New Orleans' Magnolia R.I.P. Gone but Not Forgotten

[PutmanFranklinAvenue]

God Bless You

[naynay315ify]

@thfreashking was born in illinois was I born in africa? No, so why would I rep africa if im not from or born there? Like I said b4 am I from there? No are my anscetors? Yes

[rimmer0507]

Love it!!! More people need to let lose and respectand love one another!!! This is Beautifull!!! Midwest White Folks

[apates0420]

Uptowns gon creep for slim rip soulja

[trill454]

was born and live those project mp3 4 life mike carter

[SneakinSal]

Rest in Peace Magnolia Shorty ... wish you didn't have to go so soon. We will miss you, but keep you close in our hearts....

[treach091]

IT HURT MY HARD 4 DEM 2 TEAR DOWN MY OLD NEIBORHOOD MAGNOLIA OLD SID 2 DA MEAT SHOW!!!!!!

[BadBitchENT510]

omg that's so sad I heard the 3rd Ward used to be poppin I watch some DVD called Hood 2 Hood when they showed ya'll city. Im so sorry to hear about what happened I donated a lot of money to help rebuild your city now im going to lend a helping hand. Are there any projects still in New Orleans? and did they clean up the 9th Ward yet?

[BadBitchENT510]

Me and my homegirls is goin to New Orleans during the week of Halloween. We coming all the way from Cali to help clean up your city :-) Do the Magnolia Projects still exist? I heard they tore everything down to build Estates there now.

[SneakinSal]

@BadBitchENT510 ~ The Magnolia was demolished shortly after this video was shot....it was redeveloped into a HOPE VI mixed income neighborhood and is about to open again, though there will be many, many less subsidized public housing units and it is anybody's guess where folks who will pay market rate rents in this new development are going to come from.....

[SneakinSal]

@BadBitchENT510 ~ The old St. Thomas underwent a HOPE VI as well and a two bedroom unit there is now $1240. per month and many vacancies, since no one can afford those rents.....sad, sad, sad .... affordable housing is a huge issue here now, especially in the face of falling wages and rising joblessness....

[sharpshot411]

@SneakinSal Get of your ass , get a better paying job , go to school and learn how to actually make money like the rest of the world... if not move some place where you can .

[SneakinSal]

@sharpshot411 - I did go to school - media communications & urban studies - I do work and earn money - you should get off your sorry ass and read a book once in a while ...

[omgjuliansonthetube]

@SneakinSal i ememebr rent was only like 30 a month

[THEMS504]

I love new orleans and the people always realist city I know!!!

[dimviesel]

i see a few dime-piecesssss!

[mstep3]

Where did all the people go who lived in the projects that were demolished?

[anthonynami2]

@mstep3 the storm emptied them out and they where moved to different projects

[thefreashking]

man black are just lost behind these projects of New orleans day fighting for,,most black are saying i grew up their,,whites were the first their wen whites lived their it was nice and butiful,,then black started moving in so they expanded the projects into ghettos for low poor blacks to keep them trapped in a system ,,,fighting for this man blacks dont forget that we are from africa not no Dam MAGNOlia ghettos who cares if U were born their repping yo hood in all that dumb stuff,,BLACKS NO HOPE

[orleansave504]

buckjumpin in cruches only in new orleans lol goodtimes baby goodtimes!

[TheBitchyBarbie]

Uptown Where's iht Aht., Jackson Ave.,

[audubon5425]

All those white people wouldn't have been standing around there five years ago!

[collinstevens]

@audubon5425 - what you know? You were at the second lines of ten or twenty years ago? Doubt it...you probably never venture out of your smug little audubon neighborhood....

[audubon5425]

@collinstevens - I wouldn't waste my money living Uptown. You really shouldn't make assumptions. My moniker was the old family phone number.

And yes, the only white people not scoring crack or "her-on'" around there were doing a job. Go push your Coca-Cola commercial brotherhood fantasies on other transplants to this city - that area has been a warzone for my entire lifetime.

[BDHURTZ]

what happen to going to work ,oh it must be sunday

[neilx666]

how many people are parading down this street anyone know ???

[neilx666]

put on your dancing shoes !!!! Dude with 1 leg is ill !!!!

[Charlesmillz]

lol at the guy dancing with one leg

[The504NOLA]

@LivinThatHighLife dats by da magnolia (c.j. peete)

[ilivenafantasyland]

jig on but texas niggas don't dance they buggy

[sk8forlife90]

was new orleans happy about the demolitions?

[SneakinSal]

Depends on who you talk to.... folks who were having a hard time paying the post-Katrina inflated rents weren't, folks who knew the heritage of the area and the solidness of those brick townhouses built by relatives who were WPA workers were not happy....lots of folks were not happy, but the money people, real estate developers, construction company owners, demo company owners, etc. were real happy.........

[00nawtme]

305 bitch fuck dz hoes

[tp9337]

@00nawtme shut up fag we all from tha south....go say dat shit on a new york video or sum shit

[neilx666]

@SneakinSal also must have been hard cause of the history between some of the folks now having to be neighbors !!

[thadd05]

@sk8forlife90 not the peoplw whome live in the public houseng

[ChaoticBoyzMusic]

@sk8forlife90 im keeping it real.... FUCKK THOSE FUCKIN DEMOS my nigga!!! They fuckin takin down where i grew up... What a motherfucking bitch!!! FUCK!!! i'd kill 4 my hood to stay up but shit they did it so FUCKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one day i might kill a nigga over this!

[thefreashking]

@ChaoticBoyzMusic man U need sum help U a lost black boy with that slave mentality,,U dont no nuthin about your own projects,go to google in find the history of all the projects of new orleans,,whites were the first to live their,,blacks started moving their then whites expanded to build them them like ghettos,dey were built for low poor blacks and U are a exaple of how the whites won at that my brother U got to look at reality,,U said U might go back in kill a niggawen U said dat had da reply

[kenspin]

That New Orleans jig dancin is on some vodoo roots, lisa Bonet angel heart, cut a chicken's throat in a circle of candles, possessed looking shit! Other than that scary factor ... cool!

[bootboyupt]

jig dance is baton rouge we bounce get it rite

[kenspin]

Right Right! My apologies! I did go a lil wild on the description too but yeah, Bounce not Jig!

[BADBRAlNS]

all the soul is in the south and west coast, east coast niggaz are wack

[isaiahact]

I like the music.

[thatboyon6s]

man thatn looks so fun but its also so sad. i know that was a enormous loss. GOD BLESS

[parkviewpanthers]

man fucked dat we gon second line till yall bitch ass try ta stop us den we murda yall n start all ova bitch we aint neva goin home so fuckin call the police

[goingoff4sho]

take yo ass in the cp3and say that.

[BlowinMinds69]

cp3 in da muh fucka hard body bout it nigga

[SexualRacism]

cp3 is a fucking violent shithole.

[jsmck85]

4SHO dem hardheads in da building! We dont need to stand up cause we sat everybody else down LOL St. Bernard & Republic

[shadayafreeman]

Gotta love black folkz! Peace and love to MY/OUR people WORLDWIDE!

[floowner]

good times

[Uknowthazrightnigga]

holla back mag...good riddance!

[berettaking]

ufk new orleans brookyln stand up!

[tswagg504]

N.O don't give a fuck about Brooklyn....yall do yall thing..we do our own thing.

[moeorleanz]

7th w/d hard head 2 da bone bitch piss on atlanta!

[Juyray]

504 west bank new orleans

[parkviewpanthers]

dats how u secondline were im from boy nola boi keep reppin

[rlrpea19]

its all one city and u guys should be getting alone after katrina

[samalhoodman]

Niggas

[robinlr24]

i don't give a fuck what ward u from, we all live in one city, new orleans, when will we understand that?

[jsmck85]

YA BOY BY DAT TREE GETTIN IT NICCA

[brown3y3z74]

Second line baby New Orleans allday baby 9th &15

[mariusbleek]

this one of the songs they played at my granfathers funeral....not the jazz equivalent though lol. New Orleans so fun b4 all the hurricane damage.

[SneakinSal]

Several decades of a racist strategy of neglect and disinvestment did the Magnolia in - That land in the heart of the city was deemed too valuable to allow working class citizens to live there anymore. No profit to made by real estate developers by allowing people to continue to live there, since only through demolition and displacement can profits be made. Katrina was a boon to the contemporary disaster capitalists that prey on entire cities and countries for their exclusive gain...

[catrachowhodat87]

Its Depressing that New Orleans Goverment forgot what the real new orleans is and now they are destroying it for profit.

[SneakinSal]

And for the profit of a real estate developer from Missouri that had a close and cozy relationship with Alphonse Jackson, former Secretary of HUD (sweetheart deal?). He resigned at the same time the FBI announced an investigation had been launched. This developer is now seeking a 30 year tax abatement from the city's Industrial Development Board on the market rate units - will likely hold the IDB hostage, threatening to not build anything unless they get their unreasonable tax-free profits.

[jsmck85]

Its sad to say but ny home will never be the same ever again! It will never be like it was before the storm. People not coming back and its a better opportunity but its all gravy ya heard me! YOU CAN N.O. FROM US BUT YOU CANT TAKE IT OUT OF US!! 7TH WARD HARDHEAD ALLDAY

[Jarochi]

Never frum us,always in our heart. We got soul ya digg! 3rd ward,dat ice cold ward all day.

[bigno9]

fuck that pussy ass 7th ward upt all day bitch

[jsmck85]

fuck dat boy best believe they dont call us hardheads for nothing nigga! st. bernard all day

[bigno9]

a hard head make a soft ass

[memelove504]

st.bernard till i leave dis bitch ya heard me fuck da rest 504 hardheads 4 eva gon stand fuck yall

[TRUDOWNSOUTH]

Go ahead with that shit......

[DukeDaGod4]

they fuck up the st bernard to ya heard me but its all gravy i aint trippin

[standasone37]

the man on crutches dancing impressed me, looked like fun.

[WACH08]

ITS HIS NEW ORLEANS SOUL YERD ME

[standasone37]

some of the best music "soul" or any other, from Orleans, keep the soul alive

[nastyboyturtle]

i aint from da nolia but i'm from uptown rocheblave & galvez upt representa all day e'rday 3rd ward (turtle)

[travistrey235]

they knocked down magnolia??

[tswagg504]

its crazy sense they knocked down the projects in March you stopped hearing about a murder everyday..It seems like the sight of those buildings influenced people's mentality in those areas even though the buildings have been gated off...Magnolia was one of the worst projects in the entire nation for crime man.

[SneakinSal]

The buildings did not produce the poverty, concerted disinvestment strategies, joblessness, insecurity, crime, murder, guns and drugs. At one time the Magnolia & Washington & Lasalle was a creative & economically vital area & as a result has become one of the most important corners in American music and cultural history - it was the dominant system w/ policies of relegation and marginalization (for profit) that produced the outcome we saw at the end...so...can't blame buildings...

[spartanosia5]

no you cant blame the buildings..but you can blame the government for not providing jobs for the people that live in the buildings...they hardly keep up the places and whats the point in giving them ''buildings'' if they cant even get money to heat it or put food in

[SneakinSal]

Blame the government for allowing America to become a Plutocracy, run by big business interests. You're blaming individuals - individuals deprived of their rights as Americans by business interests & the relentless exclusive arrogant and aggressive pursuit of profits at the expense of the poor.

What you think some wealthy real estate developer seeking a 30 year tax abatement is going make things better? Should have renovated, but bigger profits come through demolition and displacement.

[therealhiphop007]

they keep it crunk fo real

[BIDEMIN1]

I'm from New York, but I wish I had been born in New "Awlins" Orleans. When I was in the Army, I never met a person from Louisiana that I didn't like. God be with you PanteraBoy989 and I feel ya... BIG UPS to Gill Muse and family. I hope yall made it out. Garlsdtedt West Germany 1992, YA DIG!!!

[fortyeu789]

Shit makes me sad man my mama and me had move to Hawaii after the shut down Cuz thats were my uncle folks stayed at.

[TRUDOWNSOUTH]

I see, stay there man. Don't come back here.

[channel4chase]

magnolia nolia nolia nolia nolia nolia nolia nolia nolia nolia

[likwhoa202]

The Magnolia is gone?

[SneakinSal]

Demolished. Obliterated. Gone forever....

Notice the fence. This video was 8-10 weeks before the bulldozers came in...

[garycalgary]

i like how yall celebrate things both life and death

[lightpurpose]

Sweet Jesus, my people! This made me cry! Dear God, our music. Our culture is so powerful, so beautiful and our folks are cast to the wind. I love New Orleans and the joy of who we are. May the God in us shine forth forever and ever, Amen.

[nolaChristSoulja]

I can say amen to that too brother!

[PanteraBoy989]

NOLA is one of the greatest cities in the world.hands down.I moved there from indianapolis shortly after katrina.december 17 i was diagnosed with a brain tumor.i got about 2 months left to live.you know where im being buried?NAWLINS BABY!!!!

[eastwood2414]

@lightpurpose ...I'm from GA and we have our own heritage, but I have to say that you New Orlean people do have a GOLDEN heritage. No place in the USA like Lousiana. You should definetly take back your city and dont let those uncultured people move in and change the way you live. Keep the dream alive.

[kandi504]

I am an original Lady Jetsetter from the 80's

[kandi504]

I Love Your videos, keep them coming. Hope to spot you Mardi Gras!!!!!!!

[SneakinSal]

Thanks Kandi! I will keep them comin' & I always appreciate your enthusiastic comments. Hope to spot you at Mardi Gras too! I'm heading out to Second & Dryades now to hook up with the Lady Jetsetters....

[kandi504]

I am an Original Jetsetter from the 80's....

[kandi504]

hope you got some footage. that is where i'll be mardi gras on second and dryades street and sunday of course is the last indian practices and definitely i'll try to catch all of them but i know i'll be by mike's place on danneel st