Fans of Chicago drill
will know the name D. Rose
from Chief Keef songs
like Love Sosa and John Madden.
But true fans will know
that this D. Rose
doesn’t play basketball,
but was instead a respected member
of the Black Disciples.
Let’s take a closer look at the story of D. Rose,
the most respected Chicago shooter.
Ahbir Sardin,
better known as D. Rose,
was a member of the Black Disciples
who rose the ranks
to become one of the most feared and respected gang members
in all of Chicago.
D. Rose was a member of Team 600,
a set of the BDs’ allied with O’Block
that also featured famous rappers
like LA Capone,
Rondonumbanine
and Edai 600.
But D. Rose
was known all over the city
and was known to rock with a bunch of different sets
across different gangs.
D. Rose didn’t start out as a BD.
He was originally from the Moetown neighborhood,
which is an area
controlled by the Black P. Stones.
His father was a respected member
and early on,
D. Rose was affiliated with the Folly Boyz.
But his father was allegedly killed in 2009
and not long after that
D. Rose would start hanging around with the BDs.
Eventually,
he moved down to the area around 51st and May St,
the territory claimed by 600.
Around that time
he would start repping the set
and switched gangs to become a BD.
But D.Rose was so well respected,
that he maintained close ties with multiple BD sets,
including THF,
TYMB,
Lamron,
FrontStreet,
and O’Block.
This is part of what made him so respected in the city of Chicago
because his gang ties ran deep.
He was known for being a dude who really put in work in the streets
and grew his reputation across the city.
He was cool with not only BD’s,
but Stones and Mickey Cobras as well.
Even when certain cliques
that he was cool with would get into a beef,
D.Rose would fall back
and not pick sides.
Plus,
he was so well-loved in the Southside,
that no one would force him to get involved.
He was the crucial link
between a lot of these different BD sets
and all the prominent members of each gang were cool with him.
D.Rose is rumored
to be one of the first of the younger members of 600
to jump off the porch
and make moves in the street.
He was considered one of the most active members of 600
and was known to drill with all the different sets he was allied with,
including THF,
TYMB,
and O'Block.
It’s rumored that D.Rose became active in the streets
after the murder of a Frontstreet member named Baldy.
Baldy was killed on July 17th, 2011,
while walking with a friend
down the 600 block of South Prairie Avenue.
While they were walking,
a van pulled up
and started letting off shots.
Baldy was shot in the head
and his friend was shot in the ankle.
They were both brought to Mount Sanai Hospital,
where Baldy would eventually pass away
at just 19 years old.
Baldy was a well-loved member of 600
and after he died,
the set also started going by the name Baldy World.
Baldy and D.Rose were close,
so after he was killed,
D.Rose went crazy in the streets.
Baldy’s killer was never caught
and the hit was credited to a GD set called MOB.
MOB was allied with STL/EBT,
the set known to beef with O’Block
and many believe that they were involved in the hit as well.
On December 3rd, 2011
an STL/EBT affiliate
named Dale Fisher was killed
while walking home with a friend.
Dale was only 16 at the time
and many have claimed
that he wasn’t actually affiliated with the gang,
he just grew up in the area
and was cool with some of the members.
But, that didn’t matter to the opps,
and on the night of December 3rd,
two gunmen would approach him
in a silver vehicle
while he was driving down the 6200 block
of South St. Lawrence.
They would start letting off shots
and Dale would be hit in the chest.
He later passed away from his injuries.
It’s rumored that D. Rose
was the one who took out Dale
from STL/EBT.
Only a few months before that,
both Tooka and Odee Perry had been killed,
starting the war between O’Block/600
and STL/EBT.
So,
Dale was just another body dropped
in one of the deadliest wars
in the history of Chiraq.
By that time,
D.Rose was gaining a reputation
as one of the deadliest shooters in Chicago.
The Chicago drill movement was starting to take off
and BD rappers like Chief Keef
and Rondonumbanine
would start name dropping D. Rose in songs,
only helping to build his clout in the city.
But,
D.Rose wasn’t only feared by the opps,
he was also a major target
of the Chicago police
who were eager to lock him up
the minute he was caught slippin.
At the time,
600 was beefing with another gang
called 051 Money Gang.
051
had already killed several well respected members of 600
and they were looking for revenge.
On June 22nd,
2012
a 14-year-old member
of 051 named Fatz or Fathead
was killed while walking home with his cousin
from a corner store.
As they were walking,
they noticed a van drive by them
and slow down as it passed.
They didn’t make anything of it,
but moments later,
the van circled back
and started letting off shots.
The cousin managed to escape,
but Fats was hit and fell to the ground.
As his cousin turned back to see what happened,
she witnessed the killer get out of the car
and open fire on Fats again
to make sure he was dead.
Fatz death has been credited to Cdai
and D. Rose was rumored to have been the one driving the car.
D. Rose would continue terrorizing his opps
and only a few months later
he would allegedly catch another body.
600 was also beefing with a GD set
called BrickSquad.
Their biggest opp from BrickSquad
was a rapper named Lil Jojo,
who had recently dropped a diss track
called BDK,
where he took shots
at the entire Black Disciple gang.
To make matters worse,
Lil Jojo
tried to troll Lil Reese
by driving past him swearing a bunch
and calling him a *****,
and then posted a video of it online.
He and Lil Reese started going back and forth on Twitter
dissing each other and making threats.
Lil Jojo would eventually drop his location,
tweeting
“I’m on #069 I’m Out Here”.
That would prove to be a big mistake
and just a few hours later,
Lil Jojo would be shot and killed
while riding his bike near 69th Street
and Princeton Ave.
Chief Keef would go on to tweet
“It’s Sad
Cuz Dat N**** Jojo Wanted to be Just Like Us
#LMAO”,
leading many to believe
that Keef or Reese
had something to do with his death.
But, the word on the street
is that the actual killer
was none other than D. Rose.
D.Rose was allegedly with a group of BD’s
including Poo Poo,
Keke,
and J Money,
when they caught Jojo riding on his bike
and took him out.
Many believe that D. Rose
was also the one who pulled the trigger.
D. Rose would go on to diss Lil Jojo several times on social media after his death,
supporting the rumors that he was the killer.
He would spend all of 2013 behind bars
but would be back out on the streets
in 2014.
By this time,
Chicago drill had absolutely exploded
and Chief Keef was going viral.
But the streets of Chicago
were hotter than ever
and the war between the BD’s and GD’s
had only gotten worse.
After getting out of jail,
D. Rose would go right back to drilling
and would catch another body
by the end of the year.
While D. Rose was locked up,
the beef between O’Block/600 and 051
had only gotten more intense.
In March 2014,
a rapper named Lil Marc,
who was associated with 051 Young Money
dropped a remix to the Lil Durk song
Competition,
called No Competition,
where he took shots at OTF,
600,
Lamron,
O’Block,
and a bunch of other BD sets.
Just a few days later,
Lil Marc was killed
while standing at a bus stop
and it has been rumored that D.Rose
was the shooter.
But just a few months after that,
it would be all over for D. Rose.
He was arrested for the murder of
14-year-old Venzel Richardson.
Venzel also went by the name Big V
and was affiliated with the GD set Tyquan World.
Tyquan World is allied with STL/EBT
and they were part of the beef
between them and O’Block/600.
Big V and his homies left a convenience store
near 61st and King Drive
on the night of February 12th, 2014,
when a minivan pulled up alongside him
and started letting off shots.
Big V was shot four times
in the back of the head
and later died from his injuries.
By that point,
the Chicago Police wanted D. Rose off the streets
after they failed to get him for the Lil Marc murder.
They received information that he was involved in the Big V hit
and he was arrested about 6 weeks later.
A witness identified him in a photo lineup,
and he was officially charged with the murder.
After spending several years fighting the case,
D.Rose was found guilty of first-degree murder
in 2016
and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
But even with all the work D. Rose
put in in the streets,
many believe that he is actually innocent
of the murder of Big V.
After his sentencing,
600Breezy posted a photo of the news story on IG,
along with the caption
“He ain’t even do this shit.
He wasn’t even there 100.
I hate the system
free my brothers this **** foul.
He a innocent man.
They doin this **** because of his street name.”
Although the Big V hit
has been credited to 600/FrontStreet,
many believe that it wasn’t actually D. Rose
who pulled the trigger.
But at that point,
the Chicago police wanted him off the streets for good,
even if that meant framing him for murder.
The saddest part about the D. Rose story
is that after he got locked up,
he claims he was abandoned
by all his old friends,
some who were millionaires at that point.
Not long after D. Rose got locked up,
Team 600 started to fall apart.
LA Capone was killed in 2013
and then Cdai and Rondonumbanine
were also both sentenced to over 40 years in prison
around the same time as D. Rose.
The other BD’s who made it out of the streets
like Chief Keef and Lil Durk
had already left the city to focus on their music.
So,
while they were touring the world
and becoming millionaires,
D. Rose was left to rot in jail,
even though he was the main shooter in the gang
who helped the BD’s earn the respect they had all across the city.
In an interview D. Rose did from jail,
he dissed Chief Keef and Lil Durk
and claimed they abandoned him
after he got locked up.
He said that his bond was only 100K
meaning he could have gotten out of jail
with just 10K.
But no one came for him
and he had to sit in jail for three years
before being sentenced.
By that point,
Chief Keef had already been featured
on a Kanye record
and could have easily given him the money.
But for whatever reason,
he never came through.
He said that the only person he’s still cool with
was Tay600,
which came as a shock to many.
Tay600 was kicked out of Team 600
after rumors surfaced
that he snitched
on Cdai and Rondo in their murder case.
People like Edai and 600Breezy
claimed to have seen paperwork
proving that he snitched,
but Tay maintained his innocence.
He cleared his name a few years back
after court paperwork proved that he didn’t snitch.
Yeah like
it was a fake statement floating around
and it said in the statment
I Germontay D. Carpernter
have seen
Rondo and Cdai
shoot the person 5 times
you know
The statement was so fake
cuz if you read the statement,
for one
court document no gonna say
Rondo and Cdai
it's gonna say
Courtney and Clint
and then like
the dates on the-
on the fake
statement
was all type of ****** up
the-the-
the addresses was ****** up
But by that point,
a lot of damage had already been done
to his reputation.
According to D. Rose,
Tay was one of the only ones who called
and checked up on him regularly.
In the end,
D.Rose actually lived the life
that most drill rappers talk about in their music.
Even though he did a lot of dirt in the streets,
he was only 17 years old
when he was arrested
and didn’t know anything else
but the streets of Chiraq.
His story should be a lesson to anyone who is really about that life.
There are only two outcomes
death or jail
and just because the streets love you
when you’re on top,
doesn’t the man they're going to be there
when you're at the bottom.
D. Rose filed an appeal,
but it was shot down in 2019.
As of right now,
his projected released date
is in 2057.
If he is truly innocent,
hopefully,
one-day
justice will be served,
and he’ll get a second chance at life.
But,
when you live that street lifestyle,
you gotta be prepared for what comes with it,
even if it means spending the rest of your life
behind bars.
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