Update on Gblaze - Croydon, London

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So folks we are here with G Blaze on the high street of Cudon This is the place where you grow up right

 This is where I grew up This is where where my studio is my um record label is and my management services I do everything around in my hometown man TJ Productions is this is my real town I was born here I was brought up here My passion is still going on here All right How is it to be living in COM It's quite good You I love it man I love the environment the people the energy It's kind of different around here Let's be honest man There's energy all over the sock There's things happening 24/7 around here You'll never get a point in time when nothing is happening Everything happens at every given time And that's what I love about Cordon man The energy the pure energy All right G Tell us more about yourself about you being autistic right

 So yeah I'm an autistic record label manager producer graphic designer animator and photographer All these things are because of my autism I have a great passion with my autism It's driven me to do what I do and I love it so much I never change for the whole world cuz this is what drives me This is what I want to do with my living My my goal is do this in the industry properly and make a lot of money from what I do My autism is is a gift So use it don't abuse it That's what I say Beautiful Beautiful Right Well we've already advertised your company right What else do you do in your free time

 So I play games I go London I spend time with friends I do all sorts I'm currently at university studying LCCM So that's taking a bit of time But yeah I just basically do everything under the sun and and oh yeah don't I do live stream my games when I can So I'm bit of a gamer Virtual reality non virtual reality like PC Xbox PlayStation Steam Deck like you name it I've got it man Like I just love that stuff so much All right GL So uh how can we find you on social medias

 I just Google Tday Productions in it You'll find my link to my Tday Productions.uk You'll find my my Instagram where I use a lot of my production on there my advertisements my promotions You'll see what I do with artists on my website and also YouTube platforms I've also signed a record deal recently So I'm I'm summit music through them through the platform So look out for other artists I work with on a regular basis like Dign Teddy Bear Um what's his name Ter Boy Crystal Rhino Cotics like Dr crazy new eyes I've just worked with from Cuddon So yeah big love to them all man Like I do a lot of artists around London So yeah it's just like I'm not just a CON boy I'm a Londoner All right Jace So how how is how are your parents your mom and dad

 They somehow struggle from day to day but I'm there for them They were there for me in my hard times I'm now there for them in their hard times Straight up Yeah All right Is there anything else you would like to add

 Well obviously Cens is is my best town I love Cordon As I said I was born brought up here but C is different to what it used to be As far as I heard they're going to build a Westfields here They want to beef up cord in the best way it can be promote it Refer is the whole place to do that The people come the five will be different It's the cultures might be different The sobbing scene might be different You know what changes the changes in You got to love the new changes they're making in Cordon As well as Cord's going downhill they're trying to bring it back up And I got to fight for Cordon man They're trying to do their best but they're struggling All right Why do you think Cordon is going downhill When I was a kid this high street that we're looking at right now was packed to the brim I don't see it like that no more man I don't see the people They don't see the shopping people doing their bags of shopping their their families their friends their youth coming to shopping They do everything online now So C is dying for that But when they bring Westfields however bring up the whole place and five up the whole place We have a new element to Cen All people from outside of Cen will come to Cen Right now they're trying to get cens

So let's bring it to Cen man Let's do this All right Were you born in Cudon

 I was I was born in C when it made it at a time is now called Cuden University Hospital Changes happened there completely to the NHS service So yeah and the name itself is called may die at one point cuz people there would go in and not come back out or they would go in and come out with another problem this problem that problem this problem that problem So it got the nickname may die after being called Mayday So obviously it's now called the unif I don't know when that happened cuz I was locked up at the time in it But obviously things happened and changes happened I'm not being funny At time was good till the government changed the NHS guidelines Ruined the whole place completely back to square one again if not worse All right Big up big up to UG Blaze Uh any collaboration we are going to see you doing

 So I'm working with Tera and Bruna B on a music video Obviously they're separate Bruna beat is is a Megan artist doing dance hall and so things like that She's got the her first part video done We're filming the second part in a couple of weeks I got Terra Tailboy filming money to burn Money to burn Money to burn I got I got money to burn his lyrics Going be burning money in the street in central London Filming it fling down to the ground You name it man It's going to be a fireman We got signpost We got a crew coming up to film it with me protect the whole place

 So yeah we're going to protect the whole place completely All right G Blaze Uh is there anything else you'd like to add Yeah you that is all Is there anything else

 That's it boss Is that T's got a new music video coming out so look out for that Money to burn money to burn I got money to burn So look out for that video It's going to be amazing When that video comes it's going to be bang We're going to feel money burning to the ground floating to the ground So yeah Yeah Big loves the ter in this video man

 Would you would you also encourage people to go to Zupa Vlog please

 Oh Flogger Superman You got to big him up man The guy on my camera right This is my camera Yeah But the cameraman behind the scenes is Flogger Super Big him up I work with him for time He's a great He's a great videographer Just vlogs all over London and all over the UK He's a great guy I pick him up left and center He's a great contact a great friend and he has a passion just like me like he does he uses it he doesn't abuse it just like my motto says So big up to Flogger Super Thank you Thank you very much GLA And I also encourage people to see GB Blaze channel

 GL Productions over and out and Flogger Super on the buttons Thank you very much Till next time Vlogger Zupa and G Blaze

Hey folks this is your boy Vlogger Zoop and today we are here in Wonder Park with a very special guest Gibblaze himself is here with us and we are going to have a short interview to check out what's happening to this legend music legend from Cudon Remember he's got a music studio If you are looking to record your music GLaz is the person to contact Lads let's move on to the interview smoothly T Productions is my name I'm on record label and management services I run studios for people with disabilities mental health conditions for cheap prices Tape productions have been in this industry since the age of 16 has really progressed in the past couple of years I work with a number of artists around London and also hopefully inside the UK at some point from Birmingham and Manchester So things are really moving sweet for me right now So T yeah is is an instrumentalist on on producing music photographer film graphic designer You name it T has got the talent I've got his talent at home designs as well

 That's we do films We do interviews What else we do So I do film and photography for artists who need to promote themsel progress in the industry who need that love and passion to grow and develop their skills in the industry itself Beautiful Beautiful G Blaze what's what kind of productions are you specializing actually on

 So I specialize in R&B melodic trap hip-hop drum bass soulful relaxation music You name it I'm good at it But bear in mind it's your mood that makes the music not not not what you want to do at that given time My mood decides my music I make music based on what I want to make in in my mood at that time Many people don't do that but that's what I do

 All right GL Uh and uh what about your mental health We know you had some kind of issues Uh I know that something was happening recently I don't Do you want to talk about that

 So obviously I've got like behavior problems I've got I got like this outburst and stuff but with my music drives me My passion drives me I was at I was meant to go university on the first day of my second year on the on the second semester

 Yeah

 And this guy at the at the um train station that you can't go on your 10 minutes early What do you mean 10 minutes early But I got a freedom pass Sold man my freedom pass I was like you can't you can't um do that bro I'm like what do you mean And then he I said boy I need to get on a train And he and he said "It's none of my effing business." Now obviously that's a threat to me right As many of you guys know you wouldn't stand for that So obviously I was like "Why Who you think you talking to bro Shut up bro." These guards come up to me Yeah For no reason Get involved Don't even know what don't know what the guy said to me Went in So I whacked him one not spark out

 Why did you have to use violence towards me

 They getting violent towards me

 He abused you verbally Why did you abuse him These other people came up to me aggressively like ran up to me aggressively with head frowning eyes ready to ready to come for no reason So I whacked him in self-defense and my lawyer even said it's self-defense and they had no right to do so for 10 minutes early going on a train and I never knew about this 10-minute thing anyways But now now my feeling has expired They're now saying you I'm not in touch because I've got autism and ADHD How ridiculous can you get I've got conditions that that that got me my pass in the first place Now they're telling me I'm not entitled to it The government are through the roof right now They don't know what they're doing They stopping PIP

 Is that stopping your pip

 They're stopping PIP everything bro They're saying that you got to be high functioning on on on disability to get you have severe disabilities high up on the spectrum Cuz I'm cuz I'm high functioning with a with a low on the spectrum I don't cover for a freedom pass and I don't cover for a PIP when they change the laws They're in the process of doing that at the moment and this is bang out of order If you if you have a disability and stuff stand your ground Fight for it Push yourself forward Appeal to the government and get things moving Bang out of order about the Europe being stopped I've heard about the news and people telling me I've not been I've not had a full-blown evidence but if it does stop we we need to fight against this But you hear about that

 Yes And if they do stop we need to fight against it cuz we have human rights as disability disability people We need to fight against this and push forward and get what we are entitled to

 They've already said something about the you've been already your card was the freedom So my freedom pass expired So I'm not entitled to new they said because of autism ADHD is bang out of order But obviously as a producer I'm trying to get work I'm trying to get all this stuff legit so I can start making money properly in the music industry I want to support those who are like me so they don't go through what I'm going through right now They have the passion driven love and I want to succeed in what I do but I have a passion in what I do and that's what drives me They have a passion for music and any kind of social media filming videos

 I do I do interviews as I said before but I I do photograph for them photo shoots I just done an an an music video for Buuna B We done our first part a couple of months ago We're going to do our second part in a few weeks So yeah hopey video is going to bang She's a Jamaican like reggae dance hall artist and her music is on point people So when when it's out on my platform please do double check it Yeah it's going to be excellent to think to be getting filming for and everything Be amazing stuff Beautiful Beautiful G Blaze uh what would you say to to people for the upcoming summer What what would you recommend them to do in London if they they uh stuck in the heat and stuff like that I would say just go in an air conditioned producing studio and produce your music Get like don't let nothing stop you enjoying the weather But at this time we want to film music videos Like right now in the pipeline as Terboy says there's a music video called money to burn We're going to film the money fluting down in the air We're going to burn money as it's falling We're going to do all that stuff in central London city of London The money to burn video this summer coming out soon people when I start filming you better get ready cuz Tublaz is on fire right now Ter one of my best artist I work with on a regular basis So do double check him out He's under my record label along with many other artists So G production is ready for this Money to burn video is coming bro Money to burn Money to burn I got I got I got money to burn is his lyrics man Pure fire Pure fire There we go Gib Blaze Right Giblaz So in in other words how how are you keeping and how's your health

 right now I got issues with family with with my mom and my dad and even myself I like my mental health team has now disar me Thank the Lord for a bad reason Cuz I basically smashed up their windows with a crowbar I gave them grief They give me a headache So I gave them a headache They thought I didn't say nothing in these in these in in these meetings that I was a piece of cake I I was simple But the moment my my my my mom's partner or friend should I say best friend died like he used to speak for me on these meetings cuz they knew if I spoke I just cause grief and moment he died I was I laid into them they didn't like it So they now disar me from the mental health service which is good and bad bad I've got stolen myself but good that I can become independent and rely on myself and become a proper man and do things independently which I do want to do I want to strive and be the man that I can be Be the good man that I can be Be the most productive independent man I can be You see this TV productions man Pushing myself to the limit with with no with no limit at the top man Just keep going and keep pushing myself to the best I can be

 Beautiful Beautiful GL Uh what equipment do you have in your studio

 So I've got a a widecreen monitor a customuilt computer for music and filming um like capabilities at the high end I've got a focus right I've got a mixer I've got I've got a mic I've got a DJ set I've got a mic for a podcast I'm looking to do live streaming podcast Please do double check my podcast at Mixcloud Yeah you see my my stuff there on the tub productions My Pers I want a teddy bear and he has his old school R&B his old school soulful his old school reggae Man loves his old school from back before I was born bro This guy is a legend when it comes to music He knows all the originals music to his to his music all the originals backgrounds He knows everything man It's just amazing Like he's a legend and his music is so talented His name is Teddy Bear So double take Teddy Bear on Spotify and all things like that because you double t on Apple Music and places like that Teddy bear and and obviously I've mentioned Terboy they both do podcast with me once once every week or once every recently I was been doing a podcast today but he was busy So man's here doing interviews right now with you lot You get me Man pushed himself to the limit

 Busy That's good to hear Uh G Blaze uh it's we'll be we'll be heading to the end of that interview but we've got to talk about the bike you've got What is it and how much did you pay for it

 So this bike was actually a swap for another bike I bought a bike called same bike from Amazon and obviously it didn't work properly cuz I went it was going 50 mph really really slow I tried taking the speed restriction off and what I did was I locked the bike thinking I was changing the time I can't remember what time I I put it to so I had to do a hard reset Couldn't do the hard reset Code of Amazon said the seller is not helping me Kept send me the same video was a big problem So then Amazon said we're going to refund you the money

 Hold on Hold on I think it stopped No it is recalling just so then the switch that on and off again Yeah let's make sure [Music]

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Meet David - King of Croydon - homeless in London

 Meet David - King of Croydon - homeless in London, I passed David an Croydon High Street and once i saw him on a bed on a street i had to have an interview with him. He is called the King of Croydon. The rest is a history now

Hi folks we are here with David who's been on the streets of croon for how long months can we just wait for the bus to go and the back on the stret the buses on the stret yeah you get used to noises yeah we en C on can you hear me David's got his little G here the street on the street you get used to basically you get used to the noises so imagine me in a room by myself in silence yeah but you got a really big TV right David what happened how did you become homeless sex drugs in rock and roll I burned all my bridges I thought that was better you I mean have an interview I bur all my bridges my mom's in Ireland nothing well basically the world was not enough nothing was ever enough I was never satisfied even though I got everything I ever desired my my mom's an it started off my mom's an isand my D's in England so I was flying I was on planes all the time since you know 8 years of age I was flying flying but I was on the plane like we're flying back to Ireland and four England isand England CU your father is from Ireland right no England my mom's Ireland my mom's my mom's a gway girl yeah my dad's in England but since I but last play when I was very young anyway but since I was a young nippo but basically if I if I if I wanted to see my dad I'd have to go to England and if I wanted to come back to see my mom I'd have to go to Ireland but because they weren't coming with me you had like a mentor like a mummy figure who took you from a to eight when you was a little Nipper so that how much imagine being a little Geer like that and you flying on a plane but you you know with some R I grew up a lot stronger I you know like differ you know

you got anything love you and King how long have you been on actually on this street all together yeah 7 years 7 years I've never seen you in this street here before yeah but yeah but you about you want about Cen yeah you want about just this the up on the street here what this you mean this specific part here I've been here for about about 5 weeks 5 weeks well cuz I had an operation 5 weeks ago and I couldn't stand that for 2 days and I was right here have you ever had um you know like old [ __ ] get no have you ever had a hit replacement how many 36 oh you had a hip replacement yes what happened there

David my hi

broke when was that was that recent 5 weeks ago 5 months you're still feeling the pain five weeks ago five weeks ago a month ago I'm on no medication at all I was a morphing coding for 5 days in myay but they wouldn't give me any medication because I checked myself out I was with six old CS yeah and I've never said that before but since having this operation I thought so you basically stuck no but you know there wait can I finish do you know why I discharge myself do you know why I discharge myself after five days did you do you know why why cuz I can stand up you can stand up I

see well my brother well tell me about your story like about your childhood and all that well I'm from wford I'm from I'm from I'm from wford M alord here but I left Watford when I was 12 cuz I'm that's I've really I was I I'd already gone to Ireland before but when I was 12 officially I moved to Ireland my m so officially I started to live in Ireland and that's when I started playing sort of table tennis England Ireland backward I was where about in Ireland southern island limi oh I see Li lii origin Li how did you travel between London and Limer was that a plane or or a boat yeah plane plane Li I've done a boat I've had a couple boats back in the day but FL to Shannon the airport Shannon from flying to shanon to Ireland it's only about literally a little bit you know about the best part of 30 minutes just to get to my mom's house from sh airport in but she is it my mom's my mom's name is Maria she's in County CLE but I lived in well she might have some C I don't like it but there you go he's not vient but I still don't like him um MH but I lived in Dublin you know I lived in Du yeah yeah I lived in Dublin 3 and a half years yeah how was dubling for you buddy yeah like London like London yeah exactly like London but just an Irish accent exent really you know to a certain extent yeah didn't you struggle with your accent you got more of an English accent and Irish to me anyway me yeah yeah but I'm not oh I'm not yeah but I'm Irish I'm English you have Irish I've got Irish in me but my voice isn't Irish though mhm well I haven't been to Island for 7 years for 7even years yeah I haven't been on a plane for S years because that bad then what is causing your homelessness you know like at the moment you had a re hi replacement yeah yeah what else you've got any substance abuse issues or anything like that you're drinking you can't survive without something what we going to do read a book all right how much of you drinking as much as I could drink really but still without do nothing I don't I don't drink wait give me some money this is seriously wait I don't want to make love to you actually that um what you asking for no no no no I'm just s nice weather

um I forgot what the question was um I don't really drink I I never play for Spirits cuz it's to expensive there's no point but yeah when it comes to drinking MERS yeah I have about 10 cans a day you know at least 10 cans and that's all no more alcohol than cans ofid yeah but it's self-medication okay it's purely for medicinal purpose how long you've been on the streets for uh only 7 years 7 years don't look at all you you've shaven man yeah I got a shave yesterday opposite oh you got a shave up across the street let me just show I don't pay for nothing oh you pay for that shave I not pay for nothing no how much you pay it's for free everything's for free for me you hear that everything is for free

so how are you not originally from croon why croon croon the reason why C is I went to the C magistrates court and they said they couldn't go back to where I was so I thought I'd stay here where was I before here came well green they could they told they told you you can't come back yeah hello welcome to cour magistrates can't go back to

Camp all right good

yeah all right Davy then if there's any anybody watching this that knows you or want to reach out for you is that phone number email wait have you going can I listen to one song on your phone yeah well come here then I want to put a song on tell me what song is it well don't I put get get I ain't going to run away I can't really stand up to honest it's okay I put that song on tell me I miss doing the Hopscotch just tell me what do you want to hear uh can you put on Chris Brown DAV blow my mind I'm doing this right for you yeah blow yeah yeah blow my mind yeah the other one now is it yellow one Chris Brown blow my mind yeah but turn some here David or Chris Brown D down chis

blow I don't want to come on the on the on the I run away I can't

standit oh give me s you right right done listen listen to that the loudest yeah that's the loudest brother yeah trust me just trust me I trust listen to with

me you like that one yeah yeah you like afro beats yeah now DAV David they call him I'm David his name DAV

did you hear on the streets of trons yeah you

did I think I will have to cut that out the right out because it's copyright strike you know right David David there anything else you want to say no I do I'm tell so have you got like an email or or a phone number but I'm trying to listen to the song it's all right we can do that later we back to the interview so have you got an email or or no I don't have an email I ain't got a phone and how can people reach you if they want to help you I ain't got a phone she can't you are here on the on in the High Street of croon right yes well I'm always here yeah you're always here yeah she's well she's a dead body I shot her last night so I'm just waiting for the girlfri first she I sh last night ambulance is on the way well she just pissed me off so I thought I'd give it a go ambulance I can find David here thanks for watching this one I see you soon again

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Meet Tony who as he says spent most of his life on the streets

 I met Tony in the High Street in Croydon. He agreed to have an interview with me. I really did not have to ask him questons, he was talking for the whole time.

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Vlog in text: Folks we are here with Tony who's been on the Streets of London for how long I've been on the streets on and off pretty much my whole life really I'll be recording now yeah sorry MBA I've had a pretty much chaotic lifestyle since I was a child and I was brought up around addiction um alcoholism I've been brought up around the violence so I've been abused when I was a child I was put into children's home all right let's so let's get back to the beginning your parents were you homeless not right what was your job before you became homeless before you lost your address I'm a senior JavaScript software engineer now I've got mental health he's got mental health so why are we out here so you had an accident yeah a bike accident you were on a bike right yeah from from cocaine from heroin from I don't know my real father I grew up with my stepfather which was my brother's dad and I cast him as my real dad for 12 years because I don't have my real father and my mum was having an affair with somebody that was in Norwich and that's how I was born so you've never met your real dad once or twice in a pub when I was about six years old and when he introduced himself to me he went to give me some money my mum pulled me away and pulled me out of the pub she didn't want me to have anything to do with it anyway because my mum is now dead I have I don't know why so I'll never know why she she was she didn't want me to have any relationship with my father of anything all right but you grew up around addiction did you say I grew up my mom was an alcoholic throughout my whole life she was a functioning alcoholic when I was a child and she did well up until I was about six or seven years old and then she started losing control of her life so therefore she couldn't look after all I've got two other brothers I have an older brother and a younger brother she couldn't look after us after I became about six or seven um my mum used to get seriously like beaten up by her boyfriends and it's really up when they came home from the pub that my mom would get beaten up a lot and I used to witness a lot of violence and like growing up I got put into a children's home I've got a point to repair care care home when I was about seven because I was abused um at this time I had a cannabis addiction I was smoking cigarette smoking cannabis my mum used to smoke so that's how I started smoking it because how old you've been when you started this was about six or seven years old what six or seven years old when you started to smoke cannabis and do you think cannabis affected you somehow or did you get it wasn't so well it was the start it was the start of it was what happened then what what drugs uh is it progressed on to get yes ever so sniffing gas fluid things like that and so it's what we did at that age as children when we were that well when I'm going on to when I was about 10 years old it's what we did at age you know everybody was into it we used to sniff aerosols Gus glues things like that and I've always been a good person I've always had been a conscious person you know just so I've always had that in mind so I've learned not to lose myself so much being out here you know but it's been through so much being through so much experience and so much addiction and all the bad things I've seen in my life it's given me enough knowledge and experience to be StreetWise enough myself to not get taken the Mickey out of our street basically but um one of my biggest problems out here is actually convincing people that I'm actually homeless a lot of people don't believe me of a spice problem I smoke spice at the moment this is my my only issue at the moment and what put me on the street this time I've been up for about two years this time and I'll be honest to you I've served about 14 years of my life because of my addiction drug addiction I've got a very heavy addiction throughout my teenage years on crack cocaine like you are you done with it I'm done with it now I will explain in a minute uh is I started on crack cocaine uh which led on to heroin I was through my teenage years I was totally out of control I was shoplifting I was doing anything to fund my habit I hated myself for it but it was the only way I could survive to keep my addiction going and um we've drawn from hell and it's not very good you feel like you're dying basically it's a really horrible they call it a clap it's it's um something I wouldn't worship on anybody so I had to get break out of it and to be honest it was so hard to get away from the area I stopped doing it I had to take myself away from people that were doing it because it was like influencing me to do it you know so when I was getting like a little bit of clean time I was started mixing with people that were taking it so then I ended up relapsing and going back on it anyway my life's been chaotic throughout my whole I'm 40 years old now my last book chaotic I've done 13 years of my life during prison because of addiction um I stopped like that I made a conscious decision after my mum passed I turned my life around I came out of prison about four years ago with a qualification working in the catering industry and Catering yes I done really well all I walked out how long have you done prison for I've done about 13 years of my life 13 years in prison just roughly what for uh poor funding my drug addiction when it was mainly through my teenage years that's when I was at my worst I was at my Peak on my addiction you're 40 years so I've done three oh you know enough yeah and I'm still alive thankful because I've had so many people that have come from and not come out of it they've died I've had a lot of first people to me that have passed away out here a lot of people seem to think this is a game out it was not a game Risk people's lives yeah and it's trying to convince people that it's people's subconscious people's emotions people's feelings are involved it's a very deep thing you know and then a lot of us have to a lot of us has to block this out because of people take a grip and take it taking advantage of us you know your vulnerability and all that you know you have to hold up a shield I'm sorry I'm a bit all over the place like talking to you so well let's get back well in 13 years in the in prison yeah and when was it the last time you've been in prison I was in prison about three and a half years ago so you've been trying to keep yourself away from prison for the last couple of years I've miraculously turned my life around overnight when that happened to me and my mum passed on my birthday I came out so the recent lasted three years ago three years ago yes I basically came up with a catering in I was qualified I'm a qualified Chef I came up with a good qualification of first yeah and walked into my dream job my life changed overnight it was all happening so quickly and I became [Music] I've worked on it and I came out of prison with a good qualification I've got an mvq level one and two in professional property which makes me a professional chef I then came out of prison and walked into my first job which was the slug and lettuce first legal job I was paying tax I felt so proud of myself when I was doing this because I turned it all around overnight and I stopped talking about this I was trying to go straight my mum died on my birthday after this happened I lost my head I couldn't open a bit I tried to continue working but I was just messing with the holders up I was crossed in the company a lot of money my boss had to let me go in the end because he was aware of my mother's day if he was aware of my background but he gave me a chance because of my potential he ended up sucking a chef he had for six for 12 years and he gave me the position because of my potential is well I was doing really well and then I hope I just fell apart I lost my life mentally I'm a really emotional person it's like I wear my heart and when that happened to me there was so many young art suppressors that I needed to ask my mum about my dad for example so many things I needed to know in my life tell me about your spice addiction yeah because we're basically I've from when I was young I smoked how long you've been smoking spice about about three or four years it's uh it's I've basically changed it from Cannabis test because I just I used to smoke a lot of this and basically people started mixing chemicals in it and it really affected my lungs and I started popping my lungs up and I was having coffee fits because of the Cannabis cannabis yeah because people have been putting like artificial stuff in it yes and there's I had to stop I stopped that overnight and I ended up putting in place despise in place to take away that that footage you know you know that empty space inside you if you quit something it's called avoid it's an empty space inside you that you need to fill with something else and they call it cross-addicting that's what they call it you know when you change one drug for another it's called cross addiction that's what they call it in recovery you know you cross that diction yeah and that's what you had yes I've come up with this space I cross addicted I I went from an addiction of being on cannabis every day I used to smoke three Apes a day that's like 60 pounds worth a day off cannabis it because I am I have so much mental health I suffer with terrible anxiety I used to try it I don't know I suffer badly from depression in my new features you know this and I've got so used to being in this lifestyle as well you know it's what I'm used to is just being around all this is um yeah right on it have you got any phone number that people can contact you and help you would you would you share your phone number now I would just like to say but it's just uh for anybody that is watching this I just want to say please like take into consideration that this is people's feelings and people's lives that are involved in it sometimes people don't portray their feelings as well as what other people do they're not as good as expressing theirselves so if people are trying to explain yourself to somebody on the street because it's not up to make it banked a lot a lot of people walk by and ignore us on the street so if there's anything I can pass on to people just please listen because sometimes just listening to One Thing like there might be one thing that somebody would really want to get out and share with somebody that could save somebody's life you know it's just one thing you know when you feel like everybody's not listening to you and you feel like you don't exist it can put you into a lot of homeless people would and they like to talk they like to be yeah and stomach from experience because of this has happened I've had people killed herself over it because nobody feel like nobody listened I've had people commit suicide over there so it's a very serious thing and then a lot of the community and the public seem to think it's a game and as people judge people there's a lot of judgmental going on uh people thinking um like I said in the beginning of this interview a lot of people I struggle convincing people that I'm actually homeless so because of the way I look because I'm not too clean but it's uh basically it's there's not there's no Persona or any weight a homeless person is in the world it's just because a person's scruffy it's because he might have a serious issue he's got a lot of things going on in his head that's how he's got that way I choose not to let myself get that that badge you know so I'm trying to keep my head above water but it's getting hot which is why I look at that little bit cleaner than most homeless people but a lot of people seem to think that if you're not clean you're not homeless so sometimes I feel when I wake up in the car park or on the back I sleep in a car park around the back but I don't make like 27.50 for a hotel which is importantly I'm not going to say the name of the hotel because if I had to travel because he's supposed to take bankride any exceptions I don't make the money up every day because convincing people to unless a lot of people don't believe on them I struggle badly I have a lot of regular people around here that followed my story for the past two years and that's how I survive out here how much money do you need every day to feed your habit well but you know what I've done so well I've been minimized everything it's my only habit now it's just this place just the spice how much do you need how much money are you able to beg to be if there is I try and back up is the money I beg for is not to support my drugs that's what this is another wrong thing people do people seem to think that the money we're big enough is all for drugs it's absolutely correct it's not true we will get harnessed with the same bus because one person supports their drug habit when they're bigger money from the meals you know we use it for different things I use it for hotel I use it to wash with I use it to work but I also use the left phone ready to keep it in contact with my key worker because my people are housing my key workers just down the road their office he comes to me every day to have a catch up to see if there's any updates on anything or if any place any accommodation that's come up for me because I'm a very private I need my own space so I've had down the hostels because I'm in recovery from class A I don't want to put myself in that we're at risk of putting myself at risk of using again so I've had to refuse hostels because I know hostels and you're absolutely full of people with addictions I don't want to throw myself back in the fire so I've had to refuse hostels and wait until my own place come up and so this is why it's taking a little bit longer for me to get a place you know because I'm to keep my own self safe and free from addiction because I've been recovery from the hard job at the moment I'm having to stay out in the streets because I don't really have a heavily influential influential people in there that can lead you back into using all drugs don't want to do that because I'm doing so well at the moment you know of course and if there is any advice that you could give to people what that would be um things with a pinch of salt well as as a homeless person take things with a Pinter so not to take things so personally and don't hold grudges all right my friend doesn't have a ripple effect there's a lot of issues is there anything else would you like to add to that interview I hope things get better things will get better and I wish all homeless people I hope hey just like I said I struggle every day Within These people I'm actually a real homeless but yeah I know how it feels Grace so just keep strong and keep it back because there's people like this gentleman here that keep my experience happy you've helped me to stay positive and that you know because if it weren't for players like you we wouldn't get noticed we'd just get forgotten about left burn treatment thanks a lot for the interview my friend hope you get better stop the drug addiction and get yourself a place thank you Check my vlog on https://bloggervloggerselektazupa.blogspot.com/ Please subscribe to my channels English - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc6D5Fnuv-x76ZuBEE1QzqQ Polish https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONq_xGqSq1IF_MF03QWhrQ Zupa's walks https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFDFcYxQfjFbksRp9g5tcA Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUliL9aCdLJKX7bEqssl_g/videos Silesian Schalger https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzwrGNpy_d656LCARoqLexA/videos Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bartosz.strzelec.aka.zupa.tlumacz.dj.life.lover/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Selekta_Zupa Instagram https://www.instagram.com/selekta_zupa/ Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@vlogger_zupa #london #croydon #homeless #homelessness #uk

Meet Paul, homeless alcoholic from Croydon - Life on the Streets, London, England

 I met Paul on the high street in Croydon, He told me how he ended up on streets. He has an alcohol addiction. Check this out!

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entire game this time we are here with Paul who's been on the Streets of London for how long five months five months roughly all right what are you reading by the way oh um

what freshliness is this is that any good yeah he's a he was a drug himself to death good actor is that a real story [Music] oh that one yeah I see okay I've got a live records just lay here read a book read that's all I do I'm not sure did you read it all um

well I suppose there's nothing else to do sometimes all right my friend so what triggered your homelessness yeah so that wouldn't you know hey I'm a street breakfast I'm rough I'm ready for it you know yeah he's actually at the bedroom at the moment because he's had a form of a breakdown but yeah I've ended up in in London alcoholism my parents were drinkers themselves

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the system's broken I'll pay tax all my life in the UK yeah born in the UK I ran an events company big company [Music]

all right my friend so what triggered your homelessness yeah so no I said whatever was oh I was because I broke my leg and I was drinking heavily when I gave one of my flatmates my card in the card number and he basically Stole My Money so I've got interviews with my landlord and now that was basically so it's like if you don't give all the money back by this point that was what that was five months ago yeah five months ago you were still like I had a place to stay yeah and things weren't peer-shaped and you ended up on the streets yeah all right what happened to your legs by the way oh no it's just analysis cleaning out the kitchen I'm up in the floor it's like chicken grease and I I just slipped over and you broke your leg and I'm not kind of Hospital

can you lift it a little bit hold on the surgery all the way down there so I broke my fibular my tibula and so I was just I was laying in bed

and I was relying on other people to go shopping for me and I saw how it happened it's just my fault you know oh that what it was you just she was going to to do some shopping for you yeah yeah your alcohol all right when did your story with alcohol started I mean well you oh a long time I mean I've always drunk about like I said about like 10 years ago roughly to say I love I got in trouble lost you know please came out of Social Services so I could be near my daughter anymore and I think that's what really tricky that's when it started getting really heavy [Music] you could just couldn't cope with your family problems so you say you have a daughter right well I had one yeah man

[Music]

one day I'll see you again so so what happened to your relationship with the mother of the daughter can you tell us about that please

it was all I've said it was just say we're engaged she had two boys who approve his marriage and

I done something stupid so she had two boys before she met you yeah and uh and how long you've been together for about a year about only a year so it was a kind of short-term relationship yeah it moved too quick I moved in too quick she got pregnant and that was yeah and then we got engaged and it just I think it's a bit too much pressure and yeah I've done something silly I won't say on camera but yeah now is it if you kick me out let's move in with my mum yeah so tell us more about your childhood did you grow up in London uh yeah here in Croydon [Music]

how much to say really well did you have both parents yeah well so yeah a man raised me my dad didn't do anything just he was just there feeling awesome and the siblings one brother older brother two years is he all right it takes me every now and again but you know it's not on the streets anyway no no he's got a family Wife and Kids he's got other problems Family Man problems

he's got to take care of his family my support I think you know he's direct family I don't try not to buy him to him I haven't really got a lot of people around so my dad lives in Greece now your dad lives in Greece and what happened to your mum yeah so well she died um yeah about two three years ago got lost out lung cancer just very quick you know one minute she had a bad back about four months she died on box a day day after Christmas started to hear that that's just yeah we're very close but you're living together like no no I had my own place no I had a flat that's what I bought it it was close so I used to go around every weekend

yeah so it's just I don't then I mean covert happened yeah how did you go through covet so obviously I couldn't work anymore because of that I was out of work for six months drinking heavily because there's nothing else to do [Music]

pastry chef pastry chef make pies okay you know that's that's your skills right pastry chefs or yeah I always kept the cave in Industry taking this today okay how long you've been doing that for hours a couple about three years for the years I was butcher before that and where was that where was that Sussex Sussex yes so I lived there for about 15 years 10 years that's where I lived I got kicked out the reason I came down here I don't know why I came back here where I was brought up I thought we might be some friends around there and he just did work out that way I knew now I'm not as a stay here right my nice Vegas obviously I want to get back into work get my own you know place now so may I ask you you know what's your what's your alcohol consumption like I mean how much do you drink well that's my second bowl okay all right so about tours every day maybe two of them so it's bad I see if you like your covers yeah Brandy

is that your favorite alcohol that's easy whiskey whiskey but a bit cheaper no way Brandy is not cheaper than whiskey man never oh it's the cheap stuff all right that's a cheap nasty stuff yeah it's easy whiskey I don't know how I'll go into it the whiskey started off like a little like you know and then say I just got a taste of it yeah drink out the ball

I like you don't recommend it all right have you got any problems like with other addictions drugs abuse I used to smoke a lot of weed when I was with our teenager from to the age of 30. so I lost my fat really well until I got arrested what for well drugs all right you know I had a lot on me and I see someone I was on the train back for work and someone smelled it called the police and that's his history the social services came around and [Music] her kids away she was a good mum you know he's like because if they come I'll leave anyway so that was it really [Music]

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hmm you know they they did do anything but it's just a thought they were there and she just flipped her [ __ ] lid yeah I see I see but you gradually anyway you said you you stopped smoking we didn't you yeah I mean she gave me all the money and basically stopped smoking or I'm gonna kick you out so I just stopped yeah yeah I've done it since but then I started drinking instead [Music] oh dumb all right my friends [Music] listen if there's any like advice that you can give to people not to end up like you what that would be [Music] uh

no I just you know just keep your head above water like don't don't take stuff for granting don't drink I mean I know it's easy thing to say but you know because once if you started you had and stuff goes wrong in your life you start to depend on it I don't know if you just but even if you go down you can always pick yourself back up again that's what I'm trying to do but you can't get used to living like how I am now you do you get used to it after a while then I just keep your head up keep drying that's really awkward say I'm not the best person I also advice but all right thanks a lot for the interview and I hope to see you see you soon my friend no problem all right

all the best

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