In 2010, 30 Englewood Family Bloods marched to Nipy Hustles Marathon Store on Slawson Avenue, the heart of Rollins 60 Crypts territory. Leading them was a man whose enemies would later throw parties when they heard he might be dead. A demon, man.
He was an antagonist. But he wasn't dead. He'd already been shot six times across six separate incidents, gone blind from a bullet to the temple, and still hadn't stopped.
Hell no. I I've been shot on six different occasions, man. Like on some gang bang.
His name is Munchie B. So, how did One Blood from Englewood become the most feared man in a war that spanned five decades? Let's get into it.
Munchie B was born Ascari Banks in Englewood, California. Ascari meaning soldier in Swahili. His father was from the Avenue 9 family swans, a blood set considered one of the deadliest in LA.
His older brother was from Cshaw Mafia. He grew up in [music] a two parent household in Morningside Park, a middle-class neighborhood that also happened to sit in the middle of one of the most ganginfested corridors in South LA. As a kid, Munchie played football and basketball.
By 8th grade, he was put on as a member of the Englewood family gangster bloods, the IFGB. Okay, you got Dm Smoke. He from Englewood and where he was raised is like my neighborhood.
The set he joined had [music] roots going back to the 1970s when it was known as the chain gang running along Normandy Avenue from Crenshaw Boulevard to Vaness Avenue. Their original enemies were the Westside Crips. The gang co-founded by Stanley Tuki Williams.
By the time Munchie came up, the IFGB had four founding clicks, 77th [music] Street, 88th Street, 92nd Street, and 94th Street, plus a fifth, the Ransom Gang. Their territory centered around Darby Park, and their enemy list was longer than most gangs in LA. The IFGB were at war with the Rollins60s [music] neighborhood crips, the Rollin Hundreds, the 104 Hard-time Hustler Crips, the Imperial Village Crips, and the Tongan Crips.
But they also fought other blood sets, the Neighborhood Pyrus, the Queen Street Bloods, the Black Pea Stones, and starting [music] in 2013, the Denver Lane Gangster Bloods. Communicating with the opposite like a [ __ ] or anything. You don't blood him.
You know what I'm saying? In one of LA's stranger alliances, the IFGB had brokered a truce with the eight trey gangster crypts, a cry [music] set based on a shared hatred of the Rollins60s. The IFGB were essentially at war in every direction against every color.
Munchie came from the Ransom Clique. His closest friends in the set were DaVon Red Bull Gregory and a member known as Baby [music] Dot who grew up near 92nd Street. Their three became inseparable.
[music] go like what what was your relationship with him? Ask my homeboy little bro. I got I got I got his fa I got his face teddy.
The first time Munchie B got shot. He was walking to a Carl's Jr. on Manchester Boulevard after school let out.
He and a group of fellow IFGB members had just arrived at the restaurant when a car pulled up. A few men wearing green hopped out, walked past Munchie's [music] group, and opened fire. Munchie took a bullet in the arm.
Like it's just my arm. I'm starting to feel blood tingle down my face. So I'm like, "Oh, now I'm starting to get getting nervous.
" You know, a second round grazed his head. He was admitted to UCLA Medical Center where doctors stapled the head wounds shut. He left the hospital in a red cast.
I didn't know you could pick a color of a cast. They asked me what color. I say red.
The next day, Munchie B was standing on the corner of Crenshaw and Manchester. [music] In the cast, less than 24 hours after being shot in the head, he was back on the [music] block. That detail circulated through Englewood Fast.
What happened next is what separated Munchie B from every other member in the IFGB. According to accounts from the Hood War Stories documentary, the Carl's Jr. shooting turned Munchie up on Max.
He allegedly went on a rampage, sliding on every enemy the IFGB had repeatedly. The Rollin30s, the Rollin Hundreds, the Osage legend Crips. He even participated in putting work on Queen Street, a blood set the Englewood families were beefing with at the time.
Blood on blood didn't matter. He didn't discriminate. He allegedly terrorized members of rival sets through Jesse Owens Park, chasing people down in the open.
According to multiple accounts, residents from enemy neighborhoods were scared to leave their houses. [music] In a clip captured by Alex Alonzo's street TV, an enemy, a member of one of the Crips sets, [music] Munchie was at war with admitted on camera that Munchie was the only one coming through the hundreds. He was coming through our sides.
That's an op on the record, confirming that a single blood was riding through their territory and there was [music] nothing they could do about it. Munchie also showed up at Washington High School's homecoming, a school [music] deep in enemy territory. He sat in the stands through the event and walked out [music] untouched.
That level of audacity, walking into spaces where he was the number one target on every rivals list, is what built his name beyond the [music] normal politics of South LA. Over time, Munchie B became what the streets called the biggest trophy in the hood, the member with the highest rank, the one every enemy wanted to catch. By 1990, Inglewood had recorded 33 gang motivated homicides in a single year.
The war between the IFGB and the Rollins60s alone accounted for a significant portion of that [music] body count. And Munchie was at the center of it. You know what I'm saying?
Typically mess with us. You know what I mean? 60s, rolling hundreds or whatever.
In 2010, he led the move that cemented his status. 30 Englewood family bloods marching to Nipy Hustles Marathon clothing store on Slawson Avenue. Nipy was Rollins 60s neighborhood crips.
The marathon store sat in the heart of 60s territory. 30 Bloods walking into that neighborhood in broad daylight was a direct challenge. The kind of move that doesn't get forgotten on either side.
Before the shot that changed everything, Munchie B had already survived being shot on six separate occasions. Six different incidents, six different times someone tried to kill him and he walked away. The seventh time came in 2012.
Munchie was driving down Imperial Highway in Englewood in his personal car, a vehicle he never used for dirt, one that shouldn't have been identified as his. Someone pulled alongside and opened fire. One shot they shot the car real bad, but only shot me once and a bullet entered his temple and severed the optic nerve, permanently destroying his vision.
Okay. Well, where they they shot you up here? Right here.
In my temple. In your temple. Munchie survived, but he would never see again.
And the shooter, according to rumors that circulated through Englewood for years afterward, wasn't even a [ __ ] The word on the street was that the gunman was an older member from the 77th Street click of the Englewood [music] families. Munchie's own gang, just a different click. Munchie was from the Ransom Click.
If the rumors were true, the most feared blood in Englewood was blinded by someone from his own set. This man said, "Munchie, I put 50K on a blind [ __ ] head. He ain't even see it coming.
" After the shooting, Red Bull walked on Munchie's left. Baby Dot walked on his right. [music] The three navigated Englewood together.
Red Bull and Baby Dot serving as his eyes. In a November 2016 interview with Alex Alonzo's Street TV filmed at Darby Park, their three sat together and talked about growing up in the set. Red Bull on one side, Baby Dot on the other.
That's [music] how they moved through the neighborhood every day. A blind man still affiliated, still present at the park, still plugged into the politics of a gang that was at war on every front. On December 10th, [music] 2016, a birthday party called the Naughty or Nice Pajama Jam was being held inside a commercial warehouse on the 100 block of West [music] Victoria Street East in Carson.
Between 80 and 100 [music] people had paid to get in. Davian Red Bull Gregory, 24, was among them. [music] At approximately 11:30 p.
m. , Around 30 men showed up at the door and were turned away. Shortly after, goo fire erupted.
Shell casings from a40 caliber Glock and a 38 caliber revolver were recovered at [music] the scene. Five of those rounds hit Red Bull in Heisb Vital Organs. He was transported to Harbor UCLA Medical Center and pronounced him and two other people I believe was shot, [music] but he was the only one that passed though.
Two other men, Travis Harvey Broom, a former NFL player, and Quentyn Pulk, a college athlete, were wounded but survived. Red Bull had played football at Cathedral High School before graduating from Los Angeles High in 2011. He left behind three children.
He [music] would have turned 25 on January 7th. In February 2017, Baby Dot sat down for a street TV interview alone. He talked about losing Red Bull, the friend who had walked alongside Munchie B every day, who had Jubine one-third of their inseparable unit since childhood.
One of Munchie Bee's two eyes was gone. The investigation into Red Bull's murder shifted when LAPD detective Francis Hardman heard the name Drco the Ruler on an unrelated wire tap. Drco, born Daryl Wayne Caldwell Jr.
, was a rapper from South Central whose song Mr Getty do remixed by DJ Mustard and premiered on Worldstar Hip Hop in April 2015 had accumulated over 6. 2 million YouTube views. The Los Angeles Times would later call him the most original West Coast stylist in decades.
His brand new black Mercedes SUV was spotted near the Carson warehouse the night Red Bull was killed. [music] In March 2018, Dro was charged with murder. The prosecution argued he created the dangerous environment and supplied the firearms.
[music] Saying that I go out and buy guns for people and pass them out. The actual shooter per a jail house recording was a 17-year-old Rand 40's [ __ ] named Jan Boyd who said the shots were meant [music] for someone from the Athens Park Bloods. The wrong man died.
Dro's codefendant, [music] Mikuel Kels Buchanan, a stink team member, was accused of [music] firing the 40 Glock. In July 2019, a jury at the Compton courthouse acquitted Drco of all murder and attempted murder charges. [music] An attempted murder charges get dropped and get the jury hung on a gang conspiracy count.
[music] Buchanan was convicted of murder with a gang enhancement. Drcho was convicted only of felony firearm possession. He'd spent nearly 3 years locked up awaiting trial.
[music] He was finally released in November 2020. Red Bull was still dead. The IFGB didn't care what a courthouse in Compton had decided.
After Dro's release, the tension went from simmering to open warfare through music. UniB dropped the truth is the Truth in August 2021, aimed directly at Dro and the Stink Team. He followed it with Hella Weird, flipping Dro's LA affiliation into an insult.
Then came Last Lap, a doublebarreled disc targeting both the Rollins 60s and Drco simultaneously. Inspired [music] by Victory Lap. This going to be my last like banging on wax type disc on.
Yo, Dro fired back [music] with Engle Weird on August 22nd, 2021, warping the city of Englewood's name into a slur. The track called out as Cheeky, Roocci, and Munchy Bee by name. One bar hit different.
Dro wrapped about dropping bee on a blind man who didn't see it coming. According to the Hood War Stories documentary, that line meant Drcho had put a $50,000 bounty on Munchie Bee's head. Right.
A bar like I put 50K on a B [ __ ] head, right? Drchio also went after the rapper Boozy Badazz on Instagram [music] for collaborating with As Chiky, writing that he'd lost all respect for Boozy. As Chiky responded through Vlad TV, accusing Drchio of hating.
The disc war wasn't just bars. It was a proxy for the street beef. Red Bull's killing was the original spark.
The Aqu quiddle poured gasoline on it. By late 2021, camps across LA's Blood and Cry landscape had chosen sides. On December 18th, [music] 2021, 5 years to the week after Red Bull's murder, the Once Upon a Time in LA festival was held at Exposition Park.
Snoop Dogg headlined. [music] 50 Cent, Ice Cube, The Game, and YG were all on the bill. Drco the Ruler was scheduled to perform.
At approximately 8:30 p. m. while Dro was backstage with about seven people, a coordinated attack unfolded.
According to a private investigator working pro bono for Dro's family, approximately 113 people rushed his group. A small initial confrontation served as a decoy before the larger mob closed in. Someone in the crowd stabbed Drchio in the neck.
He was pronounced dead on December 19th, 2021. He was 28. Dro's mother told reporters that 40 to 60 people arrived with Y's entourage and swamped her son's crew.
Video footage showed attackers wearing St. Louis Cardinals jackets, clothing associated with the Black Pea Stone Jungle Bloods, and four hunid branded gear, the name of YG's record label. Drchio's brother Ralphie the plug later described the attack as a coordinated ambush.
YG, a treetop Peru from Compton with close ties to the Englewood families, was never charged. [music] No one has been arrested. The case remains unsolved.
The night Drco died, Munchie B popped a bottle of Hennessy and posted a series of tweets making his feelings clear. On what would have been Drco's birthday, he posted again. For Munchie B, Red Bull's murder was never resolved by the courts.
Dro's death was the resolution the streets delivered. We don't we don't want that type of justice anyway. We don't do the police or [music] stay in jail.
No, they take it to we court in the streets type thing. October 2018, [music] 2 years after Red Bull's killing and 3 years before Drchio's, the federal government hit the IFGB from a different angle. A joint FBI and Englewood Police Department [music] task force arrested 13 members and associates on federal narcotics and firearms charges.
The indictment named Byron Bizzy Sumlin, 45, for dealing firearms without a license. [music] Jason J. Rush Ing, 31, was charged with cocaine distribution and felon in possession.
Aa Little Jbird Coington, 39, faced conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Eddie Koko Jackson, 54, was charged with distributing crack cocaine. Task [snorts] force agents [music] had conducted controlled buys through which they purchased firearms, co ecstasy, and meth directly from IFGB members.
The defendants faced sentences ranging from 10 years to life. In February 2022, something unprecedented happened on a different front. Gang interventionist Skip Townsend, founder of the nonprofit Second Call, brought members of the Rollins60s Crips and the Englewood Family Bloods to a restaurant in Manhattan Beach for brunch.
Townsen never mentioned peace directly. He let the two sides sit at the same table and eat. The bill was $286.
As of 2024, there has [music] not been a single homicide between the Rollins60s and the IFGB since that meal. A 50-year war paused over brunch. [music] Munchie B, meanwhile, built a second career.
He launched Morals Over Money TV, joined Adam22's No Jumper as a host and manager, and co-hosted the Rich at Heart podcast. He took on gang intervention work in Englewood, the same blocks where he built his reputation. put putting somebody straight out the out out the crevices out the streets uh in a position.
You know what I'm saying? In a February [music] 2024 No Jumper episode, he sat down with Adam22 and Flaco and walked through the full history, the Drco Beef, the Nipy Connection, Going Blind, and the Su alliance between the IFGB, the [music] Eight Trey Gangster Crips, and the Hoovers. In early 2025, he was arrested on gun charges in Englewood.
By March 2026, a viral on camera argument with Adam22 ended his time at No Jumper. Was like beating up neighborhoods or some [ __ ] And like he's just like, "Hey. " Like he got super mad at me for even like reading the tweet.
Ascari Banks was born into blood royalty, a father from the family swans, a brother from Crenshaw Mafia. He was shot seven times across seven incidents. He lost his vision to a bullet from someone inside his own gang.
He lost his closest friend at a warehouse party in Carson. And through all of it, his enemies from the Rollin30s to the Rollin Hundreds admitted on camera that he was the one coming through their neighborhoods when no one else would. He says he's not trying to be a role model, just an example.
