Gangs of Chicago - BDs v GDs

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All of these industries provided great employment opportunities and in the 1950s and 1960s there were large numbers of African American families moving in. to

chicago

as part of the great migration out of the south and many moved to the hyde park and kenwood areas of englewood on

chicago

's south side, near where the steel and meatpacking industries provided the most opportunities. , but unfortunately in the decades that followed industries began to decline in Chicago and many of the communities that supported those industries fell into unemployment and poverty many of the industries that had anchored the neighborhood were in a fight for their lives manufacturing moved Abroad, environmental regulations grew, markets grew, businesses shrank, jobs disappeared, and many people were forced to leave neighborhoods that had been stable for generations and began to see rental properties, absentee landlords, and abandoned homes.

Meanwhile, this being the 1960s, it's possible to imagine what local attitudes toward newly settled African American families may have been like at the time. not so good and it was during these decades that the African American community in Chicago began to be subjected to numerous efforts by the state to make it difficult for them to settle in the area, this included restricted covenants that blocked the sale or rental of properties to black tenants and red lines by which banks would refuse to make loans on properties in areas where black families were located, with local tensions apparently boiling over when the city announced plans to expand social housing to suburbs that have smaller, low-rise duplexes along with existing high-rise housing like the notorious Cabrini green housing projects, so with all of this going on at the time, it's safe to say that no one was really looking out for the best interests of the black community in Chicago and therefore, As the young black men in the area began to be the ones bullied they eventually grew tired of the abuse, they banded together and formed a club to fight those who had been bullying them over time these street

gangs

evolved to be more organized and one took borrowed from religious mythology and named themselves Disciples, but soon after decided they wanted something a little more threatening, thus ascending to the Devil's Disciples, not to be confused with the biker gang of the same name, so In the following years the disciples of the devil fought with other

gangs

in the Englewood area, such as the white racist one. a gang known as the Uptown Rebels, there were the Blackstone Rangers, another group known as the Egyptian Cobras or later the Mickey Cobras, again not to be confused with the Egyptian Cobra motorcycle gang, anyway , one of the founding members of the disciples' crew was a man named David.

Barksdale, a tough teenage guy who was apparently only 14 years old, commanded the leadership of this group. david barksdale was famous as king david, who some attentive zoologists might remember that this is where the current pop-in o-block rapper, king von, supposedly gets his name, as it seems, for the last few years he has been spreading the rumor of who was the grandson of the disciples, the founder david barksdale or king david, anyway, if that is true, which is probably not king von's grandfather, he set out to expand his disciples and plans to do this. by rallying other smaller neighboring gangs to unite under the banner of the disciples, so in the '60s barksdale established a base at 63rd and normal, yes, king von 63rd and on blocks that would later become legendary in chicago , drill music, folklore, king david set set out to continue expanding the disciples' territory but it wouldn't take him long to find some operations in the form of the ultimate gangsters.

The story of the crew that would later become the geds or gangster disciples begins in 1964 when a group of young people met at the house of a man named Larry Hoover and yes, that is the great Larry Hoover, whom perhaps remember the song BMF by Rick Ross. Apparently, one night Hoover and his boys were looking out the window at the gangsters and pimps on the street. and realizing that the house they were sitting in was right on the border between ranger and disciple territory, they decided they wanted to start their own group and take over the block, so Larry Hoover and his boys started his own street group called Supreme Gangsters. they began fighting with the local Blackstone Rangers and the Egyptian Cobras, but initially had no problems with David Barksdale's disciples and were generally just more focused on getting money than fighting over territory;

However, once King David began to get other gangs to unite under the banner of his disciples, he began referring to his gang conglomerate as the nation of the black disciples and this group eventually became so strong and powerful. which attracted a backlash when the Black Keystone Rangers emerged from the Black Stone Rangers of old who began fighting for dominance with the blacks. disciple nation, so with the black keystone nation applying pressure to the currently still independent supreme gangsters, they decided that they also needed an alliance, so the supreme gangsters did exactly what the black disciple nation had done by building alliances with other street groups that also hated peace.

Stones but did not want to be in the black disciple nation, so anyone who joined the supreme gangsters would also have to add gangster to their name and they began to operate much like the black disciple nation had done. in the world. west side of chicago circa 1967, the gangsters supreme were gaining popularity and would begin officially feuding with the nation of black disciples around 1968, and this dispute reached a boiling point when the founder of the gangsters supreme, larry hoover, was the target of numerous assassination attempts. However, they survived these attempts and the ultimate gangsters would continue to expand control throughout Chicago's South Side, encroaching on Barksdale's territory.

At this point, both the disciples and the peace stones respected the ultimate gangsters and wanted to absorb them to fight each other and apparently, larry hoover met with david barksdale and the founder of the peace stone nation, jeff thorpe, and the initial result of these talks was a truce between the peace stones and the gangsters rather than a full merger, however this alliance ended up falling apart. After a shootout in May 1969 against two supreme gangsters with peace stones, this was apparently the result of two opposing gang members clashing with each other and not respecting the supposed alliance and in response to this act of aggression by the p -stones, larry hoover met with david barksdale and agreed to a full-fledged union and thus, in a historic agreement that united both gangs under the same umbrella in a team that would now be known as the nation of black gangster disciples or the BGDS, the newly united nation of black gangster disciples continued at war with those from Chicago. other gangs this includes an incident where david barksdale was shot while in a bar with larry hoover with hoover acting quickly rushing him to the hospital and saving his life and in addition to this failed attempt the peace stones would have another damning setback in 1972 when its leader, Jeff Fort, was sentenced to four years in prison, where he would actually convert to Islam and drastically change the direction of that organization;

However, in the power vacuum that remained, the disciple nation of the black gangsters was the main target in the police's crosshairs. and they would soon make a mistake as in 1973 larry david ordered the murder of william pookie young as punishment for stealing drugs and money from one of the team's drug houses, the shooter who did it and another member of the team ended up betraying hoover and finally leading over the feds by heavily attacking Hoover in a case that named him the ultimate gangster boss, prompting the judge to throw the book at him and sentence him to a hefty prison term of 150 to 200 years, however, Larry Hoover continued to direct the black.

Gangster Disciple Nation operates behind the wall in jail while David Barksdale continued to lead the teams on the streets and over time even attempted to establish the gang's organization as a strict corporate hierarchy, something that is covered extensively in the documentary. History Channel on the GDS. which I really enjoyed watching for the research in this video, hoover modeled the gds as a large corporation, he named himself president and created a board of directors inside the corral and another on the streets, unfortunately this did not last long because despite Surviving that previous attempt on his life, King David had suffered serious injuries from a bullet that effectively destroyed his kidneys and ultimately ended up dying in September 1974.

From here, Jerome Shorty Friedman ended up taking charge of the street teams of the nation of black gangster disciples and left. Larry Hoover tried to keep things together behind bars, but there was a problem, you see, because King David's love among his soldiers in the gang's ranks was too strong for Larry Hoover to control, and after death of king david, it seemed that many members stopped respecting larry hoover's leadership and ultimately led to members disrespecting the supreme gangster side of the national alliance of black gangster disciples and part of this was It was because some members still held grudges from the time when the two crews were at war in the late 60s before the alliance. had been established and therefore, without unified leadership, many disciples began to separate from the united crew.

An apparent attempt by Larry Hoover to reunite the nation apparently failed prompting Dirk Don Dirk Acklin to bring back the Black Disciples as a unified gang and along with the Midget Freeman wage an immediate civil war against the Black Disciples. gangsters, now opposed, that will bring bloodshed to both the streets of Chicago and the prison wings where the fractured limbs now wage war. Now the timeline on specific bits of gang-related mythology isn't always so clear, but it seems. At this point, both the gds and the bds began to develop their own individual identities going in different directions and part of this was the evolution of brands or images, but remained consistent with the gangs in the following decades as new generations joined and continued to devastate.

In the history of the gang, for example, the black disciples seem to have a close affinity with the number three , sometimes called trays, hence their three-fingered hand sign known as the gates, a sign that their divine operations would make with three fingers down. they mean bdk or they are a bd killer. Gangster disciples are also known to represent a 360. This apparently represents 360 degrees, a metaphor for being a pure gangster disciple and having a full circle of knowledge. GDS are also well known to use. a gallows in their images, hence the three-pronged gallows or the hand sign with rake that they tend to throw, a sign that once again the operators turn to represent the falling of rakes or gdk, which means murderer of disciples of gangsters, these two pitchforks that appear in gd's logo have a combined total of six points and it is no coincidence that it is also the same number of points as the star of David that appears in all of their logos, but outside of brand differences in management style also began to permeate the two separately. groups, gangster disciples were said to be structured in a much more corporate hierarchy with seniority based on roles such as boards of directors, in contrast, bds were structured more like religions with leaders given titles such as ministers, such as a still imprisoned Larry .

Hoover began to lose control on the streets. He tried to organize new alliancesbetween prison gangs in the late '70s and ended up forming a large alliance of prison-based gds bds and many other latin gangs under the folk nation banner, but of course, naturally. This would end up being counterproductive as the operations of the members of those groups like the vice lords and the Latin kings would also come together forming the nation of the people, but from now on, as we move into the 80s, things will only get worse. after years of shaky attempts to form alliances.

In the early '80s, the war between the black disciples and the gangster disciples went to the next level with BD Street captain Jerome Shorty Freeman and enforcer Mickey Bull Johnson, newly released from prison in 1981, coming out to the streets to give their foot soldiers an ultimatum to choose a side, either you stay with them as bds or you go work with larry hoover as gd, this established bds as a more unified organization and during the 80's we saw violent battles between GD and BD for dominance over Chicago's burgeoning drug trade, things escalated to the point where local news reported bloodshed as local gang blocs like the troubled Cabrini Green ended up becoming notorious in the city today. housing authority is 30 million dollars in debt building codes are not being enforced and elevators when they work they are called the most dangerous form of public transportation in chicago the only structure is provided by gangs who marked their territory with paint on aerosol and set up sniper posts in high-rise buildings last year 200 people were shot or stabbed in cabrini eight violent crimes per 100 people how long has it been since they were shot?

Very recently. Some guys shot him on the other side of the road while they were crossing the field. His business is said to include the sale of tea and blues a substitute for heroin is now sold openly on the street in large quantities violence is left in its wake people who are afraid the interaction between gangs in prison and gangs on the street not uncommon in the cabrini green housing project since January it has become a virtual battlefield: 36 injured, 10 dead in mid-March and if there is an important gang to target here it is the disciples, the largest and the least organized of the re-emerging gangs of the 1960s, this war reached its peak.

In August 1991, a vehicle driven by BD ended up killing three GDs, leading to numerous shootouts on the streets of Chicago and the city becoming so unsafe for warring gangs that many couldn't even walk. safely on the street and meanwhile in jail the leadership of the gds was crumbling and despite trying to improve its public image by building a public sound more concerned with community work than with gangs in the mid-90s, larry hoover received new charges and prosecutors indicted him. To continue running the GDS from jail, this raid apparently came about after the court got permission to wiretap a visitor's badge that was given to all enforcers who visited the jail to come and talk to Larry Hoover.

Meanwhile, senior BD enforcer Mickey Bull ended up getting caught in a wiretap ordering the murder of a prison guard. Larry Hoover was eventually convicted of his crimes and sent to a maximum security federal prison in Colorado, far from his native Chicago, making it nearly impossible for him to operate as a boss. of the gang, this conviction essentially cut off Larry Hoover's communication with 95 percent of the world, and interestingly, it's only recently that Kanye West has been pressuring Donald Trump to grant Larry Hoover a pardon, and Trump even signed the first step that has allowed larry hoover to at least begin the process of seeking a shorter term in any case with important figures such as david barksdale or larry hoover, who had led the visions of these gangs, long ago their dream of a tribe The tight-knit, focused group of scammers making money and protecting themselves from nefarious outside forces began to thin out and we would soon see the city of Chicago causing the decline of these organizations, as they were once known, into the more fractured and independent gang groups we know. today in the Chicago exercises in the 90s, despite still being at war without leaders, the Chicago gangsters.

If the city's underworld economy was locked down, the GDS were still running a highly sophisticated crack cocaine operation nabbing numerous projects in Chicago, including some of the buildings on the Robert Taylor Homes estate, Cabrini Green and Stateway Gardens, it was rumored that the Gangster Disciples operation was bringing in a hundred million dollars a year and their presence dominating these projects gave them an ample supply of impressionable and impromptu young new members to join their ranks with older gds converting generations of pre-teen boys into soldiers and marksmen while the black disciples dominated from the beginning. place they called the castle where the bds were rumored to have their headquarters an operation that could make them up to 300,000 a day with this large scale crack and heroin empire apparently under the leadership of the new bd kingpin marvel thompson, much like The gds The BDS were also applying the same strategy of grooming young people to join the gang and do the dirty work early and it was actually this practice that led to the tragic death of 11-year-old Robert Yummy Sandofa, a troubled young man who had apparently been breaking into houses.

Since he was eight years old, apparently too young to be sent to a reformatory, he ended up in the hands of black disciples as a perfect candidate to be groomed as a young gang soldier, they put a gun in his hand and sent him to do exercises, unfortunately delicious. He ended up botching the job by shooting into a crowd, hitting two rival gangsters but also killing an innocent 14-year-old bystander named Siobhan Dean. This quickly brought a lot of negative media attention to the gang, who feared that 11-year-old Yummy would snitch if this was the case. Before Yummy even had the chance, 14 and 16 year old brothers Derek and Craig Hardaway were sent to murder him by doing the deed execution style in an underpass.

Ironically, these two shooters were caught convicted and ultimately brought the BDS much worse media retention than they had. had been facing such shocking crimes from the beginning, it is no wonder that by the time we reach the end of the 90s, the leaders of big bd and gd are being taken off the streets and high-ranking bd member robert Allen, be really flipped. In 1998, after admitting to selling more than 220 pounds of crack, he cooperated with the feds, leading to 21 new indictments against members of the BD on federal drug charges, 16 of which he testified against these consequences that left the black disciples in disarray and after Larry's dispatch.

Hoover out of state in the '90s, by the end of the decade, the police had also seized leadership of the gangster disciples in 1999. This included kingpin Roy Mosley, who was caught with a literal ton of cocaine in a car wash, and William. Edwards, an enforcer for Larry Hoover who had apparently been on the run for three years since Hoover lost indictment in 2001. 34 more members of the gangster disciples were facing charges for participating in his drug operation, and throughout the Northeast things didn't get any better. for Chicago's warring gangs. Another major federal case was brought against the Black Disciples' top management in 2004, with King of the Castle Marvel Thompson and 41 members indicted on drug charges, an indictment that even spectacularly accused the gang of laundering money through a rap recording studio they had. created with Thompson himself apparently running a record label called Mob, a label that is hilariously responsible for producing a little-known rap record called Charger Slide, screw the two-seat Slide, you probably didn't even realize you were the wedding of your sister. bd sliding ops cha-cha style anyway, while the feds were charging our sliding l's at the bds Also in 2005, a massive police raid swept up the robert taylor home projects that the bds and gds had spent years on at war and by the time the feds had cracked down on these projects.

Things had gotten so bad that the authorities decided at that point to demolish it. In fact, this was actually part of a program by Chicago's local authorities to dismantle the numerous skyscraper projects that had been plagued during the past decades, due to gang battles, this left the gds and the bds displaced fighting for new territory and from there, the close-knit crews that made up the gangster disciples and the black disciples began to fall apart, alliances began to break and things became much smaller and less. Centralized street groups appeared and claimed smaller areas. Some groups whose blocks had been demolished were forced to make new alliances and raise money, but at the same time, throughout the 2000s, the new, younger generation of Chicago gang members did not necessarily respect the alliances of older generations. and new localized disputes began to emerge between new and old blocks and in many ways the modern disputes between the bds and the gds are a whole new generation of gang battles between teams that have emerged to claim their local area and much more.

Like the bds did with their mafia record label, we've seen modern chicago drill wrappers and labels emerge from the ranks of these street gangs that came and went only this time they're not only using music to make money but also to feed their problems with the 2010 generation of Chicago gang members who used verses from their songs as an outlet to attack, insult and have their ox, dead or alive, escalate the problem and thus the younger generations of gds and beedes created new identities for their areas ushering in a new generation of gangs, younger groups affiliated with BD claimed newer low-rise blocks such as Parkway Gardens, initially naming them Wick City with three eyes to represent BDs and later renaming it oh block , this came after one of their team, od Perry, was murdered and from here we have gone on to see people like Chief Keef and King von immortalizing oh block forever in both their lyrics and their silly chains in the years that followed Upon the establishment of these teams, the oblock ended up having the most shootings for any block in Chicago between June 2011 and June 2014, a total of 19, and went on to be labeled the most dangerous block in Chicago.

This is the result of more modern spike attack gang battles between smaller gd and bd sets. This case between bd. oblock area in dispute with groups such as gd sets stl and named after its location at 63rd and st lawrence and, like oblock stl, was later infamously renamed to cavill again to honor the name of one of its murdered members Other gd groups laying claim to the area include ebt, named after their location at 64th and eberhardt, with artists such as rapper gd fbg duck hailing from these ends and representing the fbg or Flying Boy Gang banner over the course of the 2010s, as Chicago Drill music continued to gain prominence along with new rappers like Chief Keef and Lil Dirk gaining fame and fortune and bringing a lot of attention to the street side of what was happening in Chicago.

Fans would continue to be interested in the violent clashes between Chicago street gangs related to the rappers, these tragic and seemingly never. -The final scenes on the streets of Chicago were documented extensively by academic DJs on their War and Chiraq channel and to a lesser extent, with a greater focus on the noises of the musical side, welcome to rack-shy series with iconic media like this that forever connect the street politics of Chicago gang culture and Drill music, being probably one of the most violent stories in music history because, unfortunately, it took a lot of bloodshed for the world to realize account of the Chicago Drill music scene and fortunately, thanks to success in music, many members have been able to escape shy rack with their lives and musical careers intact and some like fbg duck have not been so lucky now look, I don't i'm going to get more into the beast among modern chicago rigs because if i tried to cover all the modern day gd and bd gang battles in one video it would end up being 10 hours long so those stories are for another day but i hope Enjoyed this breakdown of howBlack disciples and gangster disciples started in Chicago, I hope so.

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