Drill is a musical genre, unlike any other.
While many rappers talk about past crimes,
drill rappers are known to rap about beef
that’s currently going on in the streets.
Here is a look at some bars from UK drill rappers that actually happened in real life.
“He Got Shot on His Birthday How’s That for a Birthday Gift”
Suicide Squad is the name of a drill group
formed by rappers from the Aylesbury Estate in South London
who are part of the gang Aylesbury 17 or just AY17.
In this bar, rapper and AY17 member J Waved
claims that he caught an opp lackin and shot him on his birthday.
What makes the bar even more disrespectful
is that they even went as far as buying a birthday cake for the video.
You can see one of the dudes chilling in the background
hand it to J waved as he spits the bar and holds it in front of the camera.
It’s not entirely clear who the rapper is referencing in this diss,
but fans on the internet have speculated that he is talking about the killing of an opp named TB
who was a member of their rival rap crew and gang called Zone 2.
Zone 2 is known to have beef with another group in South London Called Moscow 17.
Moscow 17 is a popular drill group and gang from the Brandon Estate,
which is not far from the Aylesbury Estate where AY17 is based.
The 17 in both of their names come from the SE17 postcode
that the two buildings are located in.
Being so closely located, Moscow 17 and AY17 are allied.
They are known to beef with Zone 2 who are from the Peckham neighborhood,
not far from where Moscow 17 and AY17 are based.
The Moscow 17 – Zone 2 beef
has been responsible for a wave of violence in South London that has claimed the lives of many rappers,
street goons, and civilians.
It’s not clear where the beef started,
but fans of UK drill have alleged that the war started after a Zone 2 member
robbed the house of a Moscow 17 affiliate.
The man who was robbed went to seek revenge on the dudes from Zone 2
who were responsible and it escalated from there.
The gang warfare that resulted from the robbery
led to numerous deaths and stabbings over the past few years.
But the beef not only led to a rise in violence.
It also led to the rise in popularity of both crews in the UK drill scene,
as fans who were desperate to know more about this deadly war would listen to the various diss tracks
rappers in these gangs would drop to find clues about their activities.
Moscow March, a now-famous track by Moscow 17 members GB,
LooseScrew, and Tizzy T
was the first UK drill track to reach over 1 million views.
The attention that the groups have received for their songs about dissing opps
only added fuel to the fire of the ongoing war.
The beef also caught the attention of local media outlets
and the cops, who claimed that the beef was responsible for many stabbings in London.
The first high-profile case was the killing of a Zone 2 affiliate
who went by the name ABZ.
ABZ witnessed Moscow 17-member Jet Black getting arrested for carrying a samurai sword in public.
ABZ started taunting him online for getting arrested,
which Moscow17 saw as a sign of disrespect.
Just a few weeks later,
ABZ was stabbed to death outside of a chicken shop in Peckham.
Moscow 17 members Incognito and Jetblack were arrested and charged with murder
but were eventually acquitted after convincing the jury
that they had been falsely identified due to their ongoing beef with Zone 2.
But, as you can imagine,
the beef only got more intense from there
and Zone 2 ended up evening the score by killing one of Moscow 17’s most prominent members, GB.
GB had already been injured once in the beef,
having been stabbed in the chest and almost killed by a member of Zone 2.
He was only 15 or 16 at the time
and his mom sent him away to Jamaica to avoid the gang life.
He eventually returned to the UK, where he hopped right back into the war with Zone 2.
Unfortunately, in May 2018,
he was outside the Brandon Estate playing a pickup game of soccer,
when opps rolled up in a vehicle and shot him in the chest with a shotgun.
This killing was devastating to both his gang
and his community, because GB was well loved in the area.
It was not long after GB’s murder
that authorities started cracking down on drill music in the UK,
having many videos removed from YouTube and banning certain rappers from making music
or mentioning opps in their lyrics.
GB’s murder and the media attention it received was one of the major incidents
that led to the outlawing of UK drill music
and many of Moscow 17’s videos ended up being removed from YouTube.
So, on the Aylesbury Boy Remix,
the Suicide Squad are referencing just one of the many violent incidents in the ongoing war
and the sets allied with Moscow 17.
But that wasn’t the only time this beef was referenced in drill songs.
This next song is thought to be one of the most disrespectful UK drill tracks of all time
and mentions several specific incidents that went on between the two crews.
“Ned just wanted a cheeseburger
Max What You Do that For?
Knockouts juice gets spilled on the floor
Huh Now You Done Started a War” – No Censor
No Censor was a track released in 2019
that features Zone 2 members UnrulyBad, Karma and Trizzac.
It was released not long after the Moscow 17 – Zone 2 beef started getting serious
and is seen by many as one of the moments that turned the rivalry into an all-out war.
In the first verse, UnrulyBad lays out some of the major casualties in the war between the two groups.
When he says “Ned just wanted a cheeseburger”,
he’s talking about Moscow17 member Knockout Ned who was allegedly stabbed in a Mcdonald's
after getting caught lackin by members of Zone 2.
Mad Max is a member of Zone 2
and when UnrulyBad says “Max What You Do That For”,
he’s crediting Max with the stabbing.
He goes on to say “Knockout’s juice gets spilled on the floor
now you done started a war”,
continuing the McDonald’s puns
and claiming that Moscow17 wasn’t prepared for the level of violence that was coming their way.
He continues on the track to say
“In jail, smashed CDai’s head on the floor
Frontline nobody can cross it
You can cross it you can drive through
But nobody can walk it.”
Cdai is another member of Moscow17.
Unruly bad is taking credit for catching Cdai inside of prison
and smashing his head into the ground.
He also goes on to say that even though their hoods are located just blocks from one another,
no one from Moscow 17 can set foot in Peckham
without catching some heat.
Obviously, there is nothing the crew can do if you speed through in a moving car.
But he issues the warning that any 17 members caught on foot in Peckham will face smoke.
The other two rappers pick up after UnrulyBad’s verse
with even more disses toward the rival crew.
Karma starts his verse by saying
“Incognito got put in a spliff
GB got put in a spliff
SA got put in a spliff
Lil CJ got put in a spliff”
The Chicago drill scene
popularized the practice of talking about putting dead opps in a blunt and smoking them.
Rappers like Chief Keef and King Von have often rapped about smoking on a Tooka pack,
in reference to their dead opp and member of the STL/EBT set of the GDs,
Tooka, who was killed in 2012.
In this bar, Karma is doing the same thing with fallen members of Moscow
who have been killed.
Incognito was one of the most prominent rappers from the group,
who was allegedly responsible for the killing of Zone 2 affiliate ABZ.
Incognito was stabbed to death not long after being acquitted for the murder.
His death was the result of a botched robbery
and authorities claim it had nothing to do with the beef with Zone 2.
But many have doubted this claim,
especially since the group seems to be taking credit for the killing in this bar.
Incognito was hanging out with some of his boys from Moscow17 outside Bandon Estate
when a man named Kenneth Umezie approached them.
Cops later determined that Kenneth called the rapper just before meeting him
and was allegedly there to buy drugs that the crew was pushing.
When Kenneth went to buy the product,
Incognito grabbed the man’s arm,
while one of the other guys in the crew stole Kenneth’s Cartier watch.
After the robbery, Kenneth chased the crew down an alley and eventually caught up to them.
A fight ensued and knives were drawn,
leaving three people injured,
including Incognito who was pronounced dead on the scene.
Kenneth was in his 30’s
and not known to be affiliated with Zone 2.
He was later acquitted of the murder after claiming self-defense and released without any jail time.
Although Incognito’s killing was a random incident and not directly related to the beef,
rumors have circulated that maybe Zone 2 had more do with his murder than the cops have given them credit for.
The next person Karma disses is none other than GB,
whose murder was already discussed.
GB was killed just yards from where Incognito was stabbed on the property of Brandon Estate,
which is what made fans and spectators so suspicious about both murders.
Karma goes on to diss SA, or Splash Addict,
also known as Latz, who was not a member of Moscow 17,
but another rival crew of Zone 2 called the Harlem Spartans.
Latz was killed back in 2018
while riding on the back of a moped in Camberwell, London.
Latz was one of the most active members of the Spartans
and it’s rumored that on the day he was killed,
he went to ride out with a member of Moscow 17
or in other words, he went on the hunt for opps from Zone 2,
ready for war.
It’s even been claimed that Latz asked Incognito to join him on the ride out, but Incognito declined.
The rapper later regretted not going on the ride along with Latz,
as he may have been able to save him from getting killed.
But, of course, Incognito himself was killed just a few days later,
so who knows what would have happened if he did go on the mission with Latz.
Latz and the dude from Moscow17
pulled up on Zone 2 opps on a moped in the area
outside a council estate called Elmore House.
Latz tried to open fire but his gun jammed.
As a result, the opps charged the moped and ended up stabbing him 2 times.
They drove off on the moped and tried to get Latz to a nearby hospital,
but he had already lost so much blood
that the driver ended up leaving him on the side of the road in Camberwell.
Allegedly, the Moscow17 member had a gun on him
which is highly illegal in the UK
and had to leave Latz behind to avoid getting arrested.
Several people were later arrested in connection with Latz’s murder but later were released due to lack of evidence.
The final person Karma disses is Lil CJ,
an 18-year-old named Clinton Evbota who was stabbed to death in 2019.
CJ was not a member of Moscow 17,
the Harlem Spartans or any other crew known to have beef with Zone 2.
But he did live in Brandon Estate and was cool with a few members of Moscow 17.
Although he wasn’t officially affiliated with the crew,
in a place as violent as Brandon Estate,
just being cool with the wrong people can get you killed.
CJ was allegedly participating in low level street activity like selling weed and committing fraud,
with the help of some dudes he knew in Moscow 17.
Opps from Zone 2 saw him as an easy target and stabbed him to death
to send a message to their enemies that anyone can get touched, even civilians.
But the disses don’t stop there.
Trizzac follows up with a few more wild bars taking aim at members of Moscow17.
He starts out rapping “My blade hit my chest plate
Next day I had his best friend runnin (Kevin)”
In this bar, he is dissing Moscow 17 member Tedmatic,
whose real name is Kevin.
He claims that he stabbed a member of the crew in the chest
and Tedmatic ran away scared, rather than doing something about it.
He goes on to rap “I done beat up Rampz in probation
He shouldn’t have pushed my buttons
Why you think they call me Judas
I laugh and giggle at my dead opp cousin (Incog)”
Rampz is another member of Moscow17,
who Trizzac claims he beat up.
The two have gone back in the fourth in the past on social media
and claimed that they have fought on several occasions, so the bar isn’t that surprising.
The next bar is probably the most disrespectful of the whole track,
where he claims he laughed when he found out his cousin was killed.
Trizzac’s cousin was none other than Incognito.
He was given the name Judas within the gang for his association with a sworn opp
after Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus in the Bible.
In this bar, Trazzic is saying that he is more loyal to the gang
than he is to blood relatives and warns his opps
that he’s as cold-blooded as it gets.
He keeps the Moscow 17 disses coming saying
“Loose says that he chings, he doesn’t
trust me, gang done cheffed up dozens”
Chings is a UK slang term for stabbing.
In this bar, he’s claiming that LooseScrew from Moscow 17 claims he’s active,
but really isn’t about that life.
Cheffed is another term for knife crime
and Trizzac finishes the bar by proclaiming that Zone 2 are the real gangsters that Moscow 17 pretends to be.
No Censor is just one of many diss tracks that have been produced by this violent feud.
Although the British government has tried to block them from being released,
many of the songs have found new homes on channels outside of the UK.
The war between Moscow 17 and Zone 2 continues to this day.
Hopefully, some of the prominent members can turn their talents into a music career
and not end up gone too soon, like GB and Incognito.
But more than likely, the music will only escalate the war already raging in the streets.
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