Rap can be dangerous.
When you’re always performing and dropping your location on social media,
anybody can just pull up.
Lets check out a few rappers caught lackin,
who learned this lesson the hard way.
Spottem Gottem
Spottem Gottem is one of the hottest rappers coming out of Florida.
He blew up back in 2020 with the hit BeatBox,
which gained attention because of social media influencer Junebug,
who made a viral dance to the song.
Spottem Gottem may have a babyface,
but he’s also bout that life and almost got killed one night
after leaving the studio.
In the early morning on September 17th, 2020,
Spottem Gottem was driving a Dodge Challenger
down I-95 in Miami,
when someone pulled up on him and started letting off shots.
The rapper posted a pic to his IG story earlier
showing himself at the House of Hits Recording Studio in Miami.
While he was there, he also reposted a video from his producer
showing him in the booth.
House of Hits is a popular studio in Miami,
so it wouldn’t be hard for anyone who knew the area to know his exact location.
After leaving the studio,
a car pulled up on the passenger’s side and fired 22 shots total.
Spottem Gotte and another dude who was in the backseat, both got hit.
His attorney Raven Liberty
later confirmed the rapper got shot but was still alive.
She also made clear that it wasn’t a shoot-out, it was a drive-by, and Spotem was the victim.
There’s multiple rumors going around about what exactly happened.
Come to find out, it looks like the car they were driving in was stolen.
Spottem said he wasn’t part of stealing the car but was just driving in it.
After the shooting,
a YouTuber came forward to say that he owned the car and it was stolen from him.
The rapper was also recently involved in a murder that happened in Dallas, Texas.
Police said he admitted to playing a part in killing a man named Reginald Agnew Jr
in a snippet to a song posted to social media.
Spottem Gottem denied any involvement in the murder
and said the lyrics to the song had nothing to do with the case.
But, maybe this could be why his car got sprayed up...
Spottem Gottem made a full recovery and is back to making music.
But he might want to pay for better security or a bulletproof vehicle,
so he don’t get caught lackin again.
But, Spottem Gottem aint the only rapper from Florida
who got caught lackin.
This next artist got shot getting off the bus
after a rumor went around that he killed one of his opps.
Foolio
Foolio is another one of the hottest rappers from Jacksonville.
The rapper has been making moves for a few years now,
but really blew up from the diss tracks
he and his rival Yungeen Ace dropped earlier this year.
They been beefing since 2017,
but got the world’s attention after Ace dropped the wild track Who I Smoke,
which had disrespectful bars about Foolio’s dead brother and homies.
Foolio came back with the track When I See You Remix,
where he also dissed Ace’s dead friends and brother,
and ever since then they been on each other's necks.
But way before the beef with Yungeen Ace,
Foolio beefed with another crew in Jacksonville, which led to him getting shot in 9th grade.
In December 2014,
a 14-year-old named Devron Crowden aka Big Baby
was shot and killed waiting for the school bus.
He and Foolio went to school together and they were known to be from with rival gangs.
The high school that Foolio went to was in his opps neighborhood,
so he was already outnumbered.
After Big Baby got killed,
rumors went around that he was somehow involved.
Even though he told everyone it wasnt his hit,
he was still young and dumb at the time.
So, Instead of staying out of the way,
Foolio started dissing Big Baby to prove to his opps he wasn’t intimidated.
He almost got into fights with three different people, before getting on the bus to go home.
When he got off the bus,
he ducked off to an area in the cut to roll up some weed.
Like five or ten minutes later, someone ran up and started shooting at him.
He got hit in the hip and it even popped out of place.
So, he started to crawl to avoid getting shot again
and crawled to a house where a lady was sitting on a porch.
Foolio called out to her and told her he was shot,
but she wanted nothing to do with it.
Instead of helping, she said she aint care
and told him to get the f*** out of her yard.
So, he played dead until the shooters left.
He ended up being brought to the hospital
and got questioned by police about the murder of Big Baby.
They grilled him pretty hard,
but since he was on the way to school when Big Baby got killed,
he was cleared of any involvement.
After he recovered, he decided not to go back to school,
because he was too much of a target and school was nothing but problems.
He aint even have anything to do with the murder,
but he got shot anyway.
So, after that, he was in the streets full time
and decided to become a rapper instead.
But Jacksonville is turnt up
and rappers like Foolio and Spottem Gottem
aint the only ones getting caught slippin by the opps.
This next rapper lost his two best friends and his brother in a drive-by
that happened after they left a party.
Yungeen Ace
Yungeen Ace is probably the most famous rapper from Jacksonville right now.
Even though they all in their own lane, Ace was first to blow
and has gotten cosigns from major names in the industry.
But before making it in the rap game,
Ace was the victim of a drive-by shooting that killed his brother and two close homies
and almost took him out as well.
In June 2018,
Ace, his brother Quan Quan and his homies 23 and 4,
went out to eat at a Steakhouse called Wasabi.
They was celebraring 23’s 18th birthday
and Quan Quan just had a birthday as well.
After leaving the restaurant, they stopped at a traffic light
and another car pulled up next to them and started bustin shots.
The car was sprayed with bullets.
Ace got hit 8 times but survived.
It turns out he was the lucky one
cuz the other three died.
23 and 4 were two of his closest friends and Quan Quan was his closest brother in age.
So the loss hit Ace hard.
To make matters worse, a local gun store owner
would see Ace’s pic on the news after the shooting and call the crime stopper hotline.
He told them that he saw Ace in his store earlier that day.
He didn’t but anything,
but he picked up one of the weapons and played around with it.
Ace was a convicted felon after being arrested for a 2017 robbery.
During the robbery,
stray bullets went into another apartment almost hitting a 12-month-old child.
So, he was not allowed to have a gun, even if he was just playing with it.
After reviewing the security tape, police arrested Ace in the hospital,
as he was still recovering from his gunshot wound and mourning the loss of his brother and friends.
No one was arrested for the shooting, but A LOT of people think,
it was retaliation for the death of Zion Brown.
Brown was Foolio’s cousin.
He got killed at his house after someone threw a brick through a sliding glass door
and fired shots into the living room, hitting Zion and his two sisters.
The girls survived, but Zion wouldn’t make it.
Police arrested a dude named Deontrae Thomas aka Trae Shorty,
who had connections to Yungeen Ace.
He was also a suspect in the robbery that made Ace a felon
and was still on the run from police when he was arrested for Zion Brown’s murder.
This is what really started the beef between ATK and KTA
and they’ve been going back and forth ever since.
Foolio mentions the shooting in a lot of his songs,
including the When I See You Remix,
where he printed out a banner from the news coverage of the shooting
to mock Quan Quan, 23 and 4.
But Jacksonville rappers aint the only ones to get caught lackin.
This next rapper got shot 35 times but lived to tell the story.
Yung Baby
Yung Baby is a rapper from Trenton, New Jersey.
He grew up on the east side of the city
and at 12 years old he first got arrested for a robbery.
He would end up spending the next few years in and out of jail for gun charges.
In his teen years,
he said he lost like 8 of his friends to gun violence, which is why he had to stay strapped.
But on October 24th, 2019,
his opps caught him lackin at a gas station
and shot him 35 times.
The night he was shot, his dad took him to the studio
but then dropped him off at his friend’s house.
They was chillin' and decided to go to the gas station which was a popular spot in his hood.
He was choppin' it up with the owner of the gas station for like 30 minutes.
He says he heard a bunch of ambulances heading south because there was another shooting.
So he decided it was time to go.
As he was leaving,
he saw a dude standing right beside him with a gun, while two other shooters ran up behind him.
First, they shot the dude running the gas station, who fell to the ground.
Yung Baby started running,
but started feeling the bullets hit his back and his legs.
But he couldn’t give up, so he just kept running.
He aint know what what was going on and the adrenaline took over.
A bullet hit his foot,
so he jumped up to try and catch his balance, but fell over.
As he was falling, he could still hear gunshots.
He tried to crawl away,
but two of the shooters already stood over him,
while the third shooter was tryna get his friends.
He covered his head with his arm and took like six more shots.
When he moved his arm, they shot him twice in the face.
Then, they shot him a few more times in the chest while yelling
“P**** I told you, I told you.”
After that, they ran off laughing,
while Yung Baby was bleeding out.
He tried to get away, but couldn’t move his legs.
He later found out he got shot in the legs 16 times.
A lady who worked at the gas station came out and tried to help.
Yung Baby told her to call his mom,
but couldn’t really talk because he lost like three teeth when he got shot in the face.
He was laying there for about 10 or 15 minutes before the police and an ambulance finally got there
and rushed him to the hospital.
He thought he was done just from the amount of blood he already lost.
He says he lost consciousness for a minute and saw his dead friend,
telling him it wasn’t his time to go.
He was in so much pain, the EMTs had to put him under anesthesia,
which put him in a coma for two weeks.
When he woke up, he couldn’t remember what happened.
His mother told him he got shot and had about 45 holes in him
and was shot a total of 35 times.
But, the crazy part is
he was only in the hospital for like 22 days and then went to rehab for two or three weeks.
He was still in a lot of pain, but the bullets didn’t hit anything vital.
He eventually made a full recovery.
So, someone’s looking out for Yung Baby,
cause even 50 Cent didn’t get shot 35 times and just bounce back.
But if you thought that was wild
this next rapper got shot by one of his own fans while riding in an Uber.
Rico Reckless
Rico Reckless is a rapper from Chicago,
who first blew up with the track Hit Em Up, where he took shots
at damn near every buzzing rapper in the city.
He’s allegedly from the Black P Stones
and has beefed with a lot of other popular rappers in Chicago,
including FBG Duck and G Herbo.
But it wasn’t another rapper who caught Rico lackin,
it was actually a fan.
In an interview with No Jumper, he broke down what happened.
He says he was leaving a gas station to hop in an Uber.
Some dudes who spotted him in the store tried to get a pic with him.
While taking the picture, one of the dudes in the group said
“damn, you wear that chain in real life? I wish I woulda had my move”,
pretty much tellin Rico he would have tried to rob him.
Rico responds by telling him to do something then,
and the dude backs down and says he was just playin’.
The guy still wanted a pic,
but Rico shut him down and said he wasn’t taking any more pictures.
His homie told him to hurry up, so they got back in the Uber.
But once they drove off, the dudes started shooting.
Rico got shot in the back after they busted the entire back window.
The uber driver started screaming and called the cops.
He brought Rico to the hospital and police questioned him about the shooting.
He told them he aint know the shooter and it was probably just random.
Cause in Chicago,
it’s ain’t just the rappers you gotta worry about
them random goons at the gas station is just as dangerous.
Rico say he don’t know who did it, but he dont even care
cause if they really had beef they would have blown his head off.
But instead, they just grazed his back
and he was back in the streets not too long after it happened.