Update: Surveillance footage captured the drive-by shooting that took the life of an aspiring rapper in Philadelphia on Friday.
YBC Dul, who went viral for digging up his opp’s grave, was shot and killed on Friday, Aug. 23. He was 25.
The aspiring rapper, born Abdul Vicks, was shot multiple times in the backseat of his Hyundai SUV in the city’s Olney section.
The video footage shows the white Hyundai SUV stopped behind a bus in traffic when another SUV pulled alongside. Someone inside the other SUV opened fire.
The front passenger door of Vicks’ SUV opened briefly and shut again before the SUV drove around the bus and sped off.
The SUV’s driver was not hit. But another man sitting in the backseat was shot in the hand.
Watch the video below.
Surveillance footage captures Philly rapper YBC Dul’s shooting in traffic ??pic.twitter.com/VQRvCnWblL
— Kollege Kidd (@KollegeKidd) August 26, 2024
Local reporters said Vicks was the leader of a violent street gang called Young Bag Chasers.
Vicks earned the nickname “Mr. Disrespectful” after digging up his opp’s grave in a livestream video.
Slain Philly Rapper Ybcdul aka “Mr. Disrespectful” was filmed digging up his Opp’s grave earlier this yearpic.twitter.com/yxSbZF7jBV
— Kollege Kidd (@KollegeKidd) August 24, 2024
Vicks’ dad mourned his son in a post on social media on Saturday.
“Hey all of my son friends / family.. etc i am dul’s father,” he wrote in a post on YBC Dul’s Facebook page.
“I was handed over all my babyboys belongs this morning by his close friends & I wanted to clear up any confusion my son Abdul Vicks was murdered yesterday afternoon broad daylight while sitting in the back of his car alongside with his friend who was also shot in the hand my son was not on a bike when he was killed nothing of that such so that video going around is not him stop the false news.”
Vicks’ father claimed his son was “targeted” and “set up” by his friends and that Vicks was paranoid because he thought cars were following him.
“[I know] my son did not live a life of a saint but I was not born yesterday either my son was targeted in some set up plot that’s the only way they could get him from up close like that & I’m standing on that, for someone to be able to walk up so close to his car was the first red flag for sure & I promise we not gon stop till ya dudes are exposed I spoke to my son the night before this all went down & I just couldn’t understand why this talk outta all days felt different “pops it’s been weird cars passing by me for a week now idk I just feel weird whenever I’m in PhiIly” … i swear whatever u was running from son they was watching u closely & imma expose it.”
He concluded:
“My family & I would like to thank everyone for the love & kind messages sent out to my boy we lost a real one May Allah forgive him for all his sins & make his grave spacious and full of light Ameen insallahUMARPie rest easy my son Abdul Qadir Vicks my heart will forever have a black hole in it after this one.. parents save your kids from this life before it’s to late cause I can’t even explain this feeling rn.”
