The reaction to BloodHound Q50’s death has not been limited to condolences. As some people online revisit the Chicago rapper’s history of trolling deceased rivals, his mother, Machetta Dudley, is asking strangers to remember that the version they knew through music and social media was not the son she raised.
“My baby was my baby,” Dudley wrote in a new message addressing the criticism. She did not pretend Q50 was above provoking people, acknowledging that he had made comments about the dead himself. Still, she thanked the fans who reached out with genuine support and pushed back on people reducing her son to his online reputation.
“Y’all didn’t know the boy I knew,” she wrote. The statement follows an emotional post Dudley shared shortly after her son was killed Sunday. According to Complex, she warned people celebrating his death that they would now “have to fear his mother.” The comments drew backlash of their own, with critics arguing that Q50’s public behavior had contributed to the harsh response surrounding his killing.
The rapper, born Mikquale Cooper, was 22. Chicago police said a man was sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in Fuller Park early Sunday when two vehicles pulled alongside him and multiple people opened fire. Cooper was struck in the chest and shoulder and pronounced dead at the scene. The Cook County Medical Examiner later confirmed his identity, according to reports citing the office. No arrests have been announced.
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Dudley also used her latest post to fill in parts of her son’s life that did not make it into drill records or viral clips. She described him as caring and said he made sure his siblings and family knew that he loved them. Further, she rejected assumptions about his upbringing. Dudley said Q50 was “raised right no matter the background me or his family had” and noted that he graduated early with additional credits.
“He was very smart,” she stated. Dudley admitted she did not agree with every decision her son made, but said that never changed her responsibility to support him. She also corrected people who apparently believed the family was from Indiana, insisting that narrative was false.
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Her grief became angrier as the message continued. Dudley warned that she was prepared to defend her children regardless of how people judged her response, writing, “I’ll die for mines” and “I’ll kill for them.” She described herself as a mother who had changed for her children but said Q50’s death had awakened the person she used to be. “Y’all gone feel a mother wrath.”
Q50 had released Get Back or Die Trying in August, shortly after turning 22. The project included an appearance from his late collaborator BloodHound Lil Jeff, who was killed in 2024. Chicago police continue investigating Q50’s killing. No motive has been publicly shared.
