Yus Gz | Before They Were Famous | Face of The Bronx Drill
Before Yus Gz would become the next big up-and-coming Bronx drill rapper to keep your eye on, he was born Youssef Doumbouya in Brooklyn, New York on September 19th, 2003. A first-generation immigrant from the Ivory Coast of Africa, Yus grew up a practitioner of the church of Islam and would visit his home continent often as a kid. But faith wouldn’t keep him off the streets and after moving from his original neighborhood to Mott Haven in the Bronx around the age of six or seven, Yus would grow up, fast -- joining the local gang affiliation known as YGz – one that’s known for having beef with their nearby rival Opps, the OGz from SevSide -- the neighborhood where drill rapper, Kay Flock, is from. Yus Gz hasn’t revealed all that much about his personal life yet – but what we do know is that his mother, having immigrated from the Ivory Coast, doesn’t speak a word of English. Otherwise, he says the earliest years of his childhood were fairly uneventful and it wasn’t until he smoked his first blunt around the age of 14 that things began to go a little sideways. Soon enough, Yus found himself kicking in store windows and taking part in other stupid things like that. Unsurprisingly, this would lead to him spending a not-inconsiderate amount of time in Juvenile Hall – somewhere around 18 months to be exact. For a while, Yus refused to speak on what wound up putting him behind bars in the first place, but he’d eventually reveal to PPHilms that he was caught and charged with the crime of burglary.