Gillie Da Kid has responded after NBA YoungBoy disrespected his late son in a new song, and the veteran Philadelphia rapper kept his answer short and cold. Rather than trade bars, Gillie Da Kid posted a brief warning: “We don’t say what we’re gonna do on the internet.” The clip spread across X on Tuesday, July 15, and the restraint in his voice landed as more menacing than any full diss track could have.
The response came after a bar from an unreleased NBA YoungBoy song surfaced online on July 14, first shared by No Jumper and quickly reposted everywhere. In it, YoungBoy says he once thought about killing Gillie, then delivers the cruel part, taunting that the grieving father “ain’t kill nothing about his son,” a reference to Gillie not retaliating after his child was murdered. For a shot aimed at a man who buried his son two years ago, it read to many as a line that should never be crossed.
To understand why the bar hit so hard, you have to know who Gillie Da Kid lost. His son, Devin Spady, who rapped as YNG Cheese, was killed in Philadelphia in July 2023 during a triple shooting. He was 25 years old. In the time since, Gillie has been unusually open about the weight of that loss, describing on platforms like The Pivot Podcast and Club Shay Shay the pain of preparing his son for burial and washing his body himself under Islamic tradition, a moment he has said changed him permanently. Gillie has even had to defend his son’s memory against ugly online speculation in the years since, at one point pushing back on a baseless conspiracy theory about the killing. Protecting Devin’s name has been a recurring and painful part of his public life, which is exactly the wound NBA YoungBoy reached for.
What makes it stranger is that there was no beef between the two men going into this. If anything, the history ran the other way. Back in late 2023, NBA YoungBoy sat down with Gillie Da Kid on his hit podcast Million Dollaz Worth of Game, and during that conversation YoungBoy was the one comforting Gillie, gently asking him how he was coping and what still made him happy after his son’s death. That exchange was widely shared at the time as a tender, human moment between two artists from very different worlds. The new diss flips that moment on its head, which is a big part of why it has stunned people across the culture.
Even inside a genre where beef can get vicious, dragging a dead child into a diss is widely treated as off limits, and much of the reaction framed the bar as a step too far rather than a clever shot.
NBA YoungBoy has spent recent months on a sprawling diss campaign, firing shots at a long list of artists that includes Future, Offset, and NLE Choppa, seemingly daring the industry to answer him. Gillie Da Kid was not an obvious target in any of it, and there has been no clear explanation for why YoungBoy aimed at him, and specifically at his late son, now. HotNewHipHop noted that Gillie had largely stayed out of YoungBoy’s recent run, which made the shot feel that much more out of pocket.
Gillie Da Kid’s decision not to match YoungBoy bar for bar fits his history. He is a respected vet in the game, a podcaster with one of the biggest platforms in the culture, and a man who has publicly worked to channel his pain rather than let it swallow him. His one line answer, warning that real intentions are not something you announce online, carried the tone of someone who has seen too much to perform his anger for content. It said plenty without saying much at all.
For now, the situation sits in an uneasy place. NBA YoungBoy has not walked the lyric back, and Gillie Da Kid has not said anything further beyond that single warning. The song the bar comes from has not been officially released, which leaves open the question of whether YoungBoy doubles down or lets it fade. What is clear is that invoking a murdered child, especially one whose father once shared a moment of grace with you on camera, is the kind of move that follows an artist long after the beef itself is forgotten.
