Memphis rapper Blac Youngsta
is catching a lot of heat after taking shots at his former enemy Young Dolph,
who was recently tragically murdered in his hometown.
Let’s take a look at what happened and the history of Blac Youngsta.
On Friday, December 17th,
Blac Youngsta performed at the Aces of Dallas nightclub in Dallas, TX.
Over the weekend footage surfaced showing the rapper performing the song Shake Sum,
a diss track from 2016 aimed at Young Dolph.
Many fans thought this was a bad move
cause Dolph was tragically murdered back in November.
But even before his death,
Dolph and Blac Youngsta had a long-standing beef
that started with the owner of Blac Youngsta’s label, Yo Gotti.
In response to the backlash, Blac Youngsta dropped a music video for his song, I’m Assuming,
which shows him rapping in a graveyard, in front of a grave with the name Thornton on it.
Young Dolph’s legal name was Adolph Thornton Jr.
The one shown in the video wasn’t the actual gravesite,
but it was clearly a shot at Dolph.
In the intro to the song, Blac Youngsta explains that he don’t care about the backlash,
cause he’s lost too many people behind the beef.
So just because Dolph is dead don’t mean he’s going to stop applying pressure.
In response to the disses,
one of Young Dolph’s homies Grove Hero
drove through the hood where Blac Youngsta’s grandma lived to show the conditions.
He gets at Blac Youngsta for not helping out his own hood but having the nerve to diss Dolph,
who was well known for giving back to the city.
He even tracks down a dude who claims to be Blac Youngsta’s childhood friend
who is still in the streets cause his homie got rich and never looked back.
And then you what crazy about the whole situation bruv
this ***** a real street *****
and you ain't coming back to **** with your real street ***** you grew up with
that's ****** up
Not long after I’m Assuming dropped,
Gucci Mane dropped a video for his song Long Live Dolph.
Gucci and Dolph had been friends for years
and even dropped a tape together back in 2013 called East Atlanta Memphis.
Grove Hero makes an appearance in the Long Live Dolph video,
leading many to believe it was a response to Blac Youngsta.
So, it looks like the beef picked right back up.
The problems between Blac Youngsta and Dolph first started with Yo Gotti.
Gotti was an established name in Memphis hip hop when Dolph was coming up.
They knew each other through connections in the streets
and early on Yo Gotti wanted to sign Dolph to CMG.
But Dolph turned him down and stayed independent
cause he wanted to create his own lane.
Yo Gotti aint like his decision and they’ve had problems ever since.
Then in 2015, Yo Gotti signed Blac Youngsta instead and took him under his wing.
Blac Youngsta grew up on McMillan Street in South Memphis.
He was raised by a single mom and his grandparents with his three brothers.
He started hustling at an early age and got his first job at just 7,
stocking shelves at a grocery store.
He only got like $10 a week but the job came with free food,
so it stopped him from going to bed hungry.
But he got fired for stealing food for his brothers and had to find different ways to make money.
This is when he got into the streets and started selling crack.
This led to multiple arrests for drug and gun charges throughout his early years.
But he never did more than a year at a time.
While locked up, he started learning how to rap.
After getting out of jail in 2012, he dropped his first mixtape Fast Bricks,
then followed up with Fast Bricks 2 the same year.
Around the same time,
he also started hosting local block parties that made him a well-known name in South Memphis
and helped him build a buzz with his music.
He dropped the third installment of his Fast Bricks series in 2014.
Not long after that, he dropped the track "Heavy", which became his breakout hit.
This song attracted Yo Gotti’s attention, who appeared on the remix
and signed him to his label CMG later that year.
This is where Blac Youngsta’s career really started taking off
and he started attracting attention from a national audience.
He dropped his first mixtape on CMG, I Swear to God in September 2015,
which featured guest appearances from Yo Gotti and Lil Boosie.
The following year he dropped another mixtape called Young and Reckless
followed up by another tape called "F*ck Everybody",
which featured guest appearances from Young Thung, Quavo, and YFN Lucci.
So Blac Youngsta was really starting to build a name for himself in the industry.
But all that success also came with some problems.
In January 2016, police were called to a Wells Fargo in downtown Atlanta
after Blac Youngsta took $200,000 out of his own bank account to buy a new car.
Some employees saw him take out the money and thought he was robbing the bank.
The rapper was detained and questioned but able to prove the money was his.
He later accused the police and staff of racial profiling
and claims the only reason he was questioned was because he was black.
Around this time, the beef between Blac Youngsta and Young Dolph was also heating up.
In February 2016, Young Dolph dropped his debut studio album King of Memphis.
Many saw this as a shot at Yo Gotti, who often called himself the king of Memphis.
This reignited the beef between Dolph and CMG.
But instead of Gotti taking shots himself, Blac Youngsta would start beefing with Dolph.
Blac Youngsta hopped on Instagram to threaten Dolph directly,
calling him soft and saying that he’s going to slap him on sight.
He also said that he’s not the king of Memphis
and that if he has a problem with him and Gotti he should just come out and say it.
He doubled down on the disrespect by showing up in Dolph’s hood
with a bunch of his own goons, looking for the rapper.
Where we at right now cuh?
Where he at?
Where he at right now?
Supposedly,
there was a personal altercation between Blac Youngsta and Young Dolph behind the scenes
that made him pull up to the rapper’s hood.
But now the beef had gone from subtle disses to public threats.
Dolph clapped back on Instagram, calling Yo Gotti a snitch
for involving the police and dissing him for sending Blac Youngsta to do his dirty work.
I've been spraying your ***** for years ***** and the whole city know that
Ho Gottie you is a ***** *** *****
I just got back to the city they say you tryna put charges on me and put the police on me
you send your little ***** got to do all your talk
He also clowned Yo Gotti for having a big head
and called him out for hating on Three 6 mafia back in the day.
Not long after
that Dolph appeared on the remix to the song I’m Ready by Trouble, along with Young Thug.
On the song he says
“Y’all some ****** you scary?
All on the internet tellin
Tryna have a real n**** jailin
This shit around my neck so heavy”.
It’s pretty clear who he’s talking about based on his previous Instagram rant
and the fact that Blac Youngsta’s breakout track was called Heavy.
He continues rapping on the song
“Any n**** record when it’s gangsta sh*t, he the police
And I f*cked yo boss baby mama same hotel for four weeks
Never send a lil boy to take care of grown man business
If I was you I would be mad too, so I ain't trippin”
These bars was clearly directed at Blac Youngsta for pulling up in Dolph’s hood with guns,
all while recording it for the internet.
Dolph also later claimed to have slept with Yo Gotti’s baby mama,
so it’s pretty clear who the bar is about.
After the song dropped,
Blac Youngsta rushed to the studio to record the track Shake Sum,
the diss he recently performed in Dallas.
He also dropped a music video with it
that featured several shots from the videos where he pulled up in Dolph’s hood.
So Blac Youngsta wasn’t trying to be subtle about who he was dissing.
After that, the beef died down for a while and both artists downplayed it in interviews.
But it picked right back up again in early 2017
when Young Dolph dropped the Yo Gotti diss track "Play Wit Yo B****".
On the track, Dolph suggests that he slept with Yo Gotti’s baby mama.
He also accuses Yo Gotti of sneak dissing him on his last two mixtapes,
which is why he came back with his own diss track.
He followed up by dropping a music video for the song that featured a Yo Gotti look-a-like,
crying over Dolph stealing his girl.
The day after Dolph dropped the music video,
his SUV was shot at over 100 times in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dolph was in town for a college basketball tournament and was set to perform at a local nightclub.
Before the show, he was cruising around the city in a black SUV.
While he was at the corner of 8th and North Caldwell Street,
someone sprayed the car with bullets, allegedly firing over 100 shots.
But Dolph was ready for opps and had the car bulletproofed.
So he and everyone else inside the vehicle walked away without any injuries.
He also continued with his scheduled performance and performed his Yo Gotti diss that same night.
On May 16th, 2017,
Blac Youngsta turned himself into police on charges related to that shooting.
He claimed he was innocent but there was already a warrant out for his arrest.
He was released on bond the same day
and charged with six counts of discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling or vehicle.
But he was never actually convicted,
and the charges later got dropped in May 2019 due to lack of evidence.
After his arrest, fans and other artists
started a Free Blac Youngsta movement, including Young Thug
who dropped a track right after he was arrested.
Blac Youngsta later addressed the allegations on the track I’m Innocent,
where he accused Young Dolph of dry snitching, which is what led to his arrest.
After that, Blac Youngsta stopped publicly beefing with Young Dolph
and just focused on his music career.
He started his own imprint under CMG called Heavy Camp later that year
and also signed a major label deal with Epic Records.
In September 2017, Young Dolph was shot outside a hotel in Hollywood
and spent two weeks in the hospital.
Yo Gotti was initially named as a person of interest and one of his associates Corey McLendon
was later arrested for attempted murder in connection with the shooting.
But he got released the next day and there was no charges against him.
After that, the beef between Dolph and CMG slowed down, at least publicly.
There might’ve been more going on behind the scenes that fans don’t know about.
But no more diss tracks or IG videos came out to add fuel to the fire.
When Dolph was killed in November 2021,
rumors went around that CMG was involved.
As of yet, no arrests have been made in connection with the murder.
But the evidence suggests that it was likely unrelated to his beef with Yo Gotti.
But that still don’t mean the beef is over.
Blac Youngsta made that pretty clear by performing Shake Sum
and dropping the video for I’m Assuming.
Young Dolph fans are mad at Blac Youngsta for keeping the beef alive.
But dissing the dead is nothing new in hip hop and there’s probably more going on behind the scenes
that caused him to keep dissing Dolph.
Hopefully, it stops there, and no more violence comes from this situation.
But it looks like Blac Youngsta ain’t backing down
and don’t care who gets mad at him for dissing the dead.