Celebrities Who've Been In Gangs

Publish date: 2024-05-08

New York City rap group The Diplomats, commonly called Dipset, have all been long-rumored to be affiliated with the red bandana-waving Bloods.

Dipset member Jim Jones has been the most forthcoming about his connection, telling Vice in 2006, "I've been affiliated with the Blood gang since I was a teenager. And for y'all that's not familiar with the court of law, being a member of a gang, being a Blood is not a crime, you know what I mean? That is not a crime to be a gang member ... it's what you do as a gang member, that's when you get conspiracy charges and racketeering and all that. Me being who I was, I just came up in a hood that was a Blood neighborhood."

However, he added, "I don't care where you gangbang at, it's people dying, it's young youth dying all that time. Gangs are killing each other and at the end of the day, it's f**king up our hood regardless of where we're coming from, that's what people really need to know."

Member Juelz Santana also admitted to Dipset having Blood ties. "I been gang-affiliated since day one. Everybody knows that, everybody know we got a heavy affiliation with the Bloods since day one," he told MTV News. "...People around me happen to be around more Bloods than anything else, so they assume that's what I'm doing. But I know Crips too. I know Latin Kings."

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