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Rollin' 20's Neighborhood Bloods (Los Angeles)

West-side Rollin' 20's Neighborhood Bloods is a predominately black street gang that originated and is located in the West Adams and adjacent districts of South Central Los Angeles. There was a previous founding urban social group in the West Adams area called "Blood Alley," Blood Alley dates back to the early 1950's before the construction of Interstate 10/Santa Monica Freeway.The area originally known as Blood Alley existed the area around Normandie Avenue and Washington Blvd.

Long before the existence of Blood or Crip gangs and the alliance that now exist among Blood gangs in Los Angeles, Blood Alley existed as an urban social group. The story is back in the early 1950's there were 2 dead bodies found in one of the alleys on Normandie around 20th Street, and they were hacked up and really mutilated and that specific alley became known as Blood Alley, which was a name that eventually blanketed that specific area. The notoriety of that area carried over to the identity of the youth that lived in the Normandie/Washington area. In these times white gangs like the Spook Hunters were still in existence in Los Angeles and Blood Alley was one of those groups of Black youth that came together to protect themselves against the racism and violence inflicted by gangs like the Spook Hunters. In these times Black people could not own real estate in certain areas of Los Angeles (like West Adams) Due to an ordinance called "Restrictive Covenant," so Blacks and whites did coexist in this time before the White flight.

Blood Alley was a multi generational group that existed between the early 1950's and 1970. In 1970 the last generation of Blood Alley became the first generation of Neighborhood and Hoover Family. It depended on which side of Vermont Avenue you hung out on to determine whether you claimed Neighborhood or Hoover Family. Hoover Family was centrally located at Hoover Park on Adams Blvd and Hoover St and Neighborhood was still in the area that was occupied by Blood Alley.

In the latter 1970's Hoover Family failed to regenerate and the University of Southern California bought out most of the housing in the area once occupied by the Hoover Family gang. Neighborhood became the dominating group in the area of Los Angeles known as the Westside Rollin' 20's. Throughout the 1970's Rollin' 20's Neighborhood evolved into a bigger group and expanded to occupy the entire West Adams District, Angeles Vista, and Arlington Heights and the University Park area of Los Angeles.

Originally Neighborhood was an independent group that was developed around the time the Crips were developed, but the foundation of Neighborhood was to back up people that lived in the Neighborhood against the Crips because they were consolidating, absorbing, and intimidating a lot of the existing gangs and those that did not join up with the Crips or remained to be independent eventually ended up being Bloods.

Rollin 20's is related to the numerical geography of the area of Los Angeles where Neighborhood is located, but originally Rollin' 20's was claimed and represented by Neighborhoods, Hoover Family's, and BPS (City). Eastside Oulaw Bloods also claim Rollin' 20's and have represented Rollin' 20's long before the development of Bloods and Crips, originally known on the Eastside of Los Angeles as Roaming 20's.

Neighborhood was identified as simply Neighborhood from its inception until the late 1970's. Around the time that Neighborhood Crip was established, the word blood was attached to the identity of West Adams. The attachment of the word Blood was the inception of NHB, the "B" was not associated with any alliance with other blood gangs, Blood was actually paying homage to the parenting group of the urban subculture in the West Adams area (Blood Alley).

Originally Neighborhood did not claim any streets eventually 27th Street was developed in the 70's, 25th Street was originally part of Hoover Family then evolved into one of the subsets of NHB, in the 1980's 29th Street was developed as a subset, just the same as 2nd Avenue NHB was developed into a subset. during the 1980's the foundation of Neighborhood Rollin' 20's Bloods was developed in Bakersfield and due to the heavy Belizean concentration in the West Adams area and many of them being deported back to belize after committing crimes, Rollin' 20's have developed sets in the Central American Country of Belize. In 2002 Rollin' 20's Neighborhood Bloods began to establish in the eastern United States and in the southern United States.