Although rap fans in America often sleep on the UK,
London’s drill scene is just as wild as it is in places like Chicago and New York.
From stabbings to scam to first-degree murder, anything goes in Great Britain.
With the rise of drill, bragging about your crimes and dissing your opps in music
is now just a part of the culture.
Here is a look at some of the craziest drill lyrics that happened in real life.
“We Left Your Young boy Restin’ In Piss”
ACG – Young Dizz x DSav – “Time Will Tell”
Young Dizz and D Sav are two drill rappers from the Becton neighborhood
of East London.
They are part of a crew called the 6th and a set called ACG, which stands for All Can Go.
D Sav and Young Dizz are two of the most prominent rappers from the 6th
and the crew is both feared and respected in Beckton.
After this video was released, Dizz was arrested for the kidnapping and torture
of a 16-year-old opp who finessed him and was sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Check out our video on UK rappers in knife fights for more info on this case.
ACG is known to beef with a rival crew
called the 7th from the Forest Gate section of London.
The group was formerly known as the E7 crips
and has been one of the most active gangs in the city since the late ’90s.
In this bar, D Sav is referring to the murder of a 7th affiliate
named Corey Junior Davis or CJ, who was killed back in 2017.
CJ was only 14 at the time and the killing was seen
as one of the most brutal moves that occurred
in the ongoing war between the two rival sets.
CJ was affiliated with the 7th gang.
But an investigation into the murder
revealed that he had been painted as a violent gang member
when in fact he was far from a hardcore killer.
His murder has been covered by many British media outlets
and the investigations show that he tried to escape the lifestyle
before he was killed and didn’t receive the support he needed.
Before getting sucked into gang culture,
CJ was a talented dancer and a good student
who received above-average grades in school.
But, he had pretty severe ADHD
and was kicked out of regular school for disruptive behavior.
He was transferred to a different school for kids with behavioral problems,
which was where he got introduced to the 7th gang.
Gangs like the 7th and the 6th are known for recruiting young kids to help them sell drugs,
would buy the kids food and clothes and then gradually force them to commit crimes.
For, two years before he was murdered,
CJ tried to escape the lifestyle that he had gotten caught up in.
He reported the gang’s intimidation tactics to social workers at his school a
nd told police that he was scared for his life.
But they all saw him as an offender, not a victim because of his associations.
On September 4th, 2017,
CJ and a group of other guys were walking outside of a playground in Newham,
when a silver Range Rover pulled up and started letting off shots.
A 17-year-old was shot in the leg and CJ was hit in the head.
He was brought to the hospital and put on life support, but later died from his injuries.
Video surveillance footage caught the Range Rover fleeing the scene,
but CJ’s killers were never arrested.
It wasn’t clear if CJ was the intended target or the shooters just saw the group
and started letting off shots.
It doesn’t seem likely that anyone would have beef with him specifically,
given that he was so young and not really about that life to begin with.
What’s more likely is that his association made him a target
and he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It wasn’t initially clear who killed CJ,
but it was eventually attributed to the turf warfare between the 6th and the 7th.
Not long after, Young Dizz and other rappers from ACG
started taking credit for the killing.
Before Time Will Tell was released,
Dizz was featured on another track called Smokey Things where he disses CJ’s mom saying
“Mom kept shedding tears,
tell her I don’t give a *** that her son ain’t here
Ever since her son got dropped, the whole block ain’t done ****
and I was laughing after I saw a pick of the mom just buried her kid”
So basically, Dizz is claiming credit for the hit,
saying that it was just revenge after the 7th killed two of their members.
After CJ was killed, the gang didn’t do anything to retaliate,
which proved that ACG is the dominant crew in the area.
CJ’s mother was obviously pretty angry about this song
and went to the police to have it removed from YouTube.
Even if CJ was an opp, there’s no need to drag a grieving mother into the beef,
especially when her son was so young.
However, this didn’t stop the 6th from continuing to diss CJ,
and Time Will Tell was released the following year.
Not too long after, Dizz was taken down for creating other young gang members
and torturing one of the kids who refused to cooperate.
The war between the 6th and the 7th gangs still rages to this day
and no one was ever arrested for CJ’s murder.
Hopefully, Dizz’s arrest gave his mother some closure,
even though he may not have been the one who actually let off the shots.
But if you thought that was wild,
this next rapper mocked an opp for not being able to sip lean
after being shot in the kidney.
Here’s the bar...
Philly’s Don’t Dance – TPL
“You talk about Mali’s drinking lean, but your mate can’t sip no lean (no he can’t)
he got bun on his sweet 16th **** that I’m beefin miskeens (one kidney)
The Turnpike Lane Gang, also known as Touch Paper Lane,
Take People’s Lives, or just TPL for short,
is a drill group and gang from the Turnpike Lane area of Haringey in North London.
The group is divided into two sets,
the 8th side which are made up of mostly Somali immigrants and the 15th/22nd side,
which are a mixture of immigrants from Albania, Turkey, and Columbia.
Jojo, O’Mizz, and TD are three notable members of TLP
and have been representing the gang on the drill scene for the past few years.
TLP is known to beef with another gang called OFB
or the Original Farm Boyz
who are based in Broadwater Farm, a public housing estate in Tottenham, North London.
In this bar, Jojo is referencing another artist named OFB Dezzie,
who was shot in the kidney back in 2015.
Dezzie is a rapper from the OFB camp known for tracks like Buss It and Drip No Drown.
In 2015, a TPL member who goes by the name Yolo, shot Dezzie in the back,
which resulted in him losing a kidney.
At some point, OFB was making fun of TPL because they couldn’t drink lean.
Some of the TPL gang are from Somalia and practice Islam,
which means they can’t take drugs or drink alcohol.
On this track, Jojo is pointing out the irony of the OFB crew
dissing them for not drinking lean,
when Dezzie can’t sip lean either because of his kidney problem.
The shooting also took place on Dezzie’s 16th birthday,
which is where the sweet 16 reference comes in.
Philly’s Don’t Dance was the first drill track that TPL dropped,
and the group managed to gain a following in music, just off of dissing the OFB camp.
OFB is more established on a musical level,
with major artists like Headie One and RV repping the crew.
But, they’re pretty evenly matched on the street and have been at war for several years.
OFB Dezzie made a full recovery, although he now only has one kidney.
The shooting happened over 5 years ago,
but that hasn’t stopped TPL from referencing the incident several times in the past year
as they’ve gained some traction in the music industry.
Hopefully, they can turn their music into a legal career and leave the street life behind.
But the constant dissing of opps like Dezzie in their songs
may make it hard for them to survive in the industry, without facing a few problems.
If you thought that was wild,
this next artist rapper talked almost killing one of his opps,
and only let him get away because he tripped.
He goes on to explain the entire beef between their two crews
and even disses a fallen member who has been dead for over a decade.
“If I didn’t trip, Marsh would have been ghost”
– Box12 - Play for the Foes
Box12 is a drill rapper associated with the 12Anti gang
based in the Shepherd's Bush area of London.
12 Anti are a splinter gang of another group called 916,
which was a large crew of rappers and gang members who lived in the W10, W11,
and W12 postcode zones of London.
Tensions and jealousy within the crew lead 916 to eventually break apart
and split into three different gangs.
The dudes in the W12 postcode split up into the 12World
and 12 Anti gangs and the guys from W10 and W11 became group 1011.
Ever since then, the three groups have been at constant war with one another.
Even though they were once cool, they have now become sworn opps.
They have been dissing each other in tracks since the drill movement first popped off
in songs that usually reference real-life violence.
In this track, Box12 lays out several of the major attacks
that have gone down over the past few years.
The song is a response to the diss track Play for the Pagans
by 1011 members Digga D, Sav’O, and Horrid1, which came out in September 2017
Box12 starts out the verse by saying
“Play this one for the foes I swear the man there’s talking loads”
meaning that his opps aren’t really as hard as they claim to be.
He then goes on to diss members of 1011 directly rapping
“If I didn’t trip, Marsh would have been ghost”
Marsh/Mskum is a 1011 member who got caught lackin by Box12.
According to Box12, he almost ended Marsh’s life but tripped.
It was later revealed that Marsh was wearing a vest the whole time
and pretended to play dead so that his attacker would leave him alone.
Even though his opps will probably use that to discredit him,
it was a pretty smart move, because Box12 lets it be known on this track,
that if he had it his way, Marsh would be dead.
Box12 continues, rapping
“I’m on it and the pagans know
splashed TY and everyone froze”
TY is another member of 1011 who Box says he splashed,
which is a UK drill term for stabbing someone.
He claims in this bar that he sliced up TY pretty badly,
and everyone just panicked instead of reacting.
He keeps name-dropping his opps, saying
“Sayso got chinged like ages ago”
Sini Sayso is another member of 1011.
Sayso has been absent from the UK drill scene for the past few years.
Rumors circulated that he left the streets behind and went to college,
while others say that he just got tired of where the drill scene was heading.
In this bar, Box12 is suggesting that Sayso got touched by opps
and left the scene alone out of fear.
But he doesn’t stop there.
He continues to diss his rivals saying
“B-AR2 just chingin, like this one here’s gotta go
Like I’m really trying to turn man Vaguez”.
Vaguez was a dude from the Ladbroke Grove area where 1011 is based.
He was killed a decade before the war between the 1011 and 12world
also known as 12anti split by some people from Church Road, not Shepherd's Bush.
However, he is one of the OG’s of the Ladbroke Grove Gang,
which is another name for 1011,
and opps like Box12 will often disrespect Vaguez, even if they weren’t involved in that particular beef.
He continues on in the diss saying
“And bro crashed corn at ZK, like this one’s gotta get pain
and if I knew where Vaguez was lying I’ll back my **** on his grave”
Crashing corn is a UK drill slang term for shooting your gun.
In this bar, he is saying that someone from 12Anti shot at ZK,
another member of 1011, and tried to take his life.
He follows it up by dissing Vaguez once again,
saying that if he knew where he was buried he’d piss on his grave.
This is about as disrespectful as it gets,
especially because Vaguez was killed before he even had a chance to beef with the 12anti gang.
But in the world of drill, all bets are off.
The Chicago drill scene popularized the practice of telling enemies
that you’re going to smoke their dead homies in a blunt.
The UK drill scene has taken it a step further and will threaten to disrespect a dead opps grave,
years after they’ve been killed.
Box12 keeps coming with the insults, rapping
“And we Westside chingers, but in the south where AP got shaved
And don’t serve Huncho’s nan no rocks cah she ain’t got the right change”
AP is another member of 1011 who Box12 claims they shaved,
which means he got stabbed.
He then takes the disrespect to a new level
and disses 1011 member Huncho’s grandmother.
He not only claims that she’s a crackhead who does shady business,
which is a pretty low blow even for the drill scene.
This bar is significant because not long before this track was dropped,
5 members of 1011 were arrested,
including Digga D, Sav’O and Mskum,
for planning to run up on 12world
for disrespecting Huncho’s grandmother on social media.
They were all sentenced to a year in jail and issued a Criminal Behavior Order
that prohibited them from making music referencing their opps.
So, it was a pretty low blow for Box12 to diss Huncho’s grandmother,
knowing there isn’t much that 1011 can do about it on the street or in the music,
with the cops watching their every move.
Check out our video on rappers arrested for making music for more info on this case.
The war between 12world and 1011 rages on to this day.
The issuing of criminal behavior orders and a general crackdown on drill music in the UK
has prevented certain rappers from directly dissing each other.
So the musical output of the groups has slowed down,
but that hasn’t stopped the violence.
Hopefully, both crews can focus their attention
on something other than killing each other and find a way to leave the street beef behind.
But with so much talent lost to this war already, it’s tough to see an end in sight.
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