Investigating Los Angeles’s Homeless Crisis

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Today I'm going to take on another challenge as an independent journalist and investigate all the homeless in LA.

[00:00:06]Bro, that dude that like mom and the kid, the mom has asked her son why he put blush on his face in the morning. I thought his I thought her son was about to come out as gay. Bro, I I didn't know what I was going to do. That was going to be a one of one [ __ ] situation. I don't know any of the streets. Every time I leave my brother's apartment, I kind of just walk in circles. I have been to Skid Row before. I got verbally assaulted. If you're ever interested in living in downtown LA, I wouldn't recommend like you got to have like I wouldn't live down here. I will say the other day I was walking around with my brother cuz he needed to find a homeless person to do push-ups to promote his protein weed. It took us a cool hour to find someone. Like LA's definitely been cleaning up the streets.

[00:00:56]I don't know if like the Olympics or some [ __ ] are coming. We're approximately an 8 minute walk away from Skid Row. Uh almost instantly there's a change in scenery. I think it might just be the fact that it's a lot more shaded here. But I feel like, bro, NYC had a lot more character than LA though. LA don't have no character. And I know I'm not trying to talk [ __ ] or talk down on LA cuz I know it has pros. I just walked past a Pilates class. I'm not going to film, but I've never seen a Pilates class in session. And I always wondered what the [ __ ] those contraptions do, but they were just doing like regular workouts. I don't know. When you look at them on the surface, they look weird as [ __ ] This is the POV. I lowkey kind of recognized this street from GTA one time. I I literally I drifted around this corner before. I'm getting closer.

[00:01:44]This is the area.

[00:01:47][ __ ] Still a 3minute walk away. By the way, this video is for educational purposes only to uh show you what the big corporations won't show you. I mean, none of the questions I'm about to ask by like as disrespectful or anything.

[00:02:02]Um, and I'm not backed by Peter Teal.

[00:02:04]Bro, I just walked past two homeless people, bro. I was lowkey kind of scared to to talk to him.

[00:02:11][ __ ] I did not think about this. I I don't want to get robbed. But this is still level one of being an investigator. You're you're going to be scared, but you got to break through the ice. You got to see why they're homeless. What's the leading cause of homeless? And we're going to cure homelessness. This is going to be one I'm going to observe from from afar.

[00:02:31]Um looked like a homeless man was getting injected with something. Could be narcan. Uh they had like a a zapinator out. Carl's Jr.

[00:02:44]Haven't had that since 09. And that's a fire, bro. That's a fire rapping bar, man. I even had Carl's juniors back in ' 09 when I was only nine.

[00:02:56]By the way, I was not nine in ' 09. I was born in ' 06. Bro, for some reason, I always turn off the camera. And I think that's why I'm so scared to like go up and interview someone cuz I always I feel bad when I'm filming someone.

[00:03:08]Even though I know it's not like that serious, but like, bro, and my camera is small as [ __ ] bro. I don't even think people notice. This is the view I'm looking at right now.

[00:03:18]Oh, rustic. Cool.

[00:03:21]Bro, do you guys wish I zoomed in more?

[00:03:22]I feel like I never zoom in.

[00:03:26]Zooming in is cool, but my camera can't zoom in that far. Like, are these shots cool or not really. Let me know. I don't really know much, but what I do know, I know a lot.

[00:03:39]Bro, that is the quote of the [ __ ] day. Bro, I think Skidro might be gone.

[00:03:44]I've been there before, but I can't find it. I think they already got rid of it for like the Winter Olympics or something. Like it used to be just right down that street and there's nobody there. Like they were already building new buildings and stuff. It will say though, no one in New York City was kind from what I remember.

[00:04:03]More people here have said excuse me walking past me than ever before. Like people here are actually pretty nice.

[00:04:08][ __ ] just came through saying excuse me, excuse me. Bro, she damn near brushed me on the shoulder. That [ __ ] was She like brushed me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear. Bro, that [ __ ] made me uncomfortable as [ __ ] sir. Hey, I like your teeth.

[00:04:22]I like your That's okay. First first interaction was good.

[00:04:29]I might get copyrighted by that video, so I might not be able to say anything.

[00:04:34]I lowkey feel hella unsafe right now. I don't know where I am.

[00:04:39]I don't recognize anything. Uh, this is the POV. I just walked past the most like insanely strange group of people ever, and they were all looking like they were going to steal my camera. Bro, that [ __ ] is [ __ ] I'm literally going in circles. I'm walking past the same loop.

[00:04:57]Bro, that's the girl. That's literally the girl that whispered in my ear, man.

[00:05:01]Is there a Jewish part of LA?

[00:05:05]>> Bro, that's crazy. I would walk all the way to [ __ ] Chinatown from literally Central Park, bro. And I I've hardly explored LA at all. I haven't even walked to Chinatown. I [ __ ] drove there like a [ __ ] bro. No way I'm interacting with this dude again.

[00:05:25]Hey, nice to see you again.

[00:05:27]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:05:29]Damn, we lowkey. Are we friends now? He smiled. You saw though? He can't He can't talk though.

[00:05:38]He didn't say it. They none of them all three of them haven't said a single [ __ ] word.

[00:05:44]I don't know why they're like completely non-verbal. Do is that lock jaw? Is that what that does? I don't know exactly what lock jaw is and I've never looked it up. Is that what lock jaw is? You can't talk anymore. That's so [ __ ] up.

[00:05:56]They take away your talking perms. Shout out to Packers.

[00:06:00]Shout out Jordan Love. Packers.

[00:06:02]>> Packers. Yes, sir. Shout out Jordan Love. That was the first He was the first one that could He did say a word. He said Packers.

[00:06:13]He said Packers.

[00:06:16]Bro, the only word I've talked to four people, the only word any of them have said in any of my interviews is packers.

[00:06:23]Bro, I got to get better at interviewing, bro. Excuse me.

[00:06:28]Excuse me.

[00:06:31]What's your favorite meme of 2026?

[00:06:36]Do you know when Do you know when Clav called Hooperville Cooper Valley? Okay, a lot just went down. That dude just status egoed me. I literally just got status maxed on.

[00:06:50]That girl I said I thought was a pro is a dude. I don't know if this is where I start running.

[00:06:57]I don't Bro, this person reminds me of a substitute teacher I had in [ __ ] fourth grade. The sun is starting to go down and I will say it does get dark here pretty quick. Or no, when it does get dark, it gets [ __ ] cold, bro. I'm freezing. Literally GTA 5, bro. Hey, excuse me. I'm just interviewing LA residents. Would you Can I ask you a few a few questions?

[00:07:18]>> Like what kind of >> like what are your thoughts about the homeless and what is it like living in LA? Like how long have you lived here?

[00:07:26]>> Ask a question again.

[00:07:27]>> How long have you lived here in LA?

[00:07:28]>> I've been back and forth about like Nine plus years, bro. Back and forth between here and Chicago.

[00:07:37]>> Chicago?

[00:07:38]>> Yeah.

[00:07:39]>> Bro, were you in the city in in the city in Chicago?

[00:07:41]>> Yeah, >> bro. I [ __ ] with Chicago a lot.

[00:07:44]>> Like Chicago.

[00:07:45]>> Like why you been in between? Which one do you like more?

[00:07:48]>> I like the weed here.

[00:07:50]>> You know what I mean? And it's like, you know, by the ocean. I like Chicago.

[00:07:53]>> Oh, the ocean is fire. You feel me?

[00:07:55]Chicago's cool for like two or three weeks. Like two weeks.

[00:07:57]>> Right.

[00:07:58]>> Chicago's fire for two weeks. I way rather live.

[00:07:59]>> Chicago is crazy. Yeah, >> you got to check out summertime >> in Chicago. I only went there I went there like last November. It was it was cool, bro.

[00:08:06]>> It was fire. Um, >> [ __ ] That's cool.

[00:08:10]>> That's it.

[00:08:11]>> What's your name? Yeah. [ __ ] >> Christ.

[00:08:12]>> Christ. Nice to meet you, bro. I [ __ ] tattoos.

[00:08:14]>> He said he believed in me. I was telling him the vision like, >> bro, and this is really my side hustle.

[00:08:19]Like, I don't even be a journalist for real.

[00:08:22]>> But I could really be like a top one news source for y'all. Every now and then you'll just have something drip on your face from like a building or something. Absolutely disgusting. Bro, did I walk all the way to Santa Monica?

[00:08:35]Bro, I was in downtown. How the [ __ ] did I get this far? That low key looks cool at the top. This looks cool with all the lights. I like this.

[00:08:45]What the [ __ ] That disgusting ass girl. That's two in one night. What is in the water? What the [ __ ] That's just disgusting.

[00:08:57]>> Oh, okay.

[00:08:58]>> That is so disgusting. I saw a dude off earlier and and that person was just fingering themselves.

[00:09:04]>> What the [ __ ] bro? That's the cure to homelessness. They can't stop being homeless cuz they keep two for two. They're all jerking off, bro. That's why they're homeless. Yo, what the [ __ ] They trying to rob me.

[00:09:22]my camera.

[00:09:25][ __ ] no. [ __ ] no. Bro, I'm almost back to my brothers. I don't know if I filmed that, but these dudes just pressed me for my camera.

[00:09:37]They just tried. They were like asking me how much it was, trying to press me, trying to like advance on me, and I [ __ ] took off, bro. I was not letting that [ __ ] happening. [ __ ] no. I almost got hit by a [ __ ] car. I'm never doing this [ __ ] again.

[00:09:56]This independent journalism is not for the week, bro. Don't pull up at 6:00 a.m. to cuddle with me. You know how I like it when you loving on me. Bro, I remember when the most people were out in downtown New York City. I was singing loud as [ __ ] and saying and like yelling loud as [ __ ] and no one said anything to me. No one pressed me. just walking around like this is the first time I've ever walked around downtown at night time and they already tried to steal my camera. I think they were trying to steal my camera or if I or I was just overreacting. I don't know if they started chasing me, but they said, "White boy, we wouldn't do that to you."

[00:10:30]Like right after I started running, but I don't know. I thought I was about to get Bro, I thought I was going to never see my camera again, bro. I just took off. Oh my god. I ran like a 4, six mile. I ran like 5 miles in like 3 minutes. going to check on my car real quick cuz low key like after investigating that I'm going to make sure my car is safe and sound, bro. And then I'm going to go to my brother's I think he I was helping him with this YouTube video.

[00:10:58]At least it's one way, bro.

[00:11:05]Let me make sure nobody mess with him.

[00:11:09]My bro.

[00:11:10]All right, bet.

[00:11:13]My car is safe and sound, bro. I'm always scared someone's gonna like see that I have a bed back there and [ __ ] break in and just take a nap.

[00:11:23]I'd be so [ __ ] distraught, bro. I just walked so far in downtown LA. Oh my god. Looking at it from up here, bro. I walked like all the way past that. I walked all the way down to where those lights are all the way over there. And then like I walk past that fire.

[00:11:45]Bro, I was walking for a while.

[00:11:48]It's cool to have an aerial view. Like especially after what I witnessed, I did not think it was very nice. But aerial view, it does look very nice. That is top tier journalism, bro.

[00:12:02]I cuz I like this stuff. I'm getting better every time. This is like the second time I've I've I've tried journalism, bro. I walked hella far. I was like all the way over there, bro. I was like damn near like all the way over there investigating all the homeless.

[00:12:17]Bro, that I learned a lot today. I genuinely learned a lot. Like, I'm grateful. I learned a lot. I learned a couple lessons. I got pressed. But all in all, it was fun. Look, there's a [ __ ] helicopter, bro. This looks sick.

[00:12:39]This looks sick.

[00:12:41]All right, made it back to the car. It's 10:00 p.m. Um, I'm going to go ahead and drive 35 minutes closest to the beach so I can go surfing in the morning. Just parked up. There's lowkey a lot of people here. But I'm going go ahead and hop back here. I got to be like discreet.

[00:12:58]Bro, I slept so good, bro. Let me grab my toothbrush and toothpaste.

[00:13:06]Let's go on a little walk. It is a brisk like 60° here. I'm going to walk down to this bathroom, go brush my teeth. We'll take a look out off on the pier, see if there's any waves. If so, I'll go throw the board in. I've been surfing twice.

[00:13:21]The first time, hell of fun. It was not that hard because the the waves weren't that big. But I went the other day by myself with this different board, which I think is a little bit smaller. Bro, I was getting my ass beat. I couldn't I stood up like twice and they were on some little ass waves. Anytime I tried to w ride a wave that was above like 2 or 3 ft, I literally get went under the water and like thrown around four times.

[00:13:43]I don't understand. This is one of my favorite neighborhoods though. I should have parked right there. [ __ ] Then now I'm way closer. This is the view I wake up to. This is beautiful, bro. If there are waves, I'm going just walk right through there with my surfboard. Go surfing. Damn. Here's the little pier.

[00:14:00]Dude, this is sick, bro.

[00:14:03]>> I love staying here.

[00:14:06]It's It's such a nice vibe of palm trees. But down here is the bathroom.

[00:14:11]I'm going to go brush my teeth.

[00:14:17]>> Every couple days I go out and eat one or two.

[00:14:19]>> Damn. What are they doing? They're like leveling out the ground or something.

[00:14:25][ __ ] But I'm going to get an elevated view. Check out the waves. See if I could surf at all. The ocean's scary, bro. And I saw a statistic.

[00:14:35]Only 1% of people in the United States have ever served. I'm in the top 1% of something. Isn't that cool?

[00:14:44]Over there are like the ports from Long Beach. I think that's what the big buildings are, too. Dude, I came here one night, most beautiful sunset of all time, and I've kept coming back ever since. I would walk all the way to the end of the pier, but I'm lowkey on a time crunch. I got to go run back to the car. Hop in that water. Bro, I'm trying to catch at least a wave or two. I went the other day. I don't even think I stood up one time. I either like got too scared and jumped off or got absolutely obliterated by the wave. Like cuz it would be slow. There would be no waves and then three monsoon side waves would just come and just destroy me. I love places that are easy to park at, but the beach is right there, bro. And I parked right here. I'm literally just going to grab the surfboard, walk right over there. Hey, what's up, bro?

[00:15:33]>> How you doing?

[00:15:33]>> Good. Saw that dude here last time.

[00:15:38]All right, we got to get this bad boy out of here.

[00:15:47]All right, I got this GoPro attachment for my surfboard or shout out to my brother. This is both heads. Much appreciated.

[00:15:57]Close the truck real fast. Better walk right down the street. Literally right here. Go hop in and search. W Lifestyle W Lifestyle Maxing. W Hobby Maxing.

[00:16:11]Wife maxing.

[00:16:14]Oh, here's one.

[00:16:17]Oh [ __ ] Come on.

[00:16:35]Oh [ __ ] This is the POV. It's just me and a couple other surfers over here. Bro, I keep getting my ass kicked trying to come out.

[00:16:57]Keep getting [ __ ] thrown by huge waves. Oh [ __ ] I got to get my GoPro back on.

[00:17:14]One's got to be coming. It's been a minute.

[00:17:19]I don't like when I'm facing this way. I like facing that way and then turn. Oh [ __ ] Bro, I'm getting up every time.

[00:17:36]I'm doing way better than I was last time.

[00:17:46]Bro, that was so fun. That was a way better surfing experience than the last time. I actually caught like a solid four or five waves. I got cooked a couple times, but that's Bro, that's all part of it. It was way better than last time. I'm literally going to go right back out after I edit my video. I just got to get it uploaded. But as always, if you enjoy this video, you'll enjoy the next one even more. Thank you for watching.