Lil Jojo was one of the early rappers of Chicago’s drill movement.
He shocked the whole city by dropping the song BDK,
which took shots at the Black Disciples.
But the song also made him a big target and eventually cost him his life.
Here is a closer look at the Story of Lil Jojo.
Lil Jojo was a rapper from the Englewood neighborhood
in the southside of Chicago.
When he was only a few months old his dad got locked up for attempted murder
and spent 13 years in jail.
He also has a brother who is a rapper named Swag Dinero and the two were close growing up.
Jojo was from the Bricksquad set of the Gangster Disciples,
who are known to beef with the Lamron set of the BDs.
At one point, Brick Squad was also allied with STL/EBT,
which meant they beefed with O’Block and 600.
But their main beef was with Lamron cause the two hoods were closer to each other.
A lot news outlets made it seem like Jojo was just an innocent kid
who got caught up in a deadly gang beef.
But according to those who knew him, Jojo was really about that life
and his name is still respected in the streets.
Lil Jojo ain’t really know the BD’s from O’Block, but he did grow up with Lil Reese and Lil Durk.
At first, there was no smoke between them
they wasn’t cool with each other because they were in separate gangs.
But they wasn’t actively beefing.
There’s rumors that the beef really started over a fight at a basketball court.
Some dudes from Lamron got into it with some dudes from Brick Squad
and after that, they started taking shots at each other on social media.
At that time, Chicago drill was just starting to blow up
and Keef and Durk was two of the hottest rappers in the city.
On March 28th, 2012, Durk dropped the track L’s Anthem.
On the song, he took a shot at Brick Squad, rapping
“Brick Squad I say **** em
Wuga World wit em so it’s **** em”
Wuga World is another set of the GDs’ who are affiliated with Brick Squad.
So they got caught in the beef for being cool with their enemies.
L’s anthem is considered one of the most famous Chicago disses of all time
because of what happened next.
Lil Jojo and Swag Dinero first heard the song on the radio.
Hearing his gang get dissed like that on a public platform made Jojo angry.
When he heard the diss, he turned to his brother and said
“You heard that bro?
Hell naw we gonna go crazy that's it”
Jojo wasn't even a rapper at that point.
But when he heard L's Anthem, he decided to hop in the booth to respond.
On April 27th, 2012,
Lil Jojo dropped a remix of the Chief Keef song Everyday called BDK (3HunnaK).
300 is a gang made up of a bunch of BD sets who are cool with each other,
which includes Chief Keef, Reese, and Durk.
But instead of just going after them, he also titled the song BDK,
taking shots at the entire gang.
The song started a trend of other GD rappers claiming BDK,
which just turnt up the violence in Chicago.
On the track, he also responded directly to Durk, rapping
“Durk say **** Brick Squad so I can’t wait to catch him
squeeze this ******’ 40 now they got him on a stretcher”.
The BDs and the GDs had been beefing for a minute.
But when Lil Jojo dropped BDK, he brought the attention of the internet,
which took the war to a whole different level.
The city was goin crazy and the music influenced what was going on in the streets.
But Jojo ain’t just stop there.
BDK earned him a lot of clout in the city,
so he kept dropping diss tracks to build his career as a rapper.
He followed up with the track Tied Up not long after.
In the video for the song, Jojo sends shots at his opps
while a Chief Keef look-a-like is tied to a chair.
At the time Keef was one of the biggest artists in the world,
after blowing up with I Don’t Like just a few months before.
So Lil Jojo knew the diss was gonna attract attention.
But Jojo still ain’t finish there.
In August 2012, he dropped a remix of the Yo Gotti song I Got Dat Sack,
where he continues to take shots at 300.
On the track he raps
“Catch em in traffic with Lil Reese,
man they gon feel this Mac
BDK, that’s my team and my city got my back
Went to school with these n**** , but that don’t mean ****
My n**** Tel knocked em out you should have seen that ****”
He mentions Lil Reese by name and claims one of his homies knocked him out.
He also takes shots at Durk rapping
“Durk a *** callin phones, sayin he don’t want no beef
But **** this Rap, I ain't gon' talk, I'mma leave it in the streets”
It sounded like Jojo was suggesting that Durk tried to call him to squash the beef,
but he ain’t want to hear it.
In the outro to the song, they take it a step farther
by taking shots at David Barksdale aka King David, the founder of the Black Disciples.
At the end of the song, Jojo’s homie P Rico can be heard shouting
“Jojo goin dumb on Durk’s ****** ass,
BDK, Die Ls, on Queen Dave".
Dissing your opps is one thing. But once you drag a legendary OG
like King David into the beef, then anything goes.
So, Lil Jojo was quickly becoming one of the most hated GD’s in the city.
Then on September 4th, 2012,
Lil Jojo was murdered after dropping his location on social media.
According to rumors, earlier in the day
he saw some dudes from Lamron and shot at them but ain’t hit nodody.
Then, while Jojo and his brother was riding through the hood,
they spotted Lil Reese.
They started by yelling out the window dissing him and calling him a *****.
Lil Reese can be heard yelling back “I’ma kill you”
***** boy you a ***** boy
the **** wrong with you boy
Ay ay Bricksquad Bricksquad boy **** is you talking about boy
Imma beat the **** out of you
and Imma kill you
*** Imma kill you
Jojo went home and uploaded the video to YouTube and tweeted about it to mess with his opp.
He tweeted
“Just caught @lilreese300 n traffic and his daddy tryin talk it out
#NoTalkin #BrickSquad,
followed by a link to the video.
The video quickly went viral, starting a Twitter war between Jojo and Lil Reese.
According to some sources, not long after that incident,
Jojo was on the block shooting dice with some of his homies
when police pulled up and arrested him for gambling.
He was taken down to the station and questioned but was released the same day.
He continued dissing Lil Reese online, tweeting out
“I am out here on my 2 feets wya ***** @lilreese”,
letting Reese know he was ready for the smoke.
He took it a step further by following up with
“lmao I’m on 069 stop the ******' flexin”,
letting the entire city know his current location.
This was a deadly mistake by Lil Jojo.
He tweeted his location around 7:30 pm
and by 9pm he was found dead from a gunshot wound
on the 6900 block of South Princeton Avenue, exactly where he said he was online.
Witnesses said, Jojo was riding his bike
when a vehicle pulled up and someone in the car shot him.
His brother Swag Dinero denies that Jojo was riding his bike when he was killed.
But he was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center,
where he was pronounced dead.
Lil Jojo's death had a heavy impact on the city.
Chicago drill was just starting to blow up on a mainstream level
and many thought Jojo was going to blow up and become bigger than Chief Keef.
But when he got killed,
it showed how real gets in Chiraq and that a lot of these dudes
was living the life they rapped about.
The day after jojo got killed, Chief Keef tweeted
“Its Sad Cuz Dat N**** Jojo Wanted To Be Jus Like Us #LMAO”
and “N**** dry snitching #shhhhhBrickboyz”.
A Twitter user also tweeted,
"@lilreese300 a real n****
the lil n**** jojo stayed in the car the whole time FOH”,
which Lil Reese retweeted before tweeting
“Damn I just wke up to 2da jojo sh*t f*ck em…”
Swag Dinero clapped back to defend his brother, tweeting
“@lilreese300 you is a ***** boa.
Jojo had you hidin behind yo daddy when we pulled up. You know what I’d is.”
He also took shots at Keef and Durk, tweeting
"@lildurk you dead too lil *****
and @chiefkeef you dead too ***”
Chief Keef and Lil Reese was both questioned in connection
with Lil Jojo’s murder, but no charges were ever filed.
Keef claims his account was hacked and he ain’t tweet those things.
But Lil Jojo’s mom thinks Keef had paid someone kill her son.
After Jojo's death,
BrickSquad took on the name JojoWorld and they host an annual Jojo Day
every September 4th to honor his legacy.
There was a lot of media coverage on Lil Jojo’s death
because of how popular Chicago drill was getting.
The news made it seem like it was a rap beef between him and Keef
that eventually led to his death.
That might have been part of the reason.
But those close to him say Jojo ain’t really even know Keef like that.
He was really beefing with Lamron
and Keef just caught a couple of disses because he was cool with them
and also the most popular BD rapper in Chicago.
No one was ever arrested for Lil Jojo’s death. But about a year later,
Swag Dinero hinted that whoever was responsible was no longer breathing.
He tweeted
"You fans can get sent off by dis rap if y’all want to.
On foenem y’all don’t know how dis go fr”
“#Notalkin
“Even da opps know da mf who took my bro aint walkin dis earth nomore. **** EM TOO”.
Lil Jojo’s death will always be tied to the beef with Chief Keef
because of the 300K diss.
But in reality, it could have been anyone.
He took shots at an entire gang, then told the world his location on social media,
making him a target for anyone who felt disrespected.
Those close to Jojo say he was a real problem in the streets
and his opps saw him as a legit threat.
So, it was his reputation that led to his murder,
more than the music.
Lil Jojo is another talented rapper from Chicago
who was killed before reaching his full potential.
He had a catchy flow and could have made it big if he had enough time to focus on his music.
But unfortunately, his reputation caught up to him
before he could make it out of the streets.