They Had More HATS Than Songs | KTS Von & KTS Dre ‘Demon Brothers’ 

 

 

 

man. Hey, man.  Man, these two demon brothers from KTS was real life problems out here. They kept their names hot over East. No cap. Dudes were straight vampires. heavy on it. It was like a routine for them. Lurking back to back at midnight, deep in they ops territory, just trying to catch someone lacking and clap them.

Certified savages with hella bodies under their belt. Big rank in the trenches and heavily feared all over East. Before we tap in, shout out to the real ones. Hit that like button and keep rocking with me, gang. You locked in with Hood Edition. Today we deep diving into the real story of KTS Von and KTS Dre.

 Dre Landre Sylvester aka Cutthroat Dreco came first in 1990 on the east side of Chicago. 3 years later, Van Devin Davis aka Big Cutthroat the Smoker touched down in 1993 on that same East Side. Same mama Lana, but different pops. They grew up thick on 88th in Manaste with the rest of their brothers, Little Vinnie, KJ, Jeff, Big Earl, and the sisters, India, and Big Re.

 Now, unlike a lot of kids growing up in the trenches, Vaughn and Dre actually had both parents in the crib while they were shorties. Van’s pops was Big Vinnie. Folks get it twisted thinking he was a GD. But nah, Vinnie was a vice lord, a respected OG from EBC who was deep in these streets moving heavyweight.

 But Vinnie acted as a stepfather to Dre, raising him just like his own flesh and blood. Dre’s pops is Chide Town Jeff, a highranking, heavily respected GD from Lakeside who survived the game and finally stepped back. And the family tree was deep out here. These boys was even blood cousins with the infamous Ziko from051 Young Money, a heavily respected member.

 Because of these different family ties, the brothers started out spit across different territories and repping different flags. Van KJ and Lil Vinnie held it down for EBC, Eblock Crazy, that Vice Lord set on 75th and Cottage. Meanwhile, Dre and his full brother, Big Earl, was over there claiming the Lakeside GD set.

 Big Earl was the one who showed Dre the ropes and taught him how to move out here. But they weren’t enemies, though, never that. Blood was just too thick. Dre and the rest of the Lakeside Shorties went to Bradwell Elementary for middle school. Back then, it wasn’t all blood and war. They was just shorties coming up in the neighborhood.

 But you could already see the difference in how the two brothers was wired. Von Vaughn was actually an honor roll student. Smart kid, sharp with it. Totally different from Dre. He had the brains to really make it out. Dre though, Dre was a straight loose screw at Bradwell. By his early teens, he was on a different type of timing, man.

 You look at him wrong in the hallways and it was hands immediately. Dude was constantly sparking brawls and whing out over nothing. That savage energy didn’t stay on the school grounds for long. It bled right out onto the blocks and that hallway beef quickly turned into real life legal trouble. By 2008, tragedy hit the house early.

 Dre’s brother from his daddy’s side, Jeff aka Kwax, a respected member from ABK, got caught up and lost his life. That was the first real loss that hit Dre right at home. Losing a real brother did something to him. People who was there said a switch flipped inside Dre after Jeff dropped. It was the turning point. That same year, September 27th, 2008, the brothers took another hit.

 Their cousin Ziko from 051 Young Money, real name Isaiah Walker, got shot to death in a McDonald’s parking lot during a wild altercation. The man who did it, Aki Walton from THF46, tried to duck the city, but the feds snatched him up quick out in Indianapolis and got him booked for the body. While 051 started repping Ziko World in his honor, that loss completely tore Vaughn up.

 He ended up getting Ziko World tatted right across his stomach so he’d never forget his cousin. Uh peep it because cous folk six got it yourself.  With Jeff gone, it was four brothers left. Vaughn was the youngest, but the streets was calling all of them. Trey jumped off the porch first way before Vaughn with their pops already being an OG in the game.

 It was just second nature for the brothers to slide down that same path. They was out here growing up with wild shorties like Rio G, Pasto, Ronnie Mo, Pac, Migo, Little Don, and Denny G. Things started shifting heavy. Van and his brother Lil Vinnie ended up flipping over to Lakeside to lock in with their brother Dre.

 12 booked Dre separate times in 2008, the very same year he lost his brother Jeff. He was getting knocked for gambling and caught two trespass charges. By 2009, Vaughn couldn’t stay on the porch no more. He jumped right into the field. By 2010, the two brothers was locked in together, hustling, robbing, and fighting every single day.

 So, their name started making noise on the east side. To really understand how this bloody war cracked off between Lakeside and NLM, you got to understand the map and the history. Lakeside was born back in the 70s or 80s, taking their name because they were hugging the east of Lake Michigan. They held down the blocks from 75th to 81st, stretching from Sagenar all the way to the lake with their historic core sitting right on 79th to 81st, from Sagenar to Manaste.

 As the GDs got massive in Southshore, Lakeside became one of the biggest growth and development structures to conquer land in the area. And they weren’t just into it with the stones. They were trading shots with Mexican mobs like the Latin counts and the Latin Kings just to protect their turf. The OG’s had already laid the foundation.

 Dre’s older brother and mentor, Big Earl, was one of the founders of a deadly alliance between Lakeside, MMG, Marquette Manasty Gangsters, and DBG, DBlock Gangsters, a bond locked in since the mid90s. By the time KTS, Dre, and Van were coming up, the younger generation used to call themselves the Lakers. Over the years, Lakeside would also become known as Lolo World and Postal Gang.

  Lolo World.  Right beside them was the Moskegan boys gang aka MBG. It was basically the same hood with barely a block separating them. Back in the day, Lakeside and the Moskegan boys weren’t enemies. They were actually cool, rocking with each other since those Myra Bradwell middle school days.

 Dre and Fabian aka G Fab even sat in the same classrooms together. Hell Rail from Lakeside used to be best friends with NLMBB legends like G Fazo and white folks when they were shorties. But childhood bonds don’t mean a damn thing when the street split you up. See, Lakeside were the big homies because their older generation ran the area. Even though they shared the same blocks, the Moskegan boys were heavily outnumbered.

 At their peak from 2000 to 2006, the Moskegan boys only had about 20 members, while Lakeside was hundreds strong. That left the smaller set with little choice but to follow Lakeside’s lead and act like sendoffs, doing their dirty work while Lakeside took the money and kept the power. Moskegan wanted their own bag and their own turf, but Lakeside kept a choke hold on them.

 To show you how deep the disrespect went, KTS Dre even caught and beat up White Bread, the actual founder of the Moskegan Boys gangster. Things officially crossed the line into bloodshed back in ‘ 06 when Lakeside members caught white folks from the Moskegan boys and shot him up, leaving him fighting for his life with severe damage from those bullets.

 The tension completely boiled over on April 12th, 2010. Somebody from Lakeside called G. Faso from MBG Lacking and clapped him. Faso and his brother Fabon were the generals of that set. After Fazo dropped, Fabon tried to leave the streets behind, moving out of the Rock to play basketball over in Europe. playing with his brother.

 That left the Moskegan boys small, weak, and hunting for backing. And from that day on, MBG started repping Fazol Land in his honor. To make a dog situation worse, white folks finally succumbed to those 2006 gunshot wounds. The very next year in 2011, Moskegan was backed into a corner.

 But right next door in Terror Town was No Limit. A set of young renegade stones who stopped following the old head laws. Since Moskegegan and No Limit had deep blood ties, Faso’s death changed everything. Moskegegan clicked up heavy with him to form NLMB, No Limit Moskegan Boys, aka Never Leave My Brothers. From that day on, the war was officially on.

 Around 2010, 2011, the shorties from Lakeside stopped playing by the oldhead rules. Van and Dre stepped up and launched a whole new movement. They called it KTS, Kill to Survive, aka Cutthroat Gang. It wasn’t just one block either. It was a heavy clickup. You had the GDs from Lakeside and Pocket Town linked with the 075 Vice Laws from EBC.

But when you got that many wild shorties in one circle, internal beef is bound to crack it. The link split and KTS turned into its own set. Today, they stand on their own feet holding down 75th and Cottage right alongside EBC. Eblock Crazy. Cutthroat’s main ops are NLMBB, ABK, and Circon City. But they ass beefing with Drill City, Gotti World, M O, Evans Mob, GMBBE, 8 Hunter, 6 Hunter, Oblock, and Pax Town.

 To stand their ground against all that pressure, they clicked up with Death Row, Pocket Town, Black Mob, Eblock, and MTG079.  nobody.  But Von and Dre laid down a strict rule for the set. If you ain’t out here putting in work and getting busy in the field, you cannot claim KTS.  Hey, if you claim KTS and your ass in the house, you was not in this field.

 Yeah, that  over with, man. You cut throat and you ain’t in the field. KTS and you ain’t in the field, that  over with, man.  You ain’t cutth though.  You ain’t cutth though no more. They had steppers like Lil Dawn, Hell Re, Big Max, Ronnie Mo, and Killer Spook. You had Rio G, Lil Leser’s little brother from Pocket Town, Denny G, Posto, Lil Vinnie, Royal, Rug, Amigo, Jerry, K Dog, Gizzy, and of course, Van and Dre, and hella other shooters who was already hot in the streets. April 9th, 2011. This is

where the smoke gets real and the cutthroats allegedly catch their first body. Back then, they were heavily into it with a set called 8 by13, aka Hottie Way. But a single hit changed that whole block’s name forever. 23-year-old Michael Lee, aka Gotti, was sitting in a car on 55th and King Drive with a homie who didn’t even run with the mobs.

 Gotti had a Taurus handgun tucked on him, but he never got the chance to pull it. Out of nowhere, a whip pulled up. KTS caught Gotti lacking and let it spray right into the whip. A single bullet caught Gotti right in the dome. His homie panicked, called up another friend, and they tried desperately to save him, but it was wrapped up.

 Gotti was pronounced dead at the hospital. Now, the paperwork might say unconfirmed, but word on the streets is KTS Dre, KTS Vaughn, and Killer Spook were all right there on that drill. They say this was Dre and Van’s first official stamp in the field. Right after Gotti dropped, 8 by13 flipped their name to Gotti World in his honor. But KTS didn’t show no mercy.

After the hit, they started mocking him heavy, screaming, “Don’t go Gotti.” KTS Vaughn even went as far as printing the disrespect straight on the t-shirts just to tone his ops. Van and Dre was already out here terrorizing Circon City and Gotti World after that Gotti hit February 19th, 2012.

 They was riding around with that infamous Tech 9. The same exact one KTS Vaughn wpped about going crazy with. I remember going crazy with the T.  But on this night, Van and Dre wasn’t sliding solo. They caught a beige whip with BD Richie and Mac Mine, creeping deep into NLMBB territory. A whole crowd of No Limit shorties was posted up right outside the liquor store on 79th in Essex.

 They was just chilling in their hood. The whip pulled up, windows rolled down, and they just started letting it spray with that tech. Total chaos. It was bullets flying everywhere, riddling the store, shattering the glass. 19-year-old Rock, a heavily loved shooter for No Limit, tried to make a break for the door, but they clapped him before he could even hit the handle.

 He dropped right there. Right beside him was 57year-old Alamo. Now, his family said he was just an innocent father of four, but the streets no different. Alamo was an OG teaching the shorties how to trap, how to slide, and how to tote pipes. He took multiple slugs to the chest and died on the spot. When the smoke cleared, it was a straight tragedy.

 Blood everywhere, bodies lying, two dead and five wounded. What a lot of people don’t know is who else was in that crowd. G Herbo, G. Pharaoh, and Lil Wet was right there in the line of fire. They all got hit but miraculously survived. Lil Wet took a nasty slug to the hip and G Herbo got shot in his feet. That single night changed the map.

To this day, Herbbo still screams RIP Alamo in his tracks. And for Jamal Harris aka Rock. From that day on, 79th in Essex officially became Rock Block in his honor. And that was the first score the KTS brothers caught on  NLMBB do me like that  killers in the carad  y’all know  summer of 2012 and the east side was completely hot but in July 2nd 2012 KTS S Dre put his next score on Drill City.

He allegedly caught a member named Mei from Drill City lacking and let it spray. Public info on this hit is damn near non-existent, but Dre himself mercked the rumors and confirmed the smoke on Alive later on. He straight up told his fans that whatever he did to Drill City was the exact reason they had to run and click up heavy with NLMB just to survive the pressure.

 But when you live by the gun, you got to expect bullets to fly back your way. Around that same wild summer, the ops finally caught up to Dre and tried to take his top off. He almost met the Grim Reaper that day, but a lucky break saved his life. He got grazed right in the head. That bullet tore him up, but he survived.

 Still, that shot permanently messed with his face, leaving a piece of the slug literally lodged inside the right side of his nose after it missed his eye. That’s the real reason he walked around with that infamous lazy eye. He beat the odds, but the streets left a permanent mark on him.  Hey, look, y’all be making all them jokes, folk. Look at me, though.

 Like, in real life, bro, snag a tooth, right? I had a missing tooth and I got shot in my head. Left eyeb loose as hell. Look at me, though. By late 2012, Van and Dre started taking it straight to the internet. They kicked off this wild video series on YouTube called No Lacking. The concept was simple, but pure disrespect.

 The brothers would record themselves with a pack of KTS shooters, heavily strapped, walking deep into OP territory on foot, mocking them on camera, just lurking, trying to catch an OP lacking.  No lacking 3.0. MAN, WE DON’T LIKE  somebody time 857. That’s it.  That ain’t  bro. Don’t lag 3.0, bro.  Lagging on that east side.

All right.  You ready? LOOK AT THEM RUNNING.  LOOK AT THE MONEY. LOOK AT THE MONEY. Look at the money.  LOOK AT THAT. WHAT’S UP? No lack in part two. No lack in part two.  Part three.  They dropped part one and part two. But October 24th, 2012, that’s when they dropped No Lack in part three.

 The video that would go viral and change drill history forever. Vaughn, Dre, Posto, Lil Dawn caught no limit. Kobe, Cairo, Moody, and other NLMBB members lacking. Right inside the McDonald’s on 79th, deep on No Limits territory. Right before they walked in, you can literally hear Dre telling the guys, “Get them outside, then I’mma pop.”  They going in McDonald’s.

 What happened? Glass pop. You got it on you?  Yeah. get him outside.  When they pushed up on him inside, Dre stepped right up to no limit Cairo trying to make him fold. He looked him dead in the eye and demanded, “Say fro”  Cairo stood his ground and refused to disrespect his fallen homie.

 Right then, Drake cracked him with a heavy right hand, damn near breaking Cairo’s jaw. Soon as KTS spilled out of the MAC, NLMB grabbed their switches and gave chase. A fullblown shootout erupted right there on 79th between Dre, Kobe, Pasto, Moody, and Cairo.  WE GOT TO BE BACK to the hood.  Lead was flying everywhere.

 Postto took a slug straight to the arm, allegedly fired by Kobe, making the crew panic and book it back toward their hood. Except for Vaughn. Vaughn lived for the chaos. He was literally running, laughing, and recording the whole shootout on his phone like it was a game. Completely unbothered that his team was seconds away from getting clapped.

That McDonald’s tape haunted Cairo for years with Von Dre and the fans constantly trolling him online. G Herbo even raped about the video later on back at it part three spitting YouTube the no lacking three video. Yeah, a few of them gone. All of them gone. That tape made KTS Dre and Von household names way past the Chicago city limits.

It was internet clout mixed with realworld grave digging. And it stamped the brothers as two of the most reckless over East had ever seen. 5 days. That’s all it took. 5 days after that crazy MAC tape dropped, the East Side exploded. KTS wasn’t just trolling online. They were trying to put names in the dirt.

 On October 29th, 2012, Dre and Mac Mine from Lakeside linked up to slide for Posto, getting hit at the McDonald’s bangout. They caught no limit slipping right on the 79th in Eskanaba. Big Los went out to grab a coffee and a newspaper. Just a regular morning. But when he walked back up to his porch, Dre and Mac crept up from behind and let it spray, catching him heavy in his back before ghosting the scene on foot.

 Now, Big Los was 33, a wellrespected OG from NLMBB and the father of Little Los from Drench Gang. His people claimed he was just a family man, but on 79th, he was still an active stamp for the set. His loss tore the hood apart. For years, the streets thought KTS Vaughn and his brother KTS Vinnie did that drill wrong.

CPD ended up picking up Big James from Bingo Block, and he started dropping names to 12, throwing dirt on Donnie, KTS, Dre, and Mac Mine. Dre and Mac Mine got booked for the body in 2013, but they walked on a lack of evidence, even though a witness put them right at the scene. Then it gets weirder.

 In 2016, this dude Donnie from Bingo Block becomes a bornagain Christian, walks into the station and confesses to the whole thing. He claims he shot Big Los by mistake after his homie got hit on 81st, then dismantled the tool and buried it. But with no weapon and no physical proof, the state had to let him walk.

 Months later, Donnie got clapped right on 79th by NLMB. The crazy part, Lakeside and Bingo Block were already beefing. Bingo Block had just smoked  from Lakeside two years prior. So why were they sliding together? Either Dre and Mac Mine had a personal tie to Donnie or Donnie took a rap for a drill he didn’t even do.

 Either way, 12 had Dre and Mac Mine on camera near the scene. And they even bagged Dre’s big brother, Big Earl, for the murder. But the state couldn’t make it stick. No convictions, just another cold morning over East and another body added to the score. November 10th, 2012, less than two weeks after Big Los was gone and LMB was out spinning for blood.

 They caught a Lakeside member named Bud. Bud was KTS Dre’s young, literally raised by Dre in the hood. Dre had mad love for the kid. But around 100 p.m., Bud made a fatal mistake. blood chasing and everything and I got packs and whatever else you  want, man. Come down here. Stop wait. Stop shooting out.

 Stop shooting out cops, man. And my young  my young  they kill  man.  Drum.  My young  be drilling, bro. Ain’t no Ain’t no old heads out there. Ain’t none of that  man. Just me and my young  man. My young  drilling, man. On the lake,  stop shooting out cops. Stop doing drivebys. This is not Grand Theft Auto.

 No limits, good crap.  And and one more thing, you cannot be L’s and you are hooked. Stop repping L’s if you are hooked. That fire the long way.  Y’all know what it is, man.  He was caught walking dooo right on the 2600 block of East 79th. That is the dead heart of No Limit territory just down the block from that same McDonald’s bangout.

 Word on the street is Merch Money. Cairo and Mad Max and Juvie were the ones out lurking that afternoon. Four shooters crept up on Bud on the sidewalk and let it spray, catching him multiple times heavy in his chest before ghosting out. Bud was only 20 years old when he lost his life at Northwestern. Now 12 looked at Bud like just another stat, but the streets knew the real tragedy.

 Bud was laidback and mellow, but past trauma had messed with his mental. He was basically homeless, wandering the blocks every day, completely numb to the danger until the ops caught him slipping. This right here is the exact reason why Dre later caught merch money in the county jail and completely smashed him behind bars. The pain from losing his young and ran deep at that time.

 KTS Von wasn’t even focused on his music career. Bro was way too deep in the field. But on November 11th, 2012, he decided to feed the streets anyway and dropped his track No Love.  About a week later, Vaughn doubled down and dropped Turn Up. The crazy part is Bro was naturally talented with the mic, but he was born to be a gangster first.

He just couldn’t take this rap  seriously when the trenches kept calling his name.  April 4th, 2013, D’Angelo Simmons aka Lo from Lakeside got caught lacking by two shooters. Lo was heavily loved by the whole KTS and Lakeside, especially by Dre and Vaughn. He was on 80 in Manasty around 6:00 p.m.

 walking right through his own hood with Mac Mine when they got completely ambushed. The shooters crept up and started letting it spray. Mac Mine caught one straight to the ankle, but Lo caught the worst of it. A heavy shot directly to the stomach. 12 ended up bagging a dude named Aaron from No Limit 083 for the hit, but they couldn’t make the charger stick.

 But the real tragedy of Lo’s story, it was the wicked luck he had after the smoke cleared. While Lo was bleeding out, the ambulance rushed him toward the hospital, but on the way there, the engine completely died. The ambulance broke down right in the middle of the transport. His family claimed that breakdown cost him his life, but the medical reports laid out the brutal truth. Lo was basically DOA.

That bullet tore straight through his stomach, his liver, his pancreas, and his aorta before stopping in his back. He didn’t stand a chance. Lo’s laws completely broke the set. And from that day on, Lakeside and KTS started repping Lolo World in his honor. Between 2013 and 2015, KTS Dre got booked hell of times by 12, a direct result of him being heavily active and always outside putting in work.

 The state first tried to book him in June 2013 for the firstderee murder of Big Los. Dre ended up beating that body, but he didn’t slow down for a second. By late 2013, 12 was sweating him heavy. In September alone, he got knocked twice. First for narcotics, then for disorderly conduct. Two weeks later, in early October, he was right back in the county for reckless conduct.

 That’s three bookings in a single month. In December 2014, he sat down on a robbery case. And the minute he tasted freedom, he went right back to the gunplay. On August 29th, 2015, 12 caught him with a pipe, hitting him with a UUW charge that sat him down until 2016. Even behind the wall in the county, Dre was terrorizing the decks.

But all these mug shots just prove one thing to the east side. Dre was never ducking no action. When he wasn’t sitting in the cell, he was actively sliding with his brother Vaughn and other KTS steppers. They were terrorizing multiple blocks at the exact same time, applying pressure directly to Drill City, NLMB, Circon, and Evans Mob.

Ronnie Arthurs aka Ronnie Mo from Pocket Town and KTS. Ronnie Mo was a real stepper, a certified demon out here, and he was locked in tight with KTS Vaughn. They were like real deal brothers. But things went left out in Gary, Indiana in January 31, 2013. Ronnie Mo and two shorties hit a crib, but 12 caught them in the act.

 It turned into a high-speed chase with the whip flying down the icy streets trying to duck the law. The driver lost control and wrapped the car straight into a tree. Ronnie Mo and 19-year-old Andre Keredine died right there on the scene. A 14-year-old young named Shedan Gibbs survived the impact but passed away later at Christ.

 Losing Mole completely broke Van’s heart. He was already deep in the field. But losing his right-hand man to a bad crash changed him. To make sure he never forgot his homie, Vaughn went out and got Ronnie Mo tatted right on his face. And from that day on, KTS and Lakeside started repping Mo in his honor. gang  out here.  Tell them  come outside.

 May 2013, KTS Von was on a different level of savage. He was grieving his close homie Ronnie Mo Heavy. And anyone talking crazy on his best friend’s name automatically had a target on their head. Enter Pharaoh from Sir Khan City. Now, the media tried to paint Pharaoh like a typical kid who loved basketball and rapping, but the trenches knew his real resume.

 Bro was a certified stepper with blood on his hands. But he made the fatal mistake of dissing Ronnie Mo right after that tragic car crash. For Vaughn, that made it deeply personal. On May 25th, 2013, Pharaoh was taking the trash down to the alley in the 73rd in Dorchester because his 82year-old adopted father couldn’t make the walk. That’s when the hit whip slid up.

 Bond didn’t just slide, he stood over him. He did him dirty, jumping out the whip and dumping eight shots directly into Firo’s face. It was a demonic, gruesome drill that left him completely unrecognizable before the car ghosted into the dark. Pharaoh was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m. If the drill itself wasn’t diabolical enough, Van took the disrespect straight to the net with no remorse.

 He hopped on Twitter and instantly started mocking the dead man, tweeting out, “Fear roll from Circon, new name fried face. August 10th, 2013, 4 in the morning. The block was hot, but the vibe was high. Jacobe Haron aka Kobe from NLMBB had just spent the night partying and shooting dice on 79th with G Herbo, Cairo, and the rest of NLMB.

 When the session broke up, the guys offered him a ride. Kobe declined. Said he was good to walk the short distance home. He didn’t make it 100 m. Right outside that notorious McDonald’s on 79th, the exact same spot that became famous on the net for no lacking, a hit car was already lurking. Rio from KTS and Pocket Town was behind the wheel tracking the target.

 In the seats where KTS Vaughn, Posto, and Black Mob shooter shells. The second they caught Kobe lacking, Van started spraying from the whip, tearing into his body. Then Posto hopped out, stood over him, and put the final shots directly into his head. Herbo, Cairo, and the NLMB steppers heard the shots echo through the blocks and rushed to the scene with pipes drawn, ready to return fire, but the hit whip had already ghosted.

 Kobe was gone at 4:02 a.m. Vaughn and shooter shells claimed to work. Kobe wasn’t a killer, but he was a shooter and he was very beloved by NLMBB. His loss broke the set. He became an instant icon, prompting G Herbo to drop his most legendary project to date, Balling Like I’m Kobe. Late November 2013, after Kobe passed, NLMB was starving for the Get Back, and it came fast.

 On November 23rd, Tyan Anderson aka Posto from KTS in Lakeside had just touched down from the joint on November 18th.  You going to shut up or you going to jail?  You don’t got  You’ve BEEN HOLLING THE ENTIRE HOUSE OVER HERE. IT’S GOING to be you going to jail. Bro enjoyed exactly 5 days of freedom before his clock ran out.

 All that energy  world. Around 11:05 p.m. on a freezing Saturday night, Postal was catching his bearings inside a building hallway on the 2,700 block of East 81st Street, right around the corner from his crib. Now, the streets still debate the setup. Some say it was an internal play, a drug deal gone wrong with no ops involved.

 But the heavy word on the street points straight to NLMB’s top hitters. The story goes that Mad Max and Crazy James tracked him down, breached the building, and caught him lacking in the cut. They ran straight up on him in that tight hallway, and put it directly on his brain. Pasto was rushed to Northwestern in critical condition, but by 11:50 p.m., he was gone.

 The disrespect that followed was diabolical. NLMB didn’t just claim to work. They turned his name into a brand of smoke. They birthed the infamous postto pack, mocking them heavy across the net. G Herbo locked it into drill history forever on his computers freestyle, spitting the coldest line of the era.

 Smoking East Side OG, that’s posttop pack. Drink so much lean, might O, or have a post attack.  Smoking East OG. From that day on, KTS and Lakeside started repping Postto Gang in his honor. By 2013, KTS Vaughn was moving completely reckless. When he slid on Sir Con City or NLMBB, he wasn’t checking for IDs.

 Word on the streets is that he allegedly took out two innocent bystanders on two separate drills just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Van had a demonic rule in the field. Leave no witnesses. If you were in the way, you got caught up in the rain. No mercy. All in every single time. In just a 3-year stretch, Vaughn was allegedly sitting on eight bodies.

And only God knows the real number hidden in the dark. The ops hated him with a passion. They wanted him off the board bad. NLMB members would constantly swarm his Instagram comments, mocking him and baiting him. And by 2014, they almost got their wish. Early that year, Bon got booked and sat in the county for a minute, but he was right back on the block by mid 2014.

Not long after he touched down, Crazy James and a few other NLMB steppers spotted Vaughn walking with the homie. They pulled up tight and Crazy James opened up, catching Van directly in his chest before the whip ghosted. Von spent weeks fighting for his life in the hospital. The slug sat right next to his heart, but Bro was built different.

 He pulled through. Meanwhile, 12 was applying major pressure to the family. While Dre was in and out of the county that same year, Van’s blood brother, KTS Vinnie, got booked on an aggravated battery charge. The judge handed him a heavy 14-year sentence. 2015, the east side was a straight war zone. KTS Vaughn hadn’t even fully healed from that slug next to his heart.

 By early 2015, Van was entirely numb, drowning out the paranoia and the pain with heavy drugs, popping pills, fighting demons, and living like tomorrow wasn’t promised. Van hopped on YouTube and started dropping heat. First came street life, giving the net a raw look into his world. But then he dropped the big one, Kill to Survive.

 That track wasn’t just music. It was a straight up war declaration, naming names and mocking his dead ops on a different level of disrespect.   loaded up. No lack of  up.  I submerged in the streets. I was made on the block. I was raised over east. Cut those sodium. I’m obese. Cut short. I remember going crazy WITH THE TECH SO MUCH GOT on my CUT A  SOUL. DAMN.

CUT SO CUT no  AIN’T  NO MORE. PLAY CRAZY. ONLY THING I KNOW. PLAY CRAZY LIKE GUNS GOING TO BLOW. PLAY CRAZY LIKE CAN’T PUT YOUR ASS IN.  The net went crazy. The views instantly started running up into the millions because the trenches knew every single bar was backed by real life action. It became the definitive anthem of the east side drill scene.

 But in this game, your biggest hit can be your curtain call. Nobody knew it yet, but Kill to Survive was going to be the last track Vaughn ever gave the streets. The clock was officially ticking. June 23rd, 2015, 2:05 in the afternoon, the clock finally ran out for KTS Vaughn. When you live by the gun and rack up that many enemies, your day isn’t a question of if, it’s just when.

 Van was walking down the 7,500 block of South Ellis, solo, completely out of his mind on pills, fighting demons in broad daylight. He never saw the whip pull up. Two shooters hopped out and stood directly over him, pumping 25 slugs into his body and head to make sure the east side demon wasn’t getting back up.

 He was pronounced dead right there. He was only 21. But because Van did so much damage in the trenches, everybody wanted the stripes for dropping him. To this day, the streets are split on who was actually behind that work. The heaviest rumor on the block points straight to NLMB. The word is Chopper, Jock, Mali, and Mad Max were out op shopping when they caught van lacking.

 Mi and Max allegedly hopped out the SUV and did the dirty work. The Net went to a frenzy the next day. NLMBB started mocking Vaughn online and in their tracks. Mad Max even changed his IG bio to Big No Limit the Smoker. Chopper uploaded videos from that exact night, later admitting they had to lay low in the safe house for a whole month because 12 had the city too hot.

 Mad Max eventually caught up as a getback in 2018 when hell rail from KTS and Lakeside chased him down and stood over him. But Chopper and Mali, they’re still walking the streets. The second story circulating the porch is that Circon City did the hit or that Van got backed by EBC, his pop set, which the actual CPD report hints at.

 Rumors claim a girl dropped Van’s load to the ops. Pocket Town believed the Circon rumors early on. Just 4 days after Van fell, Pocket Town slid on Circon for get back, executing Lil Eric from Circon. But the cutthroats themselves eventually told Sir Circon to stop chasing Clout, openly telling them to stop claiming a body they didn’t drop.

 The final whisper in the dark is that four Vice Lord OGs handled the hit. Word on the street is three of those members have already been put in the dirt and the last one surviving is moving incredibly smart knowing the cutthroats never forget. When the news hit the block, KTS Dre completely lost it. His little blood brother, the other half of the demonic duo was gone. Dre didn’t mourn.

 He loaded up. That exact same day. Dre grabbed his gun and went on a blind rampage, sliding through the east side. He even bragged about it later on an IG live, admitting he blew his pipe till it was empty, trying to get back for his brother, forcing him to go on the run from 12.

 Shots tore through terror town within hours of Van’s death. The war wasn’t over. It was just getting started.  To tell on myself, y’all want me to say something to incriminate myself? Y’all want me to go to jail forever for the rest of my life?  I don’t got to do that  bro. It’s public information. When my little brother died, I went on a run the same day for using   you up.

 Y’all just be want to talk,   July 2016, just one year after KTS Vaughn passed away. The curse hit his bloodline again. This time it found his pops, Big Vinnie. The hit went down in the 6,600 block of South Michigan Avenue over in Park Mana. Big Vinnie was sitting in a parked whip with a 22year-old daughter when the devil came knocking.

 A shooter approached the car and let it spray, catching Big Vinnie five times. He died right there in the front seat. The daughter took three bullets, but somehow survived. But the real crazy part of the story, it wasn’t an outside set that didn’t. It was a back door. The shooter was Devonte Murray aka Rosta from the exact same set as Big Vinnie, EBC.

He was later booked and put away after a witness sitting right in the backseat of that car pointed him out to the law. Word on the porch says Big Vinnie’s death was tied directly to Vaughn’s murder. Word is Big Vinnie knew his son was too smart to get caught lacking without help. He openly suspected the OGs from EBC of dropping Von’s location and backdooring his boy.

 Big Vinnie started pressing the issue, digging around in the dark and went to confront them about the betrayal. Instead of answers, they gave him slugs. They clapped the father to cover up what they did to the son. For KTS Dre, this wasn’t just another loss. Big Vinnie wasn’t just Vans Bobs. He was a second father to Dre, the man who guided them through the madness of the east side.

 Losing Vaughn broke Dre’s heart, but losing Big Vinnie in a back door turned his heart completely cold. Between 2016 and 2019, 12 had a massive target on Dre’s back. The state wanted him off the blocks bad, locking him down on house arrest and cycling him right through the county jail.

 In 2018, he caught a case for child endangered, then got bagged for driving without a license just months later. Two weeks after that, he was back in jail for domestic battery. By early 2019, they popped him again with a narcotics charge, but you can’t lock a demon in a cage for long. The moment Dre caught a whiff of freedom, he went right back to terrorizing the east side.

 On August 14th, 2019, a No Limit member named Kenneth Summers, aka Magic, was chilling on the 7,800 block of South Essex. He was standing outside a silver Camry talking to a 30-year-old head while a female sat in the back seat. Out of nowhere, two light color whips bent the corner. The windows rolled down and they let it spray.

 Magic took the brunt of the lead, catching multiple slugs to his body and his head. He was rushed to the hospital, but he didn’t make it, dead at just 26. The other two people in the car caught slugs, but managed to survive the drill. The streets instantly knew whose work this was, but the paperwork laid it all out.

 KTS Dre was the prime suspect for the murder. Word on the porch is Dre didn’t slide alone. The streets say he brought Rio G from KTS and Pocket Town with him. And heavy hitters like Killer Spook, Lil Dawn, and Big Mech were riding shotgun to ensure the job got done. The net went brutal. The next morning, Lakeside, KTS, and Pocket Town started clowning NLMB online.

 The only name he could say is K.  Hey, that’s your big talk, boy. would just say magic.  Magic.  Nothing for him. You 73rd, pal.  I don’t even know him. You know him, bro.  Don’t let that go of your head, man. Just magic  for he be whooping at me in my DM for I don’t even know him for he just came out of nowhere teing at me.

 Fill more. Just stop. Please.  Stop what?  Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. He got shot with his gun, folks. Yeah, folks.  Oh my god. He got shot. He still talking to me.  He got shot on your head.  That got shot with your gun. Dropped your head. All kind looking stupid out there.  They took his ass to South.  You still talking?  You talking about you? You said L.

 You said L just stop. Okay. Little you just stopped there.  You just stopped there.  Mr. Pal.  Hey, they let him. They ain’t going to do that. Magic was the big brother of Flock from No Limit. And Flock later hinted that Magic might have been backed by someone in his own circle. But the wildest detail in the entire police file 12 stated they tracked down the exact hit whip just 24 hours later and they caught Dre inside the car midaction caught up with a female.

 The man had just executed a Top Factor from his rival set and the very next day he was using the exact same murder car as a bedroom. By April 2020, KTS Dre was already on parole as a felon when they caught him at a gas station. 12 boxed him in, but Dre wasn’t going out easy. He locked his doors and turned it into a whole standoff right there by the pumps.

When they finally smashed through and dragged him out, it took a whole squad of officers to wrestle him to the concrete. Dre fought them tooth and nail until his nose was leaking blood. But 12 found what they were looking for, a dirty pipe in the whip. They hit him with that unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated assault, sending him straight back to the county jail.

 Dre touched down in late November 2020. He was right back on IG Lives by December, barking at No Limit and showing his face on the block. Just 3 months after Dre touched down, KTS caught its biggest score of 2021. It all started over a female, a Pocket Town member named Free Band Bobo, was chilling inside a barberh shop on South State Street when NLMB Lil Greg walked in.

 The minute they locked eyes, the air went cold. Greg saw Bobo and immediately called up his people at no limit, asking if Bobo was a problem and looking for the green light to handle him right there. Word is Cairo told him to chill, saying Bobo was just a money getter and wasn’t a factor like that. Greg called a different no limit faction trying to get that green light again, but they told him to stand down.

 Bobo claims he didn’t even know who Greg was or that they were dealing with the same girl, but Greg was a top face right next to G Herbo in all the videos. Either way, that barbershop tension set the ultimate trap. On January 28th, 2021, the bill came due. Greg was back in that same barberh shop, reportedly catching a nap in the chair, completely unaware.

A 2010 Volvo SUV pulled up hot outside. A hitter masked up, hopped out the whip, and walked straight into the shop. He didn’t say a word, just walked up, tapped Greg’s head, and left him right there in that chair. The shooter ran back to the Volvo and the ride took off. But 12 caught up to the whip minutes later.

 They booked the driver, CK from Pocket Town, with a Glock and a drum. The paperwork didn’t name the shooter right away, but sources who saw that surveillance tape say the body type and the movement spelled out one name, KTS Dre. The streets say Spook, Lil Don, and Big Max were in that drill, too. But Dre was the one who pulled that trigger.

Taking out a top no limit factor like Greg in broad daylight was the ultimate disrespect. And it’s the exact reason the getback that came later was so brutally out of this world. The minute Greg dropped, the whole east side went up in flames. 12 immediately put out alerts across the city saying major getback was on the way.

 The feds were already posted up on the block keeping tabs on that old black mob war and the shooter shell situation. But after Greg, the FBI shifted their entire lens straight on to NLMB and Pocket Town. They ended up scooping nine members from the town. The day after the barbershop hit, it looked like a war zone. No Limit, Black Mob, and MTG were all trading shots across the east side on the exact same day.

 NLMB was spinning the town in KTS blocks back to back, looking for anything that breathed. For two straight months, Pocket Town had to go ghost. Main factors were ducking the heat, bouncing from block to block, especially with the feds moving in trying to build the case. But you can’t outrun the streets forever. And by late March 2021, the cycle caught up.

 Pocket Town tried to gather on the block to throw a birthday celebration for Kevo, who had passed a year before. They thought they were safe to show love, but NLMB already had their load pinned. The party got ambushed. Out of nowhere, the hitters let his spray on the crowd, turning Kevo Day into a nightmare.

 Denny G and Lord both took shells but managed to pull through. Killer Spook wasn’t so lucky. Spook was a certified stepper for KTS and Pocket Town. A real member who was tight with KTS Vaughn and KTS Dre, but they caught him slipping at the function and left him dead right there. Word on the street is Big OP and Lil Ro from NLMBB alongside Emo and Lil B from the Burly Boys were the ones on that drill.

 Taking Spook off the board was a major blow to KTS in the town.  My boy say we get dangerous. We don’t get dangerous. We don’t be careful out here, man. We real dangerous dangerous.  Dangerous gang.  Hey, man. We be dangerous, gang. Ain’t no mother careful,  I’m good. Tell you a looking on me.  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  Watch out.  What just happened, Big Spook?  What do Big Spook,  you ain’t going to do folks like that?  Hold on, boy.

 Oh, Rio G. I don’t know, boy. How you coming?  Executive of Rio out here.  The right way.  July 10th, 2021. This is the day the streets still talk about. The day the war hit a level nobody had ever seen. Dre’s OG bonded him out by dropping five racks. He walked out of Cook County Jail thinking he was finally touching the free world.

 Strapped with an ankle monitor, walking side by side with his 60-year-old mother and a 35-year-old street activist. But Dre had no clue that the ultimate trap was already set right outside the county gates. A white BMW and a black Infiniti were parking in the shadows, waiting. The exact minute Dre crossed over to the 2,700 block of West 27th Street, the hit squad popped out the cut.

 Four or five masked up shooters hopped out the whips and just started emptying their mags. It wasn’t regular shooting. It was a total hail of lead. The sound of switches tore the air apart, letting off dozens of rounds per second. Dre hit the concrete instantly, but they didn’t stop. They stood over him and kept pulling the trigger, turning the front of the jail into a pure slaughter house.

 One witness even heard a hitter scream, “Let’s go. Let’s go.” While the other was still standing there, coldblooded, pumping lead into Dre’s body. When the smoke cleared, it looked like a literal nightmare. 12 recovered 59 spent shell casings from the pavement. The state claimed Dre caught 64 bullet wounds, but the streets know the paperwork counts entry and exit holes.

 The real number he caught was around 32 with at least 10 of them tearing right through his face. They wanted to make absolutely sure he wasn’t coming back. To pull off a drill like that right in front of the jail where cameras are flashing, 12 is rolling deep and transport vans are moving 24/7 shows you exactly how high of a price was on Dre’s head.

 He was a menace to his rivals, a top tier threat. His mom took a slug to the knee and the activist got grazed right in the face, but they both managed to survive at Stroger Hospital. Dre didn’t have a chance. At 9:25 p.m., King Cutthroat was pronounced dead at Mount Si. He was only 31.  Found after the shooting of a rapper right outside the Cook County Jail.

 Superintendent Brown using this case and that situation as a reason to push for keeping violent offenders in jail. Elizabeth Matthews is live at CPD headquarters with more. Elizabeth  Sally and Anthony the superintendent showing his shock and dismay that this violent repeat offender was let out of jail this weekend.

 The 31-year-old did have to post bond and as a condition of posting that bond was have was going to have to be on electronic monitoring but superintendent David Brown says that is simply not enough. Leon Leandre Sylvester was released from jail Saturday night and was targeted fatally shot right outside the Cook County Jail. Police say there were 59 shell casings on scene.

 Two women were also wounded, though not seriously. The Chicago rapper was released after posting a $5,000 bond with a condition that he would be on electronic monitoring. Yet again, he was in jail for violating his bond following several weapons assault and habitual criminal charges.  All these prior arrests, these serious felonies, these very violent crimes didn’t keep him in jail.

and it created an unsafe environment for others to put him on electronic monitor.  The wildest part, before he got locked up, folks on IG live used to tell Dre to pack his bags and flee the city, warning him they were going to catch him. Dre would just look at the screen, cold as ice, and say they wish they did.

 He really thought he had the blueprint on how to move, but the streets always collect. His OG had already lost her other son, KTS Vaughn, and their father, Big Vinnie, to this cycle. Weeks later, she hopped on Facebook and dropped a heartbreaking bar, saying it was sad she couldn’t even give her son a proper funeral.

 Not because of money, but because of the absolute lack of respect. Word is the family was straight up terrified that the ops were going to slide and spray the funeral home too. And the get back for Lil Greg didn’t stay silent. Usually hitters stay low after a federal level drill, but Drench Gang and NLMB turned the internet into a pure confession booth.

 The streets say the ride was packed with top factors like Big Op, Little Hot, Moo  Veru, Twino, Cairo, Flock, and Merch Money. Big Op hopped straight in the studio for a remix, rapping about jumping out with sticks and splitting dudes  while the joke stopped. Cairo posted a picture with Big Option that once they put a dude on mute, he never talks again.

 But Mu went the craziest with the disrespect. The very next day, he was on IG calling Dre the pack of the year. He and Cairo even started publicly trolling on social media, saying they wanted to buy a Nintendo 64. A direct demonic reference to the 64 shots the police claimed Dre caught outside the jail. This is the story of two Chicago street legends, KTS Vaughan and KTS Dre.

 RIP to both of them and rest in peace to every single soul that lost their life in this story. The cycle never stops. And if you want to see more docs like this, go check out the no limit little wet story. It’s already live on the channel. You’re locked in with hood edition. We out.