Melbourne’s MOST Notorious Suburbs pt 3 South Melbourne - Into The Hood

yeah but these flats are hammered

columia pulls the machete starts to go

hack on this dude accidentally chops

Maxi this goes Pioneer the Melbourne

graffiti how doing lad nice to what are

you doing lad pieing up now it's all

abandoned now so these are all abandoned

eh every single one of them is bordered

kids playing you can see them playing

syringes everywhere look look at that

straight away syringe syringe look how

many there are I'm span I was raised in

a housing area as a Sydney City spent

most of my youth and adult life in

prison and after a total of 13 years I'm

free and I'm out and about flying around

susing out the hoods all over the world

it's

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O A young father has been stabbed to

death outside his girlfriend's South

Yara apartment an 18-year-old trady has

been stabbed to death on a crowd at St

kilder fora a man who police feared had

a gun is in cust following a 10 standoff

in Windsor sniffer dogs and specialist

police have been deployed to crack down

on crime in St kilder and more than

$150,000 worth of drugs have been seized

by detectives determined to clean up S

Kilda streets all right everyone welcome

back into the hood we're back in

Melbourne Melbourne's most notorious

suburbs part three I'm excited for this

one these are the hoods I love inner

city hoods inner city projects we're

going today to South Melbourne South

Melbourne flats and the surrounding

South Melbourne areas which are

notorious areas St Kilda pran Windsor

Melbourne is full of inner city flights

there's many suburbs Flemington

Collingwood Fitzroy out of all of them

they all have a a long notorious history

right but lately the worst inner city

flats are South Melbourne everyone says

bro you got to get to South Melbourne

it's been going crazy last 10 years that

place is chaos so we're going down there

now we're catching a tram it's like two

stops on a tram like 4 minutes we could

probably walk it but I'm saving my

calories for the Tre lad it's Midday

Sunday so we're here on the weekend

there's a rapper from there his name's

little jaay meeting him and a couple of

his boys I think he's going to take us

up into the projects big towers tell us

the Yarns this and that let's go

bro it's full chockers little

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BR all right that was literally like a 3

minute Tri right I think we can still

see where we got on the trm just down

there I think this is the [ __ ] stop

down here ah there's like he brought

like 15 people along lad how you doing

oh yeah good good good good little Jace

out promoting myself that's what I got

to do but from pan full disclaimer not a

South Melbourne boy got some South

melbour boys with me though um but you

know spent a bit of time in South

Melbourne we spent a lot of time your

name to to spent a lot of time growing

up there too man just running them Mar

yeah but South Melbourne from where you

grew up PR same hood they're different

hoods but they're all connected because

there's only a couple of schools that

everybody goes to you don't really beef

like we're pretty much all together

because of the friendships obviously

there are some people that don't like

each other happens in every Hood

supposed to it's not a hood if it's not

like that majority of the time

everyone's connected bro you just know

everybody and the mecca for me it's like

all roads lead to Pand that was always

the mea because of Chapel Street it's a

2 km strip world famous for the CU I

heard of it that's why I'm asking St

fashion they might want to argue like

Fitzy and all that shout out to the fit

boys but it's different like it's all

nightclubs cuz there's two sections to

pan and Chapel there's the night time

and then there's the daytime and they're

two different worlds graffiti is a big

thing in melbour me and my cousin

started one of the biggest crews in

Melbourne TKO have some of Melbourne's

best Riders oh yeah to you're right

it's we that was a big big big thing in

our time and um so we'll definitely be

showing you some walls all Melbourne

graffiti lad I got to show you is you

know the world famous Melbourne graffiti

so this is our line we used to basically

back on trams like the old school ones

you could back on them and we just go

cuz sometimes they're packed and you're

like yeah I'll just jump on the back and

you just keep backing yeah yeah top it's

hard to do that now the way they make

them we're going to go Ragin Street

first one of the first housings that we

were in was uh South was South Melbourne

rag Street do do it's a little flat Rich

history then we'll go down to Park

Street Park Towers still in South

Melbourne Yep they're very close to each

other it's similar to Glee badford like

that we'll go to Dorcas Street flax

which is going to be a good one yeah and

then yeah we'll take then then we'll St

P I've heard South Melbourne flat

have been real bad lately amongst the

worst flat in Milbourne they have it's

pretty cooked you know obviously there

been they've got their stories it's yeah

mad mad so some of the boys here from

South NOA yeah yeah yep some of the boys

here from South no Andre just very uh

the culture is really obviously cafes

coffees long black shout out to Columbia

with the long black he's made to

Columbia by the way my mate he's not

colia and my ghost hunting and that

we're going to get him on the long

blacks you know you got the pockets of

um flat you know so there's three main

Flats we'll go through all of them you

know one of the flats D Street is

abandoned now oh is it yeah it's boarded

up the whole thing yeah really so I'm

going to um get knocked down or

something or yeah bro there's a bit of

dis gentrification that happen in it's

happening bro is that happening

throughout Melbourne or just here

everywhere shattered because in pan they

knocked down like half of it oh that's s

and I was there the other day man and I

just felt I was just sad bro like I

couldn't believe like a part of us has

just been ripped yeah I know ex exactly

how you feel that's that's the feeling

when any Hood gets knocked down I said

that before it's like you don't want to

say it's a bad thing because it's a good

thing if they're in you know like to

society it's a good thing but to us it's

like that's every yarn that I've got

that's right now the stories the stories

are gone and it's just in my head that's

how the whole Sydney is becoming too

whole water L getting knocked down and

it's like after that what do you tell

people there used to be this thing and

it used to be fun

would like imagine that you know lucky

I've got like you lucky yes and lucky

this is one of the things I said when I

do this it documents because I'm telling

you most hoods that we go through say 15

years from now I promise they won't be

there so everyone will be looking back

at into the hood to remember the old

Australia the true Australian culture

underground Sydney City Melbourne City

stuff like let o that's what that's what

I see it as this is going to be part of

History hopefully 20 years you can still

see it and be like that was pan that was

South Bel

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yeah that's the best doging the trolley

Land Air portable surveillance they got

him here too yeah like um Darwin

yeah no no they don't have those in

Sydney do those ones talk to you though

no no no no see the Tails here that's

this is like comparable to when I done

the episode in Sydney um s Hills Water L

red fern this is compar comparative

they're actually both South so that's

South Sydney as well in Sydney red fern

South City and this is South to and it's

a similar setup except there a lot more

shops here a lot better shops too out

ready shops in Red Fern Street Al

disclaim are nowhere near as big like

the that section that section that you

guys have got way bigger way bigger yeah

this is more but separated yeah like a

building here and a building there yeah

yeah one of the boys here old school vet

boy o G from pan he ended up getting

murdered out here oh really it was on

the news he ended up um getting his uh

throat sliced M yeah someone ran out

behind him just here yeah it was along

here somewhere I don't know apparently a

robbery G wrong a young boy dead set

yeah shout out to Ricky it was Ricky is

one of the first guys I met when I was

in pan old school Viet it was sad man

yeah good guys one of the tough guy on

the on the Main Street here you say it

was like 3 3:00 a.m. in the morning

somewhere

far out that was a couple of years ago

out of the areas that we're going what's

the cultural makeup of the people for us

it was every nationality bro oh was it

like we had every Asian you can think of

a lot of WS man we had Turk boys Leo

boys so it's as mixed as you can get I

would say it was I always say like we're

like all nations bro and I think that

that's what made us back in the day so

strong cuz we weren't just one

nationality and then because of the

different Nation but what about now

right make up now it's still a little

bit like that probably less Asians a bit

more African because the they've had

their immigrations and you know they've

been coming also a lot of Africans moved

to these back in the days back in the

days wasn't as many Africans except down

in um North Melbourne Flemington that's

really where they were but now pretty

much Africans everywhere oh that's

interesting it's so diverse I always say

we never saw racism we just saw poor we

were all poor that was the nationality

we were and we we were all just United

as one so spoke the same language no

money all right soone rling straight now

these are the first flights we're coming

up to oh so these are small complexes

very tight Community y this is rling

this is where um me and my C grew up

this his his mom had an apartment here

they still do man we had some good times

here a lot of punch on just with the

local kids how we learn how to do one-on

one these are all hous obviously what

what's the natur of the people that live

here all sorts man all sorts like Jas

was saying before definitely this little

section here we set up like basketball

rings we just be playing one-onone all

day every day um just getting into it

with the local

boys ET running a

mro this section was where we pick it

man oh he's all chilled here in the

middle huh yeah yeah there was like

hundreds of kids back in the day that's

like so everyone used to K it it's

either this square or the next Square

down there

one of the boys here got his um crib

shot up when we were young he was old up

apparently just missed him H one the

brick walls and that was here what not

oh the news came yeah so I don't know

what they did was a ride by walk by

whatever but popped a couple of shots

into his crib rumor was that he was on

the couch and [ __ ] was just flying past

his head hitting the brick

walls see those see the brown bricks

looks like that oh does

it no way

yeah so people live down here as well oh

people live down here yeah like you can

see it looks

ja oh that you mean that's the doors I

thought you meant here I thought you

meant people leave

there people leave here too

yeah so that's some of their doors

they're spe like it's not nice look at

that imagine that's your

door if you go dramas with people that's

the worst door to have

true see look how easy you can get got

here this is like the front side of the

flats I think Main Street middle of the

flats front

entrance look more parts of syringes

y wait where's the other

one this is the one going to put

yeah that's the wood trol it's got a bit

of

blood all right where what are these

Flats Park Street Park Towers Park

Towers this is the full Melbourne

aesthetic that I think of the basketball

court the little park outside and then

the morbit towers Brown and Brown with

light blue windows it's like a hospital

and see look that's where we are in

respect to the city I know in the GoPro

that looks a million miles away but it's

like 5 minutes

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away you saying the the the bars the

framing on the outside stop people

opening it up uh opening the windows and

jumping out people used to do that jump

out of here yeah these are hammed like

straight here this this at each door

even on the other side straight bins and

it stinks look trolley full of

garbage hey yeah that's the

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entrance I just SP

man here yeah there not anymore man why

what was it like then sou M's another T

now oh is it is the real deal here T's a

rich

area still yeah just

ago things Windows

man another did you hear that [ __ ] say

that one more guy come here how did you

answer that phone City MO you K we kill

him who is it a [ __ ] it's Andre

usw it's it's

smos let us in B there's Security in

these Flats too like in watero look

watch and I wonder if they got dramas

like in

City he knows us yeah he knows us all

right we're sweet one of us knows me all

right so we've had like big dramas to

get in the flats and the uh security

down in the thing the same story as

water and there's a lad here behind us

telling us he's going to call the

propers on us still

filming

filming if he films the building he's

committing an offense

yeah's a one of the like an OG pan boy

like like everywhere boy like you know

what I mean everyone knows he let us he

let us in if it wasn't for him we

thank

you with your Flats you get a mad view

you know yeah it's hectic how high are

these 30 stories I've seen yeah yeah and

we're on the 20th or something yeah 14th

14th

yeah construction side

eh something oh

yeah lucky I've gotten used to Heights 6

months ago i' been shooting my self been

like this yeah I can handle it now so

you can see the Formula 1 race track

from here oh can you yeah that's that's

the track

our oh yeah yeah all the

events my little y yeah you know lot of

family communities really good people

may in a li

SP oh look whole apartment's boarded up

here what's that water called Port

Phillip that's Port phip oh yeah thank

you to is down there yeah that way look

at the Windows like prison windows so

this what it looks like when you come

out of the lift like this that's that's

what it is bro rubbish on the floor

hammered floors look like they don't get

cleaned yeah but these flats are

hammered what your food just dumped

rubbish dumped in the in the

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staircases

all we're heading to D straight FL

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yeah dcas centry D straight Flats D

straight Flats South Melbourne um it's

all abandoned now so as you'll see oh

these are all abandoned boarded up we

take through these are mad these are in

a mad spot yeah you'd have been cheering

to have these right right at the step of

doorstep of the city mad shops just

there location these would have been

sick no wonder they boarded them up

selling them off to some developers eh

yep yeah yeah look every single one of

them is

boarded these out of out of the three we

seen here in South Melbourne are the

closest like the brother the city just

there and the M shops are just there

it's like the perfect

position this so you can't climb the

balcony but it's scary dark in there

buto look in here I don't see anything

this is where Maxi is the

boys oh hold on they having

parties parties

y I shot my first official music video

in in here yeah it's called s you

find in

there

this place is just syringed out

like well be careful there's actually

sharp no caps on them wonder why they're

selling them though like maintenance in

them cleaning them up and they're still

very usable there nothing wrong with the

building oh so there's still a Park area

that's getting used in between it all

yeah W look at you see there's kids

playing here a park look so it's not

like the whole complex is it's just

that's still that's still active but

that's hammered look at that yeah that's

still Happ that reminds me of when I was

in

Bulgaria mad massive but all all the low

Rises areand look kids playground here

kids playing you can see them playing

syringes everywhere look just the bang

look look at that straight away syringe

blood in it cap off syringe full of

blood at least that's got the cap on

syringe syringe look how many there are

look blood syringe

syringe kids playing J what drugs are

still getting used around still a lot of

heroin heroin still obviously ice is I

probably competing big time yeah yeah

heroin because was in Sydney heroin just

because of how expensive it is and how

much to have a heroin habit is it is it

yeah yeah it's just nowadays it's it's

it's a lot harder for criminals to make

money got compared to like early 2000s

late '90s so having a having a heroin an

addiction nowadays doesn't sense it's so

hard you know what I mean but ice

because it it lasts for so long it's

cheap like you can be an ice addict for

$150 a day you know what I mean if $150

it's like a coffee $150 of heroin's not

getting you nowhere you're barely making

it to the afternoon oh so this one's

bought it up too

y 50% of this rock garden is cigarette

butts look look oh they syringe boxes

yeah look at least they had

those they're getting used you they

might be getting used there's no

syringes on the floor there these are

all the ones that are getting

decommissioned however you say it but

the one here I still the the high-rise

people still live in

it think

maybe oh really yeah it does actually

obviously refuse to go until they get a

spot so they're just hanging around with

the syringes for the time being

yeah still live here they're still

active not sure what they're going to do

with these ones all right so those ones

were four story ones this one looks like

it's like 15 stories 12 stories or

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something where we going now just uh St

Kilda winds St Kilda Windsor

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let's this is the Formula One track land

yeah I remember one time we we realized

that the helicopters always go over

those walkovers we got up onto the um

top of one and we our tag grab the roofs

cuz we're like man we're going to get

that mad views and they are like next

day covered oh so you'd have been

watching it spewing yeah we were like

we're like oh what like how did they

even know we were up there and this is

just open thorough fair to the public

for the rest of the year and and these

Grand stands they stay here all year or

they back up because the formula one's

about to yeah they pull them down oh

yeah put them back up they they take

about a month to put everything up and

what and what's here when when they when

they're down just grass yeah just grass

fields soccer fields footy Fields lot of

sport that's sick are we on the home

straight here yeah oh yeah you can tell

straight away home straight so when no

one's here it's like guys pumping you

know what I mean do drags and

stuff I lived down here for like 26

years what was that tram stop there

station St station oh yeah and this a

big housing complex through here eh yeah

yeah they low right at the

station yeah so this is sta housing

there's a lot around like small Pockets

yeah but this is where pretty much I

grew up 96 yes everyone always said St

kilder is like U Melbourne's version of

King's cross that's exactly right is

that that's yeah you think of it like

that that is which is like just like a

seedy Night Live junkie sort of if you

don't know what King's cross is it's

currently just recently got burned out I

did it so he had he had a bit of Dramas

and he's off now oh no way you had a

video of

it one story I remember this gu cooked

that and like he was H help help it's

like 2:00 in the morning I'm listening

to this guy like help help help and I'm

like what the so I grab a bat I come out

I walk over I'm like brother you're all

good he's like they're trying to get me

they're trying to get me I'm like who

brother who like cuz Aid

I think he just smoked I think he had

slept for 3 days you know I didn't know

that that's what he was doing you know

cuz he seemed all right and I remember

just going I'm like bro you're all right

but he like held hostage he's like no

they're after me they're after me I

ended up realizing I'm like bro you'll

quick go to sleepo he said his own house

on fire that's

why you get a lot of junkies and stuff

coming through here from Fitzroy street

because no one's here so a lot of

activity happens in the park Fitzroy

street is the main street of sta yeah

all

right hey D what are you doing they're

actually three stories what do you think

made people make that comparative about

St Ked at Kings Cross so on Fitzroy

street is it comparable to Kings Cross

is like strip club no strip clubs clubs

but big red light district red light

district so a lot of prose drugs dealers

n oh no not really a bike is a thing in

Melbourne actually they are now they are

definitely was Sydney first we never

really were so they all started getting

like they came down here way more people

weren't patching up it was was notexist

it's becoming a thing now though 100%

those are the gangs The Gangs now yeah

they said the same thing in Dar one

actually and I'm like bro I didn't think

that and I go n it's just a new thing we

think they all come from Sydney that's

what they said if uh I think I remember

when the laws started coming in like

they I don't know they there was Sydney

laws and bro I'm such a saying your

video you live here yeah I live right

here yeah mad what's it like living here

it's it's all right um it's cleaned up

boys are telling used to be bad it used

to be bad yeah used to especially down

there yeah near the beach there used to

be like seab bars now but it used to be

like this massive club and a lot of

crime happens when a lot of people come

to the beach and like people like I went

down and it was like really popular like

cuz everyone comes down from West Side

they you know they all come down here to

St Beach hang around yeah and then um I

went down there just to walk this my

twin um yeah we went around the corner

and people just like stomping on massive

like fights fights like pepper spray all

the time every summer yeah yeah every

summer and like there's a lot of like

yeah drug use here yeah and we've had

like people break into our house like

crackheads and [ __ ] oh Dead Set yeah

it's like they're trying to um trying

toy s can't get rid of the people can't

get rid of the people the G with it's a

hotel and it um it used to be for

Backpackers and like the block came in

and developers bought it and then just k

out all the people out on Street the

yeah the the show they bought the

developers bought it and then kicked all

the people out on the street and now

they're just on the street like outside

7-Eleven really it was the worst hotel

in like Australia it was really bad yeah

it was really really bad so they they

they come and they come and bought it

without any plan for the people and just

said get on straight now the story was

so if I actually watched the documentary

so there's two ladies they looked after

it they were great women um the Jacks

ended up putting up uh fines they ended