Grape Street Watts Crips

The Grape Street Watts Crips (known by the acronyms JDC, GST, WBLC, and GSW) is an African-American Crips subset based in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. They're known for being the first original Crip set in Watts. The majority of the gang's members were located in the Jordan Downs Housing Project, and they were named after a north-south street in Watts near 103rd street.. 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. 03 Greedo and BlocBoy JB
are members of the Grape Street Crips"

History 
Since the Jordan Downs Community was built it was a predominantly black area. In the 1950s and 1960s an early club known as "The Farmers” from Watts was based  in Jordan Downs.
During the 1970s, the gang's neighborhood originally contained a Mexican-American and African-American gang called Watts Varrio Grape (WVG). When the Mexican gangs in Los Angeles had started to align themselves under the wing of Sureños, the Mexican members started the Watts Varrio Grape Street 13 gang. The African-American members established the Eastside Watts Varrio Grape gang.

Brandon "BL" Bullard, a veteran member of the Grape Street Watts Crips, was murdered by the East Coast Crips. The murder of Bullard sparked a war that resulted in 26 wounded and 9 dead.

Media appearances 
Members of the Grape Street Watts Crips have appeared in the documentary Crips and Bloods: Made in America, directed by Stacy Peralta. Members have also been interviewed in  Gangland on the History Channel. and at the TV Show Southland. The gang is also featured in the film Menace II Society with the main characters being Grape St. Crips. The gang's colors, hand signals, and actual Street are featured in the film. Real members also appear within the film as background extras.

References

Further reading
 
 
 
Watts Beset by Retaliatory Shootings. Los Angeles Times.

External links 
FBI Charges Grape Street Crips

Category:Crips sets
Category:African-American gangs
Category:Street gangs
Category:Gangs in Los Angeles
Category:Watts, Los Angeles