The news of King Von dead is having a profound affect on many members of the Hip-hop community, especially the older and wiser rappers. Gillie Da Kid reacted to King Von’s death with a speech about winning rappers getting killed at young ages.
Gillie Da Kid feels King Von’s death is the result of a young rapper getting into the gang lifestyle way too early in life. Gillie Da Kid made a plea to young rappers that the goal should be to live a long life, so you can see your kids do great things in their life. As we all know no parent wants to go through burying their child, and when these young rappers die their parents are left dealing with that pain as well.
Near the end of his speech about King Von dying, Gillie Da Kid calls out people who post messages on social media after a rappers die, saying they don’t really care once the moment isn’t viral anymore.
He is referring to the trend of people acting like they were fans of rapper when they pass away, but when you look through their social media history they never really even mentioned those rappers when they were alive. In fancy terms that could be consider “virtue signaling” in some ways.
Take a listen to Gillie Da Kid reacting after hearing King Von is dead.
At the core of his message Gillie Da Kid emphasized that their is nothing glorious about dying young under any circumstances. He feels the world does not want to see rappers win, which is why the most successful upcoming rappers seem to be the victims of shootings in hip-hop.
Along with King Von, he specifically mentioned other rappers such as Pop Smoke and Nipsey Hussle.
Gillie Da Kid’s reaction to King Von’s death shows how much pain he is feeling from hearing the news. He was almost crying as he talked passionately about the reasons he feels he lost his life.
It’s interesting how sentimental and introspective Gillie has become as he gets older, considering how he was personality wise as a young man. Now he tries to give the younger generation very important knowledge that will keep them from making same mistakes over and over.
