Verona Beach Crips The Real V's
Venice Shoreline Crips, known on the street as VSLC or just Shoreline, is an old Westside Crip set stamped out the beachside corners of Venice, Los Angeles one of the oldest Crip sets still standing up near the water. The set sparked back in the 1970s when young black kids and a few brown homies staked blocks around Windward Avenue, Pacific, Oakwood and Rose, pushing back on Venice 13 and local Sur sets who tried to fence off dope lines near the shore. VSC came up as part of the big Westside Crip umbrella never flipped the Neighborhood or Gangster card, they stayed repping straight Original Westside Crip politics. Early days the Shorelines had Venice locked with black turf corners, Venice 13 to the east and Culver City 13 pressing on the back meaning fades popped every few blocks. By the ‘80s, Venice Shoreline Crips built their name on corner dope spots near the beach and parking lots kids pushing work behind beachside apartments, hiding burners in alley fences and under lifeguard shacks. Old heads still talk about the Venice/Mar Vista line beefs when VSC started bumping heads with Culver City 13 and Venice 13 daily. Some lines crossed into Santa Monica, bringing fades with SMG sets too. Through the ‘90s they stacked up a few new cliques: the Shoreline Hustlers and Tiny Locs, keeping the young wave alive when older OGs got washed or bagged up for gun charges and dope cases. Even now, Venice Shoreline kids keep the same beach hustle alive block pushers flipping dope, fades over surf turf, parking lot shootouts when Sur sets push too close to Oakwood. The new wave still rocks the same corners Windward, Ocean Front Walk, Oakwood Park alley walls stacked with VSC tags over Venice 13 and Culver tags crossed out bold.
