An aspiring rapper shot dead over the weekend had recorded a rap video uploaded to YouTube challenging a rival group a month before his death, it emerged today

An aspiring rapper shot dead over the weekend had recorded a rap video uploaded to YouTube challenging a rival group a month before his death, it emerged today.

Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, 17, who was shot and killed in Kennington, south London, on Saturday, was said to have been a member of Moscow17 — a group which often had rap competitions, known as ‘drills’, with a rival Peckham crew called Zone 2.

In the track titled City Of God, Rhyhiem — who rapped under the name GB — is believed to have challenged Zone 2 by asking ‘how you gonna make it even’. 

The video, which was removed from YouTube by Moscow17 but uploaded again by another user following Rhyhiem’s death, was the most recent in several ‘drill’ battles between the two groups.

Their violent rivalry is evident in another track where Moscow17 — who occasionally used the nickname ‘the Russians’ — told their rivals to ‘check the scoreboard’.

Zone 2 responded with a video telling their opposition they will ‘roll up and burst them’. 

Rhyhiem’s death was one of five shootings in London over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Since he was killed, a montage video of him rapping alongside fellow Moscow17 members has been uploaded to YouTube and viewed more than 29,000 times.

Comments below the video say Rhyhiem ‘jinxed himself’ by challenging the rival crew in the City Of God rap just four weeks before he was killed.

It comes as the Jamaican-born mother of the young rapper blamed police for his murder and said: ‘They can take back their British passport’. 

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