What up gang.
Back with the real you know what’s the deal. Chicago has more characters than a crossover of X-men and the Avengers, but there’s one savage that’s more elusive than a good gift for dads on father’s day. The man that has been rumored to be at the beginning of drill and had many a battles with the oppiest of opps. When it comes to disrespect, he’s up there with Duck nem. I’m talkm bout FYB J Mane, Mr It Hit Different.
He seems to be everywhere and anywhere online and knows every story in the streets. Who is he? Where he come from? Was he terrorizing the opps or was the opps terrorizing him? This is the story of FYB J Mane. We bouta do our homework. Let’s chop it up and break it down.
FYB J Mane came up with the grimiest among em. Just lil kids all knowing each other, but the city politics started ripping friendships apart based on where you stay and who you affiliate with. It’s messed up, but FYB J Mane was one of them kids who experienced friends turning to opps just because that was the cycle they grew up in.
When it comes to where J Mane from, he actually grew up in the Calumet Buildings with people like the grim reaper Lil Reese.
FYB J Mane claims Reese is his cousin too, but bro be trolling so much you can’t tell if he’s serious or just playing https://youtu.be/NC4hlR3y0MU (1:03-1:18)
Reese tho wasn’t having it and denies they cousins but instead said J Mane was the hood pinata in the building with how he was getting beat on https://youtu.be/uA-iz7ZXteA (2:28-2:58) Not only that, Reese done said his pops used to whop on J Mane pops too https://youtu.be/SV92GyQvf9c (1:01-1:33) J Mane wasn’t gon let Reese just disrespect him and his old man like that and called cap on everything he said https://youtu.be/NC4hlR3y0MU (1:39-2:02) https://youtu.be/NC4hlR3y0MU (4:19-4:35)
FYB J Mane pops wasn’t nothing to mess with. According to him, he was a BD Boss that was running things and had the block on lock. He got caught up in an indictment https://youtu.be/PmXiQGeFWYY (2:23-2:48)
So J Mane came up from the trenches in the thick of the gang rivalry, but now he opps with the guys from over Calumet buildings and Lamron, OTF, all em. So how he went from living on their side, to becoming an opp? Well FYB J Mane might have been there, but he moved around a lot. He ended up on the side of Jaro City and Tookaville before being on 63rd with Wooski and KI nem folks and standing on 63rd business https://youtu.be/PmXiQGeFWYY (4:01-4:24) https://youtu.be/PmXiQGeFWYY (0:18-0:38) https://youtu.be/PmXiQGeFWYY (0:50-0:55)
That’s why he says Reese ain’t tryna claim em as his cousin cuz he from 63rd https://youtu.be/NC4hlR3y0MU (0:26-0:55)
From Calument to 63rd, J Mane been in the field. From his perspective, he been jumped off the porch since a jit cause he always been around the savages and crime, even seeing dudes murked, crushed by elevators, and tossed off the building https://youtu.be/PmXiQGeFWYY (3:08-3:56) Over time he got tight with some of the biggest Oblock opps like 051 Melly, and FBG Duck.
Somewhere along the line when he was cool with Reese, and Chief Keef and all em folks, they had a falling out and it turned into smoke ever since https://youtu.be/AgDouDAJV1A (7:00-7:24) https://youtu.be/AgDouDAJV1A (13:04-13:45) He especially been on Keef top dropping the Chief Keef diss as his first music video and it had both KI and 051 Melly in that jawn https://youtu.be/nWxGAZ1X1qE (2:30-2:40)
Bro was dissing everyone of the opps but got mad disrespectful even dissing Keef moms https://youtu.be/km9XWPR8758 (1:54-2:44) Idk what it is but J Mane said somn happen between the guys and things went sideways and it’s been up ever since. You mention Keef or oblock nem and bro ain’t with it https://youtu.be/AgDouDAJV1A (12:24-12:35) Bro even name them Oblockians and says he forever hate then dudes cause they ain’t never gna change their ways https://youtu.be/VEIX_j-zBW8 (3:37-4:26)
It’s crazy cuz Von nem was BD and J Mane followed in his pops footsteps too and repped BD but something changed and he started on the BDK movement and being on his own FYB vibe which he says stands for Fk Your Bitch https://youtu.be/AgDouDAJV1A (7:27-7:36) https://youtu.be/AgDouDAJV1A (27:47-27:58) That explains why back then in his songs he was heavy on the BDK dissing in songs like “300 Dead Opps” that sent his music viral https://youtu.be/e5mlJn-jETU (0:09-0:20) Bro was comin for every opp in that track and it’s one of the songs that stamped him as one of em that don’t hold no punches when it comes to disrespecting the opps. Everyone was a target https://youtu.be/e5mlJn-jETU (0:24-0:55)
FYB J Mane as a yungin was on some wild vibes, seems like he didn’t care who he diss when he diss. Him and Von had a rivalry that he said really ramped up when Von dropped that “Crazy Story” where he dropped the viral line “Bih I’m from 64th we not from 63rd” J Mane wasn’t feeling how he had the world doggin 63rd and taking shots at 63rd every chance he got so that’s why even after Von passed, rest his soul, J Mane dropped a King Von diss remixing his “Took Her to The O” track, and even had a imitation Von for the music video https://youtu.be/TmOvAbb1O0k (0:37-0:59)
Von used to send shots at J Mane top while he was still around too
so J Mane feel like he gon talk his talk cuz he was disrespectin 63rd https://youtu.be/AgDouDAJV1A (36:40-37:45)
In that same song you hear him come at Keef couso Fredo Santana too.
Even in his song “Death of 150” he said he gna dig up Fredo grave just to record it on his live https://youtu.be/LhSswTFctF0 (1:48-1:53) Then he dissed him again on “Exposin Me” https://youtu.be/vOploW6Gk7I (0:59-1:08) He been had a bone to pick with bro fr. Maybe cuz folks was in the cut raining mad shells his way forcing him to use some women as shields to save his life https://youtu.be/B1AdHL35fGM (2:06-2:21) FBG Butta was there too and got hit also recalls when it went down and J Mane had shawties eating bullets as shields https://youtu.be/fhtnegJqYiE (0:32-1:00)
J Mane addressed the situation and admitted that he did use the females as shields when Fredo was going crazy with the blicky https://youtu.be/Tply3UNhe6Q (4:26-5:04) But according to J Mane it was cool cause they were opp females that tried to backdoor him and set him up for Fredo to murk him https://youtu.be/Tply3UNhe6Q (5:09-6:15)
J Mane broke down what happened, saying the day before him and the gang was kicking it at Reese house, cause they was cool then, and Fredo walked in and watched him sideways and called Reese to the back to tell him somn https://youtu.be/I8ccI7NCbHY (6:12-8:12) J Mane feels like whatever Fredo called Reese to the back to discuss might be them setting up the play to murk him the next day https://youtu.be/I8ccI7NCbHY (8:25-8:45) https://youtu.be/Vu-Qrwu_Nh0 (3:12-4:49)
That night inspired the classic lyrics in Keef n Reese song “I Don’t Like” where he said “Fredo in the cut that’s a scary sight” https://youtu.be/2WcRXJ4piHg (3:21-3:35) J Mane confirms that Fredo did in fact make it very scary that night https://youtu.be/Tply3UNhe6Q (3:37-4:01)
That’s not where his beef ends as expected. With so much dissing and disrespect, he been getting into it with folks nem. Him and King Yella
been going at it online for a minute with the back and forth and on wax https://youtu.be/Tj8Lh1GnOdc (0:43-2:22) https://youtu.be/fpMqGkICDzQ (0:52-2:39) https://youtu.be/uC5Xc4-U1Ro (0:27-1:13) https://youtu.be/dp1nhwHJ5cY (0:32-1:10)
The beef was going crazy, but time passed, homies got locked, the opps got locked, J Mane lost peoples, the opps lost peoples, he grew up and started doing numbers on YouTube doing vids talking on topics in the Raq and all that, and bro started being on some peace movement vibes. His phrase “It Hit Different” became a whole wave. J Mane seen it all and from the looks of it was tryna create a better future for his kids and the kids coming up in Chicago so they won’t have to go through the death and violence from their generation https://youtu.be/6OQ48BESx1E (2:55-3:05) He even apologized to the mothers and families of slain opps that he dissed and really started trying to do better than who he was https://www.reddit.com/r/Chiraqology/comments/rz2zpp/fyb_j_mane_apologising/
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It was looking all good, but J Mane gna be J Mane even if he trying to do somn positive. He a comedian fr. He popped up in a Say Cheese interview after posting on his gram that he signed to OTF to stop the violence
Bro came to the interview with a OTF and 63rd fake tatoo on his head
talkm bout Durk sign him for 250K and told him he the face of this peace movement so he gta tat both on his head so his peoples don’t think he switchin on em https://youtu.be/h8buh9-72OM (1:22-3:30)
According to J Mane he got bout 8 people in his head and OTF J Mane is one of em and it ain’t comedy but he seriously trying to push peace https://youtu.be/h8buh9-72OM (3:35-4:37) King Yella his opp says he’s all for peace but he gon snatch J Mane chain cause he looking like a goofy with all the theatrics https://youtu.be/f_2lrpMtR6M (0:20-1:05) https://youtu.be/f_2lrpMtR6M (4:42:4:50)
FYB J Mane would get on an interview and explain that he went about the message that way in order to bring awareness to what he was trying to do with the peace movement https://youtu.be/6OQ48BESx1E (3:10-4:36) Maybe he’s trolling or maybe he’s really on that type of time, but he was talking passionate about wanting peace and better for his kids and those to come, so can’t hate on it.
Next thing we know, bro posting a vid saying he’s homeless and sleeping out his car https://youtu.be/KkeZo4tF2xk (6:31-7:22) Turns out, J Mane was eating good with the YouTube but a homie named Thunky Man got his page taken down and he lost all that bread that had him living nice https://youtu.be/UWoJjYzmRWY (0:52-1:19) https://youtu.be/54phIpS4B7w (2:30-3:17)
Bro was down, but not out. One thing J Mane gone do is do his homework on how to come back up. Bro started a new YouTube and got to interviews and reuploading his music and erthang
Bro turned into a media personality that just had people laughing and enjoying the stories from the Raq and the movement he was pushing. His IG rose to 122K followers and blue check was on deck
The grind paid off big time when J Mane updated fans on his new house he bought for his fam, back yard and erthang included https://youtu.be/7_6CT_OfRFM (0:19-1:55) https://youtu.be/7_6CT_OfRFM (5:18-5:35)
FYB J Mane done made it out the trenches and doing it big now, but that lifestyle wasn’t without losses. He’s lost close homies and even his brother G Skinny to the game https://youtu.be/Z94pc-CprME (0:16-0:48) https://youtu.be/PmXiQGeFWYY (4:36-4:47) https://youtu.be/Tply3UNhe6Q (6:19-6:22) https://youtu.be/PmXiQGeFWYY (5:03-5:23)
That’s the cycle they get stuck in, but J Mane broke out that and hopefully his movement for peace is fr, so the next generation don’t gta go through the cycle they did.
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.
Chad is a professional journalist specializing in Hip-Hop culture and writing music reviews.
