Rappers these days ain’t just artists,
they gotta be social media influencers who constantly flex their lifestyle to their fans.
So, when things get real,
fans got a front-row seat.
Let’s take a look at a few rappers who got shot while on IG Live.
Duke Duece
Duke Duece is a rapper from Memphis, Tennessee, known for his breakout track Crunk Ain’t Dead.
Duke was born and raised in the White Haven neighborhood of Memphis,
also called Black Haven.
He got put on the music at an early age with his father being a producer.
But Duke aint start making music himself until he was like 19.
He was inspired to start rapping by Memphis legends like Three 6 Mafia
and Project Pat along with modern trap rappers like the Migos.
He started gaining a buzz in 2018, after dropping the track Whole Lotta.
The video did big numbers on YouTube and also grabbed the attention of Offset,
who tapped in with Duce to link up.
Not long after that, he inked a deal with Quality Control Records.
He dropped his first mixtape Memphis Massacre later that year
which featured verses from Offset and Project Pat.
He dropped the track “Yeh” in 2019
and followed it up with a video that got millions of views.
He followed that up with the track Crunk Ain’t Dead,
which got remixed and featured Lil John, Juicy J and Project Pat.
The video quickly went viral due to the song's catchy hook
and Duke’s personality.
The rapper is also known for his dance moves
and his passion to make crunk music mainstream again.
Duke followed up the success of that single with Memphis Massacre 2 in 2020
and his debut album Duke Nukem in 2021.
But Duke Duece also grew up in the streets of Memphis,
in an area known for crime and violence.
He said that growing up he was in and out of the streets
but was always focused on music and doing something more positive with his life.
But, when you’re a buzzing rapper sometimes that’s easier said than done.
Back in September, the rapper was in a shootout while he was on IG Live.
Duke was on live chopping it up with his fans like always does when things went left.
At one point, Duke starts taunting one of his opps, telling them
“Come outside and **** with me, Peppertree…
We ain’t on none of that bougie shit, none of that Hollywood shit."
But before he even finished his sentence,
shots start going off in the background and Duke stops talking to see what’s happening.
Come outside and **** with me, Peppertree…
We ain’t on none of that bougie shit, none of that Hollywood shit."
As the shots get louder, Duke turns to run away
but still has the camera in his hand
and at some point the shots just stop and the live stream ends.
At first, it wasn’t clear if Duke was hit in the shooting.
But he later popped up on social media
to let his fans know that he was good and ain’t get hit.
He dont say who he was beefing with but before the shots started ringing off
it sounds like he was referring to the Peppertree Apartments,
an area known for gun violence.
It’s also unclear if the shooting was immediate retaliation
for Duke getting at his opps online, or if it was just a coincidence.
But either way, he might want to be more careful next time he goes live.
But if you thought that was crazy this next rapper got robbed at gunpoint
and it was all captured on IG Live.
Boogotti Kasino
Boogotti Kasino is a rapper from Fort Worth, Texas
known for tracks like Channel Five and Never Fold.
But before the music, the rapper was in the streets at an early age
and caught his first case for burglary at just 9 years old.
In an interview with the Dirty Glove Bastards,
he explained how they couldn’t lock him up because he was too young,
so they just wrote him a ticket and gave him a court date.
He ended up missing the court date, but by then he was 10 years old,
which meant he was old enough to go to juvie.
So they put out a warrant for his arrest and he ended up serving some time.
Over the years, He was sent back to juvie
a total of 25 times and says that he would only be out on the streets for like a week,
before getting locked up again.
He had a lot of older brothers who were already in the streets,
so he was just doing what they did.
He was one of eleven kids and his mother died when he was only 13.
So, from a young age, he had to learn how to survive on his own.
At age 17, he did two years in the pen,
then another 3 and a half years out of a six-year sentence.
In total, he says he spent like 6 years of his life behind bars.
He started taking music seriously in 2015 after getting out of prison.
He decided that he needed to find a way out of the streets
and take his life in a more positive direction.
Because of his long criminal record, he knew he couldnt just get a regular job.
So it was either rap or spend his life going back and forth to jail.
At first, he had one foot in and one foot out,
but realized he couldn’t do both and went all-in with the music.
But just because you decided to change your life don't mean that your opps want to see you win.
Earlier this year, Boogotti Kasino got robbed and shot at while live on IG.
In the video, the rapper looks like he’s just chillin in his whip, talking to fans
when someone off-camera approaches his car.
Boogotti turns his head to see whats goin on
and the guys asks
“ain’t you that rapper?”
He says "yeah, whats up wit it?"
They keep talking and the dude says
“I heard you the hottest thing in town B”,
while Boogotti smokes a cigarette.
ain’t you that rapper
yeah, what's up wit it
man I heard you got them features going for sale
yeah, what's up with it
I'm tryna get a feature
heard you the hottest thing in town B
The rapper asks the dude where he’s from and they just keep talking for a minute.
Boogotti says he’s waiting on somebody and asks what the guy wants.
That’s when things turn up.
They start arguing
and he keeps asking what the dude wants.
At one point, he tells his homie to start the car and get out of there.
That’s when the guy asks where they’re going,
before sticking his whole arm into the car, showing he’s got a gun.
Im saying, Im saying what you tryna get tho?
Im tryna get 18
Hey look fam I ain't tryna lie to you bro
C'mon man start the car
start the car
crank the car bro
where y'all going then?
It seems like he’s trying to rob Boogotti, who grabs his arm and fights for the gun.
They knock down the phone and from there it's hard to tell what's going on.
You can hear them fighting in the background before shots start going off
and the live just ends.
It’s not clear if Boogotti got shot
or what happened to the shooter.
But he’s continued doing interviews and dropped music videos.
So if he was hit, he kept it low key and made a full recovery.
But this next rapper was not as lucky
and ended up getting killed after his cousin went live at a friend’s funeral.
PSO Emmit
PSO Emmit was a 16-year-old rapper from Memphis, Tennessee
who was making waves in the city with tracks like Sliding and Tonight.
He was gaining a local buzz and racked up hundreds of thousands of views
on some of his YouTube videos.
But before Emmit had a chance to make it big as a rapper,
he was gunned down while attending his friend’s funeral.
On Saturday, October 23rd,
Emmitt Beasley aka PSO Emmit
was at a funeral for his friend Jamarco Smith, another teen from Memphis who died.
The funeral was at a church on Hunter Ave
and Emmit and his cousin were there to pay their respects.
On the way to the funeral, Emmit's cousin PSO Dai Dai
recorded a live stream that showed them walking with a group
down the road to the church where the funeral was being held.
Towards the end of the stream, Dai Dai sends shots at his opps,
telling the people in the live who are tuned in that
“they ain’t never been on shit… they never even sent a slingshot our way,”
before calling whoever he’s talking to a b****.
He keeps getting at whoever he’s beefing with
telling them that they are never outside, and they never did sh*t,
even though they keep dissing and talking.
PSO Emmit can be seen walking beside him toward the end of the live.
Not long after, a group of shooters pulled up in a black jeep and started letting off shots,
hitting both Emmitt and his cousin Dai Dai, before fleeing.
Dai Dai was rushed to the hospital, but Emmitt was pronounced dead on the scene.
His death was the 25th murder in Memphis of that year.
Even though PSO Emmit was known for having guns in his music videos
and rapping about the streets, his mother told the media
that he was just a normal kid who worked at Wendy’s,
went to school, and worked on his music.
She never thought he would be murdered at the funeral of another kid his age.
At the time of his death, Emmit was a junior at Southwind High School.
A week before he was killed, he auditioned for a record deal with 1017,
Gucci Mane’s label.
So, it seemed like if he stayed focused,
the rapper could’ve had a promising music career.
But this is a prime example of why the streets and social media don’t mix.
Just by going on live, PSO Dai Dai gave away their exact location.
When he started talking sh*t,
he made it way too easy for his opps to pull up and catch him lacking.
According to those that knew him,
PSO Emmit was a good kid,
and the image he portrayed in his music was not the life he really lived.
But in the end, it ain’t matter,
because he still suffered the consequences that come with living that lifestyle.
A 22-year-old man named David Lee
was later arrested in connection with the shooting
and he is being charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
But police believe there’s still more suspects on the streets.