Bronx drill is one of the hottest movements in the rap game right now,
and it’s also the wildest.
Drill music has always been surrounded by violence,
but the Bronx has taken it to a whole new level.
And today we’re breaking down the wild story of C Blu,
the 16-year-old Bronx rapper who shot a cop.
C Blu was born and raised in the Bronx,
but his early life wasn’t as bad as a lot of drill rappers.
The Bronx has a reputation for being dangerous,
but C Blu told Fucious TV
that it’s only wild if you’re really in the streets.
When he was younger,
Blu played sports and was really into science.
And even though he’s popping off in the rap game,
he still plans on going to college.
He told Fucious “I’m on my school s*** still.
You gotta be smart…
I want to be a biochemist,
besides this rapping s***.”
Blu caught a gun charge when he was just 14 years old.
He didn’t spend any time locked up
because he was charged as a juvenile,
but he did get probation.
C Blu had always been interested in music
and would make beats and freestyle at school.
But after he caught the gun charge
he started taking music more seriously.
It didn’t take long for him to start popping off,
and last August he dropped the track No Ozone
and racked up over four million views on YouTube.
He followed it up with a run of hot tracks
and was working with dudes like Set Da Trend, Dougie B,
and his homie Kay Flock.
And not before long,
he had major labels looking at him
and Blu ended up signing a six figure deal with Interscope
After just a few months,
Blu was already one of the hottest new rappers in the Bronx drill scene.
But before he could take it to the next level,
he got into a wild situation
that ended up with him and a cop both getting shot.
Back in January, Blu was with a group of friends
outside a building in the Bronx.
According to the cops,
when they showed up
Blu stepped towards a car and put his hands in his pockets.
A cop told him to take his hands out,
and when Blu refused they started fighting.
At some point the gun Blu was carrying went off
and the bullet went through his leg and hit the cop too.
Both of them were taken to the hospital,
and then Blu got hit with assault and weapon charges.
His lawyer Dawn Florio
claims Blu was targeted by the cops because he’s a rapper.
She said “My client never touched the gun.
You could hear the people saying that they thought the police officer shot my client.”
Blu allegedly posted his $250K bail
with the money he got from Interscope.
The cops were mad he was given bond,
but the judge on the case said that the arresting officer’s account of the situation
was “incredible and unreliable.”
The judge also said that the video of the arrest
proved that Blu did “everything you tell your child to do
when they’re approached by the cops.”
A week after Blu posted bond,
the cops booked him again for violating his probation.
He was still on probation from his 2020 weapon charge,
so he got sent back to juvy
for carrying another gun during the January arrest.
The president of the NYPD benevolent association Patrick Lynch
said “We’re glad that a cop shooter is back off the street,
but this revolving door for a repeat gun offender
makes no sense whatsoever.
It should be clear to every New Yorker
that our justice system is broken in many places.”
At first the shooting case was going to go in front of the Bronx Supreme Court,
but the judge decided to move it to family court instead.
And in May 2022,
the city dropped the case completely and Blu was released again.
Obviously Blu was happy with the news,
but Patrick Lynch called the decision to drop the charges “absurd”.
He said "This absurd decision should outrage every New Yorker
who wants to get illegal guns off our streets.
There is no dispute that this individual
was caught carrying an illegal gun for the second time.
If perps like this face absolutely no consequences,
even after shooting a cop,
we have to ask:
why bother sending us out to get guns at all?”
C Blu got right back to the grind
and dropped even more videos
that racked up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube,
and it was clear that the legal issues weren’t slowing him down.
Blu reps a rollin 60s cripp set called ReyWay,
which is cliqued up with SevSide DOA
and known to beef with sets like the YGz and Drillys.
And like most dudes in the drill scene,
Blu is always dissing opps on social media and in his music.
He’s known for going on live with his opps on IG,
and Blu told Fucious Tv he does it because
“I wanna show everybody how they broke.
Just like clowning them n****s.
Like a lot of that s*** funny, that’s really it.”
Dissing opps is normal in the drill scene,
but it also leads to a lot of death and violence.
Last year C Blu hopped on Dougie B’s track Geeked
with a rapper named CHII WVTTZ
and then in February CHII was shot and killed outside a studio.
On Tuesday, September 27th,
Blu was allegedly sitting in a Hyundai about two blocks from the Bronx zoo
when the cops pulled up on him.
It’s not clear exactly what went down,
but cops claim they spotted a pistol underneath Blu’s passenger seat
and told him to get out of the car.
According to some sources,
the cops saw Blu fumbling with his waist band
and running towards the car,
and that’s why they stopped him in the first place.
After he was charged, Blu’s lawyer said
“My client was outside a car.
Police comes with their guns out, circling around the block.
A lot of video surveillance taken by cameras.
Police targeted my client, guns drawn, he was scared for his life.
He took out his phone, his hands were up.”
According to his lawyer,
Blu was trying to call his mom when the cops arrested him.
His mom told the New York Post
“It was another stop that shouldn’t have happened.
Another stop and frisk and the same group of kids
being targeted by the same cops
and them finding something that didn’t belong to my son.
It’s not fair at all.”
C Blu is only 17,
and according to the Post
he broke down in tears when the judge held him on a $100K bail for the new case.
The Assistant District Attorney on the case
told the judge that Blu’s “social media contains multiple posts with firearms
and implications of willingness and ready ability
to shoot any member of the opposition.”
Blu’s lawyer tried to convince the judge that he was dissing opps as part of his career,
and that he’s just a kid but the judge wasn’t feeling it
and said that this was C Blu’s third run in with the law
and this is a serious offense.
It’s not clear exactly what went down the night he got arrested,
but this time the charges might actually stick.
Last time the judge took it easy on Blu
and aired out the cops for stopping him without any reason,
but it doesn’t seem like the judge in his new case is gonna let him off easy.
Back in May he went on Talk of the Town
and talked about how he doesn’t plan on rapping forever,
it’s just something he does for fun.
Well, it already a career right now but,
that's not something I want to do my whole life.
Hopefully he can chase his dreams and become a biochemist after college,
and if what his mom said is true and the gun isn’t even his,
the whole thing could get thrown out if his lawyer can prove it.
But even if the charges go through,
Blu still doesn’t have any adult convictions on his record
so the sentencing shouldn’t be too crazy.