The Bloods and Crips have a 30-year history of turf wars: beatings, drug heists, drive-by shootings. The Crips dress in blue, the Bloods in red. When the two gangs aren’t pushing dope or terrorizing citizens, they take pride in retaliating against each other. The hoodlum standing in t...
Its impact on the way gang members went about their lives after the riots was profound, noted rap historian Jeff Chang a decade later in a discussion of the Bloods & Crips truce album Bangin’ on Wax:“The separation into teams; the factional rivalries; the rhetorical ...
It’s Crips and Bloods in San Jose, South Bay, but they really don’t push that Blood/Crip. They push their family. It’s the same mentality. They’re just not banging red and blue. We took on the red and blue swag, but the Bay, it’s the same thing. Niggas’ll lose their ...