Membership
Crips has over 800 sets with 30,000 to 35,000 members and associate members, including more than 13,000 members in Los Angeles. The states with the highest estimated number of Crips sets are California, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Members typically consist of young African American men, with some members being white, Hispanic and Asian. Famous former gang members or those suspected to associate with the Crips include Snoop Dogg, Eazy-E and Ice-T. Ice-T began his rapping career for Crip audiences, and is addressed by his Crip friends and acquaintances as Tray or Tracy.
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“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)