Cripp Mac is one of the most popular gang- affiliated internet personalities at the moment.
He’s technically a rapper,
but most people know him for his wild interviews and lingo.
The internet has shown him a lot of love recently,
but his come-up as a cripp in LA ain’t been easy.
From jail fights and street politics to going viral with his cat,
then getting DP’d by his own set,
Cripp Mac has been through it all.
This is the wild story of Cripp Mac.
C-Mac was born and raised in LA.
He spent some time in Texas after his mom moved out there with her boyfriend,
but it ain’t take long before he moved back to California and lived with his aunt.
As a teenager, C-Mac never stayed in one place for long.
He moved to different spots all over LA, but he wasn’t affiliated yet
so he ain’t have any problems living in different neighborhoods.
Before he ever started repping the cripps,
C-Mac tried to work a legit job as a mechanic’s assistant.
But according to him,
he started hitting the Olde English hard around this time and stopped going to work.
Then at the age of 19, he moved to 55th street and everything changed.
But to understand everything going on right now,
we’ve gotta back it up
and take a look at the gang situation in South Central.
After World War Two ended, things in America weren’t great.
People were losing their jobs and poverty rates were going up
because the war had been fueling the economy.
It was bad for everyone,
but the black community had it the worst.
Segregation was still goin’ on
and they ain’t have a way to protect their communities from abuse and violence.
That’s when gang culture in America really started.
Back then it wasn’t about hustling and getting money,
it was all about protecting each other and their neighborhoods.
The cripps started in South Central in 1969 by Stanley Tookie Williams
and Raymond Lee Washington, and by 1978
there were already 45 sets in LA.
A lot of civilians think all cripps are the same.
They hear about the war between the cripps and bloods and think there’s only two sides,
but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Cripp sets beef with each other all the time,
in South Central, rival sets can live right next door to each other.
Back in the day, the PJ Watts cripps even linked up with Bounty Hunter bloods
to go after the Grape Street cripps.
And the Hoover cripps had beef with so many sets
they ended up dropping the cripp name completely
and started calling themselves the Hoover Criminals.
A lot of cripp sets are named after the street where their members live.
So the 55 Neighborhood cripps that C-Mac reps
are based on 55th street in South Central.
But the 55 Crips are also allied with the 57 and 58 Neighborhood cripps
under the Rollin 50s umbrella.
The Rollin 50s are allied with other Neighborhood cripps like the Rollin 40s,
50s, 60s, and more.
Then all of the Rollin O’s are allied under the Neighborhood cripp card.
One of the Neighborhood Crips’ biggest opps are the 51 Trouble Gangster cripps.
They started out as a graffiti crew,
but then they linked up with the Gangster cripps.
Now they’re allied with the Eight Tray Gangster cripps
and 52 Hoover Gangster cripps too.
51 Trouble and 52 Hoover also have their own alliance
called the Five One Deuce cripps.
55 and the other Neighborhood crips also have major beef with the Hoover Criminals,
who used to be an allied cripp set.
What makes this war even crazier is how close the neighborhoods really are.
C-Mac showed an interviewer that if you’re on 55th street,
you only have to walk a couple of streets over to be in Hoover territory.
Some dudes like C-Mac hate rival cripp sets but don’t have issues with the bloods.
55 has had beef with blood sets in the past, but C-Mac says
“cripps and bloods, they can make money together.
You know what they say: blue and red make green.”
Right now C-Mac is the most famous 55 cripp in the world,
but he had to get put on just like everyone else to join the gang.
He said in an interview that ten cripps jumped him in an alleyway,
and from then on he’s been repping the set harder than anyone.
His OG asked C-Mac why he wanted to gangbang, and C-Mac told him
“I wanna kill, destruct, and destroy.”
C-Mac ain’t really talked about specific crimes or the charges he’s caught,
but he’s been in and out of jail several times over the years.
He don’t talk much about the dirt he’s done in the streets,
but getting locked up in 2017 is what made him take rapping more seriously.
According to C-Mac, neighborhood affiliations don’t matter as much in prison
and the only thing that matters is race.
So even if he saw Hoovers on the inside,
they would stick together because they’re black.
When he started writing behind bars in 2017,
he says even dudes from rival sets told him he was hot.
The first time C-Mac went viral he was still in prison.
He recorded a diss track aimed at Cardi B inside his cell
and uploaded it straight to YouTube.
Going after Cardi seemed like a random move, but C-Mac always does his own thing,
and it ended up getting him some clout too.
C-Mac got released in 2018,
but he wasn’t able to celebrate for long.
One of his closest homies lost his life in the war against the Hoover Criminals.
This loss is what made C-Mac get “HOOVAH KILLA” tatted on his forehead.
The Hoovers were already his opps because of street politics,
but now the beef was personal.
C-Mac ain’t gone into details about what happened to his homie.
But even though he was struggling through the loss,
C-Mac kept spreading positivity.
He started posting videos on YouTube with his pet cat and people loved it.
It was weird seeing a street dude
upload anything that wasn’t about money or dissing opps,
but C-Mac’s videos showed off his unique personality
and he quickly built a following online.
But for a dude who reps a set as hard as C-Mac does,
success is always going to bring more problems.
As he got more popular, more opps started dissing him on social media.
One of the biggest beefs he had was with an alleged Hoover member named Jap5.
Jap5 called C-Mac out for being a fraud and putting on a front.
According to Jap, C-Mac ain’t really in the streets like he says
and is just getting face tats and clout chasing.
Anybody- any real street ***** know thats cap,
bro all that face tats all that's bluff.
Then C-Mac offered Jap a fade,
but Jap turned it down and said he’s too rich to fight him.
Jap also dropped a diss track called Activate where he used C-Mac’s voice.
But now he is allegedly in jail for murder,
so he’s got bigger issues to deal with than his beef with C-Mac.
But Jap5 ain’t the only opp C-Mac wants to fight.
C-Mac has been beefing with Blueface on social media for a while,
and now he’s trying to get a celebrity boxing match set up
so they can settle their differences in the ring.
C-Mac’s activity online is constantly going back and forth
between posting videos of him playing with his cat
and giving homeless people free pizza,
to threatening his opps and saying he’ll kill them.
He also started posting videos of him arguing with his grandma,
which his fans seemed to love.
While he was blowing up with his interviews and YouTube channel,
C-Mac kept making music too.
He started playing small local shows,
but it’s clear that most of his audience ain’t tuning in to hear his bars.
Even though he’s been in several YouTube videos with millions of views,
he still only has 16,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
C-Mac blew up online for making funny videos and helping out his community.
But behind his loud and positive personality,
he was hiding a lot of the pain he was going through.
In March 2021, he posted a video where he revealed
that he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
I suffer,
[Unintelligible]
mental illness which is,
diagnosed schizophrenia.
You don’t usually hear gang members talk about their mental health struggles so openly,
but C-Mac ain’t your average cripp.
He told his fans he was diagnosed when he was a teenager,
and he’s been struggling with his mental health his whole life.
You know, I was diagnosed,
around a teenager with it.
My mental health doctors let me know, 'hey this is what's going on',
you know.
Paranoia is one of the main symptoms of his illness that Cripp Mac has struggled with.
While getting famous has given him more opportunities,
it’s also made his mental health worse in some ways.
In March 2021, he went on No Jumper for the first time
and talked about how his paranoia makes him think that his fans
are actually opps trying to set him up.
Going on No Jumper made C-Mac blow up more than ever,
but he still had one foot in the streets.
He ended up getting arrested again for dodging his parole officer and carrying a gun.
Luckily he only spent a couple of months behind bars,
and when he got out he launched his Ratfood clothing company.
2021 was a wild year for C-Mac.
He was releasing music, doing interviews, and gaining more fans every day.
Then in November, his fame skyrocketed even more
after he appeared on the Channel 5 News YouTube channel.
Channel 5 is hosted by YouTube journalist Andrew Callaghan from All Gas No Brakes.
The channel is famous for interviewing crazy, unique people, so C-Mac fit in perfectly.
C-Mac took the Channel 5 crew to 55th street and showed them around the area.
This was the biggest opportunity for C-Mac yet.
The video let him show off his wild personality,
but it also focused on his efforts to help the people in his community.
At the end of 2021,
C-Mac was on track to become a certified internet celebrity,
but 2022 has been off to a rocky start.
In early February, fans were shocked when C-Mac posted a video
showing his face covered in bruises and cuts.
Getting jumped is one thing,
but then it was revealed that C-Mac got DP’d by his own gang.
A DP is a beating given out as discipline for doing something against your set.
This is why it was so weird to see someone like C-Mac get jumped by his set.
He constantly reps his hood and helped shine more light on the 55 cripps.
But the DP happened after an opp from Hoover
leaked old Facebook posts of Cripp Mac claiming another set.
After the DP, C-Mac went on No Jumper to explain the situation.
According to him, he had to fight seven 55 cripps as punishment.
But he took it like a man,
and now he says everything’s cool between him and the homies.
Then just a couple of weeks later,
C-Mac ended up getting arrested again.
The charges are allegedly related to drugs and weapons,
but no details have been confirmed.
C-Mac has never even released his legal name to the public,
so finding information on his cases is almost impossible.
But Blueface’s manager Wack 100 leaked a bunch of C-Mac’s info online,
so now they’ve got beef too.
No one knows what’s going on with C-Mac’s charges,
but if he violated his parole again and got caught with drugs and a gun,
he might actually end up doing serious time.
Hopefully, he can sort his legal situation out and get released while he’s still popping online.
C-Mac has the perfect opportunity to make it out of the streets
with his social media presence and music.
But if he don’t change up his lifestyle and start moving smarter,
it’s only a matter of time
before he catches a charge that sticks.