The Bronx is a wild place.
It’s the borough with the most crime
and is well known for gang activity.
The Bronx drill sound is on the rise
and it’s fueling a deadly war between three gangs,
the OGz, the YGz, and SevSide.
Let’s get straight into this crazy beef.
Brooklyn was getting attention for its drill scene,
but the Bronx is coming with a whole new sound that is starting to make waves.
K Flock is one of the hottest rappers from the Bronx right now
racking up millions of plays on songs like "Being Honest" and "PSA".
Bronx drill may have the same bass lines and hard flow as Brooklyn and UK drill,
but it has its own unique sound that is influenced by classic New York hip hop.
Most of the beats have classic samples laced in with distorted 808’s
that gives the music a different vibe than drill from other areas.
K Flock has been riding the wave with this new sound
and has been building a buzz over the past few months.
But his come-up ain’t just been all success.
He also suffers from the pain and loss that comes with the street life,
losing many friends to gun violence.
Kay Flock hopped off the curb at a young age
and was on the block at like 12 years old.
He started rapping cuz of his homie Dougie B,
who is also a rapper and has been featured on multiple tracks.
K Flock’s first official track was a remix of the 22gz song
"Blixky Gang Freestyle", which he titled FTO.
22Gz then gave Kay Flock a shoutout in a recent interview,
showing love to the Bronx drill movement.
In August 2021,
he remixed Ciggy Black’s song “Dishonest”,
and called it Being Honest.
That track quickly racked up millions of views and earned him a feature from G Herbo.
There’s also rumors that he recently signed a 7-figure deal
and he’s in a good position to take over the Bronx rap scene.
But behind all of K Flock’s success is a deadly war that involves his own family members.
He’s from a Blood set around East 187th Street
in a hood known as SevSide.
SevSide is made up of Mac Balla Brims
and Sex Money Murda and they cool with the Rollin 80's crips.
Sevside beefs with other gangs in the area, including the OGz or Original Goons
and the YGz or Young Gunnas.
At first, these two were the same gang
and controlled a few different projects around Courtland Ave,
not far from SevSide.
But one of the founders of the YG’z crossed over another top member,
so the dudes in his hood split off to form the OGz.
Today, the YGz are one of the most hated gangs in the Bronx
and they beef with almost everyone.
One of the YG’z main rappers named DThang, is K Flock’s blood cousin.
The two rappers have been dissing each other back and forth.
DThang shocked the whole hood by dropping a Chicago style drill track
called Talkin Facts,
where he disrespects dead opps from damn near every gang the YGz beef with.
But the beef aint start with rap,
it began with multiple murders, followed by threats in music and on social media.
In July 2021,
a 19-year-old rapper who went by the name Ty Swish
was shot in the head in the lobby of his apartment building.
He ran outside right after getting shot but had been hit in the eye and quickly collapsed.
A family friend and her two kids found him unconscious outside the building.
He was rushed to the hospital but he was dead at the scene.
Witnesses say the gunman fled in a dark-colored four-door sedan,
but was never identified.
Friends and neighbors said Ty Swish was a good kid
who never got in trouble.
But, he was allegedly from Sex Money Murder and they would quickly even the score for his death.
A few days later,
13-year-old Jaryan Eliott, was chased down and killed outside the Angels Café
in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx.
Jaryan just graduated from junior high and was turning 14 later that month.
But even though he was young, he already claimed to be from the Rollin 80’s crips.
He had already got arrested eight times for robbery and assault
and spent time in juvie.
A friend of Jaryan’s said the crips put him on when he was 10 years old
and that she tried to warn him about the lifestyle, but he ain’t listen.
The murder was captured on surveillance footage
and showed Jaryan walking down the street with a friend.
A black sedan is seen driving up alongside them, then coming to a stop.
A masked shooter then hops out and shoots at both of them.
His friend ran away, but Jaryan falls
and then crawls into a local café.
He got shot in the legs and the chest and was rushed to the hospital,
but later pronounced dead.
Police think Jaryan’s death was payback for killing Ty Swish.
They don’t know if he was the killer,
but they believe he was there at the time of the murder.
Just a few hours after Jarayan got chipped,
the opps got their revenge and a 16-year-old got killed
and police think it was a payback hit.
On Sunday, July 11th,
a 16-year-old rapper who named Rah Gzz was shot while getting into an Uber.
Rah Gzz was from the 800 YGz
and the shooting is believed to be retaliation for the murder of Jaryan Elliot.
Rah Gzz supposedly made fun of Jayran’s death
on social media right after it happened, and the get back was immediate.
He was on his way to the studio when two men on scooters pulled up
and started dumping shots into his Uber.
The whole thing was captured on the driver’s dashcam
and quickly went viral on social media.
The rapper got shot once before but survived.
His mom said he was trying to turn his life around and was focusing on his music career.
But he ain’t get that chance and instead became another casualty in this deadly war.
But the case is still active and they both minors,
so there’s aint too much public info available.
With so many deaths on all sides, the beef between the YG’s,
OGz, and SevSide was really heating up.
On August 16th,
K Flock dropped the track "Is Ya Ready",
where he disses multiple rival rappers,
including his own cousin DThang.
In the first verse, he says
“Boy ask my opps, it could get ugly
I could do shhh like Ice did sonny”
This is referring to the classic film Paid in Full.
In the movie, Mitch, one of the main characters played by Mekhi Phifer
has a younger brother who gets kidnapped for ransom.
Mitch tries to get the money but he gets killed by Rico,
played by Cam’ron, who steals the drugs to pay Sonny’s ransom.
Sonny gets killed as a result and come to find out
he was set up by his own uncle – Ice
who was mad at Mitch for kicking him out of the house.
So in this bar, Kay Flock sends a shot
dicrectly to his own cousin, DThang,
and let’s him know he’s not above setting him up.
The song was big in New York and even got played on Hot 97.
So, you can probably guess how the opps felt about this.
DThang quickly hopped on social media and gave his thoughts on the bar,
saying “Can’t wait to see auntie now”
A few weeks later, another Rollin 80’s member
who was affiliated with Kay Flock got murdered broad day.
The victim was 16-year-old rapper Naz Rolla.
He was killed after two men hopped out of a Honda Accord
and popped him in the head and chest in SevSide’s hood.
Police said that Naz Rolla had a long criminal history and got arrested 18 times already,
including 10 felonies dating back to May 2017.
He was recently arrested for gun possession and was fighting three other open gun cases.
After his death,
DThang would hop on Instagram and sneak diss Naz Rolla
who was his cousin K Flock’s right-hand man,
suggesting he might’ve got set up.
Right around the same time Naz Rolla was killed, DThang dropped “Talk Facts”
which is pretty much the Bronx version of "Who I Smoke",
where he disses all his opps, both alive and dead.
On the track, he samples the song
"Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye and throws a sub at a different opp in almost every bar.
Some disses include,
“Dougie Got shot but he still in recovery”
sending shots at Kay Flock’s homie Dougie B.
He also says
“Come on CJ you seen me when I ain't see you
N**** you ain't even make a move
So how the f*** when you see me you gon' shoot”
In this bar, he takes shots at another rival rapper from Courtland
who dissed DThang on the track "Kidnap Who?", after DThang said
he was going to kidnap Bouba Savage, who is also featured on the track.
Later he raps,
“Jiggy man [A.K.A. SHA EK]
dumbass got hit
That's word on my mother they never do s***.”
Here he’s talking about a rapper named Sha Ek,
who is from the OGz and known to go by the name Jiggy Man.
So, it looks like Bronx drill is following the same pattern as Chicago and the UK.
Rappers diss each other in songs then follow it up with real violence.
What’s really crazy is that a lot of them are under 18 and still in high school
so really, they don’t fully understand the consequences
that come with the lifestyle they’re living.
Hopefully, they pay attention to how hot it’s getting in O’Block
and they cool it down before it’s too late.
But with so many lives lost on on both sides,
it's hard to see an end in sight.