I guess you could say that my crew was known, but not necessarily popular. I finished high school out in a middle-class suburb and among the Blacks there were clear divisions between those that had money and those that didn't as well as those that grew up in the burbs and those that had recently moved out there. Since I spent the majority of my childhood in Inglewood and it was just my mother and I in an apartment, it was obvious which side I fell on. I hung out with some Blacks that lived over in the big houses and stuff, but the majority of us lived in the apartment complexes that were around Temple Avenue, Amar Road, and Azusa Avenue. Some dudes gangbanged, some didn't. I was one of the ones that didn't, but since I had two cousins that were Crips and another cousin that was in one of the local Mexican gangs I didn't have to worry too much about fools trying to set-trip or check a *****. A lot of us minorities(Blacks, Mexicans, Filipinos, etc.)kicked in during classes but at lunchtime and before and after school you saw the cliques in effect.