Hip Hop Groups With Beef Killed
Social media is the "gang graffiti of the 1980's." - Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla — WARNING: The post-obit article contains videos and links that incorporate music and subject matter that may be offensive to some.
There's something really sick happening in Jacksonville and it'due south hard to unsee. It's often a hard, virtually impossible, task to put context or assign motives to stories about murder, but a disturbing tendency in Jacksonville is making that piece of cake.
In that location's a deadly feud happening here, which is cypher new, but at present it's taking place on social media for all to see. While social media, particularly YouTube and Instagram, are the vessels conveying these disturbing images and messages, it'southward the music that's propelling this dark side of Jacksonville across the world.
ATK vs. KTA
If you lot're not a fan of hip hop music, you're probably unaware of the level of talented musicians coming out of Jacksonville right now. The origins of rap music is rooted in battles - two guys and two mics going at it - sparring with one another using lyrics and rhymes to outdo their rival.
These rivalries accept sparked beefs that turned deadly, near notable, in the 1990'southward - East Coast vs. West Declension - which resulted in the murders of arguably the two best in the industry, Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.
Right now in Jacksonville, the rival factions are ATK vs. KTA. There are hundreds of videos on YouTube describing what both acronyms mean with some slight variations. The ane thing constant in both is the "K" stands for "impale."
The star of ATK is rapper Yungeen Ace. The star of KTA is rapper Julio Foolio. Dozens of YouTube channels are chronicling the origins of this beef, most notably are QuietRoom, hosted by Queenzflip who documents and facilitates rap battles, TrapLife Documentaries, which documents criminal activities in the rap scene, and Insider Hotspot, which covers "lifestyles, struggles and secrets" of rappers, according to its YouTube channel.
These vloggers, and social media posts from Yungeen Ace and Julio Foolio, concede that this beef went from bad to deadly with the May 2017 killing of 19-year-quondam Zion Brown on Jacksonville's Westside after a man stormed a home at that place and shot him to death.
Brown, was Julio Foolio'southward cousin. Arrested in that shooting was nineteen-year-old Deontrae Thomas. Yungeen Ace, whose real name is Kenyata Bullard, pleaded no competition in an Orangish Park robbery that occurred seven months before Brownish'due south murder. Thomas and Bullard were both implicated in that robbery where the two conspired to rob someone who was reportedly selling marijuana, according to a June 2018 article in The Florida Times-Matrimony. Shots were fired into that abode nigh missing a couple and a 1-year-erstwhile child.
Yungeen Ace was the target in a retaliatory shooting for Brown'south expiry in June 2018 when he and iii other teens went to a Town Center restaurant to celebrate the rapper's brother's altogether. Ace survived after existence shot 8 times. The three others, including his brother, Tre'von Bullard , 18, died. The two other men were Royale D'Von Smith Jr., 18, and Jercoby Da'Shad Groover, 19.
Following the mass shooting, Julio Foolio fabricated several posts on social media glorifying the killings. He even created a T-shirt airbrushed with a photo of Royale D'Von Smith Jr., aka 23, that said "Rest in piss 23." He posted a photograph of the T-shirt on his Instagram page saying, "I'm getting a new T-shirt made for my show."
The bloodshed continued in Jan 2019 with another mass shooting. This fourth dimension outside of Paradise Gentlemen's Club on Baymeadows Route. Willie Addison, a rapper known as Boss Goon, was killed. He had but performed at the club. He was in the car with family members who were also injured.
Family members of ATK rapper Ksoo, whose name really is Hakeem Robinson, were injured in the shooting, including his begetter, Adbul Robinson, who was shot in the back.
More than retaliatory bloodshed followed in January 2019 with the shooting death of Charles Quentin McCormick Jr., a KTA rapper who went past the name of Lilbuck. That was followed by another striking on KTA a month afterwards in February 2019 with the death of Julio Foolio's niggling blood brother, sixteen-twelvemonth-old Adrian Dennard Gainer Jr., aka Bibby, at a Moncrief area flat circuitous.
Julio Foolio and his girlfriend were both injured in separate shootings in clear attempts on their lives.
Hakeem Robinson, aka Ksoo, celebrated these latest killings by putting the fallen KTA victims on the cover of his album entitled "Bibby Out" named for Julio Foolio's fiddling brother.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office arrested Ksoo in March charging him with killing Bibby and Lilbuck. This arrest came after several months of Ksoo posting several videos of himself bragging nigh the killings of KTA members and taunting Julio Foolio most "smoking Bibby."
Julio Foolio returned the favor posting several videos of himself taunting ATK and Yungeen Ace talking most "who I'thousand smoking" -- which included Ace's brother and rapper 23.
Who'southward smoking whom and why?
Tupac Shakur proclaimed that he wanted his "homies" to smoke his cremated ashes after he died. "You'll get hella high," he said. What many idea was a joke turned out to be serious. In a twisted prove of love, respect and honor, several people who were close to the rapper reportedly smoked some of his cremated remains.
What we're seeing in Jacksonville with this disturbing ATK, KTA beef is the flipping of Tupac's twisted narrative of literally smoking your homies. It'south being used as a joke here where the rivals are proverb who they're "smoking" to denote whose been killed.
Rappers Spinabenz, Whoppa Wit Da Choppa, Yungeen Ace and FastMoney Goon released a video three weeks agone of a runway called "Who I Smoke." It has taken off like a rocket with 14 million views in that timespan.
"Who I Smoke" is a disturbing twist on Vanessa Carlton'south "A Thousand Miles." The main hook of the song is Ace singing the catchy phrase "who I smoke" followed by the proper name of an KTA rival.
Non to exist outdone by ATK, Julio Foolio released a diss runway of his own Friday called "When I See Yous," a remix of recording artist Fantasia'due south hit single "When I See U." It was nearing 1 million views in 12 hours.
While Fantasia's "When I Come across U" is her singing almost her nervous feelings when she sees the guy she's swooning over, Julio Foolio'south "When I See You" is him rapping nigh someone he hates, Yungeen Ace, and what he'd similar to do to him when he sees him. More than agonizing than that is the banner Julio Foolio totes around in the video of the iii teens who were killed while riding with Yungeen Ace most Town Center.
In one part of the video, he's laying on the banner in a graveyard rapping while making references to 23, or Royale D'Von Smith Jr. who's pictured on the imprint a long with Yungeen Ace's brother Tre'von Bullard and Jercoby Da'Shad Groover. The iii were killed after leaving a Town Eye restaurant where they were celebrating Bullard's birthday.
A portion of the lyrics state:
"Went out to eat on his altogether - iv shot, three dead in the worse way - he kept dissin' on me - no he's smokin' 23 ..."
While this deadly beef evidently started a few years agone, Yungeen Ace's and Julio Foolio'southward new viral music videos may suggest information technology's just getting started.
Social media is the "gang graffiti of the 1980's." - Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams
While many of these shootings were playing out on social media and in the streets, Jacksonville Sheriff'southward Office Gang Task Force used rap videos to brand arrests. In January 2019, JSO arrested several men, solely for what they were doing on social media.
"Social media has impacted our club in many ways. Most of those impacts are positive," Williams said during a news conference January. thirty, 2019 where he, the mayor and State's Chaser announced the arrests of half-dozen convicted felons who were seen with firearms in rap videos.
"Unfortunately these advances in applied science likewise provide the criminal chemical element with a new platform to promote their merchandise in the street culture market," Williams said.
The sheriff said the videos are used to glorify guns, drugs and intimidate rival groups or gangs "that can lead to acts of retaliation and bulldoze-by shootings."
Source: https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/entertainment/music/yungeen-ace-julio-foolio-jacksonville-rappers-rival-groups-atk-kta-in-deadly-beef-who-i-smoke-when-i-see-you/77-6d993faa-b014-4d8c-99be-de8d9fcdb948