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The Life Of King Von Rapper Demon · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: This is the Life of King Von Dot August nine,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. King Von was born an American rapper
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  Speaker 1: and gangster from Chicago, Illinois. Was affiliated with the Black
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  Speaker 1: Disciples gang. He was considered a pre eminent figure in
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  Speaker 1: the drill genre. He had six half siblings from his father,
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  Speaker 1: Walter E. Bennett, and three siblings from his mother, Tisha.
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  Speaker 1: He was raised mostly by his mother in the Parkway
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  Speaker 1: Garden homes in southside Chicago's Greater Grand Crossing Community area,
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  Speaker 1: more commonly known as Oblock. His relationship with his father
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  Speaker 1: was inconsistent due to his father's incarcerations. King Van was
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  Speaker 1: present for the birth of drill music through his association
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  Speaker 1: with Chief Keif and Lil Dirk. However, he was frequently
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  Speaker 1: incarcerated throughout the twenty tens for a multitude of serious
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  Speaker 1: criminal charges, which made him known in Chicago's drill scene
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  Speaker 1: even before he began recording music. Two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: when Vaughan was eleven years old, his father was killed
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  Speaker 1: by an unseen gunman. Vaughn later paid tribute to his
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  Speaker 1: father in multiple songs. At age sixteen, Vaughn went to
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  Speaker 1: juvenile detention for armed robbery in January twenty eleven, While incarcerated,
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn earned his ged. After being released, Vaughn attended a
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  Speaker 1: few classes at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: before dropping out. In April twenty fourteen, Vaughn was questioned
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  Speaker 1: by police as a person of interest in the fatal
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  Speaker 1: shooting of seventeen year old Gangster Disciples member Gakira k
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  Speaker 1: I Barnes, but the police were unable to charge him
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  Speaker 1: due to inconsistencies in witness statements. On July twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, Vaughn was arrested in connection with a shooting
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  Speaker 1: in May twenty fourteen resulting in the death of Malcolm
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  Speaker 1: Stuckey and the injury of two other men. Vaun was
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  Speaker 1: charged with one count of first degree murder in two
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  Speaker 1: counts of attempted murder. The shooting took place in Englewood, Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: He would remain in jail for three years. Vun was
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  Speaker 1: found not guilty in December twenty seventeen. In twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn signed with Lil Dirk's record label Only the Family,
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  Speaker 1: and was instrumental in furthering the label's growth. Vaughn then
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  Speaker 1: released a series of singles. The first of these singles
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  Speaker 1: was beat Dat Body, which featured fellow Chicago rapper THHF
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  Speaker 1: Zoo and was released on June seventeenth, twenty eighteen. Vaughn
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  Speaker 1: subsequently appeared on the Lil Dirk Presence Only the Family
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  Speaker 1: Involved album, which was released on July thirty first, twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: He featured on the song Problems, which had an accompanying
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  Speaker 1: music video released on August ninth, twenty eighteen. Von then
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  Speaker 1: released the single War with Us on October eighteenth, twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Vn's single Crazy Story was released on December sixth, twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: It became his breakout single, reaching number eighty one on
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  Speaker 1: Billboard Hot one hundred. The single received triple platinum certifications
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  Speaker 1: by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA. On January ninth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Vaughn was featured on the remix of Exposing Me,
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  Speaker 1: a song by fellow Chicago ras upper Memo six hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn and Memo six hundred swapped bars disrespecting and detailing
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  Speaker 1: real life feuds and altercations against other nearby neighborhood rivals FBG,
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  Speaker 1: Duck and RUGA dropped their own remix of the song,
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  Speaker 1: Exposing Me, on February fourth, twenty nineteen. Both songs were
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  Speaker 1: produced off the sampling of original Indian song Sinam Ray.
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  Speaker 1: Following the success, a series of remixes for the song
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  Speaker 1: were made by other artists, both in the United States
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  Speaker 1: and in Europe. On February fourteenth, twenty nineteen, Vaughn's then girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: rapper Asiandahl, released a music video for her track about
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  Speaker 1: Him Grandson, in which he appeared. In May twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: Crazy Story two featuring Lil Dirk was released, and a
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  Speaker 1: music video was later released. On May twentieth, twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: The song peaked at number four on the Bubbling Under
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  Speaker 1: Hot one hundred chart. In May twenty nineteen, Vaughn and
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  Speaker 1: Lil Dirk were arrested in connection with a shooting in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn and his co defendant Dirk, appeared before a judge
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  Speaker 1: in a Fulton County courtroom for a probable cause hearing.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors claimed that the two rappers robbed and shot Alexander
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  Speaker 1: Witherspoon outside a popular drive in on February fifth, twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: After weeks in jail, Dirk was released on a two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond, while Vaughn was released
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  Speaker 1: on a three hundred thousand dollars bond. The charges against
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  Speaker 1: Dirk were dropped in October twenty twenty two. On July ninth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Lil Dirk and King Vaughn released their collaborative
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  Speaker 1: single Like That. On September sec twenty nineteen, Vaughn released
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  Speaker 1: his single what It's Like as the single forerunner of
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  Speaker 1: his first mixtape album, announced in September twenty nineteen. On
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  Speaker 1: September thirteenth, twenty nineteen, a third rendition of the single
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  Speaker 1: called Crazy Story Pant three was released. The mixtape was
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  Speaker 1: dropped some weeks later on September nineteenth, twenty nineteen. It
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  Speaker 1: consists in thirteen attracts mixtape and it is named Grandson
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  Speaker 1: Filmire one. Executively produced by Chop Squad DJ. It contains
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  Speaker 1: three features, represented by Twin Nem and by the remix
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  Speaker 1: of Crazy Story, both featuring Chicago artist Lil Dirk. The
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  Speaker 1: other feature consists on the collaboration with Chicago artist and
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  Speaker 1: OTF affiliate Book of six hundred on Jet. The mixtape
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  Speaker 1: also includes tracks Crazy Story Crazy Story P. Three and
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  Speaker 1: his second ever single, War with Us. Dating back to
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  Speaker 1: October eighteenth, twenty eighteen, Grandson Volume one debut at number
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  Speaker 1: seventy five and later peaking at number fifty three on
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  Speaker 1: the Billboard two hundred. Also, it reached number twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: on the Hip Hop Tap RB Album's chart and number
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  Speaker 1: nine on the Independent Album's Chart. Little did He know
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  Speaker 1: he would be dead less than a year later. On
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  Speaker 1: November sixteenth, twenty nineteen, Vaughn released his single two Am,
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  Speaker 1: followed by a corresponding video to be released the same day.
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  Speaker 1: On November twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, Vaughn released his single
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  Speaker 1: Rollin featuring Yan W. Melly, accompanied with a music video.
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  Speaker 1: February twenty first, twenty twenty, Took Her to the O
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  Speaker 1: is released with a music video which will become his
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  Speaker 1: most successful single. Took Her to the O received triple
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  Speaker 1: platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA.
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  Speaker 1: The song peaked within the top fifty of the Billboard
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  Speaker 1: Hot one hundred. Leading up to the release of his
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  Speaker 1: debut studio album, Welcome to O Block twenty twenty, which
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  Speaker 1: peaked at number five on the Billboard two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: was also certified platinum. Took Her to the O and
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  Speaker 1: Roland were later included on his second mixtape, Levon James
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  Speaker 1: that was released on March six, twenty twenty, which debuted
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  Speaker 1: at number sixty three and later peaking at number forty
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  Speaker 1: on the Billboard two hundred. It was released through only
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  Speaker 1: the Family Entertainment Empire and consists in a sixteen track
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  Speaker 1: mixtape executively produced by Chop Squad DJ, featuring verses from Nli, Choppa, T, Grizzly,
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  Speaker 1: g Herbo, Lil Dirk, YNW, Melly book A six hundred,
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  Speaker 1: and Young Geenace. An official video for on Yoass was
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  Speaker 1: released on March six, twenty twenty, coinciding with the album
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  Speaker 1: release date. The song features Chicago artist g Herbo with
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  Speaker 1: production from Chop Squad DJ. On March twentieth, twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: an official video for Trust Issues was released featuring Florida
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  Speaker 1: rapper Young Geinase. In the song, Vaughn switched up his
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  Speaker 1: gangs to focus to show his softer side. On April six,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Vaughn releases an official music video for three
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  Speaker 1: Am on YouTube. On April twenty nine, twenty twenty, the
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  Speaker 1: release of his single Grandson for President will be incorporated
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  Speaker 1: as a single for What It Means to Be King album.
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  Speaker 1: He followed the single up closely with a music video
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  Speaker 1: release for Brocops, another song from Levon James album. Vaughn
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  Speaker 1: releases the lead single of the album, titled Why He
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  Speaker 1: Told on July twenty seventh, twenty twenty, associated with a
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  Speaker 1: music video posted on YouTube, and followed that up with
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  Speaker 1: the single All These Niggas featuring Chicago rapper Lil Dirk,
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  Speaker 1: in which video that was published the same day, Lil
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  Speaker 1: Dirk could not appear for legal reasons. It garnered twenty
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  Speaker 1: four million views in two months on YouTube platform FBG.
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  Speaker 1: Duck was murdered in the Gold Coast area of Chicago
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  Speaker 1: in August twenty twenty five. Oh Bloc members were later
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  Speaker 1: arrested and found guilty of this murder. Von then released
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  Speaker 1: another single titled How It Go, in conjunction with another
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  Speaker 1: music video on August twenty six, twenty twenty. On October ninth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, King Vaughn released I Am What I Am
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  Speaker 1: featuring New York rapper Phevio Foign with annexed to music video.
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  Speaker 1: Two weeks later, Vaughn released Gleiche Place in combination with
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  Speaker 1: another music video on his official channel. This release was
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  Speaker 1: in anticipation of the official release of Welcome to OH
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  Speaker 1: Block that came out on October thirtieth, twenty twenty. The
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  Speaker 1: sixteen track album features production Chop Squad, DJ Take, Keith Wheezy,
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  Speaker 1: and Hitmaka, among others. It also features artists Prince Dray,
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  Speaker 1: Lil Dirk, Dreasy, money Bag Yo. The album includes the
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  Speaker 1: Polo G collaboration The Code, which was released with a
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  Speaker 1: music video. The project peaked at number five on Billboard
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  Speaker 1: for US Top two hundred Albums, number one for Top
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  Speaker 1: RB hip Hop Albums, number one one for Top Independence
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  Speaker 1: album and peaked twelveth for Top one hundred Canadian Albums.
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  Speaker 1: In an interview for Complex, Vaughn revealed his vision regarding
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  Speaker 1: the new upcoming project and the main differences from his
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  Speaker 1: previous work, Levon James, declaring, if you're doing something and
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  Speaker 1: keep doing it, you're going to get better results, everything better.
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  Speaker 1: It is the one for real. I've been working hard.
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  Speaker 1: In another interview for up Rocks, he declared that he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to dedicate the project to his neighborhood and to
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  Speaker 1: all the people who lived and struggled there. On November sixth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, at around two to fifteen am, Vaughn and
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  Speaker 1: his crew were involved in an altercation with Kwando Rondo's
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  Speaker 1: crew outside of the Monaco Hookah Lounge in Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: The dispute quickly escalated into gunfire, and Vaughn was shot
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  Speaker 1: multiple times. He was transported to a hospital and critical
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  Speaker 1: condition and died there later that day. He was twenty
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  Speaker 1: six years old. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reported that
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  Speaker 1: two people were killed and six wounded. One of them
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  Speaker 1: was placed in police custody for Vaughan's murder while being
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  Speaker 1: treated for a gunshot wound. The suspect was identified as
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  Speaker 1: twenty two year old Timothy Lull Tim Leeks, a rapper
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  Speaker 1: affiliated with Kwondo Rondo. In August twenty twenty three, charges
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  Speaker 1: were dropped against Leeks under George's Standiard ground law. On
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  Speaker 1: November fourteenth, twenty twenty, King Von was buried in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: after his death. The music videos for Wayne's story, Armed, Dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: mind To and Demon were released on December fourteenth, twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: just a month after Vaughan's death, funk Master Flex released
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  Speaker 1: the official video for Lurkin on his official YouTube channel,
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  Speaker 1: representing the first posthumous appearance in a music visual for Vaughan. However,
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  Speaker 1: the song dated back to October twenty second, twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: On December twenty fourth, twenty twenty, Lil Dirk released his
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  Speaker 1: album The Voice as a tribute to Vaughan, who, along
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  Speaker 1: with Dirk, appears on the album cover as the central
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  Speaker 1: figure and is also featured on the song still Trappin'.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, unsealed documents released by the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Police Department named Vaughn as Barnes's killer. In an interview
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  Speaker 1: on February twenty six, twenty twenty one, Vaughn's manager stated
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  Speaker 1: that Vaughn had over three hundred unreleased songs or around
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  Speaker 1: ten albums worth of content, which they would continue to
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  Speaker 1: release with the family's concession in subsequent years with the
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  Speaker 1: aim of keeping his legacy alive. On March third, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, Vaughn was featured on the compilation album Loyal
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  Speaker 1: Brose by American record label Only the Family. He appeared
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  Speaker 1: on three tracks, including Out the Roof, which also features
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  Speaker 1: Chicago rappers Lil Dirk and book A six hundred me
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  Speaker 1: and Duty Low featuring Duty Low, which was released before
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  Speaker 1: Bennett's demise and later used as the lead single of
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  Speaker 1: the album that also included a music video released on
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  Speaker 1: August twenty first, twenty twenty and finally, he appeared on
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  Speaker 1: the last single of the project, Jump Still featuring Lil Dirk,
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  Speaker 1: book A six hundred and Memo six hundred. Also a
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  Speaker 1: music video for the song was filmed before Bennett's death
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  Speaker 1: and released simultaneously on the same day as the single's release,
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  Speaker 1: on March third, twenty twenty one. On February fourth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, Vond's management team announced a new album by
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  Speaker 1: the rapper titled What It Means to Be King. On
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  Speaker 1: the following day, February fifth, the promotional single Don't Play
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  Speaker 1: that was released featuring the American rapper twenty one Savage
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  Speaker 1: and Finds the Pair delivering couplets atop a production by
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  Speaker 1: Kid Hazel. An official music video for the song was
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  Speaker 1: released on February ninth, twenty twenty two. This followed the
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  Speaker 1: release of his second album, extract named War, on March thesek,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. The pieces, accompanied by an official visualizer video.
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  Speaker 1: These two songs achieved commercial success, reaching respectively number forty
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  Speaker 1: and number sixty three on Billboard Hot one hundred. On
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  Speaker 1: March fourth, twenty twenty two. The album was released through
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  Speaker 1: Empire Distribution and only the Family and by his management team,
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  Speaker 1: Representing King Von's second studio album and first posthumous work.
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  Speaker 1: The album features guest appearances from Ga Herbo twenty one, Savage, Phevio, Foign,
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  Speaker 1: Money Bag Yeo, Lil Dirk, t, Grizzly A, Boogie Wit
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  Speaker 1: Da Hoodie, Dreasey, Boss, Top, DQ, Fremdeo, and omb Paz.
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  Speaker 1: Production was handled by Chop Squad, DJ Hit, Macha, t Romano,
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  Speaker 1: Kid Hazel, Touch of Trent, DJ Bands, DJFMCT, Glaser, Diego, Ave, Bankroll,
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  Speaker 1: gott It, TM eighty eight, ATL, Jacob, Giraldo, Levey, CGM, Beats,
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  Speaker 1: John Lamb, and Raw Equity. The track list includes song
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  Speaker 1: Grandson for President and acclaimed single which dated back to
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  Speaker 1: April twenty twenty, this making it by fact, the lead
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  Speaker 1: single of the album. The record peaked at number two
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  Speaker 1: on the Billboard two hundred, earning fifty nine thousand album
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  Speaker 1: equivalent units, of which fifty five thousand came from seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine million in streams and four thousand by pure album sales.
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  Speaker 1: This result turns out to be his best ranking and
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  Speaker 1: the second top ten for King Vaughn in the Billboard
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  Speaker 1: two hundred, who first reached the top ten with his
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  Speaker 1: debut studio album, Welcome to O Block, which reached the
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  Speaker 1: number five shortly thereafter. The music videos for two excerpts
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  Speaker 1: from his discs were released. Two Reel was released on
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  Speaker 1: March seventh, twenty twenty two, and Get It Done was
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  Speaker 1: released on his birthday, August ninth, twenty twenty two. In
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  Speaker 1: January twenty twenty three, King Vaughn's manager announced with a
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  Speaker 1: post on Instagram the drop of a new posthumous project
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  Speaker 1: by the rapper scheduled for the same year. In June,
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  Speaker 1: the album's title was announced to be Grandson, which recalls
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  Speaker 1: to Vaughn's first mixtape, Grandson, Volume one, and it is
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  Speaker 1: a reference to his renowned nickname, which an inmate gave
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  Speaker 1: him during his incarceration period in Cook County Jail from
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen. The record was handled by
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  Speaker 1: the rapper's closest collaborators, and by his mother herself. In
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  Speaker 1: January twenty twenty three, after Vaughan's death, the FBID class
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  Speaker 1: a number of documents showing that a confidential informant alleged
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  Speaker 1: that Vaughn initially placed a five thousand dollars hit on
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  Speaker 1: Carlton FBG Duck Weekly before raising the price to one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. Three singles were released in the lead
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  Speaker 1: up to the album. The first, Robberies, was released on
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  Speaker 1: June twenty third, twenty twenty three, with an official video
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  Speaker 1: released the same day. The second, named Heartless, featured T. Grizzly,
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  Speaker 1: and was released on July seven, twenty twenty three, with
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  Speaker 1: an official visualizer. The project itself was released on July fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, representing Bennett's third studio album and second
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  Speaker 1: posthumous work. It was hand out alongside a music video
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  Speaker 1: for the song Don't Miss, with shooting dates back to
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  Speaker 1: the late twenty twenty plus was released an official visualizer
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  Speaker 1: for each track on the album. The production on the
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  Speaker 1: album was handled by various producers, including atl Jacob Chop Squad,
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  Speaker 1: DJ David Morse, DJ Bands, Ghost Rage, Ill A Day producer,
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  Speaker 1: Macfly Raw Equity, Scott Storch, South Side, Todge, Money, Twisted, Genius, Wheezy,
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  Speaker 1: most of which had already collaborated with Bennett on previous albums.
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  Speaker 1: It features guest appearances from g Herbo, Polo, G Lil Dirk,
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  Speaker 1: t Grizzly, Breezy, Lynn Tink forty Two, Dug Money, Bag Yo,
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  Speaker 1: and Hot Boy. It reached the fourteenth position on the
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  Speaker 1: Billboard two hundred and went second on the Billboard Independent
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  Speaker 1: Albums fourth on the Billboard Top RB Torries. Hip hop
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  Speaker 1: albums also went on number thirty one for Billboard Top
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  Speaker 1: one hundred Canada and number twenty on the New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: Top forty. In October twenty twenty four, Chicago rapper and
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  Speaker 1: Vaughan's close friend Lil Dirk was arrested near Miami International
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  Speaker 1: Airport on federal charges including conspiracy to commit murder for hire.
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  Speaker 1: The charges alleged that Dirk orchestrated a plot targeting rapper
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  Speaker 1: Kwondo Rondo purportedly in retaliation for the twenty twenty killing
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  Speaker 1: of Vaughan, resulting in death of Kwando Rondo's cousin lul
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  Speaker 1: Pab members of Dirk's collective. Only the family were also
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  Speaker 1: arrested in connection with this case. On October ninth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, it was reported that the estate of King Vaughn,
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  Speaker 1: along with both Dirk and OTF Records, were named in
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  Speaker 1: a wrongful death lawsuit by the estate and family of
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  Speaker 1: FBD Duck. The lawsuit, in its attorneys claimed that Dirk
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  Speaker 1: and his OTF Records, imprint of which Vaughn was a signee,
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  Speaker 1: were profiting off of FBG Duck's death through negligence and misconduct.
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  Speaker 1: King Vaughn's musical style has been described as drill music,
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  Speaker 1: a categorization he acknowledged in an interview with DJ Academics.
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  Speaker 1: Hip hop publications have labeled Vaughn one of the best
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  Speaker 1: pure lyricists in Chicago drill and as more stylistically diverse
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  Speaker 1: than most other rappers in that genre. Vaughn has also
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  Speaker 1: received critical praise for his sense of focused delivery, wordplay,
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  Speaker 1: and sharp songwriting. Mark Brayboy of Complex described Vaughn as
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  Speaker 1: a thoughtful, skillful lyricist who surpassed other Chicago drill artists
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  Speaker 1: in the ferocity and resonance of his delivery. Bufford from
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  Speaker 1: Tablet observed that Vaughan remained culturally relevant years after his death.
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  Speaker 1: Bauford attributed the phenomenon both to Vaughn's proximity to violence
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  Speaker 1: and to his extraordinary lyrical skills. Will Schube of NPR
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  Speaker 1: identified the characteristic feature of Vaughn's style as his ability
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  Speaker 1: to craft vivid narratives that balance nihilism, humor, and empathy.
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  Speaker 1: Shuby identified Took Her to the O as one of
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  Speaker 1: the style's strongest representations. King Vaughn was known for the
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  Speaker 1: use of the storytelling in his songs. His narration has
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  Speaker 1: also been defined by Hot New Hip Hop as impeccable
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  Speaker 1: and equipped with a vengeance and uncut authenticity. It has
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  Speaker 1: also been described as vivid. Pitchfork eulogizes his ability to
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  Speaker 1: tell a coherent story as its narrator, with associated dialogue
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  Speaker 1: insertion in his verses. Vaughn maximized his storytelling strengths across
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  Speaker 1: a trio of critically acclaimed efforts Grandson Volume One, Levon James,
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  Speaker 1: and Welcome to o Block, with each project shcasing the
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  Speaker 1: full complexities of his personality as Vaughn fleshed out narratives
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  Speaker 1: that are rarely seen in mainstream rap. Vaughn's narrative technique
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  Speaker 1: in musical compositions, developed around themes based on his own experiences,
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  Speaker 1: and has been compared to that of other various artists
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  Speaker 1: such as The Prime Iced tea Speaker, Knockers, and specifically,
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  Speaker 1: songs like Took Her to the O and Crazy Story
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  Speaker 1: have been compared to children's story by Slick Rick, while
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn himself says that he has often been compared with
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  Speaker 1: Meek Mill's narrative technique. Vaughn's storytelling style and ability was
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  Speaker 1: inspired by his childhood in Englewood and peculiarly draws on
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  Speaker 1: urban novels he read while incarcerated. He asserted that he
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  Speaker 1: read many books by Sister Soljia. He liked also Jaquavas
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  Speaker 1: and Ashley, especially the book The Cartel The Ultimate Sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: by Anthony Fields. Plus he also appreciated the Twilight novels.
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  Speaker 1: King Vaughan has cited several mcs as influencing his rapping style,
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  Speaker 1: deriving by the artists he listened to in his teens,
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  Speaker 1: with rappers such as Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, and Waca
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  Speaker 1: flocka Flame, and by other Chicago rappers such as Twista,
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  Speaker 1: Kanye West, g Herbo, Lil Bibbi, and Lil Dirk. Vaughan
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  Speaker 1: was in an on and off relationship with Texas Rapparation Doll,
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  Speaker 1: but the two were reportedly not in a relationship at
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  Speaker 1: the time of his death. Vaughan had three children, one
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  Speaker 1: son and two daughters.