What rapper made it cool to be a blood?
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on this side of the map it was capo & the dips
all up & down the i95 in the prison system & the streets red flags rocking the way the ny sets do
even extending now out towards houston & louisiana
most of the nikkas on that blood shyte on the east.coast clock
capo was the first nikka to make that shyte the main point of his image not coming from where the culture originated
really the whole concept of being blood for fashion is capo & elz
all the popular blood rapper nikkas cast themselves in that image
after capo damn near every act that popped off from this side has had some sort of relationship with eastcoast blood sets
even just look at atlanta most their artists to pop on that
shyte what does every crash.dummies idol yb rep¿
aHA
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all up & down the i95 in the prison system & the streets red flags rocking the way the ny sets do
even extending now out towards houston & louisiana
most of the nikkas on that blood shyte on the east.coast clock
capo was the first nikka to make that shyte the main point of his image not coming from where the culture originated
really the whole concept of being blood for fashion is capo & elz
all the popular blood rapper nikkas cast themselves in that image
after capo damn near every act that popped off from this side has had some sort of relationship with eastcoast blood sets
even just look at atlanta most their artists to pop on that
shyte what does every crash.dummies idol yb rep¿
aHA
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M4T
All Star
Being a blood never seemed cool to me,but snoop did make me wanna crip walk. I'm still annoyed at all the fake bloods here in Florida that change all the Cs to Bs on social media
Womb Raider
5* Gooneral
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International Playa
Playa with a Passport
Suge Knight/ Deathrow
Suge with his red iconic red suit
Suge with his red iconic red suit
Krazy
Rifle weh taller dan palm tree
How the fukk you dog with a name like Santana? I’ll show how you rock that bandana 
Depends on your perception of cool.
Gangs have never appealed to me. They can’t dress and look broke.
Suge and death row were the first nyggas that made the bloods look sophisticated on the mainstream level. Those nyggas would wear suits and take pride in their appearance. Not the typical broke look
Gangs have never appealed to me. They can’t dress and look broke.
Suge and death row were the first nyggas that made the bloods look sophisticated on the mainstream level. Those nyggas would wear suits and take pride in their appearance. Not the typical broke look
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murksiderock
Superstar
This is an old post from you but still worth a response today, for anyone today who has this same question.
California gangmembers are mostly ambivalent or indifferent about Bloods and Crips elsewhere. In LA specifically, nowhere is quite like Los Angeles, and they know that, so they've always been known to joke on other areas but it's no real animosity.
If an LA nikka has never left LA, those types tend to be more dismissive of The Culture in other areas, but plenty of LA nikkas have hung out in areas outside LA, so they understand this shyt is everywhere and every place does it a little differently.
California is different from New York in the sense that in NY and on the East Coast, Bloods and Crips from NY-affiliated gangs follow orders from "big homies" in NY or NY prisons. In California, it's never been like that. LA is LA, they street politics are irrelevant in Sacramento, San Francisco, The IE, San Diego, Stockton, Merced, Bakersfield, Fresno, Oakland, etc.
LA Bloods and Crips control the LA Blood and Crip shyt, they don't run nothing nowhere outside of LA. Now, LA is obviously a big ass city, so there's more of them than anybody else when you in prison, they numbers to dictate motion but as far as Bloods or Crips from San Bernardino or Sacramento or something having to march to the drum of Bloods or Crips from LA, that ain't how it is.
And that reverberates throughout the West, places like Denver, Phoenix, Reno, Vegas, Portland, Seattle, have they own Bs and Cs, some are spawned from LA gangs so they hold LA gangs in high regard, but all those cities have they own Bs and Cs that was started in those cities that aren't California-based, they not looking to be cosigned by California members.
Whereas out here on the East Coast, Bloods and Crips from Georgia or the Carolinas or Florida or VA or Maryland are looking for cosigns from "big homies" from NY.
So I kinda went all over the map
most LA members and California members are how Nip Hussle was, they know its Bs and Cs in other places, they are indifferent because they know the politics of those areas doesn't impact them, nor does whats going on in LA affect street politics in Georgia.By the way, Crips accepted the spread of The Culture first, they the ones started it
used to be an old school saying, older than me but I heard it when I was young, "Crips don't die, they multiply". They ALWAYS promoted expansion way before Bloods did.People our age and younger saw the rise of Blood imagery in media so we speak on that, but people older than us saw prominent Crip images first, and people around BEFORE any B and C Culture was brought mainstream, saw Crips spreading that Crip propaganda first.
In the Southeast, at least I'll say VA, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, it was a mixture of all three of Dipset, Game, Wayne. Again speaking only for the Southeast, all those guys kinda "popped" at the same time, give or take within the same 1-2 year timespan. So it was like a Blood movement or something happening all at once.
There are areas in North Carolina for sure, that had Bloods before any of those guys mattered on a mainstream level, though.
Crips created the changing B's to C's thing, Crips really ain't that cool fam
murksiderock
Superstar
You from Philly, right? I believe one of the biggest misconceptions people out here long had about California Bloods and Crips, was that we wasn't on no money or had no style
It's a fact that most gang members are broke and bummy, but that applies to most street nikkas in general. In NY, in Philly, in Chicago, anywhere. Most street guys aint got no real motion, but the perception on this side (at least it used to be) was that street guys over here were mire hustle-oriented and because we are heavily gang affiliated, we cared less about looking good and making money.
If you grew up in any Blood or Crip section in California you woulda seen swaggy Bloods and Bloods with money
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elz on a pop mainstream level maybe
& it's really just him making the bandana iconic
but the campaign outside & the politics i don't see elz stamp on that
capo is the super duper banging on wax everything about his shyte revolves around blood nikka for the eastcoast
if capo was not screaming that shyte so publicly elz would have been cool lowriding as they call it aHA
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*Of course
*Juelz was riding Jim's wave as far as the blood shyt goes
*Jim is the nucleus. Juelz is what made everyone want to be that tho.
*Jim not swaggy enough on his own to have that type of impact
*Wayne jacked Juelz swag not Jim or Cam's
*Jus like how Clipse be trying to claim shyt when in reality it was everyone trying to be like Pharell
