East Coast Crips

From Rap Dictionary

The East Side (E/S) East Coast Crips are a large and infamous umbrella gang consisting of many different neighborhoods located on the eastside of South Central, Los Angeles, California. Despite the name's suggestion, the E.C.C. retain no connections to the east coast of the United States, but rather it is in reference to the eastside of South Central, Los Angeles (east of the 110 freeway that divides east and west South Central). This gang has had a 3 decade long bloody battle with the Mad Swan Bloods gang to the south of their territory but have also clashed with the 52 Pueblo Bishop Bloods (far north/east), Harvard Park Brims, Center View Piru, Athens Park Bloods, the Be-Bopp Watts Bishop Bloods, the Family Swan Bloods, 52 Broadway Gangster Crips (north/west), the 53 Avalon Gangster Crips (north), Kitchen Crips, the 51 Trouble Gangster Crips, Nutty Blocc Compton Crips, Main Street Mafia Crips, Compton Varrio Tortilla Flats, 18th Street Gang, all Hoover Criminals and more recently, with the Grape Street Watts Crips. But their fiercest battle to date is the on-going one with the Mexican Mafia backed Florencia 13. It is believed that the East Coast Crips robbed a Latino street gang for a large amount of narcotics, which Authorities theorized prompted the Mexican Mafia to send a green light for gang members under the Sureños umbrella to attack, not only African American gang members, but non-affiliated Blacks as well. The East Coast Crips are one of the largest Crip sets in Los Angeles to claim the Neighbor Hood Crips card, making them allies of all "N-Hood" (Neighborhood) and Rollin 0s gangs. However, some E.C.C factions formed alliances with known N-Hood enemies such as the E/S 42 Gangster Crips, E/S 43 Gangster Crips, 47 Gangster Crips, 48 Gangster Crips, 87 Gangster Crips, and 97 Gangster Crips (this alliance is referred to as the Movin' Coast to Coast alliance). There are many different sets under the East Coast Crips umbrella: