Skinnyfromthe9 is something else!
He’s been arrested for kidnapping,
shot, robbed, and punched a fan in the face.
This is the wild come up of Skinnyfromthe9.
Skinny had a crazy childhood
watching his mom and stepdad pull off scams and identity fraud.
But eventually it caught up to them and his stepdad got locked up.
After that, his situation only got worse,
and Skinny told XXL
“My mom was a single mother with seven kids,
so I ended up being homeless.
I was sleeping on the streets, shelters and hotels.
There were times when we didn’t eat,
times I didn’t have shoes.”
Skinny’s family had to keep moving around to avoid the cops,
and he told XXL that’s when he started bumpin Eminem and writing his own music.
After his dad got out of prison,
Skinny moved in with him
and actually got to record his own tracks for the first time.
His pops bought him a mic,
and Skinny worked fast food jobs to pay for studio time.
He started dropping music on SoundCloud back in 2016,
and the next year he broke out with the track Love Blast -
which racked up over three million plays.
Love Blast gave him enough clout for Fetty Wap to bring him on tour,
and by the end of 2018 Skinny signed a major deal with L.A. Reid’s label HITCO.
It looked like Skinny was about to take things to the next level,
but in August 2018 he almost lost it all
when he got booked on a kidnapping charge with his own dad and brother!
In June 2018,
a video leaked online showing Skinny and his crew
punching and kicking a rapper named Loon G outside a 7-Eleven in Jersey.
NJ.com reported
that people in the area was afraid of Skinny and his homies
because “they pay thugs to beat people badly.”.
Loon G ended up in the emergency room
but Skinny got out of the case because Loon refused to work with the cops.
One of his reps told NJ.com that it was in self defense
and that “He’s not going around fighting people on video
because that’s not what he’s about.
He’s with his dad and brothers helping people.”
But two months later, Skinny, his dad, and brother
all got booked after they kidnapped and beat up another dude.
According to the investigation, Skinny,
his dad David, his brother Joshua, and a dude named Troy Warren
lured an unnamed dude into their SUV.
When they took off,
Skinny grabbed the dude’s phone and started punching him in the stomach.
Then they just drove around for an hour while Warren was beating the dude up.
Eventually they went back to David’s house,
which is when the cops showed up and arrested everyone.
At first they was facing kidnapping, aggravated assault, and robbery charges,
but it ended up being downgraded to luring an adult, simple assault and theft.
Skinny pleaded guilty and admitted to hitting the dude and stealing his phone,
but he ended up getting released after a couple of months
instead of the 25 years he was facing for kidnapping.
When he got out,
Skinny told XXL that he ain’t do nothin.
He said that the dude “took my chain and sold it for like $500.
When I found out that he stole it and sold it, I went to go confront him.
And he told me
‘yo bro, I sold the chain. I’m sorry. Don’t call the police on me.
I don’t want no problems..’
Long story short, I get to my house
and the cops come and he tells everyone he got kidnapped.”.
Luckily he got out without having to serve a lot of time,
and Skinny got right back on his grind.
He dropped a video for his track Just Left Jail,
then released his debut mixtape It’s An Evil World
with features from Fetty Wap and PnB Rock.
But Skinny ain’t the type of dude who stays out of trouble for long,
and in 2019 he almost got jumped by a rapper named Zoey Dollaz and his crew.
Zoey posted a video of him and his homies chasing Skinny out of a recording studio,
which made it look like he ain’t want no smoke.
Skinny hopped on Instagram later and said Zoey was scared to fight him one on one,
but Zoey clapped back and said
“That n**** ran so fast, he ran down the whole f****** street missing!
We wasn’t even finna do nothing to homeboy...
I was just trying to figure out what’s up with all that tough talk though, bro?”.
Skinny made it out of the situation without getting touched,
but that same month he allegedly got robbed by Almighty Jay and his crew!
In February 2019,
Skinny invited Jay to crash at his place while they worked on music.
Then a couple days later, TMZ posted surveillance footage
that showed two dudes walk up to Skinny
while he was sitting in his Range Rover and rob him.
They got away with a $40,000 chain, Rolex worth $20 bands,
and $20 racks in cash!
The cops named Jay as a suspect in the case,
and he called out reporters for airing the situation out.
He hopped on IG Live and said
“Suck my d*** bro, for real.
Police ass s*** n****s doing, man. N****s is police, facts....
And TMZ, WorldStar, suck my f***** d***.
Y’all n****s police too.”
Jay turned himself in,
but the case eventually got dropped because Skinny wouldn’t work with the cops.
It was looking like 2019 just wasn’t gonna be his year -
because a month after the Almighty Jay and Zoey Dollaz situations,
some random dude caught Skinny lacking at a restaurant and put hands on him.
Adam22 from No Jumper posted a video of what went down.
You can see a dude walk up to Skinny and start throwing hands.
They got into a quick fight, and at the end of the video
the other dude just shoves Skinny down and walks away.
People started clowning Skinny online,
so he hopped on IG Live to explain his side of the story.
He said “I wasn’t gonna comment on the situation cause I’m all about positivity.
But the dude that hit me is a straight b****.
He came up to me while I was eating at a restaurant by myself with a girl and was like,
‘Yo, I know you eatin’ right now, but can I take a picture?’
I got up, put my arm around him like we was gonna take a picture -
like we was posing - and the dude snuck me.”
Skinny also called out Adam22 for posting the video and said
“Adam, you a whole rat. Shut the f*** up.
Skinny Gang.
Where I’m from, when you wanna fight somebody, you go up to them
and n****s square up.
N****s throw they s*** up and fight it out.
Not no b**** s***, where you go and sneak n****s. That’s corny.”
Getting embarrassed by a random dude at a restaurant is tough,
but in 2020
Skinny had bigger problems to worry about after getting shot in the leg!
On July 24th, 2020,
Skinny posted a video of himself laying on the ground
with cops and a police car behind him!
In the clip he just says “I got shot”
over and over, but he ain’t explain the situation at all.
People started trolling him online and said the whole thing was fake,
but his management hopped on IG to clear the rumors.
They wrote “Skinny is in the hospital we don’t know what’s going on
he did get shot.
Pray for him.
This is not a joke.”
Then “We got into a shootout. We’re fine.
Skinny is in the hospital undergoing surgery.
But everyone should be alright.”
Even after the news broke,
people started claiming that Skinny shot himself for clout!
A week after it went down, he called everyone out for spreading rumors and said
“You know I really hate the internet.
I really hate you mindless sheep following the crowd ass people...
I got shot. I really almost lost my life.
Someone made an attempt on my life not no f***** ‘I shot myself for clout.’”.
Back in January,
Skinny went on DJ Akademiks’ podcast
and talked about what went down.
He told Akademiks that he was at a party in Miami
when someone spotted him and called up some other dudes to rob him.
When Skinny and his homie walked outside to leave the party,
four dudes pulled up on them and told Skinny to hand over his jewelry and cash.
Skinny refused to give it to them,
and that’s when they started letting off shots.
He tried to duck behind the car,
but one of the shooters caught him once in the leg.
Skinny also claims one of them got hit too,
but it ain’t clear if anyone ever got arrested for the shootout.
Luckily Skinny made a full recovery from the gunshot,
but then in 2021 he made headlines again
after Almighty Jay knocked him down twice in a one on one fight!
Ever since Skinny got robbed back in 2019,
him and Jay been sending shots back and forth on social media.
In 2021
Jay claimed that Skinny wrote a police statement against him over the robbery,
so Skinny called him out and said
“TIRED OF THE LIES SPREAD ON MY NAME.
IM TRYNA BOX YOU 20K @realalmightyjay
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL YOU AINT GETTIN 20K FOR ANY BOOKING.
NO TUFF GUY SHIT JUST BOX ME.”
They never linked up for an official boxing match,
but a month later Skinny and Jay went head up in the street.
In a video of the fight, Skinny and Jay start throwing hands in an empty parking lot.
Jay caught him clean a couple times and knocked him down,
and the video ends with them being separated.
Jay posted a video of the fight and captioned it with
“N****s be on the internet with all that tough ass shit till they gotta see me in person...
@skinnyfromthe9 dropped him twice NO JUMPING NO NONE OF THAT.”
Skinny couldn’t even act like he ain’t lose,
so instead he went after 6ix9ine on Instagram and wrote
“Real n****s handle they problems like men.
No h** in me.
69 woulda never shot a fade.
Stop comparing us.”
Skinny and 6ix9ine never linked up to fight,
but earlier this year
Skinny made headlines again after he punched a fan on camera.
In May 2022,
a video started going around that showed Skinny punching a dude in the face.
The video shows the dude walk up to Skinny acting like he’s a fan,
and Skinny asks him if he wants a picture.
The dude says “can I ask you a question?”
And Skinny goes along with it.
That’s when the dude asks “when did you snitch on someone?”
Skinny obviously wasn’t with the disrespect.
And as soon as he heard the question
he punched the dude’s glasses off and just walked away.
Then the dude he hit walked off laughing.
But it ain’t end there.
After it went down,
the dude he hit jumped into Skinny’s DMs and started trying to get money out of him.
Their messages got posted online, and the dude said
“I can really make a bag off u.
Not gonna be going to law if u pay a lil price.”
Skinny ain’t respond to the blackmail,
but dude ain’t let up.
Later he said
“I WANT THATBBREAD Cashapp or We gon press them charges.”
It don’t look like this dude is gonna get the payout he thought he would,
so at the end of the day he got punched in the face for no reason.
The rest of the year been pretty quiet for Skinny.
He’s still dropping music and working on his career,
but it’s been a while since he’s had anything pop off like his older hits.
Hopefully he can keep his head down and stay out of trouble though,
because these last few years been wild for him!