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“The only reason why your trap house is doing numbers, tell ’em ’cause I was locked up for six summers,” he raps.
This message also seems to take a shot at murdered rapper Smoke Dawg — whose real name was Jahvante Smart — and one of his biggest tracks Trap House, which includes the lyric, “Trap house doing numbers.”
Rolex Homi also brags in the video, “we pack name brands” — which gang experts suggest means they shoot rivals who are well known on the streets, like Smoke Dawg, which shows nobody is untouchable and also brings “clout” to the shooter and fellow gang members.
The rapper appears to reference allies and rivals with the lyric: “Sell sticks (slang for guns) to the woods (a possible reference to Driftwood, northside Jane-Finch) so they can drill (slang for shoot) up in the lane (likely a reference to Lanes Crew, southside Jane-Finch).” That is followed by, “878 we leaving hollows in their brain,” yet another apparent jab at Smoke Dawg who used the Twitter handle @878smokey and was a Halal Gang member from Regent Park.
Smoke Dawg, 21, who had no criminal record and toured with hip hop superstar Drake, was killed along with music producer Ernest “Koba Prime” Modekwe, 28, in a shootout in the Entertainment District that also wounded an innocent woman on June 30, 2018.
Another rapper, Abdulkadir Handule, aka 21 Neat, was arrested days later in Burnaby, B.C., on kidnapping and forcible confinement charges before being transferred to Toronto to face two counts of first-degree murder for the shootings of Smoke Dawg and Koba Prime.
