great video