The Blixky Gang
is one of the biggest rap crews to come out of New York in the past few years.
Their biggest artist 22gz helped spark Brooklyn drill sound
and other Blixky gang affiliates such as Nick Blxcky and Coach Da Ghost
also helped put the crew on the map.
But the Bixky’s have recently suffered a major setback,
after nine members of the group were caught up in a major gun trafficking takedown.
Let’s take a closer look at this wild story.
The Bixky Gang popped off in the late 2010s
after Brooklyn rapper 22gz went viral with tracks like Blixky and Suburban.
Blixky, produced by AXL Beats was considered
one of the first major Brooklyn drill songs to blow up and become popular,
other than Bobby Shmurda’s Hot N****.
The Blixky gang is affiliated with the Gangster Disciples
who operate out of the Ebbet’s Field,
the Prospect Lefferts Garden neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The GD’s have a long history of beef in New York City.
The gang was founded in Chicago and is big in other parts of the South and Midwest.
They have a pretty large presence in Brooklyn as well,
but not as much as the Bloods and Crips.
The GD’s are known to beef with nearly every other gang in Brooklyn,
except for the sets they are allied with.
The Blixky gang is also part of a large gang alliance called the Choos,
who are known to beef with another umbrella gang called the Woo.
The Choos are made up of GD’s and Bloods and the Woo are primarily Crips and Bloods.
Popular rappers affiliated with the Woo
include Pop Smoke, Fivio Foreign, and Rah Swish,
while the biggest Choo rappers are 22Gz, Coach Da Ghost, and Nas Blixky.
These two groups have been beefing for several years,
but the conflict became known to the public after Brooklyn drill started to gain popularity.
With 22gz leading the charge,
the Blixky gang would be the most notable Choo-affiliated rap group in Brooklyn,
which made them natural enemies of nearly every other popular rapper in the area.
22gz would eventually get locked up
following a wild road rage incident in Miami
that resulted in a police chase and one person being killed.
19-year-old Jeffrey Alexander
allegedly shot and killed 30-year-old Ladarian Tyrell Phillips of Homestead
Alexander then fled to Alton road in 6th street with his three friends say police.
One of whom died after being shot by the cops
He would be arrested for conspiracy to commit murder
and spend 5 months in jail in 2017, but eventually beat the charge.
During this time, Nick Blixky would step up to the plate and start rapping.
Around that time, another rapper affiliated with the Blixky Gang, Coach Da Ghost
was released from prison after being indicted in a major police takedown of the Hoodstarz,
the early name for the Choos.
Coach would quickly start gaining a buzz with tracks like Gooey Sauce and Hitlist,
which gained a lot of attention because it featured a Pop Smoke diss
after the rapper had recently passed.
Coach almost signed to Gucci Mane’s 1017 label
but was eventually dropped for unknown reasons.
Although he still seems to be on good terms with Guwop.
But, just as the Blixky Gang would start to gain a major buzz in the industry,
tragedy would strike.
In May 2020, Nick Blixky would be shot and killed in Brooklyn.
A popular rapper was shot and killed overnight
Nick Blixky was discover with gunshot wounds on Winthrop Street
Police later identified a suspect using surveillance footage from the scene,
which revealed that the shooter dapped him up before shooting him,
suggesting that it was someone the rapper knew.
Although an official motive has not been determined,
police believe that it was related to the violent war between the Woos and the Choos
and retaliation for other members of Blixky Gang dissing Pop Smoke.
Not long after that, there would be more internal fighting within the group
after Coach Da Ghost announced that Envy Caine,
another popular rapper affiliated with the Blixky Gang,
was no longer part of the Choos.
But the person is no longer apart of the threes
You get me?
So whatever **** they say I got going on
it got nothing to do with GD's
or Choo's. At all. Nothing
Although Envy Caine was never officially a part of the Blixky Gang,
he was a member of the GD’s
and has collaborated with 22gz on several tracks.
But after an incident where the rapper was allegedly robbed
and caused issues with other Choo affiliates in Atlanta,
Coach Da Ghost went on Instagram to announce that Envy was no longer a GD.
Because Coach was an OG Hoodstar who did 7 years without snitching on the gang,
he has a lot of pull over the GD’s in Brooklyn.
So, this announcement was a major controversy within the Choo organization.
Now it seems like things are getting even worse for the Blixky Gang
after nine suspects were arrested in a gun trafficking scandal
that included weapons used in their music videos.
Earlier this year, federal authorities in the Southern District of New York
busted a major illegal firearm operation
being run by a gun runner named Duvaugh Wilson.
Wilson was acting as what is called a Straw Purchaser,
someone who acts as a middleman in a gun purchase
on behalf of someone who cannot legally possess a firearm,
typically because they are a convicted felon.
The Feds tied Wilson to the purchase of 87 guns,
which he would then turn around and sell to his co-defendants,
who are members of the Blixky Gang.
They would then either sell the guns in Georgia or bring them to New York on a bus.
Some of the weapons were confiscated before making it into NYC,
while some ended up in the hands of Blixky gang members
who used them as props in their music videos.
New York has pretty strict gun laws
and the NYPD uncovered the operation
after launching an investigation into how guns were coming into the city.
The police were able to pinpoint the buyer,
which eventually led them to link some of the guns recovered
to the Blixky gang through their music videos.
During the investigation, they also tied one of the illegal guns
to a case that involved shots fired at police officers in the Bronx,
which really made them step up their investigation.
Lisa O. Monaco, the deputy attorney general,
even stated in a press conference
that breaking up the gun trafficking routes in cities like New York
was one of her top priorities.
The police ended up tying the Blixky gang to the trafficking ring,
after Devaughn Wilson,
the straw purchaser who bought the guns in Georgia on behalf of the Blixky gang,
flipped and agreed to testify.
Wilson purchased the guns in his own name from legal gun sellers in Georgia.
But he lied on the paperwork and claimed that the guns were for personal use
when he was actually selling them to his co-defendants.
It’s a federal crime to make false statements on gun purchase forms,
which includes lying about the identity of the buyer.
Even though Wilson could pass a background check,
most of the people he was selling to probably could not, which is a violation of federal law.
After police realized that Wilson was the straw purchaser,
they quickly put him under arrest.
Faced with the possibility of taking the heat for the entire operation,
Wilson agreed to tell police who the buyer was.
He named James Thomas aka Spazz,
and Courtney Schloss aka B Way as the primary buyers.
All the police had to do after that
was sit back and wait for the Blixky gang to snitch on themselves
by appearing in several music videos with the stolen guns.
Clout chasing has been the biggest downfall for this new generation of rappers.
Some just can’t help showing off their criminal lifestyle on social media,
which can lead to serious problems
if you’re really living the life you talk about in the music.
It seems like the Blixky Gang kept it a little too real
and probably should have been more careful with flexing stolen guns that they helped traffic.
The videos that show the guns are called Word to Folk by Saint Laurent Sour
and Tay 627 and Guns in the Booth,
which is a Saint Laurent Sour solo track.
The videos are full of stolen firearms,
many of which the police eventually confiscated as part of their operation.
Police were able to determine that Wilson would purchase the firearms legally,
then sell them to Spazz and Bway,
who would turn around and distribute them to other members of the Blixky Gang.
They had a pretty tight operation running
and it probably could have gone on for a lot longer
if the Blixkys had been better about keeping their activities low key.
Police were able to determine that one .22 caliber handgun
seized in the operation had been used to fire three shots at police,
by a suspect who was fleeing on foot.
Plus, the month before the arrests,
police seized four firearms, including a Smith & Wesson .40 caliber pistol
that had been purchased by Wilson,
while executing a search warrant in connection with the arrest
of a man wanted for a murder in Brooklyn.
In total, 9 members of the Blixky Gang, including 8 men and 1 woman,
were named in the indictment.
They included Blixky Gang members Spazz, Dupree, Bway or Balenci,
Ryu, Sour, Sosa, Chirs Elite,
Mel, and White Girl.
Police are cracking down everywhere on the transportation of illegal weapons,
especially in New York where the crime rate has recently spiked over the past year.
The cops already have it out for drill rappers,
so as soon as they catch them slipping, they show no mercy.
The Blixky Gang is going to have an uphill battle from here.
After losing two key members Nick Blixky and Lou Blixky to gun violence
and now nine more in this indictment,
they are running out of members left on the streets.
22Gz and Nas Blixky are free to hold it down for the squad,
but they’re going to have a hard time now with most of their crew locked up.
When you combine this with the fact that the group has already been blackballed from the industry
because of their constant beef with other powerful gangs in Brooklyn,
it’s going to be tough for the Blixky Gang to continue and build momentum.
It isn’t entirely over for the gang
and they still have a dedicated core fanbase
with plenty of respect in the streets of Brooklyn.
But this is a major setback for the crew, who were already underdogs to begin with.
Somehow, the gang managed to set up an interstate gun smuggling operation
that was undetected by police for a long time.
Who knows what they could have accomplished
if they put that energy into something positive.
But this is yet another case of talented rappers
getting caught up because they continue to live a lifestyle of crime and violence,
and even post it all online for police to use as evidence.
22Gz will have to hold it down for the whole squad
because it seems like it may be a while before the other members are back on the streets.
If you thought this video was crazy,
be sure to checkout our channel for more.
From Memphis Lyrics That Really Happened
to The Woos vs The Choos,
we cover the most insane stories that you need to hear!
Well, that's all for today!
Please SMASH that like button if you enjoyed this video.
Comment below what you want to see next.
Don’t forget to Subscribe to our channel and hit that notification bell,
so you never miss any great videos like this.
Catch you in the next one!