Everytime They Tried To Kill Him, Someone Else Died: Chiraq’s Young Pappy

Everytime They Tried To Kill Him, Someone Else Died: Chiraq’s Young Pappy It was past one-thirty in the morning on North Kenmore Avenue, the street looking calm enough to hear your own footsteps, when the sound of gunfire broke the silence and left a body on the pavement. Folks in Uptown woke up to flashing lights and police tape, and word started spreading before sunrise that it might be the same rapper who had dodged death twice before. The same rapper whose name kept showing up in police reports and rival crews’ social media posts, and whose survival had already cost two other people their lives. By breakfast, his name was on everybody’s lips, but the story didn’t start there. To understand how Shaquon “Young Pappy” Thomas ended up on that block, you have to go back to the very beginning.