Being a rapper from the streets
means some dudes expect you to check in.
If you aint movin right and get caught up in the wrong hood,
things could go south quick.
Today, we’re covering the hottest rappers who got checked by street goons.
Youngboy Never Broke Again had a wild come up in Baton Rouge
and wrote his first project while he was locked up on a robbery charge.
Now he’s one of the biggest rappers in the world
and he has never let anyone check him.
In 2018, Youngboy was shooting a video in LA in Watts.
Apparently some locals weren’t having it,
so they rolled up and tried to press him and his crew.
A video of what went down shows Youngboy angrily walking around a crowd of people
and repeating “You heard me, Big E?”
While a car rolls by full of dudes yelling.
One of the dudes in the car said “You in Watts boy. We good homie.
We good right here, my boy. We ain’t gotta worry ‘bout nothin’ right here.”
And that’s when someone in the NBA crew allegedly pulled his gun out.
The dudes in the car ducked down and drove off,
and the crowd watching the scene ran away screaming.
The video cuts off there,
but apparently no one was actually shot over the situation.
That’s not the only time Youngboy almost had an issue in LA.
Later that same month,
a dude banging bounty hunter watts bloods tried to check him on the street.
It’s not clear how it started,
but Youngboy and the other dude start yelling back and forth
while Youngboy’s homie holds him back.
Another video shows Youngboy and the dude yelling at each other again
at a different spot,
and the Blood tells him
“You bang for the fame. I gang bang.”
Youngboy was trying to get at the dude,
but his homie held him back
and the other dude wasn’t really trying to make a move.
The video cuts off before the situation ends,
but it doesn’t seem like anything really happened.
Youngboy was ready for smoke though,
so luckily his team was there to keep everything cool.
Back in 2018,
Dababy was in East Atlanta filming a video
for the track 21.
He linked up with a film crew and got to work,
but in the middle of the shoot a bunch of goons rolled up and tried to press him.
The video crew shot the whole thing,
and you can see like a dozen dudes walk up to the spot
while Dababy’s trying to work.
They stood across the street and started asking Dababy
where his permission slip was.
Dababy told them nobody signed a permission slip for him,
and one of the goons clapped back and said
“I gotta see something. Yeah, this my city baby.”
Who signed your permission slip?
Ain't nobody signed a permission slip for me.
They didn't?
Mmhm.
Huh?
I gotta see something.
Oh yeah?
I ain't know that.
Yeah this my city baby.
Okay.
Dababy was outnumbered in the situation,
but he didn’t back down at all.
He told the dudes he’s not gonna check in with anyone,
and if they wanted to talk about it
they should’ve come to him with respect instead of trying to roll up and check him.
It looked like something was about to pop off,
and Dababy even told the camera crew to back up real quick.
If there’s any mainstream rapper you don’t want to press, it’s Dababy.
Just a month after the this happened,
he shot and killed a dude at a Walmart who allegedly tried to rob him.
Luckily the dudes in Atlanta decided to just walk off
before anything serious went down,
because Dababy says he was ready for the smoke.
In 2019, DJ Vlad asked Dababy
if he thought the situation could have gone wrong
and Dababy told him
“Yeah, but God was on they side.
It worked out perfect for ‘em.”
If most rappers were outnumbered like that
and said God was on the other dude’s side,
nobody would take them seriously.
But with Dababy’s reputation he might be telling the truth.
Youngboy isn’t the only dude in the NBA crew who got pressed on the streets.
Youngboy’s homie D Dawg and another dude
were walking down the street when a guy with a camera came up and said
I’m a real street n****.
Real street n****.
D Dawg and his homie didn’t know what was going on,
and then the dude said
I’m the original chain-
I’m the original chain snatcher.
Alright.
D Dawg and the other dude started walking off,
and when the camera guy followed them,
D Dawg told him
“You gon’ get yo ass painted.
Ay nah much love.
You gon’ get stuck.”
That’s when the guy said he was a comedian
and he knew D Dawg and his homie weren’t playing
D Dawg is the last person a civilian should try and mess with.
He was arrested for murder at 14 years old,
and now he’s been charged in an attempted murder case from 2018.
When the cops tried to bring him in on the charge,
D Dawg got into a high speed chase
that ended with him crashing and killing his homie in the passenger seat.
The cops found guns and a ski mask in the whip,
and now D Dawg’s sitting in jail on an insane 19.7 million dollar bond.
It’s a good thing the comedian turned around and left when he did,
because there’s no telling what would’ve went down if he tried to press him more.
Quando Rondo made headlines after being involved with the death of King Von,
but that’s not the only issue he’s had in the streets.
Back in 2019
he was allegedly checked by some Hoovers in LA.
Quando used to claim rollin 60s neighborhood cripp,
but when the Hoovers checked him at the mall
he allegedly said he wasn’t from anywhere.
The situation didn’t become an issue,
but later a pic came out showing Quando throwing up gang signs in LA
saying f*** Hoover.
That’s when a dude named Alshawn Martin hopped on social media to air Quando out.
Alshawn reposted the picture of Quando throwing the sign and captioned it with
“whenever i do see you keep that same energy my guy…
keep it!
You from out of state and you thinking its about to fly…
the homiez just marked you out a few days ago….
Ima teach yo ass a lesson, you violating!
You just told n****z “naw man I’m a artist.”
You just stepped in some LA Politics, boy.”
Then in August 2022,
Quando was at a gas station in LA
when three gunmen rolled up on him and started letting off shots.
Quando made it out without getting hit,
but his homie Lul Pab died on scene.
After Pab passed,
Quando hopped on his IG Story
and said he’s leaving the Crip life behind.
He said “It’s time for me to spend time to myself and free myself from a lot of people.
My Main Manz Gone & a lot more s***
I’m cool on alot of s***
if I feel like you not with me
it’s no reason for me to be holding on to you
no need to shake your hand or fake some s*** with you!...
I’m my own man
I layed my flag down I’m not NH
yall ain’t gone ride for a n**** foreal
it’s no sense of me being apart of yall s*** y’all fw the opposition…”
Quando got clowned on social media for saying he quit being a cripp.
But it looks like he’s just trying to focus on his music now
and stay out of any more street drama.
In 2017,
Soulja Boy was beefing with Chris Brown and wanted to prove
that he still had love in the streets.
He pulled up to the hood on IG Live,
but it didn’t go down like he expected
and he ended up getting checked.
Soulja was out in the street when he saw a dude walking up.
Soulja said “What’s going on man?
They say Soulja Boy ain’t from the hood,”
and tried to put his arm around the dude.
But the other guy obviously wasn’t feeling it
and shoved Soulja away.
That’s when Soulja put his phone down and acted like he was gonna square up for the fade,
but the video cut off before anything really happened.
It looked like Soulja was with some respected members
so he was good,
But that’s not the only time Soulja got pressed.
Back in 2019
a video came out of Casanova checking him
after they ran into each other at Sirius XM.
Apparently Soulja had yelled at a woman before the video started,
and Cas told him
“You screamed at a lady. You bugging the f*** out, homie.
You buggin out,
You got shit all over your face.
Are you bugging out? You high? You smacked?
I understand.
You don’t see how she ran out?”
Soulja told Cas
“You don’t understand how they treat me, bro.
I understand what you said.
They females homie look.
Females!
If they females, they need to talk like females.
Why she talkin’ like she gangsta?”
It looked like the situation was about to turn up between Cas and Soulja’s security,
but luckily for Soulja and his crew nothing serious went down.
Casanova is facing 60 years right now on racketeering and drug charges,
and if a fight actually broke out
the situation probably would’ve gone left for Soulja.