El Monte Flores' is a Chicano

Chicano

The terms "Chicano" and "Chicana" are used in reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. However, those terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the world. The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's...

 street gang in the city of El Monte, California

El Monte, California

El Monte is a residential, industrial, and commercial city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte," and historically is known as "The End of the Santa Fe Trail." As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 113,475,...

. They are a set in the larger street gang called the Sureños

Sureños

Sureños are a group of Mexican American street gangs with origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. Although they are based in California, the influence of the Sureños has spread to many parts of the US and other countries as well such as Germany and Japan...

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History

The gang started in the 1950s in a poor neighborhood near flower nurseries in El Monte, CA located in the San Gabriel Valley. Flores is Spanish for flowers. El Monte Flores originally came from one gang called "El Monte" which linked all gangs from El Monte together. Various gangs such as White Fence, El Monte Rifa, and Rowland St broke off and became separate gangs working with either the Sureños

Sureños

Sureños are a group of Mexican American street gangs with origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. Although they are based in California, the influence of the Sureños has spread to many parts of the US and other countries as well such as Germany and Japan...

 or the Norteños

Norteños

The Norteños , also Norte, are affiliated with Nuestra Familia , are a coalition of traditionally Latino gangs in Northern California A member of these gangs is a Norteño or Norteña based on Spanish usage...

. By the 1970s, El Monte Flores alone held almost 400 members. Many El Monte Flores members are somehow associated with the Mexican Mafia, which includes the well known gang members Albert "Blackie" Amaya, Clark "Boxer" Duran, Jose "Jo Jo" Perea, Ricardo "Danger" Valdivia, Anthony "Cheya" and "Dido" Moreno. The El Monte Police Department has even expressed having trouble with handling members of the Sureños gang sets, specifically El Monte Flores 13.
The gang consists of only one click "Tiny Midgets" or "TMS".

Tattoos

Members usually tattoo the words, "Monte Flores", "El Monte F", "Flores", "EMF", "EMFxTMS" on them. XIII, X3, 13 and 3 dots are also seen with Sureño gang members.

In music

Southern California

Southern California

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 Chicano rap

Chicano rap

Chicano Rap is a subgenre of hip hop music, Latin rap and gangsta rap that embodies aspects of West Coast and Southwest Mexican American culture and is typically performed by American rappers and musicians of Mexican descent.-Early Years:...

 artist Shady Boy is a very well known member of El Monte Flores.

Chicano rap artist, Mr. Fiesty of Charlie Row Campo is also an El Monte Flores Gang member.