{"id":56227,"date":"2026-02-24T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/skrilla-is-playing-the-long-game-beyond-6-7\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:20:15","slug":"skrilla-is-playing-the-long-game-beyond-6-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/skrilla-is-playing-the-long-game-beyond-6-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Skrilla Is Playing the Long Game Beyond &#8220;6 7&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Show &amp; Prove:\u00a0Skrilla<\/span><br \/><em>Words:\u00a0Peter A. Berry<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last October, an otherwise nondescript piece of street code became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/skrilla\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skrilla<\/a>\u2019s ticket to singer Natasha Bedingfield&#8217;s concert. Adorned in what he calls a \u201csoul-snatching\u201d mask, the 26-year-old Philadelphia rapper performed his sinister single, \u201cDoot Doot (6 7)\u201d beside the popular singer known for the 2008 hit \u201cPocket Full of Sunshine,\u201d leaving the audience inside Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia completely perplexed.<\/p>\n<p>It was the type of random culture collision that could only happen in an extremely online world that thrives on irony. But it really all happened because Bedingfield\u2019s son, like thousands of other kids across America, just wouldn\u2019t drop that silly \u201c6 7\u201d meme\u2014a meaningless play on Skrilla\u2019s song that also comes with its own hand motion of palms facing upward, casually moving them up and down. The unexpectedness of it all isn\u2019t lost on the rhymer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this day, I would never picture myself being on the stage with somebody like Natasha,\u201d Skrilla says on Zoom, calling in from his hometown before watching the Delaware State versus Norfolk State football game on a chilly evening last October. \u201c\u20186 7\u2019 came from Philadelphia, and she\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, I want to meet the person [who popularized it].\u2019 And her team contacted my team, and it was just up from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lately, his career\u2019s been up, too. Since the unofficial release of the viral single in December of 2024, and its subsequent official debut last February, the rap newcomer has simultaneously become an ascendant rap star and one of the most inescapable forces in viral culture. With its ominous soundscape and Skrilla\u2019s rambling flows, the track itself is an engrossing exercise in street rap, culminating in over 62 million Spotify streams and 22 million YouTube views for its accompanying music video.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c6 7\u201d catchphrase\u2014which is also a \u201c187\u201d-esque police code used to describe homicide\u2014became a meme after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPzIezwACs4\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">high school basketball player<\/a> was filmed in 2025 ranking a Starbucks drink by saying \u201c6 7\u201d while motioning up and down with his hands. Dictionary.com even named \u201c6 7\u201d its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQaT9x5DJXQ\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Word of the Year<\/a> last October. It\u2019s everywhere, and Skrilla is to thank for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure nobody saw that coming,\u201d Skrilla says of the track going viral. \u201cEvery song that I make, I have a feeling that it\u2019s going to blow. But this one actually did.\u201d The track\u2019s level up, along with his off-kilter brand of macabre gangsta rap, are the reasons he\u2019s on the precipice of legit stardom. Naturally, it was preceded by much humbler and more dangerous beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>Born Jemille Edwards, Skrilla endured a fairly normal childhood playing AAU basketball and plotting to become a fashion designer before completely jumping off the porch. He grew up in Philly\u2019s Kensington area, a primarily low-income, working-class neighborhood in which an open-air drug market exists.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to school, Skrilla got good grades. He even sought justice alongside classmates. Although he denies even knowing who George Zimmerman is, a 2013 report from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/philly\/news\/20130722_Saving_the_next_Trayvon_Martin.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Philadelphia Enquirer<\/a> <\/em>features a 14-year-old boy with the same name and face participating in a demonstration honoring Trayvon Martin following Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal for killing Martin a year prior.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in high school, he found himself on house arrest for two-and-a-half years for multiple heroin-related charges. Despite those circumstances, he still graduated.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to deciding to make his own songs, Skrilla remembers listening to the jagged, narcotized stylings of Kodak Black, Chief Keef, Future and Young Thug. \u201cThose are my favorite artists in life,\u201d he shares. \u201cThem being themself helped me be myself.\u201d After spending time with his friends in the studio, he decided to record his own tracks. And unlike most first-timers, he was actually really good.<\/p>\n<p>His 2018 track \u201cDog Food\u201d features a more linear, Atlanta-indebted cadence, with its ominous piano loop, which only adds a layer of danger to the mix of what\u2019s otherwise a customary flex song.<\/p>\n<p>With subsequent tracks and projects like <em>Kutthroat <\/em>(2022), <em>Thrilla<\/em> with Thwaglord(2022), <em>Santos<\/em> (2023), <em>Gemini Season<\/em> (2023), <em>Underworld <\/em>(2024), and <em>Zombie Love Kensington Paradise<\/em> (2024), Skrilla\u2019s flows became more asymmetrical.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a cue from his Mexican mother (Skrilla is also Black from his dad\u2019s side), he began lacing music videos with imagery nodding to Santeria, an Afro-Cuban faith he adopted when he was 7. Unwieldy, yet deceptively precise, his sonic and visual ID had crystallized into something that evaded easy classification. By the summer of 2023, his talent had earned him a deal with Priority Records.<\/p>\n<p>Skrilla\u2019s younger brother and manager, Jevon \u201cVon\u201d Edwards, saw key ingredients to his stardom years ago. \u201cHe always had a hustler ambition, and he always had the cool-kid charisma,\u201d explains Von, who recalls Skrilla going to Walmart to buy iron-on print sheets and making his own shirts to tell. \u201cThose are two things that when it comes to a rapper, you got to be a hustler and you got to be a cool kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rapper\u2019s striking all-around aesthetic, one Von compares to Tyler, The Creator, also shocks and ensnares. \u201cIt\u2019s raw, so even when it looks ugly, [there\u2019s] still beauty in it,\u201d Von adds. \u201cYou take a double look and actually look at it, it looks smooth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Propelled by serendipitous virality and his own idiosyncrasies, Skrilla\u2019s only built an even bigger ramp to national viability. \u201cDoot Doot (6 7)\u201d now has a remix with G Herbo. This past October, he unloaded his Lil Yachty collab, \u201cRich Sinners,\u201d and connected with Coi Leray a month later for the \u201cLick Back\u201d Remix. At the top of January, he also dropped the music video for his track &#8220;RYLO.&#8221; Then there\u2019s <em>Z<\/em>, Skrilla\u2019s forthcoming album, which will feature the Yachty track as well as a Tierra Whack collab. The title is a nod to Zombieland, a nickname for his Kensington roots. <em>Z<\/em> is expected to arrive in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe album <em>Z<\/em> means the ending of a lot of stuff, though and changing your lifestyle, though, to the better, the ending of a certain path, and just starting over,\u201d Skrilla expresses. While he says he can\u2019t specify, he reveals he\u2019s progressed over the last year and has curved some of his own self-destructive habits for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing because Von expects Skrilla to be the face of the next generation. But presently, Skrilla is probably more focused on the football game he\u2019s attending, which is set to begin any minute. Their dad surprised them with tickets before this interview. Moments like that make great memories, which Skrilla can look forward to with his own children. He wants to be remembered for being a father. Skrilla has two daughters, 3 and 4, and two more kids on the way.<\/p>\n<p>While being a present dad, Skrilla\u2019s music is also top of mind. \u201cMy goal for my career is just keeping my head on my shoulders and making music as much as I can,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd just being me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authenticity at its finest.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Listen to Skrilla&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Zombie Love Kensington Paradise<\/em> Album Deluxe<\/h3>\n<div class=\"branded-app-shortcode-inarticle\">\n<div class=\"logo-wrap\" rel=\"fwef\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townsquare.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/www.xxlmag.png?w=100\" alt=\"XXL logo\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">See All the Rappers Touring in 2026<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=624&#038;gver=9&#038;bid=812&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DLT1Yn2pW9B5QzH6n4H2YlkQyVEfXVOOu82lt&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fpub.doubleverify.com%2Fdvtag%2F29287203%2FDV1106009%2Fpub.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show &amp; Prove:\u00a0SkrillaWords:\u00a0Peter A. 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