This white boy filming in the hood
But when they're in Chicago, they just go to the same old GD, BD and LK hoods. They need to link up with the smaller mobs.
I recently realized something that people been obsessed with Chicago since the 2010s began, yet there's very little coverage of Chicago politics and gangbanging overall.
Even the prison YouTubers rarely ever interview Illinois state prisoners. None of these YTers interview the OGs from the gangs, especially not the smaller mobs. They're dying out and taking their stories and history with them.
That’s a 30+ year gap, you can say the same for a lot of cities’ rap scenes right nowSo we went from Fresh Prince, Cool C, Black Thought, Malik B, Beanie Siegel to this bullshyt in Philly?
It's also a thing of are them dudes even rapping? is there anything interesting going on in their hoods? I don't think chicago has the equivalent of an Alex Alonso though
Tommy G just did a video about this rapper trans-man SD who snitched on her crew and it's
DJ Akademics got popular by covering chicago drill..... Trap Lore Ross has been whole ass documentaries outlining chicago rap. ChicagoScene88 been doing the same thing. Zack TV was doing that, but he got killed.
This song came out a month ago and now every person on it is dead smh
He was a goofy with clout. dude got cooked right after this dropped
older cats that used to bang in Chicago aint on the internet like that (the ones that arent dead or in jail)...they on FB sharing photos with familyYeah, I saw that Chicago video a few days ago. It was interesting.
ZackTV actually gave a lot of coverage to the Brooklyn drill scene in the mid-to-late 2010s before he died. Unfortunately, rap fans didn't care about NY drill back then but the scene did sprout into something bigger afterwards.
Akademiks covered one cluster of BD sets (300, 600, Lamron and O-Block) and a few of their enemies. Recently I found out there's another cluster of four BD sets not too far away and they got their own world. Rappers from the two territories didn't even collab even though they were cool with each other. Trap Lore Ross expanded the coverage wider in the Southside but it's still mostly beefs between BD, GD and Mickey Cobras and he focuses on rappers.
There's YTers that got videos interviewing California OGs from way back talking about their set's history and there's an avalanche of videos talking about prison politics, street politics and history. There's very little of that for Illinois.
There's always been websites that talk about the history of active and extinct Chicago gangs but it's hard to verify or get into details. It would be so much better to get stories from the source from OGs and leaders that actually did time or who moved on in their lives.
older cats that used to bang in Chicago aint on the internet like that (the ones that arent dead or in jail)...they on FB sharing photos with family
Half of my fam are BDs from the 80s and 90s
its a total different world than what the current crop of lil knuckle heads are living