Memphis is known for being a wild city with a lot of talented rappers.
Part of what makes their music so raw
is how rappers talk about real life situations in the streets.
Let’s get into a few Memphis rap lyrics that really happened.
“All that tuff **** ***** be postin
don’t scare me *****, I’m in the city I go where I want”
Big R4L – Big Boogie
Big Boogie is a rapper from Fraser, a neighborhood in North Memphis.
These bars are from a Pooh Shiesty diss track called Big R4L,
which Big Boogie dropped after they went back and forth on social media.
The beef started over a comment Big Boogie made on IG Live.
He was responding to fan questions and someone asked him about Pooh.
Big Boogie just said he thinks he’s the better rapper.
But Pooh took that as disrespect.
He ended up joining the live and pressing him about his comments.
After that, they went back and forth dissing each other and making threats.
Big Boogie later got on live and said there was no real beef between him and Pooh,
cause they ain’t really know each other like that.
But Pooh clapped back and claimed that he pulled up in Fraser to confront Big Boogie,
and he just ran away scared.
The two rappers kept sending shots at each other on social media,
eventually making Big Boogie drop his diss track Big R4L.
Not long after that, Big Boogie was performing in Mississippi
when his concert got shot up.
The shooters fired over 50 rounds and two people got killed.
But, despite the beef, the shooting was not linked to Pooh Shiesty.
Both rappers confirmed their problems wasn’t that serious
and two different men was later arrested for the shooting.
After that, Pooh and Big Boogie seemed to squash the beef,
and no other threats or diss tracks came from either side.
But Pooh Shiesty ain’t the only Memphis rapper to be the subject of a diss track.
This next artist caught bars from the Memphis Vice Lords,
who claimed they shot at him for being disrespectful.
“When we pull up ***** duck
200 shots in the truck”
“What typa ***** get shot at and up his gun,
shoot in the air”
"pull up to the projects like he really with the ****,
with his flag and his hat cocked, boy we know that he a *****"
WTF – Memphis Vice Lords.
Duke Deuce is a rapper from Memphis, best known for his breakout hit
Crunk Ain’t Dead, which featured a remix
with Juicy J, Project Pat, and Lil John.
The rapper was later signed to Quality Control Records
and has continued to put out viral singles ever since.
But despite all the success,
Duke Deuce has had to deal with old drama from the streets of Memphis.
Earlier this year, Memphis Vice Lords members
Cartel Da Don, Quando Muney, Go Fred and Playboy Boosie
made a diss track about Duke Deuce called WTF.
On the track, they make fun of one of Duke Duece’s signature adlibs
and accuse him of dropping the five.
Duke Deuce is affiliated with the GD’s in Memphis
who beef with the Vice Lords.
The Vice Lords are known to rep the five-point star,
while the GD’s claim the six-point star.
So, dropping the five means he was dissing the Vice Lords.
On the track, they also reference a viral video of Duke Deuce getting shot at on IG Live.
Back in September, the rapper was chopping it up with fans on social media.
At the beginning of the video, he says
“Peppertree what’s poppin!
referencing the Peppertree Apartment Complex in his home city of Memphis.
He tells fans to come outside and join him, assuring them he ain’t on no Hollywood ****.
But minutes later, gunshots can be heard going off in the distance
and Duke runs for cover behind a nearby car.
On the track,
the vice lord’s make it seem like they was the ones shooting at Duke Deuce for being disrespectful.
They question his street cred for only firing in the air
when they were shooting right at him
and diss him for thinking he could come back to the hood and act like he’s really like that.
Luckily it don’t seem like Duke Deuce was injured in the shooting.
He ain’t responded to the track so it’s tough to know his side of the story.
But it sounds like he was dissing the wrong people then got a little too comfy
talking to his fans on social media.
If you thought that was crazy, this next rapper had bars for one of his opps
who dissed his dead homie then ended up getting killed.
"If you diss on 23 swear to god it gon be RIP,
you ain't heard what happened to the last dude who got left on Trigg Street"
Rich and Ruthless – CEO Jizzle
CEO Jizzle is another rapper from Double R.
In this bar, he’s talking about one of his opps from Trulla Mafia named D Money,
who was killed after dissing a dead Double R member named 23.
23 was a well-respected member who was killed earlier that year.
In March 2020, D Money went online and dissed him, writing
“Ian goin out like 23 I’m too official
da city know how I rock”
A few weeks later, D Money was shot multiple times while driving.
Police responded to shots fired at the intersection of East Trigg Avenue and Oak Street.
When they arrived, they found a car had crashed into a telephone pole
and flipped over on its side.
The driver got shot multiple times but was still alive.
He was rushed to Regional One hospital in critical condition, where he later died.
So, in this bar, CEO Jizzle is warning other members of Trulla Mafia
not to diss 23 or anyone else from Rich and Ruthless
or they’d end up just like D Money.
But CEO Jizzle ain’t the only one from Double R doing drills.
In this next bar, this rapper talked about how his opps
had the chance to take him out but only hit him in the hip.
"Give a **** about your man, get your best man killed,
feeling like the man yeah the man of the year.
Had a clear shot, still hit me in the hip"
Frozone - Big Scarr
Big Scarr has had a pretty solid run in the rap game.
He blew up with his first official song Make a Play
after it was reviewed by a Polish YouTuber named Tommy Craze.
Not long after that, his cousin introduced him to Gucci Mane,
and he signed a deal with 1017.
But, Just as he was gaining traction, he was shot in the hip.
He talks about the shooting on his track Frozone and explained exactly what happened in an interview.
According to Scarr, he was just chillin in his old hood in South Memphis,
when he got ambushed by his opps.
He tried to duck out of the way but ended up getting hit in the hip.
Since he was moving at the time,
the bullet traveled through his body and ended up going into his lung.
He was rushed to the hospital and had to have surgery.
The doctors cut open his stomach to get to the bullet
and the surgery ended up messing up his intestines so he had to get his appendix removed.
It also left a huge scar across his stomach, which fits with his rap name Big Scarr.
But even after getting shot, Big Scarr wasn’t phased.
He bounced back a few weeks later
and appeared in the music video for So Icy Boyz while still recovering.
Big Scarr kept sending shots at Trulla Mafia, rapping
"How the **** you a killer? Ain't nobody come up DOA"
on the track SoIcyBoyz with Pooh Shiesty and Foogiano.
So even though his opps tried to take him out,
Big Scarr proved he wasn’t backing down and continued to apply pressure,
even while he was still recovering.
But Big Scarr ain’t the only one sending shots.
This next rapper from Trula Mafia responded to all of Big Scarr’s disses
by going after one of his dead homies.
"It ain’t sweet ask your homie, I forgot that boy deceased.
we left him dead at the red light, that’s for playing with me"
How We Livin – Main Opp C Mode.
C Mode is one of the main rappers and shooters from Trulla Mafia.
He is the brother of Domo Trulla, one of the gang’s most respected members
and he came up in the streets with some of the gang's top hitters.
In this bar, C Mode is taking shots at one of Big Scarr’s close homies
and Double R member named BG.
On July 16th, 2018,
members of Trulla Mafia caught BG at a red light at the intersection of Winchester
and Hickory Hill Road.
BG was in the whip with three other dudes, when another car pulled up alongside them.
Inside that car was Trulla Mafia members C Mode, Zay and Go Crazy.
When they spotted their opp, they hopped out and started shooting.
BG was killed and Right beside him in the passenger seat was 23,
who was injured but survived, only to be killed a few years later.
Police arrested Carlos Lacey, aka Go Crazy,
and charged him with first-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder,
and three counts of aggravated assault.
He was arrested during a traffic stop,
and later admitted to being the one responsible for the double homicide.
C Mode later arrested in connection with a different shooting
and charged with seven counts of attempted murder.
According to police, C Mode sprayed up a house
on the 5600 block of Meyers while five people were inside.
If that wasn’t enough, he returned to the same house less than a week later
and shot at two people standing in the front yard.
At the time of his arrest, C Mode had already been arrested four times
in less than a year, but two of the cases got dismissed.
The murder of BG is what really sparked the war between Double R and Trulla Mafia.
There was already tension between them,
but BG was close to Big Scarr and other Double R members.
So, his death was a major loss and only turned up the war with Trulla Mafia.
But Big Scarr ain’t the only member of his family beefing in Memphis.
This next rapper dissed one of his opps
on a track that peaked at #13 on the Billboard charts.
"All the woofin' on the net, ***** I thought you was a thug
I ain't got nowhere to go, I shot up everywhere they was
Yeah, you know who took that **** from you
Come get it back in blood
*****, come get it back in blood"
Pooh Shiesty was on his way to becoming one of the biggest rappers in the game,
before getting locked up for two separate shootings.
Part of what made him so popular
was his authenticity, which also might’ve led to his downfall.
On his hit single Back in Blood featuring Lil Durk,
Pooh disses one of his main opps from Memphis EBG EJizzle.
Pooh Shiesty and his homies allegedly hit a lick on EBG Jizzle’s crib
and stole some guns.
So on the track, Pooh is telling him to come get them back.
EBG EJizzle responded with his own remix of Back in Blood,
where he gave his side of the story.
But, the track got taken down for a copyright strike.
EBG EJizzle later explained in an interview that when Pooh hit the lick,
he wasn’t even home and Pooh had his label take down the EBG E Jizzle remix.
He also claims Pooh ain’t really about that life
and was just trying to seem tough for the net.
EBG EJizzle continued dropping diss tracks
and the two sent shots back and forth on social media.
Not long after, E Jizzle got shot in the arm,
so Shiesty and his homie Big 30 used that to diss him,
claiming he was paralyzed.
But EJizzle bounced right back and dropped another diss track called Paralyzed
to show he wasn’t backing down.
So Memphis rappers really ain't the ones to play with.
The rise of Memphis drill has exposed fans to what's really going on in the streets
and the lyrics tell it all.
It might only be a matter of time until another body drops,
or someone else gets locked up.
So we’ll see if the rappers can keep the beef out of the streets
and just leave it in the music.