a history of violence

Ice Cube

Blacks who ventured across the unmarked border
Were often attacked
By teenage members of the new gang
Called the spook hunters
One of a handful of white gangs active in this time
It was only natural for l. a. 's newest residents
To respond unkind

As white attacks started to increase
In the mid 1940's and late 1940's
Blacks started to organize their clubs
Really as a defensive mechanism
And the boss men or the business men
And the snyder boys and all these
Clubs in south l. a. really were just sorta defending
Themselves against
White violence that was coming from huntington park
And southgate

The demise of the black panthers in los angeles
Is said to be another
Blow to a generation of black teenagers
That witnessed many of it's role models
Assasinated throughout the 1960's

What I'm sayin in so many words
They shoulda let the panthers
Went on because there probably
Would never have been no crips and no bloods