Jacksonville rap fans
know all about the beef between Youngeen Ace and Foolio.
But only true fans know that the beef really started between Ace
and a rapper from Jacksonville named Y&R Mookey.
Let’s get into some Jacksonville drill lyrics that actually happened
and how it relates to this beef.
“N*gga shot and missed
how the **** you miss
Imma show him how to step”
– Help - Y&R Mookey
Y&R Mookey is a rapper from the Arlington neighborhood of Jacksonville, called A-Block.
He’s from a crew called Young and Reckless or Y & R,
with his close homie Y&R Slugga Tee.
Despite his strange appearance, Slugga Tee is a menace who’s really about that life.
It’s rumored that His grandma was supposedly plugged in to the Columbo crime family,
so Slugga Tee was pretty much born into this.
Y&R is allied with Foolio and his crew including Spottem Gottem
and they all fall under the KTA umbrella.
They also known to beef with ATK, the gang that ran by Yungeen Ace.
Rumors are that the beef between Y&R and ATK started over a fight at a party.
Y&R Mookey was there with his right-hand man Y&R Slugga Tee,
when some dudes from ATK pulled up.
They got into an argument, which led to a shootout
and during the shooting, Mookey was grazed by a bullet
but he and Slugga Tee managed to shoot back.
Supposedly Yungeen Ace was the one who tried to shoot Mookey,
which is what started the beef.
This rumor ain’t been confirmed,
but it explains why Mookey keeps sending shots at Ace in his music.
Ever since then,
Mookey and Slugga Tee been dissing Ace and ATK in their songs and on social media.
In this bar, he’s making fun of Ace’s aim,
claiming he could have ended the beef right there, but missed the shot.
But that aint the only time that Y&R sent shots at Yungeen Ace.
On the track Rollin Opps, Mookie also repeats the phrase
“they were tweakin at a party, that’s how it started"
This could be throwin shade at Ace
which confirms the rumor about the beef starting at a party.
On the track Dead Opps,
Mookey gives even more detail about what happened that night, rapping
“I got grazed, Slugga Shot Back,
Bree Shoulda left them dead.”
So in this bar, he’s admitting he got grazed by a bullet
and Slugga Tee fired back.
Jabree Cook, aka Bree
is another member of Y&R and may have been there the night the beef started.
Dead Opps is one of Y&R Mookey’s biggest songs
and currently has over 8 million views on YouTube.
But Mookie aint the only one sendin shots.
Yungeen Ace also got back at Y&R Mookey on his collab with Lil Boosie.
“He sayin it’s smoke so we ride round with the Macs
Same night we drop one we turned around and double back”
– Up with Who - Yungeen Ace.
This bar is said to be a shot at Mookey and the rest of Y&R.
According to Ace, they shot Mookie then doubled back and shot at them again.
On the song’s hook Ace raps
“You said it’s up, but b*** it’s up with who
Like finding Nemo bitch we come and find you”
So, he’s sending shots at Mookie, saying he’s doing a lot of dissing, but in the end
they was the ones who caught him lackin.
He might be sending disses in songs,
but they the one’s really doing the damage.
But Y&R wasn’t just sending shots on tracks.
They allegedly got payback by going after Ace,
his brother, and their two best friends after a birthday celebration.
“Swear I ain’t nothin to play with
Ride got grazed three n***** ain’t make it
left a nigga car shakin”
– Y&R Mookey – Draco
In this bar, Y&R Mookey is talking bout the infamous shooting
where Ace was shot eight times and the three dudes he was with was killed.
On June 5th, 2018,
Ace, his brother Quan Quan, and their homies 23 and 4,
was out celebrating a birthday.
23 just turned 18 and Quan Quan just had a birthday too.
So, they went out to eat at Wasabi steakhouse in Jacksonville.
They finished eating and was chilling out in the parking lot. But 23 wanted to leave
to go link with some females.
So, they got in the whip and drove off.
While they were stopped at a red light at an intersection, another car pulled up on them
and started letting off shots.
Ace said in interviews that when he felt the bullets hit his hand,
he tried to shield 23 from getting hit.
But it was too late.
Ace was the only one who survived the shooting
and, 23, 4, and his brother Quan Quan all died.
Ace got shot a total of eight times
but made a recovery after being rushed to the hospital.
To make matters worse,
a local gun store owner saw Ace’s photos from the news coverage of the shooting
and remembered that Ace and the rest of his crew
had come into the shop earlier that day.
He called a random crime stoppers hotline
and told them he saw Ace in his store playing with the guns.
Ace is a convicted felon after being arrested in 2017 for a robbery.
So, he aint allowed to be in possession of a gun.
When police checked the security camera footage,
it showed Ace in the store holding a gun.
Even though he aint fire it or purchase anything in the store,
it was enough to revoke his probation, and Ace was arrested in the hospital.
So, in this bar,
Y&R Mookey is dissing Ace
over the shooting that nearly took his life and killed his blood brother and his homies.
In the video for the song, Mookey is seen burning an Ace of Spades card,
making it clear who he’s sending shots at.
Both Foolio and Y&R Mookey have dissed Ace by making references to this shooting,
revealing it was the work of KTA.
Not long before it happened,
Foolio’s cousin got killed and an ATK affiliate was arrested for the murder.
So many think the shooting was payback for that murder and for when Mookey got shot at the party.
This aint the only track where Mookey talks about this shooting.
In the song Gangsta Talk, he raps
“Tryna tell these n**** I ain’t the n**** to be played with
He was doin all that dissin now that ***** can’t say sh*t
Pulled up on him at the red light went to rippin in his sh*t
52 came off that south then that cutter start to spit”
So, he’s sending shots right back at Ace for saying they was all talk.
Ace confirmed in his own song
that he felt guilty about his homies and brother dying over a beef he started.
On the track Blame it on the Streets, Ace raps
“I was taught to commit homicides
I was taught to commit robberies
My brother died right next to me
the bullet was meant for me
Travon rest in peace
Still traumatized from what I’ve seen”
In this bar, Ace confirms he was the target of the shooting
and his friends were just hit by mistake.
Travon Bullard was his brother Quan Quan’s real name.
He also expresses remorse over everything he’s done in the streets
that led up to that night.
But at the end of the day, he’s a product of his environment
and just did what he had to do to survive.
He probably never thought it would get that crazy.
But luckily, he got a second chance
and found a way to make it out of the streets with his music.
But that wasn’t the only time Y&R allegedly shot at Ace.
In this next bar, Ace calls out Mookie for taking credit for a shooting
that he aint even do.
“You claiming a block that is not you
I was mad when he died and not you
bragging when I got shot like that was you
boy you a p**** ass b**** who shot who?”
– Step Harder - Yungeen Ace.
In an interview with My Mixtapez back in 2018,
Yungeen Ace gave a tour of his old hood.
In the video, he said that someone shot up his house while his mom was inside.
He showed them his old house
and said he and his brother Quan Quan was just hanging out in bed
when bullets started coming through the wall.
His mother was even in the other room when the shooting happened.
At one point in the video,
the camera pans to show them standing on the 7400 block of Melvin Road,
showing the home’s location.
In the song Dead Opps,
Y&R Mookey also talks about Melvin Street saying,
“Smokin 23 he got a nigga tweakin out
On Melvin Street tryna bend a block and leave you leakin out”
23 is Ace’s friend who was killed in the drive- -by shooting that happened back in 2018.
But, in this bar, it seems like Mookey is also taking credit for the shooting
that happened at Ace’s mom’s house on Melvin Road.
This doubles back to the earlier bar,
where Ace accuses someone of taking credit for a shooting they ain’t do.
It aint clear if he’s talking about the shooting on Melvin Road
or the one that almost took his life.
But either way, he suggests the person responsible is no longer breathing,
so he aint concerned about anyone who still sending disses.
The beef between Youngeen Ace and Y&R died down
after both Mookey and Y&R Slugga Tee
got arrested in a Jacksonville gang takedown called Operation Rap Up.
Police used their social media and music videos
to prove that the rappers were in possession of guns,
even though they was all convicted felons.
Mookey was denied bail and been locked up fighting the case ever since.
So it seems like the beef between Ace and Mookey died down for a while
while Ace is focused on his music career and Mookey is fighting his case.
But the war between ATK and KTA is still active, with no end in sight.