Grape Street Watts Crips
Grape Street, Los Angeles
Founding locationWatts
Years active1970s – present
TerritoryCalifornia, Tennessee,[1] New Jersey[2]
RivalsBounty Hunter Bloods[3]

The Grape Street Watts Crips is a Crip subset based in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The gang's rivalry with the Bounty Hunter Bloods has been described as being "the most violent and long lasting feud between two gangs that are in the Watts area."[3]

History

Brandon "BL" Bullard, a veteran of the Grape Street Watts Crips, was murdered by the East Coast Crips in 2008. The murder of Bullard sparked a war that resulted in 26 wounded and 9 dead in the six weeks that followed.[4]

Media appearances

Members of the Grape Street Watts Crips appeared in the documentary Crips and Bloods: Made in America, directed by Stacy Peralta.[5] Another Crips member and legendary rapper Eazy-E mentioned the area of Grape Street and maybe the gang's set of the same name in that territory in his song "Creep n Crawl".

See also

References

  1. ^ "16 with ties to 'Grape Street Crips' gang indicted on drug trafficking". August 7, 2019.
  2. ^ "The gang leader who loved Instagram. Inside the takedown of Jersey's notorious Grape Street Crips". August 5, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CORDELL HAWKINS, Defendant and Appellant" (PDF). Superior Court of Los Angeles County. June 8, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  4. ^ Temple-Rastan, Dina (June 8, 2008). "Cops Target L.A. Gangs' 'Shot Callers'". National Public Radio. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  5. ^ Stacy Peralta (Director) (January 20, 2008). Crips and Bloods: Made in America (Motion picture). United States: PBS.

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