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.