[hershey]

Isn't that sideways v sign some sort of up yours thing? Violent rapper rudeness, at any rate.

[truthluva]

I have no idea. (I'm sorta out of the rapper loop) I just know I have seen a lot of pics of Joran & Friends using that sign. Could be just a teenage thing.

[BunnySlippers]

Maybe you have to be from Los Angeles. It's been here for decades ... originally black and later Latino gangs. Much later than that it became hip hop.

More here for "HAND SLANG:

http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~haralds/htmlfiles/gang-signs.html

http://www.hip-hop-music-classic.com/Gang-Hand-Signs-Gang-Members.html