Making it out of the trenches and into the rap game
is the dream for a lot of people,
but most dudes who make it still have one foot in the streets
and get caught up.
Today we’re breaking down the most famous rappers
who didn’t leave the streets behind and ended up running from the cops.
SpotemGottem is a rapper from Jacksonville, Florida
who blew up back in 2020 with the track Beat Box.
He was booked last year on weapon charges
after allegedly pointing a pistol at a parking attendant,
and when the cops found him in his hotel room
he had a Draco in bed with him.
Spotem pleaded not guilty to the charges,
but now he’s facing a new case
after trying to run from the cops on a jet ski.
On June 26th,
Spotem was riding a jet ski around the Miami Marine Stadium
when a cop spotted him doing “S-type turns near anchored boats”
and speeding through a restricted area.
The police turned on their boat siren and lights to get his attention,
but Spotem went full Grand Theft Auto and smashed off.
According to cops,
Spotem “began to swerve through boats
in close proximity to swimmers.”
Eventually the police caught him and luckily no one got hurt.
Jet skis are a lot more dangerous than people think,
and Spotem could’ve easily killed someone in the water if he ran them over.
He got hit with reckless operation of a boat and fleeing the police,
but it’s not clear if the case will end up going to trial.
He’s already facing some serious charges though,
and since he’s a felon
it might be tough to get a good plea deal.
Sheff G helped put Brooklyn Drill on the map back in 2017
when he dropped No Suburbans.
Sheff became a successful rapper damn near overnight,
but he’s been having issues with the cops basically his whole life.
Coming up in Brooklyn was tough,
and Sheff said “Growing up, all I was around was violence,
in school, or hanging with my n****s,
it was rough in the streets.
I had to be protected out there,
so I rolled with the 83s…”
He caught his first charge when he was 15,
and Sheff has been in and out of jail ever since.
Even after he blew up with No Suburbans,
Sheff was still in the streets.
He got stabbed in the head after an opp caught him lacking from behind,
and then Sheff says
he went back to jail from October 2017 to January 2018.
In 2019
he came back to the rap game with the mixtape The Unluccy Luccy Kid.
The tape earned him even more momentum in the industry,
but Sheff still didn’t switch up how he moved.
On August 21st, 2020,
he got into a high-speed chase in Long Island.
It’s not clear why the cops were after him,
but Sheff blew through an intersection
and swiped an SUV with his Mercedes.
Sheff slid another 200 feet down the road
before his car smashed into a tree.
Luckily he made it out with no serious injuries,
but the woman he hit wasn’t as fortunate.
She filed a lawsuit against Sheff and said the crash injured her neck,
back, and shoulder,
and now she’s trying to get a bag off him.
Getting hit with a lawsuit is tough,
but Sheff has worse problems to deal with right now.
Last year he pleaded guilty to second-degree gun possession
after getting pulled over in the same Mercedes
and getting caught with a .45 cal glock.
He’s currently serving a 2 year sentence for the charge,
but maybe this time when he gets out,
he’ll focus on his career and leave the streets for good.
Youngboy Never Broke Again
just beat his case after dealing with legal issues for the past couple of years,
and now his homie D Dawg is facing his own sentence.
On September 21st,
D Dawg got into a police chase
just a few days after getting out on bond
for an attempted murder charge.
Nobody knows why D Dawg was running in the first place,
but he ended up crashing which killed homie in the passenger seat.
D Dawg was booked on manslaughter and resisting an officer,
but he’s still in the hospital recovering from the crash.
He might get hit with more charges later
because the cops found a ski mask and weapons inside the whip.
This isn’t the first serious case that D Dawg has been involved in.
Back in 2012,
he was arrested for allegedly murdering a dude
named Derrick Marioneaux.
According to local reporters,
D Dawg and two other dudes robbed Derrick and at some point
shots started going off.
Derrick was tragically killed,
and his wife and daughter barely made it out of the situation alive.
D Dawg is also facing
an attempted murder charge from 2018
where he allegedly shot at somebody else.
The chief of police told reporters
“We’ve dealt with him before, the same individuals.
That is what I hear from my officers.
We arrest them and have to deal with them again,
shooting incidents, murders.
What’s right about that?”
D Dawg’s homie YoungBoy might have just beat his case,
but it don't look like D Dawg is gonna be as lucky.
With a manslaughter charge on top of the attempted murder,
D Dawg could end up behind bars for decades if he gets convicted.
Plus his bond is set at $19.4 million….
so it ain't looking too good for him.
Lul Tim shocked the world
when he allegedly killed King Von back in 2020.
That night, Von and his crew
allegedly attacked Quando Rondo,
so Lul Tim pulled his burner out and started busting shots
Lul Tim got hit too during all the chaos,
but he drove himself to the hospital after it went down.
While he was in the hospital,
Tim got hit with a murder charge for King Von’s death -
and in March 2021
they let him out on a $100K bond.
But instead of keeping his head down and waiting for his trial to start,
Lul Tim was arrested again
after he got into a high speed chase in Georgia.
There aren’t a lot of details about what went down,
but in September 2021
DJ Akademiks posted Lul Tim’s mug shot and Twitter after the chase.
According to the records from the sheriff’s office,
Tim was booked on Failure to stop at a stop sign, speeding,
following another car too closely, failure to obey traffic control devices,
and fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer
for a felony offense.
A lot of people thought he’d be in jail for a minute this time,
but Lul Tim posted bail again
and is back out on the streets.
He was already facing a murder charge for the Von situation,
but now he’s got another felony to deal with too.
Hopefully he’s got a legal team
because otherwise he could end up sitting down for a long time.
Foolio is a rapper from Jacksonville
who blew up because of his wild beef with Yungeen Ace.
Both of them were buzzing already,
but when their crews turned Jacksonville into a warzone
it made their music pop off even more.
Now Foolio is facing a felony charge
for fleeing the police after a traffic stop back in April.
On April 5th, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officers
pulled Foolio over in his Dodge Durango.
They testified that they originally stopped him for his window tint,
and then he drove under the speed limit
for less than 400 feet before he stopped.
Bodycam footage shows that Foolio stopped
less than 20 seconds after the cops tried to pull him over.
When he parked the Durango,
five detectives ran up on him with their guns out and cuffed him.
The cops didn’t find anything illegal in the whip,
but a detective testified that they actually stopped Foolio
because they wanted to confiscate cell phones to help them with a different case.
They held Foolio in a squad car for over two hours,
then they took him to the state attorney’s office to question him about a murder case
he hadn’t even been arrested for.
Five hours after they stopped him,
the cops finally told Foolio he was under arrest
for evading the police and took him to jail.
The whole situation was sketchy.
An assistant state attorney showed up at the scene
and basically told the cops what to do,
and it’s obvious that Foolio was only arrested
because of other crimes they think he’s involved in.
Foolio’s lawyer filed a motion to have the case thrown out,
and the judge said he would consider it.
The videos make it clear that Foolio didn’t actually try to run,
but the cops had to charge him with something
since they held him for five hours with no probable cause.
The case is still going on,
but chances are
the judge will just dismiss the whole thing.
Jim Jones popped off back in the 2000s
and was in a crew with Cam’ron called Dipset.
But like a lot of dudes from that era,
he couldn’t keep up with the game and ended up falling off pretty hard.
Then in 2018,
Jones and his homies got into a chase with the cops in Georgia.
According to the police report,
the Mercedes SUV Jones was in was drifting all over the interstate.
When the cops tried to pull them over,
the driver of the SUV floored it and tried to escape.
The police wasn't playing though.
They swerved in front of the Mercedes
and let it hit them to stop the chase.
When they walked up to the whip,
they said it was full of smoke and smelled like weed.
The driver was a woman named Ana Rajnee Miles,
and Jones said he tried to get her to pull over
but she was “acting incoherent.”
When the cops searched the SUV,
they found a backpack with Oxycodone pills
and two guns, and another backpack
with Oxycodone, Percocet,
THC oil, and cash.
Jones told the cops he had smoked weed,
but that the weed in the car wasn’t his.
They booked him on receiving stolen property,
possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime,
and drug charges.
Originally he got hit with five felonies
and was facing decades in prison,
but Jones got a crazy good plea deal
and avoided jail time completely.
All he had to do was pay a $1,500 fine
and spend two years on probation.
Hopefully he don't get into any more trouble,
because he’ll probably never get that lucky in the court system again.
Lil Uzi Vert came up in Philly,
where it’s normal to see dudes riding down the street on dirtbikes and ATVs.
But in 2016
they got in some trouble with the cops in Atlanta
after they tried to outrun them on a dirtbike.
According to the police report,
Uzi and their homie were riding through Atlanta on dirt bikes
without lights or helmets.
They were riding on sidewalks,
going the wrong way on one-way streets,
and allegedly crossed five lanes of traffic without signaling.
And when cops tried to pull them over,
Uzi and their homie took off.
But Uzi went too fast,
lost control and wiped out.
They tried to run away on foot,
but the cops caught up and booked them on obstruction,
reckless driving, and a few other charges.
After they posted bail,
Uzi proved they weren’t taking it too seriously
when he hopped on IG
and posted a video of popping a wheelie on a dirtbike.
Most of the charges ended up getting dropped,
but Uzi did plead guilty for failure to maintain lane
and got hit with 80 hours of community service plus a $1K fine.
The situation worked out for them at the end of the day,
but hopefully Uzi at least puts on a helmet
if they ever have to run away again.