Word: homeboy
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...course. But look, gang members are among the quietest people you will ever meet. You know, gangs are like families. Little kids get disciplined in gangs. When a little kid drifts into a gang, he doesn't just get a gun thrust into his hands. He's gonna get homeboy love, which is pretty potent...
...This was his friend, his homeboy...
...genocidal Khmer Rouge. Now, as he stalked furiously back and forth across the grimy patio behind a cramped bungalow in the Little Phnom Penh section of Long Beach, he saw a very different threat materializing -- within his own family. His 14-year-old son, gang-named Flipper, and another homeboy, Slicc, 18, were bragging to a stranger about a shoot...
...Mexican-American gang rooted in the Hispanic community that settled along Anaheim Street in Long Beach (pop. 429,000) after World War II. Three decades later, Cambodian immigrants seeking affordable homes arrived. "At school the Mexicans looked down upon us and hurt us," recalls Mad Dog, 29, a "retired" homeboy whose mother was a Phnom Penh university professor. "We saw that American people had groups, white with white, black with black. We decided to become more famous. If they could steal cars and do drive-by shootings, so could...
...male staff on the West Coast. The editor in chief is Mark Lewman, 24, a.k.a. Lew. He and Dirt's art director, Andy Jenkins, 27, and photo editor, Spike Jonze, 21, got to know one another while working at Freestylin', a Los + Angeles-based bicycling magazine. Their own publication, Homeboy, which Lewman calls "a skateboard magazine with everything from dance techniques to recipes," folded after six issues, but the threesome had honed their skills. As for other qualifications, Dirt's introductory editorial points out that all three are former teenagers...