Lil Stretch (born Samari Doby, 1975) is from the East Side in the Watts neighborhood of South Los Angeles, with affiliation ties to the notorious Bounty Hunter Bloods (Five Line) street gang. Lil Stretch and Yank of Bloods & Crips, were friends before the Bangin On Wax projects, and both grow up the Nickleson Garden Projects (Bounty Hunter Bloods).