Lontrell Denell Williams Jr.
better known by his stage name Pooh Shiesty,
is a rapper from Memphis, Tennessee.
Even though he’s only been making music since 2017,
he is one of the hottest up-and-coming artists in hip hop
and has racked up millions of streams on tracks like 7.62 God
and Back in Blood featuring Lil Durk.
He signed to Gucci Mane’s 1017 label in April 2020 and is in a good position
to be one of the next big stars out of the south.
However, like many promising young rappers,
just as Pooh Shiesty’s career was getting off the ground,
he was arrested in connection with a shooting that could potentially
put his career and freedom in jeopardy.
The shooting took place in Bay Harbor, Florida on October 13th, 2020.
No one was killed, but two victims sustained gunshot wounds.
Pooh Shiesty and his associates were arrested and charged with armed robbery,
aggravated assault, battery, and criminal theft.
This case is still ongoing and the full story has yet to be revealed.
But there is surveillance footage of the shooting that has been released to the public.
Let’s take a look back at Pooh Shiesty’s criminal history
and his career up to this point.
Pooh Shiesty was born in Memphis, Tennessee on November 8th, 1999.
Compared to many rappers
he had a fairly stable childhood with both his parents in the picture.
However, his father Lontrell Williams Sr
was a rapper who went by the name Mob Boss
and was the founder of a Memphis based record label called Mob Ties Records.
Both Pooh Shiesty and his father grew up in South Memphis
and were involved in the streets from an early age.
In 2004, Lontrell Sr.
was charged as an accomplice in the murder of a radio DJ
who was found dead in her apartment.
He wasn’t the one who committed the murder, but he was somehow involved.
In an interview with Fucious TV,
the rapper claims his father was always in his life except when he was locked up.
What about your pops? You know, was your pops around?
Yeah, most def
Pops been around from the start unless he was locked
You know what I'm saying.
There's a long time he wasn't around
On the track Monday to Sunday featuring Lil Baby and Big30,
Pooh Shiesty raps
"Miss Gladys raised a Savage they say I shoot like my daddy",
referencing his father's criminal past.
The cover art for his track Day One also features a picture of the young rapper
with his father dressed as old school Chicago gangsters,
machine guns and all that.
Although the guns are probably just props and the outfits just costumes,
it shows the kind of father-son relationship they had.
Fans and journalists have uncovered an old photo of Pooh Shiesty
wearing an ankle monitor at only 11 years old.
The rapper has been quiet about exactly what he was charged with at such a young age,
but whatever it was, it was enough to get him expelled from school
and sent to an alternative school.
At age 16, the rapper left Memphis
and relocated with his mother to Pflugerville, Texas.
But he returned to Memphis 2 years later which is when he started rapping.
He and his childhood friend Big30 started releasing music in 2017,
but it wasn’t until he dropped his breakout hit, Shiesty Summer
that things started to heat up for Pooh Shiesty.
His song At It Again was remixed by Moneybagg Yo in March 2020
and he caught the eye of Gucci Mane not long after.
He signed to 1017 Records in April 2020
and the two collaborated on the track Still Remember in June 2020.
The duo reunited on Who is Him? for the 1017 compilation album So Icy Summer,
which was released on July 3rd, 2020.
He continued this impressive streak of hits
by releasing the track Back in Blood with Lil Durk in November 2020,
which became his most streamed song to date with just under 30 million plays on Spotify.
But just a few weeks before this track dropped
Pooh Shiesty found himself in some serious legal trouble.
Video surveillance footage released by a Miami News Station
allegedly shows Pooh Shiesty involved in a shootout that occurred in broad daylight
in a parking lot in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.
The footage shows a Green McLaren, a Mercedes Maybach,
and another Mercedes enter the parking lot and pull over.
A group of men gets out of each of the cars and at first, things appear to be calm.
But, all of a sudden, guns are drawn, and shots start going off.
It’s not entirely clear what set off the mayhem
but one man with a pistol and another with a Draco start firing shots.
The camera clearly shows a man in a white T-shirt get shot in the ass
and start limping away.
He hides behind a vehicle and can be seen inspecting the wound,
while the others hop back in the car and flee the scene.
The footage is pretty clear because the camera is pointed right at the crew
and the shooting happened in the middle of the day in a well-lit area.
But it’s tough to make out the identities of the men involved.
Allegedly, Pooh Shiesty is in the Green McLaren,
but it’s not clear if he was one of the shooters or if it were other members of his crew.
The incident has fans puzzled because at first everything seems cool,
but within seconds it turns to gunfire.
The footage shows a McLaren sports car,
a Mercedes Mabach, and another Mercedes
pull in to the side of East Bay Harbor Drive condo parking lot
Men from the vehicles eventually get out and meet and then this
The man in the white shirt has a pistol
The man in the black shirt has a longer gun
and at about the same time they begin firing.
before retreating back to the Maybach
The fancy getaway cars speed off,
Then one of two victims hobbles to the car
Rumors are circulating that it was a drug deal or sneaker sale gone wrong.
The victims drove themselves to urgent care in Miami after the shooting.
One had to undergo surgery, however, they have both made a full recovery.
One of the victims told police that they were there to sell Shiesty a pair of Air Jordan 4’s.
The other victim said that they were there to sell him weed
and get a payment for the McLaren
which supposedly Pooh Shiesty was renting from them.
So, off the bat, their stories didn’t exactly add up.
The one victim claims that he was inside the vehicle and about to sell Pooh Shiesty weed
when a group of other men hopped out of another vehicle with guns.
The rapper told him to get out of the car and as he was doing so he was shot in the ass.
The other victim says that he was walking to his car when the men showed up
and he was shot twice in the back.
After the shooting,
police found a Louis Vuitton bag with $30,000 cash left on the scene.
Allegedly this bag belonged to Pooh Shiesty.
The cops used his own Instagram to trace the bag and the bills to the rapper.
They were able to uncover an Instagram post where he was seen flexing with a bag
and match the serial numbers to the bags and the cash.
According to the victims,
the incident seems like Pooh Shiesty and his crew set them up to get robbed.
But if that were the case, then why would he bring his own $30,000 cash
and leave it at the scene?
Plus, why would he have that much money if he was only buying Jordans and weed?
Maybe if he was really renting the McLaren from them,
but then why stage a robbery just to steal your own money back?
Pooh Shiesty was released not long after on a $30,000 bond,
the same amount of money that he left on the scene.
Shiesty has hired one of the best attorneys currently working in hip hop
a man named Bradford Cohen.
Bradford Cohen is a lawyer who has defended high-profile artists like Kodak Black,
Lil Wayne, and YNW Melly.
Cohen was the one responsible for helping Kodak and Wayne beat their federal gun charges
and even negotiated a pardon from former President Donald Trump back in January.
Check out our video on Rappers Pardoned of Their Crimes
for more information on their gun cases.
Kodak was so happy with the way Cohen handled his case,
that he got his name tattooed on his hand in appreciation.
So, Cohen is no stranger to helping high-profile rappers beat difficult cases.
Cohen successfully argued that there are many holes in the victim’s story.
First, one of them claimed that they were there to sell some sneakers,
while the other adamantly claimed that they were trying to sell the rapper drugs,
which is tough to make either seem like a credible witness.
Second, Pooh Shiesty is one of the hottest up-and-coming rappers in the country
and it seems unlikely that he would knowingly show up to a planned robbery in broad daylight,
especially with $30,000 of his own money.
Cohen argues that something occurred outside the vehicle
that Shiesty had no involvement in and he was simply caught in the middle.
The judge must have agreed with him to some extent
because he set the bond at a low rate.
When a famous rapper is charged with a violent crime,
the bond is usually six figures and beyond, especially if it’s shooting in broad daylight.
But because there are so many holes in the victim’s story
and it’s still unclear whether Pooh Shiesty was one of the shooters
or just happened to be in the car,
he was let off with a bond he could easily pay.
Although this case is far from a slam dunk,
Shiesty does have a few things working in his favor.
First, the shooting happened in Florida,
a state that has more relaxed gun laws than most other states,
including a stand your ground law.
If Pooh Shiesty’s team can prove that they fired in self-defense,
they can easily beat the charge.
That may be tough to prove because the victims don't appear to be armed,
but if they can prove that the victims threatened them
or otherwise contributed to the violence, it will make it an easier case to beat.
If the shooting had happened in a more heavily- regulated state like New York
or California, it would be tough to explain why his team was casually strapped with a Draco.
But in Florida it's a whole different world.
Second, neither victim sustained life-threatening injuries.
If either one had been seriously injured or killed, it would be a tougher charge to beat.
But given his clout and connections,
Pooh Shiesty can likely plead down the charges to avoid jail time.
Perhaps the biggest thing going for Pooh Shiesty
is that the victim admitted that he was there to sell the rapper weed.
When someone shoots an innocent bystander, the courts are much stricter on punishment.
But when it comes to street business that involves willing parties,
they tend to be a bit more lenient
because the victims put themselves in a risky situation
and therefore aren’t entirely innocent.
It also makes it harder for the prosecutors to paint Pooh Shiesty and his crew
as the aggressors when the victims were there to sell drugs in the first place.
Fans have speculated several theories as to what may have gone down.
Some say that the victims were planning on robbing Shiesty,
and his crew simply got the jump on them.
Others have claimed that perhaps the victims said something disrespectful
and tensions escalated into a shootout.
There are still so many unknown variables in the situation
that it’s tough to know exactly what happened.
This case is still ongoing and new details will continue to emerge.
Only time will tell whether this case will simply be a blip on the radar
of a massively successful career for Pooh Shiesty
or if it will destroy his career entirely and he will fall off like many other artists do.
Either way, the incident hasn’t stopped the rapper’s hustle.
In February 2021, he released his debut mixtape, Shiesty Season
which featured guest verses from artists like 21 Savage
and his labelmate Foogiano.
The case has put a black cloud over the future,
but it hasn’t stopped him from being one of the most popular artists in the game.
Whether he beats the case and continues his meteoric rise
or lets it stop him in his tracks is yet to be seen.
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