Notti Bop is a song and dance
that’s been blowing up all over social media.
But what most people don’t realize
is that it’s actually a savage diss track
aimed at a 14-year-old rapper
named Notti Osama
who was stabbed to death earlier this year.
This is the tragic story
of a kid who was murdered
then had his named used for a viral dance
that mocked his own death.
Not much is known about Notti Osama’s early life.
His family used to live in Harlem,
but a couple months before he died they moved to Yonkers.
Him and his brother DD Osama
were both trying to make it in the rap game,
and the neighbors
used to file noise complaints against them all the time
for bumping their music too loud.
Their brother JStar Balla
is in the rap game too,
but Notti and DD came up together and were damn near twins.
Even though he was only 14,
Notti was dropping drill tracks
and dissing dead opps like he was in the trenches his whole life.
He repped OY, or Original Young Gangsterz,
and had beef with the YGz and their affiliates.
Notti and DD didn’t start dropping music until earlier this year,
but they were already picking up momentum
before Notti was tragically killed in July.
Notti was known for dissing the opps in his music.
He took shots at Kay Flock
and his dead homies on the track What You Wanna Do?
And rapped
“Kay Kay what?
Kay Flock to my d***
His mans got hit and didn’t do s***
Nothin’ to say, scream ‘DOA’,
put a hole in his face.”
When DD and Notti linked up on the track Dead Opps,
they both took shots at the YGz,
Drillys, and C-hi-WIITZ,
who was killed back in February.
Notti said
“C-Hii had died, nobody gon’ slide
I’m a devil, just look at my eyes
I’m only 14 wit’ a Glock on my side
If I catch me an opp, bullets rip through his spine.”
And later in the track he rapped
“Spin 8-OH tryna catch me a Gz
We sip Henny, no, we don’t sip muddy
He can get shot if he hop like a bunny.”
Notti also beefed with a crew called 41.
41 isn’t really a gang like OY or YGz,
but Notti still went after them
when they linked up with a dude named Blockwork.
Blockwork repped OY
and was cool with dudes from the OGz like Sha Ek,
but then rumors started flying
that he snitched on his own homies.
Notti aired out the situation
on the track 41K and said
“Like, 4-1k, y’all jacking the snitches
Okay, y’all gonna get stitches
Call up my twin when it’s time for the mission
Spin through the eight, tryna see who we clickin’
Who the f*** is that dyke?
You jackin’ 4-1 then you losing ya life..”
Then he took shots at two dead opps and rapped
“N****, Smelly a b****,
he got poked for a bike
Yo, Quan, keep throwin’ that bih-
We gon’ do him like Rah, leave him slumped in the whip.”
Smelly was stabbed to death back in 2016
after getting into a fight over a dirt bike sale.
He was tight with Lil Tjay,
and afterwards
Tjay and his homies started going by the name Smelly Gang.
And Rah Gz was shot last year in the back of an Uber.
He was headed to a recording studio
when two dudes rode up on scooters
and started letting off shots.
Rapping about his wild come up
and dissing opps got Notti’s name buzzing,
but unfortunately
his street activities caught up to him
and he was stabbed to death
before he could make it out of the trenches.
Back in July,
Notti spotted an opp at the 137th Street City College station.
The surveillance footage ain't been released
so it’s not clear exactly how everything went down,
but Notti and his homies
allegedly pressed the dude
and Notti hit him with a broomstick.
That’s when
the unnamed 15-year-old
pulled out a knife and stabbed Notti at least once.
Notti pushed the dude onto the tracks
and tried to run up the stairs,
but the knife had hit his organs and he collapsed.
He was rushed to a local hospital,
but tragically it was too late
and Notti died from the stab wound.
The dude who stabbed him had to be treated for stab wounds too,
and then he was arrested on second degree murder.
But after cops saw the video footage
that allegedly shows Notti and his crew swinging first,
the charge was downgraded to manslaughter.
After it happened,
DD hopped on IG and said
“Like why did you leave me?
Why you tell me that death is easy?”
Back in September,
DD did an interview with P Philms
Where were you when you heard the news of what took place there
I- I was..
alright Imma tell you, I was with him.
Rumors were flying
that he was there at the station and ran away,
but DD says he was already on his way back to the block
when Notti and his homies saw the opp.
Even though Notti was just a fourteen year old kid,
that didn’t stop his opps from dissing him right after he died.
Kev Gz hopped on IG Live and said
Never ever ever lack.
Ever ever.
Can’t be in no train station
like that stupid n**** Notti you hear.
and Blockwork wrote
“Sneak diss me now you (skull emoji)
god bless tho lil n****.”
Then in October,
Kyle Richh took the disrespect to a new level
when he dropped Notti Bop.
On the hook he raps
“Notti-Notti Boppin,
punchin’ my hips
Like, come here, gotta do it like this
Don’t -don’t drop my s***,
dman, he tried to dip but he tripped
Beef ain’t dead ‘til he dead in my spliff.”
Later in the track
he references one of Notti’s lines
from the song 41k and says
“Brodie said we was gonna get stitches
One day was dissin’, the next in the ditches.”
Notti had dissed another rapper from 41
named Jenn Carter,
and on Notti Bop she rapped
“He got poked in his hips,
so I’m punchin’ that spot
41-k then he died by the poke,
can’t remember the shots that I throw
When I’m smokin’ on Notti, I’m high as a ghost.”
Notti Bop and the dance went viral on TikTok,
and one of the points of it
was to trick authority figures into dancing to a diss track
aimed at a 14 year old kid.
People were getting cops, teachers,
and even priests to do the dance without realizing where it came from.
DD wasn’t gonna take the disrespect,
and he responded to everyone dissing his brother
on the track Back To Back.
He said
“Ayo, TG, suck my d***
Why you talkin’ on Notti? JB got hit
Fat n****, he ran and tripped.
Then Nazzy died right after JayRip.”
TG is a dude from DOA,
and DD dissed his homie JB
who was killed in front of a deli.
And Nazzy and JayRip
were two of Kay Flock’s friends who got murdered.
Then he went after more dead opps
and sent shots at 41 with the line
“Stil 41-K, b****, I’m smokin’ on Lay
and I’m smokin’ on Blay
If I catch me a 4-1, he goin’ away.”
DD was already putting in work on the music side
before Notti was killed,
but now he’s really blowing up
and becoming one of the hottest new rappers in the city.
He’s been dropping music all year,
and now he’s racking up millions of views on YouTube.
He had four songs break over a million views in less than a month,
and back in September he leveled up again
when PGF Nuk brought him out at Rolling Loud.
Nuk is already popping off his viral track Waddup with Polo G,
so linking up with him could be huge for DD.
But even though he’s already having a lot of success,
DD says it don’t really matter to him after losing Notti.
He told Kids Take Over
“All this s*** don’t phase me.
It don’t feel like how it’s supposed to feel…
Supposed to feel good about and it ain't.
Supposed to be with bro,
it’s not with bro so I don’t feel good about it.
DD is still grinding
because he wants to put on for Notti and keep his legacy alive.
Now DD is signed to Alamo Records,
which is the same label
that huge artists like Lil Durk and Rod Wave are on.
Notti Osama was a talented kid
with a lot of potential,
but tragically he was killed
before he even got the chance to grow up.
Hopefully DD can move on
and keep his brother’s legacy alive through music,
but just making it out of the streets would be a huge win.
Rest in peace to Notti Osama.