Crips Street Gang

Shawn Jones, Accused of Shooting Ramel Gittens, To Stand Trial This Week

In the two years since Ramel Gittens' murder, there have been street memorials, music video tributes, and relative peace between rival gangs. There has not yet been justice, though--only theories and rumors. But the words on the street about who shot Gittens will finally be tested in a courtroom. T ... More >>

Hit-Boy: Split With GOOD Music Was Amicable; "Dealing With Other Humans Is a Struggle"

Hit-Boy sounds like a superhero name when you say it over and over again while talking with his publicists. The same conversation can also make you realize Hit-Boy is currently an "it boy" in production circles. It was his Grammy winning composition, "Niggas In Paris," that would get the "rewind se ... More >>

The Whitney Finds the Good Thing About the '80s

Rikers Fight Club: Correction Staff Let Melee Go for Over an Hour Without Stopping It; Four Inmates Badly Slashed

A dispute last week over a grilled cheese sandwich of all things led to a massive fight between two gangs in a city jail that was allowed by correction staff to continue for well over an hour without intervention, the Voice has learned. One inmate--27-year-old drug suspect Roberto Rivera--had a bro ... More >>

Queens MS-13 Gang Leader Gets 30-Year Prison Sentence

The leader of an MS-13 chapter in Queens was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in prison. Hector Aleman Lemos, 32, had been accused of two homicides, including the shooting of a 13-year-old boy. He pleaded guilty to murder conspiracy and racketeering charges in March. "Lemos spread death and destruc ... More >>

Demystifying Venus and Serena

My sister the champ

Tensions Mount After Police Fatally Shoot Brooklyn Teenager Kimani Gray

A candlelit vigil for a Brooklyn teen killed by New York City police officers left two people injured and led to one arrest Monday night. At approximately 7:00 pm, roughly 200 people gathered in East Flatbush for a somber vigil to remember Kimani Gray, a 16 year-old shot and killed by plainclothes ... More >>

Ray Kelly Goes Gangbusters: NYPD to Double Size of Anti-Gang Unit; Target Facebook Thugs

New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly will give a speech later today in which he will announce his plans to double the size of the NYPD's anti-gang unit to combat the escalating problem of gang violence in the city.Kelly is calling the plan "Operation Crew Cut," which will bring the number of ... More >>

Crips Members Unimpressed With "Fake Ass" Facebook Gangsters

There have been a slew of new, young street gangs popping up in New York the last several years -- including the "Very Crispy Gangsters" and "Rockstarz," each of which were "taken down" by law enforcement earlier this week.These new gangsters have taken their battles to the Internet (which is why th ... More >>

Only Three People Shot At West Indian Day Parade. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Crown Heights

Only three people were shot during this year's West Indian Day parade in Crown Heights yesterday, which -- sadly -- is an improvement from last year. However, two people also were stabbed to death during yesterday's festivities, so don't wave the victory flag in the war on Brooklyn violence just yet ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse Is Suing the FBI (!!!)

CAVE-IN-ROCK, ILLINOIS -- Last fall, the FBI officially named Juggalos "a loosely-organized hybrid gang." This afternoon, Insane Clown Posse announced at the annual Gathering of the Juggalos "seminar," a veritable State of the Juggalo Union address given to "the heartbeat of the entire Juggalo world ... More >>

That Silly Thing About the FBI Classifying Juggalos as a Gang? It's No Joke.

Last week, the U.S. Marshal's Service issued a press release with this headline: "Gang Member Removed from New Mexico's Most Wanted." The apprehended menace in question was 20-year-old Mark Anthony Carlson, a white 140-pound male wanted on a felony bench warrant for missing probation. His gang affil ... More >>

"Very Crispy Gangsters" Suspected in East New York Shooting

Donzell Rogers, slain at a "Freaky Friday" party.​The shooting at a house party in Brooklyn Friday night that killed one man and injured eight is suspected to be gang-related. Specifically a gang called the "Very Crispy Gangsters," which is a real name for a real gang. It would be almost funny if ... More >>

10 Music-Related Revelations From The FBI's File On Biggie's Murder

​The 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, b/k/a/ the rapper The Notorious B.I.G., remains unsolved. Last week, the case became both more transparent and more suspicious as the FBI opened up its files into an investigation about not just who shot Biggie Smalls, but also who helped orchestrate th ... More >>

Zaire Paige Not Only Played a Movie Killer, He Became One in Real Life.

This is how he squandered his big chance to go straight.

Zaire Paige Goes from Movie Killer to Actual Killer, Gets 107 Years in Prison

Paige at his sentencing Monday​"With all due respect, and from the bottom of my heart, suck my dick!" That was the message convicted killer Zaire Paige had for Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice yesterday afternoon as he was sentenced to four consecutive 25-to-life sentences ... More >>

Basically Like Half of Queens Rounded Up In Bust of Ridiculously-Named Inefficient SuperGang Called "Flocc"

Okay, so not half of Queens, but I mean, still, 100 people? ​

Ranking XXL's Freshman Class at the Highline Ballroom Last Night

​In what has become an annual tradition, the minds over at XXL magazine recently unveiled the elite class of fresh-faced rappers they dub the Freshman 10. Mostly products of Internet buzz and/or critically acclaimed mixtapes, the Freshman class issue has risen from a gimmicky excuse to put non ... More >>

Michael Jackson Saves Slow News Day with FBI Kid Sex, Death Threat Files

​It's Christmas Eve's Eve's Eve and we got nothing, so thank Santa for the Freedom of Information Act, which got the FBI to release documents showing that the feds were looking into Michael Jackson's life, particularly the parts spent with young boys. Now we can relive the magic all over again ... More >>

Rightbloggers Defend Rush with an NFL Boycott; Are Beer, Buffalo Wings Next?

The National Football League has a large millionaire population which predictably contributes overwhelmingly to Republicans over Democrats. Yet this week we learned from rightbloggers that the NFL is in fact a wing of the liberal conspiracy. Early this month Rush Limbaugh and Dave Checketts coll ... More >>

Another arrest in Kevin Miller shooting

​A second teen, 18-year-old Gregory Calas, faces charges in the Cambria Heights gunfight last Friday which killed 13-year-old Kevin Miller and wounded an unidentified 17 year old. The District Attorney's office is calling the shooting gang related. Friday, Queens DA Richard A. Brown charged C ... More >>

Stop-and-Frisk 101: Arrest Training?

That's how a handful of dead-end high-schoolers ended up giving the city a big black eye.

The Diss-Track Family Tree

Who to insult, how, and why

Team Robespierre Vs. MTV: This Is Where the Magic Happens

Photo by Rebecca SmeyneTy and Mike House at the Silent Barn in 2007 Not sure what's the most unfortunate part about this Team Robespierre and MTV2 mini-saga that's detailed in play-by-play over at the Tripwire: that some drunk stooge flipping off the videocamera at the Chicken Hut last year both co ... More >>

Interview: Rapper Nipsey Hussle on West Coast Hip-Hop and Rolling Sixty Crips

"I mean Aspen, Portland: They're on the West Coast, but for an L.A. dude it's like the middle of nowhere. We got U.S. Marshals hopping on the bus in Salt Lake City." Not since the emergence of The Game on the national hip-hop scene has Los Angeles had such a promising new rapper as Nipsey Hussle. ... More >>

Live: Stacy Peralta Talks Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Beginning with a panoramic, ominous series of God's-eye shots of the Los Angeles skyline flipped on its axis so that skyscrapers jutting down like stalactites, Crips and Bloods: Made In America is director Stacy Peralta's third look at an underground L.A. subculture in as many films. After tacklin ... More >>

Tracing Gangland's Roots in Crips & Bloods: Made in America

Cop Warns of Gangs at Notorious Screenings; Critics Warn of Film

Movie fans receive a warning from New York transit cop tunnelpopo at Thee Rant: "'Notorious' movie comes out today... BE CAREFUL. Lots of Bloods and Crips expected to be in attendance." Commenters mostly contribute racism ("As if blacks aren't loud enough in the movie theater, can you imagine them a ... More >>

TABLOIDED: The Grammys

Letters

Tookie’s Inhumanity

An argument for sparing a cold-blooded killer

Tookie's Long Goodbye

Timeline of an execution, quote by quote

The Rules of Redemption

How could 'Tookie' Williams have convinced the Governor?

Sleeping Duty

There goes the neighborhood: A suburban miniseries drops in on the terrorists next door

Blow Up

David LaChapelle plays his krump card with a South Central dance doc

Parts of the Elephunk

Annual Pre-Pazz & Jop Handicappers' CG: Whose faves are whose? Tune in next week . . .

Children Come Home to Roots

March Has Strong Words for Rap Music and Gangsta Youth

Good Game Boy

Unconscious with a Conscience

Dope Opiate and the Hip-Hop Heart of a Too-Smart World

Letters

Street Hassle

New Skool Versus Old School in Greenwich Village

Kids Get Hit by Adults

At Least in Golden Gloves, They Get to Hit Back

Big Bad Wolf

Anthony Jones Upholds the Legend of Puff Daddy’s Bodyguard

Confessions of a Gangsta Rapper

Murder, Robbery, Police Brutality, Hip Hop, and Other Tales From a Pioneer of the Crips Gang in New York

Wu-Tang Clan is Sumthing ta Fuck Wit

The World-Famous Staten Island Hip-Hop Collective Has a Government Informer Working Within Its Ranks; at the Same Time, the Group Is Being Investigated by the Feds for Gunrunning. Coincidence?

The Night Shift

Undercover in New York’s 'Compton East'

The Fall of Man

Murder on a Liquor High

A 17-year-old is dead. his alleged killer is only 15, troubled, and facing life in prison

Through a Glass Darkly

Windows ’98

Under the Skin