Bobby Shmurda

Coming out of Brooklyn with a style that borrowed from both Chicago (drill music) and the South (trap), rapper Bobby Shmurda launched as an Internet sensation with a gangster track and its accompanying gangster dance. The Southern influence was picked up from Shmurda's N.Y.C.-based family, who had roots in the South. The young Bobby remixed 50 Cent and Jay-Z tracks with Southern beats, and used this East Coast/Dirty South blend of styles when he joined the Brooklyn crew GS9. In 2014 he dropped the solo track "Hott Nigga" along with the video, the latter featuring the GS9 crew ...