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Yo what's good evil streets fam you know how we do we back at it again salute to all my members and subscribers for locking in every single day y'all the backbone of this channel's rise and grind anybody trying to push their music brand or business hit me at evil streets media at gmail.com we can work something out I'm grateful for all the cash app love too and if you wanna throw support the channel's way cash app evil streets tv every dollar gets flipped right back into the operation aight y'all let's dive into this street saga Darrell Baum's name ain't just ring out through Brooklyn it ripped through them blocks like a hollow tip on a silent August night He wasn't no regular cat walking around he was the type brothers mumbled about in barbershops and project stairwells streets said he floated through the city's grimy underworld with equal parts charm and terror the kind that'll pound you today and have your whole strip paranoid tomorrow his legacy got poured in Brooklyn cement loyalty violence and the type of decisions you can't take back before the mainstream caught wind the avenues already knew Darrell put work in caught a case did his time and touched down with both battle wounds and wisdom for a moment it seemed like he was pivoting lanes he locked in with Mike Tyson not just running alongside the legend but securing his perimeter keeping predators away from the heavyweight the gig blessed him with access credibility and a glimpse of that straight world most hood cats fantasize about but never touch but when you bred in Brooklyn's grimiest pockets serenity don't last the pavement don't erase you just cause you trying to erase it by the time the 2000s rolled in Darrell's government was already floating around for something way more serious the rumors connected him to one of the craziest sagas in hip hop the day 50 cent caught nine shells front page news legends getting built and behind all that Darrell's name was the one bubbling in the rumors the twisted part 50 blew up into a worldwide icon with dr Dre and Eminem co-signing him transforming trauma into treasure meanwhile Darrell's destiny got scribed in blood the same streets that molded him spun back and erased him after his chapter with Tyson Darrell dipped back into Brooklyn existence the hustle the corners the pulse that never released its grip old wars old paper new chaos Brooklyn's shadow world showed no mercy and Darrell got tangled in that collision of allegiance and history when he dropped it wasn't just another casualty in the borough it sent shockwaves the same strip that once embraced him transformed into a battlefield his history came collecting and his bloodline suffered the cost his brother got murdered his sister barely escaped the shells didn't just pierce skin they pierced the surname the honor the legacy of what used to be

Now here's where the real breakdown hits fam Darrell Baum's story reads like one of those New York nightmares etched in stone a lesson that no matter how high you rise the concrete keeps tabs he was a man who ran with icons and still couldn't break free from the gravity of the world that birthed him Darrell Baum emerged from Brooklyn born August 20th 1965 a true child of them unforgiving blocks he came up in the city's treacherous zones alongside his brother Tyrone who the hood nicknamed T-Rock and his sister Zakia that Baum family name it carried weight in certain pockets of the borough they wasn't unfamiliar with what accompanied the lifestyle the chaos the gunsmoke and the street codes that never paused by the time the years shifted into the early 2000s Darrell's name would get linked to one of the most explosive chapters in hip hop lore May 24th 2000 a bright afternoon out in South Jamaica Queens a young 50 cent just 25 years old at the time exits his grandmother's crib same location where he'd been posted his man Curtis Brown posted up waiting for him in a parked vehicle regular day nothing out the ordinary until another whip creeps up slow doors pop and in seconds the atmosphere erupts with gunfire rounds tear through the ride nine of them connect with 50 Curtis catches one in the hand shot in his face and legs fortunate to survive the block goes dead silent after the echoes disappear 50 drags himself into that same vehicle bleeding battling to stay alert and somehow reaches Jamaica hospital they stitch him up but he stays there close to two weeks jaw wired body sewn mind somewhere distant took months for him to recover right but when he bounced back he returned like a soldier with unfinished business years later sitting across from Oprah 50 retraced them moments like it was yesterday same time same location same soil he ain't drop names on television but the avenues already circulated what they believed word was Darrell Baum a Brooklyn shooter with a reputation that traveled squeezed the trigger that day executing orders from the infamous Kenneth supreme McGriff see 50 had ignited something dangerous when he released ghetto Quran a song that exposed layers on Queens shadow world names got spoken that wasn't meant to be vocalized the track created waves through the city not just in the music industry but in the trenches where them names still held influence according to what eventually surfaced in court documents murder inc the label 50 had been warring with was allegedly assisting supreme launder illegal cash through legitimate fronts it was a lethal mixture of rap ambitions and street vendettas and Baum stuck somewhere between both universes executed his part but that kind of existence doesn't include a retirement option Darrell was submerged in the game faithful to the principles but encircled by adversaries who operated the same way that choice to ride for one faction would eventually determine his destiny transforming a Brooklyn hustler with heavyweight connections into another name whispered in the shadows of hip hop's violent chronicle

By the summer of 2000 Brooklyn was scorching everybody sensed it that pressure in the atmosphere that only exists before bullets fly word started spreading that Darrell Baum a name that already commanded respect on them blocks got struck June 10th just three weeks after he allegedly attempted to eliminate 50 cent from the planet Darrell encountered the same kind of conclusion he'd delivered before no alert no compassion just ammunition and quiet after it happened in the midst of a narcotics war one of them neighborhood conflicts that had been simmering too long to settle streets said it connected to a Lafayette Gardens gangster named Ivory Davis one of them dudes you didn't test unless you was prepared for the consequences when the smoke settled Baum was deceased another victim in a rotation that never really quit spinning cops eventually connected a few names to what transpired Damien world Hardy a Brooklyn character with a notorious reputation who used to be with rapper Lil Kim ended up getting arrested alongside Eric Moore and Zara Sarkissian word is Moore was the one who fired the weapon and Sarkissian was driving the escape vehicle Brooklyn streets operate fast partnerships payback in silence but every action got a cost and this one came with life bids and blood on too many palms Kenneth supreme McGriff the one who allegedly deployed Baum to execute that hit on 50 was already deep in federal crosshairs by 2007 supreme was confined for eternity murder for hire kingpin indictments the complete package from 1981 to 2006 his name terrorized New York's underworld like a phantom with authority but Darrell's story wasn't solely about the avenues before all that he had bonds to one of the biggest names in boxing he and Mike Tyson went back decades both Brooklyn bred both products of them harsh corners and juvenile detention facilities Tyson had brought him on as his bodyguard in 99 after exiting prison himself it was loyalty two neighborhood brothers protecting each other standing on the same code they was raised on but loyalty in the streets don't always equal protection Darrell didn't remain long in that security position before the life dragged him back in that June day claimed him for good and iron Mike felt that loss deeply when Tyson entered the ring to face Lou Savarese he wasn't just battling another opponent he was battling sorrow anguish and remembrance he knocked Savarese out in 38 seconds flat and dedicated it to Baum the homie who didn't make it home okay thank you Steve Mike was that your shortest fight ever I bet what if there's only one god and my homies blessings and people upon them is just profit I dedicate this fight to my brothers Darrell Baum who died I'll be there to see you I love you with all my heart all praise be to my children I love you oh god I'm man what this your shortest fight ever any time I'm a true professional ever I still am a lake of my daughter um I don't know man yeah yeah Lennox Lewis Lennox I'm coming for you is it frustrating to train like you did and then have this in seven or eight seconds I put his fight I only trained probably two weeks or three weeks for this fight I had to bang my best friend and I dedicated this fight I wasn't gonna fight I dedicated this fight to him

That moment right there fam that's the real legacy of Darrell Baum see in the end the same Brooklyn that crowned him deleted him proving all over again that in this city every throne got blood stains on it Darrell Baum's story ain't just about the streets or the violence or the connections to hip hop royalty it's about the cyclical nature of the game the way the concrete promises glory but delivers graves the way loyalty becomes a liability and survival becomes mythology Mike Tyson dedicating that fastest knockout of his career to his fallen homie that ain't just sentiment that's the realest tribute a man like that could give because Tyson understood that Darrell was born into a system that didn't allow for escape routes or second chances he was a product of his environment a weapon deployed by forces bigger than himself and when his usefulness ran dry he got discarded like all the rest the Baum family name carries that scar forever T-Rock murdered his sister nearly taken his whole bloodline threatened because of choices Darrell made trying to navigate a world that was never built for his survival Darrell Baum represents thousands of Brooklyn cats who touched greatness who rolled with champions who had the potential to pivot but got pulled back into the abyss his legacy is a cautionary tale screaming from them concrete tombs that you can't outrun your genesis that the streets will always come collecting that no amount of proximity to legitimacy can wash the blood from your hands in hip hop history he's a footnote a name that gets whispered when discussing 50 Cent's rise or Mike Tyson's pain but his real legacy lives in every young brother coming up thinking the next corner the next connect the next hustle is gonna be the one that breaks the cycle it ain't and Darrell Baum's June 10th 2000 grave is proof that sometimes the game don't care how hard you played or how real you kept it the house always wins and Brooklyn always collects its debt rest up Darrell that's the streets