Gucci Mane has been trying to become a successful label owner
ever since he launched So Icey Entertainment in 2007.
But building a roster full of stars ain’t easy.
All of Gucci’s new artists are street dudes who still got a foot in.
Now the whole label is about to fall apart because they’re all facing legal problems.
Let’s get into what’s going down.
Hotboy Wes
Texas rapper Hotboy Wes
signed to 1017 in July of 2021,
but apparently the deal wasn’t good enough to keep him from hitting licks.
Now he’s being accused of robbing a dude who was trying to buy his watch.
The U.S. Marshals arrested Hotboy for robbery back in February.
According to reports, Gucci Mane gifted him a Rolex to celebrate the label signing,
but Hotboy tried to sell it and then robbed the buyer.
Here’s what the alleged victim told police.
Around 5:45 a.m. on December 15th,
Hotboy met up with a dude who wanted to buy the Rolex.
The buyer handed over nine bands in cash,
then Hotboy just took the money and started to drive off.
The other dude tried to stop him,
but Hotboy allegedly hit him with the car door and smashed off.
The local police issued a warrant for his arrest,
but Hotboy was long-gone by the time they got to the scene.
Eventually a U.S. Marshals task force spotted the rapper
and booked him on a robbery charge.
If that wasn’t bad enough,
the Marshals also found Hotboy with a stolen gun when they arrested him.
So, now he’s facing charges for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon
and theft of a firearm.
After he posted bail, Hotboy hopped on social media to claim his innocence…
and compare himself to Jesus.
He posted on Instagram:
“If they threw stones at Jesus … What u think they gone do to you?”
It ain’t unheard of for rappers to be falsely accused of crimes by random clout chasers.
But Hotboy do have a long rap sheet.
In 2020 he got arrested after allegedly tryna run his baby mama off the road
while his own kids was in the car.
The rapper told police he was trying to talk to his kids,
but witnesses at the scene said he tried to run the other car into a cement barrier.
He’s facing an aggravated assault charge from that,
which could hurt his case in the robbery situation too.
Even as a kid, he was sent to juvie in 2010 for engaging in organized criminal activity.
Then in 2013 he got hit with seven years in prison for similar charges.
If this was his first offense,
it might be a lot easier for Hotboy to beat the case or plead out.
But with his criminal history and other pending charges,
he may end up sitting down for a while.
Foogiano
Foogiano was supposed to be 1017’s next big star.
He was a perfect fit for Gucci’s label,
a street dude who learned how to rap in prison and used his art to escape poverty.
But his partnership with Gucci got off to a tragic start
when two people got killed at one of his concerts in 2020.
Foogiano was performing at Lavish Lounge in South Carolina
just a few months after he signed to 1017.
According to police, an associate of Foogiano named Jacques Cooper
was on stage with him and threw up a gang sign.
This led to him getting into a fight with an audience member,
then Cooper pulled out a gun and let off shots into the crowd.
A security guard and innocent woman were both shot and killed,
and now Foogiano and Gucci are being sued over the shooting.
In December of the same year, Foogiano got arrested after a cop found a gun on him
during a traffic stop.
Foogiano been in-and-out of jail even more than Hotboy,
so the judge ordered him to wear an ankle monitor
and stay in Georgia after he posted bail.
Foogiano obviously ain’t like being tracked,
So just one day after getting out of jail,
he melted the monitor off his ankle and tossed it on the side of the highway.
But Instead of keeping a low profile,
Foogiano spent three months on the road filming music videos,
flexing cash on social media, and taunting the cops who were after him.
Then in March 2021, the U.S. Marshals found him in Memphis.
He pled guilty to removing the ankle monitor and going on the run,
and the judge sentenced him to five years in prison.
Foogiano might have avoided jail time completely if he ain’t run,
but judges always go hard on suspects who try to escape the police.
So now Fooigano lost his freedom, and 1017 is down another artist.
But, Foogiano seems to be taking it pretty well though.
In 2022 he was interviewed for a BBC documentary, and he told Louis Theroux
that he’s still wearing a $100,000 permanent grill behind bars.
He said “This is where I grew up. Like these are all my people.
These guards, I’ve been coming to this jail since I was a little boy.
This the jail, this is where I’m from.”
If Foogiano stays out of trouble in jail, he might get early release,
but one more slip-up could add even more time to his sentence.
Five years may seem like a long time for a rapper to be out of the spotlight.
But that's nothing compared to what this next artist is facing.
CoachDaGhost
CoachDaGhost is a Brooklyn drill rapper
who blew up back in 2020 with the track Hitlist.
But now his career is in jeapordy,
after getting charged with murder, attempted murder,
and assault related to the killing of a 17-year-old last March.
On March 13th, 2021,
a Brooklyn teenager named Bryan Sanon was walking down the street with a group of friends
when a shooter hopped out of a car and started letting off shots
- killing Bryan and wounding two others.
Detectives on the case connected CoachDaGhost almost immediately,
but he already fled the state by the time they realized he was involved.
Eventually they tracked him to Georgia
and brought him back to New York to face charges for the murder.
It ain’t clear if Coach was the shooter or just the driver,
but police think the murder might be gang-related.
This ain’t Coach’s first run in with the law though.
The rapper got arrested for attempted murder when he was 16,
Then not long after, he got wrapped up in a massive indictment
that targeted the Hoodstarz and the Wave Gang in 2012.
Coach was only 17 at the time,
but he was accused of being a high-ranking member of the Hoodstarz.
He got hit with five years for criminal possession of a weapon and assault.
But he ain’t waste his time behind bars.
He learned how to rap while in solitary,
and was ready to take over the game when he was released in 2017.
When Coach got out the drill scene was already popping,
so he hopped straight in the booth and started laying down tracks.
One thing that helped him make waves in the scene
was his beef with Woo rappers like Fivio Foreign.
Fivio and Coach had been sending disses back and forth.
But Coach really turned the heat up with the song Hitlist.
On the track, he went for Fivio’s neck with the lines
“I was searching for Fivio **** around and got addy on Gwuapo
And if you getting money,
then why you condoning the same **** that got Pop smoked
And I just find it funny it’s 2020 so stop reppin’ a set that you’re not, bro.”
This is the track that got everyone’s attention, including Gucci.
He posted a clip of the Hitlist video on Instagram and wrote
“Anyone from New York City Please Help Me contact this dude @coachdaghost
tell him I want him to sign to #TheNew1017 today. He 2 hard."
Coach was already making waves in the industry,
but a cosign from Gucci was a huge alley oop.
Soon after, Coach was rocking a 1017 chain and the deal was officially announced.
But everything wasn’t so simple behind the scenes.
When Gucci dropped his So Icy Summer project,
a compilation tape meant to showcase his whole roster, Coach wasn’t on it.
Then Coach ended up signing a deal with Atlantic Records instead.
1017 is affiliated with Atlantic,
and Coach shouted Gucci out for helping him get the deal,
but no one knows why his deal with Gucci fell through in the first place.
Some fans believe it’s due to Coach dissing Pop Smoke on Hitlist,
but nobody close to the situation has confirmed the rumor.
Now Coach is facing serious prison time for the murder and attempted murder charges.
He had the perfect opportunity to make it out of the streets,
but he wasted his second chance
and is allegedly responsible for the senseless death of a teenager.
Even though he never officially signed with 1017,
it’s ironic that Gucci cosigned so many rappers facing time
instead of just focusing on their music.
But Coach ain’t the only one looking at a long sentence.
This next artist is facing eight years behind bars over drugs and a pair of kicks.
Pooh Shiesty
Pooh Shiesty was meant to be 1017’s newest star.
After releasing a bunch of singles by himself,
Pooh signed to 1017
and received a massive push from Gucci.
They collab’d on tracks like Still Remember and Who is Him?
- and Pooh was already one of the most exciting new artists from the south.
But just when it looked like he was going to take over,
Shiesty got caught up in a case that could send him to prison for the next eight years.
On October 13th, 2020,
Pooh Shiesty and two other dudes pulled into a hotel parking lot
to link up with two more guys to buy weed and “high-end sneakers.”
According to police,
one of the sellers handed a bag of weed and a pair of shoes to Pooh Shiesty.
Then Shiesty pulled out a Draco and shot the dude in the butt
before smashing off in a rented McLaren.
In the middle of all the chaos,
a duffel bag with over forty racks in cash fell out of the car.
Investigators traced the money back to Shiesty
by matching it to the bills used in an Instagram post
the rapper put up a few days before the alleged robbery.
After the news broke, fans were confused about the case.
If Shiesty was really robbing the dudes,
why would he bring a bag full of cash and pull up in a McLaren?
Some believe that Pooh Shiesty was actually the target
and the other dudes were trying to rob him,
and that’s why he let off a shot and got out of there as fast as possible.
No one knows exactly what went down, but Pooh Shiesty ended up pleading guilty
to a firearms conspiracy charge.
He was originally facing three other charges,
including one with a possible life sentence,
but now the prosecutors are recommending an eight-year sentence.
Pooh Shiesty’s lawyer Brad Cohen
recently claimed that “ballistics and forensic evidence”
prove Shiesty ain’t shoot anyone.
He also pointed out how insane it would be for a rapper worth over three million dollars
to rob and shoot someone over “a few hundred-dollar drug deal for personal use,
while he was driving a lime green McLaren that he rented from the alleged victim.”
Cohen also said that the maximum sentence Pooh Shiesty should be charged with
is between 37 and 46 months.
But according to him, he plans on filing something
to prove Shiesty deserves a “below-guideline sentence” soon.
This is a wild case where no one really knows what went down,
but hopefully Pooh Shiesty and his lawyer can avoid a long sentence.
1017 artists are getting locked up left and right,
and Gucci needs rappers like Pooh Shiesty to hold it down for the label.
Pooh Shiesty was also accused of shooting a security guard in the ankle
after a show in Miami,
but he caught a lucky break when the guard decided not to press charges
or cooperate with authorities.
The security guard originally said Pooh Shiesty tried to fire at someone in the club,
but later he took it back and said he ain’t even remember that night
because he took a powerful painkiller called Dilaudid.
But it ain’t just current members of the roster getting in trouble with the law.
This next artist used to be a 1017 member,
but in 2022 he got arrested after running from the cops
and climbing on a roof to escape.
ODR Roboy
ODR Roboy signed to 1017 in 2020,
but it ain’t take long for his relationship with Gucci to go south.
In 2021, he hopped on social media to expose Gucci
for allegedly giving him a fake 1017 chain,
and as of today he’s no longer listed as a 1017 artist.
In March 2020, videos surfaced online showing Roboy running from the police.
The videos show him running shirtless and barefoot around a house
while the cops chase after him.
Then he climbed into the back of a pick up truck and tried to hide,
but a K9 unit found him immediately.
Instead of giving up, Roboy climbed on top of a house
desperately trying to escape.
The cops surrounded the house he was on,
and eventually they arrested him without a fight.
No one knows why the cops were after him,
but now he’ll probably have charges for evading the police
added on top of whatever else he’s facing.
It probably won’t be as serious
as the charges Foogiano caught after running from the feds for three months
and cutting off his monitor, but no details been released yet.