Around the turn of the century, he moved into Jordan Downs, a housing project off of Grape Street in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. Barely a teenager, he fell in with the Grape Street Crips. His rap name is a paper-thin veil for those gang ties—he dropped a digit from 103,...
Grape Street is one of infamy in South Los Angeles. The 9500 block sits north of the Jordan Downs housing projects, and both are home to the Grape Street Crips. When I worked at Firestone, it was considered a cherry patch for drug and gun arrests, and it probably still is. It is als...
By next month, they plan to present the accord to the four principal gangs in Watts, where the first link in the truce was forged between the Grape Street Crips at the Jordan Downs housing project and the PJs at Imperial Courts weeks before the riot. “Many of them are very intelligent ...
Here come the G-Unit Crips, call the cops Here come the G-Unit Crips, call the cops Nigga's runnin with a motherfuckin snitch so its g-g-g-unot Here come the G-Unit Crips, call the cops Here come the G-Unit Crips, call the cops Here come the G-Unit Crips, call the cops N...
the slight hunchback and scheming deliberation. He looks like he subsists on overripe grapefruit and serpent eggs swallowed whole. He seems to relish quoting the word “nigga” out loud, exuding the greasy vengeance of a man who would block the sun or steal candy from a baby on a larf....
She from Grape Street, she know how to work the mag And only buy white tees, tell 'em to keep the purple tags Cause the laces in my Chucks keep the beef crackin I lay niggaz out like creased khakis In that G-wagon, lean like the 23's draggin I got the whole N-Y-C saggin [...
She from Grape Street, she know how to work the mag And only buy white tees, tell 'em to keep the purple tags Cause the laces in my Chucks keep the beef crackin I lay niggaz out like creased khakis In that G-wagon, lean like the 23's draggin I got the whole N-Y-C saggin [...
AVENUE, BLUE GATE, BEACH TOWN, '7TH STREET10-LINE, 11-DUECE, BABY LOCS and GRAPE STREET99 MAFIA, P.J. WATTSYou get your props if you can ride, if you'se a Slob you get mobbedIt's alright ??? cause it like props on my blockI run with locs that aint't broke which y'all ...
like historian Paul Longmore who has a PhD and has written several books, but just happens to have gotten polio as a child and has to use a ventilator at night, we are still pitied. "[Once, a stranger] approached him [Paul Longmore] on the street and said, ‘If I were you, I ...
North and Central Jersey, according to State Police. The gang is considered a Tier 1 threat. Significant local sets include Grape Street, Hoover Deuce, and Rollin 60s. In January 2024, the U.S. Attorney's Office said several Grape Street Crips members were involved in a drug network in ...