Even though DaBaby is one of the biggest names in hip hop,
he can’t seem to stay out of trouble.
From shooting a dude in Walmart to getting canceled for his rant at Rolling Loud
to beating up his baby mama’s brother at a bowling alley,
the rapper is always making headlines for the wrong reasons.
Now it looks like he got into a fight with his own artist backstage at a concert.
Here’s what went down.
On Friday April 22nd,
an Instagram user with the handle @prince_mazani
posted a video from the Spring Jam 2022 event in South Carolina
that shows DaBaby swinging on Wisdom -
an artist signed to his Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment label.
In the clip you can see DaBaby walking backstage at the arena.
Right when he passes his artist Wisdom, he turns around and starts throwing punches.
Wisdom and DaBaby go at it for a second
before security runs in and separates them.
As they’re getting pulled apart they continue yelling at each other,
but no one knows exactly what caused the fight.
@prince_mazani later implied
that DaBaby had a good reason for swinging on Wisdom
but at this time it ain’t clear what started the problem.
According to people who were backstage at the time, the entire situation was hectic.
Before the video was taken, DaBaby left his dressing room
and was about to go on stage to perform.
Then a loud pop went off like someone lit a firecracker,
and everyone scattered because they thought it might have been a gunshot.
The police came through to investigate, but realized it wasn’t actually shots.
According to rumors, Wisdom is allegedly the one who set off a firecracker
or whatever the sound was.
So, DaBaby got mad at him for almost getting the show canceled for something stupid.
Witnesses who saw the fight say the police were already backstage right next to them,
but DaBaby ain’t care and still swung on Wisdom.
Then after they were broken up, DaBaby just walked out onstage
and performed his set like nothing happened.
Wisdom is a rapper from DaBaby’s hometown of Charlotte
who is signed to his Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment label.
Back in 2020, DaBaby told XXL Magazine
that Wisdom is a “Big dude who makes great music.
I can compare him to somebody, but I don’t want to do that.
I’ma let the people make the comparisons on their own and just be like, you know,
back in that XXL interview, that’s who I was talking about,
like that’s who I was referring to.”
It seems like DaBaby is always in the middle of a controversy,
but Wisdom is also going through legal issues of his own.
Back in June 2021, Wisdom caught a felony
for protecting DaBaby and their entourage during a shoot out
that left one person paralyzed and another injured.
According to police reports, the shooting happened after an argument got out of control.
DaBaby and his crew were heading into a Miami restaurant called Prime 112,
and they got into a fight with another group leaving the restaurant.
The report says two dudes named Carlos Aviles
and Emerson Delgado were trying to get into their car
that was parked outside of a restaurant.
Then they got into an argument with a “famous musical entourage,”
and Delgado was hit in the face by one of them.
He tried to run away, and Aviles says Wisdom pulled out a gun
and shot Delgado in the leg.
A dude in DaBaby’s crew named Christopher Urena
was accused of shooting another dude in the back and leaving him paralyzed,
then he allegedly stole a Chrysler 300 and fled the scene.
Some other men who were with the victim allegedly shot at Urena while he tried to get away,
and the police ended up pulling him over a little while later.
They found a gun magazine in his bag,
but he had already gotten rid of his gun by the time they caught him.
Wisdom was charged with attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon
and aggravated assault with a firearm,
and Urena was hit with attempted first- degree murder and three other charges.
DaBaby was brought in for questioning too but was released without being charged.
It’s not clear exactly how the argument started,
but Wisdom allegedly handled the situation and caught the case for his label boss.
If that wasn’t bad enough, a couple of weeks ago,
DaBaby was involved in another shooting when he allegedly shot a trespasser in the leg.
TMZ leaked the 911 call DaBaby made
after someone broke onto his property in North Carolina.
On the call you can hear him telling the dispatcher that he shot someone in the leg
and that they need to come get him.
Sir what did you do?
I shot him in his leg.
Okay, and why did you do that?
Trespassing on my property.
The trespasser is whaling in pain in the background,
and when the dispatcher asks if the victim was alert, DaBaby gets mad and says
“Do you not hear this man, bro?”
Is he completely alert?
Do you hear him? Do you not hear this man bro?
The trespasser was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries,
and no charges have been filed against DaBaby.
A couple of days later, he posted a clip from the movie Paid in Full on Instagram
when rapper Camron says
“N***as get shot every day, B. You’ll be alright, n***a. You tough, right?”
And DaBaby seems to admit to the shooting with the caption
“chose not to take a n***a life the other day & it felt great.
Buddy ain’t deserve to go, I step righteously.
Heal up & live my boy! Just don’t bring ya ass back.”
This ain’t the first time DaBaby pulled a gun to defend himself.
In October 2018, he was shopping with his family at a Walmart in North Carolina
when he was allegedly robbed and threatened by two dudes with guns.
DaBaby shot and killed one of the men,
a 19-year-old named Jalyn Domonique Craig,
and was charged with murder.
Later the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon
after Walmart’s security footage proved that DaBaby was acting in self-defense.
In April 2022, Rolling Stone released the actual footage that led to the shooting.
In the video, you can see DaBaby go after Craig’s friend Henry Douglas
while Craig watches them.
According to Douglas, he and Craig noticed DaBaby in the store and kept looking at him.
DaBaby noticed them and asked, “Do you know me?” and Douglas just said
“Oh, I thought that was you,” then walked away.
They went their separate ways, but then ran into each other again
and Douglas says DaBaby wanted to go outside and fight.
He told Rolling Stone that he agreed to go outside,
thinking that he and Craig could just hop in their car and leave,
but then DaBaby attacked him inside the store.
In the security footage, you can see Craig pull out a gun
while DaBaby and Douglas are going at it.
Allegedly, someone yelled “he’s got a gun,”
and that’s when DaBaby pulled his own strap out and shot him.
Rolling Stone has tried to paint the situation
like DaBaby was the one who started everything
and that he murdered Craig in cold blood.
But in reality, the police already had the footage
and determined that it was self-defense four years ago.
It’s a tragic situation that shouldn’t have cost anyone their lives,
but at the end of the day Craig pulled out a gun during a fight and was killed for it.
Two different shootings is more than most people ever experience,
but DaBaby seems to be constantly surrounded by trouble.
Back in December 2019,
he was accused of getting into a fight with a food stand worker at an airport.
A warrant was issued for his arrest,
but the prosecutors eventually decided not to charge him
after his lawyer gave them a video that proved DaBaby wasn’t actually involved.
Later that same year, a rapper named Trag was allegedly beaten into a coma
by DaBaby’s crew after he asked for a photo with him.
Then in January 2020,
DaBaby was held and questioned by the police
after he and his crew allegedly jumped a music promoter
who owed him $10k bands.
According to reports, DaBaby and his entourage took the promoter’s credit card,
phone, and $80 in cash.
And DaBaby allegedly punched a dude who was with the promoter too.
He was arrested and spent two days in jail,
then got hit with a battery charge after he was released.
A couple of months later, DaBaby made headlines again
after he slapped a female fan while he was walking to the stage at a show.
The crowd turned on him immediately and booed him offstage
before he could even perform one song.
Apparently, the fan put her phone right in his face with the flash on,
which is why he put his hands on her.
Later he hopped on Instagram to say “I do sincerely apologize…
I’m very sorry that there was a female on the other end of that flashlight on that phone
but you know, keep in mind,
I couldn’t see you because you had the flash this close to me.
I think by this time you know it’s a well-known fact that male or female
I would have responded the same exact way.”
I sincerely apologize, I do.
I'm very sorry that there was a female on the other end of the flashlight on that phone.
Then in May 2020, a rapper named Cam Coldheart
spotted DaBaby at a store and started heckling him from a distance.
A video from DaBaby’s point of view shows him getting closer and closer
while Cam is dissing him.
Then the video cut to Cam laying on the ground with a bloody face
and his pants around his ankles.
Later that same year, the rapper faced even more backlash online
for supporting Kanye’s run for president.
Ye tweeted “Lesssgoooooooooooo.
Da baby ad lib by the way.”
Then DaBaby responded with “Warning: Use the ‘let’s gooo’ adlib at your own risk.
It makes you unstoppable…
Ima let y’all finish… . But you got me ****** up you think I ain’t voting for Ye.”
Kanye running for president was obviously a controversial situation,
and a lot of fans were mad at DaBaby for backing him.
Then a few months later in January 2021,
Tory Lanez teased a new collaboration between him and DaBaby,
which had Meg the Stallion fans upset.
Tory Lanez had been charged with felony assault
for allegedly shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet,
so her fans weren’t happy that DaBaby was working with him.
Megan and Da Baby have collab’d multiple times on tracks like Cry Baby and Cash S***,
But that wasn’t enough to stop him from working with Tory.
Then last summer DaBaby had one of his biggest controversies yet.
While he was performing at Rolling Loud back in July,
he took a break in the set to say some pretty crazy stuff.
After his Rolling Loud set, DaBaby was pulled from even more festivals.
Lollapalooza, the Governors Ball Music Fest,
Day N Vegas, and more all canceled his sets because of the comments.
Things were actually pretty quiet for a while with DaBaby,
but in February 2022 he made headlines again
after getting into a fight at a bowling alley.
TMZ posted a video that shows DaBaby and his crew jumping a dude named Brandon Bills
at a bowling alley in California.
Bills is actually the brother of DaBaby’s baby mama DaniLeigh.
DaBaby claims he attacked Bills in self-defense,
but now he’s being sued over the fight.
According to Bills, DaBaby assaulted him “suddenly and without warning”
as he walked by him.
He also said the attack caused him to endure “severe injury and pain,”
leaving him “psychologically damaged.”
Bills and DaBaby already had beef on social media
over his dramatic breakup with DaniLeigh a few months earlier.
Bills told DaBaby that the next time he was on the west coast
he could “catch this one-on-one fade,”
and later told TMZ that he would knock DaBaby out in one punch.
Obviously things ain’t go down like he planned,
so now he’s suing the rapper, even though he threatened to knock him out.
If DaBaby ends up having to pay Brandon Bills,
it won’t be the first time he’d have to break bread to pay a victim.
Recently he had to pay out $7,500 to a driver he allegedly attacked in 2020.
The driver says he picked up DaBaby and his crew in a Mercedes van,
then asked them to stop smoking weed in his vehicle.
According to him,
DaBaby punched him in the back of the head when they got to their destination
and said “You ain’t the boss.”
TMZ reported that they were told one of DaBaby’s friends told the driver
“You’re lucky you’re not in my city because I would have killed you,
cracker mother******.”
But after DaBaby paid the $7,500 in restitution,
the case was dismissed with prejudice.
DaBaby really just seems like a dude who’s willing to resort to violence in any situation.
This latest fight shows he’s even willing to swing on his own homie if he feels like it.
We still don’t know for sure what went down between them
because only one source has actually come forward with a story.
There could be more going on behind the scenes we don’t know about,
but for now it looks like the situation really ain’t that serious.
No charges have been filed,
and DaBaby was able to take the stage and perform right afterward,
so this whole thing will probably blow over quickly.
But chances are it won’t be long until DaBaby is in the headlines again.
This story is still developing so stay posted for updates.