If you listen closely you can notice a genuine sadness and grimm resignation in the tone of voice from that black convict.

@trollgod7565

Жыл бұрын

Your weak

I immediately thought of the movie "Life"

@universalgodproductions

6 жыл бұрын

Martin Lawrence and the pie classic lol

@lizzypooh3536

3 жыл бұрын

Not me... I immediately thought of how many of those black men actually innocent!

@natashagreen8147

3 жыл бұрын

@@lizzypooh3536 same thing. In the movie they were innocent as well

@mitzithompson6585

3 жыл бұрын

Me 2

@peejay9954

Жыл бұрын

@@lizzypooh3536 damn shame 🤦‍♂️

Bars.

I'm getting an panic attack just at the idea of having to live in one of those steel rail cars in the hot sun with 14 other guys all jammed in.

@formidablefriend8228

4 жыл бұрын

Kinda seems like a slave ship, doesn't it?

@fourearwolf3315

4 жыл бұрын

Formidable Foe Yeah, this is super sad but it’s what they deserve!

@gplito

4 жыл бұрын

Ikd, It’s random content! Oh yeah, and at night they wrap the whole car in wet canvas. A little humidity never hurt anyone, right?

@fourearwolf3315

4 жыл бұрын

gplito Right, but really, they do that? Imagine how everything would smell.

@MichaelJ44

3 жыл бұрын

A

Real hip hop it's been here

@Contact_Info

8 жыл бұрын

+john battles I was thing that too

@universalgodproductions

6 жыл бұрын

Krs 1 lol i guess this is the real hip hop

@neverhungryagain2187

2 жыл бұрын

Facts been here

They paid their dues Lord I know that all gotta be in Heaven now.

In the early 30s, a movie called I'm A Fugitive From A Chain Gang starring Paul Muni came out, he portrayed a real person named Robert Burns who endured brutality in the chain gang in Georgia and he wrote about it and the movie was made in it. When the movie came out, it was a huge hit and shine a light on how bad chain gangs was. I think this footage was made to show the "chain gangs" weren't so bad. But the movie helped in bringing an end to chain gangs!

@adlofheltirchiefadvisortot40

7 жыл бұрын

ThatsBlackNostalgia well chain gangs were brought back in 1995...

@n.b.2164

2 жыл бұрын

That was a great movie. I have watched it several times.

@LuckyCharms777

Жыл бұрын

If they’re guilty, I couldn’t care less, but the only problem back then was a lot of prisoners were railroaded on trumped up charges and didn’t get an adequate defense.

@global-awarenessnetwork5315

10 ай бұрын

This footage is not from that movie.

@LuckyCharms777

10 ай бұрын

@@global-awarenessnetwork5315 He didn’t say it was. He’s contrasting the movie to this video.

I bet those inmates were ordered to act happy by the men who were running the chain gang. They would never have dared to express how miserable they really were, because then they would've gotten the business once the cameramen left...

A lot of respect for all of them.!To survive if it was possible like this way.

That dude had a serious rap...

@burymewithmymoney346

3 жыл бұрын

thats irish dancing i believe

@nuffflavor

3 жыл бұрын

@@burymewithmymoney346 Okay, but I was talking about the singing.

@neverhungryagain2187

2 жыл бұрын

@@burymewithmymoney346 what

@LuckyCharms777

Жыл бұрын

@@nuffflavor It’s not his song, it’s a popular song that’s been around since 1915 with people only changing the lyrics a bit.

his song is crazy "i was surely out last friday, met a girl by the name of loddy, we go in a cabfare and sits down, she was beginning to call me honey, i begin to spend my money, i thought she was the smartest girl in town. when i began to (offer?) whisky, loddy, she got frisky, like women full of whiskey generally does, now when i went to pay the man i found loddys hand right in my pocket where my money was, she's in the jail house now, and im in the chain gang now, i told the judge to his face loddys hand was out of place, she's in the jail house now"

@Ronaldo-rt7hl

Жыл бұрын

when i began to order/ordering whiskey is the lyrics you missing 👍🏾

@TheTrashStash

Жыл бұрын

@Ronaldo thank you!

@hakimruffin3058

Жыл бұрын

​@@Ronaldo-rt7hl he was snapping 🔥

@Poodle_Gun

11 ай бұрын

Sigma move at the end Balkan Gains respect

1930's rap music

@universalgodproductions

6 жыл бұрын

coporal4 yep

@Jonathanfootball144

4 жыл бұрын

Shut up clown

@On_Dust

Жыл бұрын

It's called the Blues

@imperialstepper

11 ай бұрын

Definitely

'The irrepressible happiness of the prisoners' ... still extraordinary clips.

@waynepolo6193

8 ай бұрын

The sheer caucasity of that statement...

1st gut is rhyming which is rapping. There's footage older than this of us rapping. JAMAICANS DIDN'T CREATE HIP HOP.

@alanoneill3065

3 ай бұрын

Jamaicans created toasting over records a long time before the US music biz created "hip-hop"

@caramelsantana

3 ай бұрын

Your statement doesn't make any sense. Basically, you're stating toasting pre dates hip hop when rap entered the music industry. Do toasting pre dates hip hop when it was created, not when it entered the music industry. Toasting is not related to hip hop & and doesn't sound like anything to it. Hip hop starts when we created it, not when it entered the music industry, which is another word for the music "business." Why toasting not in the music industry? Toasting is not in the industry cause no one besides Jamaicans knows or likes it. The music industry doesn't dictate when hip hop was created!

@alanoneill3065

3 ай бұрын

@@caramelsantana 1976 kzread.info/dash/bejne/h5inlKyHn9TZpsY.html

@alanoneill3065

3 ай бұрын

1976 kzread.info/dash/bejne/h5inlKyHn9TZpsY.html

@alanoneill3065

3 ай бұрын

@@caramelsantana Hip-hop - they were the first words on the genre's first big hit, the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 song, “Rapper's Delight.” But at the time no one-not even the young kids who had invented the music, the dances, the rhymes, and the visual art of this burgeoning

Tap dance is a healing dance

I'm sorry, but I could not watch this after the opening "the irrepressible happiness of the prisoners"...GTFOH!! When I was a kid, we moved to the south for a while, and I remember seeing chain gangs for the first time - even back then I thought it was inhuman.....and nobody looked happy...

@doubleghod

4 жыл бұрын

hey, didja ever figure that some of them are getting what they deserve?

@celesteburnett3769

4 жыл бұрын

Double Ghod You’re an actual legitimate idiot.

@FlyingNazgul-wm1dv

4 жыл бұрын

@@celesteburnett3769 no you're just a woman You don't know what you're talking about that's why women used to be encouraged to let men handle these matters your best suited as a mother and a few other professions

@aaronstinchcomb1021

4 жыл бұрын

Double Ghod Your comment is just.. stupid and hurtful. You have no clue what you are talking about.

@celesteburnett3769

3 жыл бұрын

Flying Nazgûl Come and be racist/ sexist to my face.

"irrepressible happiness of the prisoners" , Louisiana State Prison I think sounds to be worth a visit.

@anibalcesarnishizk2205

4 жыл бұрын

Haha it sounds Khmer Rouge propaganda.

Closest thing to rap back then

Life expectancy was 10 years..

the Origins Of Hip Hop !

The first singer looks like he is related to Eddie Murphy!

@mitzithompson6585

3 жыл бұрын

He does

I like how they just put the barrel on him and walked off like "our work here is done"

Back in those days those brothas are innocent rip them

What a beautiful song

We started everything

That man was flatfoot dancing. It started in the Appalachian states. Thought to be brought over by Irish settlers. The late patriarch of The Wild Whites Of West Virginia was a coal miner who eventually found fame flatfooting around the country. D Ray White. There is an old documentary on him on YT called "Talking Feet". I suggest you watch his video before you watch the other one (The wild whites...) about his descendants.

As a child in the South, I can remember the chaingangs. And those metal wagons with the striped prisoners crammed in. It always bothered me.

@gilldavidmour4199

Жыл бұрын

@@malaquiasalfaro81 Last March.

Almost 100 years ago smh scary

A young Michael flatley at the end there tap dancing,, he loves his dancing, this fella, probably one of Flatleys relations , ha ha ha ah

Did we just found the first rap ever?

For sure happy nah man music is food for the soul the one guy at the end really looks like my great great grandfather who was part of the Alabama chaingang for moonshine 😂

So hip hop been here 🤔

The tap dancer is pretty good. Reminded me how Hollywood made musicals in the dust bowl days as they didn't have a care in the world.

Nice.

life 1999

@eternalbeing3339

11 ай бұрын

Yep martin lawrence and Eddie murphy at it again.

Okay, what a talented singer-songwriter.

Even prisoners back then seemed more decent than most people you see on tv today. What has happened to society?

@BurtReynoldsWrap

10 жыл бұрын

"irrepressible happiness of the prisoners" C'mon A ctionMS this is obvious early U.S. prison propaganda.

@compactdisk2

10 жыл бұрын

Give me a break. Society has actually improved in many ways. You see a few smiling faces in a video of prisoners, and assume that means that people were more decent in the 30's? That's not rational at all. The chain gang system was brutal and inhumane. That's also a time period with horrible racism... those black prisoners had nowhere near equal rights at the time. This film was made around the time that the chain gang system was beginning to be exposed for the truly evil thing it was, and the purpose was likely propaganda to try and convince people that it wasn't so bad, so they intentionally chose the happiest seeming footage they could. If you look at the actual statistics, crime and violence have steadily *decreased* over time. Just because you see plenty on the news doesn't mean that's all that society consists of. It's increased media coverage, not a worse society. All throughout human history, people have believed that things were getting worse, and that "kids these days" just aren't the same. That's a normal quirk of human psychology, but it has nothing to do with reality.

@WhatYaReading

10 жыл бұрын

you really believe that smh

@Daemonocracy

10 жыл бұрын

compactdisk2 Crime and violence has decreased, but the incarceration rate in the US is the highest in the world. 2/3 of these prisoners re-offend after released. Prison has a reputation for churning out hardened and professional criminals more dangerous than when they went in. I haven't looked into chain gangs of the past and I'm sure there was plenty of abuse, but getting outside and laboring doesn't have to be inhumane. To speak to your main point though, Society is not getting worse, the media is getting more sensationalized. There is always room for improvement however and the incarceration rate is a complex issue.

@WhatYaReading

9 жыл бұрын

***** exactly

First rapper

Sad but cool..

If you go to prison you should be made to work on the chain gang to make you useful for a change. All prisons in the USA should have a chain gang,it should be mandatory .

@jasonwest9113

4 жыл бұрын

Instead of making tax payers pay to keep criminals in prison,the ones that can work should be put on a chain gang and make them work for their rent while in prison.

@celesteburnett3769

4 жыл бұрын

Jason West please explicitly define the “they” you are referring to.

Look how air conditioner used to be. Walls with holes in them.

Sounds like some of the first rap to me excellent

Tapdancin' inmate at the end kinda looks like D. Ray White. Appalachian legend.

What happened to the prisoners who didn't sing and dance for the camera man?

this is interesting footage...

...watch the tap-dancing at-the-end of the video...

Massa...Eye iz soooo happpy !

listen prison back in the day it was a privilege to be on a chain gang they didn't have to rooms and such back in the day 🚓

what work song is he singing at 1:15 thru 1:26, its so short i cant hear the whole part?? can you upload that full part please

@powerliftingandstrongman1065

Жыл бұрын

I think the Song Is called " i don't do nobody nothing" but im not sure

Gold digger remix. Kanye, jamie foxx, & this man all day! SHE TAKES MY MONEY!!! 😭😭😭

How cute is this guy. 1st guy 🙂

My grandfather was in a chain gang in the south but I’m not sure which one , this is interesting 🧐

Shakles on my feet!

I think that was Eddie Murphy in that movie with Martin

Go Paddy!! 2.20

Oh yeah, the irrepressible happiness is just oozing from their pores. I wanna be on a chain gang! Jeepers, some guys get all the luck!

@Phoenix-hf7bw

2 жыл бұрын

What is wrong with you

@gilgamesh7055

Жыл бұрын

@@Phoenix-hf7bw Hes being sarcastic.

The teeth so beautiful

Need this brought back, been nothing but gangs running prisons ever since.

@anyaw340

10 ай бұрын

There would STILL be prison gangs. Prison gangs exist because the gangs exist on the outside. The only way to prevent the formation of prison gangs would be to put everyone in solitary confinement, which is obviously not going to happen.

What’s that song right here? I need that. 1:19

anyone seen the movie "i am a fugitive from a chain gang" starring paul muni?

@jackiron4785

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and it upset me.

Begs the question,........"Dance or else what?"...

I’d refused 😅to work everyday been running away every chance I got😂

Wow!!1

Tapping in chains 0.0

she's in the jail house nooooowww

I wonder what they have done

Kinda reminds me of the opening scene of The Green Mile.

looking for your site- no luck

Free labor. smdh

This is were rap started

I wonder what the barrel thing was all about looks like a punishment of some kind.

@seanhayes6097

9 жыл бұрын

In the UK a barrel was used to shame 'drunks' It was called a Drunkard's Cloak, what amounts to a pillory. marybarrettdyer.blogspot.co.uk/2012_04_01_archive.html I believe in some prisons in USA, the inmates were made to stand up for hours, holding the barrel as punishment (generally for petty offenses) Other common punishments may have been nightstick beating or 'the birch', food starvation etc. (Just to note, birching was still being used in British jails until late 60's & was still legal in The Isle Of Man until the early 80's .Most commonly it was used on 'unruly' young men & was meted out at the local police station by the stationed officer.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunkard%27s_cloak One author also recorded its existence in 1784 in Denmark, where it was called the "Spanish Mantle". Further afield, instances of the Drunkard's Cloak use are found in the US; a paper described in 1862 how a "wretched delinquent was gratuitously framed in oak, his head being thrust through a hole cut in one end of a barrel, the other end of which had been removed, and the poor fellow loafed about in the most disconsolate manner, looking for all the world like a half-hatched chicken."[9]

@pogolswood

9 жыл бұрын

I am old enough to know some, although not all Hahaha, that were birched. It is meant to be bloody painful and it must have had a certain deterent value, because I know of no one who was birched twice, although whether it made them more lawful or just more careful I can't really say.

@msjanegrey

9 жыл бұрын

Sean Hayes how horrible!!!! :(

The white dude was doing the leg irons shuffle

As oppressed traumatized and abused as he was bruh was freestyling about a women I love my people put us in the worse conditions and we still survive every generation

We’re they the original rappers

WHERES LUKE

trying to find a trailer for life with Martin Lawrence. My bad

Hip hop

Irreplaceable Happiness of the prisoners?!!

holy shit !!!..it's Eddie Murphy's Dad.😲 African American culture was so underrated ...not anymore , this guy is fantastic.

@tjl8884

8 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Mullen Looks like charlie murphy time traveler lol

Irish dancing chain gang style

Cryde barrow ainda está vivo.

Bobby Brown

02:15 right, shit, fuck, gotta lock 'em up, prisoners, muhjob. fuck.

2020 protest is what this sounds like

Black men always shuckin and jivein

@eternalbeing3339

11 ай бұрын

Lol

0:55-1:19

Looks like Eddie Murphey

@projectshaun1453

5 жыл бұрын

Yup.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🏿⛽🎧

I wonder what Murican pop scene would be like if there had never been any blacks in Murican.

Where's cool hand Luke

Icantfeelmyface915

That's what they should do with all the thugs now!

is this a movie or real?

@atthismoment3006

7 жыл бұрын

this has got to be a movie-

@Chxn10

4 жыл бұрын

Real

Back when we made prisoners work!

So who helped FBA create hip hop again?

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

1k like

Rapists wore barrels.

Hold it! Hold it! That's no way to kill roaches at 2:23!!

Look at how much American Society has declined. Compare this interview with current prisoner interviews GEEZ

@Lewbert

10 жыл бұрын

only because back then they often locked these guys up for very little as a way of maintaining slave labour after it's banning. today the only people in prison are real criminals, not just subjects of discrimination. GEEZ

@johnwolf4447

10 жыл бұрын

That has not changed much

@compactdisk2

10 жыл бұрын

So you're saying that a time before civil rights, before these black prisoners even had the right to vote was actually better? Have you even looked at the overall crime statistics? Violent crime was *way* higher back then. Just because people's mannerisms seem to fit with something you find more "decent" does not mean it was a better time. There's even writing from the ancient Greek era where old people lament the fact that society has lost its decency and kids no longer respect their elders... it seems pretty obvious that this is just something that ignorant people tend to assume as they grow old. People who assume that changes in fashion, music, and slang mean some sort of moral decline are not exactly demonstrating intelligent reasoning. Now, don't you have some kids to shoo off your lawn?

@johnwolf4447

9 жыл бұрын

re you saying the right to vote tames violence? Have you looked at FBI violent crime stats lately? Violent crime was not higher in the 1920's dummy. Of course your not old enough to remember segregation and how safe the inner cities were.

@johnwolf4447

9 жыл бұрын

BTW, why are you making this a race issue?