Rappers in Jacksonville
don’t just make up stories for the clout.
This new generation of artists
has gotten famous for rapping about real beef
and crimes going on in the city,
including shootings,
murders,
robberies,
kidnappings,
and more.
Let's take a look
at some Jacksonville rap lyrics
that actually happened.
“Corbin got kidnapped,
they found his bones where he was rot
(Where’s Corbin)?”
- Foolio
Beatbox Remix
Jacksonville rapper
Spottem Gotem
blew up with the track Beatbox in 2020.
It was remixed
by a ton of major names in the game,
including Spottem’s homie
Foolio,
who dropped his own version
of the viral track,
where he name drops
a bunch of real people
from Jacksonville,
including a dude named Corbin
who was killed during a kidnapping.
Corbin Johnson
was an 18-year-old from Jacksonville,
who’s remains were found by police
after he’d been missing for exactly a year
and was last seen by his mother.
On the day he went missing,
he Facetimed his friend
and told her he was going to apply for a job at Amazon.
His father confirmed that he had dropped him off
for the interview at Amazon,
then drove him to UPS
to apply there as well.
Corbin’s father
then brought him to his mother’s house
in Biscayne Circle
after the job interviews.
His father sent him a text the next morning
but didn’t get a response,
which he said was unusual.
After the family did not hear from him for 48 hours,
they officially filed a missing person’s report.
For about a year,
the case went cold
and police had no leads
on what might have happened to Corbin.
Until just about a year later,
a man was clearing some land with a tractor
in the Northwest side of the city.
He uncovered what looked like human remains
that had been wrapped in either a plastic bag
or a tarp.
By that point,
the body had already decomposed
and all that was left was the bones.
But it was later confirmed
that they belonged to Corbin Johnson.
The police had little evidence to launch an investigation
and his murder remains unsolved.
But word on the street
is that Corbin was set up by a girl he knew,
who sold him out to the opps.
They kidnapped him over a drug debt
that one of his homies owed
and when they refused to pay up,
they killed Corbin and disposed of his body.
This is an unconfirmed rumor
but would explain why he suddenly went missing.
Foolio has mentioned Corbin several times,
including once on Instagram Live,
where he claimed that his worst fear
was ending up like Corbin.
Man that ***** died
that ***** Corbin
real deal got kidnapped bro
that's my worst biggest fear bro
It doesn’t seem like
he had anything to do with Corbin’s disappearance,
even though he talked about him in a song.
Unless
he’s just trying to make it look that way.
In a different song,
Foolio raps about one of his childhood friends,
who ended up catching a murder charge
because he wasn’t covering his face
with a mask.
“No Face Caught life
Cause His A** Ain’t Wear a Mask”
– Never Cared
Foolio
No Face
aka Cracka Jack
was one of Foolio’s day one homies.
The two had known each other
since at least middle school
and came up in the streets together.
But,
while one would go on to become a famous rapper,
the other
would be sentenced to life in prison,
after the murder of 22-month-old
Aiden McLendon.
In January 2016,
No Face and another associate
went to take out a man named Reginald Williams.
Williams had just been dropped off at his house by his cousin
Tomesia Brown,
who was driving a car
that also contained Aiden McClendon
and his great grandmother.
Just after Williams got out of Brown’s car,
he approached another vehicle,
but then turned and walked away.
As he turned around,
shots started going off.
The shooters missed Brown,
but they ended up hitting Aiden in his car seat.
He was rushed to the hospital
in critical condition
and later passed away.
His death was a major shock to the city of Jacksonville
and forced the police to crack down
on gang violence in the city.
About a week later,
police pulled over Henry Hayes IV,
aka No Face,
while he was driving his father’s car.
They discovered a 9mm pistol
and later determined
that it matched the murder weapon
that had killed Aiden.
So just a week before his 17th birthday,
No Face was arrested and charged
with first-degree murder
and two counts of attempted murder.
Police also arrested a second suspect
named Kwame Richardson,
who they believe also shot at Williams
on the day of Aiden’s murder.
Tomesia Brown later testified in court
that she recognized No Face as the killer
because Kwame was wearing a mask.
She told the court
“I heard large pops...
I paid attention to the person I could see
because he was hanging out the window
with a gun.”
She said that she saw Kwame first,
but he was wearing a mask.
So she didn’t pay close attention to him,
because she couldn’t see his face.
Instead,
she focused on No Face,
who was leaning out of the car with no mask
and both hands on the 9mm.
Both men were found guilty of murder
and sentenced to life in prison
for the murder of Aiden McClendon.
In this bar,
Foolio is talking about
how his childhood friend
might have beat the case,
if he was wearing a mask.
But he got sloppy
and a 1-year-old child tragically lost his life.
But if you thought that was wild,
Foolio also disrespected an opp
named Big Baby,
who got shot and killed
at a bus stop.
“Big Baby Caught at the Bus”
Foolio dropped out of high school
in the 9th grade
after he was shot
while getting off the school bus.
He got shot because earlier that day,
a dude from a rival gang
named Big Baby
had been killed while waiting for the bus
In December 2014,
Big Baby was waiting for a bus
near 13th street
and Canal Street
around 6:30AM.
A family friend said that she had dropped him off to go to school,
just minutes before he was killed.
Neighbors reported hearing as many as 15 shots
and police later found at least 12 shell casings
at the scene.
By the time authorities arrived,
Big Baby
was already dead.
Big Baby played football
at the local high school
and was well-known and loved
by many people in the community.
Foolio went to the same high school,
but was in an opp neighborhood.
Everyone at school thought Foolio had something to do with Big baby’s murder
because their two gangs had beef.
On a Livestream with Adin Ross,
Foolio talked about that day.
He said that he had nothing to do with the murder
and was on his way to school when it happened.
But,
kids at his school
still thought that Foolio was the killer.
So when I went to school
everybody was walking up to me
bro they say you had some- -thing to do with such and such
I'm like bro what the **** happen
I was really the only one in school
the police came and interrigated me
about that **** and all of that
It got so bad,
he was about to fight three different people.
Then he ended up getting on their bus,
even though he had smoke with almost everybody.
He ended up getting off in an area
called Errin Drive.
When he got off the bus,
he sat down to roll up some weed.
But while he was rolling up,
someone pulled up
and shot at him.
He got up to run away,
but ended up getting shot in the hip.
He saw the shooter was still going after his friends
so he decided to army crawl away.
He managed to make it to a random lady’s yard
and asked for help.
But the woman wasn’t havin none of that
and told Foolio to get out of her yard.
He told her he was shot,
but she didn’t care
and still told him to get out.
So he decided to play dead on her lawn
until the shooter was gone.
He eventually made it to a hospital
and had to have four surgeries to repair his hip.
The police interrogated him
about Big Baby’s murder
while he was recovering
but later cleared his name.
After that,
Foolio never returned to high school,
because he felt it was too dangerous.
He and rappers he is affiliated with
like Ksoo
would often diss Big Baby in their music,
the same way rappers from Chicago
diss Tooka and Lil Marc
who also died while waiting for a bus.
So,
he may not have had anything to do with the murder.
But his opps
still aren’t happy
about the constant disrespect
of their dead homie.
But Foolio
isn’t the only one to rap about real situations
going on in Jacksonville.
This next rapper
brought up the death of one of Foolio’s close homies
Rod K.
“Rod K Died Cause He Freezed Up”
Spinnabenz
is a rapper
associated with Yungeen Ace
and his ATK gang.
He was featured on the famous
Who I Smoke song,
which is a murder anthem
dedicated to disrespecting dead friends
and family members of Foolio and his gang.
But that wasn’t the only time that ATK
has taken shots at Foolio in music.
On this track,
Spinabenz disrespects rapper Rod K,
who was shot and killed outside the Hilltop Apartments
in November 2020.
Rod K had just started to build a buzz,
with tracks like Strap Story and Hot Boyz.
It seemed like he might be the next rapper from Jacksonville to blow up,
thanks to his emotional rapping style
and his affiliations with Foolio.
But,
before he could reach his full potential,
he was tragically murdered.
On November 20th, 2020,
police responded to a call
about gunshots
being fired in the parking lot
of the hilltop village apartments
in the Moncrief neighborhood of Jacksonville.
Paramedics arrived
and found two gunshot victims
in the parking lot.
At first,
it seemed like their injuries
were not life-threatening.
But Rod would later pass away
after being brought to the hospital.
Rod K’s death
came just a day after the murder
of another KTA affiliate
who went by the name Spazz2x.
Spazz was also killed in the parking lot
of the Hilltop Village apartments,
leading police to believe
that the shootings were related.
There are several theories about what happened to Rod K.
Some say
that he went out looking for the person who killed Spazz
and opps got the drop on him first.
Others claim
that he was even set up
and backdoored by his own people.
Whatever happened to Rod,
it’s no surprise at this point that Foolio’s enemies
would use his death to taunt him.
Spinnabenz not only name drops
Rod K on this song,
he also makes a reference to him
on Who I Smoke with the line
“12 paramedics
couldn’t save yo f**** life boy”.
Plus,
he also threw a shot at Rod K
on the track Drill Time,
where he raps
“I told y’all Rod K was dead
before his body had got found”.
In Jacksonville,
nothing is off-limits
and both sides have used each other’s dead homies to get at their enemies,
even if they had nothing to do with the hit.
That’s probably part of the reason
that the violence has gotten so out of control
and rappers continue to lose their lives
and freedom.
But Spinnabenz
isn’t the only ATK-affiliated rapper
to take shots at the opps in his music.
This next rapper
bragged about stealing a verse
from a KTA affiliate,
who had recently been killed.
“I just stole a n**** verse,
he dead
and can’t come back”
In this bar,
Ksoo is throwing shade at Teki,
a rapper affiliated with Foolio,
Soulja K
and Trey Dee.
Teki was killed on May 7th, 2019
after a shooting that occurred on the 5900 Block
of Christobel Avenue,
which is just north of the Hilltop Apartments
where Rod K and Spazz 2x died.
Two innocent bystanders
noticed Teki bleeding
and helped move him to Lila Street
to wait for the police.
Near the scene,
they also found an SUV
riddled with bullet holes.
Teki would later die from his injuries.
Before his death,
Teki was a well-known rapper in the area.
He appeared on a song called Crunch Time
with Foolio and others back in 2016.
In the song,
he drops the bar
“bitch I’m back where it’s at
in all black with a mac
I’m the type to run off with a n**** sack.”
After Teki was killed,
Ksoo dropped the song Bang It Out
where he jacks that exact bar
followed by the line
“I just stole a n**** verse,
he dead he can’t come back.”
He can also be seen watching the Crunch Time video on his phone,
to make the reference even more obvious.
So,
Ksoo was not only disrespecting the dead,
he was stealing his dead opps bars
and then admitting to it in the same verse.
If that wasn’t disrespectful enough,
Ksoo can also be seen wearing a jersey with the name Bibby on the back
in different parts of the video.
Bibby was the younger brother of Foolio,
who was also killed in 2019
outside the Hilltop Village apartments.
Both Bibby and Teki
would also be referenced in the chorus
of the famous Who I Smoke? song,
bringing the disrespect of the dead
to new levels.
Ksoo would eventually be arrested for Bibby’s murder
as well as the murder of another KTA affiliated rapper named Lil Buck.
He’s currently fighting both cases.
So shouting out dead opps in songs,
especially when it comes to murders
you may have been involved in
probably isn’t the smartest thing to do
from a legal standpoint.
But the War in Jacksonville
has gotten out of control
and both sides are guilty of getting payback
and then bragging about it in the music.
These are just a few of the wildest references
to real events
that happened in Duval County.