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FBG Duck Murder: New O-Block Footage Surfaces From Before & After Hit

January 30, 2024 by newhiphopnews

FBG Duck’s tragic murder in August of 2020 sent shockwaves through Chicago’s rap scene and its O-Block neighborhood. Moreover, following a long trial process and a lot of developments in this regard, the case is still of high interest. Not only that, but some clips recently surfaced of the incident both before and after, although it’s hard to tell exactly what each of them displays. Seemingly, it shows the shooting itself, the culprits before and after it, and when they arrived at their community around the time of the crime. We advise viewer discretion for the shooting clip below, as it places you right on that street.

Furthermore, you may have already heard that the court found six O-Block residents guilty of conspiring and carrying out FBG Duck’s murder. With this, years of investigations, testimonies, conflicting narratives, and loyalties resolved, although the bigger picture is never that easy. Still, many fans of Chicago’s hip-hop scene and community members themselves can at least find a little solace in this justice. Unfortunately, though, these problems are too broad to go away, and thus, folks hope that this can be a wake-up call that results in less violence in the area.

New Footage Emerges Of FBG Duck’s Murder

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FBG Duck’s mother had this to say about this verdict shortly after they left that hearing: “Yes, [I feel like they served justice]. Look, from being kicked out the courtroom three times to just allowing God to do his work. And that’s all I’ve been, is steel. When stuff like that happen to a good person, regardless of what somebody else think of them, it ain’t gon’ go unpunished. Vengeance… I could never want another mother to feel like this. To see they child shot down in the street like a dog. Okay? They had an FBG Duck death party. That’s how it meant to them. They threw an FBG Duck death party!

“Same thing that make you laugh gon’ make your a** cry,” she concluded. “That’s all I’ma say about that. Knowing that they would not do that to another family brings me comfort. Knowing they will not terrorize nobody else. They’re done, the whole crew. O-Block and everything of it is done, they a** is done.” For more news and the latest updates on this, stay up to date on HNHH.
Rest In Peace FBG Duck.

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WATCH: FGB Duck’s Mother Says She Hosting a ‘Justice Served’ Party Following Conviction of O-Block Members

January 19, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Following the conviction of six men in the murder of FBG Duck, his mother hit Instagram Live and delivered a message.

“I wanna see y’all tonight at my house,” she said. “We popping bottles, we celebrating. We havin’ a ‘justice served’ party for Duck tonight.”

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A federal jury in Chicago has convicted six men from O-Block for the murder of FBG Duck in the Gold Coast shopping area of the city.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the deliberation lasted two full days, wrapping a trial over three months. Duck, born Carlton Weekly, was killed in front of a store on Aug. 4, 2020. His girlfriend and another shopper were injured in the shooting.

Federal investigators tied the murder to a gang war between Duck’s Tookaville faction of the Gangster Disciples and the O Block set of the Black Disciples, including diss songs between Duck and the late King Von. Investigators believe Von placed a bounty on Duck.

JUST NOW | All defendants in the FBG Duck murder trial has been found guilty of murder and attempted murders!

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Court docs revealed O Block members planned out shootings and a drug operation in regular meetings. Duck’s murder was to increase their reputation.

Convicted was Charles “C Murda” Liggins, an alleged shooter, on five of seven counts and Kenneth “Kenny Mac” Roberson, an alleged getaway driver, guilty under the same counts. Tacarlos “Los” Offerd, another alleged getaway driver, was found guilty of five counts. Christopher “C Thang” Thomas, another alleged shooter, was found guilty of three counts: murder, using a gun in the murder and conspiracy to commit the murder. Ralph “Teezy” Turpin, who tipped off the shooting, was found guilty of murder and conspriacy to commit murder. Marcus “Muwop” Smart, 24, another alleged gunman, was found guilty of five counts.

Another alleged gunman, Ezell Rawls, committed suicide during the investigation.

Two cars in the shooting were tracked to the shooting scene using surveillance cameras.

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Six Men Were Convicted Of Murdering Chicago Rapper FBG Duck In 2020

January 17, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Six men have been convicted of murdering Chicago rapper FBG Duck in 2020, according to The Chicago Sun-Times. The jury came to the conclusion after two days of deliberations, determining that the six men — members of the O Block set of the Black Disciples gang associated with rappers like Chief Keef and King Von — were all guilty of at least one count.

The six men, Charles “C Murda” Liggins, Kenneth “Kenny Mac” Roberson, Tacarlos “Los” Offerd, Christopher “C Thang” Thomas, Ralph “Teezy” Turpin, and Marcus “Muwop” Smart, were accused of shooting Duck (real name Carlton Weekly) outside a clothing store in August 2020, hitting Duck’s girlfriend and another bystander. The shooting was prompted by a series of diss tracks exchanged between Duck, representing the Tookaville set of the Gangster Disciples, and Von, who prosecutors say put a bounty on Duck before his own death in Atlanta that autumn. (Two years later, another member of FBG, FBG Cash, was also shot and killed in Chicago.)

Five of the defendants were identified from surveillance footage and tracked through the shooting through city surveillance cameras, while shell casings found in one of Roberson’s car tied the vehicle to the scene. One other defendant, Ezell Rawls, killed himself during the investigation. Although defense lawyers argued that the evidence was slim and circumstantial, the evidence presented was convincing enough for the jury.

Six O-Block Members Convicted in the Murder of FGB Duck

January 17, 2024 by newhiphopnews

A federal jury in Chicago has convicted six men from O-Block for the murder of FBG Duck in the Gold Coast shopping area of the city.

JUST NOW | All defendants in the FBG Duck murder trial has been found guilty of murder and attempted murders!

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— CS88 (@ChicagoScene88) January 17, 2024

Court docs revealed O Block members planned out shootings and a drug operation in regular meetings. Duck’s murder was to increase their reputation.

Another alleged gunman, Ezell Rawls, committed suicide during the investigation.

Two cars in the shooting were tracked to the shooting scene using surveillance cameras.

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FBG Duck Murder: 6 O-Block Members Found Guilty

January 17, 2024 by newhiphopnews

Six members of the O-Block gang have been found guilty in the 2020 murder of drill rapper FBG Duck. A jury consisting of five men and seven women reached the verdict on Wednesday in a Chicago court. The anonymous group deliberated for approximately 16 hours before coming to an agreement. The guilty O-Block members include Charles Liggins, 32, Kenneth Roberson, 30, Christopher Thomas, 24, Marcus Smart, 25, Tacarlos Offerd, 32, and Ralph Turpin, 34. All six of them face life in prison.

While the jury found them all guilty of the murder in furtherance of a racketeering scheme, they remain mixed on other lesser counts. During the trial, the prosecution cited Duck’s track, “Dead Bitches,” which mocked the defendants’ slain associates, as noted by the Chicago Tribune. The attorney for Liggins argued in response that the song was just “good business.” “Part of YouTube promotion is clickbait. That’s what this was about. Mr. Weekly knew it … it’s marketing and promotion,” attorney Cynthia Giacchetti said in her closing remarks. “This is not fanning the flames of murder, this is fanning the flames of capitalism, making money for everybody.”

O-Block Six Found Guilty

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The prosecution, on the other hand, argued that most of the defendants weren’t rappers and therefore, their beef wasn’t to increase album sales. “That’s because O-Block is a criminal enterprise,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Julien said. “It’s not a record label, it’s not Motown, it’s not Graceland. It’s a violent street gang that murders people and sells drugs. That’s the reality.”

FBG Duck’s murder went down in a drive-by shooting in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood in August 2020. By April 2023, police arrested all six of the defendants who have now been found guilty. At the time of publishing, a sentencing has not been set. Be on the lookout for further updates on the sentencing of the defendants in the murder of FBG Duck on HotNewHipHop.

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Adam22 Blasted By O-Block Member For Bringing Him Up In Sidney Starr Interview

November 6, 2023 by newhiphopnews

Adam22’s recent interview with Sidney Starr ended up ruffling a lot more feathers than he probably expected. Moreover, it caught the attention of Chicago’s O-Block member and rapper Shoebox Baby, who took issue with the No Jumper host mentioning his name. Instead of this, he wants to make a deal with Adam when it comes to how they treat each other online. First, the media personality must stop speaking on Shoebox’s name in the streets and on a platform that doesn’t speak for him. Then, the MC will ignore all of Adam’s “freaky s**t” that’s resulted in a lot of headlines.

“Don’t put my name in none of that s**t, gang,” Shoebox Baby’s “PSA” against Adam22 began. “If it got something to do with some punk s**t, some b***h s**t, some snitch s**t, don’t say my name with that s**t. I know it be all fun and games, but don’t be playing like that, man. You got people sitting there and s**t when I don’t even play like that. ‘Cause I don’t play with you when you be doing all type of super-duper-freaky-a** s**t, gang. So don’t be doing that, for real, gang. Just ’cause you might be going that way don’t mean I be playing like that.”

Shoebox Baby Goes Back & Forth With Adam22: Watch

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“[Let me turn off] the Chicago wave real quick,” Adam22 responded in a clip. “So, Shoebox Baby was a little upset that I was interviewing his favorite transmission, Sidney Starr, and I mentioned his name. So I go back, I have to watch the clip, I have to see what exactly I said. Because I don’t remember anything I say on the podcast. The only thing I said was just confirming that he’s too young and that she’s older. She would’ve never ran into him when she was running around O-Block doing God knows what to God knows who. Shoebox Baby is jealous and p*ssed off that he’s being left out of the narrative. He’s mad, he wants to be the O-Block tangerine, I’m not having it! Shoebox Baby, stop clout-chasing and keep your d**k out of them transmissions.”

Meanwhile, what do you think about all this? What other antics do you expect Adam, O-Block, and Sidney will get into? Drop your thoughts on all this in the comments section down below. Also, check back in with HNHH for more news and the latest updates on Adam22, the O-Block crew, and Sidney Starr.

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Chief Keef Got “Thrown In The Garbage,” O-Block J Hood Recalls

October 21, 2023 by newhiphopnews

During a recent interview with Cam Capone News, O-Block’s J Hood recalled a time when Chief Keef allegedly got “put to sleep” by THF Bruh Bruh. According to him, Bruh Bruh snuck up behind the rapper, and was eventually able to get a grip around his neck. Despite Chief Keef’s size, J Hood says that Bruh Bruh was strong enough to then “throw him in the garbage.”

“Bro I was scared of Bruh,” J Hood explained. He also revealed that he would hate for the same to happen to him. J Hood says that he was worried that the situation could escalate, resulting in a far more tragic fate for him than the bottom of a dumpster. “See, me? I’ll put my self out, ‘aye bro, I’m scared of you bro. Please don’t do that to me.‘”

J Hood Says He Was “Scared” Of THF Bruh Bruh

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“Bro you might try to put me to sleep, but what if I die?” he continued. “That’s what I was scared of.” According to J Hood, Chief Keef getting “thrown in the garbage” was one of the “wildest” things he’s ever witnessed. This wasn’t the only unexpected revelation J Hood has made recently, however. During his interview with No Jumper over the summer, he also spoke on YNW Melly’s ongoing double murder trial, revealing why he believes the rapper should be found guilty.

J Hood claimed that ahead of his 2020 passing, King Von told him that Melly did allegedly murder his two friends. He added that he thinks Melly should go to prison as a consequence for his alleged actions. What do you think of Chief Keef allegedly getting tossed into a dumpster by THF Bruh Bruh? Do you believe J Hood’s wild story? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below, and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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Are Lil Durk And King Von Related?

March 3, 2023 by newhiphopnews

People are wondering if Lil Durk and King Von are related. King Von passed away on November 6, 2020. Tribute posts flooded social media. These came from listeners and of course, those who knew him personally. Lil Durk was one of the people who posted one. The caption he used referred to King Von as his “baby bro”. Listeners began to speculate if there was something deeper behind this. Lil Durk is an artist that had very close ties to him. Their relationship was strong outside the booth too.

King Von and Lil Durk were a very well-known pair in the Chicago rap music world. They did not have an official name as a duo. At least, not musically or one that was known by the general public. The two of them never officially dropped a collab project. Durk had been a figure in the Chicago music scene for years. Von’s come-up came after his but their come-up journeys were still aligned. They mostly stuck to the music but were also involved in serious criminal situations.

Lil Durk and King Von Have Had Criminal Charges

ATLRapper King Von attends Compound Saturday Nights.(Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)

Their verses are a product of the things they grew up around. They have both shared many situations in their music that were a part of their upbringing. Many of these situations were still around them as adults. Multiple artists have spoken out against the type of music they made. The argument is that someone has to share their experiences with the world. Also, the situations happened in the past and they have moved past them. They did not want to encourage people to do the things they used to do.

Lil Durk and King Von were involved in a criminal case together. The situation was quite complex but it resulted in the charges for Lil Durk being dropped. Before this, Lil Durk released an appropriately titled song “Turn Myself In” that had multiple references to the situation. Also amidst the situation, King Von began handing out bundles of cash to residents of Chicago’s O’ Block area. They both handled the reality of the charges they faced differently. The situation brought more ears to their music and more attention to their social media too.

Many people were commenting “Slide for Von” on Lil Durk’s posts after King Von passed. This meant they wanted Durk to get revenge for Von’s death. This is something many people had an issue with. It would only continue the cycle. Rappers have spoken about wanting this cycle to end. Durk responded to the comments in a line by saying the people were trolls. He did not want to jeopardize his career over revenge.

Lil Durk and King Von Have a Long Musical History

Rapper Lil Durk performs during “One Big Party Tour”.(photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)

Durk and Von have been on multiple songs together. Lil Durk signed him to his label Only The Family in 2018. King Von’s first mixtape, Grandson, Vol. 1 had two appearances from Lil Durk on it. His first album, Welcome to O’Block, also had two appearances from Lil Durk. The Only The Family label released two projects and Durk and Von had a song together on the second one.King’s Von posthumous album, What It Means to be King, has one appearance from Lil Durk. His posthumous mixtape, Levon James, has two.

King Von has made appearances on projects from Lil Durk as well. The first one was on Lil Durk’s album Love Songs 4 The Streets 2. Another Only The Family album, Family Over Everything also has King Von on it. Lil Durk’s album, The Voice is credited as a tribute to King Von. The cover art has both of them on it. Additionally, it also has “Long Live Grandson” on the cover. As I previously mentioned, Grandson, Vol. 1, was the name of Von’s debut mixtape.

Lil Durk and King Von are not related. However, they are both from the same area of Chicago. Throughout the years, they have formed a strong bond. Often people will refer to each other as brothers because of this. The bond may not be blood but it feels like one. Sometimes, the older person in the relationship becomes a mentor. Lil Durk was older than King Von and a mentor of sorts to him. He helped him focus on his music.

Durk referred to Von as “baby bro” because of the relationship they had. Due to their similar music and lifestyle, he also called him his twin. This shows how he feels they mirrored each other. Von was someone Durk was able to uplift. He treated him like a brother. They were not related but family does not always involve blood.

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Chicago Rapper Boss Top Among Five People Shot In Chicago’s O’Block On 4th Of July

July 5, 2022 by newhiphopnews

According to a report from IG page @saycheesetv, Windy City rapper Boss Top was among five people that were shot on 4th of July morning in Chicago’s Parkway Garden Homes, most commonly known as O Block.

The shooting took place not long after midnight in the 6500 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, with all five victims taken to a local hospital after the brazen attack.

The victims include a teenager, who was shot in the arm, a 30-year-old man was shot multiple times, two 19-year-olds who were treated for gunshot wounds to their legs and a man around 25 was also treated for a gunshot wound to the knee. According to authorities, all five men are in fair condition.

TheSource.com will update this story as more details develop.

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