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During the 1970s, most of Compton and the territory east of Long Beach Boulevard was dominated by the Kelly Park Compton Crips and Neighbourhood Compton Crips. The only unclaimed territory was the area west of Long Beach Boulevard, which is where the South Side Compton Crips formed.
In the 1993 song "Piru Love" by Bloods & Crips, the Tree Top Piru is mentioned in the lines "Tree Top is to the left, Fruit Town is on the right." In his 1994 song "Dollaz + Sense", DJ Quik, who was affiliated with the Tree Top Piru, [9] refers to the gang when he says "West side trees sprayin' all the fleas."
The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California.Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips began as an alliance between two autonomous gangs, and developed into a loosely connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one ...
Tired of having to scrap their way through the streets of West Compton in the early 1970s, A.C. Moses and his childhood friends banded together to defend against the other local gangs that were ...
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), have been in a gang war since around 1971. [36] [37] It has mostly taken place in major American cities, especially L.A., but is also present in Australia, Belize, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
The Nutty Blocc Compton Crips are a "set" of the Crips gang alliance, based in Compton, California. The Nutty Blocc Compton Crips have been described as one of the larger Crip sets in Compton [ 1 ] and several influential rappers have been associated with the gang.
The Game joined the Cedar Block Piru when he was in high school, although his parents were members of the Crips. One source states that his parents were from the Santana Blocc Compton Crips, [ 6 ] while another source claims his mother was from Hoover Street Crips, while his father was from the Nutty Blocc Compton Crips. [ 7 ]
Stanley Tookie Williams III [1] [2] (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angeles' first major African-American street gang.