Yeah, we had a lot of Crips. A lot of Pirus back in the 80s. A lot of Pirus moved to the east side and set up shop on the east side. I remember we didn't know about no Pirus or Crips when these dudes started showin up. The dude that was runnin' stuff back then had family connects in LA and brought some of those dudes to Garland. Don't know where all the crippin' started like that or not, but it got heavy startin in the late 80s. Started seeing local Latino gangs and some MS13 at the time too. Used to be fights like every day.
man, I remember getting to middle school and it being like a whole new world, from elementary. Elementary was super G-rated, and one month in 6-th grade was rated R
Everybody was cussin, there were fights, gangs, dudes had cliques, it's was crazy. And this was in Garland, I can't imagine Dallas, D-ville etc
I remember when the dudes who were Bloods were called "slobs", I think that's what the crips called them. And something else, maybe "oooo-lies" or something like that.
Then there were the mexican gangs like "Latin Locos" & "aTm clique"
I remember this lil dude named Jarvis Ross. It was always him, Ken Bohannon a couple other dudes. They were always together. Jarvis was a little dude but he was really good RB in football(lke Barry SAnders type) and bball player. But I think he kept gettingin trouble and I don't know what happened to him after middle school.
I remember this one Mexican dude I was cool with in Reading class, used to wear a Penguins Starter jacket or jersey everyday and he'd have ROLLS of $20s, $50's EVERY day. Like he had to be carrying $700-800 all the time at school. Back then I was still innocent to everything and I'd wonder how he got all that money, but its obvious he had to be slangin heavy.
Looking back, there was alot of crazy stuff back then that I didn't realize how dangerous it was until later. Once in high school, the police came to get this dude outta our math class b/c they found out he had a gun in his back pack.