The War in Chicago
between the BD’s and the GD’s
is well documented.
But only real fans of Chicago drill
know about the war in O’Block
that involves Chief Keef’s Glo Gang
and Lil Durk’s OTF.
Let’s take a closer look at this beef.
Chief Keef and Lil Durk
are the two biggest rappers to emerge from the Chicago drill scene in the early 2010s.
Even though they grew up together
and were affiliated with some of the same people,
the two are rarely seen together
and haven’t collaborated as much as you would expect.
This is because around the time that they were both blowing up,
they had a falling out after Durk was arrested
and Keef refused to pay his bail.
Both Chief Keef and Durk
grew up around the same area in the Southside.
Keef grew up in the infamous O’Block on the 6400 Block of South King Drive.
Durk grew up nearby in the Englewood neighborhood
and even spent some time living in Parkway Gardens.
They are both affiliated with the 300 set of the Black Disciples,
but Durk also has his own gang called OTF or “Only the Family”
and Keef has his own called GBE or Glory Boyz Entertainment.
They were all cool with each other early on
and would collaborate on tracks together.
But all that would change in the summer of 2013,
when Lil Durk would get arrested on a gun charge.
On June 5th, 2013,
the Chicago Police got an anonymous tip
that there was a man with a loaded gun walking around the area.
They showed up to the 7200 block of South Green Street in the Southside
and found Lil Durk standing beside his car.
When police approached him,
they claim that they saw him throw a loaded .40 caliber handgun into his Hyundai Sonata.
Durk was then arrested
and charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.
He had been caught with a gun once before in 2011
and sentenced to three months in jail, which was his first felony.
So, when Durk was arrested again just two years later,
the charges would be even worse and Durk was held on a $100,000 bond.
Even though Durk had just signed a deal with Def Jam,
he was still early in his career.
He would need $10,000 to be able to post the bond
and didn’t have the cash at the time.
So he reached out to Keef for help.
But for whatever reason,
Keef didn’t give him the money.
Fans also noticed that while all the other notable BD’s
like Lil Reese, Fredo Santana, LA Capone,
and Rondonumbanine tweeted something in supportof Lil Durk when he got arrested,
Chief Keef stayed silent.
Instead, Chief would tweet “OTG #Only the Glo”.
This was clearly a shot at Durk
as his label and rap group is known as OTF.
Many took this to mean that Keef wasn’t rocking with Durk
because he wasn’t GBE and therefore
he wasn’t responsible for what happened to him.
Durk eventually posted bail, but it would take over a month.
It’s rumored that Durk had a rough time in Cook County
because of his affiliations and got beat up pretty badly.
But he would eventually end up getting out in July 2013.
After being released, Durk would tweet
“I’m back ***** did you miss me or u ain’t care ***** …I’m free”.
These are lyrics to Keef’s First Day Out freestyle
and many assumed that he was taking a shot at the rapper
for failing to pay his bail.
Keef would just double down on his earlier stance and tweeted "OTG".
This would get under Durk’s skin,
as he let off a wild twitter rant that exposed the beef to the entire world.
First he shouted out Lil Reese and Fredo Santana
for being “100 and not #fufu”,
clearly throwing more shade at Keef
who is Fredo’s cousin and homies with Lil Reese.
He also tells Keef directly that he would have been killed
if it weren’t for 300.
It’s not clear if he’s talking about a particular situation
or if he’s just saying that Keef wouldn’t have survived in the Southside without his boys.
But he had beef with his former friend.
He kept going tweeting
“all da money but you can’t go get #drose
lol bad enough he on yo *** already."
D Rose was one of O’Block’s main shooters
and was close to both Keef and Durk.
Keef has mentioned him in several songs
and D Rose was considered a legend in Chicago for the work he put in on the streets.
But, he got locked up in 2012
and didn’t get out until 2014.
So, Durk was throwing shade at Keef
for giving him props in the music, but then not helping him post bail.
Especially because at that time
Keef was one of the biggest rappers in the world.
He also followed up by tweeting
“If u squad then y u ain’t get t slick or D rose !!!!
u gotta bigga deal right #fufu”
T Slick was another street legend in Chicago
who grew up with Keef and Fredo.
He was arrested for aggravated discharge of a firearm
and it’s been rumored that he was either protecting Keef at the time
or he took the charge so he wouldn’t haveto go to jail.
To this day, Keef’s profile picture on Twitter is T Slick’s mugshot,
which proves that Keef clearly has some loyalty toward him.
But according to Durk,
Keef turned his back on both D Rose and T Slick
after he got rich and famous, even though they had his back growing up.
He also told Keef he couldn’t return to his own neighborhood,
tweeting “Where u gone spend it cus u can’t cum around here wit it”
Finally, Durk finishes his rant by saying
“Warning, I’m not #souljaboy
dis **** can get ugly”.
If this were 2021,
Soulja probably would have jumped into the middle of this beef
for the free promotion.
But 2013 was a different time
and Soulja probably didn’t want any more problems with rappers from Chicago.
Early on in his career, Keef had ties to Soulja Boy.
At one point it was even rumored that Keef might sign to his SODMG label.
Now what's your future projects what you got in store for the people?
S*** sign with SODMG
Did you say you'd sign with em?
I'm fin to
Aw that's what's happening man
But, not long before the Lil Durk beef popped off,
Keef and Soulja would have a falling out after Keef’s homie Ballout
allegedly robbed Soulja of his prized Jesus piece.
Keef responded to Durk’s rant by tweeting
“Just bought a 2013 4-wheeler fa 10 thousand”.
Ten thousand of course was the exact amount of Durk’s bail.
He would also tweet
“IM NOTHIN ELSE ***** I AM OBLOCK”
and “Can’t believe n***** stuntin fa da twit
dats crazy kno damn well I kno u just like u kno me…
goofy *** use to be brick”.
What he meant is that Durk can’t ban him from O’Block
because it's his neighborhood
and that he can’t believe the rapper is spazzing on Twitter
when they both know what each other is capable of doing.
King Von later shed more light
on the drama between Keef and OTF.
He explained that it started before Durk even got locked up.
Keef refused to pay the bailfor another dude from O’Block named Trey 5,
who is allegedly Von's brother.
They were trying to raise money for his bail
which was $25,000.
They already had about $18,000
so all they needed was an extra $7500.
They called Sosa to see if he could help out
and he said that he just spent $7,500 on shoes
so of course he could help.
But when they called him again a week later,
he kept telling them he had it,
but never actually came through and bailed him out.
Kept saying that ***** lying
saying he got some money for my homie Von right?
Like say we call him, we call a *****
and we ask for ***** money and **** and he said he gon get to him right?
so we say our homie booked the **** his bond $25,000
we got $18,000 already and we need $7,500 more right?
So a ***** said that alright that's all a **** need?
I just spent that **** on shoes
so aight right right right right
why you say it like that tho?
Now we call him again like a week later or something
Damn what's up with that money gang like what
we tryna get your folks out
He ask, how much y'all need? We need $7,500 and ****
Now this a minute ago
So now you get that both get that
What'd he say?
Yeah y'all need $7,500? I just blew that **** in the club and ****
Some motha***** see folks
Im fin take folks chain off his neck and **** Im finna take your ****
Go get the bond my *****
In May of 2013,
GBE, OFT
and another set called MUBU
that is affiliated with rapper King Louie
had a joint concert.
Some OTF affiliates decided to jump Keef
for refusing to give up the $7500 for Trey 5’s Bail,
even though he recently signed a 6 million dollar deal with Interscope.
During the fight, Keef’s homie Ballout
ended up getting his chain snatched.
Although the rumors are that it wasn’t even his chain
it was the Jesus Piece he snatched from Soulja Boy.
Backstage they cornered Durk because they believed heinitiated the fight.
Lil Reese even choked Lil Durk for getting Ballout’s chain snatched.
What's going on right now?
Nah I been knew you was going on with- I was right there when you choked Durk *****
You telling me I don't know what's going on
Then, Durk would get locked up for the gun charge about a week later.
At this time, the beef between O’Block and OTF
was still small, which is why he reached out to Keef to help pay his bail.
But Keef was probably still mad that Durk’s people tried to jump him,
so he refused to pay the bond.
But Durk probably felt like their relationship was stronger than that
and started to question Keef’s loyalty after he got the same treatment as Trey 5 and D Rose.
After the Twitter fight, the beef died down for a while.
Apparently, they spoke on the phone and came to an understanding.
It still seemed like there was tension, but it wasn’t going to resort to violence.
But not long after supposedly squashing the beef,
Lil Durk would post a tracklist to his upcoming album with the caption
"my fav song off #signedtothestreets".
The song that was highlighted was called OTF (Chief Keef Diss).
This diss track reignited the beef on Twitter
and Durk and Sosa would continue going back and forth.
Then, Keef would repost the cover to “Chiraq to LA”
a Lil Durk diss track by The Game and Tyga.
After that Keef did a song with Tyga,
who Durk was beefing with at the time.
So Durk responded by doing a track with the Migos,
who Keef and GBE were beefing with.
Durk even brought the Migos to O’Block to shoot a video,
which was clearly meant to get at Keef.
The beef would reach a climax after a couple of O Block goons
allegedly broke into a house being rented by Keef and snatched his chain.
In late March 2014,
Sosa was set to appear in court for one ofthe legal situations he was facing.
While he was in court a crew of dudes from O’Block including Bosstop and OJ,
as well as a few members of another BD set called THF,
broke into a home that was being rented by Keef and his former manager.
They ransacked the house and stole tons of valuables including designer clothes and sneakers.
Keef’s former manager Brandon Zehrer
was in the home at the time and called 911.
Keef would later called him a “soft *** *****” on Twitter
for calling the cops.
Keef showed up while they were still home,
which is when Boss Top allegedly snatched his signature Johnny Dang chain
and OJ snatched a chain from GBE Capo.
A shootout followed and a 33-year-old named Terrance Smith
was non-fatally injured.
Bosstop and the other BDs
then stole Keef’s car and fled the scene.
Keef brought Terrance Smith to the hospital
but refused to cooperate with police, so no arrests were made.
A police document from the gang enforcement division
was released after the shooting
and stated that the Black Disciples were having an “internal conflict”.
The crazy thing is that before this all went down,
Keef and Bosstop were close.
Keef even gifted Boss Top a Burberry shirt
that he was known to wear everywhere
so much that MUBU Krump would even put out a video clowning him for it.
Now why every time we see you out here you got on the same Burberry-
SOSA gave me the shirt I ain't ever take this shirt off
Why you don't even wanna take the shirt off?
But money and fame can turn even the closest friends against each other
and it seems like Bosstop sided with Lil Durk
for the War in O Block.
That same day Keef and Bosstop would go back and forth on Twitter,
with Keef tweeting “I clothed you B and put money in ur lint ball pockets”
and “I ain’t nothin like dese n****
But we look a like. Way higher form & fashion
& I’m loyal I was Given lil dirty folks nem clothes!”
He also dropped a wild bombshell tweeting
“Folks they stole Kay Kay clothes out her room.
Detergent, deodorant and all On Bloods!
They stretched that **** aiight”
Kay Kay is Keef’s daughter and in this tweet he’s telling the world
that they didn’t just take adult designer clothes they took his three-year-old daughter’s clothes
and random household items like deodorant and detergent.
Keef even called out Boss Top by name, along with his former producer Young Chop.
BossTop responded by posting a picture of a gun on IG with the caption
“**** GBE”
and told Keef to “Come to the Hood that You Say You From”.
He would also later release a music video
where he can be seen flexing with Keef’s stolen chain.
Plus, not long after that,
Durk would drop a video with another Chiraq savage THF Bayzoo,
dancing around with Capo’s stolen chain
while Keef’s Close that Door video plays in the background.
Oh, is that it?
Keef would respond to the video by saying
“I would say **** Odee but I’m from there, that’s my boy”.
I would say **** Odee but that's my boy
you feel?
I'm from there
O'Block
Odee of course refers to Odee Perry,
the dead BD that OBlock is named after.
Odee is allegedly Bosstop’s cousin, but also a well-respected dudefrom the neighborhood
which is why Keef said he would say it
but it doesn’t go as far as actually doing it.
Several BD’s from OBlock had to check Keef for taking it too far
and Sosa didn’t respond after that.
But surprisingly, after that things started to cool down.
Keef finally left Chicago for good and moved to LA.
He and Durk would continue throwing shots at each other for a few more months,
until they officially squashed the beef in August 2014.
That month, Durk would tweet “It’s back OTFxGBE Chicago we back at it
@ChiefKeef my brother #300”
and Keef would confirm the truce tweeting
“Aye @lildurk_ Wyo Bro”.
Durk later explained in an interview
that they eventually talked for a few hours over FaceTime
and they put it all behind them.
Since then, there hasn’t been too much dramabetween the two camps.
Keef and Durk would collab on the track Decline in 2015
and haven't dissed each other again in music.
So, this is one beef from the city of Chicago
that actually has an ending.
Even though Durk and Keef still don’t seem to be that tight anymore,
they seem to be able to do their own thing in the industry
and stay out of each other’s way.
Luckily the beef never got out of control
and they were both able to settle their differences and move on with their careers.
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