Look at this dude. Look like a college kid, right? But do not let that look fool you though. Bro was deep in these streets repping one of the most savage sets over East. GME bey the shorties who put the east side drill scene on the map. Yeah. A white boy named EBE Bansz aka Billy the Kid caught the whole city’s attention off how he looked.
He was the only white drill rapper in Chicago who was really about that life. A lot of street dudes vouch for bands as a real gangster who put in work for his set. I’ll take your cake. Take your Draco. Bans rap where he lived. He was a lean plug at just 13 years old. even sliding and popping at the ops on their block. He was respected by the guys.
In all honesty, I ain’t blow up because my look real and authentic. Not no fool. You know, my fool is using CO2 guns and boy. No, man. No. No, bro. It ain’t like that. Hell no. But sadly, his ending is like a movie scene. He got tangled up with the cartel. Then they beat him with a baseball bat, dragged him to the woods, and set his body on fire.
Before we start, smash that like button, gang, and show bans some love in the comments. You’re locked in with Hood Edition, and today we deep dive into the story of EBE bands. Government name William Pickering aka Bans or Billy the Kid, born July 11th, 1995. Now, Bro didn’t start out in Chicago. He originally came up down in Dallas, Texas.
But his childhood was messy from the jump. Right when Bans was born, his pops got locked up. Word on the street is his dad had heavy ties to serious drug dealers all over the place, leaving Bans to be raised strictly by his OG, his mom. Over the years, Bans had an on andoff relationship with his pops, who stayed down in Texas, seeing no future down south.
His OG packed up and made the move to Chicago. But she didn’t just move anywhere. She brought him straight to the east side, deep into Southshore on 79th, a notorious black pea stone stronghold. It’s a complete war zone if you aren’t built for it. Growing up in an environment like that, surrounded by that drill culture, a young kid from Texas didn’t stand a chance.
But bands did the unthinkable. Instead of folding, bands did what few outsiders could do. He locked in with the locals and earned his stripes on the nine. Now, to understand how bands became a factor, you got to understand the map. Right there on 79th and Southshore, you got EBE, Eastbound Entertainment, or Everybody Eat, aka Jacktown and Angel City.
That block is held down by the Titanic Stones, a heavy subset of the Black Pea Stones. Their territory stretches from 79th in Southshore all the way to 82nd in Coohl’s, but the main block is always the nine. Now further down east, you had another heavy black keystone set called GME, Global Money Entertainment, aka Roadblock and Burley Boys, holding things down from 87th in Burley to 89th in Meno.
These two sets were already rocking with each other heavy, sharing the same nation in the same ops. So, it was only a matter of time before they officially clicked up to form the alliance. GMBBE, Global Money, Eastbound Entertainment. America is reeling after nine people were shot and killed in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
In an interview with Shinua News Agency, Chicago rap group GMBBE reacted to the mass shootings. I feel for them people, man. I feel for them black people, you know. to somebody. Mother, auntie brother. They had members like Lil Chief Dairo, JP Armani, Pistol, Aloe, Murder, Kiddo, 7 Mo, and of course bands.
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These GMEB guys were day ones in the trenches going crazy in the streets and in the studio. And they were the exact shorties who put the east side drill scene on the map. So, how does a white shorty from Texas end up becoming a factor for the Titanic Stones and repping EB heavy? It started out of pure survival.
Growing up on the nine, Bans was watching the older guys get money and run the streets, and he wanted in. At the time, things were rough at home. His OG was struggling to pay the bills and keep food on the table. So around 13 or 14 years old, bands jumped off the porch early. He became a young lean plug, selling weed and whipping up fake activist lean from scratch using robbitasing.
Finessing the streets like that can get you smoked. And that’s exactly how he met the guys. Bans ended up selling some of that fake lean to a member of EBE. The next day, the guys realized they’ve been played. Diero in the set called bands back acting like they wanted to buy more, but it was a straight setup. When bands pulled up on the block, the guys from the set robbed him blind.
But here’s where the story takes a major turn. Instead of running or folding, Shorty doubled back to the block completely dooo to stand his ground. The guys had never seen a white boy with that kind of heart. They respected his gangster, realized he was about that life, and saw they could make real money together. From that day on, Bansz was officially embraced by the nation as a Titanic stone.
And he started rocking with them EBE guys. That’s really how we met Bans. Like in the 13 becoming a 14, Vans came around like what he said. He tried to finesse with the drink. You know what I’m saying? and like once you know he came came and serve mother and whole town we stopped out to drink one real so we called him back pull up he was scared to pull back up type you know what I’m saying like you you in somebody hood you just hold you know you just got down on hit they tell you pull back up this you pull back up like what
white boy do that so like we looked at him different like damn folks ass like he ain’t no he ain’t no goof you know what I’m saying like he he like that aunt like how you coming you know what I’m saying like you just tried to get in on some real but we going to respect you just off the strip. You pull back up.
You know, you ain’t do no fool and you weren’t scared. You know what I’m saying? So we locked in since then. None of these white boys was foes. I ain’t seen a white boy like bro yet. And anybody that know from the rocket say the same Only guy. That’s white mother. Yeah. But Bans wasn’t trying to just spend his life posting up on the block.
He had bigger dreams. Since he was a shorty, he grew up listening to Eminem, Paul Wall, Gunplay, 50 Cent, Nas, and Yo Gotti. By the time he was 15, the street caught up with him. Bro caught a case and got sent away to a juvenile joint in Missouri for troubled youth. With no music allowed in the facility, Ban started writing his own rhymes to pass the time.
When he finally touched back down on 79th, GMEB was already deep in the rap game. Bands locked himself in the studio with the guys. And because nobody had ever seen a white shorty spitting raw, gritty Chicago drill music, his style blew up. He completely stood out and the city immediately took notice, making his tracks go straight viral.
We up next, man. ZME. Shout out my bros. Tell these where we from. I’m from the east side. We know to let the heat right. We post that like a street sand. Pull up on you when I drop on the knee. And we doubling back just like a rewind. And we slipping on his lean like tea time.
Say he is real but we know he lying. That’s real He a like a feline. And we get to the stack on the D line. from the east sash. Boy, we throwing up the deuce. No peace sign. Real man get B how we grind. Dropping down. How you talk about he fake? Well, I don’t really give a what he say or she say.
Stuff a brick in a rental like freeway. Move it then we sell it all. No eBay. And then we do it again just like a relay. And if you want it, we got it with no delay. But I’m working around clock dlay. I keep 22 shots like C day and got a going to do whatever the team say. Got B to do a feature with green day.
Talking slick don’t tell your ass to behave since I hit the run on you like B day. We all real on the block and my team straight and they shooting in broad day like D games. If you really want war, let it be known. They gonna throw it right at you like T-Bo so you can catch a touchdown in the end zone. In 2014, because of the blood ties between Chief Diero and La Capone from 6 Hunter, members like Tay 6 Hunter and King Vaughn started pulling up to the east side to kick it with the GMEB.
One day, the block was hot with action. The guys were out shooting big dice. Van jumped right into the game while Tay 6 Hunter was standing back and peeping the scene. That’s when Tay spotted Bans hanging out in the cut. At first look, Tay thought he was just a goofy white boy that GMEB was keeping around because he had a car, a clean, formed BMW.
Back then, riding with a white boy was like a cheat code in the trenches. The police would roll right past a white driver, assuming he was lost or praying he’d get out of the hood safely. They never ran the plates or swept the car. Taye and Vaughn were immediately plotting on using him to slide on drills without 12 ever paying attention.
But before they could even finish mapping it out, 12 completely smacked the block from every direction. Everyone scattered. Taye and Van wanted to jump in their whip and bail. But trying to dip alone would make them an easy target to get boxed in by the law. Seeing the danger, Diero and Bans didn’t just worry about themselves.
They stepped up, guiding Taye and Vaughn through the cuts and secret gang ways of their hood to help them duck 12. In the trenches, when you’re riding dirty with pipes and packs, nobody holds your hand. But GMEB looked out for them, protecting them from getting bumped by 12. Right then and there, Taye respected how they looked down.
Still, Taye needed to check the white shorty out to see if he was truly about that life or if he was bound to fold. The next time Bans pulled up on him dooo, Taye expected him to act like a regular citizen. Instead, Bans rolled down the window and was already sitting on a whole 30 round stick. He wasn’t carrying some little pocket pistol.
He had a heavy banger ready to get down on whoever. Taye knew right then that GMEB was either putting bands up on game or the shorty was just naturally like that. When Taye hit up with Chief Dairo about it, Nero confirmed Bans was officially one of theirs. They were showing him the ropes and he was already active.
From that day forward, the six hunters stopped looking at Bans like an outsider. locked in with them out of pure respect. And it’s a little white boy in there. And you know me, I ain’t shooting dice, so I’m really like watching the D game. So I’m I peep him over there in the cut. And it’s some of them from GM over there with him.
You know me, my antennas go up, so I slide over there. I’m holling at him. He Yeah, man. I know you is, man. What’s up, bro? Rock with your music. So now I’m like, “Yeah, I’m I’m doing like this though.” Like, “Yeah, I got one. I got it.” Okay. So, you know, at first, you know, cuz you know, I ain’t going to lie, like it was like it was like some type of stereotype that went with wax.
Like if you had a white whack, that was like the best whack in the world. Like that be a white whack. And he got a forign. Back in the day if you had a forign it was like for got he got the BMW. Oh yeah for going to take our wheel. Oh I got the white whack with the Ford. I’m just thinking like yeah he going to be riding me and Von around doing all type of hits on the road.
Our conversation with each other end up getting cut short. You know what I’m saying? Because while we shooting dice 12 smacking they hood now. I remember Narrow and Ben them they helping me smack. They they smacking they hood from all type of directions folk. I’m like f me and Van we we we we want to get in the car and try to just bail but it’s like we don’t want to be everybody running.
We don’t want to be the only car sliding. They probably try to block us in or something. So we running with everybody else for them helping. Hey, uh, hit this. Come in this building. Hit this cut. Hit that cut. Helping us run, me and Von. You know what I’m saying? Like they helping us get through their hood and helping us evade the police, bro.
You know what I’m saying? So when they was doing that, I’m like, “Oh, okay. I like that.” You know what I’m saying? Because usually, bro, when the police come, it’s a lot of so many dirty people. It’s hard to really think about somebody else getting what where they need to go. Like if I’m running with a pipe and you running with a pipe and y’all running with some drugs and pipe and they running with I’m not going to be stopping, bro, trying to make sure hold your hand and make sure you make it somewhere. Bro, I’m 32. You
know what I’m saying? Like that’s how a lot of people would have looked at it if if we was all, you know, running from 12 at the same time. But for them stopping like, man, look, this our hood, we got them, man. Y’all need to make sure y’all know where so y’all don’t get bumped. And I I respected that.
You know what I’m saying? It was one of them things where it was like you in our hood. You a guest, you know what I’m saying? We ain’t going to let nothing happen to you type type vibe. You know what I’m saying? So I I that was kind of like, you know, my first introduction to him. But I I was I was rocking with that.
You know what I’m saying? Now, you know, that turned to me linking with bro. You know what I’m saying? Cuz you know, I got to fill him out. I’m trying to see what’s the whack about. You know what I’m saying? is do I got a whack whack or do you know do I got a a half a whack whack and I gota really see what’s going you know what I’m saying now when I link with them one of the things that made me instantly like rock with them folk in not like in a big way but in a way that started our relationship off in the right direction and kind of like started
what when when I end up changing my mind and outlook at him. This was kind of one of the things that I remember that end up helping changing how I looked at him. When I got in the car with the dude, you know, most wax, they don’t be having bangers. They don’t be having they don’t be having a lot of, you know, things going on on them.
Like, as far as illegal stuff, they really never do too much illegal when they not around the people that do illegal stuff. Like when whack homies usually not with people like us, they never doing anything illegal. So when I pulled up on him, I’m I mean he pulled up on me, I’m expecting him to actually So when he pulled up and he had that that 30 on him, I’m like, “Okay, okay, okay, okay.
” You know, like I’m like, “Okay.” And you know that’s you look at as whack. don’t do nothing criminalized like criminal like when you they not around you he pull up he got 30 on them you know what I’m saying like that was another thing that I liked because even if a wack do have a gun or something they might be licensed we don’t know about it or they might have some little little ass some 380 or something some something they hiding or some something some you know something that they can hide or like throw or something
man this man pull up he got a whole stick man. You know what I’m saying? Like he got something he ready to get down on the with. Like like Yeah, I like him, bro. I like dude. You know what I’m saying? Like that was like a good sign to me. like e it either meant like GME was putting him up on game and telling them how to move out here or he just was that type of dude and he knew he was being around a bunch of who he had to you know what I’m saying get up on this game about it.
He start moving righteous, you know what I’m saying? Like so that was a good sign for me. You know what I’m saying? That was one of the one of the things I remember like liking about him. You know what I’m saying? By 2015, GMEBE was making major noise and bands was right at the center of it, sitting down for legendary interviews on Zack TV and Vlad TV with the guys.
He was locked in tight with Chief Diero, who just happened to be the cousin of the legendary LA Capone from 600. Dao was a certified stepper who really caught hats and was about that life 100%. Having a dude like that validate bands meant everything on the east side. The whole set showed him love because Bans wasn’t just a studio rapper.
Word on the street was he was actively sliding and popping at the ops. Keeping his name hot in the streets while spitting heat on the mic. We turn up with hoes in a project and turn my shows in my side with the chopstick just in case you want the hot There’s no need for talking to y’all. I don’t even talk to the law.
Been dirty and hang out my draws. I’m shooting this till he fall. I pour in the crush power. We catching a man at the bus stop. Might f the trust. Used to sell dope out my lunch box. I about to chase drop a check in your back. Went to that CL and be back up. I ate plate. Open the safe. Put on my mask. I’m running your plate.
I love the jacket for real. We pistol packing for real. Stuff you in back of the act. And then he dropped demons. The track went crazy and ran up numbers on YouTube. The drill scene had seen a lot, but nobody had ever seen a white shorty repping Titanic Stones heavy, rapping raw about the graveyard and his real life ops.
But right when Bans was earning his rail stripes, a kid from Ohio named Slim Jesus blew up out of nowhere with a track called Drill Time, racking up 63 million views. bands was mad because he felt completely underrated. He was out here really living what he wrapped while Slim Jesus was going viral off madeup stories, shooting videos with fake pipes.
People who are and people around me. I mean, I haven’t like I’m not out here catching bodies and obviously. Like I’m smart. Do you have a criminal record at all? Nah. No, I’m straight. So you’ve never been arrested? No, I never been arrested. I’m straight. Boy, I ain’t no next nothing.
I’ve been out before him. Months, years before him, in all honesty, I ain’t blow up because my look real and authentic. Not no fool, you know foolery. using CO2 guns and boy. No, man. No. No. It ain’t like that. Hell no. Around that time, they had beef with FBG Duck and the whole STL.
Bands have been talking crazy on the net. dissing Tuka and STL’s dead homies. I’m smoking Ta like a blue one. I’m smoking Tao, man. Slide. Pull up right now, man. What on, man? Ain’t out here, man. Gang with me. Slide Slide on them. Whole lot of that stone, bro. on rope. Let me see. talking about front.
Where you at? Where you at? Pull up. GM whatever the GMBB E. I never knew who they was until the white boy. And that’s from Zack TV. That’s me. Shorty talking about Look, we trying to get some money. We ain’t going to speak on that though, BUT I DON’T UNDERSTAND PULLING UP THE HOP BACK.
You know me being a neutral and I said what’s up, bro? What’s up, bro? What’s up, bro? It’s a real way too. But anyway, I said now. I look at the before I know who he was. I’m catching my breath. I’m here. You next Everybody laugh at his ass, bro. He funny, bro. I’m here. I got phone the opera MY MAN UP here way up to the back. Yeah.
Yeah. Way up here. But one the had a whole another song to record bro. He was a 12 from up north. They they want they cool mutual You feel me? No beef with them. You feel me? But they say they say yeah bro. My little homie scared. He don’t even want to record no more. We got to get up out here. Oh man.
Where he scared? He just go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I’m with them demons. What’s name song? Demon. I got demons running the first demon. Get on Twitter. Easy real. The first demon son. Get on Twitter boy. You know where we at. We know where y nobody out there. Cash was up. Cash out to me. Zed up and tweeted saying they but school right here.
You feel me? Like, so like at the end of the day, need to get off. One night, Duck, Billionaire Black, King Yella, and a whole room full of GDs were holding it down at a club show over in Indiana. Out of nowhere, bands pulled up to the venue, completely doo. On the footage, you can literally see Billy scanning the room like, “Where they at?” The GDs were stunned.
King Yella broke it down later that they were ready to get on his ass, but they had to look at each other like, “Hold on, what is this crazy white boy doing here?” Ban shows so much pure heart pulling up to a club packed with his ops that the STL dudes actually respected it. They stepped to him, chopped it up with him, and realized he wasn’t folding.
They ended up patching it up and kicking it that night because, love him or hate him, nobody could ever say Billy the Kid didn’t have heart. By 2016, GMEB was still moving heavy and Bans was doing whatever it took to keep a bag in his pocket. Bans was into a lot of shy. Shorty wasn’t picky. He was out here scamming online, hitting licks and stripping dudes in the streets.
If it made money, Bans was on it. That same year, things went completely left when Bans Murder and Chief Diero plotted on a major lick. The trio masked up and kicked the door to a crib, catching the owner completely offg guard inside with his girl and his son. They cornered the dude and demanded he crack open the safe.
But when the safe came up empty, Diero lost it and pissed whipped the dude right in front of his family. Two teenagers in the house got caught up in the mix, too, getting dragged into the back room at gunpoint. Somehow, the dude who took the pistol whip and caught a break, slipped out the house, and ran straight to the law. By the time 12 swarmed the crib, the GMEB crew had already cleared out.
But there was a major mistake. The dude knew Daenier personally because he’d let him crash at the crib before. The law put a name to the face, and both Dao and Murder got knocked. They ended up booked for it and taking a seven-year deal, meaning they had to do 50% and sit down for a three and a half year stretch.
But bands, he completely skated on the whole situation because the victims told the police they were only looking for black dudes. 12 didn’t even have bands on their radar. Bans skated on that home invasion case smooth. But by November of 2017, his luck ran out. It was around 3:30 in the afternoon when 12 pulled up on him over on the 7,700 block of Paulina Street.
Bansz was just sitting in the wet rolling up a blunt, but as the cops got close, he dipped forward trying to stash something under the seat. They made him step out, tossed the whip, and right there they found a fresh Glock 40 with 18 rounds packed into an extended 22 round clip. Ro got booked for the pipe and the drugs with his bond sitting heavy at 150,000.
He ended up pleading guilty, catching a one-year sentence with some parole tacked on the back end. But he didn’t stay locked up long. The minute he touched back down from doing his time, his first mission was to hit the trenches. First day back out, man. Out of that county, man. Yeah, east side Yeah, call me King Killer Clan.
I’m back in the land. Block 23 sticking out on my pants. Y’all know how the jail was, man. Cook County Jail. Goofy as hell. But I’m back at it. You know what I’m saying? You dig? You dig? The bears that took my iPhone off. So, I’m working off this Android. You know what I’m saying? Weak ass But, you know, it’s all good, man. I’m home.
I’m free. That’s all that matter. Stay tuned. I had a iPhone back tomorrow. You feel me? It ain’t Just slight work. Yeah, back in the hood. What’s the deal, man? Yeah, east side crazy, man. Back out this I’m back down. I wasn’t in there with no damn room. I was in there with a whole lot of K Town off the Mac.
I was in there with some Mac boys, Sane and them, JC and them. Yeah, our west got it in the county. I ain’t gonna lie to you. Can’t smoke no dope. I ain’t gonna lie to you, man. I need a I need a couple cigarettes before I uh before I chill out, man. I ain’t going to lie to you, man. That county that county will take a lot out.
Hey, let it hit and life no begin friend. I just seen who was with me in the end. Had to keep at least a 50 in the bins. First day out going to come out real soon, man. Man, I got to get back in the studio, man. I got this fat ass band on my leg, man. So, you know, going to have to figure it out. He was right back on the block.
Still active. But his mind was shifting. He was talking heavy about locking in, chasing a major record deal, and using the rap game to finally elevate up out of the mud. You want some, Yeah. Yeah. What’s up, bro? You look like a club doing that. See what the going on.
Big gang going on. Even though Bansz was fully wrapped up in that street life, sliding, trapping, hitting licks, and doing whatever it took to survive the trenches, he still had a major heart for his people. He wasn’t just out here taking. Whenever he secured a real bag, he made sure to double back and look out for the homeless.
He was literally out here doing God’s work in the middle of the madness, feeding the hungry and buying clothes for the people who had nothing. Yeah, man. We up here at McDonald’s on Western, you know. Going to hit these streets. Just got like 50 60 cheeseburgers, man. Mother hell of water. We got it warm, too. You know, it’s already cold as we don’t want to we don’t want to give them the cold water. Give them the warm water.
You see her back there whipping them up. See what’s going on, man. I need all the bags. All the bag. We came for all the bags. Bro say he f to pull security at my show for me. Say what’s up, man. Tell them who you is. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Say you out here pulling these work hours in this Antarctica, man. At least you got a job, brother.
Real Yeah, we out here. Sorry. Right. West. Hi. I got some blankets for y’all, too. That won’t fit you. All right, cool. All right, cool. All right, say no more. I got you. Okay. Yeah, I got that. Say what’s up, man. We out here for Chicago, man. We out here trying to help people out, man.
I already know. I’m talking about for real. For real, man. We felling trunks up out here, man. Get up out your ass. Get out here and help these people, man. Y’all ass be capping like y’all be about this Chicago For real, man. I ain’t with this By 2019, bands had left 79th and moved out to Rockford, Illinois.
About an hour out of Shyrack. Rockford ain’t got that same heavy rep for bloodshed like Chicago, which is exactly why what happened next shook the whole culture. In June of 2019, the whole underground drill scene went completely cold. Bans’s mom went to the law about him missing and his manager, Big C, hit social media, letting the city know that something was seriously wrong.
Bans’s house was completely trashed like a home invasion and his whip was still parked right there in the garage. For three straight weeks, the streets were flooded with sick rumors and nobody knew what happened to him. Then in late June, 12 finally uncovered his remains discarded deep in the woods. But the real nightmare started weeks earlier on May 25th, 2019.
Bans got lured to a spot on the 5,200 block of Indian Head Avenue. He thought he was pulling up on homies, but it was a straight back door. The minute he stepped inside, he was ambushed. Three guys, William Arzadi, Colton Kenker, and Dakota Graph were waiting on him with bats.
They caught bands lacking and beat him to death right there. To cover their tracks, they loaded his body into a truck, drove out to a field in Winnebago County, and set it on fire. The body of an area rap artist is found dead and suspicion surrounds his death. 23 News reporter Ashley Anteneini has the latest details on the death of William Pickering.
We’re here today to talk about murder charges. Investigators found the body of William Pickering, also known as rapper EBE Bands or Billy Deid, on Thursday. The artist disappeared earlier this month. Police made several attempts to locate Mr. Pickering with no success. However, his vehicle was located near his residence in the 500 block of Fiser Avenue.
The investigation led officers to 5200 Indian Head Avenue. Information was obtained. It led officers to an undisclosed location in unincorporated Wnebago County where the remains of William Pickering were located and to the arrest of two men. Want to emphasize that these uh charges at this point are allegations.
22-year-old William Arzadi. Count one is first-degree murder. Count two is first-degree murder. And count three is concealment of a homicidal death. And 22-year-old Manuel Ramirez charging the offense of concealment of a homicidal death. Authorities also want to arrest Dakota Graph on an unrelated warrant.
Days before Pickering’s disappearance, police were called to the Valencia Apartments. Someone on scene claimed Pickering pointed a gun at another resident. Investigators will not say if Pickering’s death and this incident are related in Rockford. Ashley Antonyini, 23 News. The state came down hard on the crew, but the justice system played out crazy.
Dakota Graph took a plea deal for firstdegree murder and got slammed with 35 years. Colton Kenker got convicted of murder and lying to the laws, catching 32 years behind the wall. Manuel Ramirez, he only helped move and burn the body. He skated on the murder charges completely and got hit with just 180 days for covering it up.
William Arzad, the main factor in the hit. Cops slapped him with a million-doll bond and his people somehow scraped up the 10% cash to bail him out. The minute he touched ground, Arady did the race and fled straight to Mexico on a fake ID. The courts tried him while he was missing, handing him a life sentence without him even being in the room.
He spent years running, but by 2024, the US marshals tracked him down in Mexico to finally make him serve that life sentence. A man convicted of murder in Rockford who didn’t show up for trial is now behind bars 5 years later. William Arzadi was found guilty after a jury trial in 2021, but he was not there when the judge sentenced him to life in prison.
Arzadi was found in Mexico and brought back to Winnebago County by US Marshalss and the FBI. He was booked into the Wnebago County Jail yesterday afternoon. He’ll now be sent to the Department of Corrections to begin his sentence. Arzadi along with Dakota Graph and Colton Kenker were all found guilty in the death of William Pickering.
In 2019, Pickering was found dead in a field in rural Winnebago County. The three men beat him to death with a baseball bat. You got a white shorty who survived the grittiest parts of Chicago. A drill rapper who literally pulled a pipe out on DJ Vlad during an interview. He was known for staying strapped and always keeping a tool on him.
You don’t catch a factor like that lacking unless it’s the ultimate back door by people he trusted. The streets still argue about why they snaked him. One major rumor claimed Rzzed had cartel ties and fronted bans half a bird of heroin or a half pound of dope, but instead of putting it in the city to sell, the word is bans tried to run off on the plug completely.
He was known for staying strapped and moving heavy, keeping up with a lot of shy activity. So he allegedly thought he had enough muscle to just keep the package and skip out on the bill. In that lifestyle, when you try to rob a major supplier and think it’s sweet, it’s an automatic green light. And the plug isn’t going to let that slide.
But those close to GMEB say it was the exact opposite. Bans was actually the one looking after our funding packs of pills to sell. Arati allegedly started popping to work instead of moving it. got heavily addicted and old bands a massive bag. Instead of paying his debt, Arzadi gathered his friends and chose the snake way out.
And that’s how the story of EBE bands came to a brutal end. Bands and GMBBE had major momentum with major labels looking to hand them a ticket out of the mud. If they had just kept their heads down and locked into the studio, the whole team would have made it out. Instead, all that potential was cut short, leaving the trenches to remember bands for how he died rather than the raw music that made him a drill legend.
We got him and our other our other homie who died, but we just got it we just got it engraved and got bins in it, too. As y’all can see right here, I feel like it’s only right we uh we let her wear through the course of the day. You feel me? So, are you making me a piece? AM I the only white moment? You know what? Wow.
Wow. Dear William, my beautiful boy, know that I miss you like crazy. I want you to know what an honor it has been to be your mother and have you as my son. You have inspired me to be a better person. I will continue to carry out your purpose on earth to help others who may feel forgotten.
Your heart has been shared by your fans and friends and they miss you like crazy. Your mama is not alone and has become mama bands to many. My beautiful boy William, you have shown me what love really looks like and you have changed hearts. You were one of a kind, Billy. You are loved and you wanted to change the world.
You were chosen in Christ from the beginning. You are at home now. You are home free and will never be in pain again. I don’t know what life looks like without you. I do know you will always be a part of me and I will forever feel your strength. My hand misses your tatted up hand. My eyes miss your beautiful blue eyes.
My heart longs for your heart. But our memories remind me. I know we will see you again. Keep a spot warm and watch over us from above. Shine bright. I love you to the moon and back. Mom. So last I want to say RIP bands and my condolences to his moms. You locked in with hood edition. We out. Hey, hey,
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