31-year-old Tristian Hamilton, who performed under the name FBG Cash, was pronounced dead at Christ Hospital Friday morning.
According to Chicago police, Hamilton and a 29-year-old woman were in a vehicle in the 8100 block of South Marshfield Avenue when the shooting happened. At 5:32 a.m., a black four-door sedan approached, and an unknown shooter got out of the car and opened fire, according to the authorities. The shooter fled the scene in the sedan and no one was in custody, police said.
Hamilton was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. The 29-year-old woman was also transported to Christ Hospital in serious condition, with gunshot wounds on the left arm and upper back, police said.Goony, who called Hamilton “Cash,” said the last time he saw Hamilton in person was early last week when he dropped Hamilton off at the airport in Houston to catch a flight back to Chicago, but they talked on Facetime “every day up until he passed.
“He was supposed to be coming right back,” Goony said. “He was supposed to be grabbing his things and coming right back.” The music videos for many of FBG Cash’s songs boast hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. The artist made Chicago drill rap, a subset of hip-hop, promoting murder and retaliation.Column: FBG Duck brought a street fight between the ‘have-nots’ into the turf controlled by the ‘havesHis performance name refers to his Gangster Disciples music crew, “Fly Boy Gang.” Associated rapper FBG Duck was shot and killed in September 2020.
“Cash was a superstar,” he said. “He took his craft seriously. He was always working. He was hilarious. Had me slapping my knee every five minutes. It didn’t matter what we were doing, he always found something funny out of any situation.”
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