How one Brooklyn hitter’s name became etched in rap history.

The Name That Never Died

📸 | Darryl “Hommo” Baum and Mike Tyson — brothers beyond the ring, bonded by the block.

💥 | Tyson and Baum in their element — quiet loyalty between two men who knew the cost of the streets.

Baum’s name echoes like a ghost through hip-hop and Queens street legend. You don’t see his face on album covers, and you won’t find interviews or documentaries about him. But his name—Hommo—sits at the intersection of fear, respect, and myth.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Baum was respected on both sides of the bridge — a man who understood hierarchy, power, and the silent codes that ran New York’s underworld in the late ’90s.

Brooklyn Muscle, Queens Politics

📜 | An early photo of Baum — before the headlines, before the whispers, before the war.

He wasn’t known to be a formal Supreme Team member, but he moved in circles that intersected with Supreme McGriff’s world. Supreme’s original operation had been dismantled years earlier, but his influence lived on through loyalists, enforcers, and the music industry’s underbelly.

Hommo operated mostly out of Brooklyn, but his reputation carried across borough lines. He was allegedly a man Supreme trusted to handle pressure quietly — one of those unspoken connections between Queens legends and Brooklyn hitters.

When 50 Cent released “Ghetto Qu’ran”, mapping out the history of Supreme’s empire in rhyme form, the street took it as a breach of code. The fallout would soon draw blood.

The Hit That Changed Hip-Hop

🎯 | A rare shot of Baum in his prime — feared by many, known by few.

On May 24, 2000, 50 Cent was shot nine times outside his grandmother’s home in South Jamaica, Queens. He was hit in the legs, arm, chest, hand, and face — but he lived.

According to 50 himself, the gunman was Darryl “Hommo” Baum.

“Hommo shot me, three weeks later he got shot down.”

No arrest was made. The case went cold — but the story never did.

Death, Retaliation, and Street Silence

🕯️ | Baum’s final years — a face caught between the street life and the storm brewing around it.

🔥 | Mike Tyson and The Lox — the loyalty ran deeper than fame, and Baum was family.

Weeks after the ambush on 50, Baum was murdered in Brooklyn. Tyson, devastated, reportedly offered $50,000 for revenge — a claim that later resurfaced in court testimony.

He wasn’t just Tyson’s enforcer or Supreme’s rumored muscle — he was the bridge between the old-school underworld and the new-age industry money.

The Ghost in the Supreme Shadow

💀 | Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff — a defining figure of South Jamaica whose legacy still looms large over New York street history.

Was Hommo officially Supreme Team? No documented proof says so. But in Queens folklore, he’ll forever be part of that shadow — the Brooklyn hitter who handled Supreme’s unfinished business.

He was part of the street network that respected Supreme’s name, feared his wrath, and understood the unspoken order of things.

Legacy of a Ghost