Some of Chicago’s biggest rappers
came up in the Parkway Garden Homes, AKA O Block.
Now it’s one of the most infamous hoods in the country,
but a lot of rap fans don’t know about the man O Block is named after.
So today we’re breaking down the tragic story of Odee Perry,
a 20 year old who was killed
and became a legend in the streets of Chicago.
O’Block was built all the way back in the ‘50s
and was a popular spot for black families.
It wasn’t always a hub for gang activity,
but in the 80’s
the neighborhood started getting more and more dangerous.
At first the Mickey Cobras and Gangster Disciples ran the area,
but in the ‘90s
the Black Disciples took over
and started going by the name WIIC City in the 2000s.
Back in the day the BDs and GDs didn’t have any issues with each other.
Lil Durk’s dad was a GD
who worked directly with gang’s founder Larry Hoover,
and he says that everything started because the BDs wanted more territory
and wouldn’t negotiate on it.
Even after the BDs and GDs started having tension,
the situation wasn’t even close to as violent as it is today.
But that all started to change in 2011
when a 15 year old from a GD set called STL/EBT
was shot and killed at a bus stop.
Tooka was a well-liked kid who repped STL/EBT
and was tight with a lot of people in the neighborhood.
One of his best friends was a girl named K.I.,
and Tooka’s death had a major impact on her and the whole area.
They named themselves Tookaville in honor of him,
and his death is allegedly what lead to the murder of Odee Perry.
According to rumors,
Tooka’s murder was getback for the death of a BD named Eddrick Walker.
It was never confirmed,
but rumors say Odee was involved with Tooka’s death.
Odee was one of the most well respected BDs from Wiic City.
Not much is known about his come up,
but everyone who knew him says he was a savage who wasn’t afraid of anybody.
He was cool with all the big names from O’Block like Chief Keef,
Lil Reese, and Boss Top -
and according to Lil Reese
He was one of them one's back then.
Beating mother****** up everyone was scared of Odee.
Eight months after Tooka was killed,
Odee was riding his bike down the street
just a few blocks away from Wiic City.
He was on the 400 Block of East 64th Street
when a car pulled up and started letting off shots.
Odee was hit in the neck,
and unfortunately died from his injuries.
When Odee was killed,
there wasn’t even a war in Chicago going on like what came next.
There was still beef and street drama
but sets weren’t losing people left and right like they are today.
Boss Top said
Odee Perry.
That's my best friend.
Your best friend?
Yeah.
Then she tell me like Odee
she was like 'He was killed last night'.
I'm like damn.
That was my first death experience and friends
so it was like,
like damn you know.
He was locked up when he heard the news,
and he revealed in an interview
So like I'm in jail
and these n****s watch me cry.
Like I'm crying,
ain't no secret, I'm crying infront of these n****.
Odee died on Tooka’s birthday,
and rumors immediately started flying
that STL/EBT was behind the hit.
Nobody was ever booked for the shooting,
but one of the main theories behind his death
is that K.I. killed him as get back for Tooka.
According to rumors,
K.I. and FBG Butta
slid on Tooka’s birthday to get revenge.
K.I. was only around 14 at the time,
but she wasn’t a stranger to violence.
Her dad was murdered when she was just one year old,
and later she witnessed her older brother get killed too.
She moved into GD territory
around 63rd and St. Lawrence,
and that’s when she got tight with Tooka and other dudes from STL/EBT.
Odee dying on Tooka’s birthday
made a lot of people think K.I. was involved,
and Wooski actually shouted her and Butta out on Twitter for making O’Block.
Not everyone believes she was involved with Odee’s death,
but the rumors helped build her up
into one of O’Block’s biggest opps.
K.I. became known in the city
for shooting at anyone she had a problem with,
and she allegedly tried to kill a girl
who was the cousin of a dude from O’Block named T. Roy.
Her and King Von started beefing on social media,
but they would also flirt back and forth.
K.I. lost more family to the streets
when her 13 year old cousin Tyquan
was hit by a stray bullet and tragically died.
Then she suffered another loss
when her homie Lil B from STL/EBT was shot and killed by the police.
After Lil B died,
K.I. allegedly murdered Chief Keef’s cousin Blood Money for revenge.
Blood Money wasn’t from O’Block,
but he repped another BD set called Front Street.
When he died, rumors started flying that K.I. was the shooter -
and the next day she was shot and killed
after dropping her location on Twitter.
On April 11th, 2014,
K.I. and Butta were walking to Wooski’s house with another homie
when someone ran up on them and started letting off shots.
Butta and their friend survived,
but K.I. was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Some people think K.I’s murder proved
that she was involved with Odee’s death,
but if she was really as active in the streets as rumors say
then there were plenty of reasons the opps would want to take her out.
Nobody was ever arrested for the shooting,
but rumors were going around
that King Von was the one who killed her.
A few days after she died,
dude’s from O’Block like Lil Reese and Boss Top
shouted Von out on Twitter,
and recently
paperwork came out that says Von was the prime suspect in the case
before he was killed in 2020.
Nobody really knows who killed Odee,
but another theory is that a dude named MOB Scrap was the killer.
Some people believe
Scrap was with K.I. and Butta when they killed Odee,
and just a month before he died, Scrap tweeted
“F*** OBLOCK WE MADE OBLOCK
THEM OTHA N****S LIEN (No Bull****)”
Another reason some people think Scrap was behind Odee’s murder
is because of his brother Rooga’s verse
on FBG Duck’s Exposing Me remix.
On the track he said
“Got some information that you b**** n****s would hate to know
N****s talk that s*** but they don’t even know who made the O
Drop a bag on your head,
my shooters get paid to blow.”
When Odee died,
it sparked the deadly war between the BDs and GDs that’s still going on today.
In 2012,
Lil Durk dropped the track L’s Anthem
and took the beef to a new level.
On the track he called out the GDs and said
“Brick Squad I say f*** ‘em
Wuga World wit em so it’s f*** ‘em.”
The track blew up and put the beef in the spotlight,
and a dude from Brick Squad named Lil JoJo clapped back
with the track 300K (BDK).
JoJo was actually cool with Lil Reese and Durk
because they all knew each other from back in the day,
but by that point
the tension between the GDs and BDs
was too high for him to back down.
On his track,
JoJo called out the BDs and Durk and said
“Durk say f*** Brick Squad so I can’t wait to catch him
Squeeze this f*****’ .40 now they got him on a stretcher.”
JoJo sent more diss tracks at the BDs,
but then a few months later
he was shot and killed after letting the opps know where he was at.
Over the next few years,
both sides sent shots on tracks
and in the streets too.
FBG Duck’s brother and cousin got killed on the same day,
but it didn’t stop him from taking more shots
at Odee and other BDs.
On the Exposing Me remix, Duck said
“He got caught in traffic,
Waldo ain’t get to finish his status
He on the internet laughin’, cappin’, then got caught without it
F*** your homie, he dead,
you heard what I said
F*** Sheroid, f*** Odee, f*** D thang, and f*** Tire Head.”
In 2020,
Duck dropped the track Dead B****** and rapped
"Made Chicago Legends,
s*** that was just about business
Said I wasn’t gon’ diss the dead
and okay, I did it
But n****, f*** T.Roy and Odee, them dead b****.”
Just a few months later,
Duck was shot and killed while he was out shopping
in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago.
He was one of O’Blocks biggest opps
and rumors immediately started flying that they were behind the murder.
Last year,
five dudes from O’Block were hit with a RICO charge over Duck’s death.
C-Thang, C murda, Muwop, Los, and Zell Munna were all named -
but Zell had taken his own life a few months earlier.
We’ll probably never have a solid answer about who really killed Odee Perry,
but whoever is responsible
helped set off a deadly wave of violence in Chicago.
The BDs and GDs weren’t cool before he died,
but now both sides have lost so many people
that there is almost no chance that the killing will stop.
Odee was another young dude
who just got caught up in the streets and had to adapt to his environment,
and unfortunately it all caught up to him
when he was only 20 years old.
And while some BDs and GDs have made it out of the trenches through music,
way more have lost their lives to this deadly war.
Rest in peace to Odee Perry
and everyone else who didn’t make it out.