Glizzy Gang was once the most popular rap group out of the DC area.
But like many that get successful,
petty beefs and arguments would eventually lead to the gang’s downfall.
But when those involved really come from the streets, there’s going to be extra drama.
Over the past five years, two of the group's founding members, Shy Glizzy and Ant Glizzy have
been at war. Let’s take a look at how these close friends and music partners turned into enemies.
Glizzy Gang was founded by three rappers, Shy Glizzy,
Ant Glizzy and Rose Glizzy. From the beginning, Shy Glizzy took a leadership role in the group
while the other members kept it more lowkey. To this day, he is still the most well-known of
the 3 and has collaborated with tons of mainstream artists from Meek Mill to Ty Dolla Sign.
Shy Glizzy grew up on 37th Avenue in Southeast Washington DC.
His father was shot and killed at 19.
At the time, the rapper was not even one year old yet. He was raised by his mother and grandmother
and also has a younger brother who is part of Glizzy Gang and goes by the name 3Glizzy.
At 16 he was arrested for robbery and spent 14 months in a juvenile detention center,
where he got his GED. While Shy was locked up, he started reading everything from the Quran
to newspapers to biographies of famous people, which inspired him to start writing himself.
But before he knew it, he started writing music, which is where his rap career first began.
He formed Glizzy Gang with some of his friends from DC
to help boost his own career and others around him.
From early on, he took charge as the leader. In an early interview, Shy Glizzy refers
to himself as the Big Meech of Glizzy Gang, showing how he saw himself within the group
I'm Shy Glizzy, bang bang,
Big Meech on streets You heard me?
**** man, keep it real on the interview man
we ain't gonna dress up all that **** just us man, you know?
For those that don’t know, Big Meech was a drug kingpin who ran the legendary Black
Mafia Family or BMF crew in Atlanta from the late ’80s until he was locked up in 2005.
Meech was the head of the organization and was well known for promoting major hip-hop artists
like Fabolous and Young Jeezy.
So, by calling himself Big Meech, Shy Glizzy was establishing himself as the boss of the group.
Ant Glizzy was much more lowkey, but also well respected on a street level.
He was known in DC for being wild and putting in work to earn his respect.
He never really saw himself as a rapper to begin with, but his friend pushed him
to get in the studio and just went with it after Glizzy Gang started poppin off.
Shy Glizzy and Glizzy Gang would slowly start building
a name for themselves in the rap industry.
In 2012, Shy was featured on Complex’s list of 10 DMV rappers to Watch Out For
after dropping his mixtape Law. The following year
he dropped the sequel to that mixtape called Law 2,
which featured guest appearances from Migos, Yo Gotti, and Kevin Gates.
But, while Shy Glizzy was quickly becoming a hot name in the industry, Ant Glizzy
would be slowly fading away from the group. His last official collaboration with anyone
from Glizzy Gang would be on the track Get Well Soon with Shy that was also featured on Law 2.
At that point, there wasn’t any real signs of beef,
it just seemed like Ant wasn’t as interested in the music or fame as Shy and the others.
But, that all changed after Shy dropped his Barbara Son mixtape in 2015.
The project was dedicated to his mother Barbara
and featured the track, Scared Ass which contained several
disses of Shy Glizzy and the Glizzy Gang. With the tape, Ant made It clear that there
was actual beef and it wasn’t just a case of old friends falling apart.
The tape also featured rappers like Cham Glizzy and Sincere Glizzy, who were not members of the OG
Glizzy Gang, but of a new crew that Ant had formed for himself called Glizzy Murder Gang or GMG.
So Ant wasn’t just splitting off from his own crew,
he was taking their brand and creating his own wave, all while dissing his former friends.
The same year, Shy made the XXL Freshman List and his verse contained many bars that
fans assume were dissing Ant. On the same day that the list was announced,
Glizzy Gang dropped a collaborative mixtape called Be Careful, which featured new members of the
crew like 30 Glizzy, Go Glizzy, and 3 Glizzy. Ant of course was not featured on that project.
Plus, Shy signed a deal with 300 entertainment and started taking his brand to the next level.
But, while Shy Glizzy was taking over the industry,
Ant was making his own power moves. He ended up linking with Philly rapper AR-AB and decided to
target the streets, rather than the industry. As his numbers started going up,
he started doing more media appearances. He did an interview with Say Cheese TV
where he broke down exactly how the situation with Shy and the rest of Glizzy Gang started.
He says that some guys from his hood got into it with some guys from Shy’s hood
and something got stolen from his friends. He tried to settle the situation with Shy
and ask him to tell his man to “make it right” and Shy refused. After that, Ant felt disrespected,
so he decided to distance himself. He also made it clear that it wasn’t real beef,
he just wasn’t rocking with him like that anymore.
And we just went separate ways but I ain't got nothing bad against Shy Glizzy
But, he didn’t throw some subtle shade at Shy, saying that
the Glizzy name had gotten so goofy at that point,
he didn’t even care about being associated with it.
Bruh this **** so goofy now bro no disrespect to them I don't even wanna be
I don't wanna be a founding father, the creator, none of that
I don't want no parts, I don't even really care about it bro
I swear, I swear I don't, like. I'm cool like they doing they thing I'm doing my thing
In another interview with DJ Small Eyez, Ant revealed that Shy tried to get him
to stop using the Glizzy Gang name after his music started blowing up.
You having that
name Glizzy in your name, Ant Glizzy, had something to do with those, those streams there?
I wouldn't say that, no,
because my tape was called Barbershop it ain't had Glizzy nothing on it.
It didn't say Glizzy, nothing wasn't a Glizzy feature,
it wasn't the Glizzy name ain't on it nothing.
It wasn't even promoted as Glizzy now
Shy was just starting to build a name for himself in the industry and he didn’t want
Ant to steal his shine. So his lawyers sent Ant a cease and desist letter,
to make him stop using the name Glizzy, even though Ant was one of the founding members of the group.
Obviously, Shy didn’t like Ant exposing all this information to the public, so after that,
the beef was officially on. Members of Glizzy Gang started going at Ant on IG Live.
But Ant wasn’t backing down and would take on anyone who wanted the smoke, including Taliban Glizzy,
Goo Glizzy, and even Shy Glizzy himself. While they were coming at him, Ant would let it be
known that their leader was actually soft and had been robbed in the city multiple times.
His claims would seem to be proven to be true after Shy would get his Glizzy chain snatched
while performing a show in Memphis. Shy had been asked to give a feature to a
Memphis rapper named Big Mota and turned him down.
So his goons decided to apply pressure and snatched his chain to teach him a lesson.
Shy then went on Twitter and claimed that the robbery was
all cap and that the chain fell off his neck and got snatched off the ground.
According to the street gossip, Blac Youngsta, who knew Shy through Yo Gotti, had to pay $10,000
to get the chain back. Shy later dropped a diss track aimed at the goons who took it.
Then, One of them responded and said that he was lying and the chain was snatched right off his neck.
**** hard, Big- Big Mota then knocked your ass out
you know what I'm saying, **** snatched the chain off your neck
and brought it to the, we brought it to the hood
you know what I'm saying, it's just how it work in the city man
You gonna, you what I'm saying? We sold you your chain back
Blac Youngsta here to come get your chain before you
So, despite all his connections in the industry, it seemed like Shy wasn’t really about that life.
Plus, some of the things Ant said about him on IG live were starting to come true.
Ant didn’t miss a chance to clown his rival for trying to look tough,
only to be proven wrong by some real gangstas.
The internet trolling escalated to a point where
the two rappers eventually met face to face on live.
They both agreed to meet up in person and settle the beef like men.
But, when Shy pulled up to the crib,
Ant had already bailed, making it look like he was scared of the fight.
Ant later went back up on live to explain why he dipped and
said that he was on the way back to the spot when Shy pulled up,
tell him we on the way back, where he at? I'm in the car the ****
he sent me outside to come back on the live
he sent me outside to pull up to another place bro I was like
but Shy rushed off before he could get there he wasn't trying to duck the smoke
he just didn't have enough time to make it back to the location from where he was
since it was 30 minutes from his crib
I told him add me on the live
I was in my hood it took me 20 minutes to get from my hood
Shy then responded by posting a pic of Ant’s mom
Barbara allegedly talking to the police with the caption:
"He get it from his mama". This really pissed off Ant and he vowed to expose all the dirt he
knew about Shy and the rest of Glizzy Gang. He told the world that many of the members
of Glizzy Gang are actually broke because Shy was taking all the money for himself.
You just came from the Grammy's why the **** is an Airbnb still
making you happy? You should have been in the John Legend
house by now, the **** you should have played basketball
with Michel Jackson, I mean, Michel Jordan house himself
Why the **** the Airbnb still making happy you happy?
Cause you broke
He also claimed that Shy had slept with Taliban Glizzy’s mom
But you can let your man post a picture of my mother
and you don't pull him up, okay cool guess what
He ***** your baby momma, and lets see if you still hang with him. He ***** your baby momma
He playing you 50, 7 is his old ***** ask her
and that almost all of the Glizzy gang members were snitches,
with paperwork to back it up.
That's why he keep talking this rat **** it's hot the rats came from you, you damn near Master Splinter
you're **** sewer all the rats came from you
But, Glizzy Gang didn’t take these accusations lightly.
Not long after, Shy and Taliban both went on Live and exposed that they had robbed
Ant of his Barbara Son Chain.
Aye slim he got that lil ass rope on that weak ass, yeah
***** lil ass rope on that weak ass chain bro Yeah I robbed him this weak ****
God **** son
So, things weren’t looking good for Ant after he failed to confront Shy in person
and allegedly had his chain snatched. But, Ant went on Live and claimed that he had
lent the chain to his man Earl, who was actually the one who got caught lackin.
Earl is canceled, if I'm canceled Earl canceled with me **** it. talk about that's your man, yeah my man was lackin
The **** I'm not taking that for him the **** you better go take it off of me
He said he was in New York at the time and it had nothing to do with him.
I am in New York City, I'm gonna buy me a outfit for my birthday in the morning and I don't give a **** about nothing
Then in March 2021, Ant dropped the track Back & Better (Shy Glizzy and Glizzy Gang Diss),
where he took direct aim at his enemies and showed that he wasn’t backing down from the beef.
No one from Glizzy Gang has yet to respond, so it seems like for now Ant has the last word.
Although Shy hasn’t completely fallen off, he’s definitely lost some momentum over the past five years.
Plus, no one else from the Glizzy gang has really made much of an impact in the industry.
It seems like maybe in this case, the beef has drained a lot of time and energy that could
have been better spent building a fanbase. If they had decided to put their differences aside
and help each other build, rather than blowing up on eachother, maybe Ant and Shy Glizzy
could have taken over the industry. But instead, they let a simple beef tear them apart
and it’s damaged both of their reputations for ever. It’s sad to see two dudes who came up together
trying to tear each other down. But jealousy and damaged egos can ruin any friendship,
especially when there is money and fame involved.
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