051 Rosé

051 Rosé (April 2014)

Ricky Anderson (born March 11, 1989), also known as **051 Rosé** is a drill rapper from Chicago, Illinois, who is currently locked up for two murders. 051 Rosé is also a self-admitted member of the "Young Money 051" Mickey Cobras gang, one of Chicago's most hated gangs due to them being responsible for multiple high-profile murders.

## Early Life

Ricky Anderson was born on March 11, 1989, in Chicago, Illinois. Rosé allegedly grew up in the Tri-Taylor neighborhood of the West Side of Chicago but moved to the Drexel Towers in the South Side located on 4825 S. Drexel Boulevard, which is now Young Money 051's turf.

Rosé would start getting in trouble at a young age where he was arrested 25 times before he even turned 18. As of now, Rosé has 56 arrests in total.

### **First Arrest (1999)**

On December 29, 1999, at 5:50 p.m, Rosé was arrested for the first time at the age of 10 on West 87th Street and was charged with "RECEIVE/POSSESS/SELL STOLEN VEHICLE".

### **Teenage Arrests (2001-2007)**

* On March 14, 2001, Rosé was arrested for the second time and was charged with battery on East 50th Street.
* Then on May 14, 2001, two months later, Rosé was arrested for the third time and was charged with aggravated battery with a weapon/no firearm.
* On October 19, 2001, Rosé was arrested for the fourth time and was charged with aggravated battery/great bodily harm.
* Two weeks later on November 1, 2001, he was arrested for the fifth time and was charged with battery.
* On January 7, 2002, Rosé was arrested for the sixth time and was charged with aggravated battery/great bodily harm.
* On May 17, 2002, Rosé was arrested for the 7th time and was charged with aggravated assault on a school employee.
* His 9th arrest was on August 7, 2002, where he was arrested and charged with robbery
* His 16th arrest was on March 20, 2005, where he was arrested and charged with "UNLAWFUL USE ARMOR PIERCE BULLET"
* His 23rd arrest was on November 24, 2006, where he was charged with "AGG ASSAULT - GUN,KNIFE,OTHR DANGR WPN"

### **Death Of Carlos "Lil Los" Merrills (2008)**

On March 13, 2008, a close friend of Rosé who also lived in the Drexel Towers named Carlos "Lil Los" Merrills was shot and killed outside Drexel Towers while having an argument. Lil Los was celebrating his 20th birthday that day. The Mickey Cobras in the Drexel Towers started going by "Los City" to honor him.

## Armed Robbery Arrest/Sentence (2009-2011)

On April 24, 2009, Rosé was arrested and charged with "ROBBERY - ARMED W/FIREARM" where he was convicted of aggravated robbery and was sentenced to four years in Cook County Department Of Corrections. Rosé still had a chance of parole in two years.

On March 25, 2011, Rosé was released from parole after almost two years in jail. However, on June 28, 2011, Rosé was caught with a weapon on parole and was locked up again. He was later released again around December 2011.

## Rap Career (2011-2014)

On December 23, 2011, after he was released, Rosé uploaded his first track on YouTube titled "Bill Gatin", which was a remix to Lil Wayne's "Bill Gates" track. On January 6, 2012, Rosé released another track titled "Rose Back". A month later on February 4, 2012, Rosé released the music video for "Bill Gatin". Rosé uploaded several other tracks on his YouTube channel from 2011 to 2013.

### **Death Of Lil Marc (March 2014)**

On March 25, 2014, Young Money 051 rapper named "Lil Marc" who was also close with Rosé dropped a music video titled "No Competition" where Rosé was seen in the music video with a TEC-9 and throwing up gang signs. In the song, Lil Marc would diss multiple dead rivals including L'A Capone. This song would make him a big target. 3 days later on March 28, Lil Marc was shot and killed at a bus stop on East 51st Street from a gunshot wound to the head.

### **Like It Or Not (July 2014)**

After Lil Marc's death, Rosé was angry and started doing what Lil Marc also did, dissing dead rivals. On July 16, 2014, Rosé would drop his second music video titled "Like It Or Not" claiming he is BDK (Black Disciple Killer) and dissing multiple dead rivals such as L'A Capone, and other dead members from the O'Block faction of Black Disciples.

### **Loose Skrew (September 2014)**

On September 5, 2014, Rosé would release his first mixtape titled "Loose Skrew" which featured multiple disses to the Black Disciples. This mixtape was considered one of the most disrespectful mixtapes in Chicago drill. The full mixtape has 110,000 views on YouTube as of 2023.

## 2015 Arrest

On March 2, 2015, at approximately 6:30 p.m, Chicago police stopped a red 2007 Toyota Solara near 1227 W. Garfield Blvd which contained Rosé who was the back passenger, and three other men. After two men (not Rosé) exited the vehicle, Rosé would slip into the driver's seat and drove away from the scene. Several minutes later, Rosé would crash into another motor vehicle near West 63rd Street & Normal Avenue where Rosé was apprehended. He was charged and convicted where he was sentenced to 16 days until he was released on March 18.

## Murder Of Kamari "Bob-O" Belmont (2017)

On March 6, 2017, at 11:12 p.m, Kamari "Bob-O" Belmont, a known gang member from the THF 46 gang (rivals with Rosé and YM051) who was locked up for murder and armed robbery since May 2015 was released from Cook County Department Of Corrections after he beat his murder charge, and was bailed out $10,000 for the armed robbery charge. A friend picked him up on 27th & California Avenue in a blue car and drove southbound on California Avenue.

At 11:40 p.m, while on his way home, Bob-O's driver stopped at a red light near the I-55 Highway on California Avenue (0.3 miles/2 traffic lights from Cook County) where a white SUV with Rosé, Xotic Wop, and 051 KD (Young Money 051 members) pulled up beside, and the driver who was Rosé and the back passenger of the SUV who was Xotic Wop started firing multiple shots.

Bob-O, the back passenger in the blue car, was hit in his right rear hip, lower left leg, upper left leg, and possibly in the chest. Bob-O's driver was shot by the driver of the white SUV, where Bob-O's driver exited the car, and ran into the bushes. Bob-O would also exit the car after being shot, but collapsed on the street and was pronounced dead at 11:57 p.m. with 24 shell casings found in the murder.

The white SUV then fled southbound but crashed 450 feet away from the crime scene, where the 3 occupants from the white SUV fled and escaped on foot and were last seen running eastbound on 35th Street.

## Arrest (2017-18)

On August 12, 2017, Rosé was arrested for the charge of "AGG UUW/VEH/PREV CONVICTION" and was booked into Cook County Department Of Corrections.

### **Jail Fight (2018)**

On January 16, 2018, at 5:50 a.m, Rosé was heading to court where he was uncuffed by an officer. After he was uncuffed, Rosé turned around and punched an inmate who was cuffed, dropping him to the ground. Rosé was recuffed and claimed the inmate spat on him.

### **Release (2018)**

On April 30, 2018, Rosé was found not guilty of the charge and was released. He spent 261 days in jail which is 8 months, 18 days.

## Late Rap Career (2019-20)

On February 8, 2019, Rosé returned to making music after releasing his video "Headshot". A month later on March 4, 2019, Rosé released another music video titled "Truth" where later that year, he dropped multiple other music videos featuring other rappers such as Hardknock 035, Drilla, Xotic Wop, and Ebone Hoodrich.

### **Loose Skrew Reloaded (July 2019)**

On July 18, 2019, Rosé released another version of Loose Skrew titled "Loose Skrew Reloaded" where some of the songs from the original mixtape were replaced by newer songs such as "Opposition", "Pressure", and more.

### **Factors (October 2019)**

On October 23, 2019, Rosé released a music video titled "Factors" where he dissed 20 dead rival gang members. As of 2023, Factors is his most popular song with 520,000 views.

### **Summers & Winters (April 2020)**

On April 16, 2020, Rosé released another mixtape titled "Summers & Winters" which was supposed to be "Loose Skrew 2.0" previously announced by Rosé before this mixtape dropped.

## Murder Of Dilonte "Lonte" McDaniel (2020)

On July 9, 2020, the offender wearing a black hoodie and orange Nike sweatpants was seen outside of a convenience store in the West Side of Chicago on 400 S. Lamarie Avenue. After 36-year-old Dilonte "Lonte" McDaniel from Poppy Gang (4 Corner Hustlers set) walks out of the convenience store at around 3:39 p.m, the offender walked up on Lonte and fired 5 shots hitting his head, chin, and chest. The offender southbound on Lamarie Avenue on foot and then escaped in a black Chevrolet Cruze where Lonte was taken to Stroger Hospital and was pronounced dead. The whole murder was captured on surveillance footage.

### **Murder Car Caught (July 14)**

Detectives reviewed surveillance footage where they identified a black Chevrolet Cruze with Illinois license plates, which belonged to Rosé's girlfriend. On July 14, the black Chevrolet Cruze was pulled over where Rosé slipped into the driver's seat and attempted to flee, but police managed to stop him. He was arrested and charged with resisting police.

## Arrest (2020)

On August 26, 2020, detectives had evidence of Rosé being responsible for Lonte's murder after Rosé's Facebook page was reviewed and he was seen wearing orange Nike sweatpants in a Facebook post from 2019 and 2020. The next day on August 27, Rosé was arrested at his home.

### 5135 (2020)

On November 25, 2020, while locked up, Rosé and Hardknock 035 would drop a collab tape titled "5135".

### Charged With Bob-O Murder (2021)

On October 21, 2021, Rosé was charged with the murder of Bob-O while already locked up for Lonte's murder. However, recent rumors came out that Rosé beat the murder charge for Bob-O and is now awaiting trial for Lonte's murder.

### Jail Fight (2023)

On February 12, 2023, Rosé would get into a fistfight with another inmate in Division 11. They were both interviewed and Rosé claimed he was just trying to break out a different fight but was sucker punched.

### New Music (2023)

On March 30, 2023, Drilla dropped a mixtape titled "Big Dog Status" where Rosé was featured in 3 songs.

## Personal Life

### 2013 Shooting

In August 2013, Rosé was shot in his arm and survived where he posted the wound on Instagram.

### 2015 Shooting

On March 30, 2015, Rosé was shot in his shoulder and back on 4900 S. Langley Avenue and survived. After the shooting, Rosé made 2 videos mocking rival gang members for not killing him. According to the police scanner, Rosé is a "hitman for Young Money" and they think "46 Terror (THF 46)" shot him.

## Discography:

### **Mixtapes:**

* Loose Skrew - (2014)
* Loose Skrew (Reloaded) - (2019)