NBA Youngboy has beef with almost everyone in the industry,
and now he’s taking shots at his own artists too.
A rapper from Alabama named NoCap
used to rock with Lil Baby and 4PF,
then he signed with Youngboy and became cool with the 4KT dudes.
Now he’s got beef with both sides,
and the whole situation is getting out of control.
Here’s what’s going on.
NoCap came up in Mobile, Alabama
and started making music at just nine years old.
His mom’s boyfriend helped NoCap and his brother get into the industry,
and they were performing all around the city while they were still kids.
His mom eventually broke up with the dude,
and he took a few years off from music.
But when he came back,
No Cap linked up with his homie Rylo Rodriguez,
and it didn’t take long for them to start buzzing.
There’s not a huge rap scene in Mobile,
but NoCap and Rylo were building up momentum fast.
In July 2018
NoCap dropped his debut mixtape,
and a couple months later
he released a collab tape with Rylo.
They linked up with Lil Baby before he was a superstar,
and for a while it looked like NoCap and Rylo were both gonna sign with him.
They were all chilling and working together,
and Baby even featured NoCap on the track Dreams 2 Reality
off his Street Gossip project.
Baby told the Breakfast Club
that he signed Rylo and NoCap.
He was helping them grow by putting them on his projects,
so it made sense to fans why they’d sign with him.
But NoCap says he never signed a deal with Baby.
According to Baby, he didn’t even know how to sign anyone yet.
Basically he was rocking with Rylo and NoCap and was going to sign them
once he figured out how to set up his own label,
but NoCap wasn’t trying to wait around for a deal.
Around the same time,
NoCap started rocking with Youngboy too.
He was getting close to all the 4KT dudes
like Quando Rondo,
and everything was still solid with Baby.
In 2019
NoCap dropped The Backend Child
and had features from both camps on the project.
It looked like NoCap was gonna be cool with everyone,
but this turned out to be the last time he collabed with anyone from 4PF.
Rylo signed with Baby,
while NoCap signed with Youngboy.
And after all the drama that was about to go down,
Rylo and NoCap are the only ones who didn’t turn on each other.
NoCap’s name was picking up steam in the industry,
but in September 2019
he suffered a setback when he was arrested for letting shots off at someone’s house.
According to the police,
NoCap got into a fight with somebody.
After it went down,
the victim told NoCap to come through -
and that’s when NoCap’s sister drove him to their house
and he started shooting.
Luckily no one got hit,
and NoCap ended up turning himself in after his sister got arrested.
He picked up even more momentum from behind bars
after Youngboy dropped their collab: Outta Here Safe,
and NoCap got released a few months later.
According to rumors,
NoCap reached out to Lil Baby
to squash the issues going on behind the scenes while he was locked up.
But Baby wouldn’t respond to him,
and that’s when the beef started heating up.
Around a year after he got out,
NoCap put his issues with 4PF out in the open
after a fan posted a photo of the “Lil Baby Family Tree”
with NoCap’s face and name under Baby’s.
NoCap posted the picture on his IG
with a giant red X and wrote “Ain’t no tree.”.
That’s when Baby’s artist Coldhearted Savage hopped in the comments and said
“He Know He Wanna Be Gang.”.
NoCap and Savage started going back and forth in the comments,
then Savage made a post on IG
letting everyone know that NoCap was banned from Atlanta.
He wrote “He can't come back to Atlanta
he on puishment.
We’ll take a n**** jewelry on some funny shit.”.
NoCap clapped back again,
then Youngboy and his manager hopped in to back him up.
So instead of it just being NoCap and Baby,
4PF and 4KT was both at each other’s necks.
Rylo made a post on his IG story
letting everyone know that he wasn’t switching up on NoCap
but he was still rocking with 4PF.
NoCap was on the same wave,
and on his IG story he wrote
“I love Rylo (forever)
but to set da record f*** everything around him”
This is when the beef really started turning up.
Some dudes in Mobile hopped on social media
and said that they wouldn’t let the DJ play Baby in the club,
but then another rapper who NoCap came up with
named Project Baby Juice got involved.
Juice and NoCap were homies back in the day,
so NoCap didn’t expect Juice to hop in
and pick Baby over him -
but Juice made it clear he’s rocking with Lil Baby now,
and he even dissed 1600,
which is the crew from Mobile that NoCap reps.
NoCap aired out the situation on the track I Hope You Agree,
where he said
“My n****s changed on me for n****s that we barely knew
Like that n**** Juice.”.
He took a shot at Lil Baby on the same track with
“Four pockets, they full on me,
and I heard the judge want me
Acting like a b**** ‘cause I ain’t sign, what type of big homie?”.
Baby clapped back with tracks like Again (Go Hard), where he rapped
“Somebody killed, I be tellin’ my youngins to chill
Check the stats, I do numbers for real
And this ain’t no cap, I get money for real
That lil boy ain’t run up no commas for real.”.
Then he referenced Coldhearted Savage’s IG post with the line
“Catch that boy out of place, we gon’ punish him
Take his chain and his watch on some funny shit.”.
It looked like the situation was about to get serious,
but then NoCap got locked up again
and everything calmed down for a minute.
Back in February,
NoCap accused Baby of not clearing his unreleased tracks with Rylo.
Then he took the disrespect a little further
when he dropped a comment with heart eyes emoji
to Lil Baby’s Ex Jayda’s.
Baby and Jayda had just broken up,
so sliding in her comments for everyone to see
was definitely a shot at Baby.
While No Cap was beefing with Baby and 4PF,
Youngboy, Quando and the rest of 4KT stood up him.
It looked they was all solid
but now he’s sending shots back and forth with Youngboy
and the situation looks even more heated than his beef with Lil Baby.
A few weeks ago,
someone on Twitter told NoCap
he needs to drop more music with Youngboy.
NoCap is still trying to blow up,
but he told the fan that he wants to do it on his own
so nobody can say he’s only popping because of Youngboy.
NoCap said they’d link up with the music later,
but for some reason this whole thing set Youngboy off.
Youngboy hopped on the Never Broke Again’s IG account and went off on NoCap.
He said that he’s not doing music with NoCap
because they’re not cool like that,
and said “you a f***** worker b****
you ain’t my brother f*** you pay me.”.
It looks like there was already static between them behind the scenes,
and NoCap clapped back
and said he’s been holding it down for Youngboy for three years
while he picks fights with everyone in the industry.
Plus Youngboy supposedly wanted NoCap
to pay him for a feature.
It’s wild for a dude like Youngboy to charge his own artist for a feature,
but Youngboy’s making it clear he’s here to make money, not friends.
After NoCap’s response,
Youngboy sent more shots calling him broke and said
“You play industry chess but just don’t know this game ain’t got no loyalty.
These rappers gone kill yo p**** a**.”.
Youngboy also said NoCap only linked up with him because he was popping,
but when their beefs got real
NoCap wouldn’t even take a picture with Quando Rondo.
Then he threw out another savage line and wrote
“go make a song bout it b****
make me some money the show must go on.”.
NoCap didn’t even respond,
but Youngboy wasn’t finished yet.
A while back people thought NoCap was dissing Lil Durk,
but NoCap hopped online and squashed the rumors.
He says that even though he doesn’t talk to Durk,
they keep each other’s names out of their mouths.
Youngboy brought the situation back up
and said it shouldn’t even matter if people thought he was dissing an opp.
Then he called NoCap a b****
and said Quando is the only reason he’s on the label.
NoCap responded about not being broke
and told Youngboy to get Quando a lawyer,
but it was basically nothing compared to the shots Youngboy took at him.
After they started going crazy back and forth,
NBA Youngboy fans dug up NoCap’s old Facebook posts
where he was dissing Youngboy.
Back in 2017 before his career popped off,
NoCap replied to someone saying they listen to Youngboy 24/7
and said “Can’t even listen to the boy for 30 minutes.”.
And in another post he said
“Next n**** say YB go harder than Kodak
Im slapping ya Mama down.”.
Nobody really knows why Youngboy went off like he did.
There could be a lot more going on behind the scenes,
but some fans think it’s all over NoCap not taking on Youngboy’s beef
and putting on for the label.
Youngboy and the rest of 4KT
had NoCap’s back when he was beefing with Lil Baby,
but it seems like NoCap didn’t hold it down for them the same way.
Lil Durk is one of Youngboy’s biggest opps in the game right now,
so NoCap is out of pocket for trying to to stay neutral
and worry about people thinking he dissed him.
It’s not clear how the situation is gonna play out,
but it don't look like NoCap and YoungBoy are coming back from this.
Plus, Youngboy isn’t really known for squashing beef.
It seems like he was never really tight with NoCap in the first place,
so there’s basically no chance they’re gonna move past it.
The whole thing leaves NoCap in a tough spot though.
He’s signed to a label where the main artist and owner
is sending heavy shots at him on social media,
and it’s not like he can go back and start rocking with Baby and 4PF again.
Maybe Youngboy will just release him from the contract,
but the situation is far from over.
There’s no telling what’s gonna happen next with Youngboy and NoCap,
so tap in for updates as the story develops.