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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
oh.. wrong Athens.. I thought you meant Athens, California, the city that gave birth to the Bloods 
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by the way, did you notice by coincidence that Athens Park blockboi was throwin up the Westside? Why would he throw up westside on the westside? Thats because that whole 90s Westside vs Eastside was a misunderstanding. It initially had nothing to do with westcoast vs eastcoast, rather it was a localized LA gang culture thing, westside vs eastside los angeles. The westside (areas west of 110 fwy) tend to largely be blood neighborhoods and other indy black gang sets, and the eastside (east of the 110 fwy) tend to be Crip neighborhoods but mostly sureno mexican gang hoodz. In the 80s and early 90s the Crips and Bloods were notoriously feuding with an unimaginable murder rate (this is because firearms suddenly and mysterious became more widely available, around the same coincidental time the Contra scandal about secret govt arms running was around and the crack scandal.. hmm?!) and so there was heavy westside vs eastside beef here in LA.
Rappers like Tupac (who was affiliated largely with westside pirus, athens and other bloods via suge knight etc) really misunderstood this local situation initially, and it blew up in the media in the wrong direction. Once it caught momentum it evolved into a coastal rivalry and became unavoidable and self-defining, but initially it was a local thang..
this has been street science..