Complete List Of King Von Songs From A to Z

King Von built his name on Chicago’s South Side, specifically the Parkway Gardens Homes complex known as O Block, and he carried that geography into both his identity and his catalog. He recorded as a rapper and songwriter from 2018 to 2020, moving in Midwestern hip hop, drill, trap, and gangsta rap, and releasing music through Lil Durk’s Only the Family imprint in partnership with Empire. His rise was closely tied to a narrative approach that drew directly from his own experiences, a style that became central to how listeners and the larger drill scene came to define him.

Long before his first official releases, Dayvon Daquan Bennett’s life was shaped by instability and violence, experiences that later fed his songwriting. He grew up in Chicago with a large blended family, was raised mostly by his mother, and had an inconsistent relationship with his father because of repeated incarcerations. When Bennett was eleven years old, his father was killed; the loss later became a subject he referenced in multiple songs. He was also closely connected to early Chicago drill circles through associations with artists such as Chief Keef and Lil Durk, while spending much of the 2010s in and out of incarceration, which made him known locally even before he began recording.

Bennett’s path into the music business began immediately after a pivotal legal turning point. He had been charged in 2014 with first-degree murder and attempted murder counts connected to a shooting, then spent more than three years in Cook County jail before being acquitted in December 2017. After that release, Lil Durk signed him to Only the Family, and Von started issuing singles in 2018, including “Beat Dat Body,” “War With Us,” and the track that changed the scale of his career, “Crazy Story.” Released on December 6, 2018, “Crazy Story” became his breakout single and reached number eighty-one on the Billboard Hot 100, setting the template for the character-driven storytelling that would define his biggest records.

His next phase expanded quickly into charting projects and higher-profile collaborations. In 2019, he released “Crazy Story 2.0” with Lil Durk, which peaked at number four on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, then followed with “Crazy Story, Pt. 3.” That same year brought his first mixtape, Grandson, Vol. 1, executively produced by Chopsquad DJ, which included tracks such as “Crazy Story,” “Crazy Story, Pt. 3,” and “War With Us,” plus guest appearances that included Lil Durk and Booka600. The project debuted at number seventy-five on the Billboard 200 and later peaked at number fifty-three, also landing on the Hip-Hop and R&B Albums and Independent Albums charts.

In 2020, his momentum turned into both a larger commercial footprint and a formal album era. Singles such as “2 A.M.” and “Rollin,” the latter featuring YNW Melly, set up his second mixtape, Levon James, released on March 6, 2020, again tied to Chopsquad DJ’s executive production, with guest verses that included NLE Choppa, Tee Grizzley, G Herbo, Lil Durk, YNW Melly, Booka600, and Yungeen Ace. The mixtape reached the top forty on the Billboard 200, and it contained the record that became his signature mainstream breakthrough, “Took Her to the O.” Released on February 21, 2020, “Took Her to the O” became his most successful single, received a triple platinum certification from the RIAA, and peaked within the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100. Alongside “Crazy Story,” which also reached triple platinum status through the RIAA, those two singles anchored his reputation for vivid, scene-based writing.

That run culminated in his debut studio album, Welcome to O’Block, released on October 30, 2020, and it became the only studio album issued during his lifetime. The album included singles such as “Why He Told,” “All These Niggas” featuring Lil Durk, “How It Go,” and “I Am What I Am” featuring Fivio Foreign, and it also featured the Polo G collaboration “The Code.” Production on the album included Chopsquad DJ, Tay Keith, Wheezy, and Hitmaka, among others, and the project peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and earned platinum certification. One week after the album’s release, on November 6, 2020, Bennett was killed.

After his death, his catalog continued to expand through planned releases and ongoing label activity. The posthumous studio album What It Means to Be King arrived in 2022 and debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, followed by Grandson in 2023 as his final album, giving him three studio albums in total, one released during his life and two released afterward. His remembrance has also included public tributes, including a mural painted in 2021 at Parkway Gardens that was later removed on November 29, 2024, after years of local controversy. In the music world, he was included in the In Memoriam montage at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, a marker of how quickly his story and his recordings had traveled far beyond the blocks that first shaped him