600Breezy is not laughing at King Yella. Despite a complicated history with the Chicago street commentator, the rapper made clear that going broke is something he refuses to mock, because he knows the feeling firsthand.
Reacting to news that Yella had publicly admitted to financial struggles and that NBA YoungBoy allegedly put up $30,000 to bail Yella’s son out of jail on armed robbery charges, 600Breezy kept his response measured.
“I can never laugh at a man for going broke ever,” he said. “I don’t. No matter how goofy or how, I can’t laugh at that cuz I know how that shit be.”
He spoke from direct experience. 600Breezy said he came home from his most recent incarceration with nothing, describing the financial drain of lawyer fees, bills that keep coming while you are locked up, and the cost of simply taking care of yourself inside.
He suggested Yella may need to consider more stable income, noting that content creation and streaming do not pay enough on their own unless the numbers are significant.
“If you just doing some tiny numbers you getting 1,700, 2,000, 3,000 a month, you can’t really do shit with that,” he said.
On Yella’s claim that outside influences ruined his son’s life, 600Breezy was direct. He said that responsibility falls on the parent, not on other people in the neighborhood. “He let his son be influenced by other niggas like that,” he said. “He was supposed to be teaching him.”
By contrast, 600Breezy spoke with visible pride about his own son, a 14-year-old he described as a self-described nerd attending one of the top science high schools in Illinois.
He said he has written to his son from jail on a tablet, being honest about the cost of the choices he made. “Son, just remember, look how many times out your life I done left you for some fast money,” he recalled telling him.
When asked about his biggest regret, 600Breezy did not hesitate. He pointed to a pattern he could not seem to break, getting caught up in situations alongside others, moving too fast, and choosing quick money over the intelligence he knew he had.
“I miss a lot of time out my kids life,” he said. He mapped out a cycle spanning 2017, 2021, and 2025, each time building momentum with music only to go back to jail. Every time I get here with the music and all that shit, I go to jail,” he said. “Every time, bro. Every time.”
He acknowledged he was an honor roll student and said his environment, not his ability, set him on a different path. “I could have been an architect or something,” he said. “I could have did some shit that made me some real money.”
The conversation turned heavier when he was asked about losses. He said the incarceration of D. Rose hurt deeply because, in his view, D. Rose was an innocent man who would have gone on to do something significant.
The death that hit differently was a friend named Devon, whose final moments 600Breezy said he witnessed personally. He also named Eay and Domo as losses that shook the entire block, friends he had known since he was four, five, and six years old.
“I wish I can bring all my niggas back,” he said. “I wish I could rewind time.”
