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Why did Baker leave Devilish Trio?
Dive Underground explores why Baker Ya Maker left Devilish Trio, revealing tensions over music rights and personal conflicts within the underground rap group.
Key Takeaways
- Baker left Devilish Trio due to personal and professional conflicts, especially over music rights and creative disagreements.
- The group itself did not disband entirely; it continued as a duo without Baker.
- Legal disputes and personal grievances severely damaged the relationships between members.
- Both Baker and Hydra remain active in music but have not collaborated since the split.
- The full story behind the breakup remains partially unknown, with both sides presenting different perspectives.
Summary
- Devilish Trio (D3) was a Tennessee-based underground rap group blending Memphis Funk and Horrorcore, consisting of Baker Ya Maker, Hydra, and producer Tennage.
- The group formed after Baker joined Doomshop Records and later created D3 with Hydra and Tennage, releasing three albums between 2016 and 2018.
- Despite rumors, the group did not fully break up; Baker left in 2020 to focus on his personal life but continued releasing solo music.
- Tensions arose over a scrapped song, 'Deadbeat 91,' which caused conflict between Baker and Hydra, contributing to Baker's departure.
- Baker attempted to claim rights to much of the Devilish Trio's music, including Hydra's work, leading to a copyright lawsuit.
- Hydra publicly expressed resentment towards Baker, accusing him of prioritizing money over friendship and respect.
- The feud continued with diss tracks, including Baker's 'Graveyard,' which hinted at the ongoing dispute without naming names.
- Both Baker and Hydra have continued their music careers separately, maintaining their underground fanbases.
- The video highlights the complexity of their breakup, emphasizing that there are likely undisclosed details behind the conflict.
- The narrator hopes for a future reconciliation and collaboration between the former members.
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Well, the answer to that just might surprise you.
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So sit back, buckle up, and let's dive into it.
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Devilish Trio, also known simply as D3, was a Tennessee-based underground rap group, which included rappers Baker and Hydromane, along with their producer and friend Tennage.
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Their genre of rap would fit them in somewhere between Memphis Funk and Horrorcore, often using monotone vocals over chilling and slow instrumentals or chest-pounding 808s.
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And now to begin this story, we first have to take a look back into the year 2014.
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When in November of that year, MC Holocaust created Doomshop Records, with the help of Stone Dog and DJ Fat Junk, Doomshop would go on to grow and take many new talent into the group as well.
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Among these talented artists on the Doomshop roster.
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Was the funk legend Baker Ya Maker.
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After some time, Baker would go on to create his own rap group alongside Hydra and producer Tennage.
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This is when Devilish Trio was born.
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D3 started uploading tracks on SoundCloud, as well as Bandcamp and YouTube.
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With uploads like Devilish Trio, the album.
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This music of dark hypnotic flows mixed over 90s boom bap samples and cowbells, helped the group quickly grow a large and dedicated fan base in the underground.
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The group would go on to release Devilish Trio Volume 1 on February 19th, 2016.
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They would follow this up with Devilish Trio Volume 2 on November 1st, 2017.
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Finally, this brings us to their last official album titled Devilish Trio Volume 3.
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Which was released late 2018 on December 9th.
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As of today, March 21st, 2024, the Spotify for Devilish Trio currently still has over 450,000 monthly listeners.
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So then what happened?
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Why exactly did Baker leave Devilish Trio?
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Well, I stayed up until sunrise last night and did some diving on the internet.
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Just to try and figure out what happened.
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Now with a quick Google search of the topic.
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We find that in 2020, the group broke up after Baker Ya Maker left in order to focus on getting his personal life together.
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Now this raises some red flags right away.
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Because it's not like the group is no longer a thing.
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The Devilish Trio group, or should I say Devilish Duo.
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Is very much so still a thing.
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The group is still alive and well.
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The group didn't break up, it's just that Baker parted ways with them.
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So this really makes you wonder.
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Why would Baker have to leave the group in order to get his personal life together?
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It's not like he wasn't able to work on music at the time.
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Because the summer of 2020 on July 8th, Baker released his new album Violent Shit 3, The Epilogue.
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Not long after that, Hydra dropped The Grey People.
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And officially announced on Instagram that Devilish Trio will no longer be making music.
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So what did Baker mean by this that he was leaving D3 to get his personal life together?
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Well, this is where things kind of get fucked up.
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So feel free to pause the video and go grab your snacks.
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Because things are about to get pretty interesting.
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Turns out that the album from Baker I previously mentioned, Violent Shit 3.
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Has a song as the intro for the album titled Deadbeat 91.
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So basically, the story here is that Hydra made a song with the instrumental for Deadbeat 91, but for whatever reason, Baker decided to scrap it and didn't want to use it.
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This of course caused some tension to rise in the group.
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As this definitely pissed Hydra off at the time.
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There must have been a few other minor events happening that we may never know about.
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But this song seemed to be the line Hydra didn't want to cross.
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And I guess Hydra complaining about the discarded track was the line Baker didn't want Hydra to cross.
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Because in 2020, Baker would officially leave Devilish Trio.
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But not before packing up everything that he had the rights for.
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Baker not only tried taking what was owed to him, but also the rights for a lot of stuff Hydra worked on as well.
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In some cases trying to obtain the full rights to the Devilish Trio library.
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Hydra replied to a comment on Instagram saying, we didn't fight it because we just want him to fuck off and handle his losses like a man.
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He just wants money, doesn't care about the years of friendship and everything we did for him.
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So he gets no respect from us.
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Baker would end up hitting Hydra and Tennage with a copyright lawsuit against them for their music.
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Hydra claiming Baker just wants money, doesn't care about the years of friendship.
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And everything we did for him.
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So he gets no respect from us.
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But with the breakup of the trio official, this was not the end of the beef between Baker and Hydra.
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On October 10th, 2020, Baker featured a track titled Graveyard.
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Now it's important to keep in mind of the timeline here.
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So this song had just released around the exact time that Baker was cutting himself off from the trio entirely.
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So if you take a closer look at this song he featured on, he actually starts the song off.
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Opening up with the first verse, he wraps.
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I love the thrill of a battle.
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I slaughter the sheep like cattle.
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The man of war has come back.
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And I've come to reclaim my saddle.
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No love for a snake.
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You just want a piece of my plate.
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And you're thinking that you are slick.
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But it seems you've made a mistake.
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Test me, stressed king.
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All this pressure I'm applying.
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Ain't no other like me.
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Now I'm not Inspector Gadget or anything, but this definitely seems like it's.
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Airing out his side of the story without actually naming names.
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I mean, we all know this verse is about Hydra, but to be fair, Hydra was shitting on Baker's name ever since this all happened.
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So of course, Baker would reply in some way like this.
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It's good to point out that there's two sides to every story.
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And based on Baker's promotion of his own music, I don't really see Baker being the type to go online and defend himself against the internet trolls.
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Clearly Baker and Hydra had a serious dispute over the song Deadbeat 91, they claimed the other person is greedy and is only caring about money.
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It's pretty sad a very talented rap group got torn apart and also long time friends got torn apart due to some bullshit over a song beat and copyright.
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But I'm sure there's plenty more to this story from both sides that the world doesn't know and may never know.
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Baker, Hydra, and Tennage, although now working separately, still continue to release great music.
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And maybe one day we can see them collaborate again in the future.
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For now, don't forget to like and subscribe.
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And let me know in the comments what you think of Baker leaving Devilish Trio.
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See you on the next dive.
Topics:Baker Ya MakerDevilish TrioD3 rap groupunderground rapMemphis FunkHorrorcoremusic rights disputerap group breakupBaker Hydra feudDoomshop Records
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