At what age did you start to represent your gang?

[Bsiderida]

runnin with at 12, bangin' by 13

[THALOCPASADENA]

I WAS BANGING CRIP ALL THE TIME BUT I WAS NOT FROM NO WHERE . I NEW I HATED BLOOD'S BUT I LIVED IN PASADENA AND I WAS LIKE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND I WAS LIKE I AM GOING TO C FROM ALTADENA BLOCCC BUT THEN I SAW HOW EASY THEY HAD IT AND I WAS LIKE FUCC THAT. I MEET MY NIGGA AND HE WAS LIKE I AM BANGING RAYMOND CRIP AND WE KICK IT AND THEN YOU KNOW I LIKE THIS RAYMOND CRIP SHIT...SO WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL I C FROM THE HOOD AND EVEYBODY WAS LIKE YOU FROM RAYMOND NOW .." I THOUGHT YOU WERE JUST A CRIP". "I WAS NAA I AM A RAYMOND!!! FROM THAT POINT ON IT WAS ON!!!!
RAYMOND OUT ... MUCH LOVE TO MANY NIGGA'S WHO PUT ME ON ...

[pimpsmooth420]

yea i started bangin sense the age of 12 my cousin bang crip in sac and im a hour and a half away and always had beef with bkloods so i just had 2 bang on them and been doing it 24 7 every sense

[koach]

my dad from r 20`s so i grow up flamed up but bang the lane since 87

[BG MLOCO]

AT THE AGE OF 13 I WAS AFFILIATED THROUGH MY BEST FRIEND RIG AKA CURLY LOC AND I WAS JUST HANGING AND CHILLIN,AND AT 14 I WAS JUMPED IN AND I WAS WILDING FROM AGE 14-18 JUS RUNNING WILD BANGING, SHOOTOUTS, FIGHTS, ROBBERIES,SELLING WHATEVER TO WHOEVER AND GETTING SHOT AT JUMPED AND WHOLE LOT OF S***. i WOULD SAY AFTER MY GRANDMA DIED IN 99 I JUS WENT WILD AND DID'NT CARE BUT I MANAGED TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL AND NOW I ATTEND COLLEGE AND HAVE A JOB. AND I STILL STAY TRUE TO MY SET ALWAYS, FROM MEETINGS, TO NEW RECRUITS TO G-RIDES OR PUTTING IN MY WORK I AM DOWN AND ALWAYS BE DOWN.

ETGC 4 LIFE 3X BKLYN EAST NY

[ElGuero]

Its not my proudest moment....

Started when I was 12....when I left elementary school really had no choice, it wasn't the best neighborhood, and well, it was either get involved or get beaten every day.....so I started kicking it with the set, and joined....it was 1987. Got fully out and made peace with the past in 1996 at age 21.......made it in one piece.....and am doing really good He he, who would have ever thought back then that I'd be getting my master's degree in psychological anthropology this May...... I went back to my old neighborhood.....talked with some of the people, went to my old highschool....they couldn't believe how much I've changed.....

[PREACH]

i started bangin when i was 9 for rsp crip, in the late 80's.
i've since left the hood when i was like 16. thats when i realized these fools never had my back when i put in werk or when fools would retaliate against me for the werk i put on them.
after i left that weak hood , i only been gang affiliated, but not with them.

[coconut1202004]

I WAS 16

[Sheeklouchdblock]

I use to Live in Nickersons for a while when I was young, And I have alot of relatives there Who are from Hunnas, But I havent been Gang Affiliated until I moved to The Doves when I was 11.........

[areyouvi3t]

started bangin when 15............stopped when i had my first kid at 24............but still kick it with the boyz

[SCREWLOOSE]

jumped in 83 at the age 14 i did not really put in work for my NAYBAHOOD
till 86. i was stabbed in the head and back with a ice pick by 3 etg's in 87
had my ass in rehab for 4 months that slowed me down.

[K1LLJOY]

damn i dont know if its me or did yall start gangin at an old age
i personaly think if you 16 or 17 and just now joining a gang you need to just quit i say thre most apropiate age to join a gang is at age 12
i know this dude he dodnt start bangin till he was 19 and when he got banged on by this lil nigga from umm???? well i forgot but he got banged on by this lil 14 year old boy and every body just laffed at him

[Anonymous20]

i Got put in 2 my set abkout a month after my 14th bkirthday
and for like that Whole summer i Went around hittin-up(Wall-bkanGin) my set everyWhere
then in the fall, When i Got into hiGh sChool, thats When all the fiGhtin staarted

[xplicit753]

killjoy u said u think the most APPROPIATE AGE FOR BANGIN IS 16??? WUT the FuCC CUZZ, NO AGE IS APPROPIATE DAMN

[bkstomp3]

me and my brother never could stay out of trouble at age 8 thru 14 i was claimin crip cuzz all my family was bloods and plus i was goin to crenshaw high and my brother was from 106nhc but i didnt know shit about gangs.then i got sick of gettin terrorized by vng's walkin to and from school everyday and my homeboy talked me into gettin put on the hood.righ after that we moved to st louis to get away from this stuff then we got into more trouble out there so we ended up back in la but in 2003 my moms got pissed cuz me and my bro tried to beat my cuzzin to death with a dictionary and she kicked us out of the crib.and now we back in the stl stayin with our aunt but we still bangin out here too but just on the solo tip......

[coconut1202004]

SINCE MY EARLY CHILDHOOD I WAS RUNNIN ROUND with MY GD OLDER COUSINS WHEN I LIVED IN CHICAGO. EXPOSED TO EVERYTHING FROM DRUGS TO MURDER. CAME TO CALI (TO GET OUTTA TROUBLE) AND FOUND TROUBLE WHEN MY FAMILY MOVED TO INGLEWOOD. NO PUN INTENDED. FOUGHT EVERYDAY CUZZ LIFE IS LIKE THAT OUT THERE. MOVED TO LA IN GEER GANG HOOD. WAS GOIN THRU IT THERE TOO. LONG STORY SHORTENED I FINALLY ENDED UP IN DENA AND STARTED CRIPPIN OFFICIALLY SINCE ABOUT 94. I WAS ABOUT 16

CUZZ,
WAS THERE FOR TANK'S FUNERAL IN 94
WHEN THOSE DL'S WAS THROWIN BOTTLES
IN FRONT OF THE POLICE AND THEY DID DO NOTHIN

[spikey_2008]

im 13 and I just got put down in a gang yo