Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California

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There are two very different "Eastsides" in Long Beach, California. The traditional Eastside is on the east side of the city. The boundaries are (roughly) Carson Blvd. (N), Interstate 605 (San Gabriel Freeway) (E), Interstate 405 (San Diego Freeway) (S), and Lakewood Boulevard (W).

The second Eastside is an area that is also called the Central City area of Long Beach. It is on the east side of the Los Angeles River The boundaries for this second Eastside are (very roughly) Willow Ave. and then the Signal Hill city limits (N), Redondo Blvd. (E), Ocean Blvd. (S), and the Los Angeles River (W). This will heretofore be referred to as "the street gang Eastside."

[edit] The street gang Eastside

Eastside Long Beach is the home of several street gangs, including Black Crips gangs, Hispanic gangs, and Asian gangs. )There are no Bloods gangs in Long Beach even though there are in bordering cities like Compton and Los Angeles.)

There are Black gangs such as the Insane Crips and Rollin' 20's Crips, Hispanic Sureño gangs such as the Eastside Longo 13, and the Barrio Pobre13, and Asian gangs such as the Eastside Asian Boyz.

Rappers Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and Nate Dogg, as well as Snoop Dogg's Tha Eastsidaz, are all from EastSide Long Beach. The VIP Records store which has been featured in music videos by Snoop Dogg and other rap music artists is at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Eastside Long Beach. The corner of "21 and Lewis" that Warren G mentions in "Regulate" is very close to VIP Records.