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Contents 1 Crips, meaning of word 2 Crip Whistle 3 Entertainers with Crip affiliations 4 Regarding the main topic line, Regarding the start of the Crips. 5 what are they? 6 allies n' rivals

[edit] Crips, meaning of word

There is a mistake in the article I believe. In Tookies memoairs he states that crips was initially spelled "crib" and that it later evolved into the word crip because it was often misunderstood. And bloodz believe that crips are called CRabz. He also states that it does not stand for "Community Revolution In Progress" as also mentioned in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.225.10.11 (talk) 21:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Crip Whistle

Could something about the Crip Whistle, including its origin, be added to this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.176.14.100 (talk • contribs) 19 September 2007

[edit] Entertainers with Crip affiliations

Someone needs to provide reliable sources to the section on entertainers with Crip affiliations. Other than the Christian anti-gang website cited, I can't find anything linking Afroman to the Crips, except for one lyric from the song "Back 2 School" where he refers to himself as "the educated crip." Afroman is know for ironic and humorous lyrics, and I don't think this is enough to assume he's actually a Crip. Please read up on the Wikipedia guidelines on reliable sources. Toscaesque (talk) 20:47, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

-I agree, the references do need to be fixed, but there seems to be a trend of attempted whitewashing of the Entertainer's section, and I do not understand why. One does not completely remove a section because a couple of the sources might be strained. Instead, please remove entries which have broken or spurious sources.Out of Phase User (talk) 10:41, 26 March 2008 (EST)

What about snoop dogg? Rdrgz93 (talk) 23:35, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the main topic line, Regarding the start of the Crips.

Within the first paragraph there is a line that goes "Crips were not founded by 15-year-old Raymond Washington and Stanley Tookie Williams III . The Crips and Bloods are the children of political groups such as the Black Panthers, Slausons, and US Orginization." This is obviously a slur against the Crips and I recommend it for deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.46.136.136 (talk) 15:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

I've removed this unsourced information. Tasc0 ^{It's a zero!} 18:27, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] what are they?

what are the three kings and queens associated with the crips and why is the six point star usualy involved with the gangs activities. and when marking territory? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bitch vampire chic (talk • contribs) 22:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] allies n' rivals

hol' up, i'm confused. are the bloodz n' nortenos allies? crips n' surenos allies? bloodz n' crips rivals? nortenos n' surenos rivals?72.226.157.22 (talk) 02:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)