Inside Sugar Hill | Harlem's Most Infamous Hood

this the most dangerous hood in Harlem you heard Sugar Hill bro nobody come up here you come up here you going to die Sugar Hill a neighborhood in the Harlem Section of Manhattan New York City holds a significant place in hip-hop history historically Sugar Hill was a cultural and artistic Hub during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s laying the groundwork for various forms of artistic expression that later influenced hip-hop in recent years a new wave of drill artists from Sugar Hill have taken the World by storm with over a dozen artists from the area emerging such as dii AMA Sugar Hill do do OT baby and more but all that success has not been Without Tragedy nearly 2 years ago on July 9th 2022 around 3 p.m. 14-year-old drill rapper n Osama was eight blocks from his hometown of Sugar Hill when he ran into rival 15-year-old Kelvin Martinez near the subway station nauy grabbed a broomstick and a fight ensued ultimately spilling down the stairs of the 137 Street City College Station where NAD Osama was stabbed in his side puncturing his liver and fatally wounding him outside the Northbound number one subway train this tragedy made headlines Across America and in an act of disrespect was blatantly mocked by rap group 41 in a song titled naughty [Music] Bop this song went viral on the internet along with the dance which consisted of people simulating holding a knife and stabbing it into their sides like the incident that took Na's life this level of disrespecting the dead sent shock waves through the community but it did not stop Na's Brothers as well as the rest of the Sugar Hill rappers from striving towards their dreams of making it big in the hip-hop industry since Na's passing Sugar Hill has gone on to become one of if not the most notable neighborhood making drill rap today in New York City towards the end of the video we speak to the family of the deceased artist OT baby as well as the blood brother of the incarcerated artists oquana and Sugar Hill Keem so if you're excited about this episode please hit like right now click subscribe and stay tuned bugy head bugy head all right here we are in Sugar Hill yes sir ski never ran of a [ __ ] wh man who I ha with jar bolo you know what's going on jar is AAR rapper an older brother of d and n AMA what is it like growing up in Sugar Hill bro it's rough fun it's all over the place it's just a jungle you heard this is really supposed to be the real Spanish Harlem but they call the east side of Spanish Harlem but I ain't going to lie suar Hill is really 40th to 55th yes we're about to do a walkr and show you like who's from what block and and the history there and just you know check out Sugar Hill hell yeah you know the Vibes tune the [ __ ] in right now we're going to go down a Broadway so it's the famous corner right here naughty block if y'all know if y'all seen them the video E4 and I know we shot this [ __ ] right here we have my brother C do is memorial right here on the corner you still see you still see the writings on it rest in peace naughty this where me and my brothers grew up at for real like it's what I call sticking you heard Chinese store right here oh yeah we grew up on that right here the salon this where all our moms used to link up drink Coronas this why some of us together do like get B SK getting sturdy this is my store right here though man like famous Jimmy right here this what we came and stole from and got caught Jimmy used to always hold it down they got everything in here they got everything you need in here everything from incense to make the Crips baby diapers and all baby diapers what's a Target when you got 40th take and we take EBT take EBT they got sleep caps car fresh [ __ ] lemon juice they got it old they do your taxes in this [ __ ] maybe count ask him behind the counter he probably could do a lot of things where we walking to right now we walking to my block right now Sugar Hill doot is one of the biggest stars in the New York drill growing up his best friends with Na and Di Osama D do has been making music since before he was a teenager and has gone on to Garner millions of views on his songs this suar get the [ __ ] money BR I don't know if it's true but I read on the internet that like you started coming outside like 8 years old 9 years old n before that before that we used to be outside playing Manhunt [ __ ] and then we'll make the Manhunt games that you can't go past the block just man [ __ ] when you was younger everything was just better when you was younger not lie man we got the spot right here bro you from Hall know the vows bro had to keep you a good fitted good cap and this what became on a good weekend if you had your fit ready and all you needed was a good cap you know where to come bro I extremely [ __ ] with that dolphin's uh beanie right there what you want it might I should cop that for you that's all you bro you got that for me BR thank you so much bro got the Dolphins head on how's it look sexy looks clean it don't match yeah it doesn't match the fit so I'm going to put the hat back on but definitely definitely thank you guys for hooking it up we getting Brandon a New York F cuz he in New York is mandatory have to fix it up though yeah yeah you got to get it right you sturdy there you go hell yeah now I'm right I got you right now you active where did my mother you got tell where my mother where my mother my got me right we just Ste inside the building what building is this this The Manhunt cave right here you see this wall right here we used to hop this [ __ ] straight from yo look with the rebar sticking out and everything I used to give us help not going to lie I think I lost my virginity back here really jar has great memories this alley don't stop stop stop right there stop right there stop right there [ __ ] right there yeah damn good catch look at that behind the St everything went down look that's the dungeon right there check that turn the camera this way [ __ ] went down back here your girl was probably back here and this right here used to be like the Octagon for [ __ ] right here we used to get active in this [ __ ] This is 40 block the beginning of Sugar Hill get the [ __ ] money y [ __ ] know what's up all right so we just hopped in the the Escalade right now we got the driver right here what's the fuel efficiency bro I got to ask how many miles per gallon look at it 6 miles per gallon I get 55 in my Prius it's the Brandon Buckingham show look at my special guest y'all lowkey kind of feel like a [ __ ] having him open the door like that but thank you all right check it out to my right I got the one and only bloody bloody is one of the fastest rising new rappers coming out of sugar hill come on now we outside man big bloody H from the ride to the tra and back man what's it been like for you you know making a name in the rap game I mean I just really started rapping so I'm I'm just trying to keep dropping keep dropping keep dropping trying to be one of the greats how long ago did you start I started like 2023 on February damn making a lot of wavs for 14 months H yeah I'm trying I'm trying to go cool there's someone out here that does not know about Sugar Hill what would you tell them it's not the projects but it is IR The Trenches I ain't going to lie like if you really like good 360 I mean I'm not going to say it's the prettiest neighborhood but I Ain going to lie we had mad fun out here 135 right here P you got to Google this building right here Google 135 in Hamilton Place it's a whole story this building right here too this first building 500 all of these buildings got stories I ain't going to lie I think this building got like two one of like one or two indictments all the older [ __ ] from the black they always used to be trapping in these buildings especially the hill but the whole har got mad just mad fiends I ain't going to lie like where I'm from they call fiends like Cluckers what do you guys call them we call like cies Flo fends crackhead respectfully I grew up on yall man come on and there's so many people assembling we got a squad yo it's rasco G man you know who it is Mr we B [ __ ] up in the AIL if you know you know he dog my son for my son W him down [ __ ] call him the bo the [ __ ] world man yeah talk to your fans out there bro everybody keep flowing my [ __ ] you [ __ ] we the youngest [ __ ] doing in right now what the yo o I'm never G fre the guys RP the guys D Play for Keeps is one of the longer tenur rappers from Sugar Hill collaborating with eot baby on the drill hit we back part two all the way back in 2021 like let me put it on your titty I got the KN is the I'm trying to get R tell about Sugar Hill someone that's never heard Sugar Hill it's like it's a movie it's a movement it's not a gang it's nothing it's just a movement feel me it's where we from one thing with us is generation of this [ __ ] like before us we got aunties and uncles that always friends the same way we all friends feel me we damn it basically like fairy it's big bloody right here what's up big bloody yeah nice to meet you bro nice to meet you too brother that's big bloody right there you heard big bloody you heard big bloody well you you were born and raised out here right I was born and raised right here yeah I was born ' 86 so what has it been like you know the past four decades how has Sugar Hill changed right now the younger crowd with the music that that changed it a lot you know we ain't really had no music up here for a long time yeah we were just trapping and [ __ ] and then they started with the music so that just opened up a better Lane for everybody so you feel like this newer generation really like broke the music thing wide open definitely definitely definitely so how has it been watching your your your spawn your son making in the rap in the rap game inspiring to say the least motivating I'm all forward I'm happy for him I want him to keep going and be all that he can be so you being like in your in your late 40s right do you have any advice or wisdom for the Youth out there keep pushing stay positive and stay out the way whatever you want to do you could do it and you have enough time and enough freedom to do it so do it you have no holdups just do it we all can do whatever the [ __ ] we want to do so let's just all do it right now we're on West 143rd in Hamilton right yeah we're on 4 Hamilton it's sh a hell who else from this block right here me ASAP fer young be General Hospital actors and things like that I had a crazy childhood on this block this block taught me a lot you feel me stay true to yourself it get you fall get you where I'm at Sugar Hill do they call it that cuz it has good snacks what do they call it that I mean I'm not from Sugar Hill but I heard things and I'm guessing you know when you pour sugar out and it falls down you know what it look like I don't know you guys have any slang like specific to Sugar Hill that y'all invented growing up you L [ __ ] L [ __ ] yeah be my buzzo the what buzzo buz say what's up bz say I don't know what I'm saying I don't want to say it that means like my homie like my cousin like oh yeah what's up my buzzo what's up buz I don't know what the [ __ ] it means I feel like I'm being trick right now that means like up Buzz what's up Buzz this my block right here though you heard 430 heard this where I grew up at you over here is what we call a $40 spot you go get $40 and you go get your you heard if you ever Harem you need Jo for up all it's my son JB you heard y free you [ __ ] say free you [ __ ] free me [ __ ] let me hear freestyle let me hear freestyle I know you got something cuz I know you got something in the TU place no come go [ __ ] listen Rel I got to say my [ __ ] find for that hell yeah that's what's up my son man for the St what his name again that's my son JB oama man Big O's you heard MBM everything situation he's from the hill yeah that's a fact my son is J right now the cops just pulled up for some reason I think the Escalades are blocking the traffic we kind of did shut the whole street down so the cops around here do they harass a lot they got nothing else better to do NYPD most annoying cops if you could give some advice for the cops out there what would you tell them all the cops that's like in New York they don't live inside the neighborhoods that they police so it's like for me they don't even know how if these [ __ ] from Up stay while far away so they don't even understand the community yeah they don't understand what's going on over here I heard there was some lore about cops being corrupt on Sugar Hill H the dirty 30 them [ __ ] is corrupt they all corrupt man all prec they all corrupt the whole government corrupt man we might cut to a talking here real quick talk about that get the facts right the dirty 30 was an infamously corrupt Precinct that served the Harlem area from 1992 to 1995 after committing a Litany of crimes over 30 police officers were arrested and over 50 unjust criminal cases were thrown out of court you know what it cost to rent like a two bedroom around here probably like 2500 some change [ __ ] no the housing Market's out of control bro's up man y [ __ ] know something man this is the ab this is what we call a Ab right here 444 feel me out here you heard [ __ ] seate the we from the strong you heard 46 store that's good store you to go inside father Store Main Store right here like Father father what's up you piece of [ __ ] back this the famous father right here man owe me $2.75 how much I owe you how much I owe you $22.75 [ __ ] I still owe him to this day [ __ ] had a gracious store that explosive energy you know the Vib you know the Vib where the [ __ ] is the Capri On's father there no capr what oh yeah right here all of these right here those used to be them things KO Jammers yeah bro if it wasn't Capri it was the Kool-Aid then the country club and then when [ __ ] will start drinking a start drinking the IR nigas will mix it with the Figo what's it like running a business out here on Sugar Hill it's like a family business everybody is member of the business the customers the owner the workers we all like a family most of these [ __ ] I I saw them grow I grow these [ __ ] you got any advice for the Youth out there stay out the jail stay out problems love all right father we ain't going to violate the stor I love you bro we going to be a box y we out of here y father I love you bro this where my childhood started all of us go to school not from the hell my mother everybody here went to this school right here Adam Clayton Powell Jr Adam Clayton J I got a question how did Co affect like going to school I should shut my [ __ ] down I ain't going to lie it was over I ain't going to lie get out of school free call Y [ __ ] had basketball careers all that I was a get out of school free C from your perspective was Co like a good thing or did it [ __ ] [ __ ] up out here I like the co I don't know about anybody else cuz I feel like when it was Co I was outside with the guys and then I could have done more [ __ ] and then I ain't really have to go to school like that but I ain't going to lie I wish I could have went to high school cuz my whole my whole life everybody was telling me like yo watch till you get to high school I ain't even get to experience high school yet when didd you stop going to high school I ain't even I just stopped going to school in eighth grade in eighth grade yeah damn [ __ ] got too hectic feel me life got too fast I got famous feel me I made money feel me now I'm good me move my family out out the hood right here was it surprising how quick everything worked out for you in the music industry n no everything just happened gang I ain't really it was just it was just all out of Just Energy I Ain really care for it a lot of us ain't go to school since Co bro cuz [ __ ] was a DB too was and then [ __ ] got yeah and then [ __ ] got older so now [ __ ] going to school and [ __ ] got beef with so it's like me I got I got my GD now feel me just bro congrats on [ __ ] need something though listen y after Co what to my mother y [ __ ] got 24 hours n straight beefing cuz we just had mad time to do whatever we want so did Co cause like more violence you think the years one long it just got more heavier it was way less cop and Co so it was going to be way more violence [ __ ] doing whatever they want to do as wild as it is to think about kids getting active in the streets and their young teens there's a rapper from this neighborhood by the name of Sugar Hill glitch who was only 8 years old and makes drill rap music about doing drills and smoking on his opset boy shot Myck beat out his kicks I can't wait till I catch me unas me in my here in my too what's the song it's [Music] under my pH time see the my like BL from shot no again we have bunch difference between us I bet everybody that did this interview she be talking about M like sad [ __ ] in their Hood we all energetic bro say you really huh [Applause] [Music] yeah keep going we would did that we Buzz I just told the F just give me my money no shorts baby no shorts just give me my money yeah we just heard a pop in the distance and I said I'm actively lacking right now nah you sturdy we what we call outside right now when we outside you good we we on hella beans black you know what I'm saying r h beans man y know what's going on right here is where D from right from 50 what has it been like watching him at such a young age do his thing movie that sh inspiring that should Inspire [ __ ] my age ganger inspiration seeing a young [ __ ] doing it especially from the neighborhood I show was fire he was 14 14 when he popped off he I was doing math homework and playing Pokemon at 14 he was outside 14 I ain't going to lie BR making making making money when you're 14 15 and 16 is got to be crazy I feel like if you gave me a million dollars when I was 15 I probably would have [ __ ] my life up think so probably bro I didn't know what to do do with a Millie what you would have doal with a Millie man [ __ ] heroin probably probably do mad drugs probably get strung out probably die bro when you're 15 in your party and like anything you can get you know what I mean yeah you like where's the [ __ ] blow steal stealing coins out of the [ __ ] carard was 14 we was outside like this live on the Strip we was doing this [ __ ] fly we always been fly we from har we always been I'm wearing the ultra comfortable Hoka Clifton NES right now what are you wearing me I'm right now I'm wearing some these is bad those is bad you don't like them no those bad you jack these I mean as long as they comfortable n they comforable the it stop those not valid in the spot though no hell no no hell no the most comfortable doctors dentist teachers they all wear them matter you see you got shoes on it don't matter as long as you got shoes on as you get 30 in you got to teach me Teach Me broop got the [ __ ] is that I don't even know how Bro Look move your leg like this go like this what's that dance stomp joint no no no no you got to go like this but have a little Bop have a little easy easy one you got pull up hold you got to hit him with the with the you the fall back I do this you got you got back hold keep going the the the watch out watch out that's how I guess Hill dance moves right there it's my family right here you heard up [ __ ] man we outside come on now tell him right right I look out for the streets right right look he love the streets streets love me right down come on now tell them it's funny in in DC we have a place called 37 they call it the hill 37 what's that it's like it's like the craziest Hood in DC they call it the hill they're like we're on the hill with SH real before the deal we on the hill with SH they know the deal you yeah shout out threat Shout Out J shout out uh money set everybody out there hey it's bugs from the old you heard don't forget the name you this the most dangerous hood in Harlem you heard Sugar Hill bro nobody come up here you come up here you going to die nigga's get free Snipes you heard look one of the F right here yo pull up a Cy yeah hey what's up what's [Music] up man you heard it from him man that was all facts right there ganga what the [ __ ] he just said no he was kicking crazy game you're going to put that into the translator and it's going to be wisdom I found a Henny homie out here bro got the Henny homie both got the bottle sh yeah I'm from Brooklyn you heard Mary projects where JayZ from Mar right snip JayZ say uh I'm from marcity I'm varsity son you JV yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I heard that yeah I'm an old school hip hop yeah all of the bros man tell me you're a shout out that's a huh AZ that's my family yes bro finally bro looking for someone who knows a hey yo AZ if you happen to see this video get with me you ho yo there Snipes on the line right now shout out he Lo hey yo they talking about yo Snipes we on interview they recording us about to hit the heny the floor is yours free Snipes give us I'm give you a sh to you hold this give us give us the run down about Snipes yeah yo Snipes been so this a run down he been um incarcerated for over 23 years you heard trying to do everything we can to get him back in the Sho we stopping all the violence we doing what we got to do he a do nothing but good man he bought the whole Harlem together he deaded the beef he got us out here free snipe man free snipe yo shout it out before before they take the mic back Snipes that's we together man we trying to get rich together instead of killing each other for free man yeah we Ain we trying to get it together instead of killing each other for free you heard next up we visited 150th Street the block of the incarcerated twins turned rapper Sugar Hill Keem and O Quan to speak with their brother GP about life in Sugar Hill and his brother's explosive rap careers we're here today on the Buckingham show right now we're on the blockos eat our baby Sugar Hill Keem oan fre the explosive ones RP the guys you know we love y'all definitely rest in peace e finish off the honey for him you're the you're the brother of uh sugar King oh H yeah what what was it like watching there come up through the rap scene it was exciting and happy like I got a million people who know us like running up to me like yo yo your brother your brother brother feel me everybody sending me screenshots of his videos his little viral moments and [ __ ] it's it's it's a proud feeling like yeah I'm the youngest in my family so I definitely was always uh you know looking up to my siblings and everything they did for sure that's why I'm wearing the WCW jacket right now shout out to my brother Kyle Delan Rest In Peace So yeah growing up with the twins sugar H Keim and O Kuan what was it like what was their relationship like I think they they fought each other more than they like anything like fist fight oh bro arguments this house right here man total Ruckus like the Ruckus Madness arguments real fast real fast I'm talking nothing like video games and I'm talking oh Kanan spent Keem in 2K run it back you [ __ ] Ruck is madness up there you heard my mom whing Paul break him up so you you make music as well yeah I rap I rap you tune me in GP on YouTube got a couple songs out what's some of your favorite bars you ever wrote probably one brother like to move [ __ ] and he rued with it and my other brother just touched down and he went back and like 2 minutes [ __ ] move different proba proba something that involved my brother I get real in depth with my stuff it's kind of hard for for the regular mind you got to really listen to my music it's not just I'm dissing a dead I'm dissing a block like I really take time and write my songs before I get in there how do you feel about the dist of the dead that's become so popular in Chicago and New York City you know I'm not even be hypocritical about it at first I was against it not to say against it but it's like y you know the dude dead like he already lost you know he can't say anything back but at the same time when it's like too many people doing it to you you you just you know you just have the urge to do it back like you know this is this this where we live this this we sign signed up for so it's no it's no backtracking out of it you bust out the d h rest in peace free King man fre Kanan I love my brothers death definitely if you could recommend one song from each of them to listen to what would you say uh for Quan F out the whip featuring AJ wat Keem my favorite song to op that's underrated song So if you haven't heard it go check it out and if you want to check his music out you have to go too my Instagram is him going win him going to win all right hey I appreciate your time and everything bro I appreciate you bro coming out here and [ __ ] all the way from where you came from that's what's up bro I appreciate your passion your drive 150th isn't just the home of Quan and Keem it is also the home of one of the Sugar Hill Trend Setters OT baby first coming onto the scene in April of 2020 at age 15 with the song Ready for War edot was an early star in the rising New York drill scene making a name for himself and Paving the way for the new generation of rappers coming out of Sugar Hill just 2 and 1/2 years after dropping his first song OT baby lost his life at only 17 years of age who am I here with right now it's Lori yes Balenciaga it's scary Mary and this is eah baby's sister and E baby's Auntie right mhm so in my mind e baby is one of the people that set the trend of the current scene in the in the New York music culture so what was it like watching him do that from such a young age it was like an amazing sight to see cuz Elijah like he basically he built the house for all of us to live in so it's nice to see everybody like Thrive from it you know especially from where we come from it's not a lot of opportunity so when you get to see like it just becomes a domino effect and everybody can win it's just just like beautiful Elijah like you know like me and him grew up in the same house we slept in the same bed everything so he was telling me like oh like I'm going to shoot a music video and I'm just like all right let me hear he's like oh pay for my studio time so the song that we talking about is ready for war and that song No props no nothing like and I was what went vir when everybody like you know so every day he'll come in the room like Lori look like it's 12,000 views like now it's 54,000 so it was just exciting to see like you know like like I said a little black boy having all that joy and you just get to like you're just excited to see what's next for him let's touch on you know Ed baby someone that's from his area a Legends a trend Setter if you will you know what was it like seeing him do his thing in New York he dropped um Ready for War people coming up to me yo look look look look look look look he touch million view touch million views look look I'm like oh for him to to put that one song out Ready for War started a whole thing like you feel me people wanted to be cool from us from other Burrows so now that starts a link up and then they got beef with those people so now we got beef with them so they want to talk about us so now we talking about them it's it's just from him stemming in like you want to get lit this Sugar Hill I promise every everybody who who own it's cuz of that man down block man he set the foundation like yo we could we can do this like so when aijah passed this was a tree that we learned that he adopted when he was youngest he named it John Cena um in the beginning they had a whole like Photo and a poem and long story short we started to take care of the tree and care for her we bought a bunch of plants it was a tomato tree here yeah I had to pull it up because it died um wi it came but people were stealing the tomatoes but I was like you know what that's just Elijah Spirit giv back to everybody per usual he wasn't afraid to like let his friend shine he loved that like he'd be like yeah like every time I talk to him he' be like no like I want all my friends Tov like we need to take over this [ __ ] that was his attitude about it it wasn't like oh like me versus this person versus this person he's looking at it like oh no I want all my [ __ ] to win so he's very inspiring at a young age so that's why like I look at him and I just be like you know he taught all of us a lot like I think about him all the time I think about the fake people he met the the real people he met like just life type [ __ ] or like the life he the short life he had but it was a big one he was really going to be a millionaire in his 20s besides cooking the food he cooked up music let everybody eat yeah but now everybody eating y cuz of him thank you guys so much for having me rest in peace eat our baby and his legacy will definitely live on yes thank you for coming up here too it came a long way so we appreciate you thank you thank you all so much I really appreciate it cook his ass like potatoes I get [ __ ] I don't got a SN he's R in the face tomato [ __ ] moving like Playdoh you can't be a real [ __ ] moving like a fake HO big ass with Draco smoke man [ __ ] like I'm they got to do it if I say so I'm clear and I'm out like dro

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Length: 28min 29sec (1709 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 08 2024