Chicago drill goes deeper than just the music.
It’s a genre that is mixed with the local gang culture
and artists often use the art to diss rivals and talk about what's going on in the streets.
Here’s a look at a few Chicago drill lyrics that reference real-life events
that actually happened.
“Goof Got Shot Right Up in His Top His Brother Told on Me”
In this bar, King Von is referencing his opp FBG Wooski and his brother Big Mike.
King Von was a member of O’Block, a set of the Black Disciples.
Wooski is a member of STL/EBT, a set of the gangster disciples,
who had beef with O’Block.
Despite being a GD, Wooski grew up in O’Block,
which is known to be a headquarters for the BD’s.
There was always a tension between Wooski and those that repped O’Block like Von.
But things really heated up in 2011
after Wooski allegedly shot Von’s friend Patoon
and Von responded by allegedly killing Wooski’s cousin.
After that Wooski and Von started beefing on Twitter and the war between the two was made public.
The beef stayed on the internet for a while.
Until a shooting that occurred outside a house party on May 29th, 2014
that left one person dead and several others injured.
The victim’s name was Malcolm Stuckey and the alleged shooters were King Von
and a man named Big Mike, a fellow BD
who also happened to be the blood brother of FBG Wooski.
Despite being a BD,
Big Mike agreed to testify against Von to receive a reduced sentence,
but backed out at the last minute and refused to take the stand.
Even though Von was the alleged shooter, no other witnesses came forward
and there was no DNA evidence.
So, Von was released and Big Mike was sentenced to 28 years for the murder.
Check out our video on Rappers Who Beat A Murder Case for more info on this case.
The fact that Mike was Wooski’s brother only intensified the beef.
However, Von was fighting the case until 2017 and therefore nothing happened in the streets.
But, the beef popped off again in 2018,
after an O’Block member named HK
was gunned down right outside the entrance of the Parkway Gardens Houses.
Wooski was allegedly one of the shooters.
Wooski then added fuel to the fire by dropping a diss track called Computers,
where he disses several members of O’Block and takes credit for HK’s killing.
HK was King Von’s best friend’s brother and so he took this killing and blatant diss personally.
Then in October 2018, Drooski the Man, a rapper and affiliate of MOB, a set of the GD’s,
was shot and killed in the Washington Park neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago.
Wooski and his crew were in attendance at the funeral,
which is when Von and the rest of O’Block got their revenge.
While he was outside smoking a cigarette,
Wooski was shot in the head by two gunmen in a driveby that wounded five other people.
But, Wooski miraculously survived the shooting,
and the beef continued right up until Von died in 2020.
So, in the Exposin Me Remix,
Von is referencing Wooski getting shot in the head outside the funeral
and Big Mike almost taking the stand against him in court.
King Von blew up not long after Wooski was shot,
and he continued throwing jabs at his opponent right up until the end.
But Von isn’t the only artist to describe the crazy violence going on in Chicago.
This next artist rapped about the killing of Tookah and Lil Marc,
two half-brothers from Chicago who were both shot at a bus station
in two separate incidents years apart.
Let’s check it out.
“Lil Marc and Shondale they got killed in the same way”
S. Dot and Tay600 are two rappers affiliated with the 600 sets of the Black Disciples.
In this lyric, Tay600 is rapping about the killing of two half brothers
Tooka and Lil Marc, who were both gunned down at a bus stop in Chicago two years apart.
Shondale Gregory, aka Tooka,
was a 15-year-old member of the STL set of the GD’s
who was gunned down on the night of January 12th, 2011
while waiting for a bus on the 600 block of East 63rd Street in Chicago.
The killing was believed to be retaliation for the killing of 17-year-old Eddrick Ty Walker,
a member of the BD’s who was killed back in 2009.
The GD’s responded to Tooka’s death by killing another member of the BD’s,
20-year-old Odee Perry.
After this deadly beef, GD’s in St. Lawrence started going by the name Tookaville
in honor of Tooka and the BD’s in the Parkway Gardens houses
started to call themselves O’Block in honor of Odee Perry.
As many members of the O’Block BD’s gained prominence in the music industry,
from Chief Keef to Lil Durk to King Von,
Tooka became one of the most disrespected people in the history of hip hop.
Chief Keef brought the term smoking on a Tooka Pack into popular culture
and nine years after Tooka was murdered
King Von was still dissing him in the unreleased track How I Rock (Tooka Pack).
If that wasn’t enough, a few years later, Tooka’s half-brother,
Lil Marc was killed the same way, waiting for a bus in the mean streets of Chicago.
Lil Marc was a rapper and a member of the 051 Young Money Gang,
a set of the Mickey Cobras and the Black P Stones, another set who had beef with BD’s.
On March 25th, 2014, Lil Marc released a remix of Lil Durk’s song called No Competition,
where he dissed several members of the BD’s by name, specifically members of the OTF,
600 and Lamron sets.
Just 3 days later on March 28th, Lil Marc was waiting for a bus
and was killed by opps.
No one was ever arrested for Lil Marc’s killing, but it’s been suggested
that the killers were from the 47 Terror set of the BD’s/Mickey Cobras.
Not long before the shooting, Lil Marc was recorded on Facetime with Lil Reese.
Throughout the video, Reese has a big grin on his face, but things are clearly tense.
Reese is a member of the BD’s and is one of the artists Marc dissed on No Competition.
These two killings contributed to a lot of the violence that fueled the early drill movement.
Tooka and Lil Marc remain some of the most dissed artists in hip hop –
simply because many BD’s ended up becoming superstars
and no GD or Mickey Cobra artists have managed to blow up on a mainstream level.
But the feud with the 051 gangs and the BD’s didn’t stop with Lil Marc.
This next song references the killing of OTF Nuski, Lil Durk’s cousin
and a member of the BD’s who was shot in a parking lot in broad daylight,
allegedly by a member of 051 Money Gang.
Let’s check it out.
“They found Nuski stuffed up in that car just like they did Pac”
FYB J Mane is a rapper affiliated with the Jaro City set of the BD’s and GD’s.
Members of Jaro City are made up of darkside black disciples
and outlaw gangster disciples.
So FYB J Mane claims BD, however, he also claims BDK,
meaning he had opps who are BD’s.
Plus, he is also cool with well-known GD’s
and has made music with artists like FBG Duck and Wooski.
In his track, Exposin Me, he raps about the killing of OTF Nunu or Nuski,
who was shot to death in broad daylight in 2014.
Nuski was also an up-and-coming rapper,
who had gained some buzz in the city for his track OC,
which featured his cousin Lil Durk.
OTF or Only the Family is a brand and record label started by Lil Durk.
It also stands for Only Trey Folks,
which is the set of the Black Disciples that Durk and Nuski were part of.
On May 31st, 2014, Nuski was ambushed
and shot dead while sitting in an SUV in the 700th Block of East 87th Street
in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago.
Durk and some of his friends were inside a nearby store when Nuski was shot.
Many have speculated that the hit was intended for Lil Durk,
but Nuski was the one they caught lackin’, so they killed him to send a message.
Although no one was ever arrested for Nuski’s killing,
drill fans have speculated that it was a retaliation for the killing of Lil Marc
and the killer was a member of 051 Money Gang, named 051 Melly.
Melly was considered one of the top hitters in Chicago
and has been credited with multiple high-profile killings.
In addition to OTF NuNu, he is also allegedly the killer of Durk’s manager OTF Chino
who was also killed while sitting in a car in the Avalon Park area of Chicago
less than a year later on March 27th, 2015.
Fans have noted that Durk released a remix to Chief Keef’s Faneto, where he raps
“***** I’m ridin through the opps
Finna Go and Shoot Young Money Up”
Allegedly, Melly didn’t appreciate this diss
and killed Durk’s manager to prove he wasn’t playing around.
It’s unclear whether OTF ever got revenge for the killings of Nuski and Chino.
At the time, Lil Durk’s music career was taking off
and 051 Melly was still heavily involved in the streets,
so it’s likely Durk distanced himself to stay away from all the drama.
However, the beef eventually came full circle,
and 051 Melly was killed at a party in Jaro City on Memorial Day weekend in 2019.
The shooting was caught on camera and Melly, along with another woman were shot.
The woman was wounded but survived and Melly was not as lucky.
Man call the ambulance!
Call the ambulance man!
Call the ambulance! Call them quicker man.
Call the ambulance man!
Because Melly was rumored to have so many bodies,
it was tough for fans to figure out who was behind his killing.
There was no retaliation shooting directly after the incident,
which led many to speculate that he was set up by Jaro City.
Although Melly wasn’t part of Jaro City, he was cool with several members.
In the video, the shooter is the only one letting off any shots,
which at a normal house party would be understandable.
But in Chicago with a house full of known gangstas,
the fact that someone started firing
and there was no immediate retaliation led many to believe that it must have been a setup.
Police arrested a person of interest in the shooting,
a dude named 007 Nate who was a member of the Tyquan World set of the GDs’.
Nate was named as a person of interest but never charged.
It’s unclear what the motive was,
but internet rumors say that Melly and Nate had beef over a dice game
where Melly lost and pulled a gun rather than giving up his cash.
Nate got the drop on him at the house party and the rest is Chiraq history.
Although unknown to the rap world,
051 Melly was a Chicago street legend
and his death closed a chapter on a wild era in the city.
It seems unlikely that Durk and the OTF camp
would have had any involvement in setting Melly up
because Jaro City and FBG have serious beef with them.
But I’m sure Durk wasn’t too broken up about the murder,
even if it was orchestrated by some of his opps.
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