Who Is Rapper Lil Reese? | The US Sun

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LIL Reese is an Illinois rapper who skyrocketed to fame in early 2012.

Reese was reportedly shot on May 15, 2021, in the North River neighborhood of Chicago.

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Who is Lil Reese?

Tavares Lamont Taylor, known professionally as Lil Reese, is an American rapper and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois.

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Hailing from Chicago’s drill scene in the early 2010s, he is known for his collaborations with Chief Keef and Lil Durk.

The 28-year-old is most known for his songs Us, Traffic and his feature on Chief Keef’s I Don’t Like.

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He has released a total of seven mixtapes from 2012-2019 with Def Jam.

Lil Reese also created many songs with up-and-coming music producers, such as Young Chop.

Does Lil Reese have children?

Lil Reese has one child, a daughter named Aubri Taylor. Aubri was born on June 14, 2014.

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His baby mother is reportedly a woman named Tiairah Marie.

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Aubri, who is now seven-years-old, is mostly kept out of the limelight by her father.

What happened to Lil Reese in Chicago?

Lil Reese has reportedly been shot during a shootout in a Chicago parking garage.

Local reports claim three men, including the 28-year-old musician, were shot in the River North neighborhood.

A police spokesperson told the publication that the group of men present were “all shooting at each other”.

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Police arrived at the scene just before 10am and found the three men wounded including Lil Reese, real name Tavares Taylor.

Officers discovered a stolen Dodge Durango with several bullet holes that had crashed near the scene.

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Two other men injured during the incident are a 20-year-old and 27-year-old man who are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Has Lil Reese been shot before?

In 2019, Lil Reese was “critically injured” after he was shot in the neck by a man armed with an AK47 assault rifle in a Chicago suburb.

WGN reported at the time that there was a car chase and that witnesses heard 12 gunshots.

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