A drive down Howard Street, Rogers Park, Chicago

[JustWaIkAway]

This has to be one of the SCARIEST neighborhoods in the north side. Lots of crime, drugs and prostitution.

[Dalmato1000]

someone just got beatup there yesterday...its getting worse by greenview-howard-jarvis.

[lolguygoeslol]

Oh my god, the nostalgia... Thanks so much for sharing. Love your videos.

[BillGatesMoney1]

mannn back in the days morse was crackin.... 3 am chilln on the block...mann i miss them days. now im just working providing for the family and trying to stay on the low you diggg.

[ChiToNYc]

Howard st. has been genterified; now all you see is White people and expensive condos. Today its real quiet and mellow, back in the 80's and 90's it was wild. GD's had Howard st. locked down, Belizeans were loco; can't forget the blue RBK court. On Clark st. it was crazy mad-deep Latin Kings, who all they have to do is just whistle and 100 Mexicans would appear ready to whoop your ass...LOL! Toady now theres less Blacks, Belizeans, and the Latin Kings are no-longer. Sweat, sweat memories...LOL!

[BillGatesMoney1]

@ChiToNYc u aint never lyin cuz

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc nah joe some things are still the same. we still got some Belizeans & GDs holdind it down on Howard just not as deep like they used to be. the Latin Kings got pushed back further west of Clark Street. CHI-CITY!!!

[ChiToNYc]

@26Deacon Nah Howard is a ghost town, them blocks is dead now. I use to live out there in the late 80s - early 90s, now im in NY. GDs had that shit structurized, niggas use to catch them PHDs... them wild Belizeans use hang out in that ally behind kiwanis park. Howard was always crowded and loud, when I vist you hardly see shit now; its like a ghost town.... just bunch new faces and young niggas. I guess everybody moved on just like me but its still crazy how much things changed out there.

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc well i think that sometimes change is for the better fam. its time to move on from the past & look for a better future. im all for gentrification as long as the diversity remains in place. like i said i dont wanna raise my shorty around a lot of ghetto shit cause i dont want my son to ever go thru what i went thru growing up in the projects in ghetto ass hoods. i only want whats best for my shorty fam & right now he's in a better place with a loving father & mother under one roof.

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc like i said the CHI got NYC faded joe. we got everything NYC got & more. NYC is just bigger than us thats it but you know that old saying it aint the size its the quality & Chicago has a lot of quality joe. even our women in the CHI are better than them bustdown wannabe high maintenance but living in the projects NYC hoes. LMAO! some of them NYC bitches are ugly as hell & still think they all that. LOL! NYC is an overrated garbage dump. im glad im in the CHI. real talk! CHI-CITY!!!

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc NYC may have more women than the CHI cause NYC is 3 times bigger than us. but those NYC bitches are more stuck up & more boogey than the girls here in the CHI. Chicago women keep it realer than those NYC women. i'll take a Chicago woman over a NYC woman anytime. CHI-CITY!!!

[rippen100]

@ChiToNYcrips arent lame joe but i think most of chicago gangs are lame tho and wats wrong wit skinny jeans!

[ChiToNYc]

@rippen100 Chi gangs are the realist; fuck a crip and a blood. We been doin this shit longer than yall faggets. Whats wrong with skinny jeans...LOL! You figure that shit out.

[rippen100]

@ChiToNYc Lol! Longer than 1970? crips are more better & more known than chicago gangs and skinny Jean I got more hoes wit skinnys than baggy.

[ChiToNYc]

@rippen100 Hey dumbfuck we go way back longer than the 70's. Latin Kings 40's, Stones and Vice Lords 50's, BD and GD 60's. More known?... Thats commerical shit, don't know give a fuck about that shit. Hispanics in the West out about put them niggas the on extinction list. Crips and Bloods are getting evaperated, eatten the fuck-up by the Mexicanmafia. They putin workin on them niggas. And Ny Bloods and Crips are a joke don't nobody take them niggas seriously...LOL! Skinny Jeans, come on...LOL!

[rippen100]

@ChiToNYc  you mad? I'm just sayin dat Chicago gangs are reckless shooting people who's got nothing to with the bang they shoot innocent people more than gangsters and city hall is put heat on them now.you never heard of crip nation? Dey almost every where fam. Hardly anyone would take gd serious outside the midwest.

[ChiToNYc]

@rippen100 Nigga are you fucking serious? GDs, BDs, Latin kings, ViceLords, and Mo's are everywhere. LA, NY, DownSouth, nigga you name it they everywhere. Nobody take GD serious? Nigga are crazy GD's are one biggest Black gang in the US.The Chi is the only city in the U.S. that don't have any outside influence but eveybody else is influenced off are shit. Nigga we blueprinted this gang shit. Nigga we the holy mecca of this shis all them other mathafucas are our followers.

[ChiToNYc]

@rippen100 Crip nation...LOL! Nigga have you heard of "Folk Nation". Nigga we way bigga than them niggas. Crips and Bloods have been commercialized, exploited by Studio rappers and Homo-thugs, credibilty is washed the fuck-up. Nigga please stop...LOL!

[rippen100]

@ChiToNYc folk nation.... LOL! pitchfork and jew sign LAME crips are the most fierceful long run gang out there and the stuff u mention thats the u talking slobes u talking about like weezy lol! but anyway i cant talk much about gd becuz i got couple of homies that are in it and u ever skinnys before?

[ChiToNYc]

@rippen100 Fierceful and long run gang? Nigga are you serious...LOL! I can tell you don't shit about gangbang...LOL! Nigga stop posin.

[rippen100]

@ChiToNYc Dey are fierceful have U been out west there are the crips powerful gang in la and other parts of the u.s. Even crips go deep in St.Louis niggas over had to start wearing white to slow down the violence over there. Wat do u mean i don't know about gangs? I have friends & family dat are crip. Come on Joe wat u smoking?

[ChiToNYc]

@rippen100 Nigga majority of my fam live in LA, nigga was born and raised in the Chi... What the fuck do you know about gangbanging? ST Louis, nigga are serious...LOL! GDs, Vice Lords, and LatinK got the South locked the fuck down. ViceL, BD, LK, and GD's are deep than mathafuca in the East. Mo's control Crenshaw LA. Nigga St. Louis...LOL! You a dumb as fuck...LOL!

[26Deacon]

@rippen100 hey joe i think ChiToNYc does have a point about chicago gangs being more organized than the Crips & Bloods. GDs, Latin Kings, Vice Lords & Stones run deep all over the states & not just the midwest. i have cousins who are high ranking Gangster Disciples on the southside so i know. i even dated the mother-in-law of a high ranking Latin King from the westside. Chicago gangs have their shit together joe. real talk. CHI-CITY!!!

[sdots212]

@26Deacon im bout to be moving to the north side of chicago- help me get started !!

[26Deacon]

@sdots212 first of all which northside neighborhood are you looking at? Rogers Park where im at is cool, but you have trendy northside hoods like Lake View, Lincoln Park & Roscoe Village. if you wanna live close to the lakefront & beaches & nightlife then i recommend Rogers Park where im at, Lake View or Edgewater. Uptown is so so cause its the roughest area on the northside but you cant beat the new Target store there next to the el stop on wilson st. welcome to the north pole!

[sdots212]

@26Deacon yea im looking at rogers park area..when i get there we blaze and play nba 2k?

[26Deacon]

@sdots212 yeah thats cool joe. Rogers Park is off the chain in the summer with the women, beaches, lakefronts, resturants & cafes but the winters makes look like Canada. thats why the northside is nicknamed the North Pole. i moved here from the hood on the westside of Chicago years ago & this is like a breath of fresh air for me & my fam. you dont even need a car cause we have the 24hr redline el trains & bus stops everywhere. a lot of stores are within walking distance too.

[sdots212]

@26Deacon im white...not a yuppie at any means..will i get messed with if i move into the area?

[26Deacon]

@sdots212 LOL! nah man you wont get messed up. Rogers Park is a gentrified neighborhood that is diverse with equal numbers of whites, blacks, hispanics & asians. whites live everywhere & even walk their dogs out late at night up to 3 0'clock in the morning. CPD are always doing patrols from east side along the lakefront to the westside of Rogers Park. we have many ethnic restaurants from african, carribbean, chinese, mexican, indian, etc. plus we gangs of late nite bars & sidewalk cafes.

[ChiToNYc]

@rippen100 You just proved my point. Wezzy and other faget skinny jeans rappers claiming Blood and Crip pretty much solidify how homo those gangs are. If any of those pop rappers was run their mouth claiming any of 5 Chi nations (GDs, BDs, VLs, LK, Mo's) them niggas would of got they shit split. Weezy locked up claiming any of the 5 nations, they would fucked that nigga with a broom stick. Nigga you dreamin if you think them niggas is fierceful.

[rippen100]

@ChiToNYc LOL!! Yeah to rappers claiming dat they are crips and blood like Tyga the biggest wanna be homo ass even more than weezy! Lol

[ChiToNYc]

@26Deacon But I got too disagree with you when come ladies out here. I lived in the Manhattan, BK, and BX and their shorties look way better than ours. As for the food, of-course Chi food taste way better than that garbage they be serving in NY. Yeah the air here is shitty especially in Manhattan. Oh-yeah ofcourse are beaches are better in the Chi, I wouldn't even dip my skin in that nasty Conney Island water.

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc hey joe you know NYC is gonna go underwater someday right? im not lying joe. scientists say that when those ice caps melt NYC will be flooded worse than what happened with N.O. in hurricane katrina. if i was you i'll make it a quick stay in NYC real talk.

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc being in NYC aint like being that free joe. NYC makes you feel dirty like you gotta take a shower everytime you step outside. the air is dirty & the tap water is nasty as shit. NYC makes you feel claustrophobic like you're stuck there & shit. its even harder to go to the beach or the waterfront there unlike Chicago where we have accessible miles of beaches & lakefronts. NYC has shitty food, shitty pizza & shitty housing unless you have a section 8 maybe. LOL!!! CHI-CITY!!!

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc i used to live in NYC joe but it was only temporarily thru my job. what the hell made you wanna live their? its a dump compared to Chicago joe. i wasnt impressed with NYC at all. its nasty as hell & full of trash, rats & roaches everywhere. they got more projects in NYC than Chicago ever had back in the day real talk. aint nothing like the CHI joe! CHI-CITY!!!

[ChiToNYc]

@26Deacon To me the Chi is way worser with the gang shit, NY is soo much nicer. Yeah they do have those big ass rats but everything out here is cool. Chi is too territorial; everywhere you go everybody wants to know what you are, were you from, what you rep, and what the fuck are you doing here? NY its like your free; you can go any where you want and nobody want say shit too you. But I feel though it good that the Chi is getting safer but you still got the West and South side...LOL!

[26Deacon]

@ChiToNYc at least parts of the westside & southsides are better than those shitty areas of the bronx & brooklyn joe. them niggas out there are grimy as hell joe. a lot of them niggas never left the hoods or the projects. to me the CHI is more free joe cause we dont gang bang like their crips & bloods. niggas in the CHI about that paper fam. we got better food, better restaurants, better hoods & a better cleaner downtown than NYC. i hope you aint eating from those nasty ass street vendors. LOL!

[BOGZASV8MA]

he didnt drive by juneway jungle.

[YoChicago1]

@BOGZASV8MA Nor did I drive by Oak Park or Winnetka in this video. I did drive North of Howard on other videos.

[badbadkingjohn]

@YoChicago1 Thanks for the clip! Self-imposed exile from East Rogers Park in 1973. Grew up @1532 Birchwood, remember the Walgren's on Howard and Ashland, Woolworth's on Howard. North Paulina. Graduated from Sullivan. Moved to Idaho in 1975, now in Montana.. Only one point, your narritive states that you are headed east from "Chicago and Howard." Wouldn't it be Clark? Anyways thanks again!

[26Deacon]

i love Rpgers Park but they gotta do something about the Jungle around Howard St. aint nothing over there but some wannbe westside & southside gangstas. they'll get their wigs split by the real gangs from the southside & westsides. real talk.  CHI-CITY!

[chibangin007]

btw, howard is garbage. bad weed selling idiots that cant run a black nor a neighborhood. back in the days it was raw. now days they aint shit. both the gd's and the mo's on daman and howard fucked up. too many snitch bitches.

[therealdiegodonjuan]

@chibangin007 That's pretty funny coming from a cat dry snitching by typing this on youtube... you get sold bunk cuz you are bunk. How you gone dis a hood you trying to get bags in? "10 niggas running to your car" cuz you look outta place like a geek looking to score and they want to get you on your way.

[chibangin007]

howard is filled with bad weed selling bitches. its no wonder they fell off. you got 10 niggas running to your car asking what u need. if you ask for dro for 15 bucks, these niggas bring out a .2 gram of bunk and dirt. these niggaz fell off. they cant control shit. there was only one jamican guy out there that sold kush for 10 bucks a gram and 200 for an oz. the rest of those gd and stone idiots are scams. those niggas are the down fall to howards drug trade.

[therealdiegodonjuan]

@chibangin007 You sound like such a wanna G. You don't know what the fucc out in there cuz cats know to hide from you cuz you waz headed home to type on youtube what you saw in the hood. You calling sombody a bitch to they face while you there or did you just wait to get back to your computer so you can try to act hard online? Only one jamican selling good hunh? You don't know who doing what where, thankfully. Next time you want some weed call up you cartel buddies for home delivery don donna.

[krazymicky]

Born in raise in howard street wild hundred is one of da realest hood i stay close by howard n damen but i move it ain't shyt like da way it use to be it use to be disgusting ghetto but now it got improve but still ghetto haha

[chibangin007]

@krazymicky wild hundred by howard? nigga are you stupid? howard isnt close to the wild hundreds. howard is the northside. the wild hundreds is the far southside.

[krazymicky]

i meant to say howard and wild 100 iz one of da realest hood i didn't say howard is a wild hundred..

[krazymicky]

and i heard ur saint's hood iz one of da craziest hood and prolly da craziest gang out in chi town...

[chibangin007]

@krazymicky i aint no saint. im maniac

[krazymicky]

Born in raise in howard street wild howard southend n jungle is one of da realest hood i stay close by howard n damen but i move it ain't shyt like da way it use to be it use to be disgusting ghetto but now it got improve but still ghetto haha

[gaadoutwat]

Howard Street is rough but it's nowhere near as bad as it use to be. Just relax.

[BOGZASV8MA]

howard st is a shitty infested crime ridden neighborhood -you wont live there if you move in the area

[26Deacon]

you aint seen what howard st looked like from the 90's on back. it improved a lot since but there is always room for improvement. CHI-CITY!!

[BillGatesMoney1]

@26Deacon i mean its a nicer area, but if you were a teen just trying live life, Rogers Park was the place to be. Haven't been back to the old neighborhood since my wife's job placed me in Florida.

[26Deacon]

@BillGatesMoney1 i love Rogers Paark joe. im a family man married with a shorty raising my son the right way. im originally from the west side in K-Town & i sure as hell didnt wanna raise my son there. Rogers Park aint as bad as where i came from you best believe that joe. Howard St. aint got shit on Jackson, Madison, Kedzie, Chicago Avenue, Cicero,etc. im blessed with a government job, a beautiful wife & son & living in a nice crib across from the lakefront. life is good in the CHI fam.

[obuttram]

new york city da best harlem reppin all day

[eaguir3]

Sorry bro this isn't Harlem this is Rogers Park :) Welcome to Chicago.

[26Deacon]

nyc sucks!! CHICAGO ALL DAY!! yall need alleys in nyc with all that trash on the sidewalks & shit. CHI-CITY!!!

[JonGarrett2008]

he said "around the clock food and liquor" how sad, so typical of every hood in America.

[laddy819]

The Howard stretch from Clark to Sheridan was like a piece of the South side pasted on the North side. Ghetto as hell..

[robertoantoniohenriq]

truee

[nyonan]

Y'all stop hatin my sweet howard street!

Anywayz...watz good!

[jcmacho1]

memories ,thanks

[newbornize]

howard iz ma hood bck den waz da shit but now itz weak azz fuck all da real goons need 2 cum bck. R.I.P ma nigga Howard love da jungle

[wukb80]

I fuckin hate Howard..Niggaz Be thinkin Im a King n Shit tryin to beat my ass or steal my shit! I gotta walk wit a shank over there

[howardchudson]

As one that was born and raised on Howard Street I love seeing this video!!! Ican personally identify with every single frame. Change is good, so lets embrace the history as well as the chapters that lay ahead for "the end of the line< Howard Street!"

[jamiepetersen47]

i love this video..i used to live in chicago and it definitely brings back a lot of memories. Thanks!!!

[Pincurl213]

I hate the fact that you guys did not mention anything on the old Pivot Point building. How boring.

[damen74]

HAHAHAH man im from damen and jarvis and howard is weak as hell now..these white folks be walkin up and down the street now and shit..i used to sell a LOT of crack on ashland and jonquil thou

[aethiops007]

Bro. I'm from Juneway. Any what you're saying it outright STUPID!!!!

[CriticalLyrics]

memories...

[aethiops007]

I am from HOWARD STREET! I grew up on JUNEWAY but now I live in NYC. Maaaan its shocking to see this on Youtube. Its soooo different now!AMAZING! Brings back childhood memories good & bad! THANKS!!

[IBMeddling]

This is a good area to shop. I think people should shop more at the small storefronts. People should support pedestrian friendly stores. Keep Chicago looking like Chicago. Stay away from the plain suburban style buildings whenever possible. Who wants to live where all you see are large parking lots everywhere?

[rogerspark1982]

A1 Sub on clark is closed...they used to call this the jungle

[aethiops007]

They don't call it that no mo'?

[haliciababe100]

They still call it the jungle

[krm242]

I lived at Howard and Sheridan back in 1995, shitty place from what I recall.

[ChiTownfool]

it's a lot nicer than it used to be thats not saying much, I used to live on Howard

[unperfectisback]

Hey is A1 submarine still around? That was my favorite restaurant growing up :)

[fear746]

DIS DA HOOODDDD LMAOOOOO