The Hidden Valley Kings are a neighborhood-based gang in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was formed in the early 1990s, as a branch of the Queen City Kings, which started in the Cedar Greene housing complex, east of Hidden Valley, near the streets of Craighead and North Tryon. The Queen City Kings were formed by a Vice Lord member who moved to Charlotte from Chicago in the early 1990s. He initially established a Vice Lord faction in the Cedar Greene Apartment Complex but as a way to be inclusive of another Vice Lord faction, which was developing in Dalton Village Projects off of West Boulevard, an agreement was made by all parties involved to change the name of the gang to the Queen City Kings, which played on the nickname of the City of Charlotte, which people dub the "Queen City." The name