1992 Film Of New Orleans Culture- Iberville Projects: People Having Fun Outdoors On Mardi Gras Day

Gank D,  June 28,2017

Mardi Gras day 1992 in the Iberville projects. Throw back footage on how it use to be in New Orleans. Having fun w/ family & friends. A couple surprising performances by Ganksta D. Shout out Downtown 4th ward I.V.P....New Orleans been twerkin' ya herd me! -snip- YouTube statistics as of September 22, 2023 at 11:32 AM EDT total # of views - 40,828 total # of comments - 250 **** Edited by Azizi Powell This pancocojams post showcases a 1992 film of people having fun outdoors during Mardi Gras at New Orleans' Iberville projects (also given as IVP" or "the ville" in these comments. Selected comments from this video's discussion thread are also included in this post. The content of this post is presented for historical and socio-cultural purposes. (Read Pancoocjams Editor's Notes below.) All copyrights remain with their owners. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to Gank D, the publisher of this video on YouTube. -snip- Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2023/09/dj-jubilee-jubilee-all-new-orleans.html for a closely related pancocojams post entitled "DJ Jubilee - "Jubilee All" (New Orleans Bounce Music & Some 1990s Dances Including "The Beenie Weenie" & "Twerk".
**** PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTES As a self-descripted community folklorist, I believe that some YouTube comments are just as worthy of being collected, studied, and shared as some songs, rhymes, and chants because those comments (like those musical compositions) represent a particular culture for particular people in particular times and places. As is the case with other "Selected Comments" sections of pancocojams posts, I'm interested in what is written and how it is written (i.e. the use of African American Vernacular English, internet abbreviations, and emojis etc.) I've included selected comments in this pancocojams post to help raise awareness of this 1992 film that documents aspects of what life was like in New Orleans' Iberville project That low income, government partially subsidized housing project, and some other New Orleans projects, were destroyed by the category 3 Hurricane Katrina which made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Those projects were torn down after Katrina and the residents of Iberville Project, and other projects were relocated to some other low income New Orleans neighborhoods or to various other cities in the United States. Once new housing was built, the rent for that housing is far too high for the former residents of those low income residents . This makes this film and the comments about it even more historically and culturally important. ****SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREADhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvrfLQhQvBA These comments are given in chronological order with the oldest comments given first, except for replies. Only a bare minimum of explanatory notes are given after these comments. 2018

1. @jeaninevictor6467 "Gank D do you know how valuable this video is, especially since they took the Iberville from us...." ** Reply 2. @gankd2154 "Hey Jeanine, of course I know it's value. That's why I put it on you tube so we can enjoy the good old memories

together of the Iberville projects. No gun shots, no fights.

Just having fun."

** 3. @bangieb8404 "N.O IBERVILLE VILLAIN BASIN COURT." ** Reply 4. @gankd2154 "Whatcha know bout dat?" ** 5. @moneyyy504 "damn this is crazy my momma from the Ville . ima show her this she probably know everybody in this video"

** Reply 6. @gankd2154 "New Warleans_shotta she probably do bc the ville was small, fun, everybody was Fam & we showed luv." ** Reply 7. @neshanola, 2019 "SAME !!! My daddy & uncles from the ville too!"

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8. @gankd2154 "1992 Mardi gras a D.J. & a video camera Kidz Kuttin' Up"

** 9. @caponetone5685 "Old New Orleans fun times back in the G! Much Love to dat

4th ward IVP💯💯" ** Reply 10. @PerryD504 "Man thanks for posting. This brings back so many good memories. This is the New Orleans I knew and loved."

** Reply 11. @gankd2154,2020 "@pdickens You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed that was the good ole days."

** 12. @user-ub8uc8gq7r "No place like home. From downtown to uptown to west bank

it’s all love ya Hurd meeee #9thWard" ** 13. @beeftalknews "THE FACT THAT LITTLE KIDS DANCING LIKE THAT EVEN THE BOYS IS TOTALLY FINE BLOWS MY MIND,!!"

** Reply 14. @enyattalandreaux2286, 2022 "It's crazy seeing this because alot of ppl lost old videos sense Katrina. I was born in 1992 at Charity, but this is New Orleans living baby. DJ in the hood everybody chilling outside and stuff. We been twerking BEFORE it became MAINSTREAM BAABYY!  But Katrina diluted it a little bit, New Orleans just not the same. ** Reply 15. @JELew-yk3bm, 2022 "It's like Katrina took the whole new Orleans swag away...y'all had y'all own unique style and language now the new generation be talking like new yorkers" ** Reply 16. @enyattalandreaux2286,2022 "@JELew-yk3bm  oh foreal?? Wow 🤣

but nawl we definitely still have our own identity and uniqueness for sure. The city is not the same the culture still remains" ** Reply 17. @enyattalandreaux2286, 2022 "Our accent is similar to the Boston/New York accents thou" ** Reply 18. @JELew-yk3bm,2022 "@enyattalandreaux2286  lol noo y'all sound Jamaican Country but it's mad dope

** 19. @md3dasnipa854 "This feed my soul, I'm from the Northshore across the Lakefrom DA CITY. And I remember the 90's looking and sounding like this. Peace to all the memories!!"

** 20. @caponetone5685 "Old New Orleans fun times back in the G! Much Love to dat 4th ward IVP💯💯" ** Reply 21. @gankd2154 "@Capone Tone Growing up in the projects the most fun I've ever had. Much Love Fam 💯 💯" ** 22. @941lowelife2 "Notice nobody looking at cell phone all love and family back then i think phones messed sh-t* up foreal bc people do sh-t* for da hell of it now -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this comment. **

23. @enyattalandreaux2286 "It's crazy seeing this because alot of ppl lost old videos sense Katrina. I was born in 1992 at Charity, but this is New Orleans living baby. DJ in the hood everybody chilling outside and stuff. We been twerking BEFORE it became MAINSTREAM BAABYY!  But Katrina diluted it a little bit, New Orleans just not the same.

** Reply 24. @JELew-yk3bm "It's like Katrina took the whole new Orleans swag away...y'all had y'all own unique style and language now the new generation betalking like new yorkers

** Reply 25. @enyattalandreaux2286, 2022 "@JELew-yk3bm  oh foreal?? Wow 🤣

but nawl we definitely still have our own identity and uniqueness for sure. The city is not the same the culture still remains" ** Reply 26. @enyattalandreaux2286, 2022 "Our accent is similar to the Boston/New York accents thou" ** Reply 27. @JELew-yk3bm,2022 "@enyattalandreaux2286  lol noo y'all sound Jamaican Country but it's mad dope" ** Reply 28. @enyattalandreaux2286, 2022 "@JELew-yk3bm  I have heard Ppl say we sound like the West Indies and the east coast. Depends on what part of the city someone is from."

** 29. @isialfred6278 "Saw some of my ville potnas i went to the mac with, Danny Boy, Ladell, and Wolf.. 7th ward SBP on mine but much love to the ville"

** 30. @TheeLifeofQueux "My hood❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️"

** 31. @hakeemabdullah3763 "Uptown New Orleans 3rd ward erato st. Much love fa da Ville

doe ya"

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32. @NOLA_playmaker "Kids dancing like that though...still amazes me.."

** 33. @toasteeBytch "I was 4 years old.... since this is Mardi Gras day, I was definitely on Orleans & Claiborne by my auntie Doretha house in the Lafitte....This video shows the real New Orleans...DJz & Blockparties used to be lit! All we got left is Secondline Sunday!"

** 34. @GSMOBMUSIC "They still play them songs til this day at parties" ** Reply 35. @dimviesel,2022 "I never knew Bounce went back that far, amazing!"

** Reply 36. @terrellmackvideos, 2022 "@dimviesel   it originated I the late 80s"

** 37. @moniquegorman "Been twerking.. The boyz was moving more than the girls..mannnn I miss these days.."

** Reply 38. @SILKTEEN46 "Yes  Monique.  People think this dance is new.  We called it p popping" ** Reply 39. @moniquegorman "O yes I know.. I went to Thomy Lafon elementary right in the heart of the magnolia.. I remember we use to sing this lil song,it started off something like "check out the rhymes that I wrote.." and at the end we would start popping.. Lol.."

** 40. @djbornpeaceallah7544 "Gank D.... Do you know if that is DJ Jubilee djing?"

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41. @gankd2154
"No, that's 9th Ward DJ.'s. My brother people."
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42. @djbornpeaceallah7544
"@gankd2154  Fa Sho God. So you was dropping singles back then on Wax right? You dropped your first album in 96' right? I used to DJ at Southern University in Baton Rouge when I was going to school there early 2000's I remember a brother there that had your cassette I believe. The one you dropped in 96'. Much love to ya Brother you one of the Pioneers for the South."
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43. @djbornpeaceallah7544
"@gankd2154  Question? Back then in the early 90's how did you feel about Rakim, KRS One, Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, Lakim Shabazz, Brand Nubian, Poor Righteous Teachers.....?"
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44. @gankd2154
"@djbornpeaceallah7544  I appreciate it brother you got it all right. I actually dropped 2 singles in 91. Tricksman & Black Genocide. Thanks again & much love brother."
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45. @gankd2154
"@djbornpeaceallah7544  I always listen to Erica B & Rakim. KRS 1 & Big Daddy Kane was straight. Public Enemy always had something powerful to say. All of them did their thing bro."
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46. @djbornpeaceallah7544
"@gankd2154  Yeah 91' that is real early in New Orleans HIp Hop. Much Respect Brother. I looked up to yall when I was young. The late 80's Early 90's high school/College Generation... Yall was so fly and kool to me... I still rock a Hi Top Fade til this day.... trying to be like yall lol... Yo Parents was real kool to support You... Being that Im a record collector... Im a be on the look out for those singles you dropped in 91' on vinyl....     Do you know how many copies were pressed?..... Did Peaches Records sell them? I see someone is selling your cassette on Discogs..."

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47. @djbornpeaceallah7544
"@gankd2154  Yeah I miss when New York was the leaders cause back then everyone was trying to duplicate them. Which wasn't a bad thing in my book. Even though in the South for US and in the West it was more Gangsta Rap (Nothing wrong with it. We was just speaking what was going on in the Neighborhoods). I just have to give respect to Rakim, KRS One and Big Daddy Kane... being how Young they was at the time and how Mature they was.... I wish in New Orleans that it was just more Brothers in the 50's- 60's-70's teaching that knowlege of self like they was doing in New York... cause that would have changed the mines of many young Black Youth.... not that is wasn't consciousness going on in New Orleans back then and further on... I just wish the percentage was higher...

My family from the 7th Ward and I have a lot of family in Baton Rouge... I have a older Auntie used to live Uptown Calliope went to Booker T. but this was back in the day...the50's- 60's.. back then She said everything was more peaceful back then... She would tell me... She told Me the reason the Whites convinced the Blacks to move to the Projects was to save money to actually buy a House but She said it was a set up cause a lot of People never moved out..and it made our People rely on the Government taking care of them rather than being more independent....makes since being that at one time New Orleans was the most Prominent place for Blacks financially. As far as the Projects though Mathematically If you have that many People living so close together You gone have problems.... The same thing happened in other cities.... Anyway Peace To You and Your Family"
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48. @gankd2154

"@djbornpeaceallah7544  Thanks brother I appreciate your thoughts & comments. Yea in the early 90's our culture was inspiring. My mom bought me my first drum machine a 707 that's when I started making  beats for my lyrics. Created an album Released Black Genocide & Tricksman as singles in 1991. I think I started writing raps in 1984. I had no instrumentals so I use to play LL Cool J songs tune his voice out & rap my lyrics over his music from beginning to end one take without messing up. Around 1987 I told my mama I wanna a drum machine me & my friend use to look at them in werlein's music store so she bought me one & I started doing tracks. 

Since you're a record collector you can check but I don't think you will find it on wax or cassette. I had them in all the local record stores in New Orleans but we're talking about almost 20 years ago. I had plenty of copies on wax & cassette but when Katrina hit in 2005 I lost them but luckily before I left I took one copy each w/ me & I still have them today. Thanks, but no I didn't know someone is selling on Discogs I will investigate thanks.

As far as New York rappers I remember the first time I heard lodi dodi & The Show by Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick me & my friends we lost our minds. I was 17 years old & it blowed us away. But the 1st N.Y. song I heard was either Sugar Hill Gang  Rappers Delight Grand Master Flash & the Furious 5 The Message or Kurtis Blow Basketball. But Run D.M.C & LL was my 2 Favorite then Eric B & Rakim. The South wasn't Gangsta til Ghetto Boys dropped. UGK, 8-Ball & MJG & Luke 2 Live Crew wasn't Gangsta. Now the WestCoast came out Gangsta Ice T  NWA even 2 short had a lil Gangsta pimpin" New Orleans is so small compare to N.Y.C. the deep south compare to the East Coast w/ big buildings plenty lights & plenty success N. O. had no dreams or no role models it was get it how you live & we live wild.

I wasn't born yet in the 50's & 60's but even in the 70's it was real racist in the South I know it was racist in the East too but some wasn't offered the same opportunity. Black Genocide the song came from my OG who help show me the rap game independently as a writer & a publisher. He use to be affiliated w/ the Black Panthers a very positive dude from the St Bernard Projects a very positive dude we had some good brothers just not enough. once they drop crack in our neighborhoods the late 80's early 90's people was either sellers or users & a lot of people got jailed or killed. I was born & raised in the Iberville projects at 18 my parents actually bought a house in N.O, East & moved us out the projects. I know what you mean bc a lot of my friends was stuck there & now their kids live there generations handed down but we made it OUT Thank GOD...Peace to you & yours my Brother
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49. @hendrixdowns404 "Look at all those fila shoes with the straps!!" ** 50. @josephgreen1557 "Dudes in them days didn't wanna be on camera"

** 51. @heartedlytinmanadonis8857 "This the same project I believe I heard Krazy that was with No Limit in the day yelling out on records. If I'm wrong my bad." ** Reply 52. @gankd2154 "Yea it is, shout out to my lil homie Krazy."

**** 2021 53. @lynndadon3547 "I sooo love the ville"

** 54. @user-ub8uc8gq7r "No place like home. From downtown to uptown to west bank

it’s all love ya Hurd meeee #9thWard" ** Reply 55. @gankd2154 "4sho"

** 56. @upt_naldo703 "Now they’re out here killing people like what happened to this" ** Reply 57. MrKobe33824 "They was killing more back then check the numbers" ** Reply 58. @tehpanuychikon168, 2022 "@MrKobe33824  So this project was very dangerous too?" ** Reply 59. @MrKobe33824, 2022 "All of them were" ** 60. @dernaljones1125 "I was out there running around with my lil potna Paul and his lil brother Adrian, Brisco, and Claiborne dizzy'ass 😄"

** 61. @beeftalknews "THE FACT THAT LITTLE KIDS DANCING LIKE THAT EVEN THE BOYS IS TOTALLY FINE BLOWS MY MIND,!! ** Reply 62. @gankd2154 "Young & old boys or girls we all had fun back then."

** Reply 63. @gpettus1057, 2022 "It was like that back in Alabama, GA and Florida too.. back then it was cute and funny to see kids, basically it was cultural. But nowadays people’s minds are messed up and everything is sexualized, 95% of people back in the 90’s weren’t looking at kids in that manner." ** 64. @marquiesosborne2869 "That’s how the 90 was ever body used to be outside 💯💯💯💯" ** 65. @R.O.T.C._SEEM "Don't nobody even come outside anymore 😔.

I was born in 92 and remember growing up in the 90s and we had a gang of kids running the streets" ** Reply 66. @redlawton8896 "Also in the 00s" ** Reply 67. @JELew-yk3bm, 2022 "Foreal! Don't even see kids out playing. After like 03 it all died"

** Reply 68. @HiPHOPx87, 2022 " @JELew-yk3bm  video games 🎮  too" ** 69. @scuwopguwop_0715 "So Nobody Saying Nothing About Them Damn Kids Dancing

Especially That Lil Boy" ** Reply 70. @babygirl1444, 2022 "I’m glad somebody said it. I was a kid then and if my mom

would’ve caught me dancing like that she would’ve kicked my back in!" ** Reply 71. @in_da_shade_wit_guccipaid510, 2023 "I use to eat them up on the dance floor I was 2 in 92 but by 97 I was that lil boy lol 😂😂😂😂

Louisiana" ** Reply 72. @in_da_shade_wit_guccipaid510, 2023 "The boys was eating doe lol 😂😂😂 I’m from north Louisiana and me and my boy cousins use to eat to lol my daddy and grandpa use to gas me up to twerk back I. In the 90s I was 2 when this videocame out so by 2002 I couldn’t be touched in twerking 😂" ** 73. @captrodgers4273 "twerkin before it was twerkin" ** Reply 74. @gankd2154 "Yes sirrr" ** 75. @bblunt14 "I was 8 years old running round being bad as hell"

** Reply 76. @cedyced410 "Not to come across rude or anything but I’m curious. I love the New Orleans culture, it’s just something different about you all but I have a question about the kids. Seeing these lil kids twerking and shaking their a.., was that the norm? I’m from Maryland and kids would be sent to the hospital if an adult saw them dancing that way. I’m not against it, I just find it interesting lol" ** Reply 77. @annawinters4346, 2022 "I don't understand the dancing either, but different cultures fascinate me." ** Reply 78. @annawinters4346, 2022 "It's booty poppin and twerking. I found both on the Internet" ** Reply 79. @TeamDynamiteTV, 2023 "@cedyced410 yeah it was the norm. It's not to say everyone did (I didn't) but it was very normal to see all ages and both genders p-popping. As kids we didn't even know what the "p" stood for lol. Looking back it's definitely weird though when u not in it." ** 80. @jimscott1338 "The third war is in the houis. i won't bow down even if they have a hole in the ground. That was some of the good old days The big easy. New Orleans. I grew up in cabbage alley good old days. 🤫"

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81. @eteaminc3463 "The rapper Gangster B is dope" ** Reply 82. @gankd2154 "Thanks bro. It's Gangsta D aka Gank D"

** 83. @lovelyupt1026 "Damn look at home😌"

** Reply 84. @gankd2154 "504 N.O." ** Reply 85. @lovelyupt1026 "@gankd2154  STP Baby 10wd" ** 86. @trapgoth6510 "everybody was way more fly back den and was outside as a whole" ** Reply 87. @gankd2154 "yea. no violence, no fighting, no shooting, no killing. Just everybody having fun."

** 88. @Honeymellan "My mom was born and raised in New Orleans lower 9th ward.. I remember visiting new orleans every Mardi Gras in the 90s .. I would have been 10yrso in 92 but  loved this city   ,great music, great food a beautiful culture

❤️"

** 89. @ROUGAROU83 "I ain’t even from DA NO

But it makes me wanna cry

I don’t know if it’s cause of Katrina

Or wat but dam video is good

Buts it’s also da New Orleans I grew up hearin/seein far as

PJs bricks & such

Now New Orleans don’t really feel like New Orleans I knew

from growin up" ** 90. @8213apice "When kids use to play outside"

** 91. @themaverick8565 "I feel for them babies man… grown men out there watching them dance like that" ** Reply 92. @thelastdon6562, 2023 "😂😂😂😂😂"

** 93. @lataniatate4215 "I'm from the NOLA  and my momma didn't play dancing like that at that age."

** 94. @dimviesel "This is a trip🫣

I thought twerking started in Miami…

Great classic footage🤙🏾" ** Reply 95. @gankd2154 "No bro don't let them fool Ya a lot of people think that,

but New Orleans started twerking first. DJ Jubilee & Cheeky Blakk created the word "TWERK" it wasn't even in the dictionary. Thank you" ** Reply 96. @freedomisthechoicesyoumake8594 "@gankd2154  Africa started twerking/bouncing first, that's where it originated from" ** Reply 97. @gankd2154 "@freedomisthechoicesyoumake8594  yea I Know 🤣" ** Reply 98. @ga4l487 ""twerking" has always been a Southern thing. So it was everywhere, we just didn't have social media to connect us." ** Reply 99. @macka1815, 2023 "In New Orleans it was called p poppin" ** Reply 100. @in_da_shade_wit_guccipaid510, 2023 "Yes it’s called poppin in Louisiana north Shreveport 318 ratchet city" ** 101.@terranceof2007 "Dope Video kinda reminds me of the projects my mom grew up in and we visited when we were younger for cookouts in the summer they look almost identical to the ones in South Philly"

** 102. @nomibe2911 "You can see how Jubilee got all the dances from the hood" -snip- "Jubilee" = DJ Jubilee, a New Orleans DJ who is mentioned in a few other comments in this discussion thread. I plan to publish a pancocojams post about DJ Jubilee and will add the link here. ** Reply 103. @gankd2154 "Yep"

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104. @jamesjefferson6733 "Who was dude rappin round the 49:00 min mark?" ** Reply 105. @gankd2154 "That's me Gank D bro." ** Reply 106. @jamesjefferson6733 "@gankd2154  you got the music on YouTube?" ** Reply 107. @gankd2154 "@jamesjefferson6733  No, not yet."

** 108. @TeamDynamiteTV "Born in '86 uptown 13th...man these images and songs bring back so many memories. An era that will never come back. Thought this sh-t* would last forever. As an adult i can definitely say we was wilding with the children twerking, even on top of each other. When you in it you dont even realize it though." -snip- *This word is fully spelled out in this comment.

** 109. @Joemoe "This video is pure gold. NO projects remind me of the Baltimore projects. They both was old as hell. Type French style. 😊" ** 110. @Honeymellan "My mom was born and raised in New Orleans lower 9th ward.. I remember visiting new orleans every Mardi Gras in the 90s .. I would have been 10yrso in 92 but  loved this city   ,great music, great food a beautiful culture

❤️"

** 111.@dblockvillin "I don’t care what nobody says New Orleans was the first twerking they started that" ** Reply 112.@gankd2154 "Tru Dat💯"

** 113. @keithmitchelljr8307 "Sad to see these kids dancing like this"

** 114. @macka1815 "Those little kids are doing too much 😞"

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