Quick warning at the top, there is a little bit of explicit language in this episode.

Cindy Chang covers crime in the LAPD, the Los Angeles Times.

She says, if you drive the harbor freeway from North LA to South, you'll pass Watts to

the East, Inglewood to the West, and every few blocks, you'll cross these invisible lines,

lines that separate rival gangs.

Once you get to know people in this culture, you start to, when you're driving through,

go, oh, you know, I'm driving through the Rolling 40s territory.

The Rolling 40s are a local affiliate of the crypts, and it's not like everyone who's

a bloodwers red all the time, and everyone who's a crypt was blue all the time.

Gangs often adopt sports teams as their symbols, so you'll spot somebody who has a certain

hat on, be like, hmm, I wonder, are you a member of such and such?

The Loyalties might switch every few blocks, but those Loyalties also last.

Something people don't realize about gangs is we tend to think that when somebody is

not involved in criminal activity that they've left the gang, but often that's not the

case, so they feel this real strong allegiance to their neighborhood, and might still consider

themselves a member of that gang, even though they might have a regular job or be a famous

rapper.

Nipsy Hussle was one of those famous rappers, an LA icon.

The music world is mourning, Grammy nominated rapper Nipsy Hussle who was killed in a shooting

in Los Angeles.

He was gunned down earlier this spring.

When Nipsy Hussle was killed, did you cover it?

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