Bloods Crips Book of Knowledge

Real Crips do not represent any 6 point star and are not part of the Folks Nation Alliance. The confusion of Crips representing the Folks Nation's 6 point star started on the internet with unknown persons creating various fictional ‘Bloods Crips Book of Knowledge’ which consist of mixing Crip history and Folks Nation History, symbols, and literature together.

These fictional ‘Blood Piru Knowledge’ spread rapidly throughout the internet and eventually into the streets with want to be taking these books seriously. There is, however, a cease-fire/hood share agreement between Crips and Gangster Disciples that originated in Kansas City Missouri in 1993 called the ‘8 Ball’.

They call it the ‘8 Ball’ because of the shape you get when you merge the "C" hand-sign of the Crips with the ‘Pitch Fork’ hand-sign of the Gangster Disciples, which is how they greet each other. The ‘8 ball’ has nothing to do with Crips being part of the Folks Nation or using any 6 point star, it simply means they have an agreement to share a hood and its resources. All throughout the United States Crip hoods and Gangster Disciple hoods have linked up to form their own ‘8 balls’ and in these hoods you will see both Crip and Gangster Disciple Graffiti and Gang Culture. The ‘8 Ball’ has been known to be ‘cracked’ leaving both gangs to fight a Bloody War for sole control of that hood, but these instances are very rare. The ‘8 ball’ cease-fire agreement may have sparked the idea for someone to create the fictional internet Crips Book of Knowledge.