Bronx drill is one of the hottest sounds coming out of New York.
Even though most fans credit Kay Flock or Ron Suno with starting the wave,
others credit a dude named Spazz Drilly,
a certified gangsta who is currently fighting two murders after being targeted in a massive takedown.
Here is the story of Spazz Drilly, the demon of New York.
Spazz Drilly grew up in the G Side neighborhood of the Bronx,
one of the wildest areas in the city.
It’s a small place, but has many active gangs.
Bloods, Crips, YGz, and more all function in the area,
so there’s always tension.
Even dudes who rep the same gang but live in different hoods got beef with each other.
Like Sex Money Murda members from Sevside going after Sex Money Murda dudes from G Side.
Spazz grew up going by the name Spazz Jet
because he repped the Blood Hound Brims which is a Blood set under the New York Blood Brim Army.
They had sets all over the city and back in the day
the bloodhound brims was one of the most ruthless gangs in the city.
But in 2019 they took some major L’s "when their founder and several other high ranking members
got convicted on racketeering, drugs, and weapon charges.
A dude named Latique Johnson, AKA La Brim was their leader.
He started the crew while he was locked up,
and they quickly gained a reputation for being a brutal set.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said La Brim “founded a notoriously violent and lawless gang
from within the New York State prison system that grew to terrorize communities
across New York City and New York State.
As the founder and leader of the Blood Hound Brims,
Johnson recruited members based on their violent reputations
and willingness to follow his orders.”
La Brim is also the dude who started using the term Whoopty.
CJ made it blow up when he released a track with the same name,
but La Brim accused him of jacking it from him.
In a call from jail, Brim said
So first and foremost CJ made a hot song but the content he used
is not his content.
So his foundation is based off of lies.
He's not whoopty,
he don't know nothing about whoopty.
He just seen a fly splash and he jacked it.
By the time he was 17 Spazz already had respect in G Side,
and his homie Dumb Out was high up in the Brims too.
The two of them been tight since they were kids,
and allegedly they also jumped Lil Tjay together.
But when you’re in the streets there’s usually only two outcomes
- death or jail -,
and in 2018
Dumb Out was tragically killed at a Memorial Day cookout.
According to the building superintendent where Dumb Out was killed,
a group of teenagers were having a cookout in the courtyard when a fight broke out over a game.
The fight was allegedly between Dumb Out and a cripp,
and the cripp ended up stabbing him several times in the chest.
Paramedics rushed him to the hospital,
but they ain’t make it in time and he was pronounced dead that night.
Dumb Out’s real name was Damion Gilbert,
and his death was a major loss to the community.
His mom told The New York Post
“He was a wonderful big brother.
He was a wonderful son.
He was loved by many people.
We are hurting… I don’t think this pain will ever go away.”
Another family member said he had recently worked at a Dollar Tree in the area,
but it sounds like the street life still sucked him in.
Dumb Out was cool with a lot of people,
and his death caused a split between different sets in the area.
But instead of picking a side, Spazz decided to start his own crew
in honor of his dead homie.
He created the Drillys, and later they linked up with the YGz
to make the Drilly Gz.
The Drillys were originally supposed to be a music collective,
but the cops classified them as a street gang immediately because they already had a target on Spazz.
Spazz been making music since 2016,
but in 2020 he had his first hit with the track Bunny Hop.
It’s one of the first Bronx drill songs to really pop off,
and it led to Sha Ek, Kay Flock, and B Lovee all dropping their first songs just a couple months later.
Around this time, the Drillys and YGz
was beefing with the OGz and D.O.A.
Spazz dropped the track Opp Spotter and went after all the Drilly’s enemies,
then Kay Flock and B Lovee sent shots back on a remix of the track.
In his verse, Kay Flock went straight at Spazz with the lines
“Shooting off of eyesight, the way I bend blocks like
N****s got me on highs like
Don’t Bunny Hop, you get shot on the spot.”
And B Lovee did the same thing, rapping
“Kay-Kay be with me, that boy make it active
If we catch an opp, we put him in a casket
Going fifty-for-fifty , n****s ass hit the pavement like mattress
Make him Bunny Hop into a backflip.”
They was sending disses back and forth in music, but the beef also had deadly real life consequences.
In July 2020, an alleged cripp and D.O.A member named James Rivera was shot and killed on East Gun Hill Road.
The police responded to the scene and found him unconscious with a gunshot wound in the back,
and he died later that day after they rushed him to the hospital.
News 12 reported that Rivera was arguing with three dudes
when someone started dumping shots.
Witnesses told Norwood News that over a dozen shots went off,
and the police ran out of evidence markers because there was so many shell casings on the ground.
One witness said “It was the Dominican guys that hang on East 209th Street
who just wanted to rob the 24-year-old guy.
He pulled out a gun and shot three times,
and the guys from 209th street fired 12 times, killing him.”
There was rumors about different sets being involved,
but on August 12 the NYPD announced they arrested Spazz Drilly
and three others for the murder.
He’s been locked up on Rikers Island ever since for murder and racketeering charges
after the cops brought down an 82 count indictment called “Operation Drilly.”
The indictment named 20 alleged members of the Drillys
and accused them of being involved in “multiple shootings and stabbings that spanned three years.”
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a press release
“These defendants allegedly engaged in dozens of acts of violence,
including murder and attempted murder,
over the last three years, with the most recent just a few weeks ago...
These defendants terrorized residents of the Fordham/Bedfork Park neighborhoods
who were forced to run for their lives as bullets flew.”
Some of the charges in the indictment are conspiracy,
murder, manslaughter, attempted murder,
assault, and grand larceny.
And the Bronx police also listed a few of the crimes that the Drillys was allegedly involved in.
The first crime listed in the press release dated back to January 2019,
when four Drillys allegedly confronted a CUNY Prep student when he left school
and tried to steal his jacket,
then attacked him with knives and other weapons
before running away.
They almost killed the dude, but luckily, he was given blood transfusions that saved his life.
Spazz was also arrested for the murder of a dude named James Rivera.
But now they’re charging six Drillys for being involved.
According to the cops, four of them shot at Rivera
and one of them tried to stab him when he collapsed to the ground.
Another interesting detail in the press release was the fact that the Drillys been charged with the murder of Delila Vasquez.
Delila ain’t rep no set,
but she hung out with a lot of people who did and was close friends with DThang.
There have been all kinds of rumors about who killed her and why,
but the cops think the Drillys are responsible.
The press release says “On March 17, 2012,
four defendants went to an apartment on Hull Avenue and Allegedly shot Delilah Vasquez,
20, at close range in the forehead, killing her.
Video surveillance shows the defendants allegedly entering and fleeing the building.”
According to the cops,
2021 was a wild year for the Drillys.
On June 28th they allegedly let off shots at an opp on Dekalb Avenue
and ended up hitting three innocent bystanders.
Then on October 22nd,
two of them allegedly waited outside of a barbershop
on Gun Hill Road for 15 minutes
before going in and shooting an opp who was getting a haircut.
One of them shot him in the stomach,
then passed the gun over to his homie who shot the opp in the leg.
Then, in April 2021,
three Drillys allegedly jumped a rival gang member while they was all locked up at Rikers Island.
While the massive indictment against them is bad enough,
now the Drillys got internal beef too.
Say Drilly hopped on Instagram recently and wrote
“I’m no drilly cause I’m da top drilly
they know who putting on it’s a difference.”
Then he followed up with
“Respectfully spazz is no body to me idgaf about that N****
free my drillys free lee free nas free tru free mb
ion d*** ride no man I’m da top drilly who evea feel away n****z know my block.”
Spazz clapped back the next day by tagging Say Drilly on Instagram and saying
“@saydrilly Is Not No Fucking Drilly
Ya Smoking A Lil Too Much Lil Loc Via SD.”
Lil Loc is allegedly the Crip that Spazz and the other Drillys killed.
He’s basically letting everyone know that he’s still running the Drilly crew
and Say ain’t even affiliated with them.
It will probably be a while before any of this goes to trial,
but Spazz and the other Drillys
are facing some serious charges.
If he’s convicted on the conspiracy or murder charges
he could end up with a life sentence,
so hopefully he got a good lawyer.
With 20 of them getting indicted all at once,
the Drillys took a huge blow.
After Spazz went down on the murder charge back in 2020,
Lee Drilly stepped up and started putting on for the crew with music.
He popped off with tracks like Drilly Gang Freestyle,
a remix of 50’s Many Men, and Public Service Announcement.
Lee also had a track with Say Drilly called Deadly that blew up
and has almost two million views on YouTube.
But now Lee is locked up with everyone else
and Say is beefing with Spazz,
so the Drillys really don’t have anyone free to hold it down.
Every time a big indictment like this gets handed down,
rumors start flying around that someone must be snitching.
Right now it don’t look like anyone’s cooperating with the police,
but when so many dudes are involved in the same case there’s always a chance one of them will flip.
It’s gonna be hard for Spazz to beat two murder cases and everything else,
but if he do get out, he still got the skills to really blow up.
He was one of the first rappers to put Bronx drill on the map
, and there’s no telling how big he would be if he ain’t get locked up right after he started going viral.
This is a massive case and more details will be coming soon,
so stay posted for updates.