Every fan of Jacksonville drill knows about the beef between Foolio’s KTA gang
and Yungeen Ace’s ATK gang.
But only real fans know the beef first started between Yungeen Ace
and Y&R Mookey, another rapper from Jacksonville who is affiliated with Foolio.
Let’s dive into the career and come up of Y&R Mookey.
Y&R Mookey is a rapper from the Arlington neighborhood of Jacksonville,
also known as A-Block.
He reps Young and Reckless aka Dankway
and They known to beef with gangs from the West side of Jacksonville,
specifically Yungeen Ace and his gang: ATK.
Y&R is under the KTA umbrella, which includes 6 Block, Foolios gang.
So Y&R is cool with rappers like Foolio and Spottem Gottem,
but beefs with ATK rappers like Ace and Ksoo.
Mookey is the most well-known member of Y&R, along with his homie Y&R Slugga Tee.
Slugga Tee is from KTA, and is Mookey's right-hand man.
He might look a lil funny with slicked-back hair, gold teeth, and tattoos,
but Slugga Tee is really about that life.
He grew up in Jacksonville with all the Y&R other members
and played football, which is how they all met.
He earned his stripes by being a solid fighter and eventually became one of Y&R’s main shooters.
His grandmas husband Jerry Columbo was from the Colombo crime family
who was part of the five families that ran the New York Mafia.
Jerry and Robin Columbo became famous
for being part of the $24 million-dollar McDonald’s Monopoly scam
that was covered on the HBO Documentary McMillion’s.
So Slugga Tee was born into a life of crime.
He and Mookey are day ones and call themselves the Murda Twinz,
even dropping a track by that name back in 2020.
Other than Foolio, SpottemGottem and Ace
they are two of the most popular rappers in the Jacksonville drill scene.
The beef between ATK and Y&R allegedly started at a block party.
There was a fight between the two groups that led to a shootout
where Mookey was grazed by a bullet, while Slugga Tee fired back.
Rumors say, Ace was the one who fired the shot that hit Mookey.
This ain’t been confirmed, but after the party,
Mookey and Ace started dissing each other in songs.
This shootout is supposedly the spark that lit the fuse in the beef between KTA and ATK.
Y&R Mookey talked about that night on the track dead opps, where he raps
“They popped out the cut and tried to leave a n**** dead
I got grazed, Slugga shot back
Bree Shoulda left them dead”.
So, he confirms Slugga fired back and his friend Bree aka Jabre Cook,
another Y&R member was also there that night.
But Mookey ain’t the only one who rapped about what went down that night.
Another rapper from ATK, Ksoo also gave his side of the story.
On the track Bang it Out, he raps
“Mookey what you on boy
we don’t really know yo ass
I ain’t gone speak to much
But yo ass was almost ****** grass
KTA boy yo ass better be safe
We had slugga on the chase almost ate that n**** face”.
While he’s rapping this bar,
one of Ksoo’s homies is seen tearing up an Uno card with the number 6 on it
– which looks like a diss to Foolio’s hood 6 block.
Ksoo also dissed Y&R on Instagram Live,
taking shots at Foolio’s dead brother Bibby
and calling Y&R Slugga Tee a “fake ass Slim Jesus”.
Slugga Tee responded to Ksoo on his own live to prove that he wasn’t scared.
After the alleged shootout at the block party,
KTA and ATK started dissing each other back and forth and got into minor shootouts.
But the beef got even crazier
after Foolio’s cousin, Zion Brown was murdered in 2017.
Zion got chipped after someone threw a brick through the sliding glass door of his house
before entering and firing shots.
Killng and injuring his two little sisters.
A 19-year-old named Deontrae Thomas -aka Trae Shordy – was later arrested for the murder.
Trae had ties to Yungeen Ace and ATK,
so this murder only turned up the war between these two gangs.
Not long after that,
something tragic happened that pushed the beef to the point of no return.
On June 5th, 2018, Ace, his brother Quan Quan and his friends 23 and 4
were victims of a drive-by shooting.
They were out to eat for a birthday celebration at a Japanese steak house called Wasabi.
When they left, they stopped at a red light when a car pulled up on them
and started dumping shots.
The car was sprayed with bullets and everyone was killed, except for Ace.
He got shot a total of eight times but pulled through
because none of the bullets hit any major organs.
But he still had to mourn the loss of his blood brother and two of his closet homies.
While he was recovering in the hospital,
Ace got arrested for violating his probation
after a local gun store owner saw him on the news
and remembered him and his friends coming into the shop earlier that day.
Ace was a convicted felon,
after being involved in a robbery with Trae Shordy back in 2017.
During the robbery, a gun went off and almost hit a 12-month-old child.
Ace was the getaway driver, so he got arrested as an accomplice.
He did like a year in jail and got 31 months of probation.
So, when police saw surveillance footage from the gun store
showing Ace holding a weapon, he was arrested for violating his probation.
Ever since the shooting, his opps have used it to diss Ace, including Y&R Mookey.
On the track Draco, Mookey raps
“Swear I ain’t nothin to play with
Ride got grazed three n**** ain’t make it
left a n**** car shakin”.
While he’s rapping this bar, he’s seen burning an Ace of Spades card,
letting fans know who the diss is about.
Foolio also used the shooting to diss Ace.
In the video for the When I See U Remix,
he went as far as printing out a banner from the news coverage on the shooting,
showing 23, 4, and Quan Quan.
So, many assume KTA was behind the shooting
that almost took Ace's life.
It’s said to be payback for the shootout where Mookey was grazed
and the murder of Foolio’s cousin Zion Brown.
After that it was an all-out war between ATK and KTA
and both sides was at each other’s necks.
But before anything else happened,
Y&R Mookey and Slugga Tee had some legal troubles that took them off the streets.
In 2018, Mookey got arrested after committing multiple car burglaries
and then got out in 2019.
But not long after, Jacksonville police arrested six men
in an investigation called Operation Rap-Up.
They were accused of making violent threats on social media
and in music videos where they used real guns.
Two of the dudes named in the indictment were Tyler Jackson and Tyler Simmons
aka Y&R Mookey and Slugga Tee.
Police say all the men arrested were gang members
who used social media to threaten and intimidate people.
The sheriff claimed the videos promoted drug use and celebrated violence.
In the news report on the investigation, they had footage from Mookey’s video for Draco,
where he raps about the shooting that killed Quan Quan, 23 and 4.
Police say many of the weapons in the video are real.
Mookey and others were felons and not allowed to have guns, even in a music video.
So Mookey got hit with possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
Slugga Tee was charged with possession of a weapon by a juvenile delinquent
found to have committed a felony act.
The four other men arrested were 26-year-old Ronnie Myrick,
28-year-old Nicholas Parker, 29-year-old Christopher Parker,
and 17-year-old Tyler Smith.
Police were still looking for three other suspects
who were on the run at the time of the press conference.
Mookey was denied a bond and has been locked up fighting the case ever since.
At one point there was a rumor going around
that Mookey got snitched on by his homie, Spottem Gottem.
Yungeen Ace’s brother ATK YBeezy
released paperwork that allegedly proved Spottem Gottem had snitched on Mookey.
Before blowing up with the song Beatbox,
SpottemGottem’s crib was raided by Jacksonville police
where they found pills, illegal guns, and ammo.
Supposedly, Mookey was there during the raid
and Spottem told police that Mookey was trying to conceal “a pole”.
YBeezy says the rapper specifically told police that the guns belonged to Y&R Mookey,
which is what led to him getting arrested.
But Mookey eventually made a statement from jail
saying Spottem Gottem had nothing to do with his case
and that he was his brother.
So it sounds like the rumors was cap
because Mookey wouldn’t have stood up for SpottemGottem if he actually snitched.
Since then Mookey has been behind bars fighting for his freedom.
In May 2021, his lawyer put out a statement,
where he accused Jacksonville police
of wrongfully arresting Mookey and the others for weapons possession
when the guns used in their videos were props.
He also says that the original charges were dropped after the state attorney’s was exposed
for conducting a corrupt investigation.
Mookey’s still sitting down because he’s facing another pending weapons charge.
Mookey was in the backseat of someone’s car
when police searched it and found a gun in the glove compartment.
Even though it was proven not to be his,
he still has a pending gun charge and is being held in jail.
In the statement, the lawyer also refers to the Spottem Gottem snitching allegations.
He claims that they are also trying to give Mookey 15 years
over a false allegation made by a juvenile,
pinning a charge on him in a weapons investigation.
He don’t mention SpottemGottem by name,
but it seems to fit the paperwork that YBeezy released.
Mookey has been fighting hard to even get a trial date
but instead remains in jail without evidence to prove
that he possessed any of the weapons he's charged with.
A witness even came forward and confessed
that Mookey had nothing to do with the charges he’s accused of,
but he’s still being targeted for being labeled as a violent gang member.
It sounds like Slugga Tee is also having a tough time in jail.
There was a rumor going around that he ran into the opps while locked up and got stabbed.
The rumor started after his mom allegedly posted about it on social media
and then deleted it.
This ain’t been confirmed but wouldn’t be too surprising
with all the beef that Y&R has with different gangs in Jacksonville.
So, it seems like police really don’t have much evidence to bring a conviction,
but want to keep the Murda Twinz off the streets as long as possible.
There can only hold them without a trial for so long,
so if what the lawyer said is true, they should be coming home sooner than later.