Rapper Ksoo neé Hakeem Robinson is finally on his way to trial for the 2019 murder of 16-year-old rapper Adrian Gainer, more widely known as Bibby. But this is no typical slingfest in court; it comes with a frightening twist: the prosecution’s star witness is Ksoo’s dad.
Jury selection began Monday, July 21, 2025, in the case that has captured the attention of Florida’s hip-hop community and beyond. Sitting in Duval County Jail, Ksoo, 26, now faces two murder charges as one accused in a string of gang-related killings from which few discover a way out, all sutured into a scar on the city’s rap scene.
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The Bibby shooting, prosecutors say, occurred in broad daylight outside a shopping plaza. It was brazen, recorded on a dash-cam, and now, years later, is at the center of a trial filled with questions of loyalty, family, and violence.
And the stakes are already impossibly high: Ksoo’s father, Abdul Robinson Sr., is scheduled to testify against his son. The man who used to hold Ksoo in his arms is now sitting across the courtroom, poised to help the state put him away.
Robinson Sr. is charged as an accessory after the fact in another murder case of a rival rapper, Charles McCormick Jr., a.k.a. Lil Buck, who was shot in 2020. The case is running in parallel with the Bibby trial and arises out of the same blood feud between the ATK and KTA gangs, two crews deeply entrenched in the Jacksonville rap scene. ATK is associated with the rapper Yungeen Ace, and KTA was previously guided by Julio Foolio, who was shot to death in Tampa last month.
According to a previously recorded interview with the state attorney’s office, Robinson Sr. allegedly named Ksoo as the individual who shot and killed Bibby. He eventually responded to a beatdown he received because of his controversial interaction with the prosecutors: Uploading a now-deleted Instagram post, 6ix9ine prematurely celebrated doing what he feel was the right thing as the image’s caption read, “WHO DID I HURT 🥺 THE LINK IN MY BIO IS TO HELP PREVENT SUICIDE YOU WEIRDO…??? ” he wrote, adding that in his mind, his son should have assisted him if their roles were reversed.
Ksoo’s brother, Abdul Robinson Jr., is also charged in Bibby’s killing and is still awaiting trial for second-degree murder. The trial that’s playing out in a courtroom in Jacksonville isn’t just about two young rappers senselessly lost to violence. Is, rather, the tangled afterbirth: where fathers inform on their sons, brothers stand accused at one another’s sides, and rap music is both the soundtrack and the frontline.
As the process of selecting a jury moves forward, everyone is watching a trial that is sure to be gripping, emotional, and possibly explosive, one in which blood may be thicker than the pursuit of justice.
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