Crips 1st color was orange🟧
In early 70's the original Crip alliance was made of 4 gangs:
*Avenues > Eastside Crip
*Gladiators > Hoover Crip
*Denker Boys > Harlem Crip
*Drew Boys > Westside Crip
During this time, they started wearing various logos/sport teams to indetify their Crip faction:
*The 1st gang to do this was the Avenues who wore the Union Gas logo to represent the street they started on east 76th right outside Raymond Lee Washington's high school
*The Gladiators would adopt Houston Astros shortly after to represent the H in Hoover street
*The Harlems would be next to use the Detroit Tigers to represent Denker Avenue
*The Drew boys who got their name from hanging out at Saint Andrews park on 88th actually started a few blocks north on 83rd next to Saint Marks church and they would wear Texas Longhorns to represent the T in 3rd street
(All of these logos are orange and were used during and after the Crip's alliance split)
*On February 23rd 1973, Curtis "Buddha" Morrow (a respected westside crip known for wearing blue) dies from getting shot by a guy he beat up After this Stanley "Tookie" Williams and his gang start wearing blue as tribute to him, eventually this caught on and all Crips adopted the color🟦