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During the early game, the ballas are very successful at spreading crack-cocaine into [[Ganton]] and [[Grove Street]] in an attempt to weaken the Grove Street Families. By doing this, they turn members into weak and hopeless addicts while influencing high-ranking members with the money that can be made from drugs - taking them away from gang-banging (as is the case with [[B-Dup]]). However, one of their crack houses on the [[Idlewood]]/Ganton border is destroyed by CJ and [[Ryder]] on Sweet's orders during the mission [[Cleaning the Hood]]. This decreases their crack influence. The Ballas eventually suffer a major loss when many members of the "Rollin' Heights Ballas" and the "Kilo Tray Ballas" are killed in a drive-by shooting that involves Sweet, Big Smoke, Ryder and CJ during the mission [[Drive-By]]. The Ballas then eventually lose [[Glen Park]] to the Grove Street Families in a gang war during the mission [[Doberman]]. This puts the Ballas on a more equal footing with the Grove Street Families and their position as the dominant and most powerful gang is threatened. The Ballas attempt to regain their dominance by wiping out the Grove Street Families through a gang war on Grove Street itself in the mission [[House Party]]; however, Sweet, CJ and other Grove Street members are able to successfully defend their territory and the Ballas fail. A high-ranking member and OG of the "Front Yard Ballas" called [[Kane]] is then killed along with many other Ballas during a Ballas funeral at [[Vinewood Cemetery]] at the hands of Sweet, CJ and other Grove Street Family members during the mission [[Los Sepulcros]].