Dougie B is one of the hottest up-and-coming rappers from the Bronx.
He blew up as part of the new Bronx drill wave and has been making a name for himself in the industry
with his homies Kay Flock and B Lovee.
But before the music, Dougie B had a rough childhood in New York City’s wildest block.
Let’s tap in to the career and come up of Dougie B.
Dougie B grew up on 187th street in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx.
He was childhood friends with Kay Flock and B Love who also grew up in the same hood.
they spent a lot of time on the block of 187th Street,
a dangerous area known as Sevside.
He went to elementary school in Yonkers, a smaller city outside New York in Westchester County.
But Dougie B would still spend most of his youth
in the streets of the Bronx and quickly adapted to his environment.
When he was only 15 years old,
Dougie B witnessed his pops die in front of him.
His dad had an epileptic seizure and ended up passing away.
The rapper would make it through this tragic time in his life with the help of his close homies,
especially Kay Flock.
After his pops died,
Dougie B started to distance himself from his family
and began smoking weed and popping pills to ease the pain.
He also started getting deeper into the streets,
now that he didn’t have a stable father figure around to raise him.
But his friend Kay Flock held him down and they would form a strong friendship
that continues to this day.
Dougie B would also chill with another close friend named Vlana Roberts.
She and Dougie had grown up together in the Bronx and after his dad died,
she was there to help him through it.
But on June 2nd, 2018,
Vlana would be killed after a stray bullet hit her in the back.
She was standing outside of an apartment building in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx
when a fight broke out.
During the altercation someone fired a shot, hitting Vlana in the back.
She was rushed to St. Barnabus Hospital but pronounced dead.
The most tragic part is that Vlana had nothing to do with the fight that broke out,
she was just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Vlana’s death would have a major impact on Dougie B.
Not only did he lose his dad,
but then he lost one of his close friends to gun violence when she was just an innocent bystander.
To honor her memory, Dougie B got Vlana’s name tattooed on his arm.
After that, he would go even harder in the streets and starting hitting licks and selling drugs.
He would affiliate himself with the Sevside gang, which is made up of both Bloods and Cripps.
He also had ties to the Mac Balla Brims.
This caused a lot of tension with his mom, who wanted a better life for her son.
But he was already too far gone.
So, she eventually kicked him out of the house, making him homeless for a while.
But despite everything that he went through growing up, Dougie B never let it break his spirit.
He was determined to do big things and make a name for himself.
His homie B Lovee would start rapping and recording music,
and eventually Dougie B joined him.
Once he started to see the potential in music, he convinced Kay Flock to join them too.
they worked on music together and helped each other work on their flow.
Early on they weren’t making drill songs, it was just regular rap.
But once the drill wave started to pop off in Brooklyn, they hopped on it.
But at that point, they were still learning the ropes and wasn't making any money with their music.
So, for a while rap took the back seat while they continued to hustle in the streets.
During this time, Kay Flock and Dougie B
started staying with another popular Bronx rapper from SevSide named PNV Jay.
Jay was one of the first rappers from the Bronx to jump on UK drill beats.
Jay grew up with Kay Flock, who introduced him to Dougie B
and they formed a friendship.
But even friends can turn to enemies when there is money and clout involved.
At one point, they fell out and Dougie B allegedly jacked PNV Jay’s chain.
According to Jay, there was some sort of altercation outside a music studio.
Dougie B was with his homie Sticky and a group of other dudes from they hood.
There was an argument and the people that Jay was with didn’t have his back.
He tried to put up a fight, but they ended up beating him up and taking his chain.
Not long after, Dougie B appeared on Instagram,
wearing the chain and taking credit for the robbery.
This turned out to be a bad idea because someone reported the robbery to the police.
There was plenty of evidence online to prove who did it, so both Dougie B and Sticky were arrested.
Dougie B would be sent to a juvenile facility where he would spend about a year sitting down.
PNV Jay later said that it wasn’t actually Dougie B who took the chain,
it was older dudes from their hood who were jealous of his success.
But, since Dougie was the one flexing on the gram, he went down for it.
Around the same time, Kay Flock also got arrested
and spend some time behind bars.
So B Lovee as the only one on the streets to hold it down for the crew.
But even though his homies was locked up,
B Lovee kept grinding and started blowing up with his music.
Kay Flock ended up getting out before Dougie and started to capitalize on the success.
But Dougie still had access to the internet while he was behind bars
and saw his homies coming up.
That gave him the motivation to keep his head down and wait for his release date.
By the time he got out everything had changed.
So, he ain't waste no time and got in the booth as soon as he could.
His first track was a collab with his homie Kay Flock and another Bronx rapper named Sha EK,
called No More Free Dougie B.
On the track, he let everyone know he was home and had come to claim his spot in the Bronx drill scene.
The track quickly racked up over a million views
and made Dougie B one of the hottest up-and-coming rappers in New York.
Not long after that, Dougie B, Kay Flock, and B Lovee
teamed up for the track Brotherly Love, which became one of the biggest songs of their careers.
The video currently has just under nine million plays on YouTube
and introduced the world to the new Bronx Drill sound.
But success also brings jealousy.
Even though he was racking up millions of plays on his music,
he was still fresh out of jail and had to hustle in the streets to support himself.
Plus, he still had plenty of active beef.
Sevside is known to beef with another Bronx gang called the YGz.
They’ve been locked in a heated war for years.
Along with B Lovee and Kay Flock,
Dougie B was becoming one of SevSide’s most popular members.
Back in July there was rumors that Dougie B got shot.
It ain't clear exactly what happened,
but he went live after getting out of the hospital to prove that he was still going strong
and wasn’t going to let it stop him.
He’d continue to clap back at his opps on social media and prove that he wasn’t backing down.
This would eventually backfire after someone hacked his IG
and went live wearing an Abe Lincoln mask.
But he eventually got his account back and continued going strong.
In September 2021
he dropped his debut mixtape #EOS700DOA.
The project featured hit tracks like Geek, Dealership, and EOS.
This mixtape earned Dougie B some major looks in the industry
and he ended up signing a deal with Republic Records about a month later.
That put him in a good position to make the transition from the streets into becoming a full-time artist.
But he still had a lot of work ahead of him if he really wanted to blow up.
Just as Dougie B and his homies were reaching the top of the rap game,
they would get in a huge fight at Rolling Loud with another Bronx rapper named Ron Suno.
Kay Flock and Ron Suno had been beefing for the past few months
after Kay Flock claimed to be the king of Bronx drill.
Suno clapped back claiming that he was the one who started the wave
and that Kay Flock was just copying his style.
Ron Suno had been building a social media following for years with comedy skits and viral videos.
He famously created the #WeaveChallenge,
where he would walk up to strangers and pretend he wanted to fight,
then fall back and capture their reaction.
He then dropped a song called Pinocchio in 2019 that went viral on YouTube and Tik Tok.
He was one of the first rappers from the Bronx to rap over drill beats
and was also one of the first to collab with popular Brooklyn drill artists
like Sheff G and Fivio Foreign.
So, when Kay Flock called himself the king of Bronx drill,
Suno felt disrespected because he claims to be the one who started the wave.
So, he and Kay Flock started dissing each other on social media.
Then they ended up bumping into each other at Rolling Loud in New York
and it was on sight.
Supposedly, Suno went up to them to try to talk it out.
But after the disrespectful things he said online, Kay Flock wasn’t feeling it.
Dougie B was also right there and backed his homie up.
After the brawl, Dougie B went on Instagram Live to give his side of the story.
He showed the scrapes on his hand from the brawl and said that Ron Suno got his ass beat
cause he was talking tough online but wasn’t with the issue in real life.
Ron Suno responded by posting a video
claiming that Dougie was about to cry when they jumped him
and they just let security fight for them.
He also claims that he stripped Dougie B out of his hoodie and even posted a pic to prove it.
The brawl created a lot of entertainment for drill fans,
but it’s tough to say if either side came out on top.
Luckily no one was seriously hurt or arrested.
But they’ll all probably lose money
if other festival organizers look at the footage
and decide that they don’t want those kinds of problems at shows.
New York drill artists have already been banned from performing together at Rolling Loud in the past
and this is the reason why.
Cause when you bring all the popular rappers from the city together in one place,
you can never really tell who is going to have problems with who.
If Dougie B, Kay Flock, and B Lovee can stay focused and avoid being in the mix,
they got promising careers ahead of them.
But in a genre like drill,
it can be hard to avoid the negativity when the beef is part of the music.
But all three rappers got a lot of talent
and if they stay focused on the music, there’s no telling how far they'll go.