Edai 600, one of the founders of Chicago drill was recently shot and killed
in the South Shore neighborhood.
Although not as big as artists like Chief Keef and Lil Durk,
Edai was a well-known figure in the streets
and helped create the Chicago drill music that we know today.
Let’s take a closer look at what happened.
Edai 600 was a rapper from Chicago who was associated with Team 600, a set of the Black Disciples
which included other popular drill rappers like S Dot, LA Capone, Tay600, 600 Breezy,
and RondoNumbaNine. Members of Team 600 grew up in the area of 60th and King Drive.
They were allied with other BD sets like O’Block and Lamron,
which many other famous drill rappers rep.
In the early days,
the main rappers from 600 were LA Capone
and Rondo Numba9ine,
but Edai and his younger brother Cdai
held it down for the squad as well.
Team 600 was known to beef with groups like 051 Money Gang and the STL/EBT set of the GD’s also known as Tookaville,
which included popular drill rappers like FBG Duck and Billionaire Black.
In 2012, these two rappers collaborated on a now famous diss track
aimed at Edai called Edai Is U Serious.
Edai would eventually follow up with the track War in 2014
which started with the bars
“I’m like fuck FBG them lil n**** so funny to me
Put C-Dai or Rondo up on you, who you want it to be?
That Edai is u serious diss that shit ain’t nothing to me
You on that bus stop like Tooka we put you under the street.”
The last bar was a reference to Shondale Gregory,
aka Tooka,
a member of the STL/EBT set of the GDs’
who was shot and killed while waiting at a bus stop in 2011.
Tooka has become one of the most disrespected people in the history of hip hop,
mainly by BD rappers.
Dissing dead opps has become a common theme in drill music
and Edai’s reference to Tooka on War
was one of the earliest examples of this.
On that track,
Edai also made a reference to the death of Lil Jojo,
the member of the Bricksquad set of the GD’s.
In March 2012, Lil Durk released a track called L’s Anthem,
which featured a diss toward Bricksquad.
Lil Jojo followed up with the track BDK,
where he didn’t just throw shots at individual rappers,
he took aim at their entire gang.
Many people considered Lil Jojo a legend in Chicago
and this track increased his clout in the city and online.
But it also made him a primary target to the BD’s.
In September 2012,
Jojo released a video that showed him passing by Lil Reese in a car and yelling insults at him.
He released the video online
and he and Reese started going back and forth on Twitter.
Man the **** is wrong with you *****
Ay I ain't no Brick Squad
Brick Squad boy the **** you talking bout boy
Yo *****
During this exchange, Jojo would drop his location,
tweeting I’m on #69, I’m out here.
Just a few hours later would be shot and killed.
Jojo was riding his bike near 69th Street and Princeton Ave when a gunman in a passing car started firing at him.
After Lil Jojo was killed, Chief Keef would tweet
“It’s Sad Cuz Dat N**** Jojo Wanted to be Just Like Us #LMAO”,
although he later claimed that his Twitter was hacked.
Lil Reese and Chief Keef were both initially suspects in his murder
and his mother firmly believes that they had something to do with it.
They were both questioned by police
but no arrests were ever made.
Lil Jojo was a beloved member of Brick Squad
and his death made the war between the BD’s and the GD’s go even harder.
On his track War Edai 600 raps
“I get that call, they on Bricksquad I’m like murder them boys
Kick in miss Coleman’s door and knock Lil Jojo urn on the floor”.
This was one of the most disrespectful bars in the history of drill
and added fuel to the fire in the war between 600 and Bricksquad.
About a year after Lil Jojo was killed,
one of 600’s most prominent members, LA Capone,
would be murdered after leaving the recording studio.
This was a major blow to team 600
as LA was one of their most popular rappers.
Three men were arrested for the murder the following year
The suspects had ties to 051 Money Gang,
another set that has beef with 600.
On top of that, in 2014,
another two popular members of team 600,
Rondonumbanine and Edai’s younger brother Cdai would be arrested for murder.
The two rappers were accused of killing a cab driver
named Javan Boyd.
Boyd was waiting for a passenger around 4 AM
in the Wentworth Gardens area of Chicago
when he was shot 7 times.
Police claim that surveillance footage
and fingerprints linked the two rappers to the scene
and in 2016, they were both found guilty.
Rondo was sentenced to 39 years in jail for the crime
and Cdai was sentenced to 38 years.
So with LA dead and Rondo and Cdai behind bars,
Edai was one of the last drill rappers left on the street
to hold it down for team 600.
Although he was popular in the city and had a buzz,
he never made it to the level of stardom that Chief Keef and Lil Durk did.
Later on, Edai would find employment as a truck driver,
which many used to clown him for.
Truck driving is a profitable business and he was probably making good money.
But it does seem out of character for a Chiraq savage like Edai to give up rap to go get a normal job.
But unfortunately, truck driving couldn’t save Edai from the consequences of the streets.
On July 31st, 2021,
Edai would be shot multiple times in the back on the 7200 Block of South Bennett Ave.
He was rushed to the University of Chicago Hospital,
where he was pronounced dead early Sunday morning.
Although authorities have not officially confirmed the identity of the victim,
several people close to the rapper would take to social media
to confirm that it was 32-year old Cordai Ealy,
better known in the streets as Edai.
It was a crazy weekend for Chicago
with over 44 shootings
including the one that allegedly took Edai’s life.
The Chicago Sun Times reported Sunday morning
that a 32-year-old man
had been shot in the back and abdomen
and later died in the hospital.
After that, many of Edai’s friends came forward to confirm that the rapper had passed away.
Lil Reese went on Twitter to mourn the loss, tweeting
“Rip edai you grew up wit me
all that shit you thought i had against you
I didn’t ion wanna see nun of my n***** like that
cause when I just got graze
you was checking up on me lowkey worried free cdai man”
Young Famous 600,
one of the artists that Edai had helped promote before he was killed tweeted
“I’m sick {crying emoji} on your son birthday tho
@KingEdai600 you know how I’m comin for you {broken heart}.
600 Breezy came out a little more aggressive and tweeted
“You b**** a** n**** snapped with this one”
then retweeted several people tweeting RIP Edai.
Edai was so well respected in the city,
that even the opps were mourning his death.
FBG Duck affiliate FYB J Mane
put out a video where he said he was disgusted by Edai’s death
He said that Chicago is bogus as hell
and that “we’re trying to stop the violence in Chicago and y’all done killed Edai”.
Chicago bogus as hell bro
Y'all done killed this man
We tryna to stop the violence in Chicago y'all done kill Edai man
FYB J Mane is an insane BD,
which means he’s a Black Disciple,
but also beefs with his own set.
He even went as far as getting a BDK face tattoo
and used to hang with Duck and other members of FBG.
He may be trolling with his video,
but he seems pretty serious
which shows you how influential and respected Edai was.
The exact motive behind Edai’s death
has not been revealed,
but given his affiliations,
it likely had to do with street politics.
Word on the street is that he was set up by a female,
who sold him out to his opps.
Another rumor going around
is that Edai was actually taken out by his own people
and that rapper Tay600
had something to do with his death.
Even though Edai and Tay600 were both a part of Team 600,
they've had problems ever since his brother Cdai got locked up.
When Cdai and Rondo got arrested for the murder charge,
Tay600 was in jail fighting another case.
According to 600 Breezy,
he went to his trial and the lawyer let him see paperwork that says
that Tay600 told police that he witnessed Rondo kill the cab driver.
I mean, like,
honestly what I've seen with my own two eyes
that man said
Rondo shot him
Tay600 denied the rumors and said that the paperwork floating around was clearly fake.
They telling me like
Yeah you see this fake statement?
That people was supposed to-
I don't know if you've ever seen a fake statement but,
you know
y-you
I know what you're talking about
Yeah like it was fake statement floating around
and they said in the statement
I. Germontary D. Carpenter have seen
Rondo and Cdai shoot the person 5 times
you know
and the statement was so fake
cuz if you read the statement, for one
court document is not going to say
Rondo and Cdai it gonna say
Courtney and Clint
Edai did an interview with DJ Vlad,
where he admits that the paperwork Tay600 is referencing was fake,
that didn’t mean he didn’t snitch.
He said that he did sign an actual statement against Rondo
and that he’d seen the real paperwork with his own eyes.
He also says that he helped pay for Cdai’s lawyers
and so he was able to speak with them about the case
and they let him know that Tay600 was involved.
He says that Tay made a statement,
but then refused to take the stand,
so he was hit with a contempt of court charge,
which proves he was cooperating.
Tay600 maintained that he never snitched on Cdai or Rondo, but at that point,
it didn’t matter.
Ever since then,
he was labeled as a rat and was kicked out of Team600.
Edai was one of the main people
pushing the narrative that he was a snitch,
which is why they’ve had problems.
In 2019, court paperwork from the trial
revealed that Tay600
was not listed as having cooperated with authorities
but was with Rondo and Cdai on the night of the murder.
But by then, the damage had been done
and Tay600 was blackballed by the BD’s
and labeled a snitch.
Everyone from Lil Durk to King Von to Lil Reese
distanced themselves from him
and continued the rumors that he was a snitch.
Tay600 always believed that Edai was behind all the snitching rumors
and he was the one who planted the idea in Cdai and Rondo’s heads.
So, when Edai was killed,
more rumors started going around
that Tay was the one who did the hit.
There is even a leaked audio clip from a police scanner
that claims a witness saw the shooting take place
and identified Tay as the killer.
Witness says the shooter goes by the name Tay600
Tay600
The rapper has denied these rumors
and claimed that he wasn’t even in Chicago
on the night of the shooting.
He also let it be knownthat any blogs or media outlets trying to claim he was involved would be sued.
As of yet, police have yet to officially confirm that the 32-year-old man
killed on Sunday morning was Edai,
so there is no official evidence to reveal what happened.
More facts will likely come to light as time goes on
unless the streets handle it first.
Edai was a well-known name in Chicago
and had beef with some of the deadliest gangs in the city,
so anyone looking to build their rep as a killer
could have taken him out.
The saddest part is
that Edai already made it out of the streets
and was getting legal money as a truck driver.
It may not have been as fun as being a famous rapper.
But he had an opportunity to make legal money
doing something that wasn’t going to put his life in danger
and it's tragic that he got sucked back into the streets
after surviving so much already.
RIP to Edai,
stay tuned for more updates on this situation.
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