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.
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
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✌🏾
@@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!
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.....
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
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.
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 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
Ah , Arkansas, a place where you can be a cousin a mother and a sister to the same person at the same time. A place to find true love at a family reunion.
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😂
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…
An internet search shows only 1 Emily Hawkins in Little Rock today around the right age....47. All of her past addresses are in Arkansas, with Little Rock the main one. Didn't do anything of significance.... probably got a few baby daddies and some food stamps. Maybe a prison stint for drug possession with intent.
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.
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.
Is the channel owner really the Coroner in the documentary? I have so much respect for him and the work he was doing. His ideas are as timely and wise today in 2023 as they were in 1993.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
Wow, I somehow missed this back when i was 22 and just discovered it. I'm 52 now and this blows my mind. I get the LA culture, but this is crazy. Wonder if this is still going on, prolly so.
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’m 45 years old and I grew up in Phoenix Arizona. I have lived all over the world from 1997-2006 because I was lucky enough to have a career where I could travel the world and make money. I have seen a lot of different cultures and how people live all around the world. For the most part people are all the same. We as men want to provide and protect our families. One thing that has always tripped me out about Crips and Blood sets in other cities besides Los Angeles. They are fighting over territory that doesn’t even belong to them. Some Rich usually white people own it. A vast majority of these people claiming a Crip or Blood set have never even been to California but they claim it like it’s Mecca for the Muslins. I have always found that strange. Also with all this gang culture being out on social media and the internet why haven’t any of these gangs capitalized on the situation and made some money from it? I definitely would off.
In all honesty you don’t have to be from California to be a gang member nor does it make you a fake gang member because you’re not from California because there are ppl who kill and die for what they believe so to point out that they never been there it don’t matter anyone can get killed anywhere in any state period
gangs are very localized and block oriented now. not that they weren't in the past, but the nation wide networks are long gone. in states/cities that don't have a rich history and saturated gang culture like chicago, l.a., nyc, you might not find any GD, BD, LK, Bloods or Crips sets. but there's cliques, crews, neighborhood gangs, just the same without the nation wide affiliations. as far as social media is concerned, it's most definitely being used by gangs.
@@kidsgrowingup What do you mean that the nationwide networks are gone? New York is filled with Bloods. So is Florida and Atlanta and a lot of the southern states like Alabama,Mississippi and Tennessee just to name a few.
And because us black people have that crabs in a bucket mentality the mafia my kill each other sometimes but overall they make sure the other families eat they are organized nowadays gangs are not
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
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🤣🩼
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 😂
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.
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 💪
Telling the police your name is Elvis Presley and they run it is pure black comedy 😂
I couldn’t believe they ran it
lol
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 hope people recognize what a special man this is. It's hard to care this much sometimes. But his heart was pure gold.
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.
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
Thank you for this. Best laugh I have had in a long time
Thank u soo much for reuploading this documentary.
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
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.
Steve is a true public servant. Thank you sir for your contribution and serving your community.
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
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
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 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...
Cheers for your service and this upload, Steve!
My pleasure!
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
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.
About 25 minutes in and Moe seems to be like the only real gang banger so far lmao
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
Who ever put this up I love u thank u🖤
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 you're just proud of your work and can floss with no ads.. Great docu Steve-o! Still applies today.
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.
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 😢
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/
Steve We Love You Man. We Appreciate You Participating In The War On Poverty. Someday We'll Get It Together
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.
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.....
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 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...
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 🤣😂
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. 😂
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 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. 😔
Her attempt at fighting back 😂😂😂😂😂
Right imagine if they didn’t know her. A rival would have dish-ragged her.
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
Ah , Arkansas, a place where you can be a cousin a mother and a sister to the same person at the same time. A place to find true love at a family reunion.
Lol these ppl are clowns
WEAK AZZ OUT OF STATE CLOWN..
Every single of them kids in the beginning would tell immediately
LOL
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😂
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
Hey man. This is awesome work
Cross colours fashion , Karl Kani , starter jackets and snap backs. 90s was great.
LOL, every person on here is a clown.
Growing up in Cleveland Ohio in the 90s was crazy with all the gang wars
Wonder how many of them are still alive today..... July 30th 2023.
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…
An internet search shows only 1 Emily Hawkins in Little Rock today around the right age....47. All of her past addresses are in Arkansas, with Little Rock the main one. Didn't do anything of significance.... probably got a few baby daddies and some food stamps. Maybe a prison stint for drug possession with intent.
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
Just seeing this 9/1/2023. Great documentary. It would be great to hear comments from those in the film today
This was a Classic documentary 💯 Know one could believe Little Rock was doing so We All had to Watch it back then 😆
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 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
One of the toughest sets I've ever seen. I guarantee you these g's know about the bonus track on the chronic
I 😂😂 in HS when this came out and I still 😂😂 at this all these years later 😂😂😂
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
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.
My boy said “gat” in their hands and I woulda been an OG in his Hawaiian polo shirt, shit took me out lol
SUCH A GREAT FILM! SAD HOW MUCH WORSE IT IS TODAY
I miss these old Raw HBO documentaries from the 90s. Real deep inside look.
This was pure gold
Agreed
Why?
Nothin but clowns 🤡 🤡
Backwoods folks wanna be gangbangers
Is the channel owner really the Coroner in the documentary? I have so much respect for him and the work he was doing. His ideas are as timely and wise today in 2023 as they were in 1993.
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.
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
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 like 5 when this aired. gangs are everywhere always will be.
Remember watching this when I was a kid 1993 I was 12 ❤❤
😂😂 this is the funny video I've seen in years 😂😂😂
Umust be retarded
I remember watching this as a kid and I just want to tell Steve thank you...
Slap yourself
47:25 when the white man bribes the black gang with KFC i hollered 😂😂😂
Steve, I salute you for your work in the streets! Wish there was more people like you
Thank you.
why don’t you become one of them ?
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
"First name Elvis, last name presley" said serious af lmao
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 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
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!
Real talk one of the realest docs of banging outside LA 1&2 are classics
Glad more people are spreading this message
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’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
Wow, I somehow missed this back when i was 22 and just discovered it. I'm 52 now and this blows my mind. I get the LA culture, but this is crazy. Wonder if this is still going on, prolly so.
I loved this .. I always wanted to be old enough to enjoy the 90s from this kinda era .. I was born in 93 so I wasn’t outside
I would love to see a "Where Are They Now" production done on this documentary.
Wtf did i just watch 😂😂😂😂
What you did was amazing!
Be cool if Steve did a "Gang Wars in L.Rock: 30 years later"
Search Krispy Kleen Keef... He tals about what is happening on the little rock streets today.
There are just as many murders today as there were then.
I wish I could see these kids now as adults and see what type of life they're living
Tv is not the same anymore. Amazing footage.
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
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
Dude got me though when he said you duck to much😂
They were blasting all the popping west coast music at the time! Brings back memories 😅😅😅. I think I was 11 when this came out.
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.
Man i remember watching this when i was like 10 or 12 years old .
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
Epic documentary excellent
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 😂
@@TheMagz757 ngga tfoh that sht ain't for life
Lol funniest sht I've seen in my life
I’m 45 years old and I grew up in Phoenix Arizona. I have lived all over the world from 1997-2006 because I was lucky enough to have a career where I could travel the world and make money. I have seen a lot of different cultures and how people live all around the world. For the most part people are all the same. We as men want to provide and protect our families. One thing that has always tripped me out about Crips and Blood sets in other cities besides Los Angeles. They are fighting over territory that doesn’t even belong to them. Some Rich usually white people own it. A vast majority of these people claiming a Crip or Blood set have never even been to California but they claim it like it’s Mecca for the Muslins. I have always found that strange. Also with all this gang culture being out on social media and the internet why haven’t any of these gangs capitalized on the situation and made some money from it? I definitely would off.
In all honesty you don’t have to be from California to be a gang member nor does it make you a fake gang member because you’re not from California because there are ppl who kill and die for what they believe so to point out that they never been there it don’t matter anyone can get killed anywhere in any state period
gangs are very localized and block oriented now. not that they weren't in the past, but the nation wide networks are long gone. in states/cities that don't have a rich history and saturated gang culture like chicago, l.a., nyc, you might not find any GD, BD, LK, Bloods or Crips sets. but there's cliques, crews, neighborhood gangs, just the same without the nation wide affiliations. as far as social media is concerned, it's most definitely being used by gangs.
@@kidsgrowingup What do you mean that the nationwide networks are gone? New York is filled with Bloods. So is Florida and Atlanta and a lot of the southern states like Alabama,Mississippi and Tennessee just to name a few.
Good comment
And because us black people have that crabs in a bucket mentality the mafia my kill each other sometimes but overall they make sure the other families eat they are organized nowadays gangs are not
i feel like if gangs were still like this, life would be alot easier
No if you are in a gang you are heded to prision that i am sure of it aint cool at all.