You probably haven’t heard of Aristote Yenge, Kyreis Davies and Isaac Calver, however, it is possible that you have seen or come across the YouTube-based trap group they are a part of titled ‘YTBYTN’. In fact, the three were a part of a wider group of creatives that were amassing around 100,000 views on a number of their videos, almost all of which hinged around the idea of drug dealing, robbing, murdering and more.
This is particularly worrying as the majority of the group’s following were found to be their town’s pre-teen children, in fact, an Ipswich community worker, Cad Taylor, told the BBC in an interview: “We have done work in primary schools with lots of young children that know the lyrics, and there is some kind of thing around local celebrity status, however negative some of those things portrayed are.”
Well, the reason why these three teenagers are being included in headlines across the country recently is because they have all been found guilty of murder, a consequence of the trio, with others, travelling across Ipswich and stabbing Tavis 15 times before smashing a bottle over his head and leaving him to die.
As for why they did this, there was an obvious rivalry between YTBYTN, who identify with the J-Block gang, and the other groups in the local area, in this case the Neno gang. In fact, in a video you can even see Davies and Calver using gestures to throw shade at the IP3 postcode area where Tavis came from.
One Ipswich youth worker named Mark Straw had this to say: “These guys have got talents, these guys have got skills, these guys have created their own beats, these guys have got ideas, innovation, an entrepreneurial outlook on life,” adding: “Why can’t we actually work with those young people to increase a level of accountability or responsibility? I can’t say you can take a horse to water and it’ll drink, but we can provide some sort of connections.”
