A rapper who dug up his rival's grave to fortify his reputation as a disrespectful artist was brutally shot to death after he boasted about his career and brandished his guns
About 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Abdul Vicks, 25, was ravaged by gunfire while operating a vehicle in the 5500 block of North Sixth Street. Shortly after, he died at Einstein Medical Center, according to the police .
Vicks was regarded as the leader of the Young Bag Chasers (YBC) rap group, members of which have been connected to numerous gun deaths and a string of arrests in the past few years. Because of his blatant songs regarding competitor rappers in the city, including ones YBC claimed credit for killing , and because he dug up dirt at an enemy's grave site in one of his music videos, YBC Dul's followers dubbed him Mr. Disrespectful.
He gained a lot of popularity on social media sites like YouTube and Spotify, where he amassed about 30,000 monthly listeners. No arrests have been made. YouTuber Brandon Buckingham conducted interviews with Vicks and his friends in Mantua, Germantown, and other Philadelphia areas for a video that was uploaded on Thursday.
The video lasted about thirty-one minutes. Vicks, who was raised in North Philadelphia for a portion of his youth, described how the YBC's conflicts with other gangs in the area have "tortured" neighborhoods enmeshed in a drill rap culture that glorifies retaliatory attacks.
In a street interview with Buckingham, a former teacher who left to pursue a career as content creator, Vicks stated, "I go overboard. I disrespect people—like, badly."
The video had garnered more than one million views by Monday afternoon. How recently the interview took place is unknown. Buckingham has over 762,000 YouTube subscribers. He could not be reached for comment at this time.
He gained popularity by touring the country with a small video team and frequently entering hazardous locations to obtain footage. His videos balance shock value with in-depth inquiries into the risky lifestyles Buckingham covers. One of his videos, featuring Kensington rapper Skrilla, has received over two million views.
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In the music video for the song "McBuckingham," which was uploaded on YBC Dul's YouTube on August 18, Buckingham even performed raps and made an appearance alongside YBC Dul. In the video, the two were dressed as clowns and brandishing firearms.
On Friday afternoon, Buckingham announced Vicks' death on X, the defunct. He claimed that their joint song was "about the gang war" in West Philadelphia. "Does the prospect of possibly getting shot just walking around make you nervous at all?" at the street interview, which seemed to happen at the same visit when the music video was shot, Buckingham posed this question to Vicks.
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