Quandos cousin Lul Pab was murdered instead, spurring Quandos anguished cries at the crime scene.
In 2019, Durk made an X post noting, Young boy so hard.
King Von and Rondo (whos signed to NBA Youngboys Never Broke Again records) had been friendly.
Lil Durk attends the 66th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 4, 2024, in Los Angeles.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images/The Recording Academy
Things went beyond the point of resolution with Vons death.
Fans egged on the beef, raiding Durks Instagram comment section to tell him to slide for Von.
His Southside Queens upbringing was an allure for many of his fans.
I think a real gangsta rapper has to scare you a little bit.
I dont think theres no new people that do it, Ice T said.
But in 2024, theres no long-term incentive for an artists main draw to be fear.
They want to feel like Durks bars about calling hits on opps are about someone specific.
And when an artist inevitably slips during the high-wire act and falls, its solely on them.
Its a no-win paradox.
Drill rap is a dead end that artists no longer need to go down.
But drill scenes as a whole have become too corrupted by the weight of criminalization.
Theyre the people who drill artists are trying to excite to their own detriment.
But the five-years-long beef is a glimpse of a rap subculture suffocating on its own bloodlust.
Its like the respect and my rep going to leave if a nigga change.
The very rap fans who prop Quando up are a part of that people.
Elsewhere in the interview, Quando noted, Niggas live a violent life.
Aint no changing that.
Everybody could say, You could change … Its over with big bro, nigga too far off.
He seemingly saw no way out.
Both men seem resigned to a dire fate set forth by a country that failed them.
Fans spectated the OTF-Youngboy beef like a sporting rivalry, but in the end, only the system won.
Even if they escaped their home environments physically, they couldnt do so mentally.
And the voyeuristic fans who watched them court martyrdom didnt want them to.
