Shutting Down the Streets of LA: Sideshow Takeovers

this is taking over, there's nothing like l.a sees what's going on with us and just like oakland they have donut

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from time to time, we have it every sunday, we really love it, we live it, there's nothing that the police can do. I love it so much it's unstoppable we feel unstoppable you should be going through some things once you hear the donut you forgot everything and you come home to reality you're like a man I didn't even want to go home it's like a drug from the club, the rest are not even here, they go out to eat with their friends and do what is normal and this is doing something, yes, to learn, so out there you will receive the respect that you always have.

This is real. A driving car club. Well now it's not underground anymore because every state is doing this, it's just going viral in Japan, we have people out there or whatever who see us and feel like they can relate to us because they see a little bit of us and a little bit of them. themselves. and we're going to inspire them and you see it look throwing your teeth everyone sees everything and they're still looking at the good side of what we're doing and all we kill no one we do any of this all we do is just having fun so oh hmm It's a never-ending story, bro, this is for life, it's in your heart, it's just a never-ending story, bro, it's nice, like, we blew out the tire, but just like that, we're about to hit another tire. shot, get more tires, keep it up, this is my local tire store that you know, sponsors me with tires and helps me with good prices, so there you go, you know, changing the tires on my car so we can get out on Sunday.

Bottom line, they're having fun, you know, just have a good day, you know, it feels good, it's pretty hot, but we're going to do our best and we're just going to burn tires and, like I said, you know it kills tires, not friends, so do you work? with these guys a lot, yeah, well, I help them on the weekends, especially on Sundays, when they go through these long tires. Sometimes I have to change my mind. Like 910 tires. Sometimes they call me after hours and I have to come help. the

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in Los Angeles taking over is our car club look at Mickey Mouse that's cool you gotta be okay yeah the name taking over is pretty much like we're taking over the

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, the acquisition as if we were someone who We are here to show our skills, we don't try to beat people up and it's more or less the people who try to get close to the cars, you know, we don't try to improve our cars and we don't.

I'm not trying to get people right next to our cars, but there are a lot of stupid kids and people who, like he said, you know, they try to be the center of attention, they try to show off, they try to do this, they mostly don't pay attention. . paying attention they're too into their phone they're trying to get the perfect video you know you have to have common sense like stay away from the car you know we're going crazy you know we're doing our thing like let us do it, you know, step back, he doesn't get the car to have that camera, yes, he recorded the car, look at the car, not the camera, please, oh, in the, they have a police department, they have a task. force called street racing task force and they are designed to stop and prevent street

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and that is what they do.

They are questioning me on Instagram. You know all our Instagrams. They know everything. That's why we don't mind showing our faces. We are very open with you because they already know that you cannot hide, that there is nothing that they have to physically catch us as if we committed the crime that we are committing, even do anything to us like take our cars to tow and anything, so, what? When did the task force start, who knows where I'm from? I compete first, that's why I called the street racing task force, they weren't really in side shows like that until they got really big and popular, so it was like that same team that was designed just for street racing, they used them like they okay, we're not going to form another team to go after side shows, like we just use the same equipment that we had in the street races and send them.

I showed them to people who make clothes on the street and they even have Instagram pages, they have Instagram pages and every time they say a car, they put their car club, the Instagram, they tag them like oh, 30 days, and they try to like it, you know, basically. like a clown maybe trying to upload to instagram no space it's cute it's pretty crazy 2500 for a 30 day hold you know there are people I know who left their cars impounded just because they don't want to pay that amount yes, but as for us, we have cars built we have expensive cars we're not going to let our cars go to auction you know when someone can probably buy them for love it's a pretty expensive hobby at the end of the day and some people criticize it and you say you know we're Stupid because we break our cars but we love what we do.

You know we could take it to the track. We'll take it to the track. There is no other place to take what we do every week. So it's not like that. like we're telling them, we're just saying: give us something and give us a place where we can express our feelings, so it's like what we do here carries a risk, but we don't care, we're still going to come. We go out and do what we do because we love it. Last week they impounded probably 50-60 cars, but I guarantee it will be brighter today than it was last week because we all love it.

Viewers love it and we're still going to do it. Go out every week and express ourselves. I want to show you how quickly I can get everyone to one place from a faster social network, as long as the service works, but in first person, where are we, look how fast it did. I'm not loading it because too many people were uploading at once. 33 people from that quick work group don't like that, even if they just use the word, they disperse us in one place right when we leave, I'll just go boom boom and Everyone just clicks on their phone and you know we're going to the next place , so hopefully they got whoever they had on their team to be there too to stop us, but it usually doesn't work, there are a lot worse things. things that happen besides what we're doing it's show time based on time this is one of our main places we go is Broadway this place will be a hit or miss everyone knows about 131st and Broadway I'll just stop here to turn off my traction control first because it's these cars, you hear we have completely disabled rookies here, rookies, so you can do it, even though that's not payment, but you see, look, see, look, this is what you want to see when go through this. it's what gets your blood flowing this is what gets you going at the essence of car discos this is what kills you look at that kid screaming his name throwing up taking control call that kid look look at that tell him what your favorite car club mata that mata this is give us a chance.

I love everyone here Manchester United Manchester United Yeah we're on our way to second place We were there in first place for about an hour Rick got away relatively clean We're about to pop our heads into a different side of town so I hope that Don't wake up the work group and set up a game of cat and mouse. My name is Jason Cordova. I'm a photographer here in Los Angeles. He attracted me. partly because of the secrecy and the adrenaline and the stare, you know, obviously, I stood out a little bit, I was getting rejected left and right, you know, trying to figure out where they were going and no one wanted to talk to me and stuff.

It just pushed me to dig a little deeper and then slowly the photo started to speak for me, the guy started seeing my photos and approached me and that's where the connection was made and that to me was what was so incredible. the whole scene was connected with all the different ages, all the different races, all the different affiliations and everyone came together over the love of cars and the love of the culture and then they moved on, I mean there really are quite a handful of we who have not done it. I've missed a Sunday here in years, you know, it's funny because I think this is totally like an alter ego, sure, I mean, I have two kids, I have a regular job, I'm just an average guy, I have that, but this Sunday is this. when I really like to relax and enjoy all these guys that I've met over the last five six years, I mean a lot of these guys, you know they have jobs and stuff, they all have, yeah, you saw a guy today. make donuts, who is an emergency medical technician?

You saw a guy who works on computers. It's crazy to watch him grow. It's crazy to see the different stories on the news that painted something so horrible as such and I mean, no, no, I don't understand it. it was twisted like we understand why the neighbors and the people in the different neighborhoods and the police and the highway patrol understand why it has the reputation that it has but at the same time we are here trying to prove that there is a lot and I could personally attest to that there are much worse things that almost everyone here could be doing and will do if they don't, if they don't keep up with this, the media is trying to get the neighborhoods hysterical about the dangers and the gangsters and the violence that comes with them when it's just outright lies there are gangbangers here there are bad guys here they are everywhere, you know, regardless of this scene, they are just everywhere how it is, but here, oh, that's on hold.

I do this every week. This is Manchester Western, the place that makes or breaks you. If you've been to Los Angeles, you know this is one of our top spots. This is like Crenshawn on Crenshaw. and the lowriders this is one of the main donut places this is our crenshaw they found us they found us now and they still won't be able to stop us they still won't stop us I guarantee we'll still be too congested all night for them to get in so they have to go back to call to make us spread out like this to try to pick some people to mess with the most wanted, who is the most wanted, what are you in the car with the most wanted, right?

Now, is there a person like you who thinks that they get the main people who influence people to come here? There is a group of drivers who want to and will personally target and post on their Instagram page to try to scare viewers. other people just standing here looking at us, that's their little thing, but it doesn't do anything, we don't care, we wouldn't be here risking it and paying all these impound fees and all that, if we really cared, yeah, look. the bird right there knows we're going there it's following the crowd so that's how you get through you don't get interrupted by the police you don't get stopped going to the next place newbies you need to learn your

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to south central Compton, take all these back cuts, stop letting the police follow you, all you viewers, take the cuts, stop letting them follow you, we had Crenshaw, the most famous crenshaw, who saw it, kids from the neighborhood and all those movies.

Right there, Crenshaw Square, this is where the little low riders and everything that goes, that's down, it started, right here, that's where it started, off the stone, that's it, lock it up, lock it up, hurry up, that's it baby, oh oh, I was at The next place they left, they felt like we had a lot of fun at the last place. Now let's go to the center. We're going to go a lot further than we used to go lately. No, so we lost. I know. "Everyone lost because they don't listen, damn it, stop running when the police come, they won't do anything, the team will take care of it, right?

Oh, you saw the whole scene today, you saw a car catch on fire, you saw the friend fly out of the car, I don't know if they captured it on film when the guy almost hit me, but you did this by seeing reality, you have seen everything, today you are seeing the truth and this is what we want to capture the truth, the authenticity of everything, as if it existed, We don't want to pretend anything, this isn't it, this isn't practice, you can't practice, people drive on the wrong side of the road to get to the place, look, they're already doing donuts if I don't do it, if I don't want to go out here and tell people what to do, organize, someone else is going to do it, move even if you can stop me because they think I'm the only person who has control of something they're still going to be out here they can lock me up right now and they're still going to be out here doing donuts isn't going to stop anything the scene is too far gone it's just giving us a place to go but it's always more fun when it's illegal.

All I'm going to show you is how to do it. point you