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 ...
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...
but niggas from LA migrated down here and brought that Crip and Blood shit out here. And we ate that shit up. That shit became a part of us. Now, the Bay Area, they move totally different. It’s Crips and Bloods in San Jose,...