Hood 2 Hood: The Blockumentary
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i had just bought that dvd at rasputin last week! hahah.
its alright,i still have more than half to go though it gets boring after a while. they get the bay area out the way in the beginning. its alright so far. id like to see more action goin though, and so far only one fight in san fran is all i seen really as far as fights. if you could call it that. lol.
its alright,i still have more than half to go though it gets boring after a while. they get the bay area out the way in the beginning. its alright so far. id like to see more action goin though, and so far only one fight in san fran is all i seen really as far as fights. if you could call it that. lol.
Today: October 13, 2005 at 7:47:21 PDT
Film appearance may be bad exposure for suspect Las Vegas man known as 'K Boose' faces 24 counts including murder, conspiracy
David Kihara
reporter
Las Vegas Sun
By David Kihara ([email protected])
LAS VEGAS SUN
A Las Vegas man who is facing a 24-count murder and conspiracy indictment may have provided federal prosecutors with additional evidence to use against him by appearing in an underground documentary about gangs in various cities.
In the Las Vegas segment of "Hood 2 Hood," "K Boose" holds a Glock 17 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and warns: "They come around here, this is what they gonna get."
Although he is wearing a bandana over the lower half of his face, authorities say they recognized the man on the DVD. On the valley's streets -- and in police records -- "K Boose" is known to be the nickname of Jonathan Leon Toliver.
In December a federal grand jury indicted Toliver on 24 counts that include charges of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Toliver, 20, an alleged member of the Gerson Park Kingsmen, is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday.
The Gerson Park Kingsmen, or GPKs, were mainly involved in the trafficking of crack, Metro Lt. Lew Roberts said. That trade has been taken over mainly by Hispanic gangs, he said.
The epicenter of GPK's territory used to be Martin Luther King at Lake Mead Boulevard, but the gang was dispersed after the Gerson Park housing development was leveled in the late 1990s.
"They're still a gang, albeit a fragmented group of individuals," Roberts said.
Toliver was arrested by North Las Vegas Police in January near Rancho Drive and Lake Mead Boulevard after gunfire was reported at Texas Station. Police pursued a late-model Mercedes that sped away from a casino parking lot and pulled it over. Toliver and several other men were in the car with guns, police said.
When police ran a check on everyone in the car, they found Toliver was wanted on federal murder charges in connection with the Sept. 13 shooting of 20-year-old Gilbert Henry.
"Hood 2 Hood," released in 2005, provides viewers with "a journey into the crimiest hoods in America," according to its packaging. It purports to show gang activity in 27 cities across the nation, from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Sacramento.
Part of the marketing pitch is that the DVD features "the hoods" of Eminem, Jay Z, Nelly, Suge Knight and other rap stars.
Many of the reputed gang members in the DVD flash wads of cash and show off bullet wounds. One unidentified man in New Orleans displays an AK-47-style assault rifle and says, "This is my favorite toy."
The Las Vegas segment starts at an abandoned house with six men and a teen describing illegal activities such as dealing drugs or shooting rivals.
One, dressed in a black sweatshirt, fires a revolver twice in the house and says, "I'm only 17."
Another, in a white T-shirt and black skull cap, said he is so numb to street violence in Las Vegas that shootings and killings "doesn't even fascinate" him anymore.
But unlike most of the men and teens featured in the video, the man authorities say is Toliver covers half his face with a bandana when he is being interviewed.
At one point, however, he looks into the camera and says, "This is 'K Boose' from Las Vegas. ... I been in this (expletive) for real."
In the scene, "K Boose" is shown sitting in a vehicle showing off the Glock 17.
"I don't really want to say too much on tape," he says, then points the handgun to the camera and adds: "This is all you need to know."
As the young men fan out handfuls of money and dance in the middle of the street, they identify an unmarked police car at the end of the block.
A young woman who lives on the same street talks about how she and other neighbors keep bars and boards on their windows. She compares living in the neighborhood to living in a jail.
The street and part of the valley shown on the DVD are never specifically identified, but one of the men shows off the custom stitching on his car's headrests: "Westside."
The DVD is just one of a growing number of underground documentaries, such as "American Pimp" or "Gang Tapes," that show interviews with people allegedly involved in criminal activity.
Alex Alonso, owner of Streetgangs.com, a distribution house for "urban" DVDs, said "Hood 2 Hood" has been the most popular DVD for three months.
" 'Hood 2 Hood' represents the realness," of street gangs, he said.
Toliver's lawyer, Diane Dragan, declined to comment on the DVD or Toliver's case.
Because of Justice Department policy, the U.S. attorney's office also declined to comment, said Natalie Collins, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Las Vegas.
Film appearance may be bad exposure for suspect Las Vegas man known as 'K Boose' faces 24 counts including murder, conspiracy
David Kihara
reporter
Las Vegas Sun
By David Kihara ([email protected])
LAS VEGAS SUN
A Las Vegas man who is facing a 24-count murder and conspiracy indictment may have provided federal prosecutors with additional evidence to use against him by appearing in an underground documentary about gangs in various cities.
In the Las Vegas segment of "Hood 2 Hood," "K Boose" holds a Glock 17 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and warns: "They come around here, this is what they gonna get."
Although he is wearing a bandana over the lower half of his face, authorities say they recognized the man on the DVD. On the valley's streets -- and in police records -- "K Boose" is known to be the nickname of Jonathan Leon Toliver.
In December a federal grand jury indicted Toliver on 24 counts that include charges of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Toliver, 20, an alleged member of the Gerson Park Kingsmen, is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday.
The Gerson Park Kingsmen, or GPKs, were mainly involved in the trafficking of crack, Metro Lt. Lew Roberts said. That trade has been taken over mainly by Hispanic gangs, he said.
The epicenter of GPK's territory used to be Martin Luther King at Lake Mead Boulevard, but the gang was dispersed after the Gerson Park housing development was leveled in the late 1990s.
"They're still a gang, albeit a fragmented group of individuals," Roberts said.
Toliver was arrested by North Las Vegas Police in January near Rancho Drive and Lake Mead Boulevard after gunfire was reported at Texas Station. Police pursued a late-model Mercedes that sped away from a casino parking lot and pulled it over. Toliver and several other men were in the car with guns, police said.
When police ran a check on everyone in the car, they found Toliver was wanted on federal murder charges in connection with the Sept. 13 shooting of 20-year-old Gilbert Henry.
"Hood 2 Hood," released in 2005, provides viewers with "a journey into the crimiest hoods in America," according to its packaging. It purports to show gang activity in 27 cities across the nation, from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Sacramento.
Part of the marketing pitch is that the DVD features "the hoods" of Eminem, Jay Z, Nelly, Suge Knight and other rap stars.
Many of the reputed gang members in the DVD flash wads of cash and show off bullet wounds. One unidentified man in New Orleans displays an AK-47-style assault rifle and says, "This is my favorite toy."
The Las Vegas segment starts at an abandoned house with six men and a teen describing illegal activities such as dealing drugs or shooting rivals.
One, dressed in a black sweatshirt, fires a revolver twice in the house and says, "I'm only 17."
Another, in a white T-shirt and black skull cap, said he is so numb to street violence in Las Vegas that shootings and killings "doesn't even fascinate" him anymore.
But unlike most of the men and teens featured in the video, the man authorities say is Toliver covers half his face with a bandana when he is being interviewed.
At one point, however, he looks into the camera and says, "This is 'K Boose' from Las Vegas. ... I been in this (expletive) for real."
In the scene, "K Boose" is shown sitting in a vehicle showing off the Glock 17.
"I don't really want to say too much on tape," he says, then points the handgun to the camera and adds: "This is all you need to know."
As the young men fan out handfuls of money and dance in the middle of the street, they identify an unmarked police car at the end of the block.
A young woman who lives on the same street talks about how she and other neighbors keep bars and boards on their windows. She compares living in the neighborhood to living in a jail.
The street and part of the valley shown on the DVD are never specifically identified, but one of the men shows off the custom stitching on his car's headrests: "Westside."
The DVD is just one of a growing number of underground documentaries, such as "American Pimp" or "Gang Tapes," that show interviews with people allegedly involved in criminal activity.
Alex Alonso, owner of Streetgangs.com, a distribution house for "urban" DVDs, said "Hood 2 Hood" has been the most popular DVD for three months.
" 'Hood 2 Hood' represents the realness," of street gangs, he said.
Toliver's lawyer, Diane Dragan, declined to comment on the DVD or Toliver's case.
Because of Justice Department policy, the U.S. attorney's office also declined to comment, said Natalie Collins, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Las Vegas.
I'm just saying. I live in a nice town, its no wonder I'm on the internet. This is what we do here: we drink coffee, do cross-words and go on the internet. Maybe go out to The Keg every once in a while.
But some of these net-thugs, you wonder HOW they'd be on the internet and still claim they're the hardest man alive....from a keyboard....when its REALLY GOING DOWN, right outside their front door.
But some of these net-thugs, you wonder HOW they'd be on the internet and still claim they're the hardest man alive....from a keyboard....when its REALLY GOING DOWN, right outside their front door.
^YOU A NERD. AND FOR THE 51ST TIME, WHAT THE FUK IS A "THUg".
AND FUK A MAKIN' A DVD. THAT'S WHY EDJ WON'T BE FOUND CHEESIN' FOR NO CAMERA. I AIN'T BOUT TO INCRIMINATE MYSELF AND gIVE THESE SQUARES SOME POWER OVER ME , SO THEY CAN TURN AROUND AND ATTEMPT TO USE IT AgAINST ME. THEY ALREADY TRYIN' TO DO THAT. I KNOW K-BOOSE PROBABLY MAD AS FUK RIgHT ABOUT NOW, WANTIN' TO KILL WHOEVA FILMED HIM AND KICCIN' HIMSELF IN THE HEAD.
AND FUK A MAKIN' A DVD. THAT'S WHY EDJ WON'T BE FOUND CHEESIN' FOR NO CAMERA. I AIN'T BOUT TO INCRIMINATE MYSELF AND gIVE THESE SQUARES SOME POWER OVER ME , SO THEY CAN TURN AROUND AND ATTEMPT TO USE IT AgAINST ME. THEY ALREADY TRYIN' TO DO THAT. I KNOW K-BOOSE PROBABLY MAD AS FUK RIgHT ABOUT NOW, WANTIN' TO KILL WHOEVA FILMED HIM AND KICCIN' HIMSELF IN THE HEAD.
I went to highschool with the main man behind the shit. A lot of the cats they showed in vallejo, I either grew up with or went to school with. Part two of this DVD will be out soon (shit I think its out now) and Aquis took the shit WORLDWIDE this time. You have three downsides to shit like this. The first being you will incriminate yourself and open the doors to be prosecuted. The second is you will open the doors to getting yourself robbed or smothered. The third is this shit glorifies violence (depending on who you ask.) But, I still give props to Aquis for making this shit because he was able to flip his cheese. He saw a market, filled the need and the rest is history.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-02-15/news/feature_9.html
A lot of cats on the net who type a lot of hardcore shit (or type shit in general) can't look right outside their front door because they don't live where the shit goes down and have weenie tendencies (like drinking frap and playing crossword puzzles.) However, you have some people on the net who type hardcore shit (or shit in general) and have the ability to bring the shit TO your front door.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-02-15/news/feature_9.html
A lot of cats on the net who type a lot of hardcore shit (or type shit in general) can't look right outside their front door because they don't live where the shit goes down and have weenie tendencies (like drinking frap and playing crossword puzzles.) However, you have some people on the net who type hardcore shit (or shit in general) and have the ability to bring the shit TO your front door.
This is true. It took me like 2 weeks before I finished watching it.
I've only watched it once, I bought it in like 2004. I think they could of went deeper in it and actually followed a "select" few individuals so it would of been more like a documentary rather than just footage of nothing, it gets boring. There were some deep stories in it though that I respect and thought were cool that they were in there, but the rest of it was sort of the same shit we see everday.
I've only watched it once, I bought it in like 2004. I think they could of went deeper in it and actually followed a "select" few individuals so it would of been more like a documentary rather than just footage of nothing, it gets boring. There were some deep stories in it though that I respect and thought were cool that they were in there, but the rest of it was sort of the same shit we see everday.