What does Grape Street Crips stand for?

The Grape Street Crips are a predominantly black street gang from South Los Santos. In addition to wearing blue & grey, the Grape Street Crips sport the color purple to signify Jamestown street, a north-south street in South Los Santos. They occupy Jamestown Street and Carson Avenue.

Who started Grape Street Watts Crips?

Wayne Day, known as Honcho, was a leader of a notorious Los Angeles street gang called the Grape Street Crips who dominated the area of Watts. Before he was arrested in 1996, Honcho led his gang to become one of the top drug rings in the country.

Is Grape Street a Gangster Crip?

Their territory stretches from 97th Street in the north to 107th Street in the south, between Wilmington Avenue in the west and Alameda in the east. They are the largest Crip neighborhood in Watts at 0.394 square miles and the second overall black gang in the area, 2nd to the Bounty Hunter Bloods.

Who do Grape St Crips beef with?

the Bounty Hunter Bloods
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.”

What does 8 tray mean?

eight tray gangster crips. The West Side (W/S) 83 Gangster Crips (pronounced Eight-tray) are one of Los Angeles’s most well known African-American Crip gangs.

Who is the king of Grape Street?

As the De Facto leader of Grape Street, Honcho was often called the “Godfather of Watts.” By the mid-1980s, Honcho’s Grape Street Gang had become a nationwide drug distribution organization with direct connections to the Mexican drug cartels.

What Crips are in Watts?

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.”