The Jacksonville Sheriff made it clear that Yungeen Ace is now not welcome, citing issues over drill music’s affect on native violence.

Yungeen Ace shouldn’t be welcome in Jacksonville after Sheriff T.Okay. Waters took a agency stance in opposition to town’s rising drill music scene and the violence it allegedly influences.

Chatting with journalist Peter Santenello throughout a ride-along, Waters didn’t hesitate to name out the style, popularized in Chicago and now making waves in Florida.

“It’s down right here too, man” Waters mentioned. “And the factor about it’s, we wish to run them out of city. There’s a few them, they know they’ll’t dwell right here anymore. There was a specific track I don’t even need to point out as a result of I don’t need to give these guys credit score.”

Waters referenced Yungeen Ace’s monitor “Who I Smoke,” which samples Vanessa Carlton’s pop hit “A Thousand Miles.” 

Waters didn’t mince phrases about its troubling significance, including, “They sampled her track, after which they made a track, a rap. They had been speaking about those that have truly been killed in Jacksonville, about 5 or 6 of them, proper? They’re named in that track. However that’s what drill rap is. It’s nonsense, however it’s impactful as a result of they’re speaking about those that have truly been killed.”

TK waters say he working rappers outta city cuz they know they’ll’t dwell in Jax no extra 😂
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Yungeen Ace Named In Alleged Foolio Homicide Plot

Throughout a July 2024 bond listening to, detectives from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace and Tampa Police Division detailed Yungeen Ace’s alleged connections to the deadly capturing of fellow Jacksonville rapper Charles Jones, higher referred to as Foolio. 

Authorities offered proof, together with telephone logs and surveillance footage, suggesting that suspects affiliated with a gang linked to Yungeen Ace fastidiously tracked Foolio throughout his birthday celebrations in Tampa earlier than ambushing him.

Investigators described Foolio’s killing as meticulously deliberate, an escalation in a long-standing feud between rival teams, one notably tied to Yungeen Ace. 

Sheriff Waters emphasised group security because the central purpose behind his division’s vigilant monitoring of rappers like Yungeen Ace.

“Yungeen Ace has lengthy been recognized in Jacksonville,” Waters mentioned. “We’re persistently monitoring these teams. We’ve got folks which are all the time watching them. However he can’t transfer round in Jacksonville with out us understanding about it. And that’s for the betterment of our group.”

Yungeen Ace has not confronted formal costs associated to Foolio’s homicide.

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