In a jaw-dropping moment on Club Shay Shay, Gillie Da Kid left Shannon Sharpe speechless by revealing that Noah Scurry, a teenage basketball standout from Philly who was gunned down last month, had taken his son’s life.
During the chat, Gillie first brushed off rumors about the Illuminati and ridiculous claims that he’d sacrificed his son for fame. When Sharpe asked if he’d met his son’s shooter, Gillie replied, “Nah I never met him. Only reason I knew is because the police called me and told me once he was murdered.”
“Cause the kid had just got shot 17 times he was walking with his mom and he got murdered and then the police notified me and let me know that he was one of the kids that was pretty much about to get locked up for the murder, but he got murdered first.”
The conversation took an uncomfortable turn when Sharpe—who hadn’t caught on that Gillie had already mentioned the police linking Scurry to his son’s death—brought up Scurry while talking about how young athletes used to be untouchable in their neighborhoods.
Without missing a beat, Gillie dropped the bombshell: “That’s who killed my son,” leading to dead silence in the room. His son, YNG Cheese (born Devin Spady), was 25 when he was gunned down in July 2023.
According to TMZ, Scurry, a 17-year-old rising hoops star, was killed in January. He had just dropped his first drill track “SWING MY DOOR” on YouTube on Jan. 13 before being shot outside his home.
Gillie explained that his son was caught in the crossfire when some guys came to shoot up the block. “My son’s not from that block,” he said. “He just so happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. That’s how deep it is.”
In a sobering moment, Gillie went on to describe, “You don’t understand, he got videos out where he got a Joker mask on, bunch of guns in his hand. These kids are buying into all the wrong stuff. The same toxic influences I saw growing up in the ghetto.”
“That’s the environment we came from. But these young kids are lost,” he continued. “They’ve got this wild idea that you’ve gotta have bodies to make it as a rapper. That you need street cred. That’s their reality now.”
The Philly rapper couldn’t pinpoint where this twisted mentality came from, pointing out that in his day, they looked up to the money-makers.
Earlier on The Pivot Podcast, Gillie shared a deeply personal moment about stepping into manhood while performing an Islamic ritual after losing his son.
“The worst time had to be when I had to wash his body,” he revealed. “But it was also the best because I became a man that day. I was a little-ass boy up to that point. I thought I was a man because I did man shit — I paid bills, y’know what I mean, I took care of my family.”
“It was a gift and a curse,” he added. “It was a good thing and a bad thing because it was a very painful thing to see your son laying there, cold and stiff, but I know I sent him off right, y’know what I mean, and in Islam, that’s a big thing — sending them off right.”
