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But, I do know that some of the kids in my neighborhood learned thier gang signs from this cover. In hindsight, doesn't it seem counterproductive to encourage peace by recording these guys threatening each other and then trying to sell it to the entire country? I don't know. Yep, they wanted to confine the "bangin'" to "wax", which is just stupid. It was just a weird album that looked dumb. So, twenty years later I look back at this album with the power of the internet and see that it was an initiative by older gang heads to help bring peace to gang infested neighborhoods. Und erstand, at that time we didn't have the internet or blogs or apps or chat rooms or cellphones, so I got my hip hop news from the Source, BET, college radio, and from friends, and I never heard about this shit from any of those sources. I love the warning to bootleggers: "Bootleg this at your own risk!" Shit, if a crip had to cross out the letter "b" in their tags, then they certainly wouldn't be (literally) handshaking on the back of some album cover. As a kid I thought that if these guys were real gang members (which they were) then they wouldn't tolerate sharing space together on "wax". In 1993 my patience for "commercial" rap was already wearing thin, even though I really only had access to commercial stuff. This Bloods & Crips nonsense was just stupid to me, like a WWE routine.
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Why, you ask? This shit was just too gimmicky. In fact, one of my friends had an album of theirs and force-lended it to me and I still never listened to it. When I was a young youth and frequented record stores looking for the greatest in hip hop I would ALWAYS come across albums by the Bloods & Crips and I never, ever listened to one. Song Title: "Bangin On Wax - Duet: Bloods & Crips"