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.
Watts up loc. B?ab?y loc^ setting it off
Any booty hole who want it on the G’s can get it.
Know dat ! Wvt$ Upk My G’
Can I join your your gang, I think it would be fun my mummy will make some cookies for you all, if you’ll be my freinds.
WUSS H102D DEM INGLEWOOD TONGAN CRIPS HOLDIN IT DOWN ! MUCH RESPECT TO DA GSWC THO FUC BOOTY HOLES !
THUNDER CATS DO NOT WANT IT BLOOD…112th & Bentral ave…
CK GK
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Coming from St.Louis (Saint Loc) this 314- 660-9943 Big Crazy Grape. Shots out to my Grape Soldiers. Ric Roc Watt’s Up Cuzz. We still holdn it down in thee Lou.
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watts up grape streets
watts up loc stop playin out here u online niggas this gang shit aint no game or show we out here bangin for real cuzz
aye cuz is u from cali? I need to scream at a bkig grape. holla at me 404.997.1579
u sound like a stupid nigga
watts up face big pooh snaps sends shots to all my locs
You can join the gang?
thats right the hood up on the map killin flowers to snivy
HATS UP
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east cyde 76 place loc east coast crip gang 1str. 59 62 66 68 69 76 89 97 102 118 190… east coast crip foe def doe.c.
Why would you ever wanna be a crap? i mean crip< same shit. I beat down 4 grapes who moved to my neighborhood. All on my lonely. VAGOS 22
FUK FAKE ST ITZ ALL ABOUT DAT
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GK,BK,CK……. ALL DAY
sup foolz, soowoo on yo ass !
Ay homie you outta line wit da slob shit cuz
watts up loc were u from
Watts Upk locs Tripple C’s G’z HiGh (b’s lie)
LMADAO
DkAT’sk wat’sk skaccin loc
Hey there fellas, I just moved to the area and I was wondering how I would become a member of your set homie?
cant find out on the internet, be a man and asked the real.
U got give every nigga in the set a blow job cuzzz! Or you can also get But Fuk”d by a member who has HIV Cuzzzz! or just shoot yourself in the head to prove you loyalty cuhhhzzz!!! Thats the only way in homie!!!!!!!!!!!