NORTH CAROLINA HOOD TOUR: CHARLOTTE'S MOST DANGEROUS

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:01]Charlotte is a place that really don't play. Like people think this like one of them place you could just come to and just freelance around here, but you got to know somebody that know somebody to really move how you want to around here.

[00:00:14]You feel what I'm saying? North Charlotte, you know, it's trenches. Like it's a lot of pain and agon When that [ __ ] walk a couple of [ __ ] ain't blow ain't no weird as [ __ ] always weird lot of folk straight kicking the better I do this shook me trying to get out his hands I [ __ ] I got jumped by 142 play the original Y. Like I'm trying to tell you original.

[00:01:21]Yeah, don't come. We going to chase you out here.

[00:01:26]You can't even trust us.

[00:01:28]>> Hey, look a crack. Everything >> club.

[00:01:39]>> So, as y'all can see, we are right back in good old North Carolina. And if y'all been locked in to subscribe like y'all should be, then y'all know we've already been here several times, exploring various neighborhoods and learning a bit more about the street culture here in North Carolina. However, we have yet to hit good old Charlotte, North Carolina.

[00:02:00]And y'all might be thinking, "Yeah, that's because there ain't going on there." I can understand why y'all think that. Because while things look nice and calm and serene and peaceful and super gentrified like every other major city across the US on the surface, trust me when I say that below that is a real undercurrent of some real deal going on.

[00:02:21]>> Police brutality, harassment from the police, gentrification, >> they raise the taxes on the house like on the land and so it forced the people to have to sell their house and they raised the property tax. died behind this in real life. I got jumped by 14. I got a little brother who died at 14. He knew what the he wanted in life, [ __ ] I seen them take that [ __ ] away from him. This whole sidewalk was filled with my blood. Have y'all ever got stabbed a day in y'all like that? I ain't know that it was going to hurt that bad.

[00:02:54]>> I'm talking some [ __ ] up occurrences indeed. So today we linking up with upand cominging artist Pop Trim and Company so we can take a closer look at what's going on beneath the seemingly perfect surface and learn a bit more about what it's like to come up in the unforgiving and treacherous streets of Charlotte, North Carolina. Lego.

[00:03:18]We in North Charlotte feed me. I'm from Tuck though from the west. We live in the F. You already know.

[00:03:26]>> Free spin, free CG.

[00:03:28]>> It's a community for real. It's not a side of town. For real. We call North Charlotte, but we not the north side. We like more like toward uptown type [ __ ] You feel me? If y'all heard like Freddy P, he'll say Earl Village like >> Earl Village to the mother I enterainment out the pop [ __ ] record. Be looking for me. I'm coming very soon.

[00:03:48]>> You don't know about Village. You a weak ass. You ain't from the city. F.

[00:03:52]>> You ain't from the city. I'm from f home chuck tell >> that's basically down the street though >> it's north Charlotte then it's goddamn you know it's trenches you feel me like but in the new generation like they broke this [ __ ] to where it's like bro he from tuck I'm from North Charlotte you feel me like but we locked in like them like really like family you feel me >> okay like from the north to the west >> yeah one of the first alliances like it's a whole lot of bros you feel me just from different spots and just you know linked up on some brother like >> always suspect that we never evict free retro over here. This was like always like one of them neighborhoods that was unified. It's like far as like being in just your community doing in your community. I'm going to say this one them type everybody know everybody type you feel me? So tight community looking out for everyone for sure. Some of the kind of struggles coming up over >> police brutality harassment from the police.

[00:04:51]Gentrification, you know, they they the banks forcing people out there like people moving over here and calling the police on us.

[00:04:58]>> Yeah. They gentrified this [ __ ] So you feel me? Like >> bro is saying banks are kind of forcing people out. What's that process? They raised the taxes on the house like on the land and so it forced the people to have to sell their house. They raised the property tax made it to where you can't afford it cuz they know they're financially low >> because if you look you see it's a city line right here from this house the side of the house you can see the city line.

[00:05:23]So it's like a $600,000 like you feel me? Like close to a million dollar worth of land for real.

[00:05:29]For real cuz it's so close to uptown like it's like walking distance.

[00:05:33]>> This prime real estate right here. Yeah, for sure.

[00:05:37]>> For sure. Pop doing some legendary, you feel me? He doing what OG is supposed to be doing. He moving around, you feel me?

[00:05:44]Staying consistent, staying solid, you feel me? Just shedding light to where people trying to hide certain like this is a hidden gem over here. You feel what I'm saying? Like trim that, you know, come and show love and goddamn what we got going on. We got it going on.

[00:06:00]>> In a city, you get way more hate than love. majority of time. But he's so hard. There some artists in the city that's so hard that you can hate him, >> but you still is him on and off of the beat. You feel what I'm saying? He doing legendary so you know it's big love from us. Listen to me though.

[00:06:27]Yo, when I walk on it, I know a couple of [ __ ] ain't blow ain't no proig, you know. I like brown like to [ __ ] I'm trying to get on some other cuz the streets this don't matter. Everything going to get handled and stepped on still but it don't matter.

[00:07:03]>> We're talking about hate though. Is that a big common theme in this city?

[00:07:06]>> Definitely.

[00:07:08]It be fake hate. You get what I'm saying? People that grew up that know like bro like ain't going to tell you about what we got going on which is a lot of great that come from you feel me?

[00:07:19]Like our campaign the people feel me?

[00:07:22]It's a lot of mother who or a lot of people who don't know the history of Charlotte for real. If you know the history, even if we from odd sides of town, you got respect for, you know what I'm saying, certain rappers from certain areas because we still here. We be over girls too. We all been there before when when trying to beef over girls and stuff like that.

[00:07:39]>> More jealous too cuz we got that real wave. Like we ain't got we don't got to fake it for no and none of that. Like we really raw.

[00:07:47]>> That's what a lot of these we doing. And then I'm going to speak on this [ __ ] too, gang. Like stop spreading rumor about me gang. You feel me? Only that one little happened. That's a little scratch. You feel me? Don't ever in your [ __ ] life say that you ever did anything to me though. You never did [ __ ] And it's a lot of in the city who keep saying they did something to me and they song never did.

[00:08:04]>> We like You ever seen 300? We like 300.

[00:08:09]>> The rest of the city is Spartans.

[00:08:11]>> But you know 300 go hard cuz every single one of them train to go.

[00:08:14]>> That's why they don't with us cuz they can't be a part of us. You feel me? be mad that we do [ __ ] that they can't take.

[00:08:21]>> And we know how to wear our a little different, you feel me? Like we ain't walk around with our head down, we got our head up. We got missions we got to complete. Five that's dead, that's fed, you feel me? We still got to keep the train going for sure. I'm the producer for the North Charlotte. Being from Charlotte, we don't really have too many like artists that blew up like mainstream. The baby really on some real The Baby is the only only artist from Charlotte that made it mainstream.

[00:08:45]Another thing too, Charlotte is like overshadow overshadowed by Atlanta cuz Atlanta the next biggest >> city.

[00:08:53]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. For sure.

[00:08:54]Music wise. Charlotte, we been supposed to blow but it's like crabs in the barrel.

[00:08:59]>> Weird as always weird.

[00:09:03]>> We all trying to get out this soul. Weak as hell, but we standing.

[00:09:07]>> It don't matter. It don't matter. Just in the grand scheme of things. We trying to find positive. We trying to get positive going. a lot of bad publicity rumors. Yeah. You feel me?

[00:09:17]>> Right. It's like working in sharp fall.

[00:09:19]It don't last >> for the city growing like population wise because I remember when the city wasn't even at like a million people.

[00:09:26]The eyes is going to be on us. We just got to know what to do with it.

[00:09:29]>> A whole lot of fit. No [ __ ] Straight kicking do a better hot [ __ ] No cap.

[00:09:34]And look real getting money around this [ __ ] [ __ ] This ain't for play. This ain't for fun. You get your ass put on a noob about this [ __ ] Everybody around me all my we business man for real. My [ __ ] make jewelry >> black entrepreneur a lot of designs.

[00:09:48]>> I do detail cleaning on cars.

[00:09:50]>> My artist I got a lot of artist out here. A lot of ventures. Straight pain.

[00:09:55]CLT.

[00:09:56]>> Country club deal worth place and where the money at. I'm at detail clean.

[00:10:01]>> Yeah. Yeah. I really going to start called Skup details or gone in 60sec details. We come and goddamn do your [ __ ] Get the out of me. Spy on Instagram. Go get that merch. Real business man, dog. Real business man.

[00:10:15]For real. LC gang. Ain't got no LLC. You can't hang big LLC. You ain't got no LLC. You can't rock with me. No cap.

[00:10:23]Charlotte. What people don't know that Charlotte is a place that really don't play. Like people think this like one of them place you could just come to and just, you know, just freelance around here. But you got to know somebody that know somebody to really move how you want to around here. You feel what I'm saying? Charlotte is like a island. My biggest goal is to get the about this and everybody cool with me and not fake it.

[00:10:47]>> Take that [ __ ] serious >> cuz this real like and it's like it's a lot of pain and agony that come from all this.

[00:10:53]>> This do get hard and you got to let them.

[00:10:57]>> You got to make sense. If I'm going to go through all this pain, I might as well let everybody else hear this.

[00:11:02]A lot of we learned in life is just lesson not lost to the next thing.

[00:11:06]>> Yeah.

[00:11:07]>> So yeah and nothing no regrets because that's that's what make us who we is today. We done been through you feel me?

[00:11:13]Like >> I'm on the south right now with ain't got no >> boom. So after we left up out of the north side of Charlotte, we made our way out west where pop trim and the guys hopped off the porch for real. More specifically, we mobbed over to Tuckiji, aka the Tuck, home of the infamous Chopper game.

[00:11:47]This the best smoke shop in the whole city on the west side. This the best smoke shop on Tuck now though. We ain't in the F. We on Tuck. Come here. And I know these pass on smile up in their face on set. Yeah.

[00:12:02]Took a CG. Yeah, we on set right now.

[00:12:06]How this go. We on the west side with it. It ain't the best side cuz it a whole bunch of going on out here. But it's the best with my [ __ ] Baby Black >> in the smoke shop.

[00:12:25]Y >> got my J calling >> man FA bro it's Fred the whole T wave man like we've been thugging since we was like 13 14 years old like doing all type of that you wouldn't even think ain't nobody I ain't going to cap this spot is legendary I ain't do this long ago cuz all this new me from right here real been going on you see this right here this on my face die behind this real life like 1 2 3 4 imagine how many hit the floor behind them same four about this uh apartment and this section man we did a lot of in this section from 14 no really 12 13 to now like I'm 20 now like I'm tough gang from Bradford to tuck it start from the top from Puget to the high school all the way down. It's a long ass street.

[00:13:28]>> Did you go to the high school?

[00:13:29]>> Oh yeah, I went to West Man. I got jumped by 14 because he was trying to serve at West Met. You still on tough.

[00:13:35]You still on the block. You cannot wear slides. You cannot serve. No pins, no weed, no nothing in that school and you not from the hood.

[00:13:42]>> You can't >> and you can't fly or we going to snatch that [ __ ] merch. But it's like we took that [ __ ] down in the bathroom cuz he was serving in the hood cuz he was still on the block even though we was in school. Next thing I know I got jumped by hella [ __ ] You feel me?

[00:13:57]>> 14 of them.

[00:13:58]>> I mean I seen 14 but it's like I stole off a couple. I got jumped. So it's like it don't matter no more.

[00:14:05]>> Either way it go I was going to win that cuz who you playing with? And some [ __ ] happened after that. A couple years later and they thought I forgot cuz I ain't after that. But you feel me?

[00:14:16]Happens. [ __ ] happens out here in these streets. And you might get drunk. You might win some. You might lose some. You feel me? But you literally see another day and do something to a dumb ass boy.

[00:14:25]You feel me?

[00:14:26]>> How does this side where we're at right now different from where we were just at the north? Like >> over here is way different because I can't put everybody on the camera cuz it be real life that's going on. It's like even though we still trying to be positive, it's still [ __ ] surrounding all this [ __ ] I'm a good person, but I be on sometimes because I have to. If I don't, it'll cost me or mother I love. So sometimes you you got to go first. I can't really say too much, but yeah. Only burgundy flags over here, man.

[00:14:54]>> Burgundy flags. I don't like this >> real rooster [ __ ] >> Okay. And it's been that way since as far back as you can remember.

[00:14:59]>> It been that way since before I was this way. But I'm actually in the hood on top on the west side.

[00:15:06]>> Tukville 42ouble. You feel me? The real hood. Whole street. Whole strip. Yep.

[00:15:11]4200 all Tukville has nothing to do with Chicago. I'm going to go ahead and let y'all know. No, I got a little brother who died at 14 when I was 14. His name was Tuka. The world better know they better not play with my name. My mama know real life [ __ ] [ __ ] Don't ever play with my [ __ ] name. Especially to you punk ass who don't even know my game. A little game. Small short. Real short. But he got a old soul. He knew what the he wanted in life, [ __ ] I seen them take that [ __ ] away from him at 14. See my on the ground. This is real life when I was a little [ __ ] looking at this. How you think I look at this? How you think I feel? I know was hell who my age who done lost the homie at the same age that I lost m but y'all don't feel my pain [ __ ] That same house he stay right there [ __ ] I seen his mama kick him in and out the house.

[00:16:01]I seen him not actually want to go home.

[00:16:03]She used to nail the door shut. We just have to kick that chigga out here crying. [ __ ] different when you know that [ __ ] won't supposed to be his time. [ __ ] different when they say they love you. Knowing them [ __ ] lying.

[00:16:20]This [ __ ] hit different when they leave you bad. They know they see you trying.

[00:16:23]Got my headucked up. This [ __ ] turn me to a slime. Then they need to free. Need to free my [ __ ] to I might hit up. Suck it slow and do it sloppy. to that Tway [ __ ] going to go for hell. [ __ ] this [ __ ] for life on my beat, they almost took a L, but I did it right. Told my brother stop the robbing. We couldn't even stop the violence and my [ __ ] just keep crying. That [ __ ] tell me keep sliding. Every homeboy I had is out. 14 is locked up in the chains right now.

[00:16:51]It's only a couple who here now still.

[00:16:54]Long live Steo, too. Long live JBO. Long live CJ. Long live Scotty. Long live Tra. This real life. And I can name like 18 of y'all cuz y'all know you better watch who you with out here. Hoes be eating. These hoes will keep a baby by you and they don't even like you. The hoes be choosing and going no matter the circumstance. Just don't trust no [ __ ] all together. Wise word pop aka Timothy.

[00:17:20]But the [ __ ] be dissing. We really sit at your crib 5:00 in the morning trying to play Fortnite with you.

[00:17:26]the wrong with these >> in real life trying to play Fortnite at your house 6:00 in the morning know what's going on for real know how to play with this [ __ ] man scared to come and talk no cap going to drop this going to be everybody in the comments trying to chat chat and chat you going to already address the >> okay one Captain America don't play with me dog th >> your hoodig feel >> free my hood ain't never going to play with this all going to do is drop a verse before he drop a bomb. I'm going to drop a bomb before I drop a verse. In real life, though, and it be little [ __ ] who be in school and it's always a little, it's always a little on his story don't gang bang affiliated with, he throw up this. Everybody in the world who don't gang bang, >> they throw up this and they [ __ ] like this >> in their pictures like this.

[00:18:18]>> How they make the videos a boomerang?

[00:18:22]I'm like, boy, >> like what the do that even mean?

[00:18:25]>> I'm trying to figure out how y'all need to goddamn have an explanation behind this. Like, what the do that even mean?

[00:18:34]>> It's more clicks than gangs in Charlotte, dog. You don't even know who you beefing with or not. Like, and now they dissing other homies when you don't got [ __ ] to do with it. Ain't never had to do with it. Ain't never shot nothing.

[00:18:48]>> What is it? Do mother be bored or what?

[00:18:50]mother bored and down mother be bored and like and like oh yeah so don't nobody with them I'm say >> everybody want to be like everybody bro it's not people out here who just want to be their self you feel me everybody want to post a switch and do all this extra ass not going to give you nothing but conviction time no cap like everybody want to be gangster bro like mother don't want to have nothing going on for they like real >> don't want no business ain't nothing wrong in school you feel me Even if you gang banging or whatever in the streets, everybody don't got to be no shooters.

[00:19:23]The good get money can be the get money shooters be with shooters. Everybody need to stay in their lane. Want to lane hop and do whatever they want to do.

[00:19:30]Everybody want to lane hop. Everybody want to be a stepper. Everybody want to be a face and that's how die and go to jail for a long ass time. So like I said earlier, it's a lot of [ __ ] who locked up right now who wasn't supposed to be in them cars, who wasn't even on that type of time. [ __ ] got influenced.

[00:19:43]>> It's plenty hustles out here.

[00:19:45]>> I get up every day and go to work, bro.

[00:19:47]I ain't going to say what I do, but you feel me? Like I get up every day and go to work, bro. Like real, bro. Feel me?

[00:19:53]Ain't nothing wrong with going to work.

[00:19:55]>> Being broke is corny. That's corny.

[00:19:56]Being broke.

[00:19:57]>> I support any little who got a job going to work every day.

[00:20:02]>> You don't got to go to school to be successful, bro. I know who ain't even graduate. Millionaires, you feel me?

[00:20:07]>> Exactly.

[00:20:07]>> We're not saying don't graduate. Hell yeah. Graduate.

[00:20:11]>> If you got a chance to Yeah. If you actually got a chance to, ain't graduate. Do that.

[00:20:15]>> If you got the chance, walk across that stage from your mama. have that in her living room. You're like, "This real here go all them young. He's still in school. He's still in school. Everybody else who to walk through here is still in school." But it's like, "Yeah, this this the original Y." Like, I'm trying to tell you original Y. Well, come here.

[00:20:36]Ask the soldier. Yeah.

[00:20:39]>> We don't need to speak the streets. No, that's >> Oh, I didn't even know he was out of jail, but my tempted him out. You're like, "Yeah, >> Charlotte milk, bro. Charlotte goddamn milk as it just fooled me." Facing down here, goddamn lime goddamn trying to make everything sound better than it is. And all y'all rappers, y'all come down here, y'all have to tap in with somebody that y'all know. I don't know with y'all cuz it's a lot of rappers who be coming down here be getting robbed. I ain't even being funny. Just watch who you got them.

[00:21:15]>> Can't trust you.

[00:21:18]Charlotte, you can't even trust us. But I [ __ ] with, you feel me? I I don't be on that all the time.

[00:21:23]>> Hey, look. Ain't cracking. Everything about everything, man.

[00:21:33]>> Mother tap in with E5.

[00:21:38]>> It's becoming more >> ginger.

[00:21:39]>> Hell yeah, bro. It just like, you feel me? It don't even matter what race it is. It just matter like your income and you feel me? They knocking down the hoods, putting more people who getting more paint in the hoods, you feel me?

[00:21:50]This all over North Charlotte, Tuck, Ginger Pot on Bait for it, too. You feel me?

[00:21:53]>> Make sure y'all take care of your hood and speak to a lot of times. It's a lot of times I had to stop posting up over here cuz the police certain stupid that happened to us. It's like, damn, we not even taking care of our community. We keep bringing all this. So, it's like sometimes you got to fall back up on that [ __ ] sometimes. Cuz always being in the hood, you ain't really going to leave your hood a little bit to save your hood.

[00:22:15]Swear to God, gang. Keep putting other danger.

[00:22:21]>> I can tell you some about this parking lot.

[00:22:23]>> Oh, yeah. This parking lot right here.

[00:22:27]>> I can tell y'all about this parking lot.

[00:22:29]>> Oh, this the block party.

[00:22:30]>> Oh, this the block party parking lot.

[00:22:32]>> Party parking lot. My [ __ ] boy CJ. It >> used to be a whole bunch of going on out here and it be a lot of saying that they don't.

[00:22:40]No, you didn't. Cuz we too At the end of the day, if you know, you know.

[00:22:46]>> Yeah. Don't conquely going to chase you out this.

[00:22:48]>> That one who said he was spinning smiling and honcho in your first tap.

[00:22:53]>> Stop lying, gang. Stop faking.

[00:22:55]>> Stop faking. Went to school with you, [ __ ] Stop gang.

[00:22:58]>> Stop faking. Stop faking.

[00:23:01]>> Thought he was going to get a 10 ft nugget. He got 10 million.

[00:23:04]>> This whole sidewalk was filled with my blood. Have y'all ever got stabbed or y like that? I ain't know that it was going to hurt that bad. It happened. I'm chilling. I see my bone and but it ain't hurting. And then start that start adrenaline start wearing off.

[00:23:22]I start feeling that [ __ ] I sat down here. I'm just sitting right here. I'm just looking at my blood drop. I seen my ho. I'm like, damn. Yeah. Can't do this no more. Y'all better be on the lookout for me in that game cuz we coming and I'm tired of playing sitting back and no get on my side too. There's so many homies gang. Freak all the bros. Even the 550. Free all the bros gang. When I get everything in line, I'm going to add some more to here. It's a story line of my life. 357. Long live to the story line with all these and all is going to get handled over and free them memories.

[00:23:59]And long live my bros. We love y'all. We got you. Boom. So there y'all have it. A whole day exploring what life is like coming up in the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina. Shouts out to Pop Trim and the guys for taking the time to show us around and take us all the way through there. Take a second, run through his catalog to get a real feel of that good Charlotte paint. Per the usual, smash the like, hit the subscribe to stay all the way in the loop with what we got coming next, and drop a comment if we missed anything or if y'all feel there's anything the world absolutely needs to know about Charlotte or North Carolina in general. And after y'all do that, for sure hit the site and grab you a hoodie because that is all we have left till our next drop this fall.

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