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She has not replied to any specific question about her initiation but has referred to herself as having been a gangbanger since the age of 16.

He's not joking: gang tattoos are harder to remove than a police uniform, making membership in the "former gangbanger" social group potentially more concrete and immutable than ex-cop.

Fifteen-year-old East is an unassuming sort of kid for a gangbanger. He has never met his father, but he works for his father's brother, a well-connected drug dealer.

Gutierrez's fingers sported "dot tattoos" indicating the number 13, a gangbanger symbol of "M," the 13th letter of the alphabet--which in gang argot, stands variously for murder and/or marijuana.

Natasha Perez, a Venezuelan immigrant and the youngest of the artists profiled, speaks of the frustration she faces in being limited to roles as a tattooed girl gangbanger in get-tested-for-STDs public service announcements or crime dramas.

And a South African white rapper named Ninja plays ...Ninja, a low-rent gangbanger who is plainly decades older than everybody he hangs with and those his gang is at war with.

Once thought to be a vestige of gangbanger culture, now it's endemic--and it can mean anything from a side-eye, to insults, to actual physical assault.

The "bad guy" is always a baggy pants-wearing "gangbanger."

Bubba: gangbanger, handball champ, panther black, if anybody messed with me-my St.

Put a hardcore white supremacist and an equally hardcore black gangbanger in the same halfway house after release on parole from prison, and what do you get?

He grew up being a gangbanger. He said he shot at people.