#foolio

Can’t pretend like I knew who Foolio was but damn envy seem to be a strong ass emotion for Black men. It’s pure misogynoir how Black Women are gaslit year round and the better part of our lives for the kind of “aggression and hostility” only our men realistically & prevalently act on within our communities, and I do not ever understand how. Black men kill each other relentlessly; w/o thought; w/o reasoning; w zero remorse — constantly. Constantly.

It is never Black Women taking you niggas out. It be y’all slaughtering each other fr. All over the US. Consistently. Black Women don’t even have the energy, any advantages, anything to weaponise, the protection, much less an incentive to act on violence toward y’all the way y’all do to each other on a regular basis. Even w as much misogynoir as y’all obsessively put us thru. Y’all are incredibly comfortable outright taking each other’s lives for absolutely nothing. Harming and harassing Black Women just as rampantly, too — but that’s the type of stuff y’all will in the same breath say is either justified or “has nothing to do w y’all”. And it’s always a Black Woman’s “fault” (if not Black Americans or the diaspora at large) who are to blame for why y’all are like this.

Jacksonville, Florida, is not a city that is usually associated with hip hop, let alone drill music. But in recent years, two of its local rappers, Yungeen Ace and Foolio, have been making waves in the rap scene with their catchy songs and controversial videos. However, behind their viral fame lies a deadly feud that has claimed the lives of several of their friends and relatives.

Yungeen Ace and Foolio are the leaders of two rival gangs, ATK and KTA, respectively. ATK stands for Ace to Kill, while KTA stands for Kill Them All. The two groups have been at war for years, but the conflict escalated in May 2017, when Zion Brown, Foolio’s cousin, was killed in a drive-by shooting. Yungeen Ace was suspected of being involved in the murder, but he was never charged.

A year later, Yungeen Ace was the target of a retaliation attack that left him wounded and three of his companions dead. One of them was his brother, Roy’ale. Foolio mocked the tragedy on social media, even wearing a t-shirt with the faces of the deceased. He also released a song called “Voodoo”, in which he claimed to have put a curse on Yungeen Ace and his crew.

The beef continued to escalate, with both sides releasing diss tracks and taunting each other online. In February 2019, Foolio’s younger brother, Bibby, who was also a rapper, was shot and killed at an apartment complex. Another ATK rapper, Ksoo, was later arrested for the murder. He had previously bragged about “smoking Bibby” on his album cover and in his songs.