051 Kiddo

* 2023
* 2012

Lovell Adams (born November 8, 1995) also known as **051** **Kiddo** and formerly known as **Kiddo Da Drilla** & **King Of Drillz** is a Chicago drill rapper and a Mickey Cobras gang member from the faction "Young Money 051" whose name has recently been buzzing in the Chicago drill scene after he was released from prison serving a 10-year sentence for armed robbery. Kiddo made a few songs before getting locked up in 2012 and released music videos after his release in 2023.

## Early Life (1995-2010)

Lovell Adams was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 8, 1995. He grew up with his mother, grandmother, his younger brother 051 PriBoi, and his father, who was active in the streets but was still there. Before joining the gang life, he had a YouTube channel back in 2009-10 talking about wanting to become an NBA star or a rapper.

### School Years

As a young kid, Kiddo would attend Nicholson STEM Academy and would attend Kenwood Academy High School in his high school years. According to Kiddo, he was a troublemaker since he got into a lot of fights.

## Gang Life/Music (2011-2012)

Kiddo would become more active in the streets after he dropped out from high school as an 11th-grade/junior student, after he was shot in a drive-by shooting in February 2011, where he was shot in the back, butt, and grazed in his arm at the age of 15. He was in the hospital for 1-2 weeks for surgery.

### **Early Songs (December 2011)**

On December 17, 2011, Young Money 051 and another Mickey Cobra gang named "800" collaborated and made a song named "800 YOUNG MONEY" which featured Young Money 051 rappers Kiddo Da Drilla and Lil Mick, and 800 rappers Boss Smooth and 800 Pyro.

On December 28, 2011, Kiddo Da Drilla made another song featuring Boss Smooth where he would diss his rivals such as Chief Keef, Edai, and diss gangs such as THF 46, O'Block, Lamron, and more. At the outro of the song, Kiddo rapped out his phone number for his opps that want smoke with him.

### **First Arrest (April 2012)**

On April 5, 2012, Kiddo was arrested for unknown charges and was sentenced to six weeks. He was released on May 18, 2012. Hours before his arrest, Kiddo would tweet out that he broke out of house arrest.

### **Second Arrest (May 2012)**

On May 29, 2012, Kiddo was arrested again for unknown charges and was sentenced to 90 days. While locked up, he would lose a close friend, who was Antonio "Fathead" Davis, a 14-year-old Young Money 051 member who was shot and killed on June 22, 2012 by the rival 600 gang, where Kiddo said it will be "100 drills for shawty" when he gets out. He was finally released on August 28, 2012.

### **Armed Robbery (October 2012)**

On October 26, 2012, Kiddo would commit an armed robbery with a firearm on the 4800 block of Champlain Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. This would be the robbery that got him arrested for 10 years.

### **I Got Dat Sack Remix (October 2012)**

On October 27, 2012, Kiddo released his final song before his arrest which was a remix to "I Got Dat Sack" by Yo Gotti, Kiddo remixed the song in honor of rapper Lil JoJo, who was close with Kiddo and was killed in September 2012, where Lil JoJo also had a I Got Dat Sack remix. In Kiddo's remix, Kiddo would diss Lil Reese, Edai, Odee Perry, and multiple gangs and dead rivals. He shouted out Lil JoJo and Fathead at the start.

### **Final Month (November 2012)**

This would be Kiddo's final month before his arrest; he also turned 17 this month. On November 1, a rival gang member from 600 named Tre "Trixx" Henry was killed in retaliation for Fathead who was killed by 600 four months prior. Hours after Trixx's death, Kiddo would change his Twitter handle to "TrixxForDeadBDK" and dissed Trixx multiple times.

## Arrest/Prison (2012)

On November 12, 2012, at 6:35 p.m, Kiddo was arrested after he was positively identified for the October 2012 armed robbery. According to Kiddo, he was coming back from Domino's to get his grandmother pizza and when he arrived home, police arrested him. He was booked in Cook County Department of Corrections.

### **Cellmates With King Von (December 2012)**

In December 2012, Kiddo allegedly got into a fight with King Von in Cook County Jail after King Von's friend and famous O'Block member "T. Roy" tweeted about King Von beating up Kiddo. However, it is confirmed Kiddo and King Von were cellmates for a month and they were cordial, according to tweets and Kiddo himself.

### **Sentence (September 2014)**

On September 11, 2014, Kiddo was sentenced to 21 years and was placed in Menard Correctional Center where multiple Young Money 051 members were upset, where even 051 Melly said "I can see 10 years but not 21 kiddo wtf". Due to Chicago's law where you only serve 50% of your sentence, Kiddo's release date was set to March 2027 and his parole was set to March 2024.

### **Possible 2023 Release (December 2022)**

On December 30, 2022, while on a call with rapper TTB Nez, Kiddo claimed he only had 90 days left and on the IDOC website, his parole date changed from March 2024 to June 2023. Two months later in March 2023, his parole date changed from June 20, 2023, to April 5, 2023.

## Release (2023)

On April 5, 2023, Kiddo was finally released from prison after serving 10 years, 4 months, and 24 days, which is 3,796 days in total. Kiddo was still placed on house arrest for 60 days until June 4. A video showed Kiddo listening to NBA YoungBoy in the car after being picked up. The day after his release, Kiddo went live and it turned out those 10 years in prison didn't change him, since he was back to dissing rivals like Cdai 600.

### **Music Preview (April 2023)**

On April 20, 2023, Kiddo showed a snippet on Instagram live of his song "Stepping In Blood". A few weeks later on May 13, he previewed another song titled "Don't Play With Us" where he dissed OTF Nunu and L'A Capone. In another song titled "No Interviews", he dissed King Von.

### **051 Kiddo vs Tay Savage (June 2023)**

Tay Savage is a Chicago rapper who started rapping after being released in 2022 after being locked up for 8 years, similar to Kiddo's story. On June 17, 2023, Bookie Da G and Tay Savage dropped a song titled "Glocks 2" where Bookie Da G dissed dead Young Money 051 members such as Melly and Fathead. A day later on June 18, Kiddo would respond on Instagram showing a video of Bookie Da G twerking and also dissing Tay Savage.

Days later on June 22, Kiddo would make an Instagram story dissing King Von, OTF NuNu, OTF D'Thang, and Tay Savage's deceased friend Welch. Tay Savage would respond by sneak dissing dead Young Money 051 rapper Lil Marc. THF Zoo would respond with "Mfs out here playing dangerous games". On June 26, Kiddo would make another story dissing Welch and other dead rivals again.

On June 26, Kiddo released a music video for his song "Don't Play With Us, " reaching 100,000 views in two days.

The music video featured Kiddo kissing his girlfriend and multiple rivals started dissing his girl for being fat, including Tay Savage where he called Kiddo's girlfriend a linebacker. The next day on June 27, Tay Savage's manager Dedrick "Huncho" Baker was shot and killed from a gunshot wound to the head in the 4300 block of South Cottage Grove. Kiddo would respond by posting "Mellyway" on his story followed up with "shit just gone happen if a n\*gga diss on my bitch"

### **051 Kiddo vs YMN Freeky (July 2023)**

On July 19, 2023, a video of King Von in jail from October 2017 would be leaked showing King Von beating up YMN Freeky, a Young Money 051 member who was close with Kiddo back in the day. The same day, Kiddo would respond by saying Freeky is not Young Money 051 then on July 23, Kiddo would post on Instagram "Von did him a favor", "he beat that ass", "shouldn't been lacking". YMN Freeky would respond the same day by dissing Kiddo saying Kiddo was his shorty back in the day and also dissing his brother 051 PriBoi.

## Rap Career (2023 - Now)

Eventually, Kiddo started to pay less attention to his rivals and started to focus on his rap career more. He announced a mixtape and released music videos with known drill artists like Rooga, Drilla, and Lil Moe 6Blocka.

### **Step In Blood (August 2023)**

On August 2, 2023, Kiddo released his 3rd music video which was "Step In Blood" which was the first song he previewed back in April. As of September 2023, the music video has 145,000 views.

### **Don't Respond (August 2023)**

On August 26, 2023, Kiddo released his 4th music video titled "Don't Respond" which featured other drill artists in the background such as TTB Nez and Xotic Wop. Around the same time, Kiddo announced his mixtape titled "Gettin Nat Melly" which was supposed to drop on September 5, in honor of Antonio "Fathead" Davis's birthday.

### **They Know (August 2023)**

On August 28, 2023, Kiddo and Rooga collaborated and released a music video titled "They Know". This video has over 200,000 views as of October 2023.

### **No Peace (September 2023)**

On September 19, 2023, Kiddo released his 6th music video titled "No Peace" which has around 40,000 views as of October 2023.

### **Don't Play With Me (October 2023)**

On October 2, 2023, Kiddo and Drilla collaborated and released a music video titled "Don't Play Wit Me". The original audio version was released in March 2023 which originally was just Drilla and 757 BA, but 757 BA's verse was removed and replaced with Kiddo's.