Top 10 Street Knowledge Facts About the Bloods
West Coast Blood Gang History
Who are the bloods? The Bloods are one of north Americas biggest street gangs. Blood Gang knowledge is widely known, but we have the best facts you need to know to learn about the gangs long standing history in the United states.
Consisting of members all around the world, the majority of members are black but have different ethnic backgrounds across the country. They were founded in Los Angeles, California, just like their biggest rival gang the Crips. The biggest tell that a blood gang member has, is their red attire. Red is the color of choice for all Blood gang members. There is a lot of confusion, especially know a days in main-stream, between the difference of a Blood gang member and a Piru Gang member. For arguments sake, we will talk about both gangs, but will refer to them as one of the same gang, with the same members. The Pirus and Bloods are going under the same Blood Affiliation and both have piru gang signs and both have blood gang signs.
Who Started the Bloods
The bloods were formed to compete and rival the Crips gangs in L.A. In the 1960’s, the first Blood Street Gang was formed. It was founded by Raymond Washington, Sylvester Scott, and Benson Owens. They called themselves the West Piru Street Gang. From continued intimidation and assaults from neighboring Crip gangs, non crip gangs decided to join forces with the Pirus, this eventually lead to the conception of the gang we know today as the Bloods. In turn the Pirus, are still thought to be the first and original Blood gang.
Leader of the bloods gang
There is a lot of debate on who the leaders of the bloods and pirus is. The gang is so huge that it doesn’t have one leader. Each set and sub set is ran and run as a separate gang of its own. So there are tones of leaders and tons of bosses.
Blood Gang Hand Signs and Meanings
Like most gangs, members of the bloods throw up signs with each other to communicate. In gang culture this is called blood stacking, blood gang members throw up blood hand signals and signs to The most recognized blood gang sign is the b, shaped with the index finger and the thumb making a circle of the b, and the rest of the fingers point straight up. Check out the pictures.
Blood Gang Sayings
There is a ton of different blood gang sayings but here are the most popular ones that you hear the most.
Bompton: how bloods refer to Compton
Crab: a derogatory term to label a member of the Crips
CK: Crab killer
Another thing to note is, blood members usually replace all their “C’s” with a B. For example, they say “whats brackin”, “boolin” etc.
Blood Handshake
A common handshake would be impossible due to the great amounts of bloods in the country. This is at times a huge misconception. Although, members of the same set will have a handshake with each other.
Blood Bandanna Colors
Blood gang colors are red, and usually other shades of red like maroon. The bloods usually carry a red bandanna to show their colors. They also wear any red types of clothing, like red hats, shirts or pants to show the blood gang colors.
How to join the Bloods, Gang Initiation
There is no set blood initiation to join the gang. The most common gang initiations are beat downs, robberies, a 1 on 1 fight with other prospects, or committing more serious crimes such as murder, for more info check out our article on how to join the bloods.
Different Blood Sets
As mentioned earlier the bloods are one of the biggest street gangs, also one of the biggest gangs in the world now. They are not as organized as other gangs but follow a similar culture. The gang is made up of hundreds of smaller different blood sets or crews. Each set is ran by a chosen leader or general. These sets operate and thrive separately on their own.
Affiliations and truces are developed separately as well.
Click here for list of all the blood sets
Famous Bloods celebrities
There are a lot of bloods that have risen to stardom. Here are some of the most famous gang bangers that carry the blood name. The game, Big Fase 100, YG 400, Suge Night, Wacka Flocka Flme, Lil Wayne, Birdman, Jay Rock. Chris brown, kendrick lamar and others are also affiliated with the bloods.
Most famous bloods are usually involved in the music industry, and are rappers.
Blood Gang knowledge is always changing
Active Blood Sets in Los Angeles
Carson
- Center View Piru
- Cales Park Loks
- Cabbage Patch Piru
- Samoan Warrior Bounty Hunters
- Scotts Dale Piru
- West Side Piru
Compton
- 135 Pirus
- 900 Block Bloods
- Campanella Park Pirus
- Cedar Block Pirus
- Cross Atlantic Pirus
- East Compton Piru
- East Side Pirus
- Elm Street Pirus
- Fruit Town Pirus
- Holly Hood Pirus
- Leuders Park Pirus
- Lime Hood Pirus
- Neighbor Hood Pirus
- Mob Piru
- Original Block Pirus
- Tree Top Pirus
- Village Town Piru
Florence
- 92 Bishop Bloods
Hawthorne
- Harthone Piru
Inglewood
- Avenue Piru Gang
- Center Park Blood
- Centinela Park Family
- Crewnshaw Mafia Gangster Bloods
- Inglewood Family Gang
- Neighborhood Piru
- Queen Street Blood
- Weirdos Blood
Los Angeles
- All for Crime
- Be-Bopp Watts
- Black P Stones-City
- Black P Stones-Jungles
- Blood Stone 30s Pirus
- Blood Stone Villains
- Bounty Hunters
- Circle City Piru
- Denver Lane Bloods
- East Site Pain
- Family Swan Bloods
- Fruit Town Brims
- Hacienda Village Bloods
- Harvard Park Brims, 62
- Mad Swan Bloods
- Miller Gangster Bloods
- Nieghbor Hood Rollin 20s
- Outlaw 20s
- Pacoima Pirus
- Pueblo Bishop Bloods
- Rollin 50s Brim
- Van Ness Gangsters
- Water Front Pirus
Lynwood
Pasadena
- Pasadena Denver Lanes
- Pasadena Squiggley Lanes
- Project Gangster Bloods
Pomona
- 456 Island Piru
Rosewood
- 135 Pirus
- Athens Park Bloods
- Campenella Park Pirus
West Covina
- West Covina Mob Piru
These are currently all the active Blood Sets in Los Angeles. The list is very extensive, but it is a lot smaller than it was back in the early stages of gang banging.
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