I Will Disrespect You

On August 22, 2024, YouTuber Brandon Buckingham, whose gimmick is traveling to dangerous neighborhoods and posing alongside their residents holding guns, posted a video, “The Most Hated Rapper in Philadelphia: Life as Mr. Disrespectful,” about a young man named Abdul Vicks, more popularly known as YBC Dul. In it, Dul and his friends show off their weapons and the abandoned house where they used to sell drugs. At one point, he takes Buckingham for a ride near the block of his “opps,” or enemies, in a “striker,” or stolen car; they hear gunshots. Ominously, Dul boasts of being “feet on land,” or out in the street. “I never got robbed,” he says, “I never got touched, I never got shot at in the city yet.”