For CJ to recruit a gang member: press the directional pad up, at the same time you are targetting that member. Depending on the respect level that CJ has, he can recruit up to 7 members of his gang at a time. To transport the homies around, CJ obviously needs to find a vehicle to accommodate them all. So if he was lucky enough to have 7 guys, he would need something like a bus, whereas a car would take say 2, 3 or 4 homies.
Pressing the directional pad up, will see the recruits follow CJ. Pressing the directional pad down, will see them stay where they are until further notice. To dismiss the recruits, press the directional pad down for a couple of seconds, or just let CJ walk away from them.
Respect Levels and Number of Recruits Possible:
Above 1% = 2
Above 10% = 3
Above 20% = 4
Above 40% = 5
Above 60% = 6
Above 80% = 7
CJ's "homies" in GTA San Andreas are the Grove Street Families in Ganton. They will have green as their predominant dress code colour, and during the game CJ will be able to recruit them for turf wars.
Grove st families, ballas ,chollos
Grove Street
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In GTA San Andreas Grove Street is thought to be based on the Lime Piru Bloods.
There are no friendly gang members besides Grove Street
Unless you are playing MultiPlayer, you must be CJ, in Grove Street.
in san andreas the grove street gang was based off of the lime hood pirus (a blood set) and the ballas were based off of the grape street watts (a crip set). i assume they will go into more details in gta 5 and possibly add more sets were the gangs wear there traditional red for bloods and blue for crips rather than the subset colors of green and purple.
When Sweet and CJ are arrested, and Sweet is put into jail, the Grove Street Families are all weakened and split up. Later on it is up to CJ to go back and start getting them back together again by retaking the territories.
you have to walk up to them lock in on them the pres up (it has to be a grove street gang member)
The only gang member types who can be recruited (by CJ) in GTA San Andreas are from The Grove Street families in Los Santos, and their colours are green. As long as you are looking at a homie wearing some form of green clothing, CJ should be able to recruit them. They are mainly to be seen in Ganton, or any territory that CJ has taken over.
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