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"To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of violence in the community lately," Freeway Rick Ross, the former drug trafficker and south LA native, tells VICE. "I'm hoping that it doesn't pick up. I've heard about some people getting killed… Del Dog, who is a person that I know very well from childhood… I don't know if they figured out who actually killed him, but there was a lot of speculation behind that, (to see if) that would cause an all-out war between rival gangs."The feud represents tribalism at its most macabre—pitting a Crips crew, the Rollin 100s—against the 52 (or 5-Deuce) Hoover Gangster Crips. Unless you're involved in the gang culture and live in South LA, it can be difficult to understand the ever-shifting and swirling alliances that change under the slightest provocation, but the Rollin 100s are a conglomerate of Crip street gangs based north of Century Boulevard in South LA. The 5-Deuce Hoover Gangster Crips are a set from the prominent Hoover gang that has historically been major on the west side of South LA. Finally, the Main Street Mafia Crips are said to be based on the Eastside of South LA."Most of all the violence is happening north of Imperial," Reynaldo tells VICE. "Several different other neighborhoods have been going at it for over 30 years of war, and just this summer, one individual got killed on 109th and that sparked a retaliation for that death. And during that time, somebody in a tweet or Instagram put a map of the neighborhood where it was located and put Rollin 100s and then somebody used that same map and put a title on top of it that said, 100 Days, 100 Nights of Killing. Did that neighborhood sanction that? No, they didn't. I'm one of the gang interventionists in that area, and no one sanctioned that."Related: How the Gangs of 1970s New York Came Together to End Their Wars
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