Westside Eight Trey (83) Gangster Crips are a predominately African-American street gang, founded during the mid 1970s as a splinter gang off the Original West Side Crips, that was lead by Stanley Tookie Williams.
Kody Scott (aka Sanyika Shakur), a member of this gang wrote a popular autobiography entitled An Autobiography of an L.A. Gangs Member while he was in prison during the late 1980s and early 1990s and in 2006 the rights to his book were sold and adopted into a screen play.
According to Shakur’s book, an O/G named Big Sidewinder was the founder who created this neighborhood which was a split off from Tookie’s West Side Crips (p. 80). The gang started on 83rd Street but eventually spread north and south stretching from roughly Gage to Century, covering over 40 city blocks. Over the years, the formed several clicks including the Original South Side, Deep South Side, Bacc West Side, Far West Side and Nutty North Side. A section of their turf extends west past Western Avenue where St Andrews Park is located.
Scott has appeared on BET, 20th Century, and 60 minutes, and several other programs and magazines discussing his experiences in gangs addressing the gang situation in Los Angeles. His younger brother, Kershaun “Lil Monster” Scott has been very influential in the peace movement and was involved in the gang truce of 1992.
Monster (b. 1963) was named to the top 10 most wanted gang members February 7, 2007 and was arrested on March 7, 2007 for assault and car-jacking. According to the LAPD press release (March 8, 2007) Scott was identified on the 7600 block of Brighton Street by a tipster and was later apprehended. The LAPD also stated that Scott had been in and out of prison for 26 years of his life and that he was the “self proclaimed founder” of the Eight Tray Gangster Crips. Lil Monster appeared in the HBO documentary, Bastards of the Party (2005).
Because of the media popularity of this gang, it is one of the most reported Los Angeles based Crip gangs in the United States having been identified in Denver, CO; Aurora, CO; Hennepin, Minnesota; Harris County, TX; Wichita, KS; St. Louis, MO; Albuquerque, NM; and Portland, OR. These other gangs are not connected to Los Angeles and are not part of a national network. Youth from these cities have adapted this identity because of its popularity.
The Rollin 60s Crips are their main rivals and this conflict goes back to 1979. It is one of the biggest and most fierce rivalries between any two gangs in the County. Although there have been some new conflict during the 21st Century that has been extremely violent, such as the Blood Stone Villain vs. Pueblos Bloods and the East Coast Crips vs. Florence, the conflict between the 60s and 83s are among two of the largest gangs in Los Angeles and has existed for over 30 years unabated.
The rivalry between the Rollin 60s and Eight Trays has become a rivalry between N-Hood Crips and Gangster Crips, which extends the conflict from the two gangs into a regional one. This rivalry is discussed in Scott’s book Autobiography of an LA Gang Member and Donald Bakeer’s book, Crips.
Thus far, a truce or a cease fire between these 2 sets has not been implemented, but if possible a truce between all “Gangster Crip” sets that fall under the Eight Trays, and the N-Hood sets which fall under the Rollin Sixties would be revolutionary.
The ETG are also rivals to all “Rollin 0s” gangs which would include the Rollin 40s, Rollin 30s and the Rollin 90s. Their rivalry “NeighborHood” or “NH” gangs included the 67 NeighborHood Crips (67 NHC), located on the north side of their territory.
They are rivals to all Blood gangs but their main Blood rivalry is with the Inglewood Family Gang (IFG) located to the west of their territory but it must be noted that their rivalry with the Rollin’ 60s Crips is stronger than with any blood gang. The IFGs are attributed for the first ETG casualty (Autobiography of an LA Gang Member, p. 28) which predates their rivalry with the Sixties (1979). Their Crip rivalries include: Rollin 30′s, 40NH, 55NH, 57NH, 58NH, 60NH, 67NH, 90NH, 100′S NH, NH103HTHC, 111NH, 112NH, 115NH, UnderGround Crips, BCG, Menlo Crips, BudLong Crips, Geer Gang, 99 Mafia Crips, and 87 Gangsta Crips.
Graffiti of the 83 Gangster Crips crossed out by 67 NHC, 2002
Deceased member of ETG
- 8-Ball ( – July 1981)
- Ricardo “Bub” Sims, 32, (Feb. 24, 1954 – Jan. 10, 1987)
- Cocaine ( – 1981)
- D.B.
- Dirty Butch ( – 1981)
- Lucky ( – 1979)
- Roach
- Shannon Hatley, 14 (Feb. 4, 1965 – Apr. 15, 1979), believed to have been killed by an Inglewood Family Blood member
- Cedric Raynard “Tit Tit” Diggs, 17 (June 9, 1963 – Aug 23, 1980), shot and killed by Rollin 60s member
- James “Twinky” Cameron, 16, (Feb. 29, 1964 – Oct. 26, 1980), shot and killed by Rollin 60s member
- Wicc 1
Fkree all the real ones fkrom eight tray!
Baby maniac fkrom the nutty north and my nigga lil sin from the west!
West Anaheim Delmonte Blocc Gangsta Crip
Tray Foe Goon Squad GANGSTARS MOVIN!!!
Nappk donkeyk anybodyk all day!
FKree my nigga tiny mad D fkrom playboy gangsta crip also scar and tip lok fkrom California Garden Crip….baby cyke fkrom shotgun 3!!!
Trays up G’s M3v4n
crips n folks r cousins so y u throwin up fk folk n crip bkeef wit bklood
- CK CK CK CK CK CK 83K 60K 90K 100K 101K 103K CK CK CK CK CK 87K FUCK CKRIP ! B108D XR DONT BANG ! CKRABS (CK)RIPS (R)UN (I)N (P)ACKS !
FUGC A SLOBK TR3Y GANG OR DONT BKANG NIGGA TR3Y UP OR GET SPRAYED UP 83RD GC^^^^^^^^
Fuck a ckrab nikka its 9 trey gangsta blood on my flag
Fuhk slobs on 8tray Gangsta
Tray Luccy said it
Yall watch out for this snitching as nigga Big Suavo he lives on the tre hes a undercover watch out for that nigga we got to get him out the hood hes a light skinned kat bout 6Feet 5 tall
So my folks tell me about this quote on here . I read this shit just now and I’m like wow. This ain’t nobody but Holisha Dunbar with her bald headed chicken feet having ass can’t keep a nigga cuz yo ass too flat and you too fat BIATCH!!! That shit is a myths fuckin lie bitch!!!! I ain’t never no snitch , but I’ll fuck yo bitch. Immabeaplaya Fa life Bitch!!! Figure out who yo baby daddy is bitch!!!!! Lol….. Lmmfaootmff!!!! Karma is a bitch!!!! All I gotta say is Stop Hating on me!!!! Get a life u punk bitch!!!!!
Oh yeah that snitching ass pussy nigga lives at 1308 w 83rd st ,los angeles, ca the little homey is facing life behind this bitch ass nigga
I wish two thing of you gangstas: (1) all y’all ignorant ass uncle toms could be shipped back in time to pick cotton for your white master (2) you weak cowards would man up and stop being enemies of black people. Next time you want to set trip, take your weak ass to the Internet and google Black Panther Party, Frantz Fanon, Emmett Till, Malcolm X, and Nat Turner. Cowards. This is from someone who used to claim one of these sets.
Ill be a Crip Till i die nigga
I have heard some say that when they party, the Rolling 60s are on top and the ETGs are on bottom.
But I’ve heard other people say that the ETGs are tops and the R60s are bottoms.
Still others say that they’re both versatile and often tag team out.
So – what is the truth? Are ETGs bottoms or tops? What about the R60s?
83RD GANGSTAZ BEEN RIVALS WITH THE ROLLIN 60s SINCE THE MID/LATE 70s… 83RD CRIPS BRANCH OFF TOOKIES (WEST SIDE CRIPS) AND HAS REPUTABLE FOUNDERS SUCH AS LIL MONSTER AND SIDE WINDER C.I.P! ETGC AAND THE OTHER GANGSTA LOCS RUN THE WEST,BUT ITS SAFE TO SAY C’s UP CRIP IS CRIP! GET OFF DAT HATE SHIT CUZ!!!
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CRIP GANG FUCK THE REST
West up movins ETG 4life Lou.Dogg.2 cuzzz trays up napp bashin all day.
Tray .G ‘s movin
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young puSSY sloBS…..
hit a slob in his lip watch his favorite color drip # westside eight tray gangster crip till i die
West up loc ETG fo life claaaat.
Hoe nigga’s don’t know what it is, back home from 14years in the Pen I knew real crippin amongs locs in MDOC!!!!!! ETG tray till my death claaaat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8tray all day its pacman yall kno wat it is 6 poppin 5 droppin fucc wit me claat yall niggas kno bout dat crip shit fucc dese slobk ass niggas
E8t3GC 4 life Cuz bk 60k all mutherfucc day homie
Are the Eight Treys even Crips anymore?? Yeah they “claim” Crip, but are they really Crips? They don’t even push “Bk” like that. They push the “gangsta card” and “nappk” way harder than “bk”. And they’re tight with the Families so that pretty much says everything.
Exactly there not crips they get along with bloods because the n card is ruining 5hit smh
b tagS!
ETG tha fucc up…movin cuz
FuCC all yall Trampks Cuz R90lliN 90′s Cuz
Far w3skt 8tray gangskterk crip.
Fuck tramps ese! yall foos took my homies shit and jumped him! fucking crabsK this v.EK13 99 st MKA that’s our hood! manchester to century normindie to vermont! EvilKlan X111 99ST and budlong!
since when thats been y’all hood don’t get done like the 99 maggots
8trey til my casket drop fucc wat hater tink
Man I’m 83Gangsta And All The Rest Yall Tr3ys Know We Don’t Start Trouble We Let It Come To Us
Let Them Slobs And Another Thing , We Not Beefing With 60′s Nomore That Been Over Get Yall Shit Together But Every Loc Ain’t Ya Loc
wes m83vn wes m83vn wes m83vn we m83vn 83GC M83vn with no bkreakes
NNS 83GC fuck bloods kings ms sur this is Crip !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3x
trays up top 3rays gang xr dont bkang
these foos funny now n days…
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