Grove Street Families

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The **Grove Street Families** (a.k.a "Families" or "GSF", "The Grove", or "Groves") is a gang featured in *San Andreas*.

## Description

The Grove Street Families is an African-American street gang and one of the oldest street gangs in Los Santos, San Andreas. They are the sworn enemy of the Ballas, an intense and ongoing rivalry as part of the Ballas-Grove Street War.

They have territory in Ganton and formerly controlled Idlewood.

They are headed by Sean "Sweet" Johnson, as well as OGs, Lance "Ryder" Wilson and Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris.

As far as street gangs in *San Andreas* go, the GSF are depicted as more honorable than their rival gangs. Coming from a background of older traditions, they are against hard drugs being sold on their turf as opposed to the Ballas and Vagos. They are very stubborn and Sweet refuses to adapt to changes in the Los Santos criminal underworld. They *are* well known, however, for committing numerous other crimes and violent acts including gun running/arms-trafficking, gang-banging, gang warfare, murder, robbery, burglary/theft, gang-related homicide, vandalism, and street violence.

## Members and Associates

* Sean Johnson - Leader/OG
* Big Smoke - Lieutenant/OG
* Ryder - Lieutenant/OG
* Brian Johnson - Hang-around/new member before his death (deceased)
* Big Bear - OG
* B Dup - OG (formerly; became a drug dealer and associated with the Ballas)
* Big Devil - OG (deceased)
* Little Devil - OG (deceased)
* Tony (GSF)|Tony - OG (deceased)
* Little Weasel - Former member. Was secretly selling drugs to the Families. Later joined the Kilo Tray Ballas in Glen Park

## Gallery

### Common members

Members of the Grove Street Families in Grove Street, Ganton.A GSF in a pose.
### Gang tags

The tag used by the Grove Street Families.Grove st tag.jpgGrove Street tag, once again
### Non-interactive graffiti

Grove Street graffitiThe alternate Orange Grove Families graffiti
## Trivia

* The Grove Street Families were originally going to be called the "Orange Grove Families" (shortened to "OGF"). The gang's street title based on Grape Street, LA, and "Orange Grove" was very similar to real title, but was renamed anyway both with the gang. Original graffiti and dialogue still remains in the game. For example, the player can see "OGF" graffiti around Los Santos.
* Whenever there is a cutscene with a Grove Gang Member (excluding CJ), it always has this Theme Song playing
* Fam1, an unnamed Grove Street Families member, is voiced by Shawn Fonteno, who also provides the voice and motion capture of protagonist Franklin Clinton in *Grand Theft Auto V,* and is also the cousin of Young Maylay, the voice actor of CJ.
* The Ballas and Grove Street Families are based on Heart of Midlothian F.C. (who are purple) and Hibernian F.C. (who are green) respectively. Midlothian and Hibernian are both soccer teams based in Edinburgh, Scotland who have a great rivalry, one which usually includes violence. Edinburgh is also the location of Rockstar North, which is why they chose these two teams.
* Grove Street's territory is also called a secure area. When the player gets a wanted level and the police or other members of law enforcement are trying to arrest or kill the player, the gang will attack the officers.
* The main cast of Grove Street members could be based up on the Compton rap group N.W.A. CJ being Dr. Dre, Ryder being Eazy-E, Sweet being Ice Cube, and Big Smoke being N.W.A.'s former bodyguard, Suge Knight.

## References

1. ↑ **Sweet Johnson**: "All they do is sell yay and ruin the place. No crack ever made a gang tight". (from the Cleaning the Hood mission)
2. ↑ **Sweet Johnson** (*talking to Big Smoke about the possibility of selling drugs*): "Nah. We just standing by our principles, homie". (From the Introduction DVD)
3. ↑ Also there is real gang based there called Grape Street Crips. Their gang color is purple (grape).