Chicago drill has influenced the entire world. But all the hype and violence surrounding the
genre has brought a lot of negative attention to some of its leading voices. Lil Durk and King Von
are two of the most popular figures to emerge from the Chicago drill scene, but they’ve also had
to go through a lot because of their celebrity and gang affiliations. King Von ended up getting
killed for beefing with another rapper and now it seems like some old street beef is coming back up.
Lil Durk has lost countless people in his crew to gun violence and now he’s allegedly
been involved in a shootout that led to his house being raided by the FBI. Here’s the whole story…
Despite having gone through some ups and downs in his career, Lil Durk has outlasted many of his
opps and established himself as one of the most respected rappers in drill. Durk was part of the
OG wave of Chicago drill artists who created the genre along with Chief Keef and other artists from
the Southside and has continued to change his sound to fit the times and grow as an artist.
He’s also a genuine street dude who is respected by the game for really coming from the bottom
and turning it into a multi-million-dollar brand and music empire. But despite all his success,
Durk has had a dark cloud hanging over his career that seems to follow him everywhere.
His ongoing beef with opps from Chicago has led to many of the people closest to him getting killed.
His cousin OTF Nunu aka Nuski was shot and killed back in 2014 in the deadly
war between OTF and another Chicago set called 051 Money Gang. The year after that,
Durk would lose his manager Chino in the same beef. Then in 2020, Durk would lose his close
friend and collaborator King Von in shooting outside a Hookah lounge in Atlanta
and his brother DThang would be killed this past June, in a shooting outside a nightclub near Chicago.
Check out our video on the curse surrounding Lil Durk for more info on these situations.
But if losing his brother wasn’t bad enough, Durk’s home was recently raided by the FBI
after an alleged shootout that took place in the gated community where he lives.
Not long after blowing up, Durk moved to Atlanta to focus on music and avoid all the violence going on in Chicago.
But just because you move doesn’t mean you can escape all the smoke.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, around 5 am on Sunday, July 11th, Lil Durk woke up
and found someone trying to break into his house in the Chateau Elan neighborhood of Braselton, GA,
which is about an hour outside of Atlanta. Durk was home with his girlfriend and baby mama India,
when they heard someone kick down the door and they both started firing. It hasn’t been reported
whether anyone was hit, but a 5 am shootout obviously caught the attention of the neighbors.
Later that morning, Durk’s home was raided by the FBI because of the shooting and
other related crimes, after the neighbors reported it to police and media outlets.
The raid also came just after the murder of KTS Dre, a rapper who is affiliated with the Gangster Disciples.
The 31-year-old rapper was being released from a Chicago jail when he was
ambushed by opps and shot 64 times. He and three other victims were brought to the hospital and
Dre was pronounced dead at the scene. The rapper was the brother of another Chicago street legend
named KTS Von, who was also murdered in 2015. It was clearly a targeted shooting and the brutality
makes it seem personal. It’s possible that the break-in at Durk’s home was related to
KTS Dre’s murder and police questioned him about it when they came to investigate.
No arrests were made, but the fact that his
home was raided by police after he was the victim of a home invasion,
shows that: they might see the shootout as possibly gang-related. It doesn’t seem like
anything was stolen and at this time the break-in is assumed to be a target hit, not a robbery.
Having survived the streets of Chiraq, Durk knows that he has to stay strapped at all times because
if he’s caught lacking… its over. He’s seen too many of his close friends and family get taken,
just because they let their guard down for a second.
So, at this point, he knows to be protected for anything.
Luckily the rapper was able to hear them coming and defend himself before he lost it all.
But it must take a mental toll on you to always be on the defensive, even at 5 am in a gated community.
Durk might get into some trouble for being a convicted felon and having a weapon.
But Georgia has pretty relaxed gun laws and there is clear evidence that he acted in self-defense,
so the cops should let it go. But Durk may have to leave that neighborhood and invest
in his own compound somewhere secluded. Because if he’s going to continue to diss opps in songs
and carry on the beef while he’s a world-famous rapper, he has to be ready for war at all times.
But Durk isn’t the only rapper making headlines. It was just announced that police named King Von
as one of the main suspects in the murder of Gakirah Barnes aka K.I.,
the deadliest female shooter in Chiraq history. K.I. was a member of the STL/EBT set of the
Gangster Disciples, who are at war with the O’Block set of the Black Disciples.
K.I. and King Von were sworn opps, but had mutual respect for each other,
some have even suggested that there may have been a romantic relationship between the two.
K.I. and Von were known to send shots at each other on social media,
where they would threaten each other while flirting at the same time. King Von even
appeared in an A&E documentary about K.I., where he admitted that he thought she was cool
and once tried to get with her.
But because of their affiliations, it was a relationship that could never really happen.
Despite being a female, K.I. was one of STL/EBT’s deadliest shooters.
She is alleged to have been responsible for the murders of 12 different people, including members of O’Block.
One of her alleged victims was a BD named Odee Perry, whose death inspired the name O’Block.
Odee was a respected member of the BD, who went by the name WiC City at the time
and his death was one of the events that sparked the war between O’Block and STL/EBT.
When her 13 year old cousin Tyquan was killed after getting hit with a stray bullet,
K.I. changed her Twitter handle to “Tyquan Assassin” and really start going crazy in the streets.
She was well respected in her set and feared by opps. At one point, she became so well known in
the city that people tried to hire her for hits. Someone ended up leaking her Twitter
DM’s on 4chan and one conversation showed that someone had offered her money to kill G Herbo.
This may have just been a troll, but it shows how well known she was as a shooter.
But, just because K.I. was a female, didn’t mean that she was off-limits when it came to payback.
No one in the stress of Chicago is truly safe, especially when you’re the one putting in work
and K.I. was tragically killed on April 11th, 2014. She was walking
down Eberhart Ave in the Southside and was shot nine times in the jaw and neck.
For a while, K.I.’s murder remained unsolved. Police knew that the suspect was a hooded figure,
but they weren’t able to identify who it was. Now, 7 years later, the Chicago PD announced
that they believe it was King Von who pulled the trigger. Apparently,
they suspected it was Von all along. But not long after K.I. was killed,
Von would be involved in a separate murder investigation over the death of a man named Malcolm Stuckey.
Von allegedly killed Stuckey at a house party after the victim was giving him dirty looks.
Von recruited the help of another O’Block member named Big Mike and they were both arrested for the murder.
At first, Mike flipped on Von and told police that he was the man behind the trigger.
But at the last minute, Mike refused to testify, and the case fell apart.
Von was able to walk free and Big Mike was sentenced to 28 years in prison for refusing to testify.
Check out our video on rappers who beat a murder charge for more info on this case.
For a while, it seemed like Von was going to face some serious
time for allegedly killing Malcolm Stuckey, which is why the Chicago PD
didn’t pursue him as a suspect in the K.I. case. But years later,
after Von was killed in an unrelated incident, they decided to name the rapper as K.I.’s killer.
It’s not clear why the police decided to release this information now,
but it’s possible they may use it to build a case against other members of O’Block.
Durk is still fighting an attempted murder and gun charge, after a shooting that occurred in a
parking lot in Atlanta that included King Von. If they decide to launch a full-on RICO case against
OTF or O’Block, like they’ve been doing to other rap groups at war right now, they could try and
use Von’s past crimes as a way to paint the group as a violent criminal organization.
As of yet, no such charges have been announced and Durk was not arrested for anything after the raid.
But the rapper definitely has to watch his back because any wrong move could mean death or jail.
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