I was in highschool when this came out. One kid who had cable recorded this on VHS and it got passed around the whole school just like Faces of Death, UFC tapes and the movie Kids... Good times✌🏾
I remember this in 1993 I was 13 and thought that gangs was the thing to do. I'm glad I didn't really live that life. When I thought that lifestyle was cool, I had no guidance and was so lost!! I'm grateful for still having my life and not ending up in prison 🙏 Thank you God for saving me 💯🙏
Guidance...you nailed it. If these kids had a positive male role model in the home, it would help, but I doubt any of them do though. It would have helped me, I WAS just like this! You wouldn't believe it to see me today. Thank God I stopped.
Fr anybody can claim Gangbang status and normal people will believe them no matter what, bangin comes with crazy street politics and I don’t think these “crip” kids know a damn thing about what they’re spewing
Thank you for putting this back out there!! We need this more than ever nowadays. I live in Philly and it's sad that this video is as relevant today as it was in 94.... Sad that the cycle keeps going seemingly without end 😢
SLOW,BACKWARDS,IGNORANT,POORLY EDUCATED,CLOSED MINDS,SORT OF SUMS UP AMERICA!!!! IF NOT.....REALLY WHY? WHAT A DISCRACE,THE PRISON OFFICERS TAKE PRIDE IN KNOWING WHATS GOING ON....NOT ON TOP OF ANYTHING AMERICA. THE AVERAGE I.Q WOULD BE SO SO MUCH LOWER THAN THE REST OF THE FIRST WORLD ❤ LETS CLEAN AMERICA.....SHOULD BE THE MOTTO
That scene with the mother wailing and heartbroken in the church has stayed with me. I hope wherever she is that she has found some peace. Heartbreaking.
I was on drugs and sold drugs for many years. I’ve met people who absolutely did not care to go to prison or die. It was cool to them, it’s all they knew. The person who has nothing to lose is the most dangerous person you will meet.
@@Nawojczyk defenetly honorable job. respect from France. I remember when I saw this documentary in 94 in french TV. I understand the tough reality of the street of the American ghettos. thank you!
did u make it to the end? wasn’t all about jokes in the end shit got deep fr fr i really hope people get they shit tg and know what they doing is wrong they need to wake up! stop the violence
This was the gangster music era you might think it is now but this generation started this stuff and it was very interesting and new when it came out nothing like it!! If you didn’t quite fit in this was enticing to you no matter your color but don’t expect you to understand
Thats scene where they jumped the girl with the weird teeth into the gang is one of the most embarrassing things I have ever seen. Not a single person in that gang has scrap and if I was a rival gang and I saw that pathetic excuse for fighting I would roll on those dudes immediately for embarrassing the city of Little Rock
Lmfaooo!!! She said "getting jumped in shows you have heart and will fight back" while she's cowering in the fetal position covering her head 😂🤣💀☠️ Then says "what I don't get no love?!" Hahaha hahaha this was a good laugh for the day.. For the people wondering if she's OK now, she is probably 200+ pounds with 5 kids by multiple guys and living off the state somewhere.
What do you expect? Them to beat her to a bloody pulp?? The whole point is to show your loyalty to the group. Makes no sense to want to harm someone who is trying to prove loyalty to the group. Its more of a symbolic initiation ritual. For the guys tho, theres no holding back. She is a white 100lb female. If any one actually hurt her they would be ostracized.
@@PsychotropicThunder based on how she TALKED about it, yes, I expected them to be ABLE to land a punch... they were definitely TRYING, they're just all pussy poser kids who can't fight.
Steve, I wonder if you would do a 30-year follow-up on how the gangs have changed from 1993 to 2023. It is just a thought from someone who watched this 30 years ago and re-watching it 30 years later. I think it would be so interesting to have your perspective on the issue.
Every neighborhood needs a Steve Nawojczk. If there were more men like this in the world to try and help his fellow man regardless of race, color, or creed and actually trying to relate and learn the slang, and gang politics , this world would be so different. You could tell young Blood was hearin him and if you could change just one or have one man or woman listen, it starts to catch, positivity is like negativity. If you feed them they will grow.
@@Nawojczyk I appreciate that sir. To be honest I wish more people would try and uplift each other. Is that actually you in the videos talkin with these guys and if so sir, you are a true inspiration and I know it makes a huge difference that these young men have someone to tell them there's hope and they haven't been written off because of where they come from and i know from experience, shit I was one of those troubled kids . So thank you sir for the work you do and I guarantee you have saved probably more lives than you even know. Glad I could bring a little positivity and brighten your day , God knows you just made mine.
We do have men like him out there trying to do the best work possible but sadly it'll never change. When you have media controlling the youth with it's toxic music that pushes a negative narrative in a "positive" way it'll always pull the youth in. It's sad to say that there's more people in gangs now than there are soldiers in our service.
It's just not the music specifically, it's the entire American culture(s) at hand. We live in an era where lives are treated without value, and that sentiment is expressed in our art, politics, and the youth. It's been going like this for decades and it ain't getting any better
When I was about 19, DJ Quik's Just Like Compton song dropped..Being from NYC, I didnt take it serious at all back then. Now look at NYC with Blooding and Cripping today!!!! It wasn't a lie.....
Man I was born in 83 and when this came out I was fascinated even joined a gang by 13 looking back at 40 now Lord I’m thankful my son is smarter than me cause I was a stupid mf😂
Bobby Banks, the "hardest nigha to ever walk the earth" got sentenced to 40 years in prison with 5 years probation to follow it.. in 2006 at the age of 30. He'll be a senior citizen by the time his sentence is done.
I’m 41 and I’ve been watching this for 30 years.. I seen it in 1994 when it first aired on HBO. I rented it on DVD a few times in the 2000’s and have been watching it on TH-cam for over 10 years. I never knew this was meant to be a diss to President Clinton.
Are you still local Steve? I grew up in Benton and was 14 when this came out in 93..brings back a lot of memories of that era. The WM3 case, etc. Thank you for bringing attention to our community, that took a lot of courage..and you reached the entire nation before the internet era and that is an incredible feat my friend! With respect, Steve
I know some white kids are born in black areas and go school with them so they might pick up their way of talking and behaviour, but these idiots come from Arkansas, very sad they want to be seen as poor, deprived and oppressed, when mummy and daddy are very comfortable in life. They talking about straps and grenades but never a actual one on one fist fight. If some proper gang members pulled up these clowns would shit they diapers and run, they certainly wouldn't be bussing any guns back, embarrassing for their parents
I remember this show vividly. That one kid “I feel like I’m the hardest n***a to ever walk the earth, can’t nobody fade me…” stays with me to this day… he didn’t survive the filming of this show and probably 95% of the rest of the people in this show died/killed decades ago…
These white kids really go out in gang shootings and shit? Or did drugs and prison take them out? I cant believe these white kids were shooting like crazy etc, they make that shit look like a social club.
This whole documentary had me laughing the entire time 😂🤣 Crazy to know there is clowns out there thinking they are hard but they are really just stupid..
Watched this docu and read about how the prison industrial complex and the record companies had a little agreement back in the 80’s. Promote violent, crime ridden music and glorify it. Make it mainstream and make the artists household name superstars. Then the youth (mostly black and brown in already crime ridden environments) will emulate that and start their path into the prison system.
Denver had a similar issue starting in the late 80s, but our gang culture is actually a lot older than the spread of bloods and crips. My Grandpa was in a gang in East Denver Curtis Park area called the Eastside Boys in the 50s and 60s. There were Northside Warlords in North Denver, west side Inca Boyz (were very active in the 80s and 90s, can be traced back to the 70s or 60s), Lipan Boyz (which GKI stemmed from, and are still the biggest Chicano street gang and prison gang in Denver). It got really crazy in the 80s. 1993 was labeled 'Summer of Violence' because of the gang homicides, the five years leading up to 93 were probably worse.
Yeah there's always been gangs but at this time period it was pushed by mass media into the mainstream culture. Government behind it no question. I remember when Colors came out and almost overnight half our middle school was in a gang. It was a ghetto school and kids just needed that nudge😢
Yup. 90,s were lit. It was crazy in Jackson, MS. As bad as it is now..those that remember still talk about the 90's. Funny story about the '70s. My uncle pissed off a local gang and they chased him even through the house. My dad and the other brother were there, and their older brother came through the house, with a gang right behind him..from the front door and out the back. They better be glad that my grandfather wasn't home. He was a boxer and enforcer for some powerful people.
I'm from Denver also.... Whittier neighborhood.... I unfortunately got caught up during the summer of violence I was 13 and ended up doing time in lookout mountain.... in my mid 40s now with adult kids that definitely didn't make bone head mistakes as I did as a young man.... ur history on Denver gang history is on point.... I know a lot of GKIs and others obviously that are either in Jail or no longer with us.... I also know a lot of retired people that have lead productive and successful lives.... point is it's what u take out of life lessons and how u apply them to ur future and how u can give back to the community..... I still have family and a lot of ties in the Eastside.... Fuller Park.... Curtis Park.... 5 points... and even in Park Hill..... I was born and raised in the area...... it's still home for me
Me & my homie was just reminiscing/talkin about this the other day we was teens 13/14 when this 1st came out on HBO great memories of the early/mid 90s.
I remember this timeframe, AND crack was on the scene. I am so grateful that we got thru that stage. I know of some who have been off of crack for over 25 years. I am in Florida, and our communities have changed for the better. I am speaking from boots on the ground. It was much pressure then, and hard to try to control.
That white law enforcement officer who went to the hood talking to young people and showing them all the kids that have been killed said "you're an endangered species" he was a real one they dont make many like that.
i spent a lot of time in New Orleans growing up and Little Rock was legendary for some reason little rock was the place to either lose your life or waste it i personally rather be on a boat in hot springs thats just me
I remember watching this as a little kid in the 90s and it stuck with me for a long time. I ended up buying a dvr with this on in from eBay in the mid 00s lol
I got to give Steve a lot of respect he really cared for those kids and really wanted to make a difference. Its ashame there aren't more people like him. And to the mother who lost her son u r in my thoughts and prayers hope u find peace in ur lifetime. 😔
I was Arian Brotherhood for 9 years. Started in jail. Getting out was the best thing I did. I didn't want my kids to grow up watching their dad hate and hurt because of race. I didn't want my girls judging others on thier color and race. This is sad to watch. Please take it from me. This is not the way. It wasn't then. It isn't now. 😢😢😢
I was 12 when I watched this and thought how eerily familiar all that looked. It was exactly what Steve said it was and is an epidemic. You were a brave and courageous Human being who saw no color just humans! If the majority of the world were filled with Steve’s who saw everyone as his family we wouldn’t be perfect we would just be a whole lot better!
This is when HBO was at it's best... HBO in the 90s and the documentaries... nothing like it
Oh yea they had some good movies back in the 80’s & early 90’s
Some movies I can’t remember just a memory.
Meat balls 1-2 was good one
The 2018 "Andre the Giant" documentary by HBO was excellent, IMO.
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And ellipsis abuse is real.
The best
This is a fact
When the cop said "last name presley first name Elvis black male" I lost it 😂
When
I went straight to the comments when i heard it😂😂😂
@@druarmenta3900 @36:00
It's funny AF soon as I seen your comment that mf part came up like perfect damn timing 😂
@@druarmenta3900 36:05
Dr Dre f'd that town up one track at a time 😂
😂😂shit sad doe
He turned a bunch of school shooters into a bunch of safe gangsters😂
I'm talking about straight brainwashed them all 😮
tbey were rappin their little hearts out.. but that Chronic Album had that effect across the country
I'm dead🤣🩼
I remember watching this on HBO around 94. Man nothing like growing up in the 80’s and 90’s
There would be boobies after these sometimes.
9:30 … they best that girl ass man
Telling the police your name is Elvis Presley and they run it is pure black comedy 😂
I couldn’t believe they ran it
lol
@@rustyquinneyWell they're gonna run it because that's an additional charge.
@@haiwin224exactly, they like to do that to little niglows
I was in highschool when this came out. One kid who had cable recorded this on VHS and it got passed around the whole school just like Faces of Death, UFC tapes and the movie Kids... Good times✌🏾
Ahhh that good ole days, everybody's talking about the good old days the good old days willits talk about the good old days Wu-Tang
@@antoniogarza549can it be that it was all so simple
@@yankees29The Way We Were...Gladys Knight (you're welcome)
Ain't you ever seen that one movie, KIDS?
NO, but I seen a porno with SonDoobie in it...
That's hilarious. Those corny @ss "gang bangin'" weirdos.
I remember these kids being the laughing stock of television back then. The initiation scene is what got me 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
Especially when you come from real hoods, gangsters, etc- Not hillbillies jumping in girls
😂 I know yeah bunch of woman beating cock gobblers
"I can't get no love?!"
@@bossbonita1235😂😂
Dumb hillbillies trying to be black, except they have jobs and fathers lol
I remember this in 1993 I was 13 and thought that gangs was the thing to do. I'm glad I didn't really live that life. When I thought that lifestyle was cool, I had no guidance and was so lost!! I'm grateful for still having my life and not ending up in prison 🙏 Thank you God for saving me 💯🙏
Whatever you soft
Gang banging was and is the cool thing to do, u just nerdy
Guidance...you nailed it. If these kids had a positive male role model in the home, it would help, but I doubt any of them do though.
It would have helped me, I WAS just like this! You wouldn't believe it to see me today. Thank God I stopped.
I was 2
I had guidance but i was bullied at school so I join my gang at the age of 13 fort worth Texas 817. MC X3 FOR LIFE 💪
About 25 minutes in and Moe seems to be like the only real gang banger so far lmao
Thank u soo much for reuploading this documentary.
Lol they interviewed the goofyest kids 😂
It was the 90's lol everything was different before social media. Still though some of them
I grew up in Pine Bluff and I can't tell you this is some funny shit.
Fr anybody can claim Gangbang status and normal people will believe them no matter what, bangin comes with crazy street politics and I don’t think these “crip” kids know a damn thing about what they’re spewing
I’m not claiming I bang just sayin for those who will get confused
That's the point. They don't want people looking up to this lifestyle.
Thank you for putting this back out there!! We need this more than ever nowadays. I live in Philly and it's sad that this video is as relevant today as it was in 94.... Sad that the cycle keeps going seemingly without end 😢
Hoover folk
It's the culture, the music etc. nothing good comes out of it, just destroying the country, thats all..
Philly going insane right now. Youd probably be safer in Little Rock in 94.
Because no one does anything different.Definition of Insanity
SLOW,BACKWARDS,IGNORANT,POORLY EDUCATED,CLOSED MINDS,SORT OF SUMS UP AMERICA!!!! IF NOT.....REALLY WHY? WHAT A DISCRACE,THE PRISON OFFICERS TAKE PRIDE IN KNOWING WHATS GOING ON....NOT ON TOP OF ANYTHING AMERICA.
THE AVERAGE I.Q WOULD BE SO SO MUCH LOWER THAN THE REST OF THE FIRST WORLD ❤ LETS CLEAN AMERICA.....SHOULD BE THE MOTTO
Much respect to you Steve. You clearly care a lot about people and did a lot of great things to help. Need more people like you.
That scene with the mother wailing and heartbroken in the church has stayed with me. I hope wherever she is that she has found some peace. Heartbreaking.
I was on drugs and sold drugs for many years. I’ve met people who absolutely did not care to go to prison or die. It was cool to them, it’s all they knew. The person who has nothing to lose is the most dangerous person you will meet.
100% some ppl are total trainwrecks and don't give a fck about anything or themselves.. there the most dangerous ppl...
I've always respected how you went out to the warzones to bring a positive message back then! Definitely in my top 5 for America Undercover
Thank you.
@@Nawojczyk defenetly honorable job. respect from France. I remember when I saw this documentary in 94 in french TV. I understand the tough reality of the street of the American ghettos. thank you!
@@Nawojczyk we All respect you, Steve. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to saving children
Yeah such a "good message" by calling them an "endangered species" as if they're already not alienated enough.
Who ever put this up I love u thank u🖤
I hope people recognize what a special man this is. It's hard to care this much sometimes. But his heart was pure gold.
Thank you for this. Best laugh I have had in a long time
did u make it to the end? wasn’t all about jokes in the end shit got deep fr fr i really hope people get they shit tg and know what they doing is wrong they need to wake up! stop the violence
@@upatnight420this us nothing but comedy. None of these fools would really make iin the streets
When you're just proud of your work and can floss with no ads.. Great docu Steve-o! Still applies today.
Imagine these kids/gang members looking back at this now that they are older. Bet the cringe was enough to do them in.
There’s a “where are they now” video
@@campar1043where😂
@@rickybaez2970 theres one called "Gang War II- Back in the Hood" that takes place 10 years later, and theres another one but I forgot the name
@@campar1043you "forgot" the name because there wasn't a third one 🙄🤦🏽♂️.
@@trigfizzle6876 there is another video about them currently, it’s not part of this series
The wigga era was just getting fired up..... 😂😂😂
This was the gangster music era you might think it is now but this generation started this stuff and it was very interesting and new when it came out nothing like it!! If you didn’t quite fit in this was enticing to you no matter your color but don’t expect you to understand
@@jasonsigle9460 I'm an 80's baby Do the math... I know the era very well.
@@Lefty216 depends if your late 80s or before if you weren’t over ten by this point in 93 exactly you didn’t feel like we all did
@@Lefty216 but I did think you were much younger brotha
Lmaooo
Thats scene where they jumped the girl with the weird teeth into the gang is one of the most embarrassing things I have ever seen. Not a single person in that gang has scrap and if I was a rival gang and I saw that pathetic excuse for fighting I would roll on those dudes immediately for embarrassing the city of Little Rock
Agreed, but they don’t fight the other gangs. They just shoot ‘em from a distance where it’s safer.
DAMN U MUST BE TOUGH OR SOMETHIN
They aren’t gonna kill her. She’s their sugar
I thought the girls got beat in a different way lol.
@@rossmassey220 Some do.
I couldn’t stop laughing this whole time. Lol when that chick got “jumped” in in the beginning was the weakest shyt I’ve ever seen.
LOL, this entire thing was the funniest sht I've ever seen
@@willthomas7666 you ain’t lying. Hahaha
i cant get no love .... she was switching abusers .. i hope shes okay now !
Lmfaooo!!! She said "getting jumped in shows you have heart and will fight back" while she's cowering in the fetal position covering her head
😂🤣💀☠️ Then says "what I don't get no love?!" Hahaha hahaha this was a good laugh for the day.. For the people wondering if she's OK now, she is probably 200+ pounds with 5 kids by multiple guys and living off the state somewhere.
@@bwm5656She's probably single and 300 pounds, living off the system with 4 kids by 3 different baby daddies by now...
My boy said “gat” in their hands and I woulda been an OG in his Hawaiian polo shirt, shit took me out lol
That girl barely got hit during her "quote"... and he fight skills were EMBARRASSING!!! These KIDS are RIDICULOUS!!!
Crotch soakingly hilarious.....
😂😂
Super cringe lmao 😂
What do you expect? Them to beat her to a bloody pulp?? The whole point is to show your loyalty to the group. Makes no sense to want to harm someone who is trying to prove loyalty to the group. Its more of a symbolic initiation ritual. For the guys tho, theres no holding back. She is a white 100lb female. If any one actually hurt her they would be ostracized.
@@PsychotropicThunder based on how she TALKED about it, yes, I expected them to be ABLE to land a punch... they were definitely TRYING, they're just all pussy poser kids who can't fight.
Would love to see the follow up 30 years later on any of these rocket scientists that survived.
I remember reading some king of follow up or watching some kind of video with some updates.
They're gone no doubt
@@dmarquehalldoubt it. On most of them at least.
@@dmarquehallBig Facts Ain't No Doubt Lmao But Kinda Sad But That's All They Knew Tho You Feel Me...
Right sad 😢
15:19 "stacking" had me dead😂😂😂
The cringe is OTHERWORLDLY here! No way he lived this down. No way nis kids live this down😂
@kychristell1779 damn…wasn’t what I was expecting but, thanks for telling me. I tried to find that out and couldn’t.
You do know chicago had a lot of white gang members in the 60s 70s
Cross colours fashion , Karl Kani , starter jackets and snap backs. 90s was great.
LOL, every person on here is a clown.
One of the toughest sets I've ever seen. I guarantee you these g's know about the bonus track on the chronic
Steve, I wonder if you would do a 30-year follow-up on how the gangs have changed from 1993 to 2023. It is just a thought from someone who watched this 30 years ago and re-watching it 30 years later. I think it would be so interesting to have your perspective on the issue.
They did a 10 year follow up for this documentary called (Gang war II "Back in the hood") but I doubt they'll do a 30 year follow up.
Why do you think that lmao
@@DoubleTime999 Dunno, just do I reckon so.
They're all either dead in prison or addicts. No thing else.
Look up bagning in little rock 2023
Every neighborhood needs a Steve Nawojczk. If there were more men like this in the world to try and help his fellow man regardless of race, color, or creed and actually trying to relate and learn the slang, and gang politics , this world would be so different. You could tell young Blood was hearin him and if you could change just one or have one man or woman listen, it starts to catch, positivity is like negativity. If you feed them they will grow.
Thank you for your very kind words and thoughts. You didn’t have to say any of this. I needed it this morning. Paz y amor.
@@Nawojczyk I appreciate that sir. To be honest I wish more people would try and uplift each other. Is that actually you in the videos talkin with these guys and if so sir, you are a true inspiration and I know it makes a huge difference that these young men have someone to tell them there's hope and they haven't been written off because of where they come from and i know from experience, shit I was one of those troubled kids . So thank you sir for the work you do and I guarantee you have saved probably more lives than you even know. Glad I could bring a little positivity and brighten your day , God knows you just made mine.
We do have men like him out there trying to do the best work possible but sadly it'll never change. When you have media controlling the youth with it's toxic music that pushes a negative narrative in a "positive" way it'll always pull the youth in.
It's sad to say that there's more people in gangs now than there are soldiers in our service.
It's just not the music specifically, it's the entire American culture(s) at hand. We live in an era where lives are treated without value, and that sentiment is expressed in our art, politics, and the youth. It's been going like this for decades and it ain't getting any better
When I was about 19, DJ Quik's Just Like Compton song dropped..Being from NYC, I didnt take it serious at all back then. Now look at NYC with Blooding and Cripping today!!!! It wasn't a lie.....
Huhuhhuaaahhh! Now little Rock, is jus like Compton.
Every single of them kids in the beginning would tell immediately
LOL
😂😂😂😂 and they did
I haven’t seen a good comedy since the hangover damn I needed a good laugh 😂 😂😂😂
Yeah this is the wackest shit I've ever seen
Man I was born in 83 and when this came out I was fascinated even joined a gang by 13 looking back at 40 now Lord I’m thankful my son is smarter than me cause I was a stupid mf😂
Fr lol. This is also an example of how movies and music influenced and spread gang culture across America
My boy said I would have been a O.G myself! Lmfao
Ong!!😂🤙
😂😂😂 bruh
LOL
Every time I think this video can't get any funnier, all I have to do is keep watching 🤣😂
Her attempt at fighting back 😂😂😂😂😂
Right imagine if they didn’t know her. A rival would have dish-ragged her.
Bobby Banks, the "hardest nigha to ever walk the earth" got sentenced to 40 years in prison with 5 years probation to follow it.. in 2006 at the age of 30. He'll be a senior citizen by the time his sentence is done.
Holy crap, I remember this. HBO had amazing shows back in the day. I wonder how many of these kids are alive today.
all are in prison where they belong
I remember this in HBO, too, and the 2000s one.
They really need to do a “where are they now” type show. I’d love to see how they turned out 😂😂
@@missyann7588they have one on TH-cam
Steve is a true public servant. Thank you sir for your contribution and serving your community.
Man, i really miss this time in my life. (The 90s) i was born in 1988 and the 90s was just amazing time to grow up. (Outside of this gangbanging)
‘89 here. I feel this to my core, the 90’s were to good.
89 checking in i agree
I 😂😂 in HS when this came out and I still 😂😂 at this all these years later 😂😂😂
I’m 41 and I’ve been watching this for 30 years.. I seen it in 1994 when it first aired on HBO. I rented it on DVD a few times in the 2000’s and have been watching it on TH-cam for over 10 years. I never knew this was meant to be a diss to President Clinton.
"All the graffiti in here tells me what we're dealing with here is the folk gang"
On the wall: FOLKS
Lol those were the most bogus taggings ive ever seen
Growing up in Cleveland Ohio in the 90s was crazy with all the gang wars
They bang in Cleveland? What yall got?
Lmao so glad I was never brainwashed into being a flunky during this era of the 90s. Lawwwd
LOL, godamn this sht was corny asf
Are you still local Steve? I grew up in Benton and was 14 when this came out in 93..brings back a lot of memories of that era. The WM3 case, etc. Thank you for bringing attention to our community, that took a lot of courage..and you reached the entire nation before the internet era and that is an incredible feat my friend! With respect, Steve
These people are so fake. The white boys. An girls. An they boys. Punks. Fake ass want to bes
An I'm white. I'm just not fake
What?
I know some white kids are born in black areas and go school with them so they might pick up their way of talking and behaviour, but these idiots come from Arkansas, very sad they want to be seen as poor, deprived and oppressed, when mummy and daddy are very comfortable in life. They talking about straps and grenades but never a actual one on one fist fight. If some proper gang members pulled up these clowns would shit they diapers and run, they certainly wouldn't be bussing any guns back, embarrassing for their parents
Yes. Retired. Living in NLR. Working on a True Crime Podcast series now. Thanks for your kind words. S/
The acting in this is dastardly 😂 even as a kid I was like “hell nah”
Dr Dre's 'The Chronic' had people in a chokehold in 92-93 Lol
I know that see when snoop dogg came out and LA had peace treaty in 92 and snoop came out in 93.
😂😂 this is the funny video I've seen in years 😂😂😂
Umust be retarded
I remember this show vividly. That one kid “I feel like I’m the hardest n***a to ever walk the earth, can’t nobody fade me…” stays with me to this day… he didn’t survive the filming of this show and probably 95% of the rest of the people in this show died/killed decades ago…
I know that’s their fate when I hear anyone say shit like that..
These white kids really go out in gang shootings and shit? Or did drugs and prison take them out? I cant believe these white kids were shooting like crazy etc, they make that shit look like a social club.
HE GOT 55YRS IN THE FEDS
Bobby banks… if you were a teenager in Little Rock at this time , he was the boogie man lol
This whole documentary had me laughing the entire time
😂🤣 Crazy to know there is clowns out there thinking they are hard but they are really just stupid..
Steve We Love You Man. We Appreciate You Participating In The War On Poverty. Someday We'll Get It Together
This should of been broadcasted on Comedy Central
😂
💯 😂
hahahaha
The white kids, yes
@@thegreatestmantoevrwlkthep9986 I’m talking about everyone involved I couldn’t keep a straight face while watching
Steve this was a great project. Your efforts were important.
Moral of the story is dr Dre and 90’s gangster rap was the fuel to this fire. And music is still playing that same roll today
Watched this docu and read about how the prison industrial complex and the record companies had a little agreement back in the 80’s. Promote violent, crime ridden music and glorify it. Make it mainstream and make the artists household name superstars. Then the youth (mostly black and brown in already crime ridden environments) will emulate that and start their path into the prison system.
The. Movie colors started a lot of this ish
The crack epidemic and gang members relocating and spreading gang culture was the main fuel.
LOL, this was hilarious
Denver had a similar issue starting in the late 80s, but our gang culture is actually a lot older than the spread of bloods and crips. My Grandpa was in a gang in East Denver Curtis Park area called the Eastside Boys in the 50s and 60s. There were Northside Warlords in North Denver, west side Inca Boyz (were very active in the 80s and 90s, can be traced back to the 70s or 60s), Lipan Boyz (which GKI stemmed from, and are still the biggest Chicano street gang and prison gang in Denver). It got really crazy in the 80s. 1993 was labeled 'Summer of Violence' because of the gang homicides, the five years leading up to 93 were probably worse.
Yeah there's always been gangs but at this time period it was pushed by mass media into the mainstream culture. Government behind it no question. I remember when Colors came out and almost overnight half our middle school was in a gang. It was a ghetto school and kids just needed that nudge😢
Yup. 90,s were lit. It was crazy in Jackson, MS. As bad as it is now..those that remember still talk about the 90's.
Funny story about the '70s. My uncle pissed off a local gang and they chased him even through the house. My dad and the other brother were there, and their older brother came through the house, with a gang right behind him..from the front door and out the back.
They better be glad that my grandfather wasn't home. He was a boxer and enforcer for some powerful people.
I'm from Denver also.... Whittier neighborhood.... I unfortunately got caught up during the summer of violence I was 13 and ended up doing time in lookout mountain.... in my mid 40s now with adult kids that definitely didn't make bone head mistakes as I did as a young man.... ur history on Denver gang history is on point.... I know a lot of GKIs and others obviously that are either in Jail or no longer with us.... I also know a lot of retired people that have lead productive and successful lives.... point is it's what u take out of life lessons and how u apply them to ur future and how u can give back to the community..... I still have family and a lot of ties in the Eastside.... Fuller Park.... Curtis Park.... 5 points... and even in Park Hill..... I was born and raised in the area...... it's still home for me
GkI is the biggest Latino gang in and outside?
Me & my homie was just reminiscing/talkin about this the other day we was teens 13/14 when this 1st came out on HBO great memories of the early/mid 90s.
"First name Elvis, last name presley" said serious af lmao
Thank you. been looking for this
I remember this timeframe, AND crack was on the scene. I am so grateful that we got thru that stage.
I know of some who have been off of crack for over 25 years. I am in Florida, and our communities have changed for the better. I am speaking from boots on the ground.
It was much pressure then, and hard to try to control.
That jump in was wild lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The look in the dudes face before he swung at her was CRAZY😢, luckily alot of those punches didn't land.
Right sum straight bull shxt 😂😂😂😂
Right shit got me dead asf😂 I bet getting jumped in wasn’t the only thing she got tho lmao
How you airball hits standing a toenail away from the person 😂
not really. was mild imo
That white law enforcement officer who went to the hood talking to young people and showing them all the kids that have been killed said "you're an endangered species" he was a real one they dont make many like that.
He worked for the morgue
Wtf did i just watch 😂😂😂😂
R.I.P. Reverend Hezekiah Stewart 2023
Lol the kid in the Hoyas sweatshirt “stackin” is one of the fuckin best things ever captured on film 😂
Gang is for life and it’s not something you can walk away from 😂😂😂 my boy was just trying to to hang with the homies 😂
@@CoachMike757 ngga tfoh that sht ain't for life
Lol funniest sht I've seen in my life
i spent a lot of time in New Orleans growing up and Little Rock was legendary
for some reason little rock was the place to either lose your life or waste it
i personally rather be on a boat in hot springs thats just me
I remember watching this as a little kid in the 90s and it stuck with me for a long time. I ended up buying a dvr with this on in from eBay in the mid 00s lol
If only all the little kids that looked up to him can see him now working for free in prison, they'll see where gang life gets you.
I got to give Steve a lot of respect he really cared for those kids and really wanted to make a difference. Its ashame there aren't more people like him. And to the mother who lost her son u r in my thoughts and prayers hope u find peace in ur lifetime. 😔
What's crazy is that us from Little Rock never even watched this. People from out of town/other states always brought it up to us.
BEING FROM CALI I NEEDED THIS LAUGH TONIGHT .......hahahahahaha
LOL right. Gentrified the gang in the 90s
It's no joke back then and especially now lol 😂
Cali guys soft.
Shit u. Ust not of watched that far dummie
@@ClarkKent-tg6ls the biggest gang in California is the LGBT. 😂
Wonder how many of them are still alive today..... July 30th 2023.
47:25 when the white man bribes the black gang with KFC i hollered 😂😂😂
They was all over it too. 😅 he forgot the water melon dessert.
This is the funniest sitcom pilot I’ve ever seen. Sign me up for 5 seasons!!!!
I remember watching this as a kid. They should do a “where are they now” 😂
Remember watching this when I was a kid 1993 I was 12 ❤❤
I was Arian Brotherhood for 9 years. Started in jail.
Getting out was the best thing I did. I didn't want my kids to grow up watching their dad hate and hurt because of race. I didn't want my girls judging others on thier color and race. This is sad to watch. Please take it from me. This is not the way. It wasn't then. It isn't now. 😢😢😢
Not in California rite? You can't get out of it out here unless you go into protection of some sort
Never leaving this is brotherhood for life
8-8 😮
Respect Brother and nothing but love for your decision.
U are not ab lol
That KK kids house had a pool with a rock waterfall 😂
yep i remember watvching this when i was young on cable
30 years later, this still hits hard. Fantastic documentary.
SUCH A GREAT FILM! SAD HOW MUCH WORSE IT IS TODAY
Watched this back in the day when it first aired. I can’t help but wonder where they all are now 30+ years later…? 🤔🤷🏻🤙🏻
Hooked on Meth
I remember this shit years ago, I can't do nothing but laugh, this shits hilarious 😂😂😂
On everything I love lmao
Yall monkeys must of watched the whole ish
I dont get it. Whats so funny?
I remember watching this documentary on HBO when I was like 13 years old.
One thing is ever present around these people. Rap music. Specifically gangster rap. Not the only cause but definitely one of them.
I would love to see a "Where Are They Now" production done on this documentary.
I would love to see a current interview of these people as adults. I’m sure they got stories to share
They have a part 2. Its here on yt. Gang war 2 back in the hood.
Yeah, stories to share about them suckin dlck in prison
Part 2 is on this channel.
They're all dead...
they are all in prison
I was 12 when I watched this and thought how eerily familiar all that looked. It was exactly what Steve said it was and is an epidemic. You were a brave and courageous Human being who saw no color just humans! If the majority of the world were filled with Steve’s who saw everyone as his family we wouldn’t be perfect we would just be a whole lot better!
Steve is a hero…plain and simple. He could have get off work, make a drink and watch TV, but this is what he chose to do.
Thank you for caring for these youths Mr.Steve I salute you
JULY 4, 1993:
Same Day Lex Luger slammed Yokozuna
Living a regular life is hard enough, I'm not trying to compound that with extra stress like gangs.
Yea fck that... these clowns that think these ppl are their for them is hilarious... they would rat or turn on u in a sec
I’m losing brain cells every minute I watch this
Why?
It gets incredibly informative and serious towards the end those chalkies are comedic relief lol
They were blasting all the popping west coast music at the time! Brings back memories 😅😅😅. I think I was 11 when this came out.
I can’t believe my dad let 7 year old me watch this with him 😂
I graduated in 1993. Half of these little fools would be pushing 50 like myself now. That's if they made it that far
They’re mostly dead
@@yankees29 Drugs or Prison? These kids were not banging that hard...
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@@cjlaw228 I didn’t say all of them.
36:04 Cop running a name “last name Presley, First name Elvis, black male.”
Hahahaha wtf
😂😂😂😂😂
Dude got me though when he said you duck to much😂
Tv is not the same anymore. Amazing footage.
I remember watching this for the first time when I was in prison. Excellent documentary