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Sex, Money, Murder (also known as Sex Money Murda, S.M.M., or $.M.M.) is a "set" of the Bloods street gang operating on the East Coast of the United States. The gang was formed in the Soundview section of The Bronx in the Soundview Houses, a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) development.
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. [30] [31] The war is made up of smaller, local conflicts between chapters of both gangs, called 'sets' and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.
Crips traditionally refer to each other as "Cuz" or "Cuzz", which itself is sometimes used as a moniker for a Crip. "Crab" is the most disrespectful epithet to call a Crip, and can warrant fatal retaliation. [45] Crips in prison modules in the 1970s and 1980s sometimes spoke Swahili to maintain privacy from guards and rival gangs. [46]
Incredible images from a Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta show members of the Crips and the Bloods tying their flags together in a display of unity.
Bloods members commonly call themselves CKs (Crip Killer), MOBs (Member of Bloods), dawgs, or ballers (meaning drug dealers). [25] The gang has a membership of between approximately 15,000 and 20,000 active in 123 cities and in 33 U.S. states, [ 2 ] primarily on the West Coast and, to a lesser extent, the Great Lakes region and the Southeast ...
Bloods. Bloods are a national gang. “YSL claims affiliation with” this gang, the indictment says. “Bloods gang members typically and often will disrespect the rival Crips by avoiding the use ...
Crips [1] Dominicans Don't Play [2] The Trinitarios is a Dominican American criminal organization founded by Dominicans in New York City, New York in 1993. History.
In the days that followed the mall assault, members of the Eight Trey Gangster Crips messaged each other about the location of rival O’Block and 8AM gang members, known to hang out in the Hoover ...