NBA Youngboy and Lil Durk
are two of the hottest rappers in the game right now.
They were cool with each other back in the day,
but King Von’s death in 2020
sparked a wild beef that’s still going on today.
Here’s how it all went down.
Durk and Youngboy never really had direct issues with each other,
and back in 2017
they even linked up on the track My Side.
But Durk was close to King Von,
and that’s where all the problems allegedly started.
One day Von was on IG Live listening to a Youngboy song in the whip.
While the track was playing,
Von started questioning how real Youngboy’s lyrics were and said
“Talkin’ crazy you know what I'm saying
Oh yeah?
He ain’t even like that…
Call that cap.
You got cap in yo raps.”
The situation went dead for a couple years,
but then Von was seen chilling with Youngboy’s baby mama Jania.
Rumors started flying that they were dating,
but Von squashed it and said they was just making music together.
A few hours after Von posted the pic with Jania,
Youngboy posted a picture and captioned it with
“ima have my son f*** yo daughter since you Trollin b****.”
Then Youngboy announced that he was working with Von’s ex Asian Doll.
After Youngboy dropped a snippet of the track with Asian Doll, Von tweeted
“that new shit y’all got garbage,”
and “I got some s*** on y’all baby moms
that would make you not wanna claim your kids and s***.”
Both sides said there was no beef,
but then Youngboy dropped the track Dead Trollz.
He don’t drop any names in the track, but fans thought he threw subliminal shots
when he said “Tell that boy I’ma see him, n****
Tell him I say don’t come fish around this lake, bitch, and that’s real, n****
Seven murders in my hometown,
tell them bitches I did that
Soon as the other boy touch down, I’ma be pushin’ his wig back.”
It’s rumored to be aimed at Von
but that ain’t been confirmed.
Von and Youngboy started going back and forth on social media,
then their crews got involved too.
One of the dudes who jumped in on Youngboy’s side was Quando Rondo,
the first rapper Youngboy ever signed.
Quando was sending shots at Von and his homie Lil Reese,
and the situation started getting heated.
That’s when Quando’s homie Lul Timm tweeted
“N****s from chiraq better chill on my n**** quando.”
Back in 2019, somebody tweeted Reese and said
“All you need is a @GGYOUNGBOY feature for this to blow
spend that check @LilResse300.”
But Reese obviously wasn’t rocking with the advice and tweeted
“I want dare pay that lil boy to get on track with me n**** f***.”
Youngboy didn’t respond,
but some fans think this might have helped turn up the beef between him and O’Block.
Even though everyone could see that there was static,
Von denied there was any beef.
The day before he was killed in Atlanta,
DJ Akademiks asked him about it and Von said
“They be sayin’ that a lot. It’s like we’ve got the same issues and h***.
You know how the internet try to make it.
Don't tell me y'all got problems over girls.
Nah it’s the internet, gang.”
It's the-it's the, you know.
Then on November 6th 2020,
Quando Rondo and his homies were outside a Hookah lounge in Atlanta
when Von and his crew walked up.
Quando told Angela Yee that he didn’t even know who it was,
and he was just gonna let them pass.
He said “in my mind, I’m just thinking regular, in reality like you would think.
I’m about to let these people walk past me.
I’m not about to try and go through these people or nothing like that.
Next thing you know, a n**** hit me.
You feel me?
Boom bow.
I lie to you not ma'am
I lie to you not
Like,
like-
it’s like I had an out of body experience.”
After Von started throwing hands,
a wild brawl broke out and then both sides started letting off shots.
Von was allegedly hit multiple times by Quando’s homie Lul Timm,
who also got shot but survived.
According to Quando, he didn’t even know it was King Von until the next day!
He said “I never in life ma'am
never in life had words with them.
I did not know this was him.
I swear to God, on my soul ma'am like.
Like ma'am this is on neighborhood cripp.
I did not know this was him until the next day.”
Von’s death gave Quando a lot of negative attention
which led to his shows getting canceled and him getting death threats everyday.
When the news broke that Lul TImm was out on bond for his murder charge,
Lil Reese said “We gon’ roll his ass up real soon.
On my momma. Big ass Backwoods.
Big ass Backwoods, we gon’ roll his ass up.”
Durk was never directly involved in Youngboy’s beef with Von,
but all that changed after Youngboy dropped Bring the Hook
and called O’Block out by name and dissed Von.
On the track he rapped
“N****, this that Squid Game, O’Block pack get rolled up
Murder what they told us, Atlanta boy get fold up.”
After the track dropped,
DJ Akademiks tweeted
“NBA Youngboy on demon time rn,”
and Lil Reese responded with “That ain’t no demon time
he just rapping like the rest of these rappers all rap.”
Then NLE Choppa jumped in and responded to Reese with “I stamp that.”
A couple of days later,
Youngboy dropped the track Know Like I Know and took shots at NLE Choppa on the line
“I bet yo’ momma be destroyed n****
When we send yo stupid ass to God for makin’ statements
Choosin’ sides about my beef with them lil boys
I can say I saw it, you can say I was your favorite, n****
Better stay up in your place b****, f*** around get yo face split
They know I’m a demon, you ain’t met the devil til they seen me,”
Youngboy allegedly took a shot at Durk and Reese on the same track when he said
“I don’t give a f***, my n****, just like your friend you’ll bite the dust
N****, that ain’t blood,
you ain’t ready to see some brains around the club.”
Then Youngboy posted a photo on IG
of himself posing with a bunch of cash on the floor that spelled out
“You n****s gone die,”
and another one where the cash spelled out “stay safe.”
Durk clapped back by spelling out “hurry y’all b**** azz up”
with his own cash, and then the beef really started heating up.
NLE Choppa told DJ Akademiks that he told Durk not to respond to Youngboy.
But back in February
Durk dropped the track AHHH HA and took things to the next level.
On the track Durk rapped
“N****s acting like they really like that since my brodie died
Just got out the feds, you bring up murders with your police ass.”
He was airing out Youngboy for bringing up street business
while he was still on house arrest.
Then he went after Youngboy’s baby mama Jania and said
“I told Von to leave that b**** alone, she post on OnlyFans
Catch ‘em at apartments they been in ‘cause that’s our only chance.”
The same day AHH HA dropped,
Youngboy clapped back with I Hate Youngboy.
He took shots at Durk, his dead homies, and even Apple got dissed.
He started off the track by calling out Durk
for not sliding after his cousin Nuski got killed back in 2014.
Then he went after Durk’s fiance India Royale with the line
“He called me a b****, that’s India, that be yo h**
Posted with that stick like Indians, they want my soul.”
Youngboy also shouted out Durk’s opp with the bar
“I’m bumpin’ Wooski, turnt up with some groupies while at my home
Why he drop that wack ass song?
P**** b****, you should’ve known.”
FBG Wooski is Durk’s enemy from STL/EBT
who’s been beefing with him for years,
so Youngboy gave him a shoutout to let everyone know
who he’s rocking with in Chicago.
Youngboy and Durk are two of the biggest rappers in the game right now,
and their beef got everyone in the industry picking sides.
Youngboy let people know that if they rock with Durk, they’re opps too.
He even called out Gucci Mane for working with Durk
and sent shots at Apple for promoting his music.
Back in June, 21 Savage went on rapper Math Hoffa’s podcast My Expert Opinion
and talked about the situation.
21 has worked with Durk and Youngboy in the past
and Hoffa asked him how he would handle two friends beefing.
How does that work when
you f*** with somebody who got a problem with somebody else that you f*** with?
“I’ma try and squash it first.
I’ma try and figure out a way for them to get rid of the problem.
‘Cause I ain’t no fake n****.
But when Hoffa asked him about the Durk and Youngboy situation,
21 said “Certain shit you don’t try.
Type of shit you just know, like,
ain’t no- ain't no trying.”
Back in July,
Youngboy’s homie Rich the Kid was spotted chilling with Durk in the Hamptons.
Fans started going crazy online,
but Rich hopped on IG and wrote
“First off I love all the fans but y’all gotta chill tf out !!!
TOP my brotha in real life not this weird ass internet world y’all live in!
And if you see me somewhere I was PAID.”
Rich captioned the post with
“...if my bro ain’t trippin on it Why tf u folk eatin my d***
y’all can’t wait to see a n**** crash out.”
Some fans thought the beef might be over
if Youngboy was cool with his homie chopping it up with Durk,
but then in August Youngboy let everyone know it was still on.
Youngboy dropped the last album on his deal with Atlantic Records on August 5th,
and he allegedly trolled Durk with the album merch.
One of the shirts he dropped shows a bulletproof vest on the front
along with the words “UMM HMM”.
It’s not a direct shot, but fans immediately linked it to Durk’s AHH HA track.
The beef has been pretty quiet for the last few months,
but it’s probably only a matter of time
before something else sparks a new round of disses.
It would be best if Durk and Youngboy just squashed it and moved on,
but it’s hard to put it in the past at this point.
Durk and Youngboy are both successful enough
that they don’t need to diss people on every record to sell music,
and hopefully they’ll switch up how they’re moving.
They don’t have to become friends or anything,
but if they keep the beef going
it’s only a matter of time before somebody gets hurt or killed.
Hip hop has lost an insane amount of artists lately,
and it would be a tragedy if either of these dudes
went out the same way.