Rap is a competitive genre.
When two rappers from the same city start gaining attention,
drama and past beef can escalate into an all-out war.
42 Dugg and Sada Baby
are two rising rappers from Detroit who are now locked into a deadly beef
that has claimed countless lives,
including the innocent family members of another rapper
who got caught in the middle of their beef.
Let’s get right into it..
42 Dugg is a popular rapper from the 6-mile area on the eastside of Detroit.
Dugg’s history in the streets is well documented and he is a respected artist in the city.
He has ties to the 6 Mile 42 Hustle Gang, a set of the Crips.
Not much is known about Dugg’s childhood,
but what is clear is that he’s been in the streets from an early age.
In 2010, at just age 15, Dugg was sentenced to four years in prison
for carjacking and possession of a firearm.
After getting into a fight with another inmate,
Dugg was sentenced to an additional 2 years and spent a total of 6 years locked up.
Dugg has stated in interviews that he started rapping while he was locked up
and decided to go hard with his music career after being released.
Dugg was already respected in the city so he easily built a local buzz.
But blowing up from the Detroit rap scene isn’t easy.
Only a few artists from Detroit like Eminem or Big Sean
have managed to make it to a mainstream level
and if Dugg wanted to be the next rap superstar,
he’d have to collab with popular artists outside the city.
So Dugg did just that and after meeting Lil Baby in a dice game,
he was featured on the tracks We Paid
and Grace from the Atlanta rapper's 2020 album My Turn.
This exposed Dugg to a whole new audience and pushed his career to new limits.
He also became cool with another music industry veteran,
Yo Gotti, and signed to his label CMG.
Dugg is also signed to Lil Baby’s 4PF label,
so he was able to push himself into both the Atlanta and the Memphis rap scenes
while being mentored by some of the biggest names in the industry.
Things were looking good for 42 Dugg
and it seemed like he would be the next major rapper to hold it down for Detroit.
But, Dugg isn’t the only artist blowing up in the city.
Another rapper who is a sworn enemy of the 42 Hussle Gang n
amed Sada Baby was also blowing up around the same time.
Sada Baby is from the 7-mile area of East Detroit.
Unlike Dugg, Sada Baby was not in the streets from such an early age
and gravitated toward that lifestyle later on.
He started rapping at age 19
and would freestyle for a few hours every day to practice.
But after 3 years the music still wasn’t paying the bills
and he was forced to live at his grandma’s house and get a job.
It wasn’t until he was 22 or 23 that he decided to join a gang
and became affiliated with the Red Zone Bloods in his neighborhood.
Sada Baby has faced a lot of backlash for joining a gang at an older age.
Most active gang members jump off the porch before they are 18
and joining a gang at 22 in many places isn’t allowed.
There is also the fact that Sada Baby’s cousin Icewear Vezzo
is a crip from another area of Detroit
and they have collaborated on music and videos together in the past.
But, in an interview with HipHopDX,
the rapper explained that their relationship went deeper than the streets
and they respect each other too much to beef over gang affiliation.
But even if he started gang banging at an older age,
Sada Baby still reps the Bloods
and is one of the most popular rappers coming out of Detroit.
This means that he inherited any beef his gang has with rival sets,
including the 42 Hussle Boys.
These two gangs have been at war for over 15 years.
The 7-mile Bloods were originally the dominant group in the area
and had beef with most of the other local gangs,
including the 42 Crips.
The beef began to change around 2014
after a shooting outside a parole office led to an all-out war.
Two Hussle Gang members known as 42 Twinz
crossed paths with a member of the 7-mile bloods
outside the building where they all had appointments to meet with their parole officers.
The 42 Twinz jumped into a car with other members of their gang
and were chased by the opps.
The Bloods opened fire,
hitting one of the 42 Twinz and another Hussle Gang member in the car.
Both the 42 Twinz survived the shooting,
but Djuan “Neff” Page, the other dude who was shot,
ended up going into a coma and later dying.
Several members of the 7 mile Bloods were picked up for the shooting.
The 42 Twinz were supposed to testify in court against their opps
but refused to take the stand at the last minute.
After Page’s death,
the 42 Hussle Gang allied themselves with other enemies of the 7 mile Bloods
to challenge their control over the area and avenge the death of Neff.
This resulted in a violent feud that rages to this day.
So Dugg and Sada Baby are sworn opps purely based on their gang affiliations.
Dugg and Sada Baby were never cool with each other,
but there wasn’t any active beef until another artist got involved.
Tee Grizzley is another popular rapper from Detroit who has been on the scene for a minute.
He first blew up back in 2016
with his track First Day Out that he recorded and released the day he got out of prison.
Tee Grizzley was never gang-affiliated, but he did grow up in the streets.
He was mostly raised by his grandmother in West Detroit
because his parents were constantly in and out of jail.
In 2011, his mother was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking
and his father was murdered in 2012.
But, despite having such a rough childhood,
the rapper did his best to stay on the right path and even attended Michigan State University
to study finance and accounting.
But, while in college he struggled financially
and began robbing other student’s dorms for cash and electronics.
He was eventually caught but released while the school conducted an investigation.
During that time,
he and his friends went on the run and ended up robbing a jewelry store in Lexington, Kentucky.
The robbery was unsuccessful
and Grizzley along with his three accomplices were arrested.
He was sentenced to 9 months for the jewelry store robbery
and 18 months to 15 years for the robberies at Michigan State.
He was released in 2016
and blew up with his First Day Out Freestyle quickly after.
Ever since he’s built a name for himself as one of the leading artists in the Detroit rap scene,
having collaborated with everyone from Meek Mill to Lil Durk.
But just because you aren’t gang-affiliated
doesn’t mean you can’t get wrapped up in gang beef
and Tee Grizzley has gotten himself in the middle of the war between the 6 mile crips
and 7 mile Bloods by playing both sides.
Early in his career,
Tee Grizzley collaborated with one of the 42 Twinz on a track called Secrecy.
But, not long after, T went and signed Sada Baby to his own record label.
42 Twinz wasn’t feelin the fake love and took to social media to call out Tee Grizzley
for pretending to **** with him and then turn around and sign his opp.
Tee Grizzley responded by claiming that he was just trying to spread love
and put some money in everyone’s pocket and he still gets accused of being fake.
42 Twinz clearly wasn’t feeling that response
because he posted a photo of the rapper to Instagram with the caption
“Don’t get yo car flipped leaving off that block”
Tee Grizzley followed up in the comments
saying that Twinz reached out to him for the feature
and that none of his homie’s **** with him because he isn’t real.
Twinz responded
by claiming to have receipts proving that Grizzley messaged him first
and that he’s with the homies every day.
So, after that exchange, Tee Grizzley was now at the center of the beef.
Coming from the streets the rapper should have known he was going to catch some heat
for signing a rapper involved in an ongoing war in the city.
But he definitely wasn’t prepared for what came next.
The rapper would go on to collaborate with 42 Dugg on the track MWBL in 2019,
leading many to believe that the beef wasn’t that serious.
But as it turns out, the war was just beginning.
In August 2019,
Grizzley was in a Black Chrysler in the 3 Mile area of East Detroit
when someone sprayed the vehicle with bullets.
The rapper wasn’t injured in the shooting,
but his 41-year-old aunt JB, who also acted as his manager,
was shot and killed.
Sada Baby was also managed by JB
and he can be seen attending her funeral in the video for Tee Grizzley’s track “Satish”,
where he raps about the shooting.
Sada ended up leaving Tee Grizzley’s label not long after JB was killed,
claiming his career wasn't managed properly
and because he was angry over the fact that T would drop a track with his opps.
The beef between Sada and Dugg escalated even further
after a party in Detroit that they were both at.
The 42 gang took the stage and performed a diss track aimed at the 7-mile Bloods,
while Sada was in the audience.
It was also rumored that 42 Dugg had something to do with a situation
where Sada allegedly had his chain snatched at a recording studio.
Sada was interacting with fans online
when he let it be known that he wasn't cool with Cleveland rapper Doe Boy.
Doe Boy wasn’t feeling the disrespect
and took to social media to clown Sada for being a fake blood
and getting his chain snatched at the studio.
Sada responded by saying that Doeboy’s claims were all cap
and he was just trying to gain some clout by mentioning his name.
Doe Boy followed up with another video
where he gives even more details about the alleged robbery.
He claims that Sada Baby got stripped naked and robbed with his own gun.
The robbers got away with the rappers’ chains, bracelets, money, drugs,
and everything else he had on him at the time.
Sada then ran into the other room where Doe Boy was hanging out
and started wilding out about the robbery.
Doe Boy didn’t like his energy
so he pulled a strap out on him to make him calm down,
which is why they don't like each other.
After Doe Boy aired him out,
42 Dugg followed up with his own IG story clowning Sada for getting robbed
and takes credit for being the one who stuck him up.
Sada continued to claim that this is all cap
and both rappers are just looking to gain some attention by mentioning his name.
There isn’t any camera footage or other evidence from the night of the robbery
to prove whose side of the story is real,
so it’s up to the fans to decide who they’re rocking with.
Since then, both sides have been sending disses at each other in interviews and on social media.
Both Sada and 42 Dugg were featured on the track Friday Night Cypher
off Big Sean’s album Detroit 2.
In an interview, Sada suggested that Dugg’s verse was trash
and that he had no idea who was going to be on the song when he recorded his part.
In the same interview, he also threw shade on Tee Grizzley
and said he hopped on the track because he wanted to prove he was the better rapper.
Around this time, Sada also shut down a club performance
after a DJ played a Tee Grizzley and 42 Dugg track back to back.
He also called his former music partner a disloyal fake gangsta who hides in Detroit.
Dugg responded to all the disses
by posting a video to his Instagram
saying that he’s “smoking on hella bloods today”,
disrespecting some of Sada’s dead homies.
Today 420 man we blowing hella blood
we blowing hella bloods today
So, neither side is trying to be subtle about how they feel about the other crew.
Both rapper’s careers have been taking off over the past few months.
42 Dugg has been featured on tracks with major artists like Future and Roddy Rich.
Plus, Sada Baby had Nicki Minaj remix his track Whole Lotta Choppas,
which ended up going viral on Tik Tok.
So far, Sada Baby has stayed out of trouble with the law,
while 42 Dugg’s past has come back to haunt him.
In 2020 he was arrested for fleeing from police in a rental car
and not long after he was arrested for violating his probation by visiting a gun range.
He was also the possible target of another shooting
that occurred at the filming of the music video for his collaboration with Roddy Rich, 4 Da Gang.
Neither rapper was injured,
but two other men were shot and later treated at the hospital.
At first, fans thought that maybe Sada Baby had something to do with it
based on their past beef.
But another rapper from Mobile, Alabama named OMB Peezy
was arrested in connection with the shooting.
Peezy has maintained his innocence but since it’s an open case
he hasn’t spoken out much about what happened.
Internet rumors claim that Peezy was not the one shooting up the music video
but was firing back at someone who was.
The rapper was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
and held on a $60,000 bond.
So, if it was a case of self-defense, they probably wouldn’t have arrested him,
unless he refused to cooperate with the police.
Peezy isn’t known to have beef with Dugg or Roddy Rich.
But he has collaborated with Sada Baby on his track “One Me”.
So, if the two artists are cool, that could point to a possible motive.
More details in this case are likely to come to light as the trial progresses
and will reveal whether it had to do with this particular beef
or if it was just an unrelated incident.
Either way, things are still tense in the streets of Detroit and no one is truly safe.
Hopefully, both Sada and Dugg can just leave the past alone
so no more innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire.
But with so much drama,
it may be hard for either artist to leave the street life alone and focus on music.
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