The age-old query in Hip-Hop is all the time … Does artwork replicate life or does life replicate artwork?
Lately, a video entitled “The place Corbin” has been trending on TikTok.
Corbin Johnson’s physique was reported lacking in 2018 and was found in 2019. The spillover from the platform into different areas on the Web has brought on the case of his dying to be researched.
One article on News4JAX.com <> has obtained over 700,000 clicks because the development has popped off.
Corbin’s mother, Melissa Jackson, says that folks have been reaching out to her in response, providing their condolences. She requested why, and when discovered that it was a TikTok problem gone viral, she stated, “I believe that it’s simply ignorant. I actually do suppose that it’s ignorant.”
The tune is named the “Beatbox Remix/ Bibby Circulate” by Julio Foolio that includes COJACK.
Within the tune, one lyric says, “Corbin received kidnapped they discovered his bones he was rotten (The place’s Corbin?)”
Sadly, Corbin was related to a feud between two Jacksonville gangs (ATK and KTA), that occur to be rappers. Each gangs blur the strains by detailing their beef of their rap music movies.
Reviews declare Corbin was a member of ATK.
From movies like these, social media, and their native intel, the polic know that Yungeen Ace is the star from ATK, and Julio Foolio is the star from the gang’s opps, KTA.
On an IG Stay feed, Foolio was requested “The place’s Corbin?”
“Speaking about the place is Corbin, I don’t know the place Corbin is. That’s all I’ve received to say,” the rapper stated about his former rival.
Many TikTokers have pulled the movies down, after discovering out the actual that means behind the tune.
In response to an article in First Coast Information printed in
2021, the Jacksonville Sheriff has stated that the data that they’ve come from the crews making their social media posts and movies.
The cops say that the movies are the equal of “the gang graffiti of the 80s.”
In actual fact, legislation enforcement are contemplating exhibits by YouTubers like Queenzflip’s QuietRoom
TrapLife Documentaries and Insider Hotspot to inform them what’s happening in rap music and the way it pertains to the streets.
The viral movies, bloggers, and self-incrimination come principally from the artists, permitting legislation enforcement to pinpoint when issues received super-hot for each gangs after the homicide of Zion Brown in Might 2017, Julio Foolio’s cousin.
Arrested for the killing was Yungeen Ace’s homey, Deontrae Thomas, 19.
In retaliation for Brown’s dying, Yungeen Ace was shot eight occasions. Three different males have been shot on this altercation: Royale D’Von Smith Jr., 18, and Jercoby Da’Shad Groover, 19. This all occurred in 2018.
In celebration, Julio Foolio posted an image on his Instagram of himself with an airbrushed T-shirt of Royale D’Von Smith Jr., aka 23, that stated: “Relaxation in P### 23.” He captioned it, “I’m getting a brand new T-shirt made for my present.”
In 2019, in a shootout on the Paradise Gents’s Membership on Baymeadows Highway, one other ATK rapper Boss Goon was shot up and killed in his automobile after his efficiency. Shot within the again was ATK rapper Ksoo and his father, who was shot within the again.
KTA rapper Lilbuck was murdered shortly afterward. The next February, Julio Foolio’s little 16-year-old brother Adrian Dennard Gainer Jr., aka Bibby was killed.
In celebration of these murders, Ksoo entitled his 2019 launch of his album, Bibby Out. After posting a number of movies about killing KTA members and “smoking Bibby,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace arrested Ksoo in March, charging him with killing Bibby and Lilbuck.
Between February and March, a number of makes an attempt have been made on each Julio Foolio and Yungeen Ace’s lives.
Julio Foolio then posted movies about “who I’m smoking,” and naming Ace, ATK, and 23.
This smoking on homies stored arising, even within the March music video, “Who I Smoke,” that includes Spinabenz, Whoppa Wit Da Choppa, Yungeen Ace, and FastMoney Goon.
Julio Foolio then launched a diss observe referred to as “After I See You,” a remix of Fantasia’s “After I See U.”
Whereas they suppose they’re humorous, they’re actually enjoying themselves out. Earlier than the discharge of both video, legislation enforcement has been checking the tapes to arrest individuals.
Jacksonville’s Sheriff Williams stated when asserting the arrest of six convicted felons seen in rap movies with firearms, he shared, “Social media has impacted our society in some ways. Most of these impacts are constructive. Sadly, these advances in know-how additionally present the felony component with a brand new platform to advertise their commerce on the street tradition market.”
That is true. Julio Foolio, twice, took to Instagram to speak concerning the murders, together with Corbin’s.
Corbin’s mom stated, “For probably the most half, it’s disgusting lots of people. Lots of people, should you do have some people who suppose it’s humorous and laughing about it. However for probably the most half, it truly is touching lots of people’s hearts.”
“To reply the query the place’s Corbin, Corbin is correct right here. He’s in my coronary heart. For those who’re in search of Corbin, that’s the place Corbin is, he’s proper right here. I’ve him with me every single day,” she stated.
