30 Deep Grimeyy was on his way out of the streets,
but then he caught a gun charge
and had his own lyrics used against him in court.
From coming up in the murder capital of America,
to having a grandma who reps the cripp -
this is his wild story.
Chicago drill made a lot of rap fans aware of how savage the streets really are.
Rappers started airing out real life beef in the music
and taking the disrespect to a new level.
Chicago is definitely one of the craziest cities in the US,
but just a few hours away
is the actual murder capital of USA -
St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis isn’t just deadly compared to cities like New York and Chicago,
it’s one of the top ten most violent places in the world.
gamble with your life any time you step out on the streets
and that’s the environment 30 Deep Grimeyy was raised in.
Gangbaning was in Grimeyy's blood from the jump
His mom, dad, and grandma
all claimed the six deuce cripp
and Grimeyy says he has baby pictures of himself rocking orange bandanas.
Most all cripps wear blue,
but the six deuce wear orange instead.
They started out on the Eastside of LA back in the 70s
and are part of the neighborhood cripps,
but they’ve been active in STL for decades too.
Grimeyy says he don't take street politics super seriously,
but that ain't stop him from getting active in the streets.
He bounced back and forth between his mom and dad’s crib as a kid.
Grimeyy’s dad was always in and out of jail though,
and Grimeyy followed him straight into the trenches.
He hasn’t aired out the details,
but he allegedly saw his first murder at around eight years old -
and the shooter is one of the dudes who taught him how to move in the streets.
Grimeyy was always in trouble
but he didn’t catch his first real charge until 17.
They sent him to the workhouse at a medium security prison for five months,
and he says that’s where he really turned into an animal.
In some prisons you’re locked up with one cellmate,
but in the spot Grimeyy was locked up
he was in a bunk room with like 80 other dudes.
You have to grow up fast in a place like that and get your respect.
Grimeyy grew up boxing and fighting though,
so he says he didn’t have an issue inside.
Grimeyy has been rapping since he was like seven years old,
but back then he was focused on getting his bread up
and just surviving another day in STL.
After he got out on the first charge
he ended up going back for a year because he caught a gun charge.
Going back to prison was rough,
but it was nothing compared to what Grimeyy had to go through next.
While he was locked up for the shooting,
Grimeyy’s younger brother was killed at just 18 years old.
It’s not clear how it went down,
but the judge wouldn’t even let Grimeyy go to the funeral
because they thought he was too dangerous.
Grimeyy told DJ Vlad that he couldn’t even deal with it for a year
because he was still locked up.
He said crying in jail is like the worst thing you can do
because dudes in there will try and test you if they see weakness,
so Grimeyy just had to hold it all in until he was released a year later.
Grimeyy decided to switch up how he moved
and started taking rap more seriously.
Him and his homie NWM Cee Murda
was on the grind for a couple of years before anything popped off,
but in 2019 they got a lot of buzz with the track NoCap.
Grimeyy had momentum in the industry,
then he dropped one of the most disrespectful songs in STL
with the track Dead Goofies.
He took shots at dead opps with bars like
“Lil D tried creeping through that crib,
they shot his ass through the door
He say he smoking on my brother,
DP roll up that Noah
B****, I got Tyga in my swisher,
this shit fresh out the morgue
He claim he beefed with 30 Deep,
b****, when the f*** did y’all score?”
He referenced Noah again with the line
“Them n****s telling on each other,
tell ‘em free Lil Tyrell
Throw him a homecoming party filled with demons and shells.”
Lil Tyrell, AKA Tyrell Davidson
was booked for killing a dude named Chauncey Brown back in 2013.
Two sixteen year olds named Noah Barnes
and James Moore were supposed to testify against him in the trial,
but a few months after Tyrell was arrested
both of them ended up dead.
Four other dudes in the case ended up having their charges dropped
because a detective who was going to testify developed brain cancer and died.
Everything about the case was crazy,
but then it took another wild turn.
Tyrell’s mom was accused of being the one
who put the hits out on Noah and James.
She allegedly had both of them killed to help Tyrell out,
and now the whole situation is known as the “Murder Mom” case.
Dead Goofies gave Grimeyy even more shine,
and not before long
he was linking up with massive artists like King Von and Lil Baby.
He was racking up millions of streams,
going on tour,
and putting STL on his back.
His music got him in the spotlight,
then Grimeyy showed everyone he could take over even more
with tracks like Rockstar.
A lot of street rappers don’t know how to rhyme about anything
but drills and dead opps,
but Grimeyy was able to show the pain behind the lifestyle with bars like
“30 Deep the gang,
all my brothers get busy
‘Member we was young,
we used to play the 360
‘Member we was young,
we used to fuck around with frisbees
Long live Chub,
this s*** feelin’ like a dream
I remember we was bummy,
we was plottin’ on a scheme
Keon died, Tay Tay died,
he was with me on the scene
Steady poppin’ all these perkys,
tryna overdose on lean.”
But while he was popping off
and making it in the industry,
Grimeyy still had major beef going on in his St. Louis.
It’s not clear where it all started,
but another STL rapper
named KB 6ixx dropped a diss track on Grimey and his crew
called 30 Dead Homies.
The track was full of savage disses like
“Lurkin’ for lil grimeyy dude,
saw a grimeyy b****
Hit the car from both sides,
hopin’ his mama in the whip.”
Then just a few months after dropping the track,
KB was shot and killed in St Louis.
Rumors started flying that Grimeyy and his 30 Deep crew were behind the murder,
but Grimeyy said that KB and him had already squashed the beef before he died.
Some people called cap on Grimeyy,
but in an interview with Views From the Arch
it seemed like KB wasn’t too pressed about the situation anyways.
I don’t know motherf*****s be
be feeling they self
because like
any motherf***** that diss me
like I real life know em you know?
So there’s like a lot of s***
that motherf*****s be saying and s***
I don’t really be,
I don’t really be tripping off that s***.
Grimeyy moved out of STL to focus on his career,
but then he made the biggest mistake possible and everything went left.
Boosie Badazz has always said that
street rappers should leave their city as soon as possible to avoid drama,
and it seemed like Grimeyy was making the right moves
to stay out of the trenches for good.
But then he decided to go back to STL
and ended up catching the charge he’s locked up for right now.
In January 2021,
Grimeyy and his homies were riding around in a Pontiac G8
that had plates on it from a Jeep.
Riding around with dirty plates wasn’t the best move,
and the cops ended up finding Grimeyy’s strap when they searched the car.
Grimeyy tried to get his homie to make a fake receipt for the gun
so it would be under another dude’s name,
but cops weren’t buying it
and he ended up getting hit with a felon in possession of a firearm charge.
Going back to jail didn’t just hurt Grimeyy’s career though,
it almost got him killed.
In an interview with Say Cheese TV,
Grimeyy said he got jumped as soon as he went back inside.
he bounced out with 2 n****s
he wrapping his s*** up.
Like you wrapping your s*** up
I already know what you're on
he talking while he wrapping his s*** up
but he bouncing up on me
while he wrapping his s*** up
then smooth took off on em
after I took off on em
I swear to god smooth took off on em.
Grimeyy said he was winning easy,
but then a bunch of other dudes jumped in
and started throwing hands at him.
They got him to the ground and started stomping on him,
but Grimeyy got back up and started fighting again.
He got stomped out three different times
before everyone was too tired to fight anymore,
but luckily he made it out of the situation alive.
Grimeyy made bail and pleaded not guilty at first,
but last year he decided to take a deal
and went back behind bars.
Fans were hoping he’d get an easy bid and be home early,
but that’s not how it worked out.
During the sentencing,
the prosecution played his music in the courtroom
and used his lyrics against him.
They claimed Grimeyy is a gang leader who raps about the crimes they commit.
Grimeyy tried to tell the judge it was all part of the rap game and that
“My rap career is an image I have to portray.
I feel like I have been targeted just because of my rap name.
I’m Arthur Pressley.
I’m a human being.”
The prosecution clapped back
and said that Grimeyy deserved 12 years because “He is brazen.
He is prolific, and he has no respect for the law.”
Grimeyy’s lawyer pushed the idea that 30 Deep was a brand like Yeezy,
not a gang.
And he also asked why the music was being brought up at all
since it had nothing to do with the gun charge.
Unfortunately the judge wasn’t hearing it,
and after an hour of thinking he came back
and handed down a 92 month sentence
because he thought Grimeyy was leading a “street gang.”
Seven and a half years is a long time
for a dude who was just getting his career started.
Grimeyy definitely had the skills and momentum to take it far in the game,
but unfortunately
he got caught up in another case and is gonna be sitting down for a while.
If he keeps some momentum up from behind bars
and doesn’t catch any more charges on the inside,
Grimeyy could be back in a few years and pick up right where he left off.