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- Skipp Townsend was a member of the Rollin' 20s Avenue faction of the Bloods gang in Los Angeles for 27 years.
He became a member of the Bloods in the early 1980s. According to Townsend, this was for protection from the dominant Crips gangs in his neighborhood. He discusses his involvement in drug dealing and gang activities, as well as being a target of drive-by shootings.
Townsend speaks with Business Insider about his experience as a gang member, the recruitment, and the rivalry with the Crips. He talks about gang signs, culture, and music. He also covers the role of celebrities and groups affiliated with the Bloods, such as Suge Knight and Death Row Records, in gang prevention within California.
After his release from jail, he began a career as a tow-truck driver and later founded the gang prevention and intervention organization 2nd Call to support local communities in LA, focusing particularly on the youth.
Find him here:
www.2ndcall.org
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - The Beef
03:00 - The Shoot-outs
04:04 - The Culture
06:30 - The Money
09:53 - The Rules
10:44 - The Hierarchy
13:44 - Going To Jail
16:10 - The Police
17:27 - The Aftermath
19:05 - The Future
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When the gangs ask you to check in, how many suitcases do they allow?
Same rules apply like the airlines
Doesn't matter. Just don't use your fingers to ask. 😜
ROFL they could not protect their homeboys from dying but they are going to protect you. That check in is really extortion.
It really depends on the neighborhood but I do know they charge extra for a carry on.
@@willwill1064real
To all the real ones in this comment section who left their old neighborhood, town, city or old friends completely behind and you life has been at peace and on the uptick ever since.
I was really out der puttin in pain. I shed war tears
You don't Leave it Behind. You grow and reach back and try and save the homiez. The Hood wasn't always Bad. We gotta save Our Sett Hood Block Street town City etc.
You can leave the hood, but the hood doesn't leave you
@@ran97396 I blead fr bluhd. I ain't neva leaving da block
@@MandyArrowsmithyou’re definitely a racist
My man said he carried a gun because he just wants to go home. Damn that got me. :(
That will go over most people's heads.
It's not really that sad when you realize THOUSANDS of people in "the hood" choose to not go the gang route and are perfectly safe. He had to carry a gun to get home cuz he chose to be in that gang and make himself a target
@@JasonHebertit’s also thousands of regular everyday people in the hood that become victims it’s a right to carry do it
MFS motto always been - id rather for da white man to catch me wit it - than to let one of these niggaz catch me without it 💯 If u don't know what dat statement means then u lost bruh 🤷🏾♂️
@@dat3rdsideboy386 Agreed, I was robbed at gun point in Jr HS, not because I was banging. I happened to walk through the block where this guy wanted to rob people. That event and following events could have made me carry a gun every day too. I ended up getting transferred to a different school.
Skipp been around for a min man...Seen him in an LA Riot doc
He was also in Slippin: 10 Years with the Bloods
And Crips and Bloods: Made in Amerikkka. That’s how I caught wind.
@@TheDevDev187same
God bless Skipp for changing his life around & putting in work to help the community…..much respect 🫡
@@PHATT_TVthat’s right
It’s wild watching this one, the crip guy and the Mexican Mafia guy all basically say the same thing basically.
Funny how the media would say they all joined for money and drugs. Nah, they join for protection, respect and the neighborhood(or the race).
@@breveth😂
They had a better chance joining the military though
What did they say? I don't recall
@@curleybessard7037 You have to make it to 18 in your neighborhood and school before you can join the military. Banging isn't so much of a "choice" in the way outsiders view it while looking in. Just imagine being born in a family where all your family bangs, your parents, grandparents banged, cousins, brothers, sisters, etc. Then you have to walk to school with everyone asking where you're from and trying you, or you have to share a school bus and go to school in these neighborhoods. No one cares that you're just a kid just trying to go to school and go home. The only people that had your back through all this is the gang in your neighborhood. The odds of you joining is greater than the odds of you surviving without joining a gang.
And there actually are members in the military.
Shout out to OG Skipp Townsend. Keep spreading that peace and positivity
Man, of all the EX active dudes I've ever heard, this dude made the most sense and was the most straightforward and honestly should speak all over the country about this sort of thing.
Too bad the blue line gang is not nearly as honest as these guys!!
He's a gang activist in L.A. now. He helps to prevent a lot of gangs wars from starting.
He does
Yo what size are your shoes, they're my size run em😂😂😂😂
Imagine just finding work... and buying ur own shoes....and a life 😂
Tryna take someone else’s shoes to be wearing their nasty funk and fungi on your feet.
@@subzero-ws7wt 😷
@@ashog1426says the guy who probably raps in the mirror talking about how many people he killed 😂 u either live it or wish u did 🥱
@@ashog1426hahaha imagine 😂😂😂
I know who definitely lost... our communities. Ridiculous especially coming from what we came from in the 50 and 60 fighting for civil rights.
That’s what systematic racism does
@@connar4416 dAtS wHaT sYstemiC wAyciSm does 🤓
@@RabbitWatchShop being racist doesn’t help your case loser 😭😭
Why do you think there was such a heavy push for gangsta rap and trap music. White people with money want us fighting each other because they stand to lose the most if our communities started supporting equal and human rights. That could encourage poor white people to get their communities together too and now the wealthiest and most elite lose out on billions if not trillions. But nobody wants to have that discussion
@@connar4416 I’m married to a POC and was raised by black folks. Two black families to be exact. They taught me not to make excuses. So miss me with that accusation.
The producer knowing what CP stands for; well researched
You mean CK? Thats a well known term. Any gang can be CK. Not just bloods.
CK
@@Ghost-gv1uwcp stands click piru trust me i starting the rollin 90s i came home from youth prison on swoll and they started calling me big mizz 😂😂😂
British Knights
@@T.T.G.Kev Mac videos, you know this is fa shooo 🎶
He's a Elder in Los Angeles & well Respected I watch Skipp channel
He's at every Peace function or Candle light vigil he also be at funerals rather they are Blood or Crip Skip is the
@@zztv15 facts 😂
Sounds “amazing” 🫤
What’s crazy to me is how these people fight and die over neighborhoods, blocks, etc. That they don’t even own. City/government owns them. They’re killing for things that aren’t even really theirs. It’s just so pointless at the end of the day.
What's even crazier is that Black people kill each other more than racist Caucasians now a days. Gangs are part of the problem but I think it runs deeper than gangs.
If you want to be technical, if you pay taxes, you do own them.
Skip is one of my favorite cause he doesn’t just talk about fixing the problem he has boots on the grown in these neighborhoods as he says his story’s are great redemption story’s an I’ll watch him anytime I see him being interviewed
Me with no contacts in: "when tf did Vin Diesel get into the Bloods??"
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Because you can't see with contacts and Vin Diesel is brown and bald.... oh.. ha.. ha.............ha.
Dawg 😂
Remember this guy of the crips and bloods made in america documentary
And that documentary was financed by ex NBA baller Baron Davis
That is the only documentary anyone needs to watch about LA gangs 💯
Abridged version: you stand around, you sway back and forth, You talk loudly over other people, or you mumble something to the effect of “shiiiniia.” This is it. This is the movement.
What a shame, dude sounds intelligent and carries himself respectfully. Imagine what he could've become if he didn't get pulled into that garbage.
.. pulled in 🤔 .. he was born in 🤔
He chose that garbage.
There is nothing out here to "become". In this system, you are either a victim or a victimizer, a slave or a slave master.
@@trentonharris7676oh yeah, everyone a “victim” nowadays 🙄
@@chuckcribbs3398keep up with the uninformed racism lmao
lol imagine fighting for absolutely nothing😂
Cops and soldiers do it all the time almost exclusively
It's not for nothing
Yup, soldiers go to other peoples countries to kill people they don't know... for some crocked *ss politicians lie.
@@thegreatestmantoevrwlkthep9986not even close, but nice try.
@@FresnoBoy6starit is.
Great interview
Shoutout to Skipp And 2nd Call.
This has been the most destructive force in the Black community. We have to stop blaming everyone else and look in the mirror. Gangs have killed more Black men than anyone else. And why do we never hear of all the innocent young Black men who lived in these communities that were harassed or killed by these gang members? The gangs were/have been the biggest threat to innocent Black men rather than the Police.
Out in LA the so called police keep the violence going by doing drive-by and tagging to make it look like the rivals are doing it they have been doing that since the 80s
"They say it's the white man I should fear, but it's my own kind doing all the killing here" - Tupac
Stop lying and just talking from emotions nobody killed more blacc people than King Leopold and these other brutal slave masters, racist etc. it’s countless unnamed blacc people deceased, so don’t say goofy stuff because you emotional about what a gang member did, that’s the goofiest stuff ever
Don’t say “we” those stories are told all the time which is why folks don’t wear certain colors or hats, or talk crazy to gangs, and if it is, it makes sense because it’s more gang members outside than cops, but it’s probably countless blacc folks been killed by police throughout history you don’t know about also, and you don’t care but y’all police asf yourselves. Cowardice so don’t even complain about that
Hit the nail on the head man. 💯
I respect what skip got to say he gave the best dialogue so far as an OG 💯💪🏾
"you can't run from a DP in jail" is insane lmfao
Very ineresting and educational, thanks.
Yeah “Super educational” 🤦
Keep pushing that positive line Skipp we need more brothas to step up and share info!
God bless you Mr. Skip. Continue your good work.
Real unsensationalized interview
Dope message Skipp
The original UBN was started in CA. In the 80’s. The UBN in NY was started in the 90’s
Yep this is a fact.
Peabody L.A Denver Lane Gangster Bloods started the UBN, the east coast version is fugazzi
same UBN different sets
I'm watching this in a snuggie as I sip coffee holding a mug with both hands next to my live laugh love poster
I love how they showed Snoop, Lil Jon, Xzibit and David Banner from the Korn music video for Twisted Transistor lol
Hard to say if an a.i. put that clip in or some diversity female hire put it in
“We have a couple of guys who are white “😂
This special right here. I remember him from the bloods and crips doc
Special like the “special bus”?
People don't understand that LA gang banging is completely unique and different and arised from a specific element and timing/ econnomic circumstances and government corruption. Gangs in LA got out of hand in the late 70's by design in margenalized middle class and poor black and brown communities. LA is gridded specifically in a way and policed in a way to where gangs were able to thrive. Gangs are rooted in passion tradition, territory and revenge not money or economics per say. Just simply being born on a certain street in a certain neighborhood meant you were from a gang by default if enforcers from other neighborhoods came through. I know that exists in ways in other cities but in LA the rise of this cult like lifestyle was too quick and too ignored by the law and gov. for too long (purposefully with the agenda to expand and develop the privitized prison system). People have great grandparents that were in these gangs and it is really like a family affiliation. It's something people outside of Los Angeles would find hard to grasp or understand
Well said you are 100% right. People in other states just can’t understand
So true. Kids were raised in this not knowing anything different
Very informative. Respect to this man. ✌️ From Mississippi
This Knowledge will probably leave my mind tomorrow, but it was still interesting learning about this.
I’ve watched Skip in numerous docus. He knows what he’s talking about.
Crazy Boy from 60’s [RIP] Robbed me on 59th Pl. , just down from Overhill in 1987 or 88’ .. And I’m still pissed 🤣
U still snitching 😅
😂😂
Love from newark same type of stuff 💯💯
Stop the 🧢
The replacing Cs with Bs part is absolutely hilarious lol
These tutorial videos are awesome!
Salute to the big homey Skip!! 💪🫡
ALLways pushing the peace and positivity!
-Loko K
Detroit 20's
O/G skip WS Rolling 20 Neighborhood Bloods.
Righteous,,, my bruh God bless you for tha gud your doing for our people,,, much luv warde
The title should say, "How Brime Works." Outta respect for the bloods. Tighten up Insider.
What I’ve noticed about LA gang bangers is that they’re very articulate speakers. They always seem to have a full understanding and consciousness of what they’re doing being messed up but they couldn’t get away from the gang politics. Most of them could’ve really been something.
Or by the time you here them speak they've usually had time to self reflect read and get more educated.
California has many academics that had the rough life in the 80s and 90s. Andrew Huberman wasn't in gangs but he lived another street life as the skater scene. Look at him now. Was homeless, with 2 girls pregnant at once to being a world renowned scientists. I've noticed this trends with Californians. Rough childhoods and young adulthoods and really turn it around. I think it's really cool.
@@lilscoobynetworkyeah, it’s called going to prison and for the first time in their lives… picking up a book. See, the prison system can have a positive impact on people.
That makes me feel so happy for the next gangster that’s on their way to do a “nickel” or a “dime” Just think of all that reading and educational advancement they will be benefiting from. 🫡
R. I. P BIG JIMBO
WHY IS IT I FIND OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
0:40 LOL wrong kind of bus. RTD bus not School bus.
That "But this is going to happen" But not knowing what THIS is, really fuckn with me👀😳
They got the rite man up there 🫡 OG Skipp
EDUCATIONAL.
✌️What a great idea, “Second Call!”👍👏👏👏🙏🏻
that not how all bloods move , that's just how his gang moved . every gang works differently
Do they though
@@thegreatestmantoevrwlkthep9986Yes
"According to Skip Townsend"
Are you from Los Angeles?
are you a…ya know
With all the cameras out there....
Bout time skipp get interview he been on since day one and still helping the community peace to the bother
Dave Chappelle told us the history already "Coo coo" "Brrrrr brrrr"
General "Corn Row" Wallace
Skip👍🏾
This is why fathers are important.
Maybe stop throwing black men in prison for 10+ year sentences over nonviolent offenses and more fathers can stay home because interestingly enough, black men stay at home and raise their children at a higher rate than white men.... when they aren't in prison.
Some of the hardest killers in LA came from 2 parent households
I know many of people without dads… it’s mainly common sense
If and only if the father is not ignorant.
Talk to’em Skipp💪🏾💯
bless you OG, thank your for sharing 🙏🏾
Ima Texas Damu and it's funny how some mfas from the Land (Killer Cali) trip on out of state B's and C's but who do you think put us on. Most of there older relatives are from the south.
💯💯💯💯💪🏾💪🏾
Right
Thats facts alot of cali's legends are from the south.
Because y'all be Kool with enemies of ours and y'all using our name but that's y'all politics
They wouldn't be who they were if they hadn't grew up here in Cali ..
OG Skip!!!
Like that dude says you cant even organise crime 😂
Sooooo whoooop!
He usually charges for this type of game but today you got it for free iykyk 😂
Respect, Skipp
I’m from Denver Lanes 109st
Lol you showed Lil Jon in the KORN video lol
Anyone notice that Reditor in the thumbnail hood photo?
weak men doing the easiest thing possible, violence and giving into their emotions. embarrassing.
All them gangs in Cali and y’all don’t got no real power and only target your own people …
They got real power over anybody if they go put in work, and organize if they do nothing they don’t.
You're from Philly and think it's any different?
Come out here and watch what happens with that disrespect
@@billyjacc we don’t have no organization like Cali its every man for themselves
I got so much to say but can't say it in here. All I know is if u live long enough eventually your heart changes. By this I mean a heart of stone, will be turned to flesh. I thank God for my salvation. I pray that one day that peace overtakes us and love for all becomes the mantra. When you're young and dumb this all you know but once the spirit and mind grows it's impossible to remain the same. Much love to cuh for what he's doing for the community. Definitely going to look for more of his content to watch.
Shoutouts to Big Skippp
Don’t forget the peachie folder folded in half in your bacc poccet with your turf strucc up on it!
Looool I'm a Dog I totally forgot about the folders using them instead of the fl
*Plot Twist:* None of them actually Work.
What are the job description if you join the gang?
Any health insurance or pension benefits?
What up Skip
Skipp is definitely an OG. He's been about positivity much longer than he was an active banger ✊🏾
Ayyyye Skip! Remember him from the "How To Make Money Selling Drugs" documentary
Lol, i was only jokeing with you in the beginning, yeah ok officer.
Big Skipp!
damn OG Skipp still out there..
I love the Mexican , Asian and Italian gang guys that come on here and tell their story. They talk about their gangs structure , their history and teachings, values and morals.
And then there’s this guy 😂 and I remember the other interview with a crip guy who became a cop, but still was an active crip while on the force , and they fired him , and he was trying to play the victim !! 😂😂
It’s just funny
Italians have organized mafias. Mexican cartels are the same. A.A street gangs are disorganized wannabes. Some of these nations started off as civil rights protections groups, and later dissolved into unorganized, fragmented street gangs.
So like the fairytale of doing crime and snitching
The thumbnail for this video is a tutorial for making friends in prison.
Red & Blue make Purple $$$
Crazy how the police destroyed all these peoples lives and families and not the crimes they committed that wasnt it
This demographic is anti personal accountability. It's always someone else's fault.
@@CubeInspector Exactly. While it is just sick DNA.
Shout out to this OG Blood. Chi Town VL riding with you Bro. Glad you made this video instead of a Culture Vulture.
that front pic with the arrow pointed to the dude with the red hat looks like ODawg from the the Rollin 20s BDSAG
Try to get someone from a SoCal white gang. NLR, PENI, OSC, COORS, PWG, etc. that would be interesting
Tru, someone from peni or NLR would be sick. White prison gangs are the grimiest IMO, even their tattoos look ultra grimey and hard. Heard that the AB makes up less than 0.1% of the prison pop but is responsible for 18-25% of the murders
NLR pc'd up
I would love to see the AB get a video
@@homelessman3483 yeah I thought the got absorbed by the AB
Caucasian femboys making requests to see other caucasian neanderthals that nobody else ¢ares to see
Bloods are the loosest gang ive ever seen. I mean literally no structure and they let anybody join. Ive always noticed bloods are usually the loudest and most attention seeking people in the room. At least where im from. Jus my opinion
The crips are the same?
😂 idk what u been hearing or watching but it’s the other way around
Thats usually krabs 🅱️loods about the buisness
And that's why you hear a lot of fake bloods u barely hear fake crips
Crips the same way but yeah ig just where u from
They got Skipp ⁉️
Respect you Skipp Townsend 🙏🏾💯
I seen skip and had to stop I’m not from LA or a blood but that guy does great work in the community
Are they bringing in another guy that was in a gang/crips for 1 year then becoming a cop? 🤣🤣
I know right , that guy was a loser 😂
No he's legit. He has been around
he’s a gang activist now and he’s been in the streets for a long time
Sold crack and says mass incarceration destroyed families lol idk ab that og
It's cool. I'm glad he was able to turn his life around and do some good for his community after the things that he's done. All I'm going to say is that everybody else that's a part of any negative lifestyle that could turn bad in an instant need to get it right before it's too late for them.
Big Homie SKIPP is a real gangster... doing all the things kids would call 'square or corney' and STILL keeping it G
I definitely met some bloods in college I didn't expect him to mention that 😂
Oakland and San Francisco are the only major cities that ain't let Bloods or Crips set up shop back in the 80's. I grew up hearing stories about them getting shot at and ran outta town 😂
Maybe SF but you're DEAD WRONG about Oakland. Had a friend that witnessed Crips domination in the 90s
9:26 thought MAAD city was about to come on