Bronx Drill is wild right now.
One of the newest artists coming for the crown
is a dude named Yus Gz,
who recently had a major setback after getting shot twice
and rumors started flying that he died.
This is the wild story of Yus Gz.
Yus is a first generation immigrant
from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
He was born in Brooklyn, but later moved to the Bronx.
He was raised in the church of Islam,
but he still got involved with the streets at a young age
and joined the YGz.
The Bronx is a wild area,
and there’s a lot of active gangs fighting for control.
The YGz are known for having beef with the OGz and Sevside,
the gang that Kay Flock reps.
Back in the day,
the YGz and OGz were one gang -
but then one of the first dudes from the YGz
crossed another high-ranking member,
so he linked up with some other dudes and started the OGz.
Yus ain’t talked much about his early life,
but he did reveal that his mom don’t even speak English.
Like most of Bronx drill rappers,
he started getting into trouble early on and spent time in juvie.
In an interview with Fuscious TV,
Yus ain’t wanna say what he got locked up for.
All he said about the situation
was that jail sucks and to stay out of it.
Stay out of jail.
Jail is no good.
Obviously he wasn’t happy about getting locked up,
but it ended up helping his career.
While sittin down,
Yus says he went to music appreciation
and tried making his own tracks.
But he ain’t start off rapping,
he told Fuscious TV
that he started out as a singer -
but he ain’t think he was too good at it
so he switched lanes into drill after he was released.
Yus started dropping drill tracks
and his music popped off almost immediately.
He made his own YouTube channel at the end of 2021,
and the video for his track DEAD LOCCS
racked up over two million views.
He released a few more videos that also racked up hundreds of thousands of views,
and started calling himself the face of the Bronx
and then dropped a track called FACE OF THE BRONX,
which sparked the beef with another Bronx drill artist: Sha Ek.
Sha is from the Courtlandt projects in the Bronx
and is affiliated with the OGz.
Street politics automatically made him and Yus enemies,
but they ain’t have no personal issues until Yus started claiming the Bronx.
He dropped a diss track aimed at Yus
called Face Of The What, where he rapped
“Yus Gz,
you the face of the Bronx, like how?
Word to my mother, you shot
We dropped a vid on the same day,
We could see that I’m lit and you not.”
Later on the track Sha dissed Yus
and a YG named Woo Lotti
who got killed after he tripped while running away from his opps
“On gang, you was ducking.
African boy, but you still ain’t do nothing
Drop my O, what O you be touching
Lotti seen me and n****s started running.”
Sha and Yus have been sending shots back and forth since then,
but that ain’t the only beef the rapper got going on in the Bronx.
He’s been dissing Kay Flock ever since his career started!
After Flock got arrested for murder last year
for allegedly killing a dude named Oscar Hernandez
Yus hopped on IG Live and made fun of him sayin
Bye bye Kay Flock.
Kay Flock,
you’re f****** stupid…
Stupid n****.
Face of the Bronx, you heard?
We about to go up crazy you heard.
Yus also recently posted on his IG story
that he wasn’t rocking with the Drillys anymore.
He wrote
“i’m not drilly grizzly all that s*** shot
We gone see who save who,”
Then he aired out Say Drilly for clout chasing and called him a bum.
The Drillys are another Bronx gang that was started by a dude named Spazz Drilly.
Spazz came up in the G Side neighborhood
and went by Spazz Jet when he repped the blood hound brims.
After his homie Dumb Out got killed in 2018,
a lot of sets in that hood split up.
That’s when Spazz decided not to pick sides
and started the Drillys instead –
then later, they linked up with the YGz to make the Drilly Gz.
Spazz is locked up on Rikers
for allegedly killing a DOA affiliate named James Rivera back in 2020,
and the Drillys been taking some big Ls.
20 of their alleged members were targeted in a massive indictment
that accused them of being involved in “multiple shootings and stabbings
that spanned three years.”
Aside from all the legal issues,
the Drillys been beefing with each other too.
Say Drilly went on Instagram and wrote
“I’m no drilly cause I’m da top drilly
they know who putting on it’s a difference“
then “Respectfully spazz is nobody to me
idgaf about that n****..”
Spazz clapped back and said Say ain’t even Drilly,
but he can’t do much right now since he’s sitting down.
The Drillys was already taking losses,
so going against the YGz ain’t gonna help much.
Right now
it looks like it’s just Yus and Say beefing ain’t a issue involving the whole gang,
but politics in the Bronx can change fast.
Dissing opps on social media and in music is all part of the drill scene,
but Yus’s opps took it to a new level.
Last year, a new dude named Nas EBK
somehow got all of Yus’s personal info -
including his social security number and government name
and leaked it all online!
Getting all your info posted publicly is bad enough,
but Nas ain’t stop there.
He used all the info to actually register Yus to enlist in the Navy
and posted the whole process on his Instagram stories!
One slide had a picture
of Yus’s social security card and another piece of ID,
and Nas captioned it with
“LMFAO N****S BE POPPED AND PANICKING
YALL STILL THINK HIS DRIP REAL?”
Before all this went down,
rumors had been going around that Yus was rocking fake drip.
He obviously said it was cap,
but a lot of people wasn’t convinced.
Then the rumors picked up again earlier this year
when a producer he works with named ProdByWar
aired him out after not paying for beats.
Back in February
ProdByWar confronted Yus about not paying for beats,
including the beat for Face of the Bronx -
which is one of the tracks that put him on the map.
The situation got heated and Yus told him
“suck my d*** and you not getting your money, now how ‘bout that?”
ProdByWar threatened to have the track taken down if he didn’t get paid,
but Yus said he ain’t care
because he could just upload another video the next day and it would still do numbers.
The whole situation aint look good for him though,
and the opps used it to diss him more.
When it comes to drill music,
the beat can be even more important than the bars,
so you definitely don’t want to get blackballed for not paying.
Beefing with producers ain’t great for your career,
but Yus has bigger issues to deal with too.
Earlier this year he almost got killed in broad daylight.
Being a drill rapper in the Bronx is dangerous.
And early in his career there were rumors that Yus got shot in the chest.
He’s known for his dark and gritty delivery,
and some fans thought the gunshot wound
was the reason he sounded like that.
In the interview with Fuscious TV
Yus said it was all cap and he had never been shot -
but just a few months later
rumors started flying that he did get shot,
and this time it turned out to be true.
On March 25th, 2022,
Yus was chilling at the Mott Haven Houses on East 144th Street.
At around eleven that morning,
something went down
and he ended up getting shot in the back and in the butt.
He was rushed to the Lincoln Medical Center for treatment,
and police reported that he wouldn’t tell them anything.
When the news first broke that Yus got shot,
rumors said he died from the injuries.
Luckily it was all cap
and the cops said his injuries were non life threatening.
After it all went down,
Yus posted an Instagram story that just said “i’m good.”
Yus pulled through and made a full recovery,
then he got right back on his grind.
He’s been dropping new music and videos all year,
and a couple of them have racked up over a million views.
Last month he posted a new diss track aimed at Sha Ek and Lil Mabu,
which proves that he ain’t afraid of the smoke
even after getting shot twice just a few months ago.
If Yus can keep grindin and dropping music,
he could be the next drill artist from New York to break out.
Even though dudes like Kay Flock and Spazz Drilly are out of the game for now,
there’s a lot of rappers competing to be King of the Bronx.
Hopefully Yus can just focus on his music and not get caught lacking again,
because anything can happen if you don’t move right.