The Underground Wars

**The Underground Wars**, also known simply as **The Beef**, or **The Feud**, was an online hip hop music rivalry that began on YouTube in 2017, in which it escalated over several videos and diss records being made against each other. The feud originally involved youtubers UrBn Zombie, Suicide-\_-Boy666 (known online as "Blackninja5"), and his brother KillerClxps (now known as "Clxpzz") aiding the latter's support later on in the feud. UrBn Zombie and Clxpzz would eventually reconcile, with both parties giving each other credit years after the feud died down. This feud would go on to be the most important, and most well known beef in UrBn Zombie's career.

## Background

### UrBn Zombie

As stated inside of UrBn Zombie's wikia page, "He began uploading guitar cover videos on his youtube channel under the name **xxXGuitarKidXxx** in late April of 2017 (although they have since been deleted). His most well known video during this time period was a parody of the song 'Freaks' by Australian DJ Timmy Trumpet and New Zealand rapper Savage. The video itself, was in the style of the popular internet trend entitled 'When mom's not home, and dad and son are'."

UrBn Zombie would later on expand on his content, uploading videos of him playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops and Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2. However, his most well known series at the time took place inside of Black Ops 2, entitled "1v1 Makes Kid Rage Quit". The series revolves around UrBn Zombie competing with a fellow player, in which he dominates against them to the point where they leave the game either pre-maturely, or while the game is going on. The very first iteration of the series was uploaded on May 27, 2017 and he would continue on with the series until late 2018, expanding the series into Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Black Ops 4.

### The Brothers

Not much is known about the background between the brothers, but Suicide-\_-boy666 (known online as Blackninja5) uploaded videos on his youtube channel that was in the same style as UrBn Zombie's content. He would upload videos of himself playing a series of video games, most notably Black Ops 2, and would also occasionally give away modded PS3 accounts. His brother Clxpzz (known at the time as FaZe Green) did have a youtube channel, but he did not upload any videos until the feud with UrBn Zombie began.

According to UrBn Zombie: him, Blackninja5, and Clxpzz were "mutual friends" before the feud began. He would also go on to say that they "met just by playing Black Ops 2 with each other".

## The Beginning

The feud began with UrBn Zombie uploading a video titled "1v1 Makes Another Kid Rage Quit" on June 9, 2017, which was the second iteration in his 1v1 rage quit series. The video had the same concept as the other videos in the series would, but the opponent in the video happened to be Clxpzz himself (known in the video as coolkidtrunks). Blackninja personally messaged UrBn Zombie on his PS3 account (known as SuperOrder17) after the video dropped, and would go on to claim that Clxpzz did not leave the game out of rage, and accused him of lying in his videos. UrBn Zombie responded to him, declining the fact that Clxpzz didn't rage quit, and refuted his point about lying in his videos. Things would escalate behind the scenes, although it was never publicly mentioned on what exactly happened.

### Escalation

Both fans of UrBn Zombie and Blackninja began to see that both parties would engage in flame wars with each other in the comment sections of their youtube videos. Most notably on June 30, 2017, where UrBn Zombie uploaded a video titled "COD 1v1 With MrR\_427" in which Blackninja commented on the video criticizing his style of play, and his format. This would embark into UrBn Zombie responding to not only Blackninja himself, but some of his friends who were backing him up in the process. Although it's unconfirmed if this happened before or after the flame wars, Blackninja personally messaged UrBn Zombie again, challenging him to a 1v1 in Black Ops 2 with the loser having to reset their in-game stats. UrBn Zombie accepted the challenge and would ultimately win, but Blackninja never reset his stats like he said. Some would argue that this would be the turning point in the feud.

### Response

In response to the flame wars and the private drama, UrBn Zombie released a diss record titled "SuicideBoy Diss Track" on July 5, 2017, targeting Blackninja. In the song, UrBn Zombie criticizes Blackninja's lack of uploads, his subscriber count, content, as well as his role in the drama. Rapping lyrics like: "All you do is sit on your ass all day / And send stupid messages saying 'oh, that's fuckin gay'" and "Your videos are trash, who cares about your mods? / I'd rather listen to Bieber, now look what you've caused". He also accused Blackninja of making multiple youtube accounts to subscribe to his own, with lyrics like: "Now let's first talk about your subscriber count / Sucka most of your subscriptions are your other accounts".

The song itself had mixed reviews upon release, with some praising his skills as a beginner, while others thought the video was "cringy". Blackninja responded to the song with a message to UrBn Zombie, saying that the song was not good at all, and even criticized his hairstyle that was present in the video, famously calling it "my little pony hair". UrBn Zombie immediately responded to him, accusing him of participating in "sub4sub" live streams to gain popularity, due to his subscriber count almost doubling after the diss track was released.

### Clxpzz's Inception

Just a few weeks after "SuicideBoy Diss Track" was released, Clxpzz (under the alias of FaZe Green) finally threw his hat in the ring and got involved. He responded to UrBn Zombie in the comments section of his diss track, telling him that the song was horrible, and followed up with a statement telling UrBn Zombie to "check out [his] youtube channel". There was only one video on Clxpzz's channel at the time, which was an announcement that he was working on a diss response, and that it would "come out soon". In response, UrBn Zombie tried to get his followers and his fans to spread hate all over the video, however it didn't work out how he originally planned. This movement also didn't stop Clxpzz, since he would eventually go on to release his diss track. Although the exact date of when the song was released in currently unknown, his diss track "The Fall Of xxXGuitarKidXxx" was released in early August of 2017. Unfortunately for Clxpzz, the song received a generally negative response, with most of whom calling out his rapping ability. He would eventually delete his youtube channel just the next month.

## Aftermath & Revival

Going into September of 2017, the feud was beginning to die down, with both parties going their separate ways after Clxpzz deleted his "FaZe Green" youtube channel. Both Blackninja5 and UrBn Zombie did not upload any videos on each others youtube channels respectively, but they both did surge in subscribers towards the end of 2017. UrBn Zombie surpassed 100 subscribers on December 25, while Blackninja5 gained around 30 - 40 subscribers going into the new year. UrBn Zombie was also in the midst of a minor feud with another content creator during this time, in which he released a diss track against him, though it has since been deleted. UrBn Zombie also regularly participated in rap battles around this time as well.

Clxpzz re-entered himself into the feud (with a new youtube channel) when he commented on UrBn Zombie's diss track saying "Ass, I can do better", and he would follow up with a statement saying that he was going to "diss" him, but he wanted him to "roast him" first. At first, UrBn Zombie didn't know who Clxpzz was, considering the fact that he knew him as "FaZe Green" at the time, although he would figure everything out after doing research. That was when he began working his response in which he claimed it took "months" to make, due to the fact that he was doing a lot of research and waiting until he had more exposure. In around May of 2018, Clxpzz posted a comment pressuring UrBn Zombie, and aggressively asking him about his diss track, to which UrBn Zombie responded saying that he was working on it. He would eventually release his response entitled "Ain't Got No Time" on August 19, 2018, dissing both Clxpzz, and Blackninja5.

## The Ending

After UrBn Zombie released "Ain't Got No Time", he confronted Blackninja5 about his song, and was also hoping to get a response out of Clxpzz. Blackninja5 would infamously delete his youtube channel after the confrontation, although the motive was unrelated to the feud. UrBn Zombie would go on to state in 2021: "Me and him sorta confronted each other in a PS4 chat party but he didn’t have a mic on, so he just messaged me while I was talking. I wanted to see how he would react to the song, and to my surprise, he liked it! He said it was good! We then got into the topic about our youtube channels, and he said that he wanted to delete his since he didn’t want to upload anymore, or something along those lines."

As the years would go by, both UrBn Zombie and Clxpzz began to bury the hatchet. Clxpzz would comment on one of UrBn Zombie's videos stating that he thought "Ain't Got No Time" was a good diss song, and UrBn Zombie would give him credit on one of his videos, saying it was "funny", and told him to "keep grinding", In December of 2021, UrBn Zombie would go on to state that he has "no hard feelings against [Blackninja5 and Clxpzz] anymore", and would also go on to state: "We were just a bunch of kids doing stupid shit on the internet, and I gotta be 100 real quick. If it wasn’t for this feud, then I probably would have never realized how much I enjoy rapping and making hip hop music, so I gotta thank ‘em for that. KillerClxps' channel is still active as I’m typing this. I just posted a comment on one of his videos saying: “This was funny lol. Keep grindin G”. I would love to do a video with him at some point, so until then we’ll just have to wait and see."