Every fan of Chicago drill knows the top BD rappers like King Von and Lil Durk.
But some of their opps are just as famous in the city,
based on their reputation in the streets.
051 Melly was one of Von and Durk’s main enemies
and had a reputation as being one of the most feared gang members in Chicago.
Let’s take a close look at the life of 051 Melly,
one of the deadliest shooters in Chiraq’s History.
Melly was born Yarmell Williams and came up on the Southside of Chicago.
He grew up in Calumet Building or Randolph Towers
but eventually moved to 59th and Calumet with his family after the project was torn down.
He grew up with his mother, his brother Woo and his sister Kenjea.
Woo’s father and Melly’s stepfather, Jerome Golden was a well-known BD in Chicago
who is currently serving a life sentence for four murders and a robbery.
Plus, Melly also had several uncles and cousins who were well connected to the streets,
including MUBU Curt Mac and No Limit G Slim who was one of the founders of NLMB.
So, Melly was exposed to gangs from a young age,
and nearly everyone around him was about that life.
But just because your family is well-known in the streets,
don't mean that you'll automatically get respect from your them too
and Melly still had to earn his title as a respected savage.
Growing up in the Calamet Building, Melly got cool with the BD’s who claimed the area.
But he would later attend Dusable High School, where he would start mixing in with Mickey Cobras.
Melly would get close to a dude named 051 Zeko,
who was part of the 051 Money Gang.
051 Money gang is a set that is made up of members of different gangs
including BD’s, Black P Stones, and Mickey Cobras.
So Melly fit right in with all his affiliations.
Although Melly started out as a BD,
there have also been rumors that he may have switched to Mickey Cobra
because 051’s main opps are O’Block, 600, Lamron, and other BD sets.
Melly would get involved in this beef, making him BDK or a renegade BD
for going at war with members of his own gang.
What was clear is that Melly repped Young Money,
which was considered a renegade squad that lived by their own rules
and didn’t follow any particular gang.
Melly would get even closer to the set
after 051 Zeko was murked by someone from THF.
This was the murder that would turn Melly into a savage
and made him turn up in the streets.
051 Zeko’s death would set off a major beef between Young Money and THF,
with Melly being one of the main aggressors.
He would get retaliation for Zeko’s death in 2010.
Then a 600-member named M Thang would kill a member of Young Money
named 051 T-Streets, setting off a war with 600
and any sets they were allied with.
Melly and 051 Kiddo would then get revenge,
shooting 600 Shaq on the 5900 block of South Calumet Avenue.
So, at this point, Melly had a few bodies under his belt
and would establish himself as a feared shooter
who wouldn’t hesitate to hit members of his own gang if they went after his friends.
What made Melly so different
was that he had connections to various gangs across the city.
But when it came time for war, he didn’t care who was on the other side.
Many claimed that he played the streets like a chess game,
paying close attention to who was close with who,
stalking his opps on social media,
and carefully studying their movements to get the drop on them.
After 600 Shaq was killed,
the BD’s got their revenge by killing a 14-year-old from 051 named Fatz.
Melly was close to Fatz and this murder really affected him,
turning his heart colder and making him even more of a savage.
051 would also start going by the name Fatz World after he was killed,
to honor their fallen brother, the way that O’Block did for Odee Perry
or Tookaville did for Tooka.
Melly’s homie 051 Kiddo would take part in getting revenge for Fatz death.
First 051 Kiddo would catch 600 Trix lackin in his car
in the Washington park neighborhood of the Southside.
Then a witness claimed to have seen Trix, Cdai, and LA Capone from 600
at the scene on the day that Fatz was killed.
Not long after that, LA Capone would be murdered leaving a recording studio.
He was one of the biggest stars from 600 and was just starting to blow up as a rapper.
So his death was a serious setback for the crew,
which would only make things between the BDs and 051 much more heated.
Several dudes from 600 started going at Melly on Twitter and disrespecting Fatz.
Like many street dudes from Chicago,
Melly was known for being disrespectful on social media and clapped back at his opps.
Members of 600 who were still mourning the death of LA Capone
and took this disrespect personally,
making Melly one of the BD’s most hated opps.
Soon after, the BD’s would get a retaliation.
At first, 051 didn’t have many rappers
and were known for getting their payback in the streets,
rather than in the music.
But, a rising Young Money rapper named Lil Marc
would earn some clout for sending shots at the BD’s, who at that point
were much more famous on a music level.
Lil Marc dropped a remix to Lil Durk’s song
Competition called No Competition, where he dissed several members of 600,
OTF, Lamron, and other BD sets by name.
Still angry over the death of LA Capone,
the BD’s got their revenge pretty quickly
and Lil Marc was killed just three days after dropping the diss.
To make things even worse,
Lil Marc’s death was then used as a way to mock 051,
with members of 300, 600, and OTF joining in to disrespect their homies.
The rapper was killed while waiting for a bus.
Several BD’s posted pictures and videos to social media
near the bus stop where he was killed,
including Lil Durk,
who posted a video at the spot Lil Marc was shot.
In the video he says,
“this bus stop right here tho, this a real famous place”
with the caption Free THF TP.
Bus stop man, ay, this-
This bus stop right here tho
this a real famous place you heard me.
This a real famous place ***** aye this bus stop is a real famous place
That video would get to Melly, who was close with Lil Marc
and he would eventually lead him to seek revenge
on some of the people closest to Durk.
A few months later, Melly would watch Durk’s cousin OTF Nunu or Nuski,
sitting in a parked car outside of a shopping complex.
Nuski was an up-and-coming rapper
who had just been signed to Durk’s OTF label a few days before he was killed.
He had released a single called OC that was doing major numbers
and he seemed like he might be the next rapper from the Southside to build a buzz.
But he never got to realize his full potential
and was tragically killed due to his associations with Durk.
He was sitting in one of Durk’s SUV’s
at the time and many think that either Melly thought he was shooting at Durk,
or he just went looking for the rapper
and killed his cousin because he was an easier target.
Either way, Nuski lost his life,
evening the score between 051 and OTF/600 after Lil Marc was killed.
But Melly didn’t stop there.
Less than a year later, Durk’s manager OTF Chino
was shot and killed in a similar situation,
while sitting in a parked car in the 8400 block of South Stoney Avenue.
Before he was shot,
Chino had appeared in a music video for a song called Bus Stop by THF TP,
which was filmed on the spot where Lil Marc was killed.
Around the same time,
Durk also sent shots at 051 on a remix to Chief Keef’s Faneto,
where he rapped
“***** I’m riding through the opps Finna go and shoot Young Money Up”.
Melly clearly wasn’t going to tolerate the disrespect
and slid on Chino the first chance he could get.
If that wasn’t bad enough, after Chino was killed,
Melly would get on social media and mock his dead opp,
claiming in an IG Live session that he was eating a Chino Burger.
Yeah Chino Burger, that what this is
Melly’s homie MUBU Krump,
a GD from King Louie’s Man Up Band Up set would also join in on the disrespect,
going to the spot Chino was killed to order a “Chino Burger”
then throw it away.
Aye this mother***** bogus as hell man.
Y'all this **** ain't done, put this **** back on the grill man,
this **** disgusting man.
Get this **** together man, for real this **** bogus as hell man.
Straight up man.
That made two people close to Durk who were killed in his beef with 051,
and Melly became the target of his hatred.
The rapper dropped several diss tracks aimed at Melly.
But at that point, Durk was taking over the rap game
and Melly was still heavily in the streets.
So it wasn’t easy for either one to get at each other directly,
which is why Melly chose to target Nuski and Chino.
It was even rumored that Durk put a price on Melly’s head,
which eventually lead to him getting hit up.
THF Raheem would slide on Melly and two of his homies
on the 600 Block of South Wentworth Avenue in the Eaglewood neighborhood.
All three would survive, but Melly would catch a bullet to the head and foot.
051 Ario, who was also hit in the shooting,
would quickly get revenge on Raheem.
This opened up a whole bunch of problems for Melly and 051.
THF Raheem was the blood cousin of FBG Duck
and the stepson of another feared Chiraq killer named THF Bayzoo.
Melly and Duck were known to be tight,
but Duck also understood that an opp is an opp,
even if it is a family member.
THF Bayzoo and Melly were also opps,
but they had mutual respect as rival street legends.
They even famously went on IG Live together
and bragged about their body counts while outlining the war between their two sets.
But respect doesn’t equal mercy
and after his stepson was killed, THF Bayzoo was out for blood.
He ended up catching Melly lackin at a house party,
along with his friend MUBU Krump.
The two were standing on the front lawn when a vehicle rolled up and shot them both.
Krump was killed,
while Melly miraculously survived once again,
even though he was grazed in the head.
So that’s twice that Melly would survive a headshot,
only to be back on the streets haunting his opps not long after.
Although Melly was likely the intended target
for allegedly being with Ario when they slid on THF Raheem,
Krump was also known to diss THF and other BD’s.
So, he was probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time
and THF decided to take him out for running his mouth
and chilling with their opps.
Surviving two back-to-back shootings
only helped Melly’s reputation in the streets
and it was only a matter of time before he was back in action.
051 would soon lose another member named Bankroll Q.
Melly would be the one to get payback and would slide on the two opps
thought to be responsible.
But, Melly’s thirst for revenge couldn’t be satisfied
and he just kept racking up bodies on top of bodies
while somehow staying out of reach of his enemies.
Although he got his payback, he let it be known that he still had a hatred for Durk
and wanted revenge.
After Durk and Von got arrested for attempted murder
following a shooting outside the Varsity in Atlanta,
Melly went on social media to voice his opinions.
He told the world that he hoped Durk and Von would beat the case
because he would rather see them dead than in prison.
Free them ****** tho I'd rather see them dead than in jail *****
So it seemed like it was only a matter of time
before Melly would continue his reign of terror and go after another person
close to the two rappers.
But, Melly wouldn’t get the chance
and he'd end up losing his life in an unrelated beef.
Around that time, Melly had gotten close with a set called Jaro City.
Like 051 Money Gang,
Jaro City is made up of various different gangs, including GDs and Renegade BD’s.
After Melly’s homie Motor from Jaro City was killed,
the gravedigger of Chiraq started getting reckless.
With so many people close to him dead and so many bodies under his own belt,
Melly started to get out of control.
His reputation in the streets made him a little too comfortable,
which can only lead to disaster when you’ve got so many enemies.
He ended up getting into it with a dude named 007 Nate
from Tyquan World over a dice game.
Melly responded by shooting up Nate’s house
while his baby mother and newborn child were inside.
No one was hit, but it was enough for Nate to seek revenge.
In September 2019, Melly attended a house party
that was being thrown by FBG and Jaro City,
to celebrate the passing of one of Duck’s close homies Can’t Get Right.
Melly came through to the party because he was cool with both camps.
But they let him know that opps from TW may be there.
Melly must have felt untouchable because he came through anyway,
knowing there were going to be problems.
007 Nate ended up catching Melly lackin
and shot him in front of the entire house full of people
with the whole thing being captured on camera.
This time Melly would not be as lucky and died that night.
Melly will go down as one of the most feared shooters in the history of Chicago.
He was so well known in the city
that media outlets would often refer to him as a rapper,
even though he never dropped a single track.
He did inspire countless diss songs,
which only helped build his reputation in the street.
But when you live that lifestyle for too long, there are only two outcomes
– death or jail.
The wild thing is that with all the bodies that 051 Melly caught,
what got him killed was a random shooting where no one was even hit.
But in the end, it was payback for all the other dirt he did in the street
and his memory will live on as a feared, but respected shooter.
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