The Northend has always been diverse in race, culture and gangs. People from all over have lived there (Bloods/Pirus , NH and Gangsta Crips, GD’s , Hoovers, Black P stones , Surenos, MS13, 18St, Nortenos) you name it! They’ve all stepped foot and made their mark up here.
Lake city has the most history when it comes to gang culture. There was once a feud going on In the Central District between some crips on cherry street who happened to be Santana Blocc Compton Crips aka SBCC , the historic gangs we know from the CD all wanted them gone causing them to work together to get rid of the common enemy. Now some how SBCC ended up on Tre Deuce (32nd Ave NE) shortly after came Lake Bity Avenue Piru and Lime Hood Piru after an OG from cali was visiting his family up there and got jumped by some crips. They also happened to be around the 3200 block area. There is also many GD’s who claim Tre Deuce so originally it was a Folks and Locs type of thing going on and they were rolling deep too. All these guys were constantly at war over turf. There were even guys from Rollin 60’s and 83 Hoover that got involved. But the beautiful thing about the North end is the diversity eventually muthafuckas grew up had kids and put petty beef to the side. Todays Youngsters that claim 3200 aren’t from one specific gang they’re the children of all of those mentioned. Plus there will always be clicks like Hot Boys and EAP that are a mix of all these guys.
There are two Seattle public housing low income spots that are historic in lake city and Northgate. Jackson Park (JP) and Cedarvale house (cedar Block) they both have a high rise project building out front and a village of row houses in the back that look a lot like yesler terrace projects and old holly park that both don’t exist anymore but in the north they still do.
Northgate was sort of a melting pot as well because when the mall existed people from all over the city would be there. But Most people who lived there either claimed lake city gangs or aurora/greenwood sets. Lots of crips and GD’s and at some point MS had set foot thru ng but There was a crew of guys that were from different hoods but mostly Prius and bloods that went by NorthGateMobb for a while. Todays youngsters that live on cedar block call it 8th ave and are mostly bloods from what I Hear.
Going towards aurora you had another low income housing behind the Home Depot on stone Ave called 1100 block these guys were a mix of crips and GD’s they were apart of SOK(society of kings) another hybrid gang and had branched off to 87th and Fremont naming that place 700 block. Just up the street from 1100 there’s a trailer park off 125th and aurora that was ran by LVL 13 (Little Valley Lokotes) & way Back in the day you also had a gang called NSB ( native son bloods, north Side bloods) from 85th and aurora/Nesbit ave they were mainly white native Samoan and black today there’s not many of them left. Rap group FTS(full time soldiers) had a couple guys from NSB.
Greenwood for some reason has always had a bunch of crips and a few GD’s around. There was even a set of crips that also claimed Ballard at some point as well those areas I’m not very educated on so I can’t tell u the history but both Ballard and greenwood at night were not places to be walking around at night a car full of mixed raced teenagers would most likely rob out of a random alley way.
With that being said the North is full of Hybrid gangs like Hot Boys, S)ociety O)f K)ings, E.ast A.frican P.osse. NorthGateMob ,700/1100 block, goon squad, 3rd ave kings etc. etc.
