What up gang.
Back with the real you know what’s the deal. Today is another case of “when dissing goes wrong.” This one is wild and is one for the history books in diss records, not just because it was a disrespectful diss, nor because it was filmed at the opps dead homie gravesite, nor that the opps dead homie picture was set on fire, but because the rapper’s life was taken soon after for his level of disrespect. If you haven’t heard about what was called one of the most demonic disses of rap, you’re gonna learn about the man responsible today, OG ManMan
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Let’s chop it up and break it down.
The DMV area has some street dudes that are in the trenches for real. From the OGs to the youngins as little as age 13 are terrorizing the neighborhood and drilling on the opps https://youtu.be/D75eR-GBcTY (0:00-0:15) https://youtu.be/D75eR-GBcTY (1:16-1:28) Among the savages with a reputation for upping the score is the Ace of Spades Don, OG ManMan
You could find him posted up on the block with his hitters round the clock. This man wasn’t living in the trenches, he was the trenches https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (4:38-4:49) https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (2:12-2:26) https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (5:06-5:28) OG ManMan had no care for anyone that played with his name in any sort of way and was with all the smoke, matter fact he welcomed it with open arms https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (4:14-4:21) He had the mentality that was with whatever, but in the hood, if you’re not keeping your head on a swivel, then you might get your head blown off, pause. Test the wrong person’s gangster and he might pass it. Turns out that person was his homie turn opp, Big Flock
Charles Ulysses Bowman-Bey aka Big Flock is the Maryland rapper that was no less of a savage than his former homie OG ManMan https://youtu.be/buMlMVO-XQQ (0:39-0:44) Coming up on Maxwell Dr and Morrison Avenue https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (14:29-14:49)
he had to cope with his father being behind bars, but when his grandad passed, his life took a turn down a darker path https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (3:03-3:20) The streets became everyday life, but in all that he found rap. Around 11 years old Big Flock was already writing rhymes with the gang https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (0:47-1:00) Flock n’em would record on a tape recorder at first for fun but by the time he turned around 17, a rap career was looking like the way out of the struggle https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (1:01-1:25) He would rep ThraxxxGang and the crew would drop bangers like “Iggady” https://youtu.be/uO-TaPnXwaI before they seemed to fall out https://youtu.be/buMlMVO-XQQ (7:02-7:19) Big Flock’s solo career would take off https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (2:22-2:42)
He credits his homie Lil Chris aka C-Diddy
for really pushing him and giving him 100 percent support to make it as a rapper. Big Flock never downplayed how much he helped him make it whenever he spoke about his career https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (15:20-16:12) C-Diddy was the homie holding him down when the struggles got too real. Matter fact they were so close, Big Flock recorded his debut mixtape, “Trilluminati” in C-Diddy’s living room https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (16:17-16:59)
Because of the bond they had, and support C-Diddy showed, Big Flock’s popularity boomed after the drop of his tape, that’s why the tragedy afterward left a hole in his heart, but we’ll get to that later.
While he was grinding coming up, fellow DMV native OG ManMan was right there with him. The difference was, ManMan wasn’t a rapper, he was the hitter, the one ready to catch a body when the situation arose https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (6:23-6:34) Both were like the hood duo. Having served time in jail, both had the rap sheet and credentials of the hood. But all that was about to change. Two things escalated the beef that split them apart and left one 6 feet under. The first was a woman to no surprise. Since the beginning of time dudes always act a fool for a shawty and then she on to the next. This time, it was OG ManMan that messed up because he violated the bro code and dived in Big Flocks chic https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (1:44-1:50)
Being real, can you really hate on Big Flock for feeling some type of way? If you can catch a body for your bro, then you and him got to have some type of bond as homies for real, so I can see how Big Flock would feel betrayed by that so can’t hate on how he reacted.
Through all this they were both having issues with the law. OG ManMan would be in the pen doing a bid when he heard the track off of Big Flocks project “Glockism.”
The song, titled “Intro” had a part of the song where he takes shots at OG ManMan saying “And ManMan turned to informant/Thought that he was real, he put on a good performance” https://youtu.be/afkB0Y-gL9w (1:14-1:17) That isn’t any small diss. When you start calling a street dude a rat, much less one in the pen, now you playing with that man life behind bars and can have even his own gang planning to take his life when he gets out.
OG ManMan wasn’t taking that lightly in the slightest and when he was back on the outside he got his lick in, dropping one of the most disrespectful disses out. Even DJ Akademiks was blown away by what he was hearing and seeing in the music video. He could only describe the diss as demonic https://youtu.be/dkNcOvrxaxg (0:26-1:00) The track was titled, “Truth” and saw ManMan in a mask flashing blickys left and right.
Now let’s pause a minute here because this part of the story is probably the most important. Remember the close homie of Big Flock, C-Diddy? Well turns out in July 2013 he lost his life. According to police reports, Christopher A. Smith aka C-Diddy, the 19-year-old from Bowie, Maryland was in a vehicle with several other people traveling east on Interstate 64 when a fight broke out in the whip.
The car then stopped on the Shockoe Valley Bridge where C-Diddy is said to have got out the car then fall off the bridge to his death on the streets below https://youtu.be/LFhy9fvn6GE
https://www.nbc12.com/story/22766954/maryland-teen-found-dead-under-shockoe-valley-bridge/
The loss hit Big Flock hard https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (17:44-17:50) https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (16:13-16:19) The story never quiet add up and it was widely speculated that someone in the whip that sped off after pushed him to his death, but cops never arrested anyone officially for that body.
Now ManMan wanted to hit Big Flock where it hurts as get back for calling him a snitch and he did that with the diss track. What made it truly demonic was the site of the music video. This man actually went at the grave site of C-Diddy to film the music video. He made sure Everyone knew too by placing a label in the scene, total disrespect https://youtu.be/8jo4PLkHM-Y (0:42-0:59)
Big Flock would respond with a rebuttal diss “The Truth” https://youtu.be/odW_3X9C5-E but the disrespect of OG ManMan’s track overshadowed the response. He went in on Big Flock, dropping diss after diss throughout the entire track, but the height of his disrespect was talking about C-Diddy and pouring out bottles of Ace of Spades like he’s at the club while the news report from the incident played in the background, then lighting a pic of C-Diddy on fire. Mans even went as far as inserting a clip of a body falling from a building, he really held nothing back https://youtu.be/8jo4PLkHM-Y (1:30-2:03)
OG ManMan was airing it out, even exposing that Big Flock called him to allegedly handle his beef with Shy Glizzy
but Flock punked out when ManMan brought the poles https://youtu.be/8jo4PLkHM-Y (2:11-2:21) https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (6:34-7:02) https://youtu.be/buMlMVO-XQQ (5:53-6:07)
In an Interview with Cutthoart TV ManMan let it be known that he doesn’t give a damn about no one that disrespects him and anyone associated with him right down to his moms and dead homie https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (3:03-3:34) To ManMan it might have seemed good soaking up all the clout. Bro went from a hitter to now considering rap when he saw the song doing numbers https://youtu.be/lTHEezKXsM8 (2:45-3:01) Sadly, OG ManMan would never get to purse that rap dream, because the thing everyone looking on assumed would happen, happened; retaliation.
In just a few weeks after releasing the music video, the opps caught OG ManMan lackin https://www.fox5dc.com/news/did-a-murdered-dc-rapper-take-a-feud-too-far-with-a-diss-video-a-year-later-still-no-suspects (0:11-0:23) https://www.fox5dc.com/news/did-a-murdered-dc-rapper-take-a-feud-too-far-with-a-diss-video-a-year-later-still-no-suspects (0:50-0:56)
On the night he was murked, Antonio Leach aka OG ManMan had gotten a phone call from someone who wanted him to come over to a cookout that was taking place behind the apartments on F Street in Southeast D.C. When he pulled up, it was already too late. Someone walked up with the pole, firing multiple shots into ManMan ending his life on the spot https://www.fox5dc.com/news/did-a-murdered-dc-rapper-take-a-feud-too-far-with-a-diss-video-a-year-later-still-no-suspects (1:41-1:59) The last thing ManMan said to his pops was he would be back in a minute, a promise he would never be able to keep https://www.fox5dc.com/news/did-a-murdered-dc-rapper-take-a-feud-too-far-with-a-diss-video-a-year-later-still-no-suspects (2:00-2:10) His parents worst nightmare came through. After seeing the vid of their son’s song as response for being called a snitch, they were scared for his life https://www.fox5dc.com/news/did-a-murdered-dc-rapper-take-a-feud-too-far-with-a-diss-video-a-year-later-still-no-suspects (0:57-1:32)
The case would go cold as witnesses took a code of silence out of fear. Cops would offer a 25K bag for anyone with info to find the hitter responsible.
Fingers automatically pointed to Big Flock, but some in the streets heard rumors of it being a backdoor case by his homies that was the result of the snitching allegations exposed by Big Flock. Either way, Big Flock would be tied to it if one of those outcomes were true. That connection of him to ManMan’s hit became even more real when cops busted into his crib on a search warrant on October 19th 2016, just a few months after ManMan was murked.
Cops would find firearms, ammunition, narcotics, and narcotics paraphernalia belonging to Bowman-Bey aka Big Flock, including: a loaded 5.7x28mm semiautomatic handgun, equipped with a laser sight; a .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun; a .380 caliber semiautomatic handgun; rounds of ammunition of various calibers; a loaded drum-style extended magazine; a .40 caliber extended magazine; $5,561 in cash; 94 tablets of Alprazolam etc etc etc. Big Flock bedroom must have been the traphouse or somn because damn. Mans had the whole arsenal in there.
Because of his previous felony conviction, federal law prohibited Big Flock from possessing the guns and ammunition. He was looking at a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, and a maximum of 5 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute Alprazolam.
Big Flock would take a plea deal, being sentenced to 45 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms and possession with intent to distribute Alprazolam.
He dropped the album, “The Great Depression” to hold fans over https://youtu.be/eMu5IZGH26c (0:05-1:17)
And in late 2019 he walked out a free man to pick up where he left off in the music game
Here ends the tale of The Ace of Spades Don, OG ManMan. Sad that friends had to turn enemies to the point where one lost his life. Big Flock has been staying away from his past life of crime to cherish the opportunity C-Diddy gave him and to provide a better life for his daughter, and family and put his hood on the map https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (18:18-18:38) https://youtu.be/ReQccwO9jSY (13:32-14:30)
So there you have it. Thanks for kicking it with yah boy, appreciate the love and support. Catch ya’ll in the next one. Peace up and peace out.
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Chad is a professional journalist specializing in Hip-Hop culture and writing music reviews.
