Hopping in the studio and breaking into the rap game
is a good way to make it out of the streets,
but it’s still not enough to keep some dudes out of jail.
Today we’re taking a look at some of the biggest rappers
who are behind bars right now,
and how their cases are going.
Let’s get right to it.
Tay-K became famous overnight
after running off on his murder charges and dropping the viral hit The Race.
Tay-K and his homies robbed and killed a dealer back in 2016.
At first he was put on house arrest,
but he cut off his ankle monitor and dropped The Race,
where he rapped
“F*** a beat, I was tryna beat a case
but I ain’t beat that case, b**** I did the race.”.
While he was on the run, Tay-K allegedly killed another dude
named Mark Anthony Saldivar in Texas.
The US Marshals eventually caught up to him in New Jersey,
and in 2019 the judge hit him with a 55 year sentence for the 2016 murder.
Back in 2020, Tay-K’s sister spoke out
and said he shouldn’t be locked up for so long
since he didn’t actually pull the trigger.
That same year rumors started flying that Tay had stabbed a prison guard
and had time added to his sentence,
but his legal team hopped on social media immediately and squashed the rumor.
Last year he told fans that he was still hoping to get out on bond
and that he was appealing the case.
Definitely still a chance
for me to come home on an appeal bond
Like when you bond out,
put you on appeal like they re-do you case so they gotta give you bond
It turns out he wasn’t happy with his legal team though,
and a few months later he tweeted that he needed a new appeal lawyer.
But even if Tay appeals the case he’s locked up for right now,
he’s still facing life in prison
and maybe the death penalty if he gets convicted for the second murder
he allegedly committed in Texas.
There’s nothing wrong with staying positive,
but Tay-K might just need to accept the fact
that he’s not gonna be out for a long time.
Ralo is a rapper from Atlanta
who signed to Gucci Mane after blowing up off the track Can’t Lie back in 2015.
He was grinding hard for the next few years,
but before he could really hit the mainstream
- he got booked on criminal conspiracy charges
after getting caught with $1,000,000 worth of weed on a private jet.
He’s been locked up since 2018,
and was just sentenced a few months ago.
Back in 2020 he was up for a $250K bond,
but it got revoked after Ralo got caught allegedly using code words on prison phones
to move weight from the inside.
Even though he hasn’t been able to do shows or connect with fans like he wants to,
Ralo's still been dropping music since getting locked up.
Earlier this year he dropped a new album called Political Prisoner
with features from huge artists like T.I and 2 Chainz.
Ralo sitting down for weed while it’s getting legalized all over America
has had a lot of fans and rappers pressed about the issue.
Drake, Lil Yachty, Meek Mill, Deion Sanders,
and way more signed a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to pardon Ralo.
And while Biden hasn’t let him out,
Ralo and his fans just got some good news.
In March, Ralo pleaded guilty to drug,
weapon, and money laundering charges
and now he might be getting out as soon as October 2023.
The courts gave him over four years of credit for time served,
plus another year and a half for good behavior.
If he completes his GED program
it’ll knock another year off his sentence,
and Ralo can finally come home and get back on his grind.
– Mozzy is a rapper from Sacramento
known for tracks like Last One Standing,
Ayy, and Famous.
He had a wild come up being raised by his grandmother
who was a member of the Black Panthers,
and he’s been in and out of jail for years.
He’s served time on weapon and drug charges before,
but for the last few years he's been focused on going hard in the rap game.
Back in February he signed his first major label deal
with CMG and Interscope
and it looked like he was ready to level up his career.
But just a few months later he turned himself in on a firearm charge
and got sentenced to a year in prison.
He was pulled over in Culver City back in 2021
and the cops found weed and a Glock 26 in the whip.
He got out on a light bail,
but instead of running and doing the race like Tay-K
He turned himself in back in July and pleaded guilty.
His lawyer tried to get him off with a probation sentence,
but the judge wasn’t feeling that
and sent Mozzy behind bars.
Catching a charge
right after he had his biggest break in the industry was a huge blow,
but Mozzy handled the situation well.
He wrote a letter to a local judge and said
“I once read, ‘a stumble may prevent a fall.’
I believe this was my ‘stumble’
which will prevent me from taking a ‘fall’.
I think I needed something like this to give a little more structure to my life.”
A few weeks back,
a new picture of Mozzy smiling from behind bars started going around on social media.
Right now he’s set to get out in July 2023,
and it seems like he’s got the right mindset to come home
and pick up right where he left off.
Muwop is a Chicago rapper who came up in O’Block.
He always had a reputation in the city as a shooter,
and allegedly slid on opps like Wooski from STL/EBT.
He started rapping in 2020,
but before he even dropped a full project
he got arrested with four other O’Block members
for allegedly killing FBG Duck in broad daylight.
Duck was out shopping in the wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood
when two cars full of shooters pulled up
and started letting off shots.
As soon as the hit went down,
rumors were flying that O’Block was behind it.
Duck was one of their biggest opps,
and a lot of dudes from the area started using his death to diss the rest of FBG.
Then in October 2021,
Muwop, C-Thang, C Murder,
Los, and Kenny all got his with a RICO indictment over the shooting.
Right after he got booked,
Muwop told a fan “im great and thanks for reaching out…
ill be out soon,”
but there haven’t been any updates since then.
The RICO trial is set to start October 2023,
but stay posted for updates
because more news could break on the case any day.
It’s a wild story with a lot of people involved,
and there’s no telling what’s gonna end up coming out.
HoneyKomb Brazy was one of the hottest rappers out of Alabama
before he got sent back to prison last year
and ordered to serve 15 years.
He had a crazy come up in Mobile,
and got arrested for the first time at just ten years old.
Brazy shot his own cousin over a money issue when he was 13.
He tried to do the race, but the cops caught him
and he got locked up until he was 16 or 17.
When he got out he was allegedly involved with another murder,
and a day before he went to trial,
his homie who was on the hit with him
got killed over a $5 dice game.
Brazy got back out in 2016
after serving four more years,
but then allegedly he shot and killed his childhood friend named Stank.
Brazy was at Stank’s apartment with Stank’s girlfriend,
and they ended up getting into a fight
that ended with Stank dead from a gunshot wound.
He beat that case, then went to jail in 2020
over a probation violation.
Brazy almost died in a shootout after the charge was dropped,
Last year,
all his street activities caught up to his family too.
On February 17th 2022,
someone started shooting at Brazy’s grandparent’s crib -
and both of them tragically died
after an oxygen tank inside the house exploded
and caused the whole thing to go up in flames.
Brazy was already dealing with the horrible loss of his grandparents,
and then he got locked up for violating parole again.
Now he’s serving 13.5 years,
and it don’t look like he’s handling it too well.
He posts a lot on social media from inside,
and last November he said
“N**** will rather die than live like this.”
According to him,
the guards have been putting him through all kinds of abuse since he’s been there.
Brazy is locked up in the Donaldson Correctional Facility,
and in July the news broke that seven inmates had died in less than two weeks.
The county coroner says that the deaths aren’t connected,
but who knows what’s really going on behind bars.
Hopefully Brazy’s time on the inside starts to get a little better.
He already has a lot to deal with right now,
and getting abused by prison guards ain't gonna help.
Kshordy was on his way to being the next dude to make it out of Jacksonville,
but last year he got a murder charge
and now he’s fighting for his life behind bars
and his own homies are allegedly throwing him under the bus.
In September 2021,
Shordy allegedly pulled up on a dude named NoFace
and started dumping shots.
He was beefing with Yungeen Ace’s homie Spinabenz,
and NoFace allegedly got killed because he was tight with Spin too.
What’s wild is that a month before it went down,
Shordy told Dirty Glove Bastard
that he wanted to get out of the streets and have nothing to do with Jacksonville.
His trial was supposed to start in August,
but Shordy fired two lawyers and is trying to get rid of the third.
It’s not clear when the trial will start,
but now rumors are flying
that his own homies are working with the cops.
A dude named Tay shotzz exposed Shordy’s homies
La Cracka and JakeJhit
for allegedly working with the cops.
They denied the rumors,
but we probably won’t know for sure what’s going down until the trial starts,
so tap in for updates
because this case could end up getting crazy once it kicks off.
DThang was one of the hottest rappers in the Bronx drill scene
and was popping off with tracks like Caution and Talk Facts.
It looked like he was gonna blow up and hit the mainstream,
but back in May he got caught up in a massive indictment
with 32 other members of a crew called RPT.
This ain't the first major takedown that targeted RPT.
Back in 2014
the cops tried to take out the whole crew and booked 20 of their affiliates.
Dthang grew up in their hood,
and he hopped off the porch at a young age and got active in the streets.
There's rumors that Kay Flock is his blood cousin,
but since they from rival sets
they’re still opps and have gone back and forth dissing each other.
DThang has been locked up on Rikers ever since the indictment,
and apparently it ain't been easy.
A few months back,
a phone call leaked where DThang was airing out his homies
for forgetting about him while he sat behind bars.
According to reports
he also got caught with some kind of illegal item in there.
Hopefully DThang can stay out the way
and avoid any more trouble while he's sitting down.
With a case this big
it could be years before he even goes to trial,
so he just needs to keep his head down while he waits.