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The 1991 song Body Count, by Ice-T, contains the line "Last weekend thirty seven kids killed in gang warfare in my back yard". Was that in reference to a real weekend in Los Angeles? And what did gang violence look like in early 90s LA?

by /u/Skipp_To_My_Lou in /r/AskHistorians

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