Baton Rouge is a wild city,
claiming the 6th highest murder rate in the US for 2020.
The rise of NBA Youngboy has shined a light on the daily life and street politics of the city.
But, Youngboy isn’t the only popular rapper from Baton Rouge
and another hot artist who’s a sworn opp of the NBA camp
may be threatening Youngboy’s title as the most popular rapper from the area.
Here is a look at the deadly beef between NBA Youngboy and Fredo Bang.
To fully understand this beef,
we’ll have to take a look back at the beginnings of Youngboy’s career
and a beef he had with another Baton Rouge artist named Gee Money.
Youngboy is known to rep 38th Street on the Northside of Baton Rouge,
which is where the title of his breakout hit 38 Baby comes from.
But, early in his career, he would link up with a crew from South Baton Rouge called TBG.
South Baton Rouge is divided into two sections.
TBG or Top Boy Gorillas claim the top section
and BBG or Bottom Boy Gorillas claim the lower section.
Today, the NBA camp is cool with BBG,
and both have beef with TBG, but that wasn’t always the case.
Growing up, Youngboy was friends with the younger brother of a rapper from TBG
named Gee Money.
Gee Money was a few years older than them and became a mentor to Youngboy.
When Youngboy started to rap, Gee Money brought him into the TBG collective
and started helping him make music.
The rapper can even be seen in the video for the TBG track iPhone 6,
along with Gee Money and Fredo Bang who is also a member of the group.
iPhone 6 blew up
and made Gee Money one of the biggest artists coming out of Baton Rouge at the time.
Youngboy also released his first project Life Before Fame while signed to TBG,
but it failed to gain much attention.
So, Gee Money became the focus of the label and Youngboy was pushed to the side.
Right around that time, Fredo Bang got locked up for attempted murder.
When he went to jail, everything was still cool between the TBG and NBA crew.
But by the time he was released, it was an all-out war.
Youngboy eventually left TBG,
because he felt like he wasn’t getting the shine and attention he deserved.
He instead began to focus on himself and building NBA as its own brand.
This is where tension started to build with the TGB camp,
and their relationship would only get worse after a few key events.
First, Youngboy started getting close to his cousin Boozila.
He and Boozilla had been beefing while he was part of TBG,
but they eventually made up and began rocking with each other again.
Boozilla was a member of BBG and had issues with TBG,
which would eventually lead to his death.
Around this time, Youngboy was starting to build a buzz of his own
and began using his new platform to throw shade at his former friends.
On the track, Pour One he raps about where the beef with Gee Money began,
saying “Remember smoking weed with your lil brother
Matter fact n****, I used to call you my big brother
Then you did some foul shit and had sex with my sister
then threw it in my face in front the people on insta”.
Gee Money later admitted in an interview with Say Cheese
that he did sleep Youngboy’s sister, which is what started the beef.
He says that it happened a long time ago and Youngboy wasn’t trippin' over it at first.
But after he started gaining attention, the success got to his head
and he let his emotions get the best of him.
The two would continue trading diss songs over the next few months
that quickly went from subliminals
to calling each other out by name
and making it clear that despite their past affiliations, they were no longer cool.
While this was all going down,
Youngboy’s cousin Boozilla was shot and killed in Baton Rouge.
Immediately after he was killed, Youngboy went out looking for who was responsible
and ended up catching two attempted murder charges.
He and three of his affiliates, NBA Ben Ten, NBA Self Paid, and NBA Joe
slid to the opp’s block and let off a few shots
at the two people they thought were responsible.
They ended up missing their target, but NBA Joe was somehow shot in the neck
and brought to the hospital.
A suspect named Trashone Coats was later arrested for the murder.
It’s not clear what the motive was,
but the gossip on the internet is that it had to do with Boozilla dissing a TBG rapper
named Dusa.
Boozilla’s murder only added fuel to the fire in the beef between NBA and TBG,
but it was put on hold for a while while Youngboy was locked up.
Youngboy was arrested for attempted murder
and spend the next 8 months fighting the case.
Even though he was potentially facing life in prison,
his lawyers were able to plead it down to just a 10-year suspended sentence.
Check out our video on Rappers That Beat a Murder Charge for more info on this case.
After Youngboy was released from prison,
the beef between him and G Money got even more heated.
Youngboy dropped his album AI Youngboy, which featured several disses aimed at his rival.
He and Youngboy started going back and forth on social media,
dissing each other and making threats.
Gee Money then dropped the track “Industry (Youngboy Never Broke Again Response)”,
where he takes direct shots at Youngboy.
Tragically, in September 2017,
Gee Money was shot to death in the parking lot of a music studio.
He was about to link up with Fredo Bang, who was set to be released from prison that same day.
But he was killed before Fredo got out.
When Gee Money was killed,
they kept Fredo locked up for a few more months out of fear that he may retaliate
or end up getting himself killed.
This is where the beef between Fredo and Youngboy really began
because he was locked up while all the other drama was going down.
The NBA camp had the advantage at that point,
with TBG’s main artist dead
and its other two most prominent rappers, Fredo Bang and BLVD Quick, behind bars.
But it just so happened that BLVD Quick and Youngboy’s brother OG 3 Three
were both in the same prison dorm.
In an Instagram Live session the rapper did after getting released,
he claims that he jumped OG 3 Three in jail to get revenge for G Money’s death.
Youngboy cooled off with the diss tracks after that
because he had no one else in the streets to beef with
and he was a suspect in Gee Money’s murder.
But the beef would pick right back up again after Youngboy’s manager, Desmond Hardnett,
also known as Dump, was shot and killed outside of his home.
He was standing in the driveway by his car talking to his girlfriend
when shots were fired from a passing vehicle.
His girl was also shot but survived.
Dump’s death intensified the beef between NBA and TBG
and not long after the shooting, Fredo Bang was released from prison.
He and BLVD Quick then went on a mission to take over the rap game
and get revenge for Gee Money’s death.
Youngboy even went as far as calling out Gee Money by name on the track AMR,
where he says that the rest of the TBG crew is gonna end up like him for killing Dump.
Fredo and Quick responded with their own series of diss tracks
and the beef just kept getting more and more out of control.
It even got to the point where Youngboy’s mom got involved in the beef,
going on IG Live to say “**** Fredo Bang and **** BLVD Slow”.
BLVD Quick responded to tell her to “get his name out of her mouth
and to stay out of the beef”.
Youngboy obviously didn’t like the disrespect of his mom,
even if she was the one who started it.
What happened next shocked the city of Baton Rouge.
In November 2018,
BLVD Quick was shot to death outside the Lakeside Villa Apartments where he lived.
He was killed just three weeks after dissing Youngboy’s mom
and police began to link all the various homicides that had occurred over the past two to three years
to this rap beef.
Recently, an NBA affiliate named NBA Pap was arrested for the murder of Gee Money.
Police had interviewed him three days after the murder
and he had told police that he was in Hammond, LA on the night of G Money’s death.
He claims he was getting gas for his car so he and his mother could get out of the city
and avoid retaliation.
But the police were able to use phone records to prove that his story didn’t hold up
and that he was really in Baton Rouge on the night of the murder.
They also found shell casings that matched those of the crime scene
on Jefferson Avenue in Baton Rouge and were able to determine
that Pap tried to ditch the gun with some people he knew who lived down there.
It was also revealed that NBA Pap was previously shot by a TBG affiliate
who goes by the name Lit Yoshi,
who is also believed to be involved in several shootings related to this beef.
In addition to the shooting of NBA Pap,
Yoshi has also been charged with Youngboy’s manager Dump’s murder,
as well as a shooting that happened in Miami in 2019.
Youngboy was in Miami for Rolling Loud
when he was shot at outside his hotel in Sunny Isles Beach.
His own entourage returned fire,
leading to a wild shootout that left several people injured and an innocent bystander dead.
No one from the NBA team was injured,
except for Youngboy’s girlfriend who was shot in the shoulder.
A Texas man, his girlfriend, and his 5-year-old son
were also grazed by bullets and a 43-year-old named Mohamad Jradi
was killed in the crossfire.
So Lit Yoshi is now facing at least three attempted murder cases,
with more evidence being introduced as time goes on.
BLVD Quick was also suspected in the shooting of Youngboy’s manager,
but he was killed before being arrested.
So with most of the TBG affiliates either dead or behind bars,
Fredo Bang is NBA’s primary target.
Youngboy and Fredo have continued to exchange diss tracks
and insult each other on social media, keeping the beef alive.
In 2020, Youngboy announced that fans could expect a new project from him
on September 11th.
Fredo Bang was also planning on dropping a project on the same day
and took to social media to taunt his rival.
He posted a slide to his IG story with the caption
“Guess Me and My Son Dropping Together”
crying emojis.
Youngboy didn’t appreciate the disrespect
and took to his own Instagram to call Fredo a *** and tell him that he isn't in his league.
He also posted a video with the caption “Ima catch you and bang yo scary-ass”
and told Fredo that he better “go dig all three of yo brothers up”.
Imma bump you ***** ass *****, go dig all three of your brothers up
with your scary ass, stop running from me I ain't in no competition with you
Stop writing me, you a ***
Fredo followed up with his own video, saying that Youngboy needs some help
because he seems very angry.
He also goes on to diss some of Youngboy’s dead homies
and claim that some of his girls are sliding in his DM’s.
He is much calmer than Youngboy, but still just as disrespectful.
Man someone go help out little lil brotha out, bro he angry dog, he angry
Talking about dead partners and **** he act like I'm on this ***** talking about,
fat boy in that extra extra large coffin he got.
It ain't my fault all your ***** in my DM
You shared two **** now all of a sudden I'm just ******* everything,
stop playing man.
So, it seemed like only a matter of time
before another body was dropped in this bloody war gone way too far.
The beef may be put on pause for a while,
after Youngboy was arrested by the FBI in March 2021.
Back In September of 2020,
Youngboy was caught up in a police raid along with 16 other people
and charged with illegal weapons possession
and the distribution and manufacturing of drugs.
He and a group of other men were filming a music video
outside an abandoned trap house in Baton Rouge.
The neighbors called the police and authorities found 14 guns
and $79,000 worth of cash.
Youngboy initially posted bail.
His lawyers claimed that the police have no way to prove
that Youngboy had any connection to the drugs and weapons found in the crime scene.
But, being a convicted felon, the rapper is not allowed to even hold a firearm
or associate with other convicted felons.
The fact that police found a mini arsenal of weapons
definitely wasn’t a good look for the rapper either.
A few months after he was released,
the FBI announced that they were opening an investigation into the NBA camp.
Even though they are holding him on a gun charge,
it’s likely just being used as an excuse to get him off the streets
and end the deadly cycle of violence that has been raging in the streets of Baton Rouge.
After a warrant was issued for Youngboy’s arrest, LAPD tried to pull him over.
But Youngboy must have known what was coming because he tried to flee.
First, he tried to just drive off but when police had him cornered,
he got out of the vehicle and escaped on foot.
The FBI had to be called in and a K-9 unit was deployed to locate him.
Youngboy has been denied a bond in this case and is being held until his trial.
A California judge initially approved a $540,000 bond,
but this was later denied by a Louisiana judge,
who had the final say because the crime occurred in Baton Rouge.
The court claimed that Youngboy was a “danger to the community”
because of his past crimes and his history of ignoring the conditions of his probation.
So, it seems like the Feds aren’t playing around with this one
and are looking to make an example out of Youngboy
to try and put a stop to the violence going on in Baton Rouge.
Although Youngboy has a history of beating difficult cases, this one is looking very different.
It seems like the Feds have identified the NBA crew as a violent street gang
and they are looking to paint Youngboy as the sole leader of the operation.
If Youngboy ends up doing some serious time,
it will be a major L for the entire NBA camp.
TBG will have the upper hand in the music industry
with Fredo Bang still doing his thing.
Hopefully, Youngboy will beat the case and learn his lesson.
But, with so many lives already lost, it seems like the beef will just continue,
even IF Youngboy is behind bars.
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