Grape Street Watts Crips – South Los Angeles | Jordan Downs | Baby Locos (2024)

Eastside Grape Street Watts Crips [Watts Varrio Grape Street Crips, GSC, GST, Watts Baby Locos (WBLs) , GSW] are a predominately African-American street gang located in the Watts section of Southeast of Los Angeles, California. They are specifically located in the Jordan Downs Public Housing of Los Angeles.

During the 1970s, this neighborhood was called Watts Varrio Grape (WVG), which included both Mexican and Black members together. The blacks started the Jordan Down Crips around 1973 and a guy named Pee Wee is considered the founder. By 1976 the Jordan Down Crips transitioned their name to Grape Street Crips under Kenneth “Crow” Day and during this time the Grape Street Crips which consisted of the Black members and the Watts Varrio Grape, the Mexicans were aligned. This alliance was strong and maintained up until the early 1990s.

The Mexican began to call themselves South Side Watts Varrio Grape Street and the Black members went by East Side Watts Varrio Grape or Eastside Grape Street Crips. Around 1986 or 1987 a new generation of Black members started East Side Watts Baby Loc Crips. New black members after 1987 that were from the Jordan Downs Public Housing projects went by Baby Loc Crips, but some of the new members from the Anzacs, 95th, 97th Banderas Blocc, 105s, 107s and 112s clicks do not necessarily go by the name Baby Locs. Most of the Baby Loc Crips were from the 103rd Street click in the projects, but most new Black members did identify with WVG anymore, but some old long time members of this neighborhood (pre-1987) still by habit say WVG and still have WVG tattoos.

When the Mexican gangs in Los Angeles aligned themselves under the Sureno banner as South Siders under Mexican Mafia influence in 1992, the Mexicans began to distance themselves from the Blacks.

Their main rival would be the Bounty Hunter Bloods that are located in the adjacent Public Housing called Nickerson Gardens, but since the Watts truce of 1992 their rivalry has not been as intense as it was during the 1980s and early 1990s but it does flare up periodically. The truce efforts that took place in Watts in 1992 should be a great example of what can be accomplished in other areas of the city if replicated in other neighborhoods.

The Grapes have several clicks that make up the entire neighborhood that include the following: Baby Locs, Peta Roll Squad, Peta Roc Squad, Peta Loc Squad, Parolee Squad, 95th, Bandera Blocc 97, 103rd, Dust Town Crip, Dust Town Hoggs, and Tip Top.

The Grape Streets have aligned themselves with most Tray neighborhoods such as the Eight Tray Gangsters and Play Boy Gangsters, most Compton Crip sets, but they have had a tenuous relationship with the Rollin 30s Crips.

Their area goes from 97th Street (north) to 107th Street (south) between Wilmington (west) and Alameda (east). They are the largest Crip neighborhood in Watts at 0.394 square miles and the second largest overall black gang in the area, second to the Bounty Hunter Bloods.

In addition to wearing blue, they like wearing purple for grape. They are named after a north-south street in Watts, Grape Street, and 103rd is the heart of their neighborhood. They occupy the Jordan Downs Public Housing and most residents attend Jordan High School which is located adjacent to the public housing.

Grape Street Watts clicks
– Anzac Grape Street Watts Crips (different from the ones in Compton)
– 95th Grape Street Watts Crips (one way streets)
– 97th Grape Street Watts Crips-Bandera Blocc (one-way streets)
– 103rd Grape Street Watts Baby Loc Crips (in the Jordan Downs Housing Projects)
– 105th Grape Street Watts Baby Locs (New Homes, Blue Gate Baby Locs)
– 107th Grape Street Watts Baby Locs Crip (off of Santana-the original street)
– 112th Grape Street Watts Crip (near Willowbrook St. near the train tracks)
– Dustown Hawgs
– Real Bo$$ Playaz
– East Side Kids
– Ten-Tray Ballaz (they live in the Blu-Gates)
– Parolees
– Playville
– Tip-Top

The Peda Roll Mafia click changed in 2006 to Peda Roll Squad, and they have no allegiance or relations with the “Mafia” Crip alliance.

A history of Grape Street was published in issue #2 of Allhood Magazine.

The Grape Streets made news headlines when Wayne “Big Honcho” Day was arrested in Minnesota on federal drug charges in 1996 and later convicted of narcotics violations and sentenced to 250 months in federal prison. He was released from prison in 2007.

In 2008 Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced a 10-count indictment against several alleged members of the Grape Street Crips for possession of PCP and hundreds of gallons of highly toxic precursor chemicals used to manufacture PCP. According to the 10-count indictment, the PCP manufacturing and distribution ring was led by Alphonso Eugene Foster, 38, a senior member of the Grape Street Crips, along with Kim Vernell Walker, 45, a long-time member of the Santana Blocc Crips.

The defendants charged in the primary 10-count indictment are as follows:

-Alphonso Eugene Foster, also known as “Al Foster” also known as “G-Al.” 38
-Kim Vernell Walker, also known as “Plex,” 45
-Michael Edward Baker, also known as “Butter,” and “B-Mike,” 33
-Latera Kyesha Lashana Odom, also known as “Kisha,” 25
-ML Scott, also known as “Rainbow,” also known as “Bow,” 43
-Kelvin Benn, also known as “Down,” 31
-Ronell Napier, also known as “Foe,” 38
-Darcell Morris, also known as “D,” also known as “Da,” and “Dar”
-Lydia Lenora Brown, also known as “Lydia,” 49
-Johnnie Lee Boyd Sr., also known as “John Lee,” 47
-Charlotte Wright Jackson, also known as “Charlotte,” 46
-Jamilah Latifa Terrell, also known as “Porky,” 26
-Anthony Rondele Robinzine, also known as “Bam,” 38

Deceased members of Grape Street Crips in Los Angeles

1. 1. 8-Ball
   2. Branden “Be-L” Bullard, 25, (October 27, 1981 – January 27, 2008), shot and killed by East Coast Crip member
   3. Ashton “Bulldozer” Crosswell, 17 (August 18, 1995 – November 14, 2012), was shot and killed on the corner of Anzac Avenue & 103rd Street. He was shot in the left buttock, normally a non-life threatening in jury, but according to the coroner, there was a previous disease or injury, and he died eight days later. Bounty Hunter Blood members Marlon Williams and Darnell Snell were arrested in May 2013 and they both admitted to the shooting to a cell mate gang member working undercover (Perkins Operation) for the LAPD. They also told the undercover gang member that Cordell Hawkins was the driver.
   4. Jerome “Bone” Dunn, 21 (Jul 20, 1960 – Mar 25, 1982), shot & killed on 88th Place and McKinley Avenue while riding bicycle. Barry “Big Time” Williams, from 89 Family Swan Bloods was convicted for this murder. He mistaken Dunn for Silky from Avalon Gardens Crip member according to court documents. Williams was also found guilty of another murder and sentenced to death. In 2015 Williams had his convictions overturned and he is currently filing motions with the court to be released. As of 2023 Williams was released from prison.
   5. Butcher Loc
   6. Carter Loc
   7. Chub
   8. Mark “Crazo” Kirksey, 37 (September 22, 1975 – December 7, 2012), while sitting in his car at about 1:40 a.m. on a Friday, he was shot multiple time on the 10000 block of South Beach Boulevard in Watts. Alex Alonso interviewed Crazo about eight months before he was killed, but it wasn’t posted until February 2013, two months after he was killed.
   9. Tiny Crazo
   10. Kenneth “Crow aka Kenny Crow Loco” Day, 26 (April 2, 1961 – November 27, 1987), shot and killed during a car jacking for his vehicle.
   11. Big De
   12. Devo
   13. Dirty C
   14. Lil Down Down, (November 15, 1990 – April 4, 2007)
   15. Eddie “Eddie Boy” Simpson, 22 (May 3, 1963 – March 4, 1986)
   16. G-Al
   17. Geo
   18. Gus Loc
   19. Hate
   20. Gregory “High-T” Hightower, 33 (September 21, 1963 – September 26, 1996)
   21. K-Loc
   22. Kodak
   23. Dashon “Loccey” Rasberry, 19 (February 14, 1992 – August 27, 2011), was shot and killed at 2148 E. 102nd St. in the Jordan Downs Housing Projects.
   24. Macc
   25. Raymond Lee “Mafia Ray” Arnold, 32 (December 24, 1984 – July 16, 2016), shot and killed at Updeh Cutz Barber shop at Crenshaw and El Segundo in the city of Hawthorne
   26. “Mickey” Chamberlin
   27. Jerome “Mr. Bone” Dunn, 21 (May 23, 1960 – March 25, 1982)
   28. Night Owl ( – 1981)
   29. Pine Yine
   30. Purplerain
   31. Randy Lee “Puto / Rare” Drinkard Jr., 42 (June 9, 1981 – February 18, 2024), shot a killed on Wilmington near 106th Street in Watts at about 8:50 p.m.
   32. Lil Rob
   33. OG Darryl “Stomper” McCall, 20, (July 18, 1961 – December 13, 1981)
   34. Lil Tank
   35. Tee Roy
   36. T Mac
   37. Kejuan “Tweeter 9” Bullard, 23 (October 4, 1984 – March 19, 2008)
   38. Wino
   39. Young