Pusha Tis always top of mind for most hip-hop heads when it comes to selling drugs, specifically, the powdery substance known as cocaine. Verse after verse, the Virginia MC never ceases to amaze with mind-blowing punchlines and was even dubbed the "Vincent van Gogh" of the blow" when h...
Vince Staples is known for his honest raps about growing up in the Crips. In an interview with The Guardian, he claims that he originally joined a crew so that he could take lives: I started gang banging because I wanted to kill people. I wanted to hurt people. There'...
No matter N.W.A’s middle-class upbringings and celebrity aspirations—only Eazy had banged to any meaningful degree, via a loose affiliation with the Kelly Park Crips—growing up amidst a war between people who looked like them and police who didn’t provided the creat...
MBNel:I didn’t really talk to them about it, but my mom lived with her siblings in the house, and she went to college out there. I think my pops was always working on the farm, doing whatever was on the island. They met, they started going to college, and then eventually they w...
though a 2002LA Timesstory attempted to provide an answer as to who shot Tupac. It is believed that the shooting was the result of an altercation earlier that evening with Southside Crips gang member Orlando Anderson after the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson fight. During the altercation, which ...
they move totally different. 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 th...