In the 1980’s, I recall reading about a gang called the Watts Vario Grape Street Crips, which was apparently named for Grape Street, a residential street that runs by several housing projects in Watts, a neighborhood in southeast Los Angeles. Amazingly, they seem to have spread across the country from that small community.
We have the Chicago Boyz, Grape Street, and Nike. I also ask our gang bangers if they find it ironic that they use a trademarked name to claim HUD housing as their territory when it doesn’t even belong to them in the first place. They don’t get it.