No one knows who and what is behind the violence, but we do know that countless activists, grassroots leaders and preachers were screaming non-violently long before now: “Change, America! Change, Minneapolis!” Rather than listen, many of those in power saw even their non-violent protest as an unwelcome development.This is so often the case because many Americans struggle to imagine that our government’s policies and its long train of abuses demand radical transformation. But they have also shared how their non-violent pleas and protests have gone unnoticed for years as the situation has gotten out of hand.

But the fires burning in Minneapolis, just like the fire burning in the spirits of so many marginalized Americans today, are a natural response to the trauma black communities have experienced, generation after generation.No one wants the fires – even activists on the ground have said this. The next month, he recorded a song with YBS member Dajuan 'YBS Skola' Cannady titled 'Go Getters and Shiners,' which was intended to be an anthem to bring the groups together.Only if the screams and tears and protests shake the very conscience of this nation can we hope for a better society on the other side of thisNo one wants to see their community burn. Though a recorded fight between Harrison and Scoota in January 2016, generating thousands of views on YouTube, Harrison later told the Baltimore Sun that the fight was squashed almost immediately. “Who the hell made this up?” Harrison said in 2017. But members of both groups, including Harrison, said those claims were false, and a smear. Prosecutors labeled the groups as competing “criminal organizations,” stating that Scoota’s friend Fred Catchings was 'engaged in pre-emptive strikes' against YGG on behalf of YBS. Harrison’s rap crew “Young Go Getters,” which accounts for the “YGG” in his name, has also allegedly feuded with at least one other rap crew in the community in the past.Īccording to prosecutors in an attempted murder case in 2016, entertainment group “YBS”, or “Young Ballers Shining” - to which the late rapper Lor Scoota belonged - allegedly had conflict with YGG. … I don’t want people out there thinking I’m into this stuff. “They’re going off something they heard on the street? Come on,” he said.

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