On May 17, producer/rapper Lil Ugly Mane announced on Twitter that Secret Circle—his group with New York rapper Wiki and Bay Area rapper Antwon—was no more. The reasons given were vague. “The songs we made don’t mean shit anymore,” he wrote. “My heart is broken. But I won’t stand by and act like everything is okay.” He added, “I would never want to be a part of anything that hurt anyone.” On May 18, Wiki tweeted, “Actions have consequences, and there’s just some shit you can’t stand by. Love all my fans. Do the right thing, even when it may be hard.”

Later that night, Antwon posted a statement on Twitter, alluding to unnamed allegations. “I’ve taken advantage of people and situations to hide from the real me, and used my platform for selfish reasons,” he wrote. “I grew up being abused mentally and physically and never knew what it meant to love myself.”

He added, “I became addicted to fame to the point now where the main reason why I ran away from these allegations in the first place is because I was afraid people wouldn’t like me anymore and my career would be over.”

He also said, “I've used people to try and make me feel better and caused harm to people. Giving women attention and not understanding I was playing with their emotions and feelings. Its [sic] just made me feel worse off and more empty then [sic] I was before. I have no one to blame but myself—I let myself treat women poorly and my ego made me justify it. My head was so far up my ass, but I was looking on the outside of myself.”

On May 19, Wiki and Lil Ugly Mane shared more details about the group’s dissolution, indicating that the impetus was the unnamed allegations mentioned in Antwon's statement. Wiki tweeted, “[Lil] Ugly [Mane] and I are hurt, yes. We poured 2 years into that project [Secret Circle]. But that doesn’t even register on the scale of hurt that the victim(s) must be feeling. My heart goes out to anyone who’s been abused or violated in anyway. Our generation needs to stop this sick deeply routed [sic] problem.”

Lil Ugly Mane released a longer statement on Instagram. “I was under the impression that Antwon was going to be accountable for his actions, and so I wanted to give him the opportunity to own his bullshit and stand on his own two feet,” he wrote.

Lil Ugly Mane continued, “This is all about the people you’ve hurt. These aren’t ‘allegations’ and ‘accusations.’ This is shit you did.” He added, “We aren’t talking about late night miscommunications or buyer’s regret. We’re talking about zero fucking consent.” Later in the note, Lil Ugly Mane stated, “I’m so fucking sorry that I was complicit in trying to protect him [Antwon], and giving him the benefit of the doubt for as long as I did.”

Pitchfork has reached out to Antwon and Lil Ugly Mane, as well as to a representative for Wiki.