The LAPD is treating Saturday’s violence at ComplexCon as an attempted murder, according to TMZ.
That puts a hard edge on a weekend meant to celebrate the convention’s anniversary in Los Angeles, an event Playboi Carti helped steer as one of its artistic directors.
Sources close to Lucki say the Chicago rapper is recovering and doing fine. That’s a relief after footage showed him bleeding near his neck as people helped him reach a car.
Clips from the scene show people fighting near parked vehicles. In a separate video, Lucki, wearing a camouflage jacket, heads toward the front seat of a black car before others guide him into the back while a crowd stands nearby.
AllHipHop had a correspondent at the event who witnessed the attack, then covered the brawl and the reported stabbing. The exact nature of the wound still needs confirmation, since early accounts described both a stabbing and a slash.
Reports have tied the clash to people in Lucki’s circle and associates of Carti. Sources claim it started with an argument between Destroy Lonely and Lucki that turned physical.
Carti appears in footage from the scene, but there’s no verified evidence that he struck Lucki or ordered the attack. His presence draws extra attention given his role at the event, where he shared artistic director duties with Hiroshi Fujiwara of Fragment Design.
Lucki has been at this for more than a decade. He came up with 2013’s Alternative Trap, later put his first two albums in the Billboard 200’s top 20, and released Dr*gs R Bad on May 15 through EMPIRE, a 26 track project that includes “No Stars in Maybachs.
He and Carti weren’t always on opposite sides. Carti featured on Lucki’s 2015 remix of “Saucin’,” which landed on Freewave, almost nine years before the two started going at each other online.
That falling out came to a head in September 2024. Around the release of Carti’s “All Red,” Lucki showed off a cross chain with the remark “Crosses up,” and Carti took it personally because the song references the upside down cross tattooed on his neck.
Lucki’s position was simple. He said he’d bought a chain and wasn’t targeting anybody.
Carti responded by making their old messages public, and Lucki countered with his own screenshots to show the praise had flowed both ways.
He didn’t stop there, questioning Carti’s devotion to Jesus and turning his denial of a diss into one more jab.
None of that history establishes a motive for Saturday’s attack. For now, a feud that played out in screenshots and a brawl that played out beside parked cars sit side by side, and it’s on investigators to figure out what connects them, if anything does.
