Rappers write bars about catching bodies and beating cases all the time,
usually they’re just capping for clout.
But some artists are really about that life,
and today we’re breaking down the biggest rappers in the game
who caught a murder charge and beat it.
Let’s get right to it.
Before he was tragically murdered last year,
Drakeo the Ruler was one of the hottest West coast rappers in the game.
He popped off back in 2015
with the track Mr. Get Dough,
which led to him linking with DJ Mustard
and dropping his debut mixtape under his label.
Drakeo could’ve blown up and hit the mainstream back then,
but legal issues kept him in and out of jail over the next few years.
And in 2018,
he caught a murder charge
for allegedly being involved in the death of a dude named Red Bull in 2016.
According to prosecutors,
Drakeo went to a party to take out a rapper named RJ.
They said he gave weapons to his homies Jaiden Boyd
and Mikell Buchanan,
and by the end of the night
Red Bull was dead
and two bystanders were being treated for gunshot wounds.
Drakeo was facing life in prison,
and the cops did everything they could to lock him up.
They used wiretaps, informants,
and surveillance cameras to try and pin the case on him,
they even used his lyrics against him in court.
Drakeo said the whole thing was “laughable,”
and told the Guardian
“The whole point of me starting to rap
is I get to rap and talk about these things and not do these things.”
In 2019 he was acquitted of murder and attempted murder,
but he was still facing charges for gang conspiracy
and shooting from a vehicle.
While he was waiting for that trial to start,
Drakeo kept grinding
and recorded a whole album from behind bars.
When he finally got out in November 2020,
fans thought Drakeo was gonna pop out and take over the game.
But then just a year later
he was stabbed to death at the Once Upon a Time in LA festival.
Drakeo had all the talent and buzz to really take it far.
Beating the case and dropping a project from jail gave him a lot of momentum,
but unfortunately
he got caught up in a deadly situation
before he ever reached his full potential.
Boosie is one of the most influential rappers in the game,
but he almost wasn’t around to see everyone who came up after him.
He jumped in the streets at a young age
after his dad was murdered,
and back in 2010
he was facing the death penalty in his own homicide case.
In June 2010,
Boosie was hit with a first-degree murder charge
over the death of a dude named Terry Boyd.
Boyd was actually the brother of Boosie’s baby mama,
and he was killed in 2009
when someone let off shots at the house he was staying in.
The prosecutors accused Boosie of hiring a 17 year old named Marlo Mike
for $2,800 to take Boyd out.
Since he was facing the death penalty,
Boosie was locked up on Death Row
where he was in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.
Marlo Mike had been locked up before on charges like battery and robbery,
and one time he told his mom that he heard voices in his head.
He didn’t want to get treatment or get sent to an institution,
so he stayed in the streets
and allegedly caught nine bodies by the time he was 15.
Mike originally told the cops
that he killed Boyd for Boosie,
but when he took the stand he told the jury
that his original confession was all cap.
According to him,
the cops threatened to arrest his mom and stepdad
so he didn’t think he had a choice.
Without Marlo Mike's testimony,
the prosecution didn’t even really have a case against Boosie.
And on May 11th, 2012,
the jury dropped boosies charges.
Mike went down for Boyd’s murder
and confessed to being involved with six other bodies.
They couldn’t hit him with the death penalty since he was a minor at the time,
but now he’s serving life in prison.
It’s a sad story all around,
but at least Boosie didn’t get the death penalty
for a crime he didn’t commit.
Snoop Dogg is a living legend
and there’s a reason he has so much respect from fans and other rappers.
These days he’s all about spreading positivity and keeping kids out of the streets,
but back in the 90s
he was really in the trenches
and caught a murder charge while he was recording his debut album.
In August 1993,
Snoop and his homies were chilling at his apartment.
A dude named Philip Woldermariam came through
and started causing issues,
and witnesses say
he pulled out a gun and told Snoop he ran the hood.
After Woldermariam and his crew drove off,
Snoop and a few others hopped in a jeep and went after them.
Snoop caught up to Woldermariam at a park,
and their crews started arguing back and forth.
Woldermariam reached for his gun,
but Snoop’s bodyguard saw it coming and shot Woldermariam to death
before he could up it.
Snoop and his bodyguard were both charged with murder,
and they spent the next two years fighting the case.
The cops and media tried to convince everyone that Snoop was a violent criminal
who needed to be locked up,
but even back then Snoop was preaching against violence.
He told the LA Times
“I guess they think I’m macho and I don’t care or something.
But man, I’m someone who’s trying to turn his life around.
And it gets emotional.”
Snoop was acquitted in ‘96,
and he says that whole situation made him change his life.
In 2018 he went on the Now What? podcast and said
“I changed because I don’t wanna live this gangster life no more.
I don’t want that no more ‘cause I see the results of it.”
Luckily Snoop beat the case,
and now he’s using his platform
to keep other young dudes out of those situations.
Before he was killed back in 2020,
King Von was one of the most savage rappers in the game.
He was blowing up off the music,
but what a lot of people didn’t realize
is how active he really was in the streets.
If he didn’t die that night in Atlanta
he’d be facing at least two murder cases right now,
but he already beat one a few years ago.
In 2014,
Von and his homie Big Mike
were allegedly involved in the death of a college basketball player
named Malcolm Stuckey.
Stuckey and Von were at the same party,
and when Von spotted some opps
he left and came back with Big Mike.
Big Mike later told police that the opps saw them walking up
and started letting off shots.
Von and Mike shot back and hit one of them in the face and the other in the foot,
but Stuckey got caught in the crossfire and was tragically killed.
When the police brought Big Mike in for questioning,
he flipped and started working with them.
He told them everything
and said he would testify in court,
so the situation wasn’t looking good for Von.
But when the trial came,
Mike changed his mind and stopped cooperating completely.
Without his testimony,
the prosecutors had nothing on Von
so Von slid on the murder charge
and Big Mike got hit with 28 years.
EBG Ejizzle
is a rapper from Memphis who started popping off last year
with tracks like Rumors and Jizzle Flow.
He told Cam Capone News
that he’s been rapping his entire life,
but he was always too heavy in the streets to take it that seriously.
He was booked on an attempted murder charge at just 13 years old,
and at 16 he got sent to juvy for aggravated robbery.
Going to juvy didn’t keep him out of the streets though,
and in 2020 he got booked on a murder charge
and was facing 15-25 years in prison.
It’s not clear exactly what went down,
but Ejizzle said;
Motha*****, they just going by what a motha***** say
Somebody told them something.
But when it time to come to court and trial and s***
he ain't want to take the stand and testify.
EBG told Cam Capone
that he was trying to switch up how he moved and just focus on rapping
after he beat the case,
but a couple of months ago he got booked on another murder charge.
There aren’t a lot of public details out there about the case,
but in September
EBG was arrested for first degree murder and aggravated assault
for something that happened back in January 2020.
Beating one murder case is hard,
but skating on two homicides
would make him one of the luckiest rappers in the game.
New details could break any day on this story so tap in for updates.
Gucci Mane is another legend in the game
who almost got sent away on a murder charge.
Back in 2005 he was locked in a heated beef with Jeezy.
They had linked up for the track So Icy,
but a week after it dropped
Jeezy allegedly put a $10K bounty on Gucci’s ice cream chain.
A couple weeks later,
Gucci went home with a stripper from the club.
Then in the middle of the night,
five goons broke in and tried to rob him.
It’s not exactly clear how it happened,
but Gucci upped his strap
and killed one of the dudes while everyone else ran off.
He buried the body behind a local middle school
and found a new girl to end the night with.
Not long after,
the cops put out a warrant for his arrest.
Gucci turned himself in
and let everyone know
he wasn’t out there shooting dudes for no reason.
He said.
I was scared a little bit,
but I had to do what I had to do….
I’m not a bad person.
I have remorse for everything that happened.”
It turned out the dude who Gucci killed
was Jeezy’s artist Pookie Loc.
Jeezy has always denied being involved,
but rumors say he paid Pookie and the others to take Gucci out.
Gucci beat the case since he was obviously acting in self defense,
and he even used the situation to diss Jeezy.
On his track The Truth and said
“Go dig your partner up, n****, bet he can’t say s***
and if you looking for the kid, I’ll be in Zone 6
I know it’s hard for you to sleep knowing you killed your homeboy
You left his son to be a bastard, won’t even raise your own boy.”
Gucci and Jeezy eventually squashed the beef,
but that hasn’t stopped Gucci from dissing Pookie Loc.
He hopped on Lil Durk's track Rumors and said
“DA dropped my murder, didn’t have evidence to prove it
I think my house is haunted, yeah, by who? The ghost of Pookie.”
Gucci switched up his image
and started trying to spread more positivity like Snoop -
but he’s letting everyone know that he’s still not the one to mess with.
22 Savage is a comedian
who blew up for impersonating 21 Savage.
Fans thought the whole situation was funny,
but 22 started looking a lot more savage
when he got booked on a murder charge back in 2015.
According to local reports,
22 and two homies were in a grocery store parking lot
when they started pressing a dude named Richard Phillips.
Phillips was passing out flyers for a party,
and it’s not clear exactly why 22 had issues with him.
But the argument got heated
and 22 ended up shooting and killing Phillips.
He was arrested for second-degree murder
and admitted to shooting Phillips,
but according to him it was self defense.
The cops said that surveillance footage didn’t match up with 22’s story,
and it looked like he was gonna go down for the shooting.
It’s not clear what went down behind the scenes,
but in 2017
a grand jury decided not to hit him with the murder charge.
Now hopefully 21 Savage beats his case with ICE
and maybe they can finally link up for a collab project.