Grape Street Watts Crips – South Los Angeles | Jordan Downs | Baby Locos
Grape Street Crips from Watts Los Angeles during a funeral. Photo from Newsweek Magazine March 28, 1988 page 28
During the 1970s, this neighborhood was called Watts Varrio Grape (WVG), which included both Mexican and Black members together. When the Mexicans aligned themselves under the Sureno banner as South Siders, the Mexican members changed their name to South Side Watts Varrio Grape Street and the Black members went by East Side Watts Varrio Grape but by around 1986/87 the new Black members were known as East Side Grape Street Watts Baby Loc Crips.
All new black members after 1987 that were from the Jordan Downs Public Housing projects went by the new name, Baby Loc Crips, but some of the new members from the Anzacs, 95th, 97th Banderas Blocc, 105s, 107s and 112s clicks do not necessarily go by the name Baby Locs. Most of the Baby Loc Crips were from the 103rd Street click in the projects, therefore new black members did not claim WVG anymore, but some old long time members of this neighborhood (pre-1987) still by habit say WVG and still have WVG tattoos.
Their main rival would be the Bounty Hunter Bloods that are loctaed in the adjacent Public Housing called Nickerson Gardens, but since the Watts truce of 1992 their rivalry has not been as intense as it was during the 1980s and early 1990s but it does flare up periodically. The truce efforts that took place in Watts in 1992 should be a great example of what can be accomplished in other areas of the city if replicated in other neighborhoods.
The Grapes have several clicks that make up the entire neighborhood that include the following: Baby Locs, Peta Roll Squad, Peta Roc Squad, Peta Loc Squad, Parolee Squad, 95th, Bandera Blocc 97, 103rd, Dust Town Crip, Dust Town Hoggs, and Tip Top.
The Grape Streets have aligned themselves with most Tray neighborhoods such as the Eight Tray Gangsters and Play Boy Gangsters, most Compton Crip sets, but they have had a tenuous relationship with the Rollin 30s Crips.
Their area goes from 97th Street (north) to 107th Street (south) between Wilmington (west) and Alameda (east). They are the largest Crip neighborhood in Watts at 0.394 square miles and the second largest overall black gang in the area, second to the Bounty Hunter Bloods.
In addition to wearing blue, they like wearing purple for grape. They are named after a north-south street in Watts, Grape Street, and 103rd is the heart of their neighborhood. They occupy the Jordan Downs Public Housing and most residents attend Jordan High School which is located adjacent to the public housing.
Grape Street Watts clicks
– Anzac Grape Street Watts Crips (different from the ones in Compton)
– 95th Grape Street Watts Crips (one way streets)
– 97th Grape Street Watts Crips-Bandera Blocc (one-way streets)
– 103rd Grape Street Watts Baby Loc Crips (in the Jordan Downs Housing Projects)
– 105th Grape Street Watts Baby Locs (New Homes, Blue Gate Baby Locs)
– 107th Grape Street Watts Baby Locs Crip (off of Santana-the original street)
– 112th Grape Street Watts Crip (near Willowbrook St. near the train tracks)
– Dustown Hawgs
– Real Bo$$ Playaz
– East Side Kids
– Ten-Tray Ballaz (they live in the Blu-Gates)
– Parolees
– Playville
– Tip-Top
The Peda Roll Mafia click changed in 2006 to Peda Roll Squad, and they have no allegiance or relations with the “Mafia” Crip alliance.
A history of Grape Street was published in issue #2 of Allhood Magazine.
The Grape Streets made news headlines when Wayne “Big Honcho” Day was arrested in Minnesota on federal drug charges in 1996 and later convicted of narcotics violations and sentenced to 250 months in federal prison. He was released from prison in 2007.
In 2008 Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced a 10-count indictment against several alleged members of the Grape Street Crips for possession of PCP and hundreds of gallons of highly toxic precursor chemicals used to manufacture PCP. According to the 10-count indictment, the PCP manufacturing and distribution ring was led by Alphonso Eugene Foster, 38, a senior member of the Grape Street Crips, along with Kim Vernell Walker, 45, a long-time member of the Santana Blocc Crips.
The defendants charged in the primary 10-count indictment are as follows:
-Alphonso Eugene Foster, also known as “Al Foster” also known as “G-Al.” 38
-Kim Vernell Walker, also known as “Plex,” 45
-Michael Edward Baker, also known as “Butter,” and “B-Mike,” 33
-Latera Kyesha Lashana Odom, also known as “Kisha,” 25
-ML Scott, also known as “Rainbow,” also known as “Bow,” 43
-Kelvin Benn, also known as “Down,” 31
-Ronell Napier, also known as “Foe,” 38
-Darcell Morris, also known as “D,” also known as “Da,” and “Dar”
-Lydia Lenora Brown, also known as “Lydia,” 49
-Johnnie Lee Boyd Sr., also known as “John Lee,” 47
-Charlotte Wright Jackson, also known as “Charlotte,” 46
-Jamilah Latifa Terrell, also known as “Porky,” 26
-Anthony Rondele Robinzine, also known as “Bam,” 38
Deceased members of Grape Street Crips in Los Angeles
- 8-Ball
- Branden “Be-L” Bullard, 25, ( – January 25, 2008), shot and killed by East Coast Crip member
- Big De
- Butcher Loc
- C-Bone
- Carter Loc
- Chub
- Tiny Crazo
- Crow
- Devo
- Dirty C
- Lil Down Down, (November 15, 1990 – April 4, 2007)
- Eddie “Eddie Boy” Simpson, 22, (May 3, 1963 – March 4, 1986)
- G-Al
- Geo
- Gus Loc
- Hate
- High Tower
- K-Loc
- Kenneth “Kenny Crow Loco” Day, 26, (April 2, 1961 – November 27, 1987)
- Kodak
- Macc
- “Mickey” Chamberlin
- Jerome “Mr. Bone” Dunn, 21, (May 23, 1960 – March 25, 1982)
- Pine Yine
- Purplerain
- Lil Rob
- OG Darryl “Stomper” McCall, 20, (July 18, 1961 – December 13, 1981)
- Lil Tank
- Tee Roy
- T Mac
- Kejuan “Tweeter 9″ Bullard, 23, ( – March 19, 2008)
- Wino
- Young
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Ugh….. Niggers….. I can bet the old blacks are rolling in their graves. They spent their lives to become relevant in America and assimilate, and their decedents have spat on their legacy. Just look at the other comments. Not that white trash is even better. Both are trash.
I lost the lil homie Pee-Wee a long time ago, he was a good man he sold crack to feed his family and always brought some tequila to school he may have only been 13 but he was wise. I looked up to him he knew he was going to die or end up locked up so he always, put it out there that he was baby locc to the end I miss my dawg shit I dont know if he gone but he aint here feel me. Funny thing is you call us niggers though you lack the intelligence to understand that being in a gang is not a hobby it is a way of life. Most of the real and I mean REAL THUGS would taste your brain after they blew it out your skull. I won’t go there because I know where and who you are. Problem is bullets cost too much, and you are not worth it, were not Niggers until YOU say it LMFAO you are your own worst enemy. We get mad we hurt harm or destroy. Not because we’re “niggers” but because we’re men and white men have feared us since the beginning. So we graduated from whips and ropes to cotton and burning to dogs and water hoses to police brutality, now it’s down to one word, your hatred of us makes us want to kill you, but spilling white blood has been so taboo for hundreds of years, I have no problem shedding the blood of my brothers on this planet when their aim is to harm another so if I were you I would get nigger out of my system, because if we cross path, im checking the barometric pressure, the spin of the earth, wind speed and temperature, I want the conditions to be perfect. I DO NOT MISS.
Stfu up you smelly grape ape nigger you sound so angry and corny.
yep.. you’re a nigger.. get over it.. nigger
LMAO all these white kids…. Ur ALL A BUNCHA NOBODIES SO GET OVER IT LOSERS. stupid white boyz fuck white ppl. NOTHING BUT A BUNCHA COPS 187 on ur whole family
FUNNY SANFERR. What makes you such a winner. You sound really back dated. You share the same ignorance as the kkk. It’s interesting to hear back dated bullshit. Thanks for sharing. Shame you’ll amount to being much more than you’re ignorant ass is now.
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Fucc you & your Deadhomies Bitch
never hit da relly bitch hit yo ricky baby loccs
RIP Waywee ! Fucc Booty Holes !
Grape street is FAKE!!
faggots
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shout out to my Cig homies hunch o,d-rocc,j-rocc,Sasquatch, noland,
bunchi, taz, boot-loc and all my tip top homies
Texas Bkoy – O.G.Lizzard murda – worth _
Shout outs to all you coons getting educated on how to use a muthafuckin computa! Good work you black cunts! Keep cracking and banging and fucking booty holes and all that cool shit you do.
But see how you don’t ID yourself when you write this message, you cracker-ass faggot motherfucker. Booty Holes refers to a rival gang close to Grape Town you stupid motherfucker. Now come on in to my hood so I can school you on some “computa” stuff, if you’re man enough, you fuccing white buster.
WS DodgeCityCripGang west up to my grape st niggas …. I NEVA HIT DA RELLYK BITCH I HIT MY RICCY(CITY)
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Watts upk my niGGa I’m a oG from the hood fucc booty holes and everybody else oriGinal Grape St. Crip I’m out cuhz on mafia
WATTZ UP TKO MA BKABKY LOKCZ OLN G.OK
R.i.P WAYWEE
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fucc kyle n dat otha bkitch azz nigga tryna diz n shit .Its bk pk ova her bkitch fucc u sayn.BKut fucc all dat watts upk to all my grapk3 str33ts in da jdpk n all across da world we go hold it down till we all gone .Watts upk to all da ogs dats bkanging im just a lil homi3 n bke bkanging too hard bkut dats all i wanna say doe, n all yea bk pk to dem slobs.R.I.P RAYMOND
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My dad is from Grape R.I.P O.G Butcher Loc aka Todd/Eddie…Love you
I’ve never seen a more illiterate group of posts iny life. Nobody will make past 25 for sure…if you do…it will be in McDonald’s.
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