In an interview with the skinhead zine Backstreet Battalion, United Riot Records founder “Dennis Riot” said, “211 crew started in 1999 just a group of Skins [sic] who didn’t give a fuck and hated commie scum like rash [Red and Anarchist Skinheads, a left-wing skinhead group]. There’s [sic] members in most of the Oi! bands from NYC.”