WE MADE IT NYC

For this episode of Field Trip, we met up with Mike Dean (who has worked with everyone from Jay Z to Geto Boys to UGK) in suite #207 at the Mercer Hotel in Soho, NYC. This suite is where, according to Dean, about "80% of Watch The Throne was made."

For Episode 2 of FIELD TRIP, Harlem young gunner DAVE EAST visits the basketball court where he honed his basketball skills. For those that don't know, East played AAU and college ball with some of the best ballers in the world, including Kevin Durant. 
Eventually his hoop dreams were deferred but that gave birth to the present day monster you hear rapping on his acclaimed project, HATE ME NOW.  Watch the video and learn why he transitioned from the court to the booth.

Stepping out of our comfort zones we ventured across the Hudson to see a few of the Dirty Jersey homies, mainly Da$H, in their natural habitat. Da$H had some interesting things to elaborate on regarding his initial forays into rapping.  Images by @andylezzo

The survivors tell their tale of the city that they helped shape and of course simultaneously shaped them. Lower East Side native SLugger, recounts his hustling days on now trendy blocks like Rivington Street and Forsyth Park and the toll it took on him, his family and his community.

New episodes of Free Lunch coming sooner than you think. Tune in next month for what maybe the episode in which we take your favorite musician, artist, actor or athlete to their high school. 

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WeMadeItNYC presents FREE LUNCH, a series in which we take noteworthy New Yorkers to their alma maters. Join us as we take a trip through the halls of Martin Luther King Jr. High School with Harlem's own A$AP 12vyy.

We get back into the scholastic swing with Buckshot, a pioneer of the grimey Brooklyn sound that dominated the Hip Hop landscape in the 1990s. Host J. Pablo takes Buck to his alma mater, Prosepct Heights High School for a thorough examnation of why he made the decision to leave school at a relatively early age and how the streets surrounding his high school and neighborhood influenced him.

City-As High School is a special kind of school, which is fitting since in this episode of FREE LUNCH, the OG Dallas Penn has a particularly special story to tell.

Watch to learn what made City-As so unique. If you're a New Yorker you probably are already hip but if you're not...

Tune in next week for another educational but entertaining look at some of Gotham's most violent moments. 

One of the most well-remembered shoot outs in NYC histroy, Larry Davis shot his way out of his Bronx apartment when some dirty cops came to "question" him. He escaped and went on the run for weeks before turning himself in. Davis was later cleared of attempted murder charges, as his attorney was able to prove the cops were there to kill him.

With corruption running rampant throughout the entire city's police precinct, Frank Serpico was a rarity—an officer who refused to take pay offs. What's more is he didn't look the other way as some "good cops"  would do as their dirtier counterparts broke the law with impunity. 

Of course when his fellow officers got wind that Serpico wasn't willing to go along with the program they tried to have him silenced. This is the reenactment of the the attempt on his life.

You have to beware of slip ups as a drug dealer. The cops and stick up kids are never too far away, lurking for a collar or a come up. Sometimes though, hustlers are their own worst enemies.

In the tradition of Drugs, Inc., Diego AKA The White Arthur Ashe (because he has the whole US open off his drugs) takes us through the ups and especially the downs of the drug game. It would be kinda sad if it wasn't so funny. 

We revisit with Diego AKA The White Arthur Ashe (because he has the whole US Open of his drugs) as he posts up on his strip to sell some controlled substances to an equally clumsy customer. Hilarity ensues.

DIego "The White Arthur Ashe" takes it to the club to  turn up but instead of the club going up things went downhill rapidly.

DIego is back with some jewels about increasing profit margins and such but his mother steals the show with her offscreen antics.

With the fabric that once made up NYC rapidly becmoing threadbare, we've taken it upon ourselves to document the remainig "OGs' that loved NYC even when it was far from safe. Their stories sre the stories that inpsired thousands, if not millions, to come to NYC. 

Though she didn't grow up in NYC she did move here in 1960 when it was a completely different town.  As a result she was still here for the wild years and has quite a few stories that reflect that bygone era.

While chopping bodies some gems fall to the wayside. Here are a few that wound up on the cutting room floor. 

From the demented mind of Mikey Fresh comes Dusty Clips. When chopping bodies, a lot of gems fall by the wayside. Here are the best ones straight off the cutting room floor.

Straight off the cutting room floor comes Dusty Clips. Mikey Fresh spliced some vintage Dame Dash with present day Dame and guess what? They're one and the same. 

Sooner than ya think...

NORE's had lots of success with his Drink Camps podcast because he's such agregarious dude. Ultimately though it's his personal anecdotes that make him so good at talking his shit.

As lifelong New Yorkers it's almost a given that we'll have the more than occasional run in with the boys. Especially if you "fit the description" like so many of our viewers do. Nore is no different.

Taking a unique spin on visiting historic locations around New York City, Field Trips brings the audience to places that would otherwise go overlooked.  On this first excursion we shadow Tragedy Khadafi aka Intelligent Hoodlum, as he shows off the rich, multilayered legacy of Queensbridge Park and all its contributions to Hip Hop. Tragedy zeros in on the exact building where Marley Marl set up his turntables and rocked out for throngs of people at the famous park jams, inspiring a legion of Queensbridge youth to go for theirs on the mic. 

Your Old Droog plays The Ave like a true Brooklynite with the @wemadeitnyc crew in tow.  Posted outside the building where he took GED courses (and smoked a blunt or two) he recalls his first battle, doing his research and how his friend A$AP Yams showed him the blueprint to getting on.  

Your Old Droog returns with some more details about his high school years. Standing outside of the building where he once attended his GED courses, as well as outside the buildling complex where he and his cohorts steamed trees, he recounts the days of "blicky's in the bushes" and the influence Dip Set had on Brooklyn dudes.

Downtown living legend, graffiti writer and racking expert EARSNOT takes viewers on a stroll through the downtown locales where he loitered as a teenaged graffiti writing, shoplifting runaway.

Earsnot stops by the corner where he and SACER would plot out the night's activities before he wraps the segment up on Stanton Street. 

Just a quick ode to the lady in my life…

On his break through record "Halftime" Nas shouted out Jose "Kiko" Garcia, who was killed by an officer from the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights. Some people never got the reference so here's a breakdown.