The UK rap scene gets just as wild as it does in the US.
However, due to strict gun regulations,
stabbings and knife crime are very common in the UK.
Shootouts do happen as well,
but because it's harder to get your hands on a gun,
many young gang bangers use blades to deal with their opps
rather than relying on a dirty or illegal pistol.
Here is a look at some of the most famous UK rappers who have been stabbed.
TM1way
TM1way is a drill rapper from Brixton who was stabbed to death in November 2020.
The London-based artist was also the brother of well-known Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage.
At this point, it’s public info that 21 was originally from London
but moved to the US with his mother after his parents divorced.
But some of his siblings stayed in London with their father, including TM1way.
In February 2019, Savage was arrested by ICE
for living in the US illegally,
which is when the world learned that he was really from the UK.
He is currently fighting to gain lawful US citizenship.
Check out our video on rappers who were cloned for more info on this arrest.
In November 2020,
TM1way was found suffering from a stab wound
at an estate on Ramilles Close in the Brixton Hill neighborhood of London,
where his grandmother lived.
Relatives claimed that he was bringing groceries to his grandmother when he bumped into an old acquaintance.
The two got into an argument
and the man ended up stabbing him to death.
A 21-year-old named Tyrece Fuller was arrested and charged with the murder.
Details surrounding the motive have not been revealed,
as the case has yet to go to trial.
But his family members have stressed that TM1way was not involved in any gangs
and had no known enemies.
They also say that the person he was killed by was a former friend, not an opp.
Not long after the stabbing,
Savage took to social media to mourn the loss of his brother,
posting a photo of the two of them together with the caption
“can’t believe somebody took you baby bro
I know I took my anger out on you I wish I could take that **** back”
This led many fans to speculate
that perhaps the two were not on the best terms.
It does seem strange that 21 Savage had a drill rapper brother
that he had never mentioned or collaborated with.
It wasn’t until 21’s Ice arrest that the world was aware of 21’s UK roots
and he probably wasn’t trying to bring attention to the fact that he had family in London,
knowing that he was in the US illegally.
Plus, it seems like there may have been some tension in the family,
after the separation of their parents
and it’s difficult to know how close they were to begin with.
Either way, it was still his brother
and he had every right to mourn the loss no matter what kind of relationship they had.
Sadly, the world never got to hear a TM1way and 21 Savage collab,
but some things just aren’t meant to be.
Hopefully, his killer will be found guilty,
so at least the family can get some closure.
But, TM1way isn’t the only UK Rapper to get stabbed.
This next rapper got stabbed to death in a brawl with a rival rapper,
who bragged about the murder on Snapchat right after he was killed.
Yupp, here’s the wild story...
16 Shotz
16 Shotz is a drill rapper from London who is associated with a gang called MBlock.
M Block, who also goes by the name Team Raw,
operated out of the Stockwell Park Estate in the Stockwell area
and is known to beef with a rival crew called 150 or GBG
who operated out of the Angell Town Estate in Brixton.
16 Shotz was still an up-and-coming drill rapper
and not much is known about his background.
He released a track with other members of Team Raw Cfigz and Clapalot
in July 2020 called No Difference.
In the song, the crew sends subliminal cases at their opps, but don’t mention anything too specific.
The rappers were known to beef with 150,
which was a splinter group of the Gas Gang from Brixton.
16 Shotz had an ongoing feud with a rapper from 150 named Stickz, which is what led to his death.
The two had been known to diss each other on social media
and in 2019, Stickz released a direct diss track called 16 Shots,
where he called out the rapper by name.
16 shotz told fans on social media
that he felt violated by the diss and it was on sight after that.
The two ended up coming face to face less than a year later
which resulted in a fight that left one of the rappers dead and the other with a stab wound to the face.
On August 20th, 2020,
there was a stabbing on Overton Road in the Angell Estates Houses in Brixton,
where Stickz is from.
Allegedly, 16 Shotz and his boys from Mblock
drove into Angell Estates that day looking for Stickz.
According to witnesses,
a vehicle driving at around 50 or 60 miles per hour came through the neighborhood
and drove into a group of about 10 people hanging out in the street.
They hit the group, injuring 6 people,
then slammed into a Mercedes and flipped over.
It’s believed that the car contained 16 shotz and his crew,
who spotted Stickz and tried to run him over.
After the crash, they got out of the vehicle
and there was a chase before the two rappers faced off in a knife fight.
According to witnesses,
16 Shotz tried to flee but didn’t know his way around the area.
He ended up running down a dead-end street where he was trapped by his enemy,
which is when the stabbing occurred.
Both ended up getting pretty badly injured,
but Stickz survived and 16 shotz later died in the hospital.
Witnesses say that after the fight,
16 Shotz ended up naked in the street.
He was still conscious while he waited for an ambulance and was brought to the hospital alive
but later ended up dying from his injuries.
A helicopter had to be brought in to transport the rapper to the hospital,
which caused quite a scene in the neighborhood.
The rapper was stabbed more than 15 times
and Stickz suffered similar injuries.
Stickz posted to his Instagram story from the hospital,
showing off his stab wounds but claiming
“he’s still flexin in this *****”
He finished the story with a link to promote the track 16 shots,
which is pretty cold-blooded since he just murdered his enemy hours earlier.
He also posted on his snap chat the next day with the caption “Thank God for another day”.
At the time, Stickz was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder but was later released.
The police instead arrested a 19-year-old man for the murder,
who is rumored to be a GBG affiliate the named KTN.
Stickz put the incident behind him and has continued with his music career.
The killing was pretty brutal,
and it was rumored that they had stabbed 16 shotz up to 35 times.
But then again, he did try to run them over and left Stickz permanently disfigured.
No one deserves to lose their life in such a vicious way,
but it isn’t that surprising that his opps shows no remorse for the killing.
If you thought that was crazy,
this next rapper was killed in a street fight that went down after someone dissed his dead homie.
Bis
Bis was a drill rapper and member of the group Harlem Spartans
a collective based in the Kensington neighborhood of South London.
The police have identified the Spartans as a gang;
however, the group denies this and claims it’s just a music collective.
They started making music around 2014 and originally gained attention with tracks like Call Me a Spartan
and Kensington Where it Started.
The group even managed to attract the attention of Drake
and even posted their lyrics to his social media.
Bis was one of the most popular members of the group and has gained millions of streams on his own
for songs like I Don’t Mind and Beretta.
But tragically, Bis was killed on December 6th, 2019
after shooting a video for the song Barretta.
He was stabbed nine times in the chest
and head in the Deptford area of Southeast London.
According to those who were present at the time,
on the way back from the video shoot,
Bis got into an argument with someone on the phone who was being disrespectful to his dead friend
and fellow Harlem Spartan member Latwaan Griffiths aka Latz.
Latz had been killed on July 18th
after being stabbed several times on the back of a moped in Camberwell, South London.
A 17-year-old was later arrested for the stabbing
and the killing was believed to be retaliation in an ongoing war between the Harlem Spartans
and a Brixton-based gang called 410.
The two groups have been exchanging diss tracks for years
and their beef has also led to several violent attacks, including the one that killed Latz.
Apparently, Bis didn’t appreciate the disrespect of his dead friend
and ended up threatening whoever was on the other line.
But instead of just making threats, he told the men to pull up and they arranged to meet.
They agreed to meet in Deptford and when Bis saw the dudes he was yelling at,
he started attaching the cab they were in with a mallet.
Originally the cab tried to drive away,
but two men hopped out and were joined by two other unknown associates.
The four men started attacking Bis and ended up stabbing him to death.
The two men Bis was arguing with were later identified as Elijah Morgan and Jedidiah Param.
The other two men who participated in the attack have not been identified
and police are still looking for them.
Both men denied the murder, however,
the stabbing was captured on CCTV.
Fans of drill were confused by the killing
because Morgan and Param were not part of 410,
nor any crew known to have beef with the Spartans.
Because of how brutal the stabbing was,
many thought it went deeper than an angry phone call
but it seems it was a case of bruised egos that led to the murder.
Morgan claimed that the CCTV footage had falsely identified him.
Param admitted to being there but says it was someone else that committed the stabbings
and he tried to pull him off.
He says he knew Bis in passing and had seen him do things that made him feel intimidated.
When he attacked them that night
he feared for his life and acted in self-defense.
Morgan did not show up for most of the trial
because his lawyers claimed he was suffering from severe anxiety.
In the end, they were both found guilty of murder and are awaiting sentencing.
So, it seems like Morgan and Param
got caught up portraying a street lifestyle and felt they had to react when pressed by Bis.
The diss could have easily ended in an argument or fistfight but got taken to violent extremes and unfortunately,
a talented rapper lost his life.
By this point it’s clear the UK can get crazy.
This next rapper was stabbed backstage at a BBC1 performance
and robbed of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry.
Let’s get right into it…
Krept
Krept is one half of the British rap duo Krept and Konan
who have been making waves in the UK hip hop and grime scene for the past decade.
In 2011, the duo released a cover of Otis by Jay-Z and Kanye West that went viral,
reaching 5 million views in under five days
before it was removed by Jay-Z’s legal team for copyright violations.
But that's ok because the song helped the crew build a fanbase
and they’ve gone on to release chart-topping records
and even be awarded the British Empire medal for their contribution to music and their community.
But no matter how successful you get,
when you come from the streets,
sometimes it comes back to bite you.
In October 2019,
Krept ended up getting stabbed and robbed after a show at a busy music venue in Birmingham.
Krept was backstage at a BBC 1extra live gig at the Birmingham Arena
when he was attacked by a group of gang members who cut him up and robbed him of his chain.
The media originally reported that the gang responsible was the notorious Johnson Crew,
a feared group of gangsters who had been running the Birmingham streets since the late ’80s.
According to news site Birmingham Live,
Krept himself had no beef with the Johnson crew,
but there was another Birmingham rapper named Money Mitch who did.
Krept wasn’t with Money Mitch,
but he did say what’s up to him, which is allegedly what caused the fight.
In a leaked audio clip of Krept talking about the stabbing,
the rapper claims about 30 young kids came up to him backstage with knives
demanding to know where Mitch was.
Krept only knew the rapper casually and told the crew to go away
because he didn’t know Mitch like that.
One of the kids tried to jack his chain
and Krept punched him in the face.
That’s when the gang jumped on him and started stabbing him.
Luckily, Krept got out of there alive,
but it proved that the BBC needs to step up its security team.
About 30 youths backed up with about 10 knives,
where's um, where's mitch where's mitch?
Talking about Money Mitch.
I said the **** you asking me for?
Bro bare knifes man.
And one of them grabbed my cadet chain from me,
and then I banged him.
And then they just started trying to stab me.
Bare knifes just sliced on my neck,
stabbed my ******* leg, hand.
It seems like Krept was just at the wrong place at the wrong time
and got caught up in someone else’s beef.
But, it’s not entirely clear why the gang thought Krept was associated with Mitch
and who was responsible for the stabbing.
A Johnson Crew member named Zimbo
who is a former gangster turned community activist
claims that the media’s reporting of the fight was inaccurate.
He says that he was at the show that night with the Johnson crew
and they had all left before the violence occurred.
He believes the media is just trying to slander the gang
and accuse them of something they didn’t do,
just because they were at the concert.
It’s worth pointing out that no one from the Johnson gang was arrested for the stabbing,
which seems strange since it happened backstage at a crowded arena
and the media claimed to know exactly who did it.
So, it’s unclear exactly what gang was responsible for the stabbing,
but one thing is clear,
they were after another rapper and just happened to find Krept first.
Mitch is a well-known rapper in Birmingham
who has a lot more active beef in the streets than Krept.
He was associated with a crew called Get Money Gang
and has been releasing music since he was released from prison in 2016
after doing 7 years for armed robbery.
GMG is known to be involved in an ongoing war
with another Birmingham Gang called Armed Response or AR
and many have suggested that the men who attacked Krept
were actually AR members,
despite the media’s reporting that it was the Johnson Crew.
Luckily, Krept made a full recovery
and even managed to get his chain back.
The chain was not only worth thousands of dollars,
but it featured a picture of the rapper’s cousin Cadet,
who was also a popular artist who was killed in a car accident earlier that year.
So, despite all the drama,
Krept ended up luckier than most rappers
who get caught up in street beef.
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