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Those wasn’t even the worst hoods of Grand Rapids 🤦🏾‍♂️ Born and Raised in Grand Rapids

You ain't even drive thru the hood.

Outrageous! How do you skip Franklin & Eastern? The armpit of Gand Rapids!

You missed 99% of the hood

Are you even from GR? That was not the worst of GR.

I’m waiting for the “worst hoods”... I live in Michigan this isn’t shit 😂😂😂

I spent 32 years of my life in Michigan. Can't count the number of times I've been through GR. No disrespect, but you definitely missed some places on this hood tour lol. Grand Rapids in general though really ain't that bad. I like that city a lot.

Shit. A lot of these areas aren’t bad. Just old school houses and neighborhoods. I kinda like the vibe in GR.

It’s interesting that this guy didn’t even drive past places like heartside park and show what’s going on with the homeless right now. Seeing all those people without a shelter in the middle of winter/pandemic is truly the worst part of GR

There aren't really that bad of parts in GR. I always felt safe in these areas.

As we see, the so-called worst hoods has sustainable living. You’re not seeing miles of devastation and boarded up buildings. Driving thru back alleys and commercial lots won’t show well however people are maintaining.

do these only in warm weather on a full moon lol

Don't know anything about the crime rate there, and many streets and allies need repair. The houses are old but lived in. Almost none boarded up like Detroit. Properties are pretty clean, and not full of trash - shows some respect for the properties. Perhaps poor and struggling, but there's hope.

My city not that bad we be chillin for real 💯

Ive walked down that exact alley in 5:45, that neighborhood is very safe compared to detroit or chicago.

Grand Rapids is more like Dayton, Cincinnati and Louisville. Nothing like Detroit!!!

Back when one of my parents still lived in East they would drive me to school in the morning and we’d almost always go down the intersecting road at about 5:14 with the apartments and it never seemed dangerous to me. Honestly it mostly just seemed like a lot of people who weren’t in good enough situations to live in the nicer part of town. On a side note: just because a place isn’t the “good part of town” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the “bad part of town” it’s not just black and white.

The residents here are not losers! They are good people for the most part. Many people would never know this was my life from age 15 - 26 yrs. We were income but we had pride and goals. My heart goes out to those are there now. God Bless them all with health, wealth & a good life. 💕🙏💕

You didn’t even drive past heartside park or other hotspots and show the extreme homelessness problem going on right now... just pointed the camera at police cars and dumpsters like what is this video trying to accomplish?

What’s sad is, Grand Rapids has its highest number of homicides in history for the year of 2020. Just had another murder last night.

He went everywhere except the hoods

What camera system are you using? Crystal clear Video!

Grand rapids was our party spot in the 70s and 80s. Loved the bars and the clubs. Great memories. Thanks Charlie.

Grand rapids is nothing compared to other cities trust me its a safe ass city

I'm from Grand Rapids, born and raised. First off he's nowhere near the hood. He didn't drive through Eastern and Franklin, Baxter, Bates, Neland and Franklin, the black hills, I could go on. Secondly, GR doesn't really have a terrible area, not for real. This city was rated one of the safest places to live in Michigan. Smh

My hometown! Thank you for posting this!!

*Drives the perimeter of the city "The worst hoods of Grand Rapids" 😂😂🙄

I am a older grandma that is a Uber driver at night and yeah, this guy didn't drive any of the bad areas, I have no problems driving where he went. As a older grandma Ubering, I know I am in a bad area when my rider offers to sell me a piece because he is afraid for me driving in their hood. This guy could have just sat at Eastern and Franklin and just recorded for a while and would have had all kinds of interesting things to show.

Never seen so many pontiacs and cadillacs in one area before

It's about time Charlie Boy you came to Grand Rapids you been doing video for years I have seen you do videos in Muskegon Heights Benton Harbor, Kzoo and you would have went all the way around and haven't even hit Grand Rapids but I'm glad you finally made it

I was thinking.. a badass feature for you to combine with these videos is a google maps route of where you went. That way we can see the area. I know we can just google it, but finding the area ourselves is a bit tougher. Just a thought. Great channel.

The hoods aren’t even really hoods more of 1 street in each side of town. I being living here my whole life.

The "hood" in GR = single family houses with multiple cars in the driveways...

How many miles a year do you put on your vehicle? You are everywhere. Thanks for the vid's. Peace.

My hometown...this is not really the hood though lol it’s hoodish but not the actual hood.

Riding through mostly Burton Heights and Wyoming and some parts of Southeast, it’s some crime there but shit just started getting some what serious the last past year, nothing to be afraid of though lol

I live 5 minutes from Grand rapids everything looks so familiar 😄😄

Showing my city love I see you💪🏽💪🏽 it’s been bad out here very bad like never before I don’t see Franklin n eastern doe

Used to live on corner of Darwin and Burton. Shits wild there! Head over to the westside. Go down leonard and head south.

Thanks Charlie! I asked for this one a while ago.

Good job, you drove through the sustainable hood. Where homes are filled and majority of the houses are up to code. Plus this is the winter, come back when it's warm out.

Wished u could’ve shown Highland and Madison but still great video I truly appreciate this so I had to subscribe

“Worst hoods in GR!” “Provides no commentary, shows some police cars, and just drives around neighborhoods in the work day and alleys” 😂

Hood? More like a leisurely drive through an average small city on a cloudy day. 😂

I lost track of how many police cars I noticed in this video, when I was a kid we use to count how many police cars we could spot on a road trip.

You should’ve went on the north and the west and up franklin you didn’t explore enough plus you gotta come during the summer nights because that’s when shit really slap

Hello Charlie, what car do you drive ?

For those who say he not from Grand Rapids, you are right. He was born and lived in Detroit. A few years ago I was watch some of his videos. To this day I generally know the major streets/avenues in west Detroit myself. I was born in Detroit and grew up in Detroit and later Livonia. The area in Detroit I grew up in was north of Grand River Avenue, east of Telegraph Road, and south of 7 Mile. We moved to Livonia to be closer to the Ford Motor Company dad worked at. When I got out of the USAF we settled down in Kentwood and later Wyoming. I know that picture on Franklin at 2:37 is Social Services building. Been to that place many times before. What you see in this video is what you DON'T have here like in Detroit. That is street after street in central Detroit of either burnout houses or cleared out burned houses. Now in my life, I don't have money to move to the Detroit area let alone a mile away. I list medical problems that can happen to anyone regardless of race. One that I have is Sarcoidosis. Bernie Mac died from Pneumonia and scar tissue from previous Sarcoidosis was a factor in his death. Another person who died from autoimmune disease was Reggie White who played last team was the Green Bay Packers. Black working men and women that are doing to support their family I give a thumbs up for you. You are persons of value. I haven't felt that way about myself because of medical reasons these recent years. Bye

In what ways are these the worst neighborhoods? We need some commentary and context.

How you ain’t go through bemis & bates, I miss my hometown need to go back soon

Lol! Headed down Burton east, right off the rip!

This make me miss home again seeing these places again brought back memories 😢

I recently found out Breonna Taylor was from Grand Rapids

Gun violence has gone way up this year in the city. Had a guy pull on gun on me driving down 28th street.

🤦🏾‍♂️what he ain’t even go through the hoods no Ms Tracy’s Nun lol Buddy Don’t Know Frfr 💯🤦🏾‍♂️👏🏿🤣🤣

Love your videos Charlie! You are documenting what many in this country never see, and have no idea exists. Keep up the good work.

Let me tell you this, as a former Detroiter, Detroit gets a bad rap. I once believed the hype about how bad Detroit was until I started visiting and living in other big cities. Same things go on daily. Many people who talk about how bad Detroit, Flint or Saginaw is have actually never even been in those cities. How many people writing how bad Detroit and other cities are, in comparison, have been victimized by a crime while visiting one of the so called terrible cities? I think most peoples opinions come from the media. You might know that it is safe to walk or go to most parts of Grand Rapids....because you don’t see or read about such things bad happening being shown on the media or because you have gone there many times without incident. However, because of fear and what you see in the media, you would not try that in Detroit or Flint. Nothing would probably happen to you in those cities either....you are just too scared already to prove yourself wrong.. The author of this Channel, for over 5 years now, has gone into the most crime ridden cities and the worst neighborhoods in theses cities, and from what I can tell, nothing has ever happened to him. He has never been shot or robbed or jumped. Watch his videos....he gets out his car in the hoods and at night, goes into hood party stores. He should not be able to do this if all these places are as bad a people think they are. I have read comments where people ask if they could do what the author does....but as a white guy. You see....that is the real fear. Many white people fear they will be attacked for being white in a black area. If nothing happens to a white person in a poor black community, whites will say the community is “safe” and not bad. There could be African Americans getting shot in drive-bys in the same community, weekly, and all type of assault and crimes among AA.....but as long as nothing happens to white peoples....they will say it is a safe neighborhood. History has turned African Americans onto themselves, which is why AA can be catching hell others feel it is “safe”. I recommend watching “Black Bottom” on Netflix. What happened to the Character “Toledo” in the end perfectly reflects the root of violence in our communities to this day. Displaced aggression and frustration turned inwards towards each other.

I remember being dragged to a goth bar on division Avenue that looked worse than these hoods, but that was 30 years ago and I was already half-cut when we got there.

These places your driving around are low income areas there not the hood your on the wrong side of town

GR doesn’t really have much of a hood or anything. It’s pretty safe overall if you aren’t involved with bad sht but as with any city there are areas that aren’t as nice

He clearly don’t know what he talking about and had to be bored, but anything for attention

As someone who was born in Detroit and raised in East Grand Rapids this is night and day but I agree. Whenever I’m going places or have family around I always avoid Franklin, Hall, the area near the National and Lake Michigan. But it’s still nicer than Flint, Saginaw or most of Detroit

I work down there and have hung out there. Can’t say I’ve ever felt scared or threatened.

Anybody who thinks this is bad is soft or didnt grow up in a city in the midwest or east coast... looks like a normal working class neighborhood to me. If you look up his videos on flint or Detroit. With all the run down and abandoned houses that take up entire blocks or half of the neighborhoods... to me that's hood. These areas only look rough because its winter. The roads being messed up is normal for Michigan unfortunately..

1:45 Someone got shit a killed there last week. Crashed into the store trying to make it to the hospital died on scene.

Charlie, when are you going do Lansing?

I live in one of these "worst hoods" and people still smile to you when you walk down the street. Literally completely safe lol.

I’ve lived off of Burton and division for 20 years and it’s not as bad as you guys think, or maybe I’m just used to it.

Come to the Capital City of Lansing; make a video there

The Near South Side, south of Wealthy Street for about 5-6 blocks between the river and about the eastern extent of Eastown, is the worst part by far.

This guy clearly doesn’t know Burton

So this is where Floyd Mayweather Jr. is from.

Portraying The inner city of Grand Rapids as a bad place just to get ahead. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Bruh it’s trippy seeing video from someone else’s perspective of a highway that you drive on every day

Typical day in GR. South end and parts of west side connections are way worse. Richmond area has house falling over. Grew up here.

I used to go to a comedy show a friend had at a hotel off of Anne Street. Older part of town. Fairly well maintained. Still far better than half of what I've seen in places like Baltimore, Philly and Detroit.

U didn’t go to the hood hood in Grand Rapids lol what about Franklin and Eastern? Or even Kalamazoo? 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

I live in GR just found this video on KZfaq what's going

Yooo charlie, you change vehicle,that old car dashboards sounds was driving me nuts.🤭🙄🙄😂🤣😂🤣 love from serbia 🇷🇸

Isnt this where anxiety war is from

Excuse my language but those so called hoods 10 times better than average cities in Kazakhstan. Be grateful

There are hoods there other than in Detroit? Where else in Michigan may I ask? What about near Sterling Heights? My kids are there I really need to know, thanks!

A lot of this is the mostly Hispanic SW side, which is rough-looking, but mostly quiet. Now Franklin St. is a whole other story west of MLK Park to 131. New York Fried Chicken 5:07 has some good food. Thankfully they deliver, because I'm not risking my life for it.

Your back in my hood!! I ain’t never clicked your video so fast

Gunru aka Grand Rapids my city go Back when it’s hot

As soon as I saw the offset in lane green vehicle at 1 : 14 And the loudmouth woman I was immediately suspicious she was daydreaming and rear ended at the lights, A second later seeing the crumpled bonnet confirms it

I’m from Grand Rapids and sir you misunderstood the assignment if you’re trying to make us look bad lmao

looks like a bigger version of Lansing or Flint with all the wooden houses unlike Detroit which has a lot more Brick..

You made it to my home town!!!

Burton is the only semi bad area in this video but mostly at night in the warm weather. Along with Oxford st in the Black hills and then Madison area. You almost made it to the Black hills when you went down Martha St.

They have way too many gray cloudy days like this in Grand Rapids Michigan nothing looks good under those conditions

It's a nice city. Definitely the best big city in Michigan.

He was going the wrong way 🤣

You were close when you went to Granville ave but everywhere else was just lower middle class working family’s. I drive most of these roads regularly as at one point you were close to where I live.

Charlie go a lil further west like Muskegon or Benton Harbor, things get more sketchy out there.

Lmfao if y’all think Grand Rapids is dangerous😭🤣ya never really seen danger...this is baby

You think that's the hood you need to go to muskegon heights Michigan lmfao wood st hoyt st Reynolds st

This is the hood but the same time you didn’t go anywhere where it really pops off

Omg finally! So cool to see GR make the cut on here