Gillie Da Kid's son Cheese shot and killed in Philly

[Edub]

RIP to him….prayin for they fam

 

[nieman]

Statistically post pandemic is the worst period in the history of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia never had 450 murders in the 90's. In fact by 1999, Philadelphia was down to 292 murders.

As crack started flooding the streets in the mid-80s Philadelphia only had 263 murders in 1984 and 274 in 1985 in a city of 1.7M which is a little bit more than today.

Philadelphia has had 500+ murders the last 3 years and even Center City at night when I was there had a menacing aura with teenagers mobbing everywhere. This city is eating itself alive and a lot of kids don't even find their rec centers and parks as safe spaces.

Yeah we did. We had 500 in '90, 440 in '91. I said 450, because we hovered around there for a while...but it was around 440. A good portion of the 70's were bad, the whole Black Mafia era. The Rizzo era, Wilson Goode era and Rendell eras were horrible. 2020 was 560, the highest ever, but this year will probably be around 400. I have no clue what it was last year...I'm not even paying attention.

There were always teenagers everywhere though. Any block away from a high school was a danger zone. Richard Allen dudes used to hang out at Broad & Girard and try to rob kids and adults alike at Broad & Girard. Franklin was a war zone HS. Ish was always happening around Community College because of the kids that hung around Franklin. South Street was always kiddie hop center. If you didn't go with a group, you were getting robbed. There were shootings, and murders in the Penn Relays. Shootings and murders at basketball games...HS and summer leagues. The recs were NEVER safe after dark...and that's still only in certain neighborhoods. I grew up in a rough part of North, and I couldn't even go around to our rec because someone was always getting shot. Mind you, there was a police station directly across the street. Downtown was always dangerous because it was a hotspot of traffic, and from there you could quickly and easily disappear into another neighborhood.

The only difference I see is that I'm an adult now, so I hear about more of them, instead of the ones only in my neighborhood. The same menacing kids I grew up with, the ones still around,

Famous Philly entertainers like Meek, Uzi, Embiid all live in NYC

And a lot of them do live in Philly, and Meek is in Philly damn near every day, and has a house here. Uzi here like once a week. Teddy P lived in Philly, Patti still lives in Philly. Marvin Harrison is on his old block like everyday. Most of the other athletes got houses on City Line, or in Conshohocken, or Cherry Hill. And most of them that played here, manage to stay around the area. No one be wanting to pay that high ass Philly tax, when you can go right outside the city and save. And plenty of actors lived downtown.

 

[nieman]

So where are the nice neighborhoods in Philly?

And a lot of shyt I’ve heard that happens on the east coast scares me

I wonder if part of the issue is just the high number of people packed together

There's plenty of nice parts in Philly. But it's still a major city, with everything congested.

Mt. Airy, Wynnfield, parts of the NE, Spring Garden/Fairmount, Chestnut Hill, parts of West Oak Lane, Manayunk, East Falls, "historic" Germantown (different from other part of Germantown), Northern Liberties, Passyunk... Logan was never really that bad, but I would consider it regular Philly, like Olney,

If you're not really in North Philly (which is a huge part of Philly), South Philly, West/Southwest...basically the neighborhoods on the outside of those neighborhoods are all nice.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

There's plenty of nice parts in Philly. But it's still a major city, with everything congested.

I asked because another poster said those neighborhoods aren’t that nice

 

[valet]

So is it Islamic tradition to have funeral quickly? With black culture in general you at least waiting 4 days. Especially if you got fam down South.

 

[WOLF2007]

I asked because another poster said those neighborhoods aren’t that nice

Main line is nice. Ardmore Malvern Exton Chesterbrook are cool

 

[EastsideRio]

It's not, but you failed as a father if your son turns to the streets

What if you tried all you could as a parent to keep your kids out the streets and they still go against your wishes?

 

[EastsideRio]

y'all have to realize this: you might do everything you can to keep your kids straight, but there are times that they will not listen to you, where they have to learn from their own mistakes. Unfortunately, whatever he was mixed up in cost him his life....but this shyt ain't as easy as you think. Cheese was a grown man making his own mistakes; there's only so much Gillie could've done.

This

 

[GreenGhxst]

What if you tried all you could as a parent to keep your kids out the streets and they still go against your wishes?

Its much more nuanced

I should've put more time into that response

 

[GoldenGlove]

First post in here, has there been any, "Gillie sacrificed his son" posts in here yet?

 

[EastsideRio]

First post in here, has there been any, "Gillie sacrificed his son" posts in here yet?

Sacrificed for what exactly?

 

[GoldenGlove]

Sacrificed for what exactly?

nikkas always say that shyt wherever a celebrity loses someone close to them

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Sacrificed for what exactly?

Black people are so fukked up in this country that they've convinced themselves that their own people can't become wealthy without the help of the devil, the illuminati and sacrificing their own for succcess.

 

[CanesMiamiLakers]

So is it Islamic tradition to have funeral quickly? With black culture in general you at least waiting 4 days. Especially if you got fam down South.

Gillie isn’t broke so he doesn’t have to wait 2 weeks hustling up money for a funeral

 

[Juliano Soprano]

So is it Islamic tradition to have funeral quickly? With black culture in general you at least waiting 4 days. Especially if you got fam down South.

Yes Sharia law states ASAP, like 24 hrs fast