FBG Cash was a Chicago drill rapper affiliated with FBG Duck and the Fly Boy Gang.
He was just starting to get some shine after a decade in the rap game.
But, he just got shot and killed right before he had the chance to blow up and make it out of Chicago.
Here’s what’s going on.
On Friday, June 10th around 5:30 in the morning,
FBG Cash was driving around Chicago with a woman who was asleep.
They were on the 1600 block of West 81st street
when a black four-door sedan pulled up and a shooter hopped out and started dumping shots.
According to the police, Cash grabbed his burner and shot back
but the opps had him outgunned with a rifle.
Cash “sustained multiple gunshot wounds about the body”
and was rushed to the Advocate Christ Medical Center, where they pronounced him dead.
The woman he was with got shot in the left arm and upper back and was taken to the same hospital in critical condition.
After they killed Cash, the shooter hopped back in the whip and fled the scene.
As of right now the cops ain’t named no suspects,
but they got detectives on the case.
A few hours after the shooting,
a screenshot from the Citizen app surfaced online.
In the photo, alleged witnesses are telling their side of the story.
One of them wrote “I heard a guy say he still laying in the ally
I watched him run to the ally and let off more shots man I’m moving.”
Another person said the police sat and watched the shooting go down,
then someone replied to them and said
“Yes they did it happen right under my window sound like it was in my house
every body hit the floor right out the bed scared my children and grandchildren
I didn’t even send them to school.”
Someone else on the app claimed they saw the shooter stand over Cash and dump bullets into him.
They wrote “Watched a dark skinned guy with dreads stand over that poor guy and let shots off man r.i.p.”
Cash’s death comes less than two years after FBG Duck got shot and killed broad day
in Chicago’s wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood.
He was walking down the street in the shopping district when four men hopped out of their cars
and shot him to death.
There were rumors that O’Block was behind the hit,
and back in October the Chicago PD officially charged five of them with Duck’s murder.
U.S attorney John Lausch said “Generally speaking,
what’s happening on social media,
and what’s happening in music videos that are on YouTube, particularly in the drill-rap genre,
it shows you what’s happening in this city …
which is that people are threatening to commit acts of violence,
and then either bragging about acts of violence or talking about how they’re going to retaliate for other violence,
it’s happening on a regular basis.”
FBG Cash was active like Duck,
but it’s unclear what the motive behind his murder was.
What makes the situation even more tragic
is that Cash recently went on No Jumper and said he was trying to make it out of Chicago.
When Adam22 asked him if he never wants to leave Chicago,
Cash told him “Hell nah, I really don’t wanna be in Chicago.
I’m hoping you show me a way to get me a million dollars right now when we leave here…
Hopefully I get to the point where I’m dining in at restaurants that make me not even wanna go back
and eat the same shit I was eating the last thirty years.
I don’t wanna see those same streets..
I don’t owe Chicago nothin’.”
In an interview with the Drea O Show from just a week ago,
Cash was optimistic about the future.
He said “So much malicious **** going on in the world and I still overrode it.
I weathered the storm with all that ****.
I don’t think it’s in my cards. I really don’t…
I think I’m gonna die of old age.”
Growing up in Chicago,
Cash says that he actually had a pretty good home life.
His pops was hustling while his mom took care of the kids,
and Cash ended up jumping into the streets at a young age.
He was surrounded by drug dealers and robbers,
so he adapted to the environment and started doing the same things.
Then at 18 he got caught up in an armed robbery case and ended up taking a deal for six years in prison.
Cash said he was just guilty by association,
but he took the time instead of going to trial or snitching on his homies.
He saw dudes he knew get years handed down but only have to serve a few months,
so he was shocked when he ended up serving six full years.
By the time Cash got out, the whole city had changed.
The drill movement was popping off, and social media had changed the whole game.
According to him,
social media really split up the city and made it way crazier.
Cash started recording music in 2012,
but the first taste of fame he got actually came from him hooking up with another artist’s mom.
Back when he was 16,
Cash started casually seeing Chief Keef’s mom on the side.
He was just a kid when it was going down,
but by the time Cash got out of prison, Keef had become the new face of Chicago rap.
When Cash saw Keef doing numbers with the music,
he hit up his mom and had his cameraman record the conversation.
The phone call wasn’t nothing serious,
but Cash’s cameraman leaked it without his permission to WorldStarHipHop and it ended up going viral.
Cash went viral again just a few months ago when he posted a picture throwing up his middle finger
while standing next to the King Von mural across the street from O’Block.
According to Cash, him and Durk was DMing each other back and forth just saying stuff like “**** you.”
Then Durk challenged him to “go over there and see what happens to you.”
Some fans think this is what led to Cash getting shot,
but there’s no proof to confirm the rumor.
In an interview with TruthTeller Tv that was posted just a day before his death,
Cash confirmed the rumors that he had record deals in the works.
Even though he started dropping music all the way back in 2012,
Cash never really blew up like a lot of his homies did.
Urban Politicians TV asked him if the police were responsible for putting the brakes on his career,
but Cash said “Nah I ****** my **** up,
I hindered my own process.
Ain’t nobody told me to go put my hand in the fire.
The **** I been doin’ for this street ****,
don’t put your hand in the fire bro just gravitate towards going on.
Just keep going up, don’t do this **** that’s gonna hinder your process.”
It took him a while to get his career popping,
but recently it looked like Cash was really about to blow up.
He recently dropped tracks like Computer Murderers,
Steppaz Come, and Back Gain 2X’s and racked up millions of views on YouTube.
With label deals in the works, he had the opportunity to take his career even further.
After the news broke about his death,
Cash’s homies and opps both hopped online to talk about the situation.
Lil Jay posted a picture of him on Instagram and said “Shit crazy man rip cash.
Bro was Solid.”
Cash talked about being in jail with Lil Jay in the Drea O Show interview.
He said he talked to Jay every day since he got out of prison.
Lil Jay just got released after serving seven years
and has been grinding with the music too,
so seeing his homie die like this gotta be hard.
Johno from O’Block hopped on Instagram and wrote
“It’s time to get high high I just found out some good news.
I know y’all hurt hurt I hope von beat cash ass when he caught him.”
And PGF Nuk just posted an IG slide that said “Damnn” with a bunch of crying laughing emojis.
THF mooda wrote on Instagram “
ONCE YOU LEARN TO LOOK PASS PPL & CERTAIN SITUATIONS
IT HELP SEPERATE THE REAL FROM DA GOOFYS.”
Rumors are flying right now that Cash was set up by someone he knew,
and some people think Mooda is saying the same thing.
But no one knows what really went down, so it’s all just rumors.
THFbilla hopped on Instagram and talked about how dissing dead opps just leads to more violence.
He said “Stop playing with the dead nothing good comes out of that only death
#PRAY4CHICAGO.”
Dissing your dead opps is just part of Chicago’s culture now,
and FBG Cash was doing it himself in some of his new music.
On the track Back Again 2X’s he said
“I don’t want to here no “GetBack” the whole world witnessed ‘’
Your main sniper get his **** splat and you ain’t even get your lick back.”
This line was allegedly aimed at O’Block for not getting revenge for King Von’s death.
Later in the track he went after Durk directly with the line
“Look at what happened to D’Thang
They know how we came,”
which is referring to Lil Durk’s brother who got killed last year.
Obviously Cash would never be cool with O’Block after all the blood that’s been spilled on both sides,
but like Billa said - only death comes out of dissing dead opps.
It seemed like Cash was making moves and wanted to get out of Chicago before the streets caught up to him.
But unfortunately, like many other drill rappers,
he got killed before he could make it out and reach his full potential.
This story is still developing so make sure ya’ll tap in for updates.
Long live FBG Cash.