Gangs segregate the people I'm a Puerto Rican that had to fight both bloods and kings for being Neutral on the island there's bigots on both sides I believe we all children of the ghetto ...ghetto brothers& sisters ! One nation one love !
It's fukked up man. I remember a segment of 'Incarcerated Scarfaces' where Puerto Rican dude grew up with his black homie. He said in prison he would have to wreck his boy...regardless of their history cause that's just how it is in prison. You stick with your own kind. Prison and gang culture hold us black and brown people back big time!
That's ruff bro, I was ot an neutral on a tier full of kings an bloods (smm) down state NJ shit was crazy but I held my own ya heard, respect bro couldn't imagine what it was like on rikers
Word son nigga probably saying to him self nah it couldn't went down like that until nigga speak on Shea behalf and say he'll yeah Shea get down he'll yeah he was behind the wall handling his spill
Being a NYC/NJ cat when got out of the military in 1998 and I came back to see all these youngins wearing all this red I knew then we were going to hell in hand basket. Mind you I left in 1995. That cancer had spread exponentially fast.
I had a similar experience. My grandma raised me and my little sisters. We moved back and forth...from NJ/Philly to MD/VA. I went back to visit and it was nothing but red... Philadelphia Phillies hats everywhere. I used to always say that Crip Blood shyt would never make it in NJ/NY/Philly. I was very wrong. I knew it was over. One of those rap gangster rap songs used to say coming to a city near you. I was like foh. Lol Jokes on me.
I'm from the Soundview section of the Bronx. I was in JHS 123 and I remember when Soundview Projects turn red in 1996. They used to war with the LKs on Watson Ave inside and outside of the school. 96-99 Soundview got really crazy. It was tough being a teenager at the time
"How could a bunch'a suckas in a town like this have such a big influence on brothas so far away 🤔" --DJ Quik "Jus Lyke Compton", 1992 That's back when MC's had things to say worth listening to 💯💯
WHEN B AND C CAME TO NYC I WAS MAD BUT NOT SURPRISED IM FROM THE OLD SCHOOL SLAPBOXING MOM KNOW MY FRIEND MOM OLDHEADS GIVING WISDOM. I NEVER EVER THOUGHT WE WOULD BE A FOLLOWER WE WAS DECEP AND AUTOBOTS
I remember Meeting a Brother who was A Crip in Queens Village talking with some Young kids. He was from from Cali. Which part I don't recall. It was mid 90s. The Young kids were asking him all these questions about Cali and Gang Life. They wanted to start a Set. I remember Him telling them " No. This ain't the Movies." As He and I walked away He said To Me: "This Lifestyle ain't for Y'all out Here." The Next time I say Him He was with Dr. Khalid abdul Muhammad on Donahue. 🙏🏾
This lifestyle is for the ignorant. If they are ignorant let them bang because they are looking for something bad to do they are looking for a reason to ruin they life. Bangin ain't the one thing that will decide the the disastrous fate of the black youth and you can see in places like D.C and Philly that there's a bigger problem here because those places don't bang but they are amongst the most terrible places to raise black youth.
One of the channels that thrust Blood and Crip gang culture to the East Coast and South was media glamorization through rap music. A lot of these West Coast artists from various Blood and Crip sets in L.A literally encouraged New York and Atlanta rappers to bear red and blue: - Mack 10 influenced Lil Wayne and Cash Money - Joe Moses influenced Wacka Flocka Flame and Brick Squad - Compton Menace influenced Chris Brown - Glasses Malone influenced Brooklyn rappers Etc Music industry played a heavy part in pushin West Coast street tradition to other regions of the country.
I live near East Orange NJ and it was almost overnight that crews around turned RED and it spread crazy...NYC wasn't on it in tha streets like that yet but when tha City got poppin'...shit was UP Fr ...I had ppl on both sides so it got shakey...somehow my team stayed us
my older homie was one of the first that was repping blood in like 96-97 and i had a red Tommy Hilfiger shirt and til this ill always remember when he said “be careful with that shirt, if you with me or my homies with me you good but if not niggas gonna try to get you”, i wasnt a thug or some corny nigga but that nigga scared the shit outta me that day lol. they hit the bronx hard, like outta no where.
I left NY in 2001. NEVER heard nothing bout bloods or crips in NY til years later living in Florida. Still hurts that NY cats let that garbage come there.
@@MrWARBUCKS24 I was in my 30's when I left. Born and raised in those streets. Bed Stuy. Crown heights. Redhook. Rockaway. Me and nobody I knew never heard none of whatever yall talkin about.
I remember back in the 90’s blood initiation was to ask a person the time and then cut them. They were running around cutting everyone. Everyone in blu was out numbered on the Island, so if you was on the Rock and repped “C” there was a level of respect associated with it, due to the fact you was willing to rep the set and not switch sides ( some were respected, but some still got slashed )
Gangs are for the weak minded and the leader is the weakest but the followers don't realize it. I've been working with gang members for 11 years from inside the alternative to incarceration programs, C-74 on Rikers and now the DOE. I respect the kids as individuals but I will never respect anything that destroy our communities and our people period!
Listen, I'm a bronx dude, came up in the early 90s. The thing i hate abiut this new blood, crip stuff on the East is once y'all started this shit, you automatically became California's little sons. We never followed shit in NYC, we were trendsetters with our own shit. Now, we followi g Cali gangs and blocks. How u live on the East Coast and rep a neighborhood in Cali??? Makes no sense. Why not rep your own block back East??
I remember Snoop said years back if you set claiming outside of Cali, keep it outside of Cali. And now today it’s weird because in NY crips beef with GDs🤦🏿♂️
@@Lamar0305 ik where it's from I'm saying snoop have nothing to do with the beef and fivio is young crip and gd was already around by the time he came outside
For me I remember when Folks and C 's use to be allies.. Gds is under the folk nation ...As along as I can remember folks and C's always rocced out but they sometimes they kinda shaky just like the bloods and God bodies
@@youngfase5 I know Snoop ain’t got nothing to do with the beef but he was saying if you Crip outside of Cali it’s not respected I’m sure GDs in Chicago feel the same way. Idk where the beef stem fro but they are pushing that beef under crip and GD card and it don’t make sense
The story i heard from a reliable source is in 1992 Naughty By Nature brought crips to the east coast because NBN used crips as protection when on the west coast. And some came back east with NBN and set up shop in north jersey and some jails in the area
NY nxggz telling stories: 'So nah mean, came through nah mean, pulled out the tool and nah mean, the minute nah mean left, all nah mean on the floor leaking nah mean'.. Thats how it happened.
And contrast that there are no NewYork street politics in L.A. what so ever. Not even Italians who once had a slight hold in L.A. long long time ago. Get that to make sense.
i remember during the back to school year 1997 bein a sophmore in high school thats when the bloods were startin to make noise and after thst the crips came along
U are speaking facts bcuz I always tell people I remember vividly around Halloween' 97 when I first came in contact with bloods and crips in NY I was in the 4th grade. It kills me when people talk as if this shyt just got to NY saying Shit like so and so just became a member at 25. I laugh bcuz I know the truth. If I'm 33 now and I was 9 when I first came in contact with it its safe to say these Lil 15-21 Year olds grew up in it. Shit I grew up in it .I just never participated in that goofy shyt.
Yeah 1997 was the year everybody in ny was turning blood. I remember that Halloween was initiation night and they was cutting civilians and looking for harmless people to cut like suckers.
@UCFf3hv2Ar-2sN7qk5kKmusg yeah I remember all that foolishness. I used to have to wear a blue uniform to school and i had grown men bloods trying to approach me about being crip. One of the set leaders had to tell dudes how yall tryna fight little kids for them to fall back.
My brother became a Crip because back in the 90s he was riding the (A) train in the stuy and bloods tried to cut him for initiation. A latin king member jumped in and helped him. They created a monster.
Why become a crip though…. I heard that same story over and over again with other niggaz that join gangs…. Just mask up and ride on any blood 🩸 that you see . If it’s personal keep it personal…. Ain’t none of them niggaz in his set gonna take care of his kids if he do a Long long bid or catch life…. Life will go in , outta site outta mind
Yo salute shea davis bro. From i met this dude in the club. He has always been the same. Consistently a real dude. Never bullied nobody unless you tried to bully him. 💯
In 97 kings n crips was living in Greene if u were blood living you either had to kno somebody or u was really about that life! The funny thing years down the line I don't kno about up north but on rikers the dynamics changed n the bloods n kings had a truce under the five point star
How it hurt NY hip hop when it's been in NY going on 30yrs these kids under 30 making music don't know about NYC before bloods and crips it is NY to them
@@MrWARBUCKS24 yeah that’s true but if you 35 and up you know that is not original what N.Y represents but your right the youth don’t know and they are the ones adding value to the music
35 & up grew up in it to. I was 11 when the bloods hit BK. 12 the Crips hit hard(in BK). LA youth at one point saw Black Panthers(not black on black crimes). Crips n Bloods in NY wasn't some fad like st Louis joining after the movie Colors dropped. It all hit for a reason in NY
Math is a genius with these guest cause even though he doesn’t watch prison videos he has someone talking prison on the show cause he knows RU-vidrs love prison talk conspiracy relationships ect
The B's and C's started coming to NY in '93. I remember specifically, and how they were initiating the recruits, they'd ride with their lights off, and anyone that flashed them, they'd go after and shoot. My boy Teder warned me about it. He moved to Florida from Buffalo and joined the Bloods.
Listening to our brother tell his prison story was mad sad and hurtful. Fam literally had to be lower himself to protect himself. That is a tragedy in itself. You can not win with that kind of mentality or lifestyle. Looks like the brother changed his life for the better because he is in no way glorifying that experience. I appreciate his honesty.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW NEW YORK WENT FROM DISSING LOS ANGELES IN THE MID 90S To wanting to be like Los Angeles with the whole Bloods and Crips thing in New York? I don't get that!
That's easy. In 93 a west coast blood started Nine Tray, in Rikers Island. When they where being oppressed by the Latin kings. And New York never dis L.A... New York always been passive to the west. L.A just keep east coast niggas 🥒 in they mouth🤔. I'm from Baltimore though and all that gang shit corny
@@lamontjackson4351 You don't remember the Source awards where New York was dissing everybody from the west coast? You don't remember that? I remember it as clear as day!
@@mr.robertepps2021 I grew up Piru. They organized because of Mexicans🤣. That fighting white people shit is cap. Name one gang member that ever slide on a blank face 😶
From 1969 - 2001 I was born and raised in Brownsville. Was all over them streets. All hours of day and night. Mostly by myself. Never saw no bloods. Never saw no crips. I cant speak on what was goin on in jail.....but I KNOW they wasnt in those streets THEN. I can't speak on it since I left.
Hof the day NY1 announces the death for Christpher Wallace they aired a segment right after the commercial break about the emergence of the Bloods in Brooklyn. Talk about programming.
@@elmalik7836 yeah homie that don't sound right. Stole from them, squabbled with one... straight up disrespect, and they got they lick back by dropping a kite... it's hard for me to believe that
@@crazyp4549 That's still CraZy homie...over a fade & store beef tho?!?! What kind of program is that? But he said that was his plan, so I guess it's really like that out there
@@dually81 how I know Shea Davis isn’t lying is because there’s a channel called St.Laz that tells NY Prison stories and he had a guest up there telling a story about Shea Davis in Prison. Mind you Shea Davis had told the same story on this very channel we watching now “Math Hoffa” well the dude on St.Laz channel told the same story with the same exact facts and way Shea Davis did
One summer (1994) I went to Busch Gardens and me and my cousin was chillin with these two white girls from PA we had met. When we told them that we was from NYC, They asked us were we in a gang and I remember my response. No we’re not in a gang, We’re not from LA. Wtf happened to us???
Freeway Rick Ross's network, NWA, the movie Colors had LA gang culture spreading around the US like wildfire. Never thought it would hit NY. Around 93, 94 started hearing stories. Got back to NY, a brother from 40 told me it was a response to the Latin Kings. So IllaGhee is correct. And you can't have Bloods without Crips
@@kingsupreme25 1996 it hit NY hard. I can't say when it first hit NY. I heard 91Crips in Harlem, 93bloods on Rikers Island. 1996 bloods were the ones hitting the streets, Wildin in every Boro(except Queens...97 or 98). 1996 was the first NY gang unit in black hoods. Latin hoods had the Kings n Netas already with a gang unit. 96 was the year both C's n B's in NY were making the news. The bloods from 95 and down weren't making any noise like 96 bloods were. 96 around Halloween we couldn't even wear red. Our school system banned that color on school grounds(275)
@@reece758 Never that! What set? What's their names? BK had a gang called the Rips in the 1950s. Early 80s was a gang called the Crows and their rivals called them Crip(crippled). Jersey was just like the rest(no sets). Just guys running from Cali like Crips in New Orleans in the early 90s. The city didn't claim it until later. New Jacc city had a Crip hit up on one of the scenes on a Blacc door
Technically yes and technically no at the same time . Because the original sets all fell under the UBN. I was in Spofford when the RAT Mack started UBN and that shit spread through even the juvie facilities like wildfires from kites from the island
@@crazyp4549 no UBN is the confederation formed in the jail which consisted of 9trey G-Shyne etc. 9 Trey Gangstas was the first set of the nation though
