Kay Flock is one of the hottest drill rappers from the Bronx.
But now it looks like his career might be in jeopardy
after police arrested him for the murder of a man outside of a barbershop.
Let’s take a closer look at what happened.
On December 23rd, Kay Flock surrendered himself to NYC police
in connection with the death of a 24-year-old man named Oscar Hernandez.
The rapper is being charged with murder and weapons possession.
The alleged incident happened on December 16th
outside a barbershop on Amsterdam Ave and West 151st Street.
According to police, the victim was in the barbershop waiting to get a haircut,
when Kay Flock passed by.
As he was walking by,
Kay Flock opened the door and asked the dude that he was looking at.
The victim then got up and walked over to him and a fight broke out.
Kay Flock initially started to walk away,
but then turned around and shot Hernandez in the neck and back.
Authorities have not revealed an official motive, but police say it may have been gang-related.
Hernandez’s family claims that it may have been a case of mistaken identity
because he didn’t know Kay Flock before the shooting.
Police also released a photo of the alleged killer caught on surveillance footage
that shows a man decked out in designer clothes, including a Moncler jacket,
Amiri jeans, and unreleased Jordan 1’s.
So, it’s no wonder why police thought it might be a rapper.
But something definitely seems off about the story,
cause if Kay Flock was really out looking for opps, he probably wouldn’t be dripping in designer.
A day after the news broke,
surveillance footage from outside the barbershop leaked to the internet
and seems to tell a different story.
The footage shows Kay Flock walk past the barbershop without stopping to look inside.
A few seconds later, the victims walk out and follows him out of the view of the camera.
The actual shooting is not shown on the footage.
But it does seem to dispute what the cops originally reported.
Kay Flock never walked toward the barbershop and asked the victim what he was looking at.
He walked right past it and it seems like Hernandez followed him out
and many have been the ones who started the fight.
But it’s difficult to tell what happened after that
because none of it is on the footage that was released.
The rapper may be able to claim self-defense if the victim was the one who initiated the conflict.
But it's still going to be a tough battle
because New York City has strict gun and self-defense laws.
He'll have to prove he felt like his life was in danger and may even still face charges for the gun.
The NYPD has been cracking down on drill rappers lately.
There’s been a spike in crime throughout the city
and police are doing everything they can to crack down on gang activity,
especially when famous rappers are involved.
So as soon as they found out
that one of the hottest up-and-coming artists in the city was involved in a murder,
they were quick to lock him up.
But now it seems like there may be more to the story than originally reported.
Kay Flock was born and raised in the Bronx, New York.
He grew up in the Sevside neighborhood around East 187th Street.
Not much is known about Kay Flock’s early life and he’s still only 18.
But he was in the streets from an early age.
He’s affiliated with the Bloods from 700DOA,
a crew based in Sevside that is made up of a bunch of different sets
like the Mac Balla Brims and Sex Money Murda.
Kay Flock grew up around other rappers from the borough who would eventually become famous,
like his homies Dougie B and B Lovee,
along with other big names like Lil Tjay.
He’s also the cousin of another Bronx drill rapper, D Thang.
But D Thang is a member of the YGz, one of SevSide’s main opps.
So, they are known to beef and diss each other in songs.
Kay Flock has had a pretty fast come-up
and started racking up millions of views with some of his first tracks.
But his career has also been full of ups and downs
including legal problems and beef with other rappers.
Early on Kay Flock didn’t see himself as a rapper.
But he saw his friends B Lovee and Dougie B messing around with music.
So, he decided to give it a try.
Dougie B was the one who really put the idea in his head
and taught him how to make his first songs when he was only just their hype man.
But B Lovee was the one who first started gaining a buzz
while Kay Flock and Dougie were both locked up.
When he came home, Kay Flock saw his homie B Lovee was doing numbers
and decided to start taking music more seriously.
He was also inspired by Chicago drill rappers, especially King Von,
who had come from a similar background
but went on to influence the entire world with their music.
So when he was eventually released, he went right to the studio.
In May 2020, he dropped a remix to the 22GZ song Blixky Gang Freestyle Called FTO’s.
Dougie B would also be released in August 2020 and join his friends, dropping hits.
Kay Flock and B Lovee would collaborate on songs like Speed Racing and Opp Spotter.
Then, Dougie B would join them for the track Brotherly Love,
which blew up and took all their careers to the next level.
Kay Flock would then drop back to back solo tracks that would continue to build his name even more.
In August 2021, he dropped Is Ya Ready,
which featured a savage diss of his own cousin DThang.
It also featured the bar “I’m in fashion bet I’ll still up it”,
which seems crazy now given the details of his recent arrest.
This song quickly blew up and has over 12 million views on YouTube,
establishing Kay Flock as one of the leading voices in the new Bronx drill wave.
He would continue to build off the success of that track
and dropped the song Being Honest, which also did numbers.
That song would start gaining a lot of attention in the industry and a few months later,
G Herbo would jump on the remix.
This was a big deal because it meant that the originators of the drill wave
were cosigning the new Bronx drill sound.
Being Honest would also catch the attention of other rappers in the city
like Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign, who collaborated with Kay Flock on the song "Not in the Mood".
Lil Tjay and Kay Flock had known each other before music.
So it made sense for them to hop on a song,
alongside one of the hottest drill rappers from Brooklyn.
Even though Kay Flock had only been rapping for about a year,
he was already one of the hottest up- -and-coming rappers in New York City.
But fast success also attracts jealousy and hate.
Earlier this year, Kay Flock would get into a beef with another artist from the Bronx
named Ron Suno, which would eventually lead to a huge brawl at Rolling Loud.
Ron Suno got angry after Kay Flock referred to himself as King of Bronx on Instagram.
So, Suno took shots at the rapper
and accused Kay Flock of jacking his style and taking credit for what he started.
Ron Suno is a little older than Kay Flock and has been popular on social media for longer.
Suno started gaining attention for his comedy skits and his #weavechallenge,
where he would pretend to fight people just to troll them.
He started gaining attention for his music in 2019 with the song Pinocchio
which went viral on TikTok and Instagram.
He was one of the first rappers from the Bronx to rap over drill beats
and also collaborated with a lot of Brooklyn drill artists early on,
including Sheff G and Fivio Foreign.
But it’s kind of a stretch to say that Kay Flock completely copied him.
Ron Suno’s comment started a social media beef between the two of them
that led up to their fight at Rolling Loud.
They ended up running into each other backstage at the concert,
leading to a huge brawl.
Apparently, Suno and his crew went up to Kay Flock and his entourage to see if they could talk it out.
But Kay Flock wasn’t feeling his energy and his side started throwing punches.
It was a pretty wild brawl and the whole thing was captured on camera.
But no one was seriously injured, and it seems like they both walked away
with minor cuts and bruises.
They continued to diss each other on social media after it happened
and Ron Suno even claims he jacked Dougie B’s hoodie.
In November 2021,
Kay Flock would drop his debut album The DOA Tape,
which contained many of his popular singles.
Around the same time,
footage also surfaced that allegedly shows Kay Flock getting arrested for gun possession
during a music video shoot.
But it’s not clear if he faced any charges from the arrest.
Now it seems like the rapper is in serious trouble.
Even if he’s innocent, he could be fighting this case for the next few years.
It seems like police are out to get him
and they may even use his music as a way to portray him as a violent killer.
Kay Flock hired an attorney named Scott Leemon.
Leemon is known in the hip-hop community for defending 6ix9ine’s former manager Shotti
from Trey Way.
According to Leemon, he is conducting his own investigation
and learned that the NYPD received a tip
that said Kay Flock was not actually the one who pulled the trigger.
He also admits that they are still reviewing the evidence, which means the tip had not been verified.
But, earlier this month, the NYPD announced
that they had recovered the murder weapon and it had Kay Flock’s fingerprints all over it.
The alleged shooter from the video was wearing a face mask
but didn’t have any gloves on.
So if it was actually Kay Flock who pulled the trigger, it makes sense that his prints would be on the gun.
Plus, the radio transmission of the police searching for the shooter
on the day that Hernandez was killed was also leaked.
The NYPD were alerted after shots were fired in the neighborhood and when police arrived,
they allegedly spotted Kay Flock trying to flee the scene.
At the time, he still had the gun on him but tried to throw it away
while police were chasing him.
Now according to the NYPD, they were able to recover the weapon
with Kay Flock’s prints on it, proving he was the suspect in the video.
The rapper was also moved from where he was being held on Riker’s Island
to the West Facility in East Elmhurst, Queens.
This facility is reserved for inmates with contagious diseases.
It’s not clear what disease Kay Flock caught that led to him being transferred.
But it sounds like the rapper is really goin through it.
If Kay Flock’s prints are really on the murder weapon, he’s going to have a hard time beating the case.
If he can prove he fired in self-defense, he may be able to get a better plea deal.
But New York City is very strict when it comes to guns.
Even if he is able to prove it was self-defense, he’s still facing weapons charges.
Plus it seems like the police are determined to crack down on Kay Flock
and any other up-and-coming drill rappers in the city.
So even if he is innocent, it’s still going to be a tough case to beat.
More information will likely come out as the case progresses.
So, stay tuned for updates.