Young Slo Be was supposed to be the first street rapper to make it out of Stockton California and hit the mainstream, but instead he stuck
around the city too long and got killed in a wild situation. Today we’re breaking down how Young Slo Be was tragically murdered in his hometown. Young Slo Be came up in
the Southeast area of Stockton called Nightingale. In an interview with Innovators, Slo said growing up in
the hood was definitely rough but he didn’t think it was that bad. Slo’s mom knew all about the streets but worked a normal nine to five job, but the situation with his dad was different. Slo’s dad was active in the trenches
the whole time Slo was growing up, and they didn’t really
get along back in the day. He lived with his mom and grandma, but Slo ended up following
his dad into the street life. Slo was into sports back in the day but he was surrounded by dudes
who were hustling in the trenches. He said when you’re always
around that kind of environment you don’t wanna feel left out, and that’s why a lot of dudes end up
hopping off the porch and getting active. A lot of Slo’s homies and cousins
were gang banging and every time he walked outside the door he saw the OGs in the
neighborhood making money. His mom did her best to
keep him away from all of that, but by the time he was a young teenager Slo was already repping the Bloods. Slo learned from his dad how
to move in the streets, but gang banging wasn’t
the only connection they had. Slo’s dad wanted to be a rapper and set up a little studio in his crib. His uncle was also rapping back then, and Slo wanted to hop in the booth and see what he could do. One day when he was staying with his dad, Slo snuck into the studio and laid down his first track
while his dad was out of the house. He wasn’t supposed to ever go in the studio, but Slo left the computer on
after recording the track so his dad would come home and hear it. When Slo’s dad found out
he was in the studio he was pressed about it at first, but after he listened to the track Slo made, he realized how much potential he had. Back in 2018 Slo started taking rap more seriously, but he didn’t just blow up overnight. Some dudes drop one hot track
and go viral off the jump. Slo’s come up in the rap game
wasn’t like that though. At first he thought he’d start racking up
crazy views on his first tracks, but then he realized how hard
it really was to break into the industry. He was only getting a few thousand
views on his songs back then, and there were a few times when Slo thought about giving up
on the rap game completely. He talked about how tough it was at first, but then Slo realized he just had to keep grinding
and investing in himself if he was gonna make it work. I didn't pop bro, I had to learn n***a it's levels to this shit bro. You gotta put in your work you gotta invest in shit bro. After a while, Slo started picking up
a buzz in the local area. He had his name popping in Stockton, but linking up with rappers
from other cities is what really helped him get poppin. Back in 2019 he linked up with a Sacramento
rapper named Bris, and their track 21:42 popped off and racked up a few million plays. Bris grew up in Sacramento and repped the Fruitridge Bloods. And just like Slo, he was in the streets way before
he ever thought about becoming a rapper. Bris was outside hustling
and trying to get his money up, but everything changed for him
after one of his best friends got killed. Young Slo Be knew that
he needed to switch things up and find a way out of the trenches, and that’s when he linked up
with his cousin Mac J. Mac J came up in the
streets of Sacramento too, but then he hopped in the booth and started making
connections in the industry. Mac had watched one of his dad’s
friends bleed out on their front porch and knew he didn’t wanna
go out the same way. He started making music
in a family member’s garage while he was still in high school, but it didn’t work out at first and he fell into the trenches too. Back then, Bris was neck deep in the trenches but Mac was still hitting up
the studio every chance he got. Both of them were going in
and out of jail a lot, but Mac knew he didn’t
wanna stay in the streets forever. After he got his name popping
in Sacramento a little bit he finally convinced Bris
to hop in the booth too, and in 2016 they racked up a few hundred thousand
views on their track Non Stop. That was enough to make Bris realize rap could be his ticket out of the streets, but it still took a few years
before anything changed for him. 2019 is when Bris linked up with Slo, and he had a couple of solo tracks
that ran up crazy numbers too. It was the biggest year for Slo and Bris yet, but it also sparked a wild beef that allegedly got both of them killed. In 2019, a rapper named Uzzy Marcus
took shots at Bris on the track 42K and rapped “Keep it real, you n****s ain’t killed a fly And if it’s money on my head, why the fuck I’m still alive? You n****s ain’t poppin’ shit, they really just talkin’ shit Where they at? I’m right here on 42nd with the stick Lil Bris, he a pussy and Lil Danny he a bitch Keep playin’, I be outside yo granny’s with the switch.” After 42K dropped, Bris allegedly clapped back
with Sparked a Fuse and rapped “Y’all just sparked a fuse, that mean it started back I ain’t trippin’ off the funk, it been apart of that Hit his Starter cap and make him fall and push his thoughter back I just bought a strap, if it don’t kill you, it’ll cause a heart attack.” Mac J claims that it wasn’t a diss track, but that didn’t keep
the beef from heating up. Uzzy and Bris weren’t the only dudes
involved with the situation though, and it actually all started with some
drama between CML Lavish D and another rapper named Mozzy. Mozzy and Lavish D had issues
that went deeper than rap, and in 2014 Mozzy took a shot at him
on the track I’m Just Being Honest and said “We can pistol play but that ain’t something you want to do I’m just being honest Lav never caught a body, I’m just being honest.” Then one of Lavish’s homies
shot a music video in Mozzy’s hood and Mozzy clapped back with
another diss track called Tha Truth. The beef was getting everybody views and making the music go up, but it also had deadly
real life consequences. In the video for Tha Truth, Mozzy was calling out his opps by name while his homie Zilla Zoe
was right there next to him. And just a few hours
after the video came out, the opps caught Zilla lacking
and shot him to death. Then Lavish and his homies
spotted Mozzy’s manager in a mall and jumped him, which ended up getting
Lavish a six year sentence after the video came out. Lavish going behind bars
wasn’t the end of the violence though, and even more people were
about to die over the situation. In May 2014, Mozzy’s homie Jacoby James
was at a kid’s birthday party when two shooters rolled through
and killed him on the spot. Two of Lavish’s homies were
booked for the murder but skated on it because
there wasn’t enough evidence. Then Mozzy lost another homie when Lavish’s crew allegedly
shot and killed a dude named Shukeim Murray
outside a different party. The beef kept heating up, and rumors say that Mozzy’s crew tried to use a woman to
set up one of Lavish D’s homies. They figured out what was going on though and ended up killing her before Mozzy’s
goons could get the drop on them. Then in 2016, Lavish’s homie Stunna D
was leaving a party when the opps caught him
and left him dead in the street. He wasn’t the last guy in Lavish’s
camp who got hit up though. In June 2017, his homie Prince Dredda
was outside a liquor store when someone ran down on him
and shot him eight times. Luckily Dredda made it out alive, but just a couple months later Lavish D got caught up in a situation that left an innocent man dead. Lavish D had been locked up for a while after putting hands on Mozzy’s manager, but in August 2017 he was out with an ankle monitor and went to a music video shoot
for a rapper named C-Bo. C-Bo had issues with Mozzy too, and while they were filming the video someone rolled through and started letting off shots into the crowd. Five people were shot
and taken to the hospital, but a 49 year old bystander named
Ernie Cadena got caught in the crossfire and was pronounced dead at the scene. According to rumors, Mozzy put a bag on
Lavish D and C-Bo’s head, and three of his homies ended up
going down for the shooting. By the time Bris and Young
Slo Be were popping off, the streets of Sacramento were already
bloody from both sides of the war. Bris wanted to leave the streets behind
after the music started popping, and in an interview with Thizzler he said
he had to stay alive for his kids. Young Slo Be and Bris were tight for real and weren’t just linking up
in the studio for more views. They wanted to put on
for the west coast together, but then in 2020 the beef caught up to Bris and he was brutally
murdered in his own city. In June 2020, Bris was driving his whip down the street when someone caught him
in traffic and started chasing him. Bris crashed into a pole and
hopped out on foot to escape, but the opps were already on him and left him dead with a shot to the back. After it went down, everyone thought Mozzy’s crew
was behind the hit. It turns out that Bris and
Uzzy Marcus weren’t just rap beefing, but they had some real life
drama going on too. According to rumors, Bris used to date Uzzy’s
baby mama but they split up and she started dating Uzzy
to get back at Bris. It looked like Uzzy had
a lot of reasons to take Bris out, but then a dude named Moses Hirschfield ended up getting charged over the shooting. He doesn’t have any ties to Uzzy or Mozzy, but he was allegedly
affiliated with another set who had tension with the
Fruitridge Bloods that Bris was repping. Bris getting killed like that
was a huge loss for Slo. Both of them knew that
street politics could hold them back, and in his interview with Innovators, Slo said that rappers should definitely
get out of their city after they blow up. Slo kept up the momentum after Bris died and kept popping off with new projects. Then in 2021 he went viral on TikTok
with the track I Love You. After spending years trying to
kick in the doors to the industry, Slo was finally on his way up. He had enough clout to start touring and leave Stockton behind, but instead of listening to his own advice he stayed in his home town and it ended up getting him killed. In August 2022, police responded to a report
of gunfire in Manteca, California - and when they pulled up to the scene they found Young Slo Be dead. Nobody has been booked for his murder, but there are a couple popular
rumors about what went down. After he linked up with Bris, Young Slo Be had issues with Mozzy
and his whole crew in Sacramento. He wasn’t beefing with them
on the same level as Bris and Lavish D, but there was definitely drama there and some people think Mozzy and his people were
involved with getting Slo killed. Slo didn’t just have issues
with dudes from out of town though. Slo repped a crew called EBK, and they started beefing with
another set called The Fly Boys. EBK was a newer crew, and rumors say that the
Fly Boys weren’t cool with them repping the Nightingale area when some of the members allegedly
weren’t even from around there. There’s no evidence that the Fly Boys
were behind Young Slo Be’s death, but after a dude from the Fly Boys
named Demar was killed, Slo’s homie Trey B hopped on social media
to clown them over the situation. The last theory about Slo Be’s death is that it didn’t have anything
to do with gang politics. According to rumors, his baby mama had a boyfriend but was still hooking up with Slo. When the other dude found out, he allegedly got so heated
about the situation that he shot Slo over 20 times. Nobody knows exactly what went down yet, but we do know the rap game
lost another talented artist before they had the chance
to really have a career. Young Slo Be was finally getting to the level he always wanted to be at, but tragically he never
made it out of Stockton.
