The Memphis rap scene has been on fire lately.
Rappers like MoneybagG Yo, Pooh Shiesty,
and Big Scarr have been doing major numbers
and representing the city on a national level.
Part of what makes the music so raw is the authentic culture of the city
and the real stories that inspire its rapper's bars,
including shootouts, car thefts, and murders.
Big Scarr is one of Memphis most promising new talents
and he's been making waves in the game ever since he signed to Gucci Mane's 1017 label
back in 2020.
But like most hot up and coming rappers today, behind the scenes,
Big Scarr is involved in the Deadly Gang War that inspires his music.
Here's a look at the wild beef between Big Scarr's Double R gang
and their rival crew, Trulla Mafia.
Big Scarr is from South Memphis.
Growing up, the rapper said,
his block was like any other hood in America
and there was a lot of killing, robbing, dope selling, and struggling.
On my side,
It's a, regular hood you know stuff.
Killin, robbin, dope sellin, strugglin.
The rapper is affiliated with the Grape Street Crips,
a gange that started in California but eventually spread to Memphis.
Memphis is a major hub for gang activity
with over 180 active sets in the city including Bloods, Crips, GDs,
Black Pea Stones, Vice Lords, and a bunch of smaller neighborhood sets.
Big Scarr reps the Grape Street Crips
as well as his own gang, Double R.
The rapper says, he jumped off the porch at 15
and dropped out of school in the 10th grade.
He was raised mainly by his grandma
who died right around the time he started gang banging.
After that, he moved in with his pops who taught him how to survive in the streets.
He told Dirty Glove Bastard in an interview
that he did almost everything you could do in the streets
so there's nothing left for him to do except take over the rap game.
At sixteen, he was involved in a bad car accident.
He tried to speed through a traffic light that was about to turn red.
The car coming from the other direction, tried to do the same thing
and they both slammed into each other.
Big Scarr was sent flying through the windshield of the car
and spent the next 4 or 5 days recovering in the hospital.
The crash left some scarring on the side of his face
which is how he earned his nickname, Big Scarr.
Early on, Big Scarr will be cool with another click called Trulla Mafia
but like many other large neighborhood gangs,
internal tensions, and personal beef between members will lead to a split.
Big Scarr will leave Trulla Mafia
to form another crew called Double R
which stands for Rich and Reckless
with some of his partners who are also Grape Street Cribs.
The other main members of Double R include Baby K, Kato 2x, and Tink.
Even though they were once cool,
the split ruined the relationship between Double Rand Trulla Mafia
But it wasn't until the murder of a Double R affiliate
named BG that the beef would turn into an all-out war.
BG got into it with one of Trulla Mafia's most respected hitters, C Mode.
C Mode was the younger brother of Domo Trulla who was also well respected in the streets.
He came up with dudes like J Mula, Zay, and Go Crazy
and together, the crew would run the streets of Memphis.
C Mode and BG hated each other
and was send shots back and forth on social media.
Both of them were really about that life
so it was only a matter of time before someone got taken out.
BG would be the one who ended up losing his life
and the word on the streets was that C mode, Zay, and Go Crazy were the killers.
The cops would later arrest Go Crazy
for BG's murder proving that the rumors were likely true.
The cops believe that BG was in a car with three of his friends
and stopped at a red light when Mafia got the drop on him and took him out.
The shooter also hit the front seat passenger leaving him critically injured.
Go crazy will later confess to the shooting but didn't snitch on his homies.
He was hit with 1st degree murder, three counts of attempted murder,
aggravated assault, and use of a firearm, and in the commission of a dangerous felony
for admitting to his part in the murder.
Even though Go Crazy kept it solid,
BG's murder will lead to more problems in the streets.
BG was cool with Big Scarr and Double R
would take this murder personally sparking the war with Trulla Mafia.
It wouldn't take long for the gang to seek revenge
and right after BG was killed, Zay would get hit in retaliation.
C Mode was locked up in Juvy, fighting a different charge
when Zay was killed and the murder hit him hard.
Zay was his right-hand man and they ran the streets together
With Go Crazy looking at some serious time
and Zay dead his whole gang was falling apart.
So naturally, he began plotting his revenge and got to work as soon as he was released.
Around the same time, Double R
was recovering from the loss of one of their homies, 23,
who was another victim of the Trulla Mafia.
23 was the passenger in the car on the same night,
BG was killed and was the person who was badly injured but survived.
The opps will catch up to him a second time around
shooting up his place at the Cane Creek Apartments hitting both him and his dad.
This time, he wouldn't be so lucky and passed away from his injuries.
Then, in January 2020,
C Mode, Jay Mulla, and a dude named CEO Bobby of Ape Gang,
a set that's part of Trulla Mafia
would be arrested for a drive-by shooting
and charged with multiple felonies.
Officers claimed that they responded to shots being fired
between two vehicles on Shelby Drive around 2:30 PM
A cop caught up with the blue challenger that was involved in the shooting
and refused to pull over.
The car ended up running several red lights before crashing.
The three passengers then got out and ran but were eventually caught.
Police also claimed that they saw Jay Mulla
toss a backpack with weed and a gun in it
behind a dumpster and two other guns were also found inside the car.
C Mode was already facing two charges
at the time for aggravated robbery
and grand theft auto after the dude whose car he stole identified him in the lineup.
So, the charges against C Mode were just stacking up at this point
with the recent incident adding motor vehicle theft and evading arrest.
While they were locked up, Trulla Mafia wouldn't want another death.
Although this time, it wasn't the opps that would even the score.
They will lose one of their homies to suicide.
A member of Trulla Mafia named Murder Bracie will passed away
and it was rumored to be self-inflicted.
His death would hit the gang hard
especially because many of his homies were behind bars at the time
and couldn't be there to help him.
That death would be just another loss that would turn C Modes heart cold
and force him to direct his rage at Double R.
After being released from jail,
C Mode entered the rap game with his track Send a Hit
where he takes several shots at his enemies.
This caught the attention of Double R and after that,
C Mode was their main target.
Not long after that, more Trulla Mafia members will lose their lives.
With brothers D Money and J Money being killed in separate shootings.
CEO Jizzle from Double R will reveal what happened to them
in the song Rich and Ruthless.
On the track, he raps.
If you diss on 23, swear to god it's gonna be RIP.
You ain't hear what happened to the last dude?
Got left on Trigg Street.
In this bar, he's suggesting that D Money got smoked
for dissin 23 as he was murdered on Trigg Street in Memphis.
At the same time, Double R was also gaining some traction
in the music industry.
Although, early on, Baby K was the main rapper in the group,
he would eventually convince his homie, Big Scarr to pick up the mic.
Big Scarr was more focused on the streets
at the time but decided to give rap a try.
He blew up almost immediately with his debut single, Make a Play, going viral.
The video for the song was picked up by popular Polish YouTuber, Tommy Kraze,
the same guy who discovered Lil Loaded
He does a segment on his YouTube show
where he reviews music that doesn't have a lot of plays.
He came across Making a Play by Big Scarr and gave it a cosign
which led to the track blowing up.
This caught the attention of none other than Gucci Mane
and not long after, Big Scarr flew to Atlanta
and signed the 1017 record labels.
It was a perfect fit because Gucci had already signed Big Scarr's cousin,
Pooh Shiesty, another big name from Memphis and together,
they would take over the rap game
as soon as two of the hottest artists repping 1017.
But just as things were heating up for Big Scarr he would nearly lose his life
to the streets.
In 2020, the rapper was shit in the hip and had to undergo surgery.
Because of the way he moved, the bullet went deeper into his body and hit his lung.
He also had to have his appendix taken out
and his leg put back into alignment because the bullet traveled up his spine.
Luckily, he survived the shooting but had to be cut open
which left another huge scar along his stomach.
However, that didn't stop his hustle
and he got right back to the studio after being released from the hospital.
He even shot a video for the song So Icy Boyz
with Pooh Shiesty and Foogiano
where he was bandaged up from the shooting and still recovering from his injuries.
But in rap, you gotta stay competitive
and Big Scarr wasn't about to give the opps the satisfaction of slowing down his bag.
At this point, Big Scarr had already lost two more of his Double R homies,
Bun Diesel and Dre Feezy in a car accident.
Even though he was blowing up in the industry, that didn't heal the pain
of losing his friends and it made things even worse
when his opps from Trulla Mafia
would send disses at his dead friends and their music and on social media.
The constant payback and disrespect online made it hard for either side
to just walk away and forget so the war just continued.
Around the same time,
J Mulla was released from jail for the car theft and shooting
that got him locked up with C Mode and CEO Bobby.
But being a high-ranking member in Trulla Mafia,
Double R was dead set on trying to catch him lacking
and not long after, rumors started to go around
that J Mulla was robbed and had his gun stolen.
Keto 2X from Double R posted a photo on social media
of a Draco with the caption underneath that read,
don't never make a song about me.
Come get this Drake back in blood *****.
#stamp that
He also posted a video where he called J Mulla a ***
and said he got beat up and had his strap taken.
J Mulla took to media and denied the rumors.
Claiming that he gave away to Draco to one of his little homies
because he didn't need it anymore.
He also says that he already used the Draco to shoot at Double R
so it doesn't even matter.
We don't know which side of the story to believe
but it's clear that the beef was getting more serious as time went on.
Then, in May 2020, Double R will catch a lucky break
after their main opp C Mode got arrested and charged
with a long list of felonies that might put him behind bars for a while.
Word on the street is that Double R almost caught C Mode lacking
and got him hit two times.
But being a stone cold killer,
C Mode immediately went for retaliation
even though he was still out on bond from the other shooting.
C Mode would then take the social media
and laugh off the assassination attempt while plotting to get payback
but after unsuccessfully shooting his enemies twice,
he would be arrested and charged with one count of murder
and seven counts of attempted murder.
The murder charge was not related to the most recent shooting
but for the murder of BG.
New evidence must have surfaced and the police were finally able
to connect him to the hit.
The cops also claimed that C Mode attempted to shoot up the same house twice
trying to get Double R.
He opened fire on a home in the 5600 block of Myers Road
where five people were inside.
No one was hit the first time so the rapper came back
less than a week later and fired at two people
standing on the front lawn which makes seven attempted hits.
Police were able to tie the shooting to the death of BG
and determine that it was all related to the war
between Trulla Mafia and Double R.
The cops were clearly looking to keep C Mode off the streets
so no one else loses their life.
But with so many bodies already dropped,
it may be tough for either side to put the guns down and forget about it all.
Big Scarr released his debut project, Big Grim Reaper in April 2021
which featured guest appearances from Gucci Mane, Pooh Shiesty, and Baby K.
Hopefully, with their main opp C Mode behind bars,
the beef will chill out long enough for Big Scarr to blow up in the industry
and force him to leave the streets alone.
But all it takes is one more diss or another body dropped
to further spark the war and put everyone's lives and freedom at risk once again.
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