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[Hip-hop music plays]

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-It's a warm summer night
in Chicago

when 31-year-old
Londre Sylvester is released

from Cook County Jail.

He's just spent a week
behind bars

for violating terms
of a 2020 felony gun case.

[ Sirens wailing ]

-When I first met
Dre was at a party.

He was a cool dude
just trying to get money

and take care of his family.

-You could feel the temperament
quick from them.

You know,
you speak on the phone with him,

he act like he knew you already.

He was a good guy.

-Oh, can't even with that shit.

♪♪

-Landry exits
and heads for his car.

As he begins to walk
down the steps,

two cars pull up
from opposite directions.

Bullets fly,

executing Landry just feet
from the jailhouse steps.

-Another person shot
at 2600 South California.

45. Male. Shot victim
who was just released.

-Police say a man
who was apparently ambushed

after being released
from Cook County Jail in Chicago

was shot about 64 times.

31-year-old Londre Sylvester
died.

-In Chicago, they got these
things called switches.

They make a regular
handgun go off real fast.

So some guys ride down the block
and get to shooting.

[ Imitates gunfire ]

♪♪

-This was a very
public execution,

very disrespectful, very nasty.

He was dead almost immediately.

-First of all, I don't
control the jail or 26th Street.

But of course, we're very
focused on what happened there.

And detectives are actively
at work identifying suspects.

-How can this happen,

being right here outside
of this county,

where there's sheriffs
and police everywhere?

-But Londre Sylvester wasn't
an ordinary citizen.

He was KTS Dre,

one of Chicago's
most notorious gangsters.

Word spreads like wildfire.

-It came right through
my DMs on Instagram.

People sending me clips like,
"Oh, my God, look, he died."

And for some reason,
the streets know about it

right before the news know.

-Dre is well known to police.

He's been to prison
four times since 2010,

three for weapons charges.

-KTS Dre had been in and out
of jail for quite a few years.

He was reportedly involved in

a lot of violent
street activity.

He probably was going to be
a very dangerous factor

once he got out of jail.

-KTS Dre is the founding
member of the Cutthroats gang,

a faction of one
of Chicago's oldest,

most ruthless gangs,
the Gangster Disciples.

-Chicago gang culture
has changed massively

over the last few decades.

It really is deep and familial
and territorial at this stage.

♪♪

-You know,
it's a culture of no talking.

Nobody finna talk to the police.

Ain't nobody finna get on
no stand and testify for you.

You gon' lose your life,

and everybody's gon'
live they life normal.

♪♪

-Sometimes the people
that you love

could get you entangled
in some shit

that you really don't
even got nothing to do with,

and now you signed up for it
for life.

♪♪

♪♪

-Dre's tribe is one
of the most powerful

Gangster Disciple families
to ever come out of Chicago.

Along with his
younger brother, Davon Davis,

aka KTS Von, the two
set gang life on a course

that would last decades.

♪♪

But it didn't start out
that way.

In the mid-sixties,

13-year-old
Larry "The King" Hoover founded

what would become the GDs
in Inglewood,

one of the poorest sections
of Chicago.

-It was just put together
by a group

of 11 to 13-year-old boys

that would protect
the Black community in Inglewood

and northern Hyde Park.

It was from the White gangs
in the neighborhood,

and then also protection
from some of the police

that didn't want them there.

-They're called the Disciples

because when they
originally formed in 1958,

they chose it from the Bible --
like Disciples in the Bible.

-Hoover sets up the Disciples
to run like the Italian Mafia.

-We was emulating
Al Capone now,

even to the point of putting
a flower in our lapel.

-But in 1973,
Hoover trips up and goes down.

-He was a drug dealer,
and he did commit murder.

He killed an individual that
allegedly had stolen from him --

stolen drugs on the inside.

-The Gangster Disciples,
or GDs, multiplied.

Hoover forms an unholy alliance

with a White supremacist gang
to do it.

-The Simon City Royals were
a White gang

that needed protection
in prison.

This is in the 1970s.

-The Royals have something
Hoover's street soldiers need --

guns.

-A deal was struck
with the Gangster Disciples

and the Simon City Royals,

where that the Royals will get
protection in prison,

and the Gangster Disciples would
get firearms on the street.

-On the outside,
Chicago's gangs had

a street code --
no selling crack cocaine.

The GDs saw an opening.

-One of the biggest well-known
rackets in later years

was crack cocaine.

They controlled the entire
crack cocaine operation

on the whole South Side
of Chicago,

when other groups forbid it.

-The goal, to gain
money and power

to pump it back into the GDs by
extorting local crime peddlers

and taking over the drug trade.

-There was storefront
protection offered for a fee,

and with the Gangster Disciple
protection on the business,

the business would
be fully protected.

-By the late '90s,

the Gangster Disciples
had gone from a street gang

to a criminal empire,

moving tens of millions
of dollars a year.

-According to the FBI,

the Gangster Disciples
have already set up

new gang franchises in
150 cities across the country.

They target cities with access
to the interstate highways,

which give them an easy way
to transport drugs.

-But with Hoover
and other OGs incarcerated,

the gang structure falls apart.

-I'd say, in this day and age,
gangs like Gangster Disciples,

they are sort of
old organizations.

If a person is a part
of Gangster Disciples now,

that's like going to
an old high school

or working for an old department
store or something like that.

There is a legacy to it.

But now you have
"Lord of the Flies."

-By 2010,

the Gangster Disciples start
to break apart

into smaller groups or cliques.

-In more current years,
the clique name comes first.

That's the first thing spoken.

The Gangster Disciple name is
often not even spoken first,

or sometimes
not even spoken at all,

although these men are
actually legitimate members

of the Gangster Disciples.

-In the chaos,
one clique starts to rise

as an enemy of the state.

They're called the Cutthroats,
aka KTS for Kill to Survive.

-Got no gang shit future.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

-KTS on beat, man.
-Gang shit.

-You gotta put it like a tree.

Gangster Disciples is
the entire tree,

and then KTS is just
a different branch.

-Kill to Survive --

everybody feel like that
out here, man.

Living out here in what they
call Chiraq,

[chuckles] the level we was on,

you got to kill
to survive out here.

-Real niggas ain't out here.

-Dre and Von live in Lakeside,
in southeast Chicago,

ground zero of KTS territory.

But before they're even born,
their father, Big Vinnie,

is putting in work
on the streets

as a respected gang member.

-Vincent Davis, or Vinnie, was a
respected figure in the streets

and raised his boys to
kind of be hardened gangsters.

-Being involved in the streets
is, like, hereditary.

It's all supposed to get, like,
passed down to you.

You typically get involved
in something

that your relatives related
or people

that was older than you related,
based on the area you're from.

-At an early age,

Dre and KTS Von
begin putting in work.

-KTS Dre, he didn't seem
like that much of a big guy,

but he had some muscle on him.

He got what we call
county muscles.

Like, you know, he just --

whatever he do, when he
go to jail, he just do push ups,

eat noodles, bread,
peanut butter,

and that's
how you put that weight on.

So he wasn't that tall of a guy,

but I'd say Dre was intimidating
if you're on a dark street.

-Meanwhile, Von,
aka Devon Davis,

an honor roll student,

became known as someone
who could turn on a dime.

-Hell yeah.
He was known as the Boogeyman.

Shit, I ain't play with Von.

Von had a reputation
as being very aggressive.

-Together, they commit to KTS

and ink the gang's signature
crosshair tattoo on their necks,

along with the words
"shoot to kill."

-I think tattooing
a crosshair on your neck

is quite literally
in every sense of the word,

putting a target on yourself.

The guys put a target
on their neck,

and no one would dare shoot it.

-Von and Dre wore their gang
membership on their sleeves.

It was a part
of their credibility.

It's a part of their family.
It's a part of being known.

[ All cheering ]

[ All chanting ]

♪♪

-Dre and Von
quickly rise through the ranks,

but with the infamy came
enemies.

♪♪

KTS's rivals, or opps,

are a gang called the
No Limit Muskegon Boys,

aka NLMB, one of the biggest

and most dangerous
cliques in Chicago.

-No Limit Muskegon Boys
are a gang

that are mostly
southeast side set.

They are the main
sort of rivals for KTS's set.

-No Limit formed in the power
vacuum left after Jeff Fort,

one of Chicago's
most hardcore gang leaders,

goes down
on a domestic terrorism charge.

-Jeff Fort, he actually ended
up going to prison

for apparently collaborating

with Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi

to commit domestic terrorism.

-While KTS ruled the Lakeside
and Pocket Town areas,

No Limit ran the southeast part
of Chicago, called Terror Town.

-Terror Town is divided
into two sections.

You got the side that's,
this is the No Limit,

which is close
toward the 79th side.

And then you got our side, which
is 75th and the 74th, 73rd side.

We're just on two different
opposite sides of the fence.

-These neighborhoods are
very close to each other.

A lot of killings,

a lot of murders
between these neighborhoods.

-No Limit was led by a
hardcore gangster named G Herbo.

For G Herbo, No Limit is
under constant attack

and surrounded by enemies.

-For me,
Chicago is a city full of hate,

so you gotta deal with
that day to day.

And that's another part about,
you know what I'm saying,

staying on your Ps and Qs,
cause people hate on you

that you don't even know.
so you gotta always,

you know what I'm saying,

be cautious and just pay
attention to what's going on.

Like, I'm always aware of
my surroundings,

'cause Chicago a big,
hateful city.

And I know there's people
that hate me

that I don't even know.

-These groups were
essentially going at war

in the streets of Chicago.

-For G Herbo, KTS Von,
and KTS Dre,

the hate runs deep.

-You know, when you at war here,
even in the streets,

it's a war.

You come get one of mine

and make me feel that pain
of losing a loved one,

I gotta return the favor.
That's how it is.

The cycle will never be broke

because there ain't no way
to break it.

-KTS and No Limit territories
are about a block apart,

and when the gangs cross paths,
it's war.

Dre and Von
have no problem setting it off.

But in 2012, they'd be the first
to film themselves doing it.

-So KTS Dre and KTS Von
essentially created

a series called "No Lackin,"

and they would film
themselves walking

into their rival enemy's
territory.

-"Lacking" means
not having your gun with you --

not being prepared
when it's show time.

You know it's a war,

and you should always have
your gun with you

if you in that life.

-They were just filming
themselves on,

you know, what I can only assume
would have been

an old flip phone back then,
filming themselves

going into rival territory,

you know, intimidating
people on the street,

asking where they could
find their enemies.

-Look at them guys in
that white truck, they see us.

-Y'all know who the...that is.

-All in all,
KTS Von and Dre

would create three videos
under the "No Lackin" series.

That series would
officially put KTS on the map...

-We walking the thing.

-No bang, bang,
guns go blap, bitch.

-Guns go blap!

-...And include one
of the most violent,

seminal moments in gangland,
all caught on tape.

-And you can tell a serious
situation's about to emerge.

You know, before you know it,
everyone's outside.

You can hear gunshots going off
and, uh, people screaming, well.

[ Shouting and gunfire ]

♪♪

♪♪

-Two members of
the Gangster Disciples clique,

KTS Von and Dre,

are gaining street cred
by going into enemy territory

with cameras in tow.

-They on there telling you
who they are

and what they gon' to do

and where they're from
and who they fight.

You ain't got to wonder
who it is.

They telling you
who they are.

-You saw them accosting
random people off of the street

in these areas
where their enemies are

and asking them
who got shot last week.

It's pretty outrageous
what they were willing to do.

-Hey, what's this?
Is this Terror Town?

-Right here?
-Wait, wait, wait.

-This Terror Town? Wait.
Say it again. Where we at?

-Oh. Hold on.
-Hey, wait, wait, wait.

-I first heard of KTS Dre
through the "No Lackin" video.

I remember
exactly where I was at,

that's how prolific it was.

Man, I was shocked
by the amount of balls

they had, for one, to be walking
down the neighborhood.

-The "No Lackin" series
became a nightmare for enemies,

No Limit.

-Even if somebody
just say anything disrespectful,

in the eyes of gangbangers,

you most definitely supposed
to retaliate

because it all
goes back to pride.

-Your heard not just our pride,

but the whole gang,
the whole neighborhood,

and that's just how it go.

-But that kind of notoriety
can get you killed in Chicago.

-He'd been going back
and forth

with a lot of his enemies
on social media,

so he was a marked man.

-KTS Von and Dre take
disrespecting No Limit

to new heights.

And as the videos pile up,
the enemies line up.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

-But it's not until the third
video of the "No Lackin" series

when Chicago's gangland
explodes.

It's simply called
"No Lackin Part 3,"

and it would go down as one

of the most infamous videos
in gang history.

-For a couple seconds.
That's all.

-7:03 p.m.
-...this nigga.

[ Laughter ]

There go the Cutthroats.

[ All shouting ]

Posto, Dre,
pulling out that fast shit.

If you leave them out there
for a couple seconds,

they ain't shit.

-Dre, Von, and
they're number two,

a KTS member named Posto,
are seen walking down the block,

deep in No Limit territory.

-Everybody's gon' get your ass
here.

-The video pans up
to a McDonald's ahead.

It's where they're heading.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

[ Siren wailing ]

[ Indistinct conversation ]

-Bro, you tweaking.
Mother... they don't know

what mother... are doing.

-So, in the video,
you know, KTS Von and Dre,

along with a bunch
of other people

who they're familiar with,
including a guy called Posto,

you actually see him
on the video

before they go into
the McDonald's saying

that he wants to shoot them.

He says, "Bring them outside
and I'll shoot them."

[ Sirens wailing,
people shouting ]

♪♪

-He's gon' kill 'em.

♪♪

-He ends up killing him, huh?
-That's right.

-Inside are No Limit members
caught completely off guard.

-Trying to get some McDonalds?
Waiting on your order?

Y'all good?
These are no males, man.

These are no males.
Man, why you back there?

-Oh, my God.
-Where you going?

[ All shouting ]

-We ain't no talk.
We all good.

-Where you going?
-Sup? Y'all good?

[ All shouting ]

-KTS Dre corners a
No Limit teenager named Cairo.

-Say it.
-Hey.

-Ain't no unzipping nothing.

♪♪

-Roc was a No Limit member

who was gunned
down eight months earlier.

-You know, Roc,
that's a respected member.

That's one of their
respected members.

That's one of their homies.

So he was willing to lose
his life in that McDonald's

before he said, "...Roc."

-Ain't no unzipping nothing.

-What he said.
-Don't be scared, lil bro.

Don't be scared, lil bro.

Oh, shit! Damn, bro.
-What the...?

-He done broke your jaw,
lil bro.

-He stays solid,

doesn't say
what they're saying

and gets punched right
in the face.

The rumor was afterwards
that they broke his jaw.

-At that moment,

a No Limit member named Moody
emerges from the men's room

with something allegedly tucked
into his hoodie.

-Before you know it,

one of the guys is
coming out of the bathroom with,

you know, looks like something
tucked into his hoodie,

and you can tell a serious
situation's about to emerge.

-Came all tucked up.

-Get out of my...face!

-Von and Posto
make a beeline out the door,

knowing No Limit's
going for their guns.

-I want this to make the news.

Do what y'all gonna do, man.

Let's go.
-Hey, man, Cutthroats KTS.

[ All shouting ]

♪♪

-It was seen
as a massive sign of disrespect.

You know, before you know it,
everyone's outside.

[ All shouting ]

-No.
Hey, man, my niggas out here.

[ All shouting ]

-Hey, what up? Hey?
Hey, what's up?

-No.
-Come on!

-Ballsy, man.

[ Man shouting ]

-Then the video turns
to terror.

-[ Shouting indistinctly ]
-Oh!

[ All shouting ]

Nah, nah.

[ All shouting ]

[ Gunfire ]

♪♪

♪♪

-Posto takes a bullet
in the arm.

♪♪

[ Man shouts ]

The video ends abruptly.

"No Lackin Part 3"
is seen around the world,

and the incident sets off
a wave of retaliation

between the crews.

-I remember seeing that video
on my old Android phone

I think I probably
got through Cricket,

and I was just shocked
by just the brazen --

I was shocked by the amount
of balls

they had, for one, to be walking
down the neighborhood.

-You know, in the culture,
it's a such thing as disrespect,

then it's over disrespect.
Once you do that,

you gon' probably have
to look down your back forever.

-No one could know
that in just a few years,

several members seen
on the video would be dead.

-I don't believe
he thought he was going to live

past a certain age.

He was just living in the moment
and it was all street shit.

♪♪

-A violent face off between
a Gangster Disciple clique

and its archenemy kicks
off a decade of deadly payback.

-We saw KTS Von and Dre

confronting a young group
of rival gang members

from the No Limit crew
inside of a McDonald's,

essentially on the border
between their

two opposing neighborhoods.

-These are no males, man.
These are no males.

-And this video
in the McDonald's

was kind of seen
as an inciting incident

between these two groups.

-Ain't no unzipping nothing.

-If you put your finger on me,
you gon' die.

-Oh, shit. Damn, bro.

-These fingertips touching my
body, you gonna lose your life.

And that's how a lot
of people handle that out there.

-Before long,
gangs across Chicago

start posting
the gangbanging life online.

-They're using technology
to communicate with each other.

They're using technology
to provoke each other.

They're are a lot smarter
than I think a lot of people

give them credit for.

-By 2013,
that gives birth to a new genre

of music called drill rap.

♪♪

-Drill rap isn't an inner city
secret anymore.

It's like watching real life
street struggles as soap operas.

-Based on the effect that
Chicago had on drill music,

they might look at us
like the core of the virus.

-Dre and Von see dollar signs,
and KTS Von gets to work.

-♪ That money don't make it
real, it's how you spend it ♪

♪ That gun don't make you
a killer unless you killing ♪

-KTS Von was most
definitely the bread and butter

to get them in a situation

that could have put
the whole KTS group

in a more financial situation.

-Von creates a hand sign,

one that would become
the mark of KTS.

-KTS had a signature that
they most definitely invented

that hit the whole city
like a wildfire,

and that was this.

And the main reason they had it
is because they'll have

something on their hand --
a tattoo that was

either disrespectful
to the opps,

it could be a target sign,

or something just promoting
violence.

-But in late 2013,

another earthquake rattled
Chicago gangland.

No Limit head G Herbo's
rap career explodes

and takes him
off the streets of Chicago.

-♪ Remember y'all kids
sleeping on the floor and shit ♪

♪ Check my bank account,
my shit e-norn-o-mous ♪

♪ I mean, enormous,
big bucks... ♪

-One guy is getting famous,
getting rich.

He eating gluten free cereal.

He got designer robes on.
He living in mansions and shit.

You know, you can't get to him.
He rich. He famous.

That shit irritating.

-To gangland,
G Herbo is untouchable.

But to his enemies,
there's someone who isn't --

his best friend
and number two, Kobe Herring.

Kobe was there the night
Von and Dre

filmed their "No Lackin Part 3"
video at McDonald's.

♪♪

After a night of partying
with G Herbo,

who's in town, Kobe walks
home alone around 4 a.m...

As he passes the same McDonald's
from the "No Lackin" video,

a car suddenly pulls up
and opens fire.

Kobe's shot multiple times.

G Herbo and Kairo,

the same teenager assaulted
by KTS Dre months earlier,

run to find Kobe's body
lying in the street.

Dre and Von take to social
media and rip Kobe apart.

-Von claims
to be smoking Kobe,

a term of disrespect for smoking
murdered enemies like weed.

-Sparking Kobe, bro.

-Smoking on Kobe.
Dead ass.

Hit Kobe.
We're all smoking today.

-Things go from bad to worse.

Von drops a song called "Kobe"

and threatens
to smoke G Herbo on the track.

♪♪

♪♪

-"Kobe" racks up
close to 300,000 views.

-Overnight, you become
famous as hell in this.

You not Drake,
you not 50 Cent.

You don't change your life.

You don't got
Navy Seal bodyguards.

They started going to
that same corner store,

getting them loose cigarettes,
you know,

buying your chips
and all kind of shit.

You're going to get killed
at that corner store.

-But as time goes on,
the street starts to talk.

KTS Von is going off the rails.

Stories surface that he's killed
at least a dozen opps for fun,

and KTS Von earns a new name --

the Hitman of Chiraq.

-And Von, oh, my God.

Von rolled past a couple
of people's death sites

when he allegedly was
the killer.

So when the police was
there cleaning everything up,

he was riding past couple times.

Like, "I love the smell
of good kill" type shit.

-Who dead now?
Who the hell dead now?

What the...?

-That May,
gangland strikes again.

In an alleyway,
an unknown killer catches

an opp named Fearro
taking out the trash.

Fearro is hit eight times.

♪♪

His case is still unsolved.

KTS Von trolls him
on Instagram,

calling him "Fried Face."

By late 2013,
Von, Dre and the Cutthroat Gang

think they're untouchable,

but they're surrounded
by enemies,

and that November,
a Cutthroat would be cut down.

After Von and Dre.
KTS member Tyshawn Anderson,

aka Posto, is number three
on No Limit's most wanted list.

Posto had been caught on
camera invading McDonald's

in the "No Lackin" video.

-I ain't gonna tell y'all
who he is,

just know he backed down.
...you talking about?

-To No Limit, with Kobe gone,
Posto must go too.

♪♪

On November 23rd, 2013,

Posto was cornered
in an apartment hallway

in South Chicago.

He'd been out of jail
just five days.

♪♪

No Limit takes a victory lap
after Posto's murder.

G Herbo tears him apart.

In his famous track,
"Computers Freestyle,"

G Herbo raps
that he smokes Posto.

The track receives
32 million views.

-♪ Smoking Eastside OG,
that's Posto Pack ♪

♪ Drink so much lean might OD
or have a Postotack ♪

-After Posto's death,

No Limit takes disrespect
to new heights

after reports surface of
a shocking video in a cemetery.

-Hey, burn,
let's all DNA on you, bitch.

[ Laughter ]

-There was a piece
of footage floating around where

it was claimed that No Limit
affiliates were in a graveyard

actually defiling
a headstone.

It's unclear what they
actually did in that graveyard

and who they did it to.

Some have claimed that
it was the headstone of Posto.

-Shit. Oh, shit.
-Oh, shit. Holy shit.

-Shit on Posto!
-Shit.

...your graveyard.
[ Laughter ]

-It just goes to show you,
you know,

the lengths that these guys will
go to to disrespect each other.

-KTS Von and Dre
go on the attack.

-Old boy, no lackin', boy, no
matter where you're at, boy.

Not on STL, nowhere.
Don't want to get --

Don't want to go cold.
-Posto gang, man.

We're gon' tea it up.

-Von, he was about getting
vengeance for his friends

that had passed away.

-But this time, it's KTS Von
who will pay the price.

-And he's still
right here rapping.

Lost a lot of weight,
he was so emaciated.

♪♪

-By 2014, between 50 and 90,000
Gangster Disciples are pulling

in well over $100 million a year
in heroin, cocaine, and meth.

But on Chicago's East Side,

a powerful clique of the GDs
is eating itself alive.

-All my killers out here.

[ Siren wailing ]

After months
of catching enemies lackin',

its Cutthroat Gang member
KTS Von's turn to feel the pain.

While walking
in his own neighborhood,

a car pulls up to Von
and pumps him full of bullets,

hitting him close to the heart.

Von spends several weeks
in the hospital

and, for the first time,
is vulnerable.

-He had lost a lot of weight
and become very skinny,

and I think that said a lot
about his character,

that he was very resilient.

He wasn't scared
of kind of showing some

of the consequences
of this lifestyle he was living.

-But just days out
of the hospital,

KTS Von would lock in
the first big hit

of his rap career.

In 2015,
Von drops street life.

-♪ I led a street life,
I led a street life ♪

♪ If I didn't kill for Posto,
it wouldn't be right ♪

-In the video,

he's seen cooking crack
on a stove

with his freshly-patched
gunshot wound.

-When I seen him
over the stove cooking crack --

he was cooking crack for real
in that video,

and he had the patch on his rib,

the first thing
that came to my mind,

like my eyes squinted,
I was like, "Ooh.

Just imagine the shit that's
getting...up in his body."

Like, he's still
right here rapping.

Lost a lot of weight.
He was so emaciated.

I'm like, he dedicated to this.

-"Street Life"
gets 2 million views

and puts KTS Von
on the path to superstardom.

-As far as KTS Von, like,
I watched all his videos.

I watched him get better
and better with his craft.

He was turning into the artist.

-As Von begins to go from
the streets into the studio,

rumors surfaced
that he's doing the one thing

a KTS member should never do --

KTS Von starts
to walk the streets unarmed.

A few months later,
Von would go on to drop

the biggest song and
music video of his rap career.

He writes a track that becomes
KTS's anthem, "Kill to Survive."

But in the video,
he and KTS Dre do something

that rocks southside Chicago.

♪ It's kill to survive,
you feel, turn up ♪

Von stands next
to someone wearing a hoodie

listing the names
of his dead enemies,

including key members
of No Limit.

Three names on the hoodie --
Roc, Fearro, and Kobe.

Gangland explodes.

♪♪

-So it's like, say,
for instance, right,

somebody done killed my cousin.

And then I get on the Internet
and it's a guy,

you know, he making songs,

talking about...my cousin
and all kinds of shit like that,

you know, this gon' get bigger
than it is.

The social media turned
a regular fight into a massacre.

-It seems as though there's
no end to the war

between KTS and No Limit.

But there's an end
to everything.

-All my killers out here.
-...No Limit.

♪♪

-On June 22nd, 2015,
Von exchanges threats

with a No Limit gang member
on Instagram.

No one would know then

that KTS Von had just 24 hours
to live.

-Ironically, it's sad, really,

that you've got these two sides
at war for all these years,

but essentially, they were
going through the same things,

inflicting this loss
on each other.

These feuds run so deep,

decades long, it's hard
to really see an end in sight.

♪♪

-In the final days
of KTS Von's life,

he posts a video of him down
at the shores of Lake Michigan.

♪♪

-Ahh, bitch, look what I got.

♪♪

-That afternoon, Von leaves his
friend's home around 1 p.m.

and walks down the block
in their neighborhood alone.

♪♪

Suddenly, a black sedan
pulls up and opens fire.

♪♪

KTS Von is found
on the pavement

by his father, Big Vinnie.

-Poor thug, they still had him
layin on the hot,

hundred-something degree ground.

Coroners took
almost probably two hours

to pull up to come get the boy.

Tempers flaring,
everybody emotional.

It was a sad day.

-Von was apparently on his own
at the time,

which was kind of surprising
for a lot of people

that had followed him.

He had been quite big on this
"no lacking" reputation.

-Hey, boy, no lackin', boy,
no matter where you at.

Don't want to go cold.
-I'm with the thugs.

-Ain't no lacking, man, never.
-What?

-Ain't no lacking, son.
You KTS.

-They pretty much
were following him.

They was watching them.

And you would think that
somebody of just his caliber

would have a gun on him.
But he didn't.

That's called getting
too comfortable in your element.

-Von's body lies
under a white sheet

on the sidewalk for hours

while investigators work
the scene.

They find close
to 29 millimeter shells.

-You know, in some ways,

Von was kind of
the director of his own movie.

You know, he was filming himself
after other people.

It's not unthinkable

that someone might catch him
in the end.

It's a tragedy story
at the end of the day.

-This shit crazy out here.
Hey, follow me on Instagram.

KTS underscore MMG.

[ All cheering ]

-Hey, just in case y'all
ain't know that,

he's my little brother.
-Damn straight.

[ Laughter ]

-It be so much going on
out here that, you know,

you can't stay sober, man.

A lot of these young guys, man,
it's hard to stay sober

because there's so much shit
going on in their head.

And, you know,
there's the rumors that Von was,

you know, he was drinking.

He was this.
I can't verify that.

But I heard the saying rumors.

-The day after Von's murder,

No Limit would ominously tweet
"Y'all Lackin We Lurkin"

as they celebrate
KTS Von's death.

-♪ If I ain't kill for Posto,
it wouldn't be right ♪

♪ Be right ♪

♪ He should have killed for
Posto and kept his pipe ♪

♪ But now he out there ♪

-Gang, gang, gang, gang.
-If I ain't kill for Posto.

-He was a feared and hated
figure in the Chicago scene,

and it's unsurprising
that people on the other side

were really pleased
at what happened.

♪♪

-His case is still unsolved.

-There's been a lot
of intense speculation

over who might have had
something

to do with the killing of Von.
Nobody has ever faced trial.

-With KTS Von gone,

some say KTS Dre had no
other option but to retaliate.

-If you call the police,
then you a snitch. You a bitch.

You really forced to live
by that code once you start.

Because now what
KTS Dre supposed to do?

I know who killed my brother,
Von.

And I'm just gon' let
the police solve it,

or I'm just gon' tell, give
them little clues and hints?

-It's a mystery
whether Dre ever avenged

his brother's murder.

Shortly after his death,
Dre is arrested by authorities

for possession
of a loaded weapon in his car.

While he's incarcerated, Dre
receives another crushing blow.

On July 28th, 2016,
Von and Dre's stepfather,

Big Vinnie Davis,
an OG gangster,

is shot and killed
while sitting in a car

on the 6600 block of Chicago.

In 2018,
Dre is released from jail,

having lost both his brother
and his father

in a year's worth of time.

But the walls were closing in.

-These guys be beefing
with everybody.

These guys got
50-hundred enemies.

Hell yeah.
You'd be a target out here.

-According to police reports,
in August 2019,

No Limit gang member
Kenneth Summers,

aka No Limit Magic, is shot
and killed in a drive by.

At the time of this airing,
his case is unsolved.

Some say KTS Dre was a suspect.

No one really knows.

Only one thing is certain --

Summers has become another
victim of Chicago's gang wars.

Some say Dre knew he
didn't have long to live.

-I don't believe
he thought he was going to live

past a certain age.

He didn't have life insurance.

He wasn't thinking about putting
money away for kids.

He was just living
in the moment,

and it was all street shit.

-It's a strange situation.

The thing that made him
a celebrity and well-known to,

you know, thousands of people

was also destroying him
just a little bit.

-So imagine how KTS Dre felt
when he lost Von.

Little did he know,

that was the start of almost
the whole bloodline being gone.

-On April 27th, 2020,

Dre is cuffed again
for possession of a firearm

and resisting arrest.

-I'm-a talk to you
in a minute, okay?

-While on house arrest
before heading back

to Cook County Jail,

he goes live to respond
to those asking

if he'll ever leave
Chicago's gangland.

-Talking about am I in a wreck?

Nigga, I just have court, nigga,
in Cook County today, nigga.

...you talking about?
Man, you...

Sooner than, nigga.
Sooner than later, y'all.

I'm tired of this shit.
Come take me out of this shit

because I can't take no more.

-In June, Dre is sent back
to Cook County Jail

for violating his bond
on the 2020 felony gun charge,

but is eligible for release
with a $5,000 deposit

on a $50,000 bail in July.

-Dre locked up,
everybody in the city

know he locked up.
He's like a famous drill rapper,

even though he's
not rapping at the time.

Everybody know
he locked up.

Everybody know he in there.

-In his last moments on earth,
Londre Sylvester leaves

the Cook County Jail and
takes his last breath of freedom

before heading towards the car.

-That's clearly a setup.

You know,
they were sitting out there.

You might have just walked
out right now,

but they were sitting there
maybe an hour or two hours,

three hours, four hours,
five hours.

They wasn't missing the chance
to get you to walk up out

of there, you know.

♪♪

-Another person shot
at 2600 South California.

45. Male. Shot victim
who was just released.

-Some wonder whether KTS Dre's
death was a professional hit.

-Man, you know how it happened.
You're talking about

60-something shots hit this man?

I don't care
if the guy had a switch on it

with a hundred-round shot clip.

How y'all hit this man
60-something times?

To me,
that sound kind of professional.

-And I know for a fact
whoever did that hit,

they knew
that if they didn't get him,

they know how
he was finna come.

-Three years pass,
and police are no closer

to solving the murder
of KTS Dre.

-Hey, man.
-Street life.

♪♪

[ Laughter ]

♪♪

-Some believe it's
already been handled.

-Londre Sylvester's death is
the greatest example

of what can happen when the
street life turns against you.

-I think a lot of people
did look at this moment

when KTS Dre was killed,

it was almost like an end of
a chapter as far as this feud

that had been going on.

A lot of people would say
that when Dre passed away,

too, it was the end of an era

in Chicago kind of drill
and street folklore.

♪♪

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