 Gangs are very It's a different thing like say it's like say my daughter Was in high school when she was living in an area called the jungle which is uh if you saw a training day the last area that happened Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I seen it actually one of my partners. I was interviewing live over there It's not like it was before now. Okay, so that was blood. Yeah. Yeah, those are blood My daughter lived over there with her mom. Yeah when she was growing up. So I took her out to buy some sneakers I wanted to buy some blue sneakers. It's pretty much I I'm from a Crip area But then I When When I was in high school, I used to write gangbanger rhymes and I would write them I didn't even know what rap was. I would write these rhymes for the gangs to just Pretty much entertain these niggas. I never joined the gang because You're not in a gang. You're from a gang like a gang had LA gangs are based around neighborhoods so if I'm not What what neighborhood did you grow up in? I'm down in the country. I'm in Texas, you know So what neighborhood with an award or no, no, no, it's not a water nothing It's just when you in the country you and you got a you got a space here or space there And and you know, it's not like like you I know what you talking about like New Orleans got them more I should feel for your floor. Okay, so let's say if I'm in New Orleans, so I'm from 5th Ward See that's a that would be a gang right 5th Ward, whatever you not you can't get in it. You're from it. Yeah, yeah No, you already in it. You're in it. So if you if you're rolling 60 that means you live in the 60s That's the 60s. If you ate trays you live in the 80s. That's right 111s you live in so that's how it so I just because you live there that don't mean that you have to be a part of it You're part of it rather than like like you're joining as you're not active gang member. See there's a lot gangs are very It's a different thing. Like say it's like say my daughter Was in high school and she was living in an area called the jungle, which is uh if you saw training day the last area That happened. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I seen it actually one of my partners I was interviewing live over there. It's not like it was before now Okay, so that blood yeah, yeah, those bloods my daughter lived over there with her mom Yeah, when she was growing up, so I took her out to buy some sneakers I wanted to buy some blue sneakers because pretty much I I'm from a crib area Dad, I can't wear that over there. I'm like, why are you in a gang now, but I just don't I Don't need it's gonna cause a problem feel me So even if you're not in the gang you understand The culture of that the chick the codes in that area now you can be in a gang affiliate Like I'm a gang affiliate people know me from 60. They know me from Harlem's they know me from different sets But I never jumped in this set. You don't even get put on like that anymore, you know, but Then you got active gang members who are actually out putting in work Great, that's a different. There's a different degrees of how deep you are in the set You know, this cat's in the setting never put in work meaning actually going and shot at the rivals You see I'm saying if once you get in one of them cars and you go out and you handle That's active. Don't miss those are active motherfuckers, right? So it's kind of like the difference. I was in the army, but I never went down range. Yeah. Yeah, you know I was a peacetime war the different cats that actually went to Afghanistan You separate yourself from them as a veteran Correct, I've never been down range because you know how to combat that when you was a cringe show Was it was gang gang like like I know I talked with Melvin them and we talked about X and all the different guys Was gang with any of the friends that you associated yourself with in gangs? Everybody was there you go. Every that's why you say you in it, right? Everybody your cringe show was a gang quick when I went to cringe show I Would I graduated in 76? So I'm much older than big you and all that corrects, right? But and when I went there that was when they there were some bloods there They used to call it in the brims they were there but they moved over to manual arts and they moved to Dorsey and In cringe show you got Harlem Crips with your 30s. You're ETG's a trade gangster Crips You've got Hoover Crips, right? And you who are no longer Hoover Crips now they're Hoover criminals They're not Crips or blood right and then yeah, that's right They were orange they were orange and then you had the 60s which Crenshaw actually is in the 60s hood that that you know so That being said if you know enough people say you a gang member, right if you my mother fuck a man, I'm good If you fucks with me, I'm good. I don't need to be in the set. I'm good if I got a problem I got you ice that so Being affiliate the beauty of being an affiliate is you don't have beef with the other set That's right as soon as I've if I jump into Harlem Crips the hurt the 30s I got beef with all the enemies. Also. I'm held accountable To the rules of that that set which I'm not you know So out what happened was when I was in Crenshaw and all the gang shit was going around I started to to slide over toward the players Now at the same time it was gang bangers. They had players cats It was wearing tailors, you know getting their clothes made shooting dice wearing pearls like yeah the fly cats, right? But we had pistol too But you you you could float amongst the gang bangers because gang bangers are looking for the enemy They're not really looking for just somebody outside if I banged on you say yo, what's up cause? You know this role six you say nigga. I don't gang bang. Okay. All right. I in my brain. I punch you Wow, and in your brain you like I'm not even with that Keeping moving they not really out they looking for somebody to say bang back like what's happening? Yeah bow. Oh, there we go We got the conflict the conflict. Yeah, so anyway the gang shit was happening at Crenshaw heavy When I first started but if when you say my my era that was the era of tooky correct That was the area of Jamel correct. That was the area of era era of all these Acutes rusty all the legendary Barefoot pookie. Yeah, all these all these those are those are the old G's when when quipping was really starting in LA And then you got all the different blood gangs and stuff see Anything that's not a crib is a blood by default Meaning everything that I'm giving you gang bang Shit I spent my life out there So everything that's a crippled could be followed by Crip Harlem Crip. Who would Crip? Playboy Crips Funny Crips Venice shoreline Crip Crip Crip Crip anything else Inglewood family They don't call themselves Inglewood family bloods. There's Inglewood family a bath and park boys Denver lanes pyroos Those are all blood gangs, but they're not you understand so they're not even all connected those are separate gangs Bloodstone villains So anything that's not a get Crip is a blood by default. Yeah Wow, that's great sense. You make a lot of sense Okay, but the Crips are the biggest set but then you got to also remember the Mexican sets out there I don't think about though, but they definitely were there their 18th Street probably 18th Street is huge then you've got Harpy's you got Sattel's you've got East loaks you've got a MS-13 You know Making action out here in the east coast because you're closer to Jamaica, okay La is Mexico, right? La Siena, Gallagheria, Los Angeles. We are Mexico. So the the Mexican situation is serious