Making it out the streets
and into the rap game gives you credibility in the industry,
but it can also put a target on your back
from the cops.
They love trying to catch big names slipping,
and today we’re breaking down the craziest run-ins
that famous rappers had with the police.
Boosie BadAzz has had a lot of trouble with cops over the years.
He was arrested back in 2008 on drug and gun charges
and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Then in 2010
he got hit with a first-degree murder charge
and was facing the death penalty if he was convicted.
Boosie beat the murder case,
but in 2011
he was sentenced to eight more years
after he allegedly
tried to smuggle drugs into two different prisons.
Luckily his lawyers were able to prove that it was a set up.
Boosie was addicted to codeine at the time,
and the cops had an informant
offer to bring him some while he was locked up.
So Boosie only served a couple of years and was released in 2014.
He didn’t have any more legal issues for almost a decade,
but back in July he was pulled over for an obstructed license plate
and told the cops he would spit on them.
Bodycam footage from the arrest showed up online,
and in the video you can see Boosie walking around in cuffs
yelling at the cops.
He threatened to spit on them,
then challenged them to take their badges off and run a fade.
Boosie was cited for possession of weed
but the cops let him and his homie go without arresting them.
Then a month later,
he got pulled over again for speeding -
and this time he started rapping for the cops.
He took a video during the stop,
and while the cops were searching his car
Boosie started rapping his hit Set It Off.
Then he switched it up and started spitting bars from his track
F*** the Police right in front of the cops.
Say it with me,
f*** the police,
f*** the police.
They let him go with just another citation,
but Boosie made it clear that he’s not rocking with the cops
even if they’re not booking him.
Hopefully he switches up how he moves
and avoids any more stops,
because he’s already beat too many charges
to throw it all away and end up back in prison.
Kodak Black is another massive artist
who’s had a lot of trouble with the police.
He went to juvie three times in one year,
and he’s been arrested over ten times since then.
Back in 2020
he pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and got sent to prison,
but Donald Trump pardoned him the next year and he got out early.
Even though he’s one of the biggest rappers in the game,
Yak can’t stop running into the cops.
He got booked on a trespassing charge in January,
and in July he was stopped in Florida for illegal tint.
The cops found 31 oxy pills and $75K racks in the whip,
but Kodak ended up on house arrest
since he was already on parole.
He’s facing some serious charges over the arrest,
but that didn’t stop him from hopping on Twitter
to troll the cop that booked him.
He wrote “Hey, I’m Officer Pinky D***,
the one on the news for arresting the rapper kid with the big d*** and a lotta cash.
Yeah, my daughter talks about it so much,
I had to pull ‘em over so I can feel it myself.”
Kodak was booked on possession of a controlled substance and drug trafficking,
so tap in for updates as the case develops.
Last year Polo G scored a huge win
after his album Hall of Fame
debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
But the day after the album dropped,
Polo was arrested in Miami after he allegedly
tackled a cop and started throwing punches.
According to reporters,
the car Polo was in got pulled over
and the situation turned up quick.
After the cops pulled him out of the car,
Polo allegedly wrestled one of them to the ground
and started punching and elbowing him.
Apparently
he even told the cop he was gonna kill him.
Eventually the cops cuffed and booked him,
and it was looking like Polo was about to get locked up
right when his career was getting bigger than ever.
His mom said the cops targeted him,
and after it went down Polo tweeted
“They playin foul in Miami
& dat s*** been like that for a minute.”
Polo got hit with a bunch of charges,
including two felonies for attacking the cop,
but all of them were dropped in April
after he completed an anger management course.
Getting the felonies dropped was a huge win,
and now he can go back to focusing on the music.
Hopefully Polo stays off the police radar from now on though.
He has a lot of momentum behind him,
and it would be a shame to lose it all over some petty legal issues.
King Von had a lot of charges on his record
before he was killed back in 2020.
He would probably be facing at least three murder cases right now,
and the cops even tried to press him in the middle of a music video shoot.
A bodycam video surfaced online
showing a cop trying to question Von.
The cop kept trying to get Von to talk
and threatened to book him on accessory charges,
but Von just kept his head down and didn’t say anything.
It’s not clear what was going down,
but apparently the cop didn’t really have anything to pin on him.
Von’s cameraman filmed the whole thing,
and a crowd of people were standing around watching the cop question him.
You gonna talk man?
You gonna tell me what's going on over there or what?
You gonna act stupid?
I can take you in for accessory, you know that.
You gonna say something?
Speak.
Did the cat got your tongue or what?
The video cuts off before anything happens,
but it doesn’t seem like Von was booked.
A lot of people get loud and start yelling when the cops try to press them,
but Von kept his cool and didn’t give them any excuse to take him in.
6ix9ine is famous for flipping on his crew
and working with the police,
but back in 2018
he got hit with assault charges
for “attacking” a cop.
It all started after 6ix9ine
parked in front of a fire hydrant and got charged with two misdemeanors.
Then the next day
he got hit with five more charges
when the cops took his cuffs off
and he “grabbed and squeezed” a cop’s hand.
According to police reports,
6ix9ine caused “pain and swelling” to the cop
- so they booked him on a wild assault charge.
The case was already weak,
so 6ix9ine eventually got off with a plea deal
and didn’t serve any time.
Usually getting assault charges against a cop
would give a rapper some clout,
but 6ix9ine didn’t get any respect
for just giving the cop a really strong handshake.
Foolio is a rapper from Jacksonville, Florida
who’s known for his deadly war against Yungeen Ace.
He told fans he’s taking a step back from all the beef and dissing dead opps,
but that hasn’t stopped the cops from targeting him.
Back in April,
Foolio was pulled over in Jacksonville for illegal window tint.
According to them,
he drove around 400 feet
after they tried to pull him over -
so they booked him on a felony fleeing the police charge.
The case has caused a lot of controversy
after people saw the bodycam footage.
In the video, Foolio stops
less than 20 seconds after the cops flipped their lights on.
Next, five cops ran up with their guns out and booked him.
The situation was already sketchy,
then it got even weirder
when a detective testified
that they actually pulled him over to get his phone.
They held Foolio for over two hours in a squad car,
then took him to the state attorney’s office to press him about a murder case
he hasn’t even been charged in.
Plus, an assistant state attorney showed up during the stop
and told the cops how to handle it.
Foolio was facing three years in prison if the case went to trial,
but luckily his lawyer got him a plea deal
and now he’s only serving six months of probation.
Hopefully he switches up how he moves though,
because it’s pretty obvious the police in Jacksonville
have a target on his back.
Desiigner isn’t making headlines with his music like he was back in 2016,
but in June he was in the spotlight again
for yelling at some cops who pulled him over in LA.
According to the police,
they pulled him over for driving without plates and having illegal tint.
That’s when Desiigner stepped out of the whip
and the situation turned tough.
In a video of the stop,
you can see Desiigner walking around yelling at a big group of cops.
Some of them had their hands on their weapons,
and Desiigner yelled;
Please, please keep your hand off your gun,
keep your hand off your gun.
Keep your hand off your gun,
keep your hands off your guns.
Keep your hands off your f***** guns!
I don't got s***!
Everything could’ve gone left real fast,
but Desiigner calmed down after some more cops showed up
and settled the situation.
He got a ticket for tags and tint,
but luckily it didn’t get too crazy.
That wasn’t the first time he had issues with the police.
In 2018 he got into some sort of road rage situation with another dude,
and in the middle of the argument Desiigner pulled his pants down
and told the dude to suck his dick.
A cop came up to defuse everything,
and that’s when Desiigner dropped his pants in front of the cop too.
In 2019
Desiigner told his fans that he spends like $20K a month on Uber rides.
That’s a crazy amount of cash to throw away,
but maybe he should just go back to doing that and stay out of the driver’s seat.
Young M.A hasn’t been in and out of jail all her life like a lot of rappers,
but in 2020
she proved she was ready to stand up to the cops
after they tried to press one of her fans.
According to M.A,
it all started when one of her fans stopped in the road to show her love.
Then the cops showed up and pulled the fan over
for allegedly blocking traffic.
M.A started recording the situation,
and was pressing the cops
about why they were messing with her fan.
The cops started going through the fan’s trunk,
so M.A and a whole crowd got in their faces
and asked them why they were invading her privacy over a traffic stop.
The situation started getting heated
as more cops showed up,
but luckily they got it sorted out
before anything serious happened.
The woman was let off with a warning,
and afterwards M.A said
We got a warning, that's what we do.
Y'alls talking about how we not out here,
we fixed that.
She could’ve just left the scene when the cops showed up,
but instead she stood up for her fan
and let the cops know
they wasn't gonna pull any slick moves.