Mount Olive Crips

From Rap Dictionary

The Mount Olive Crips are an African Canadian territorial street gang named after a housing complex on Mount Olive Drive in the Rexdale section of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Although the Mount Olive Crew has been in existence since the 1980's, members did not initially claim the Rexdale Crips card until the early 1990's. The Mount Olive Crew were once allies of the Jamestown Crew, but a shooting of a prominent Mount Olive gang member tore a rift between the two groups which resulted in many casualties on both sides respectively [1]. The Mount Olive Crips were involved in many violent confrontations with other street gangs as well, but their war with the Doomstown Rexdale Crips were played out on the streets of Toronto in a decade long series of tit-for-tat retaliatory shootings and killings, often played out in public space. Other rivals include the Five Point Generalz, Tandridge Rexdale Crips and the Stovetop Rexdale Crips. Although once considered bitter rivals, attempts had been made to align the Mount Olive Crips and the Up-Top Driftwood Crips because of their shared hatred for the Doomstown Rexdale Crips, but members of the Mount Olive Crips remain friendly towards the Young Buck Killers from Up-Top Jane and Finch. Mount Olive Crip members range in age from early teens to late 30's and are generally made up of those who grew up in that particular area of Rexdale. Members have branched off from their home-turf of Rexdale, Ontario and can be found in other majour Canadian cities such as Ottawa and Calgary, Alberta. Authorities maintain that members of the Mount Olive Crew are usually heavily involved in the distribution of narcotics throughout the city and some members are known to be involved in the arms-trade.