Paul Thompson, November 9, 2020 "King Von Was Building Something Bigger Than Chicago Drill. He Deserved to See It Through.", Vulture, while incarcerated became a hallmark of his sound, and Chicago drill’s latest wave...the drill prodigy also from an area known locally as the O-Block. Von went to the same high school as G Herbo...Those sonic cues placed Von firmly in his city’s drill lineage at a point when that scene had reached such a fever pitch that it was being imitated across the country.