Joe Camel
06-03-2009, 01:37 AM
I do not condone any sort of gang representation, I am merely making this thread because gangs interest me. ITT we will discuss the differences in our local gangs. Around NC, there are about 2 major gangs I want to talk about, but the main things they have in common are they start their own individual gangs they call "sets." Sets are started by an original gangsta, or OG. When the OG dies, so does the set until someone starts a new set. If one set causes embarrassment to the gang as a whole, such as crips losing in a fight to the bloods, they will be punished by other crips. If the OG is killed, then the members of the set will get revenge on whoever killed him.
To get into a "set," you must be beat in. What the crips do in North Carolina is put 11 pennies around you in a circle. They beat the hell out of you until you get all the pennies. Then, to achieve a higher rank, you must do things like sleep with someone who has aids, or drive down the road at night with no headlights, and the first car to flash their headlights is chased down and you kill everyone in the car.
Crips
The Crips around here wear blue bandannas in the back left pocket, say things like C's up B's down, and Cllllat, while rolling there tounge on the l's. Their sign is the 6 point star. They do things like the "C-walk," or crip walk. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3x5Z80jtOE
At around 1:00, see how he is spelling crip with his feet?
History
In 1969, a Los Angeles youth named Raymond Washington, 15, organized a group of other neighborhood youths and started a gang called the Baby Avenues. The Baby Avenues wanted to emulate a gang of older youths who had been involved in gang activity since 1964 and provided minor crimes for the Black Panthers of Los Angeles. This gang was called the Avenue Boys since they claimed their turf on Central Avenue in East Los Angeles. Raymond Washington, along with Stanley "Tookie" Williams and several other gang members from the Baby Avenues Gang were fascinated with the hype of the Black Panthers and they wanted to develop the Baby Avenues gang into a larger force. The Baby Avenues Gang began using the name Avenues Cribs since members lived on the avenue (Central Avenue). Crib members would wear blue scarves (now called bandannas) around their necks or heads. The color blue became their representative color. In 1971, the use of the word 'Crip' had become so common among the Avenues Cribs that it became an acceptable name for the gang. Meanwhile, Raymond Washington and his collection of young gang members influenced other area youth gangs resulting in the formation of many Crip sets. Some of these sets included Avalon Garden Crips, Eastside Crips, Inglewood Crips and Westside Crips. Crips gangs were violent and constantly expanded their turf.
That snippet OP posted is incorrect. The Crips had nothing to do with black panthers it was just something that a few kids from the boys homes in California started, they based it off of other gangs from the 50s and 60s in California who went around with canes beating people up. The Crip name came from the fact that they would walk around with canes and fight eachother. Another fallacy is that Stanley Williams had anything to do with the formation of the Crips, the Crips were founded by Raymond Washington and Munkeyman (no shit) back in the mid 60s, Tookie didn't come along until 68-1970. Also Tookie only found out about Crips after he moved to California from New Orleans because he went to a boys home for trying to rape his sister. He had nothing to do with starting the crips and he just hung around them and started a little sub-set on the Westside, he also started the Eight-Trey Gangsta Crips set. People used to look up to him because he was really buff (he used to rob pharmacies and shit and was taking +100mg dianabol daily when he was a kid) but he was actually nothing more than a drug addict. He used to run around the steets naked on PCP and would beat down people for nothing. Also that Eight-Trey set I was talking about, Tookie raped a lot of kids from that neighborhood (83rd street). He would chase them around and fuck them with beer bottles and his dick. He also had sex with his pit bulls. The guy was a real fuckup. I met the DA and the guy that prosecuted him when he went to jail for killing one white guy and an entire Asian family and a lot of Crips from Los Angeles, and most of those crips hated his ass. You should read his memoir (steal it don't buy it) it's funny how he mentions all of this with great subtlety. He was a gay ass faggot. Barbara Becnel (the bitch who wrote those children's books for him, the one's that sold about 200 copies each) tried to get him off of the hook because she's a black-power supremacist. In court he even admitted that he didn't write the books, because he was (back in the early 80s) trying to make the case that he had brain damage and thus couldn't have remembered if he did the crimes or not. He later gave up on that and just tried to say he was innocent. He only stopped gangbanging in the early 90s when he eventually got raped in the showers and that one retard Tiequon Cox stabbed him. That's when he realized he needed to stop worrying about blue rags and tricking gullible white people in to thinking he was innocent. Anyway I know a lot about that guy and LA gangs and let me say there's nothing interesting about them.
One major thing is that every crip has to know what each point on the 6 point star means. According to yahoo! answers, every point means life, loyalty, understanding, knowledge, wisdom, and love.
Crip Signs:
http://www.gangsrreal.com/images/hand-sign8.jpg
The "C"
http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/la_gang_signs.jpg
Self explanatory.
http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/image.php?u=390&dateline=1244137339
6-Point Star(stolen from Zay's avatar)
Bloods
Bloods wear red bandannas in the back right pocket, say things like B's up C's down, bllllllllat, soowoop, ect. They also have the "Blood Walk."
Blood walk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0IKmqNIaw
History
Crips gangs were violent and constantly expanded their turf. Because of their aggression, several rival gangs joined forces as a gang collective called the Bloods. They adopted the color Red as their representative color. A fierce rivalry between these two gangs existed throughout the 1970's and 80's. By the early 1980's, Crips gangs were heavily involved in the drug trade that they commenced an expansion throughout the United States to sell a new drug product called "Crack". Throughout the 1980's and 1990's the Crips developed intricate networks and a respected reputation with other gangs across America and neighboring countries. By late 1971 the Avalon Garden Crips and the Inglewood Crips joined forces with the other crip sets. The Crips began to expand to non-Crip gang territories. The L.A. Brims which began in 1969 on the Westside were a powerful street gang, but they were not Crips, and the Blood alliance had not been established. Several gangs which eventually became part of the Blood family had already existed though.
There were also the Piru Street Boys in Compton, the Bishops, Athens Park Boys and the Denver Lanes. The Pirus, which are Bloods now, actually hung out with the Crips prior to 1972. For a short time they were known as the Piru Street Crips, and they also wore the traditional blue rags (bandana) as part of their attire. How to combat Crip intimidation was discussed along with the creation of a new alliance to counter the Crips. At that time the color of bandannas was not important, but since the Crips were known to wear blue bandanas, the Pirus and the other groups decided to discontinue the wearing of blue bandannas. They decided to take on the wearing of an opposite color, red, and created a united organization which later became known as the Bloods. The Pirus, Brims, Athens Park Boys, and Pueblos decided to unite with the Bloods, and soon after, other groups who had been threatened or attacked by Crips joined the Bloods.
Blood signs:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Bloods_-_Gang_Sign.jpg
Spells "BLOOD"
http://blog.masslive.com/parquetpride/2008/04/large_bloods-gang-sign.jpg
B for Blood.
5-Point Star:
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:pAao79ViRxOfmM:http://www.lampholderpub.com/redstar.jpg
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:2CRd1FTUBrzWmM:http://www.gangsrreal.com/images/hand-sign7.jpg
Folk
History
Folk Nation originated in the Chicago area, it has sub-gangs with their own alliances. Blacks, Whites and Latinos are part of this gang, their color is black or blue, and sometimes purple around here. Within the Folk Nation alliance there are many gangs which all have their own unique colors, hand signs and organization. (Folk are in alliance with the crips, meaning bloods are rivals as well as people nation). Their symbol is 6-point star, and the pitchfork. After a prosperous beginning in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the alliance started to break apart in the early 1990s due to wars over money and drugs between fellow Folks gangs. After the split each leader was considered a king in his own right. Each king having loyalty to the national rules, but following only their set rules.
http://www.clarksvillesecure.com/hand-sign.jpg
Pitchfork (Turned down, showing disrespect.)
http://www.gangwar.com/pics/sign08.gif
Folk graffiti, 6-point star and pitchfork
Nazi Low Riders (NLR)
History
The gang originated in the mid to late 1970s as middlemen and muscle for the Aryan Brotherhood. As opposed to other white criminal gangs in California prisons, the NLR gained a reputation for being very violently pro-active instead of reactionary. They are labeled as very disruptive and offensive by the California Department of Corrections. They are strong in numbers in such California communities as Oildale, Bakersfield, Inland Empire, and Orange County. The Nazi part of their name is more a sign of a racist belief in white supremacy than anti-Semitism, while Lowriders is a play on the term used for Hispanic gangs.
The gang eventually progressed from being muscle for the Brotherhood to a fast-growing gang in their own right. Unlike other white supremacist gangs, they appear to be well organized and have developed links with other white gangs throughout the West Coast including the Ku Klux Klan. Paroled gang members have been known to move east to further spread the organization's reach.
On January 28, 1999, California prison officials recognised the Lowriders as a "disruptive" gang, and inmates known to be members could now be subject to be removed from general population and other restrictive treatment in an attempt to disrupt the gang's criminal activities. The Lowriders responded by striking an alliance with Public Enemy No.1, another white prison gang, which has since taken over the reins on California's white mainline prison population. Where Aryan Brotherhood and NLR have left off, PENI or Public Enemy No.1 (Pronounced 'PEE NYE') plan to continue the 'key holding'. In prison the Nazi Lowriders have a three-tier hierarchy system consisting of senior members, junior members and kids. For senior status, gang members must have been active for at least five years and been elected by at least three other senior members. Below them are juniors, who cannot themselves induct new members but can attempt to recruit potentials. Kids usually come from smaller gangs like Public Enemy No.1, and the senior member who inducts them becomes their mentor. On the streets the organization structure is not so clear and appears to be more loosely connected. The organization is involved in criminal activity both in and out of prison, notably in the production and distribution of methamphetamine and has become a major distributor of the drug in Southern California. They are also believed to work with biker gangs in the drug trade.
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:sjeRfAq0WK1wUM:http://www.gangsorus.com/NLRtat.gif
NLR tatto design
Various gang clothing and the meaning: http://www.gangwatchers.org/gang-dress.html
Thoughts? Info on gangs in your area? Opinions?
To get into a "set," you must be beat in. What the crips do in North Carolina is put 11 pennies around you in a circle. They beat the hell out of you until you get all the pennies. Then, to achieve a higher rank, you must do things like sleep with someone who has aids, or drive down the road at night with no headlights, and the first car to flash their headlights is chased down and you kill everyone in the car.
Crips
The Crips around here wear blue bandannas in the back left pocket, say things like C's up B's down, and Cllllat, while rolling there tounge on the l's. Their sign is the 6 point star. They do things like the "C-walk," or crip walk. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3x5Z80jtOE
At around 1:00, see how he is spelling crip with his feet?
History
In 1969, a Los Angeles youth named Raymond Washington, 15, organized a group of other neighborhood youths and started a gang called the Baby Avenues. The Baby Avenues wanted to emulate a gang of older youths who had been involved in gang activity since 1964 and provided minor crimes for the Black Panthers of Los Angeles. This gang was called the Avenue Boys since they claimed their turf on Central Avenue in East Los Angeles. Raymond Washington, along with Stanley "Tookie" Williams and several other gang members from the Baby Avenues Gang were fascinated with the hype of the Black Panthers and they wanted to develop the Baby Avenues gang into a larger force. The Baby Avenues Gang began using the name Avenues Cribs since members lived on the avenue (Central Avenue). Crib members would wear blue scarves (now called bandannas) around their necks or heads. The color blue became their representative color. In 1971, the use of the word 'Crip' had become so common among the Avenues Cribs that it became an acceptable name for the gang. Meanwhile, Raymond Washington and his collection of young gang members influenced other area youth gangs resulting in the formation of many Crip sets. Some of these sets included Avalon Garden Crips, Eastside Crips, Inglewood Crips and Westside Crips. Crips gangs were violent and constantly expanded their turf.
That snippet OP posted is incorrect. The Crips had nothing to do with black panthers it was just something that a few kids from the boys homes in California started, they based it off of other gangs from the 50s and 60s in California who went around with canes beating people up. The Crip name came from the fact that they would walk around with canes and fight eachother. Another fallacy is that Stanley Williams had anything to do with the formation of the Crips, the Crips were founded by Raymond Washington and Munkeyman (no shit) back in the mid 60s, Tookie didn't come along until 68-1970. Also Tookie only found out about Crips after he moved to California from New Orleans because he went to a boys home for trying to rape his sister. He had nothing to do with starting the crips and he just hung around them and started a little sub-set on the Westside, he also started the Eight-Trey Gangsta Crips set. People used to look up to him because he was really buff (he used to rob pharmacies and shit and was taking +100mg dianabol daily when he was a kid) but he was actually nothing more than a drug addict. He used to run around the steets naked on PCP and would beat down people for nothing. Also that Eight-Trey set I was talking about, Tookie raped a lot of kids from that neighborhood (83rd street). He would chase them around and fuck them with beer bottles and his dick. He also had sex with his pit bulls. The guy was a real fuckup. I met the DA and the guy that prosecuted him when he went to jail for killing one white guy and an entire Asian family and a lot of Crips from Los Angeles, and most of those crips hated his ass. You should read his memoir (steal it don't buy it) it's funny how he mentions all of this with great subtlety. He was a gay ass faggot. Barbara Becnel (the bitch who wrote those children's books for him, the one's that sold about 200 copies each) tried to get him off of the hook because she's a black-power supremacist. In court he even admitted that he didn't write the books, because he was (back in the early 80s) trying to make the case that he had brain damage and thus couldn't have remembered if he did the crimes or not. He later gave up on that and just tried to say he was innocent. He only stopped gangbanging in the early 90s when he eventually got raped in the showers and that one retard Tiequon Cox stabbed him. That's when he realized he needed to stop worrying about blue rags and tricking gullible white people in to thinking he was innocent. Anyway I know a lot about that guy and LA gangs and let me say there's nothing interesting about them.
One major thing is that every crip has to know what each point on the 6 point star means. According to yahoo! answers, every point means life, loyalty, understanding, knowledge, wisdom, and love.
Crip Signs:
http://www.gangsrreal.com/images/hand-sign8.jpg
The "C"
http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/la_gang_signs.jpg
Self explanatory.
http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/image.php?u=390&dateline=1244137339
6-Point Star(stolen from Zay's avatar)
Bloods
Bloods wear red bandannas in the back right pocket, say things like B's up C's down, bllllllllat, soowoop, ect. They also have the "Blood Walk."
Blood walk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq0IKmqNIaw
History
Crips gangs were violent and constantly expanded their turf. Because of their aggression, several rival gangs joined forces as a gang collective called the Bloods. They adopted the color Red as their representative color. A fierce rivalry between these two gangs existed throughout the 1970's and 80's. By the early 1980's, Crips gangs were heavily involved in the drug trade that they commenced an expansion throughout the United States to sell a new drug product called "Crack". Throughout the 1980's and 1990's the Crips developed intricate networks and a respected reputation with other gangs across America and neighboring countries. By late 1971 the Avalon Garden Crips and the Inglewood Crips joined forces with the other crip sets. The Crips began to expand to non-Crip gang territories. The L.A. Brims which began in 1969 on the Westside were a powerful street gang, but they were not Crips, and the Blood alliance had not been established. Several gangs which eventually became part of the Blood family had already existed though.
There were also the Piru Street Boys in Compton, the Bishops, Athens Park Boys and the Denver Lanes. The Pirus, which are Bloods now, actually hung out with the Crips prior to 1972. For a short time they were known as the Piru Street Crips, and they also wore the traditional blue rags (bandana) as part of their attire. How to combat Crip intimidation was discussed along with the creation of a new alliance to counter the Crips. At that time the color of bandannas was not important, but since the Crips were known to wear blue bandanas, the Pirus and the other groups decided to discontinue the wearing of blue bandannas. They decided to take on the wearing of an opposite color, red, and created a united organization which later became known as the Bloods. The Pirus, Brims, Athens Park Boys, and Pueblos decided to unite with the Bloods, and soon after, other groups who had been threatened or attacked by Crips joined the Bloods.
Blood signs:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Bloods_-_Gang_Sign.jpg
Spells "BLOOD"
http://blog.masslive.com/parquetpride/2008/04/large_bloods-gang-sign.jpg
B for Blood.
5-Point Star:
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:pAao79ViRxOfmM:http://www.lampholderpub.com/redstar.jpg
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:2CRd1FTUBrzWmM:http://www.gangsrreal.com/images/hand-sign7.jpg
Folk
History
Folk Nation originated in the Chicago area, it has sub-gangs with their own alliances. Blacks, Whites and Latinos are part of this gang, their color is black or blue, and sometimes purple around here. Within the Folk Nation alliance there are many gangs which all have their own unique colors, hand signs and organization. (Folk are in alliance with the crips, meaning bloods are rivals as well as people nation). Their symbol is 6-point star, and the pitchfork. After a prosperous beginning in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, the alliance started to break apart in the early 1990s due to wars over money and drugs between fellow Folks gangs. After the split each leader was considered a king in his own right. Each king having loyalty to the national rules, but following only their set rules.
http://www.clarksvillesecure.com/hand-sign.jpg
Pitchfork (Turned down, showing disrespect.)
http://www.gangwar.com/pics/sign08.gif
Folk graffiti, 6-point star and pitchfork
Nazi Low Riders (NLR)
History
The gang originated in the mid to late 1970s as middlemen and muscle for the Aryan Brotherhood. As opposed to other white criminal gangs in California prisons, the NLR gained a reputation for being very violently pro-active instead of reactionary. They are labeled as very disruptive and offensive by the California Department of Corrections. They are strong in numbers in such California communities as Oildale, Bakersfield, Inland Empire, and Orange County. The Nazi part of their name is more a sign of a racist belief in white supremacy than anti-Semitism, while Lowriders is a play on the term used for Hispanic gangs.
The gang eventually progressed from being muscle for the Brotherhood to a fast-growing gang in their own right. Unlike other white supremacist gangs, they appear to be well organized and have developed links with other white gangs throughout the West Coast including the Ku Klux Klan. Paroled gang members have been known to move east to further spread the organization's reach.
On January 28, 1999, California prison officials recognised the Lowriders as a "disruptive" gang, and inmates known to be members could now be subject to be removed from general population and other restrictive treatment in an attempt to disrupt the gang's criminal activities. The Lowriders responded by striking an alliance with Public Enemy No.1, another white prison gang, which has since taken over the reins on California's white mainline prison population. Where Aryan Brotherhood and NLR have left off, PENI or Public Enemy No.1 (Pronounced 'PEE NYE') plan to continue the 'key holding'. In prison the Nazi Lowriders have a three-tier hierarchy system consisting of senior members, junior members and kids. For senior status, gang members must have been active for at least five years and been elected by at least three other senior members. Below them are juniors, who cannot themselves induct new members but can attempt to recruit potentials. Kids usually come from smaller gangs like Public Enemy No.1, and the senior member who inducts them becomes their mentor. On the streets the organization structure is not so clear and appears to be more loosely connected. The organization is involved in criminal activity both in and out of prison, notably in the production and distribution of methamphetamine and has become a major distributor of the drug in Southern California. They are also believed to work with biker gangs in the drug trade.
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:sjeRfAq0WK1wUM:http://www.gangsorus.com/NLRtat.gif
NLR tatto design
Various gang clothing and the meaning: http://www.gangwatchers.org/gang-dress.html
Thoughts? Info on gangs in your area? Opinions?