Rappers are natural targets for thieves.
Part of the job description of being a hip-hop artist is rocking expensive jewelry
and designer clothes, all while having to constantly interact with the public.
Not to mention, many fans act like you’ve gotten soft if you hire security
and don’t hang out in the hood.
That means, even the most successful rappers can get run up on.
Here is a look at some of the most popular rappers who have been robbed.
Drake
At this point, everyone knows who Drake is.
He’s a rapper and pop star from Toronto, Ontario
who also happens to be one of the world’s best-selling musical artists.
Today, the artist rolls around with a small army of security guards
to prevent any negative energy.
But before Drake was the biggest artist in the world,
he used to move around solo and was even robbed at gunpoint back in 2009.
On May 31st, 2009, the artist was on a date in his home city of Toronto
with a woman named Chantal Brown.
The two had dinner at a restaurant in the Little Italy section of the city
and after finishing the meal they got back in Drake’s SUV,
which was parked across the street.
Just after they got into the car,
two gunmen walked up to the vehicle and demanded the rapper’s jewelry and other valuables.
The robbers ended up getting away with a diamond gold chain
gifted to the rapper by his mentor, Lil Wayne
as well as an expensive Audema Piguet watch and $2,000 in cash.
In the middle of the robbery, a witness named Nicholas Cario
saw what was going on and chased the robbers away.
They took off in a getaway car
but were pulled over by police after driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
Upon getting caught, two passengers got out of the car and escaped on foot,
while the driver got arrested.
One of the suspects who took off was later caught by police,
but the other managed to get away.
The two men caught were Soccerties Cotterell and Paul Lelutiu.
They were arrested and charged with armed robbery, pointing a firearm,
and possession of the stolen property, after police discovered Drake’s chain,
watch, and some of the cash inside their car.
However, they never found the guns used to commit the crime,
which ended up hurting the case.
At the time Drake was a hot up-and-coming rapper, but not the superstar we know today.
While initially, he provided information to the police, he eventually stopped cooperating,
for fear that being labeled a snitch would hurt his rap career.
Another Toronto rapper named Big Page started accusing Drake of being a snitch,
even though they had collaborated in the past.
He even went as far as releasing the paperwork to prove that Drake cooperated with the cops.
However, the statement he released only proves that Drake was the victim of a crime,
and doesn’t say that he snitched.
In the end, Drake decided not to testify in court fearing that it would hurt his street cred.
The victims ended up getting released for time served
after already having spent about six months locked up.
So, the snitching rumors didn’t exactly stick.
Reflecting on the robbery in later interviews,
Drake claims that he believes he was set up by none other than Chantal Brown,
the woman he was out on a date with.
He says that she had an expensive Louis Vuitton bag with her that the robbers never even touched,
even though it was probably worth more than everything else they took.
He even raps about this event in his track the Resistance
off his debut album “The Resistance”, saying
“Maybe it was the fast-paced switch up Or the two guns in my face during the stick up
Maybe cause the girl I thought I trusted was who set the whole shit up.”
It’s not clear what happened to Chantal Brown,
but she and Drizzy are probably no longer on speaking terms.
At least the robbery taught young Aubrey a lesson
and after that, he started rolling deep with security.
If you thought that was crazy,
this next artist got robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco
and took off running down the street.
Here’s what went down..
2Chainz
2Chainz is a trap icon.
With hits like Birthday Song and I’m Different,
he dominated the rap radio airwaves in the early 2010s.
But at the height of his success, a robber tried to run up on the Atlanta rapper
and he immediately turned around and booked it.
Surveillance footage obtained by TMZ shows the rapper and his entourage
casually walking down the sidewalk in downtown San Francisco back in 2013.
2Chainz and his crew are walking down the sidewalk,
allegedly on their way to a weed dispensary,
and suddenly an armed gunman approaches them from across the street demanding jewelry.
The rapper and his security clearly weren’t strapped because as soon as they see the gunman,
they turn around and start running the other way.
2chainz starts weaving in between parked cars to avoid getting shot by the robber
but loses his balance after trying to get back on the sidewalk.
The robber manages to catch up with him and allegedly stole his wallet and iPhone,
before running away.
Although 2chainz is more of a rap character than a hardcore killer,
he still came up hustling in Atlanta and had a reputation to protect.
The video was pretty embarrassing for the artist and he tried to sweep it under the rug by tweeting
1. When a rapper gets robbed, there is usually evidence posted online,
and 2. When a rapper gets shot, he usually ends up dead or in the hospital.
However, it was pretty hard for him to deny the robbery after the surveillance footage was leaked.
He did an interview with Atlanta Radio station 107.9, he says at first,
he thought it was a prank, but after the dude started letting off shots,
he knew it was real.
Even though it was an embarrassing moment, at least 2chainz lived to talk about it.
Neither he nor his security was armed at the time
and it probably would have been much worse if they tried to confront the dude
rather than booking it like they did.
It’s only in rap that fans expect artists to be superheroes
and stand up to armed robbers even if they get caught lacking.
In an interview with DJ Vlad,
2chainz said he had to fire his security after the incident.
It is their job to keep the rapper protected, yet they took off running with him
as soon as the guy ran up with the gun.
Hopefully, this robbery taught 2chainz and his entourage to move a little smarter.
No matter how comfortable you feel in a city,
being a well-known rapper automatically puts a target on your head.
But if you thought that situation was crazy,
this next rapper and his entire crew had their chains snatched on camera.
But, when an affiliate tried to get them back, it was revealed the chains were fake the whole time.
Lil Mosey
Lil Mosey is a rapper and singer from Mountlake Terrace,
a city outside of Seattle, Washington.
Mosey started poppin off back in 2017, after his track “Pull Up” went viral
and managed to rack up 25 million streams the first week.
He has gone on to release several popular hits, including Blueberry Faygo,
which features a Cole Bennet-directed music video.
Plus, Mosey was featured in XXL’s Freshman Class of 2019.
Mosey was 15 at the time that his first single started poppin off and is still only 19.
Although most fans don’t consider Mosey as a street artist,
he does talk about guns and opps in his music,
leading many to believe that he is about that life.
However, his fanbase is pretty young
and it doesn’t take much to convince kids on the internet that you’re harder than you actually are.
But Mosey’s street cred took a serious L after he and his crew got their chains snatched
and a video of the robbery got leaked onto the internet.
In the video, a bunch of Seattle goons have him and his crew up against a wall
and are lecturing them about being disrespectful.
In the next shot, the crew shows off the chains which spell out “Band Kid”
and claim they want 20K for their return.
In the video,
the dude who stole the chain keeps saying how they don’t have respect for him and his brothers,
leading many to believe that Mosey and his crew were talking shit on social media
and the thieves pulled up to teach them a lesson.
Tell me why you out here looking like that I warned you bro
It's just outta respect out of all of my family *****
Why you ****** leaving bro?
After the robbery, Lil Mosey took to social media to diss the robbers in a freestyle,
however, he didn’t have that same type of energy when his chain was getting snatched.
To make matters worse, another Seattle artist named 28AV
managed to get Lil Mosey his chain back, only to find out it was fake.
28AV claims that he and Mosey had mutual friends and he managed to pull some strings
and get the chains back from the robbers.
He reached out to Mosey and his camp a few times
and they didn’t seem interested in getting them back.
AV and his crew ended up making a video testing the diamonds
and revealed that they were fake the whole time
– which is probably why Mosey wasn’t stressed about getting them back.
In an interview with a local podcast, 28AV says that he did it
because he felt disrespected by Mosey, who blew him off after he tried to do him a solid.
Even though they aren’t that tight, AV says that Mosey is representing Seattle
and making the whole city look soft by letting something like that slide.
The robbery must have made Lil Mosey reconsider how he was moving,
because in August 2020, he was arrested on felony gun charges for carrying a concealed weapon.
The rapper, along with his bodyguard and another associate
were pulled over in a black Escalade in LA for driving without license plates.
When the cops pulled them over, they noticed an empty holster which prompted a search,
eventually uncovering 3 loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistols.
The cops also found 4 credit cards in a backpack that did not belong to anyone in the vehicle.
All three were arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
Mosey, who had just recently turned 18 was released on a $35,000 bond.
Although it’s good that Mosey has beefed up his security,
he may want to be sure that his bodyguard is holding legal weapons
and not dabbling in credit card fraud on the side.
Otherwise, he’s going to get himself mixed up in even more drama.
But if you thought that was crazy,
this next rapper got robbed by goons who filmed the whole thing.
After the robbers tried to make it right through a mutual friend,
the artist cursed them out through Instagram.
NBA Youngboy
NBA Youngboy is a popular rapper and singer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He is one of the hottest artists of the generation of rappers who came up in the late 2010’s
and has been consistently releasing hits since his single 38 Baby took off in 2016.
But unlike many rappers, it’s well known that Youngboy is about that life.
He is currently fighting a federal firearms charge that could put him behind bars for a long time
and has a long list of past arrests that range from kidnapping to attempted murder.
Check out our video on Rappers Who Ran From The Cops
for more info on Youngboy’s recent arrest.
But before being wanted by the FBI, Youngboy was involved in a situation
where a few robbers stole some petty cash from the cars in his garage
and uploaded a video of the break in to Instagram.
Back in 2020, footage surfaced of a robbery that took place at Younboy’s home.
The thieves recorded themselves going through the vehicles in his garage looking for valuables.
They tagged a popular NBA Youngboy fan account in the post
and demanded that the rapper give them $30,000 to get his stuff back.
Youngboy took to Instagram not long after the robbery to call the thieves stupid
and claim that they only got away with some car keys, a $20 bill, and his camera man’s flip-flops.
Then, another video surfaced of J Prince from Rap a Lot of Records
claiming that he knew the robbers and they wanted to broker a deal.
J Prince is a rap legend
who has been a well known figure in the Houston music scene for several decades.
He is well respected in the hip-hop community and has been promoting artists
and brokering various deals behind the scenes since the 80’s.
But Youngboy doesn’t care much about the OGs
and took to Instagram to say that he didn’t rock with J Prince
for putting his business out on the internet.
He claims there are plenty of people around him
that J Prince could have easily contacted if he wanted to make a deal
but posting his business online for everyone to see was just unnecessary.
J Prince responded to Youngboy by saying that he was only trying to help
and that the rapper was being a “dumb boy with limited thinking abilities”
for disrespecting him for no reason.
He took my kindness for weakness.
Because you're a dumb boy with limited thinking abilities
and disrespectful.
Both are a little bit in the wrong.
J Prince probably should have contacted Youngboy directly,
rather than airing his business on the internet.
But, Youngboy also shouldn’t have cursed out a legend, when he was just trying to help.
The situation concluded after Youngboy confronted the thieves on Instagram Live.
The robber asks Youngboy if he wants to buy his stuff back,
to which Youngboy responds by telling him that they didn’t take anything valuable.
Youngboy says he could care less about the stuff,
and he’s only on Live to find out where they are so he can smoke them.
The robbers call him lame for threatening to kill them over $20 – but then again,
they did try to extort him for $30,000 over some petty cash and a pair of flip-flops.
Luckily, no violence was ever committed over the robbery,
which shows growth for the NBA team.
However, they seem to have bigger things to worry about after being investigated by the FBI.
Hopefully, Youngboy will beat this weapons charge
and get back to releasing bangers.
Or at least beef up his security
so clout-hungry robbers can’t just sneak into his garage and steal his homie’s flip-flops.
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