Assuming

12.21.21

Blac Youngsta, I’m Assuming

Assuming, something you believe to be true, without having any real facts to back it up. Maybe, an educated guess of what is to come. Blac Youngsta, eerily drops new single Assuming, days after the Internet put him under-fire for performing a Young Dolph diss track at recent show. What are we assuming, exactly? All too much…

Young Dolph prematurely lost his life just one month ago. While him and Blac Youngsta have had a very public beef for years, the internet was not happy with Youngsta for performing the track Shake Sum, at his latest performance. The track comes from 2016 and specifically names drop Young Dolph and suggests a lot of violence to come in their future. Blac Youngsta was also a subject in the 2017 case where Young Dolph’s SUV had been shot at 100 times. The two’s issues run deep, and are real, which lead to even more rumors upon the loss of Young Dolph.

The internet has shared there have been a number of crimes and arrests, and even another lost life at the memorial site of where Young Dolph was lost. Memphis was really hurt by this, the city that both Dolph and Youngsta’s crews call home. On the night that Young Dolph left us, there were rumors that the police had shut down Yo Gotti’s restaurant, and that Blac Youngsta’s Grandmother’s house was broken into. After Youngsta’s performance of Shake Sum, he decided to address these rumors on Instagram.

Youngsta shared a one minute long video, which would be the music video for his new single, I’m Assuming. The caption was long, and written in all caps. It is evident that Blac Youngsta knew exactly what he was doing when performing the diss track that night, and that he had heard the disappointment from fans, and the internet. Throughout his caption, he explains that he asks for no support, nor forgiveness, nor sympathy. He states that what they said about his grandmother is far from the truth, but the night before these tragic events went down, she became ill and was taken to the hospital. Finally, Youngsta says that he is a man of God, and on his third life. While doing so, the world can “assume” of him what they wish, but he plans to continue his successful life.

Throughout the music video, Blac Youngsta spends his time at a graveyard. He speaks mostly on the ones that he has lost, and suggests that the world is “assuming” this is the end of his career, likely due to cancel culture, but he feels differently. Each verse is like any old Blac Youngsta street track. Likely to suggest he is completely unfazed but what has happened, and will continue to live his dangerous lifestyle.

From the Instagram post to the YouTube video, fans and viewers are not having it. When is enough, enough? When do two grown, black men decide they should be supporting each other, then acting like this? Is Youngsta wrong for performing the song so soon after the loss of a life? Or is someone’s catalog free game always?