An acronym for Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums. It is a police squad unit originally created by the LAPD as a way to break the infrastructure of crime in the ghettos. It turns out leadership of these CRASH teams became corrupt, and even the most decorated officers were guilty of killing other cops, selling and using crack, and planting weapons and drugs in order to frame innocents. The origins of the CRASH lead back into the fifties, when J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI, and as sneak attacks before dawn and after midnight would claim the lives of many black leaders, and eventually the Black Panthers and rappers like Tupac Shakur. CRASH disbanded officially circa 2001, but very similar units exist across the US in other departments.
Many CRASH cases are still unsolved, and the LAPD is imfamous for hiding any inciminating files.
Many CRASH cases are still unsolved, and the LAPD is imfamous for hiding any inciminating files.
It is suspected that the shooting and murder of Biggie Smalls in LA in 1997 was set up by a local CRASH unit with help from the LA bloods.
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Cash Rules Everything Around Me
Comes from the hit "C.R.E.A.M." by the infamous Wu-Tang Clan. The song sent the message that selling drugs is the wrong way to make a living or to make money in general. It leads to a painful life and deppression that certain members of wu-tang have experienced for themselves. They only strived for money but it lead them down the wrong path.
Later in the song, it says that hard work will help you overcome all the fucked up things in the world. Money is messed up and some people do messed up things to get it, but you have to live with it. That's the message they tried to present.
Comes from the hit "C.R.E.A.M." by the infamous Wu-Tang Clan. The song sent the message that selling drugs is the wrong way to make a living or to make money in general. It leads to a painful life and deppression that certain members of wu-tang have experienced for themselves. They only strived for money but it lead them down the wrong path.
Later in the song, it says that hard work will help you overcome all the fucked up things in the world. Money is messed up and some people do messed up things to get it, but you have to live with it. That's the message they tried to present.
"Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all"
-Wu-Tang Clan
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all"
-Wu-Tang Clan
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Stands for 'Cash Rules Everything Around Me' an acronym used in Shaolin, NY, by Wu-Tang Clan. (Featured in the hit song from '93 - 'C.R.E.A.M' by Wu-Tang Clan.
Stands for 'Cash Rules Everything Around Me' an acronym used in Shaolin, NY, by Wu-Tang Clan. (Featured in the hit song from '93 - 'C.R.E.A.M' by Wu-Tang Clan.
"A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.
Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15" - Inspectah Deck, C.R.E.A.M
Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15" - Inspectah Deck, C.R.E.A.M
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Get the c.r.e.a.m mug.CRASH (Acronym for Community Resources Aganist Street Hoodlums)is an anti-gang unit within the Los Angeles Police Department started in the early 90s. News reports have revealed a widespread pattern of unjustified arrests, beatings, drug dealing, witness intimidation, illegal shootings, planting of evidence, frame-ups and perjury commited by the CRASH unit.
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