Hip hop has always been a genre that is anti-authority.
From NWA’s "F*** Tha Police" to YG and Nipsey Hussle’s "F*** Donald Trump",
rappers have a long history of beefing with law enforcement and politicians.
Here is a look at some of the craziest standoffs between high-profile rappers and police or security.
Game and T.I.
The Game and T.I. are two legends in the rap game.
The Game is one of the most respected rappers to come out of California in the early 2000s.
T.I. is a living legend in Atlanta who is credited as being one of the creators of trap music.
Both have had long, productive careers, full of highs and lows.
The Game grew up in Compton, California,
and became a member of the piru bloods as a teenager,
despite growing up in a cripp neighborhood.
T.I. began drug dealing at a young age
and had been arrested several times before the age of 14.
They both came up through rough circumstances
but went on to be some of the most successful and prolific rappers of the early 2000s.
But despite all their success,
the artists still have to deal with street drama from time to time.
A video released by TMZ back in 2014
showed the Game and TI, along with both of their crews,
get into a tense standoff with police outside the Supper Club in Hollywood, California.
According to witnesses, two men who were mutual acquaintances of both rappers
tried to get into the club but were denied entry.
It’s not entirely clear what set off the fight,
but footage released by TMZ shows security pummeling two men.
Security then starts trying to put cuffs on the two of them.
Another video released by TMZ shows the aftermath of this fight,
and this time TI and the Game are involved.
The two rappers were in the club when the original fight was going down
and came out afterward to find out what the problem was.
By this point, the LAPD is on the scene and the situation is tense.
TI starts asking whether this is a crime scene because he and his team have good lawyers.
Members of their crew start arguing with the police and shouting at them, which creates even more tension.
Someone pulls out their phone to record the whole situation
while the cops start pulling out guns and batons to prepare for a brawl.
It seems like things are about to pop off at any moment,
until someone in the crowd tells the rappers that the police didn’t beat up their friends, it was security.
This leads the rappers and their entourage
to start searching for the people that beat up their homies and all hell breaks loose.
They start screaming at security and the scene turns into chaos.
The Game even starts taking off his hat and opens up his jacket,
in case he has to suddenly throw down.
He eventually storms at the entrance of the club and starts shoving one of the security guards
who was standing on the back of his friend and threatening to send him to jail, but other people intervene,
and he is forced to back off.
Luckily, no one was hurt or shot and the video ends with the Game and his crew
searching for the security guard who hit their friend.
According to Billboard, the two men were brought into custody
and later released without being charged with anything.
It’s not clear exactly what set off the melle –
but the two dudes who got the beat down must have done something to really piss off security
because their reaction was pretty wild.
But the Game and TI aren't the only artists to get into crazy beef with the police and security.
This next rapper has no respect for the law at all
and has gotten in numerous beefs with authority figures and even ended up getting arrested on a flight to LA.
Let’s get right into it.
Lil Pump
Lil Pump is no stranger to controversy.
The 20-year-old rapper has built an entire brand off being wild and disrespectful toward adults.
There are at least three documented incidents of Lil Pump getting into it with cops or security.
The first incident was on the No Jumper Tour back in May 2017,
around the time Pump and SmokePurpp were first blowing up.
At a meet and greet with fans in Portland, Origan,
Pump starts breaking down weed to roll in a blunt right on the signing table.
The security comes over to tell him to stop and Pump clearly isn’t feeling it.
Recreational marijuana is legal in Oregon and therefore Pump wasn’t breaking any laws by smoking.
However, if a private business doesn’t want you smoking on their property, they do have a right to tell you to stop.
They keep telling him he can smoke in the green room,
but Pump clearly isn’t trying to listen to them,
and the meet and greet ends before it even officially starts.
Just a few months later, a similar incident occurred
where Pump was kicked out of a hotel room and started roasting the hotel employee on the way out.
In a clip uploaded to Instagram,
Pump can be seen chilling in his hotel while a bunch of police are in the room.
The camera jumps to show a hotel employee with a clipboard and Pump immediately starts making jokes.
He accuses the employee of kicking him out of the hotel because he is racist and ugly
and even says that the guy has a “big ass gut” and continues with more insults.
His crew starts dying laughing,
but it’s clear that the police and hotel staff aren’t too pleased.
On the way out,
Pump films the parking lot of the hotel to show that there are three cop cars and even shouts out “I plead the 5th!”,
showing that he clearly isn’t too bothered by the situation.
You kicking me out of the hotel for being racist and ugly, you big ugly ass, you got a big ass gut.
You're like 65 your tape why it went back.
Three cop cars.
I plead the 5th.
It’s not clear from the video what caused the police to be called
and escort Lil Pump out of the hotel.
But based on his typical behavior,
he was probably smoking weed and partying in the hotel room
and when security told him to stop,
he argued or started clowning them, so they brought in the police.
But that wasn’t the last time that Pump got into a beef with service staff.
About a year after the incident at the hotel,
Lil Pump was arrested for disorderly conduct
before boarding a flight from Miami to LA.
TMZ reported that the baggage handlers claimed that they smelled a strong odor of weed
coming from Pump’s bag.
The flight’s captain confronted the rapper about the smell and Pump didn’t like his tone.
There is no footage of the incident so it’s tough to know exactly what happened.
But eventually Pump had to be escorted off the plane
and was arrested for disorderly conduct.
This is your bag?
No.
Hmm?
No.
Whose bag is it?
Somebody else.
What's your name?
Gazzy García.
Ok.
There's a tag with your name on it.
That's not my bag tho.
That's not your bag?
No.
Hello?
The crazy thing is that airline personnel later searched the bags belonging to Pump and his crew
and no drugs were found inside.
So, Pump may have actually been in the right this time.
However, based on his past behavior
it’s not hard to imagine Pump wilding out on a pilot or flight attended
and blowing the whole thing out of proportion,
especially for something he didn’t actually do.
Sadly, that wasn’t even the last time that Pump was kicked off of an airplane for disorderly conduct.
In December 2020,
the rapper was banned from Jet Blue Airlines for refusing to wear a mask on the flight,
not long after endorsing Donald Trump for president.
So, this likely won’t be the last time that Pump gets into a petty beef with security.
F*** JetBlue,
f*** everyone working there and ****.
Y'all ******* some bums.
All of 2021 I ain't wearing no mask I ain't gotta wear no ******* mask *****corona is fake.
Bye!
MGK
Colson Baker- better known as Machine Gun Kelly,
is a singer, rapper, and actor from Cleveland, Ohio.
MGK is known for his fast rapping ability
and his versatility in the entertainment industry.
In addition to being a rapper,
he also recently released a pop-punk album executive produced by Travis Barker from Blink-182
and has appeared in several films.
MGK is also known for his confrontational attitude and is always ready for the smoke.
Back in 2018, he made headlines
after exchanging diss tracks with the king of the white rappers – Eminem.
The feud began in 2012
after MGK tweeted about Eminem’s daughter Hailey being hot.
Hailey was only 16 at the time and apparently,
Em didn’t appreciate MGK’s remark,
even though MGK admitted that Em was the king in the same tweet.
Eminem kept this beef bottled up for six years until releasing his Kamikaze album in 2018,
where he dissed him directly on the song Not Alike.
MGK responded with the diss track Rap Devil,
where he takes shots at the Detroit rapper, despite previously admitting that he is a legend.
Fans were somewhat shocked that MGK responded so quickly and so brutally,
especially against an established vet like Eminem.
Em didn’t respond to MGK’s diss with another record,
but he did address the beef in an interview with Sway later that year.
Ever since fans have known that MGK ain’t one to play with.
But way before the Eminem-MGK beef,
MGK was putting people in their place.
A video released by DJ Vlad back in 2012
shows the Rap Devil rapper going to war with a group of rent-a-cops for bothering him about his skateboard.
The video starts with MGK chasing down two men on bikes.
He has a skateboard in his hand and starts asking them why they’re running away.
They try to ignore him, but eventually, they stop.
It’s tough to know what happened before the video starts,
but it seems like MGK is pissed because the rent-a-cops saw him with a skateboard
and sent back-up on golf carts to harass him.
The dudes on the bike keep telling MGK that they work for the police department,
which doesn’t seem to phase him too much.
He starts cursing them out and telling them that they’re a joke,
so clearly, they aren’t real police or he’d probably be in handcuffs.
One of them tells him that they don’t like his language and MGK tells them to make him stop.
The rent-a-cops keep telling MGK that they work for the police
and he keeps reminding them that they work for the police, but they aren’t police.
A few minutes later, an actual cop shows up and asks what’s going on.
MGK tells the cop that he’s not Tony Hawk
and he isn’t trying to ruin the neighborhood grinding on rails and curbs.
He was just trying to get around and suddenly these rent-a-cops started bothering him.
He starts claiming discrimination,
and says that they didn’t follow another kid who looked more suburban,
they targeted him because he was wearing tattoos and a wife beater.
The cop just stands there and doesn’t say much.
The whole incident is tense but never escalates into anything but shouting.
You see the cop that just passed?
Who the **** cares?
He's probably going for the college department.
What kinda- your what?
We work for the police department.
You are ******* security dog, a badge? a patch is not a badge dude.
**** off dude you're a ******* joke.
You called the golf cart squad on me?
You guys wearing ******* helmets you're on bicycles go ******* do something it's Friday man.
I'm not doing ****, do you see me busting any tricks at all?
I don't like your language right now.
Dude **** you, then come make me stop talking the way I am then.
Huh?
Take your ******* shirt off with your "badge" and ******* make me stop talking the way I am.
I'm not ******* Tony Hawk,
I can't grind on this rock thing, I'm using this skateboard to get around.
I'm not even from here.
You're gonna follow the kid on a skateboard with a backpack and a little hoodie.
You follow the kid with tattoos and a wife beater,
because you think he's up to no good and that's *******.
Steve-O!
Hey how you doing?
What's up man?
See you're not following them.
That **** is ******** man.
What am I-? It's a phrase of open handed man.
MGK won the argument and put those rent-a-cops in their place
-because even the actual cop who showed up isn’t able to do anything.
There’s nothing illegal about riding a skateboard through a neighborhood
and it seems like the dudes on the bikes got a little power hungry
and picked on the wrong white rapper, because MGK is ready for the smoke at all times.
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