Chicago is one of the deadliest cities in America,
and last weekend the violence hit a new level.
During Memorial Day Weekend, 51 people got shot
and nine of them ended up dying
- including two local rappers named FYB Trigga and FYB DJ.
Here’s what went down.
On Monday, May 30th,
news broke that Chicago rapper FYB Trigga got killed.
On the day he died, he posted videos on social media showing his location -
which rumors say probably got him chipped.
But the truth might be a lil more complicated than that.
FYB, or **** Yo *****,
is a rap crew started by a member of Jaro City named FYB J Mane.
J grew up in O’Block and is actually cousins with Memo and Lil Steve from 600,
but Jaro and 600 started beefing after STL/EBT allegedly killed Odee Perry from O’Block
back in 2011.
Now that J is fucking with Jaro City, even his family members are opps.
J is mostly known for his 2018 track 300 Dead Oppz,
a savage diss track where he took shots at a bunch of dead opps
including his own cousin Lil Steve.
Rumors say J earned his stripes in the streets,
but he’s also trying to make a legit career out of his music.
Unfortunately, FYB got hit with two losses back to back in one weekend
when FYB DJ and FYB Trigga both got killed.
On Saturday around 5 p.m.
there was a shootout on the 5500 block of South Bishop Street in Englewood.
According to the police, two dudes exchanged gunfire and was both hit.
They was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center,
but neither survived.
Later it was revealed that one of the men in the gunfight was FYB DJ,
and the dude he killed was named Derrick Washington.
It ain’t exactly clear what happened,
but J Mane posted a video on YouTube and claimed that Washington was the one who pulled up
and DJ was just defending himself.
In the video he said “What y’all expect a mother****** to do gang?
A mother****** draw a gun on you, what you gonna do?
Motherfuckers mad, in they head over they own problems
- and they just upped the gun on my homie, forced his hand and now he gotta kill you.
And you just took my homie out with that ****.”
In the same video, J Mane sounds like he saying it all happened over territory.
He said “N****s don’t own these blocks bro.
Stop trying to act like you own blocks, bro. That’s what get ****** killed.”
DJ was killed right in front of his mom’s house, which makes it even more tragic.
He also left behind a young daughter and stepson,
J Mane also said that DJ was one of the original creators of FYB,
so his death was a huge blow to them.
But unfortunately, that wasn’t the only loss they took over the weekend.
Two days after DJ got killed,
a candlelight vigil was supposed to be held in his honor
but this ended up creating even more violence.
From the few details we know about this situation,
DJ went out fighting the opps,
but FYB Trigga was allegedly killed by someone in his own crew.
According to sources close to the situation, FYB Trigga,
Montae, Benjii, Thadd, and others was all chillin with another FYB member
who ain’t been around much lately.
It ain’t been confirmed who it was,
Trigga was allegedly upset with him because theres rumors he snitched on someone,
and was also allegedly sliding in Trigga’s girl’s DMs.
At some point Trigga snatched Mazi’s gun and pointed it at him,
but the member actually had two burgers on him.
So when Trigga pointed the gun at him, they pulled out his other burner
and popped Trigga three times.
J Mane explained in a YouTube video
that just because Trigga and the other dude might’ve had the same three letters before their name
ain’t mean they was cool.
And Trigga was known for stealing guns,
so they might have come into the situation with a backup just in case.
It ain’t clear what exactly happened next,
but Trigga started firing back.
Some sources say he ran to his car and grabbed a Draco,
but others say he was letting off shots with the gun he stole from them.
Somehow he missed the dude who shot him and instead ended up hitting FYB Montae, Benjii, and Thadd.
Benji got hit in the chest and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Fans was worried he might not pull through,
but J Mane posted an update on Thursday letting everyone know that he’s already out of the hospital and recovering.
He also said Montae is doing good, but he might be having some legal issues now.
J Mane put out more videos on the situation a few days after Trigga got killed.
In one of them he said “I got nothin’ but love for lil Trigga and his people.
But if you wanna be real about the whole situation, we can only go off the facts…
If Trigga never tried to take bro gun,
at the end of the day he put everybody else who got shot in jeopardy that day when he tried to snatch that gun.
You put other people’s lives in jeopardy.
At the end of the day, you done snatched folk’s gun,
turned it on ‘em and it ended up with all these casualties.”
When the news first broke about his death,
rumors started goin around that the opps saw his location on social media and slid on him.
But from what people close to the situation say,
it was someone he knew.
No arrests have been made, so it ain't confirmed if it was anyone in particularl.
Usually in Chicago if someone like Trigga gets knocked off,
the opps be quick to jump on social media and claim the hit.
But in this case, no one has spoken up about it -
so it sounds like it might’ve been an inside job.
Even though he’s all over the headlines now,
ain’t too much known about FYB Trigga.
He was part of J Mane’s FYB music collective,
but it looks like puttin work in the streets was more important to him than his rap career.
As of today he got less than 500 monthly listeners on Spotify,
but he did drop his album Free Smoke Vol. 2 this year.
In 2021, Trigga did an interview with a YouTube channel called MIKEMAKEMOVIES
where he claimed he beat up Young Pappy back in the day and stole his gun.
Young Pappy was a GD from a set called PBG and was one of the North Side’s most famous drill rappers
before he got killed in 2015.
But according to Trigga, Pappy wasn’t really ready for action like he claimed.
Trigga also said he robbed and beat up Young Pappy’s homie Taysav,
but there was no real beef.
During the interview with MIKEMAKEMOVIES,
Trigga said he ran into Taysav while they was locked up but Taysav ain’t want no smoke with him.
But after Trigga died, Taysav hopped on social media and said
“NAWWWW GOD TOOK MY ****** DAWG.”
It’s pretty clear the post was sarcastic,
so Taysav obviously wasn’t rocking with Trigga even if they ain’t have real beef.
While a lot of his opps was dissing him after his death,
FBG Butta revealed that Trigga was his actual blood brother.
He wrote on Instagram “Ain’t No RIP brother
First Ki in now you wtf I love my little brother my real blood.”
Butta has been in the headlines recently for his beef with Lil Jay,
but a lot of fans was shocked when they found out him and Trigga was brothers.
According to some sources, Trigga’s mom is actually a defense attorney in Chicago
and even helped get him out of some legal situations in the past.
Memorial Day Weekend is always violent in Chicago,
but this was the worst year since 07.
And compared to last year it really ain’t looking good.
In 2021, 37 people got shot and three of them died.
This year there was three times as many deaths over the weekend.
Even the police ain’t safe in Chicago right now.
On Wednesday after Trigga was killed,
two cops tried to pull over a car in Englewood but it smashed off.
Then the car doubled back and pulled up next to the cops and started letting off shots.
One of them got hit and was rushed to the hospital in critical condition,
while the shooters crashed their car and ran away on foot.
The shooting went down just a few feet away from a church that was running a program for at-risk boys from the neighborhood.
A deacon of the church told ABC 7 Chicago
“People done lost hope in the community.
The guns, they badder than you.
ALL you have to do is pull the trigger,
and they don’t care who they hit.”
According to the police, they took 250 guns off the street during Memorial Day Weekend alone
but that obviously wasn’t enough.
On Sunday, May 29th,
a massive gunfight broke out during a memorial service for an 18-year-old woman named Lazarra Daniels
who was killed back in 2020.
It ain’t clear what sparked the shooting, but five people ended up getting hit
including a 16-year-old girl.
A woman who lives in the neighborhood told the Chicago Sun Times
“They have nothing to do, nowhere to go, and then you listen to … rap music
and they think this is the thing.
I’ve done been around these kids and watched a lot of them grow up.
They are good kids… It’s everywhere you go.
As soon as it get hot, that’s what they do.”
Hopefully Benjii, Montae, Thadd, and everyone else who got hit over the weekend
make full recoveries.
Right now it seems like Trigga started the fight that led to him getting shot,
but the facts still ain’t clear.
More details will be coming out about this story, so tap in for updates.
Rest in peace to Trigga, DJ and everyone else mentioned in this video.