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The Bloods are a primarily African-American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California.The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the Crips.It is identified by the red color worn by its members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs.
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, and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.
The song "Piru Love" from Bangin' on Wax (1993) by Bloods & Crips makes references to various Piru sets, including Holly Hood, Elm Street and Lueders Park. The song "M.A.A.D City" from good kid, m.A.A.d city (2012) by Kendrick Lamar makes references to the Bloods, being Pirus particularly with the line "If Pirus and Crips, all got along" in the ...
Suge Knight, who was the CEO of Death Row Records, was affiliated with the Mob Piru Bloods and hired gang members from several Bloods sets, including Lueders Park Piru. [ 8 ] Following the shooting of Death Row Records artist Tupac Shakur on September 7, 1996, a gang war broke out in Compton between the Mob Piru Bloods, and the South Side ...
Bloods, "Hoover factions", "Eight Trey Gangster Crip (83GC)" [1] The Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips is a " set " of the Crips street gang alliance based in Los Angeles, California , originally formed around Hyde Park, Los Angeles in 1976 from the Westside Crips and having since spread to other cities in the United States.
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.
The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California.Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips began as an alliance between two autonomous gangs, and developed into a loosely connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one ...
In the 1993 song "Piru Love" by Bloods & Crips, the Tree Top Piru is mentioned in the lines "Tree Top is to the left, Fruit Town is on the right." In his 1994 song " Dollaz + Sense ", DJ Quik , who was affiliated with the Tree Top Piru, [ 9 ] refers to the gang when he says "West side trees sprayin' all the fleas."