Wallo267’s opening up about that powerful moment with Durk that’s been making waves online.
Speaking on Club Shay Shay, the podcaster broke down that viral clip where he begged Durk not to seek payback for King Von’s 2020 death. The video’s been popping up again since Durk got hit with those murder-for-hire charges in 2024.
Chatting with Shannon Sharpe, Wallo revealed how Durk personally called him to Chicago to speak with his people.
“It was so emotional because Durk said, ‘I need you to come here… I need you to talk to [them],'” Wallo recalled. “That’s what he told me. He said, ‘I need you to talk to them, Wallo.’ I said, ‘All right, I’ll talk to them.”
He found himself in a basement with 100 people, many ready to risk it all for revenge.
“When I’m talking to them … I understand that nothing is more important in the ghetto than revenge,” Wallo explained. “Revenge is king, the closest thing to God. Because the Black man is willing to die about his ego. The ego killed more Black men than any other disease. Nothing killed Black men more than the ego.”
“It was emotional for me because I’m letting them know [that] the man that killed my brother, I forgave him. Am I a coward? Am I a punk? I don’t know what that shit means, but I knew that forgiving him meant that I was willing to live for my brother in an environment where we celebrate dying for somebody.”
Wallo realized revenge would just keep the cycle going. He remembered his brother dying in their grandma’s arms – a scene he never wanted to create for another family.
“I said, ‘No. I’m going to live for my brother, my grandma, my brother’s kids, my mama,'” he said. “I’m going just tell you something, Shannon. I’m not built like that—to go kill no Black man. I’m not built like that. I’m not designed like that. I’m not tough like that. I’m not ruthless like that. I’m not heartless like that. That’s just not me … I don’t give a fuck how I die, I don’t care what happen, but if a Black man kill me, you’re going to hear my scream until life end … You’re going to hear my pain. My tears is going to flood the ghettos of America.”
He pointed out how many smart people grew up around violence but couldn’t escape it. The problem runs deep, he said, starting with how we teach boys to suppress their emotions.
“It started from when a little boy is young and he’s playing on the swing and he falls, he starts crying,” Wallo explained. “‘Boy be tough! Don’t cry!’ We’re taught to ignore and bury our emotions and our feelings and our vulnerability. That’s not cool. … It’s a real big programming that took place by us alone. So, how do we come up out of that? It’s going to be deep. It’s going to take a lot.”
This all came out about four months after Durk’s arrest for allegedly plotting to take out Quando Rondo. Prosecutors say Durk and five others planned to kill Quando, thinking he was connected to Von’s death. Durk’s looking at a trial in October.
