Being a famous rapper can be dangerous.
When your opps want you dead,
but you also constantly doing shows and dropping your location on social media,
you never know what’s gonna happen.
Heres a few famous rappers who got ran up on.
Yo Gotti
Yo Gotti is a Memphis legend.
He’s from the Frayser neighborhood of North Memphis
and started rapping at age 14, under the name Lil Yo.
He dropped multiple independent projects before releasing his debut major-label album
Live from the Kitchen in 2012.
2 years later, he started his own label Cocaine Musik Group
– now just CMG.
Through his label, he’s signed multiple major rappers including Moneybagg Yo,
42 Dugg, EST Gee, and Blac Youngsta.
But being a street legend can’t save you from everything and recently,
someone ran up on Yo Gotti and tried to rob him of his jewelry
as he was leaving the club in Memphis.
Gotti was standing by his car fully iced out when a dude comes out of nowhere with a gun.
Surveillance footage from the parking lot shows a him walk up and get real close to Yo Gotti.
He tries to take off his jewelry and at first, the rapper just plays it cool.
Gotti acts like he’s trying to take off his watch,
but suddenly throws a punch at the dude and tried to knock the gun out of his hand.
He aint knock away the gun
and then the robber fired a shot but missed the rapper.
The gunshot must have attracted too much attention
because the dude just hopped back in his whip and smashed off without taking anything.
The footage quickly went viral after the incident.
They called Yo Gotti a hero for defending himself without even pulling out his own gun.
The robber probably thought he could hit a quick lick on a rapper
but aint realize that Yo Gotti was really in the streets and knows how to move smart.
Not long after, the dude who tried to rob Yo Gotti supposedly got his car lit up
and he got killed after getting shot 17 times.
Memphis police don’t believe Gotti or anyone from his camp was involved in the shooting.
The victim was heavy in the streets and robbed a lot of people in Memphis.
So anyone could have chipped him.
But it shows how fast it comes back around when you not moving right.
But Yo Gotti ain’t the only famous rapper to get ran up on.
This next rapper was recently in a shootout and got grazed in the leg
after he dumped the whole clip.
Foolio
Foolio is one of the most controversial rappers in the game right now.
His beef with Yungeen Ace helped his music blow up
but also got the attention from the opps in his city.
Foolio is from Jacksonville, Florida.
He’s from KTA, a gang known to beef with Yungeen Ace and ATK.
Both Ace and Foolio shocked the world
after dropping back-to-back diss songs where they diss each other’s dead homies
and expose their beef to the world.
First Youngeen Ace dropped the song Who I Smoke,
where he dissed dudes who died that was close to Foolio, including his younger brother Bibby.
Then Foolio responded with the When I See U Remix,
where he dissed Ace’s homies and brother who got killed in a drive-by back in 2018.
So both sides have been beefing for a minute and now that their music is going viral,
the whole world is tapped in.
But when you dissing opps in your music and still in the streets,
it come back for you.
Foolio recently had to learn that the hard way after being involved in a drive-by shooting
where he was grazed by a bullet.
Foolio posted a video to his Instagram story showing a gun that looks like it just got fired.
He tells his opps that they not real shooters and that he emptied his whole clip.
The video also has the caption
“On treyd I got right in slides emptied my whole clip.
U boys goofies I’m not dead so stop fakin for the internet."
He also moves the camera to show his leg which looks like it’s bleeding a lil,
but nothing serious.
He says he got grazed and not hit
then followed up the video with another slide with the caption
“Ya’ll missed a whole 100 shots literally”
along with a bunch of emojis.
So, it sounds like the opps was really trying to take him out,
but Foolio was ready for them.
But This ain’t be the first time Foolio been ran up on.
Back in February, he got pressed in the mall in Tampa, by someone he grew up with.
That time he just played it cool and ignored the dude until he went away.
But that was in public around crowds and security cameras,
and no one pulled a gun on him.
This latest situation seems more serious and Foolio had to defend himself.
Foolio later faced criticism cuz it sounded like he was snitching on himself
by talking about the shootout on social media.
But he got back on live to clarify that the gun was registered,
and it wasn’t snitching cause he shot back in self-defense.
Listen
On Treyd my gun is registered I shot back in self defense y'all is dumb.
I shot back in self defense,
you know one thing if I did something illegal I would be in jail,
the police would put me in the back of their car.
It still aint clear who he was shooting at or if there was any more victims.
But it don’t look like Foolio was seriously hurt, if he was posting about it on IG Live right after.
One of Foolio’s opps, Whoppa Wit Da Choppa,
a rapper tied in with Yungeen Ace and ATK
went on social media and hinted he might have something to do with it.
He posted slides that had audio from a video game that said
“mission failed, we’ll get them next time”.
Then he posted a pic of Foolio’s face as an opp pack,
with the R Kelly song I Wish in the background.
A fan pressed him about being involved in the shooting
and Whoppa said he was in Atlanta at the time and had nothing to do with it.
But he aint miss the opportunity to clown one of his opps
for saying too much on social media.
But Foolio aint the only rapper to get ran up on.
This next rapper said his car got sprayed up with bullets
while he was stopped in traffic.
Edai 600
Edai 600 was an early founder of drill music
who was close with many big rappers before they got famous like:
Chief Keef, King Von, and Lil Durk.
Edai was one of the most respected members from 600,
a BD set who was allied with O’Block.
He is the older brother of another 600 member named Cdai
who got arrested with Rondonumbanine
for killing a cab driver and they both got hit with 38 years in prison.
Edai was known for tracks like War with Us and 600 Dead Opps
which are considered drill classics.
But Edai’s music never made it as far as some of his homies.
He tried to leave the streets alone and became a professional truck driver.
But that ain’t save him from being haunted by the streets
and Edai got murdered down back in August.
Throughout his come-up, Edai was active in the streets.
In an interview with DJ Vlad, he told a story about when the opps ran up on him
and lit his car up with bullets.
He said he was driving down 59th Street, in the area ran by 600.
As he was driving, the opps popped out of nowhere on foot
and just started busting shots into his car.
He heard the first few shots go off and tried to dip
but he was stuck in traffic and couldn’t get away.
There was two semi-trucks on both sides of him and cars in front and behind him.
But eventually, all the gunshots made the other cars start to swerve to avoid getting hit.
So, he got to escape before the shooters got to him.
When he finally got away, he pulled over to see the damage
and saw his car got hit like 26 times.
The tires was completely flat, windows was busted out
and there was steam coming from the engine.
But somehow Edai ain’t get hit.
He told Vlad that Chicago gang members don’t care about doing drills out in the open
because it’s all about the clout.
Edai was a known face in his city,
so the shooters would have gotten a lot of love from their hood for taking him out.
Edai made it out alive that time but unfortunately in August 2021,
He would be shot and killed.
But, Edai aint the only rapper from Chicago to get ran up on.
This next rapper was shot a total of 6 times over a three year period.
600 Breezy
600 Breezy is another 600 rapper from the Southside of Chicago.
He also grew up with Chief Keef, Fredo, and Lil Durk
and was cool with all the other BD rappers.
600 Breezy grew up in the Calumet Building and his pops was a GD.
Breezy started out as a GD, but later flipped to BD after they started taking over the hood.
Breezy has faced some hate from his opps for switching sides.
But he says he only claimed GD when he was a kid
and ain’t know what he was doing.
But when he hopped off the porch foreal, he was banging BD.
Growing up in Chiraq, 600 Breezy dealt with violence from an early age.
In an interview with DJ Vlad, he talks about being shot at just 14 years old.
He and 600 members used to fight dudes from other hoods
and they was known for beating up their opps and embarrassing them in front of their girls.
Until one day, the opps came back with guns and started shooting.
After that, they had to get their own guns to protect themselves
and the violence just took off from there.
When he was 21, he got shot in the hand and leg,
being fresh out of jail.
Breezy ran away and made it four blocks before collapsing
but ain’t even realize he got shot until his legs gave out.
He got hit by a .25 which is so small that it can’t really kill you.
But it could have done a lot more damage if it hit him somewhere else.
After that, he kept getting shot every year for the few years and got hit a total of six times.
But luckily, he was only shot in the hand, leg, and ass.
So none of the bullets hit any vital organs or did serious damage.
He said the most painful thing was getting shot in the ass.
That time, he was out sliding on opps and karma came back around within 5 minutes.
He don’t go into much detail
but said it was by far the most painful time he got ran up on
and he thinks it happened because he was doing something that he had no business doing.
He just gotten out of jail for a drug case and his face had been all over the news,
so people was out looking for him.
But after that, he learned his lesson and started moving smarter,
so he aint end up right back in the same position.
But if you thought that was crazy,
this next rapper got shot in the head and arm during a drive-by after a fight.
Bankroll Freddy
Bankroll Freddy is a rapper from Conway, Arkansas
who is signed to Quality Control Records, along with rappers like the Migos and Lil Baby.
Freddie started rapping in 2017, releasing freestyles on Instagram,
including a version of Act Up by the City Girls that was part of the #ActUpChallenge.
This got the attention of Pee from Quality Control, who invited Freddy to meet him in LA.
In 2019, he dropped the single Drip Like This, which was later remixed by Young Dolph and Lil Baby.
Then he dropped the album From Trap to Rap in 2020,
which featured Moneybagg Yo, Lil Yachty, and Yo Gotti.
He followed up with his second project Big Bank in 2021,
which had guest appearances from Meg thee Stallion, EST Gee, and Gucci Mane.
One night, his career was almost cut short before it even got started,
when his opps ran up on him after a fight.
In an interview with DJ Vlad, Freddie tells what went down.
He was at a casino when he got into it with another group.
He and his homies left the casino to get away.
But whoever they was beefing with followed them outside
and started chasing them in their own car.
As Freddy was driving away,
the opps sped up behind them and shot through the back window.
Freddie got grazed in the head and arm
and his homies almost got hit too.
He spent the night in the hospital but bounced back pretty fast.
After that, he said he had to tighten up and move differently
so he wouldn’t be put in that situation again.
He had a kid on the way and when he woke up in the hospital,
he realized that if things went differently, he would have never saw his son.
In total, he was shot at like 30 or 40 times and got lucky to only be grazed.
But it looks like Freddie took that as a sign to leave the streets alone
and focus on his rap career,
so he don’t lose all his blessings for nothing.