Being a rapper
is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world,
and it seems like it’s getting even harder for artists to survive out there.
Most rapper murders get solved pretty fast
because the shooters leave a ton of evidence behind,
but today we’re breaking down the biggest artists in the game
who were tragically killed and never had their murder solved.
Let’s get right into it.
Drakeo the Ruler
was one of the best west coast rappers of his generation.
His career never blew up like it should have
because he was always dealing with legal issues,
and when he was finally on his way to the top -
he was tragically murdered backstage at a concert.
Nobody has been charged with his death,
but rumors say YG’s crew was involved.
According to reports
their crews ran into each other backstage,
and that’s when a fight broke out
and Drakeo ended up getting stabbed in the neck.
TMZ reported
that the cops are having to use mostly cellphone footage to figure out what happened,
but the investigation hit a major roadblock
because nobody wants to come forward and work with them.
Another rumor about his murder
is that it’s connected to the death of a rapper named Slim 400,
who was shot to death just a couple of weeks earlier.
Hopefully Drakeo’s family can get some closure over what happened,
but it’s gonna be tough to find answers if nobody cooperate.
JayDaYoungan was one of the hottest new rappers in the south,
but back in July
he was gunned down at his crib in a brutal attack.
According to his dad Kenyatta Scott,
Jay and him were sitting outside when a truck pulled up
and three shooters hopped out.
They tried to run inside the house,
but that’s when two more shooters came around the side of the house
and started letting off shots too.
Scott started shooting back,
but he got hit twice in the arm
and Jay was shot at least eight times.
It was a crazy shooting that happened in broad daylight,
but the cops still don’t have no suspects in the case.
After it went down,
Jay’s homie FG Famous was allegedly arrested
for shooting at someone in retaliation,
but it’s not clear who he was trying to take out.
There were two other shootings in the city on the day Jay was killed
and the cops think they’re connected,
so tap in for updates while this tragic and brutal story develops.
Indian Red Boy was a rapper from LA
who was brutally murdered on IG Live last year.
He was chilling in his car chopping it up with a dude named Kapone
when a shooter walked up and started letting off shots.
After he died,
rumors started flying that Red Boy was killed
because he allegedly disrespected Nipsey Hussle -
but according to a dude on IG
that’s not what really went down.
He says Red Boy and his friend got into a fight in front of their homies over a girl,
and Red Boy got stomped out.
After the fight,
Red Boy allegedly tried to go after the same chick again -
and that’s when he was shot and killed.
Killing someone on IG Live
seems like a good way to get arrested immediately,
but the cops still haven’t named any suspects in the case.
Jimmy Wopo was a rapper from Pittsburgh affiliated with Wiz Khalifa.
He had only been in the rap game for a couple of years,
but Wopo was already racking up millions of streams
and working with huge artists like 21 Savage.
But before he could reach his full potential,
Wopo was killed during a drive-by shooting
in the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
He was on his way up in the rap game,
but the cops say Wopo was heavy in the streets
and called him the “Hill District terror.”
After he died,
the cops accused Wopo of running a crew called the 11 Hunnit gang
and being involved with at least two other murders in the city.
Nobody has ever been arrested for his murder,
but if he was savage as the cops say he was -
there would have been a lot of people in the city who wanted Wopo dead.
Snootie Wild was a Memphis rapper
who came up in the early 2010s with his track Yayo
and signed with Yo Gotti’s CMG label.
His career had been quiet for a few years,
but fans were shocked
when he was found in a ditch with a gunshot wound in his neck.
It’s not clear exactly what happened,
but back in February
Snootie was found by Houston cops in a ditch by the side of the road.
According to a woman who was at the scene,
she was trying to get her car out of a ditch
when Snootie walked up and pointed a gun at her.
At some point he started arguing with some other people standing around,
that’s when a shot went off and Snootie got hit in the neck.
The whole situation is really strange.
Nobody knows why Snootie would have pointed a gun at a random woman,
or why somebody ended up killing him afterward.
The cops are still looking for his killer,
so tap in for updates on this wild case.
Goonew came up in Maryland
and was known for his crazy work ethic.
He put out ten projects between 2018 and 2021,
and was popping off with tracks like Stain,
No Diss, and Hoodrich.
But in March 2022,
he was tragically shot to death after getting robbed for his jewelry.
Goonew’s mom said
all he wanted was to get his family out of the hood,
but somebody killed him before he had the chance.
According to her,
Goonew actually handed over his watch and chain
but the killer still shot him in the back.
Trying to keep your jewelry can get you killed,
but even doing the smart thing in the situation and handing it over
doesn’t guarantee you’ll be ok.
Hopefully Goonew’s family will get justice for his death,
but the police still haven’t named any suspects in his murder.
Tupac is one of the greatest rappers of all time,
but his death was so mysterious that it gets talked about by fans
almost as much as the legendary music he left behind.
In September 1996,
Tupac and Suge Knight left their hotel to go to Suge’s Club 662.
While they were driving down the strip,
a Cadillac pulled up to their car and started letting off shots.
Pac got hit four times and was rushed to the hospital,
but he tragically died a few days later.
There are all kinds of rumors about who was behind the hit.
Some people think Diddy took him out
to put the east coast up in the war against the west,
others say Suge had him killed
because Pac wanted to leave Death Row Records.
And one of the most popular theories is
that Pac didn’t actually die that night
and he’s off living in peace somewhere far away from the rap game and all its drama.
There’s not enough evidence to prove any of the rumors 100% though,
and fans will never stop debating
about what really went down that night in Vegas.
KTS Dre and his brother KTS Von
were two of the most feared rappers in Chicago.
Their crew Kill to Survive
had wild beefs with sets like NLMB,
and last year the street activities caught up to Dre.
Dre had been arrested for violating his parole,
and his fiancee posted a $5K bail.
Even though he made bail,
they didn’t let him out until the next day -
and Dre’s grandma and fiance met him at the jail to take him home.
After Dre was released,
the three of them started walking back to their car.
That’s when two cars pulled up and started letting off shots.
Dre’s grandma was hit in her knees,
and Dre caught an insane 64 shots and died at the scene.
It was a crazy attack, even for Chicago.
Killing someone right outside of a jail is wild,
but the cops still haven’t arrested anyone for his death.
Rumors say that NLMB was involved,
but as of today nobody knows for sure.
Lil Marlo was Lil Baby’s best friend
and actually got him into the rap game.
Both of them were hustling in the streets full-time,
but one day Marlo hopped in the booth
and he convinced Baby to do the same.
Baby took it far in the rap game,
but Marlo still had one foot in the streets.
He had some buzz in the industry
and was signed to Quality Control,
but hadn’t blown up like his homie Lil Baby yet.
Two years ago,
the cops found Marlo dead in his car
on I-285 in Atlanta.
He had been shot multiple times and crashed the whip,
but they’ve never had enough evidence to book anyone for his death.
After he died,
rumors were flying that the hit was meant for Baby
and there was a bag on his head,
but Baby hopped online to say
all of that was cap.
It’s not clear who took him out,
but Marlo was definitely the target.
Unfortunately,
he didn’t leave the streets behind like Baby,
that decision may have led to his tragic death.
Edai was involved with the Chicago drill scene
back when Chief Keef was first blowing up
and putting the wave on the map.
But besides rapping,
he also repped 600 and had both feet in the trenches.
Edai was also known for dissing dead opps in his songs,
and all the street activity and disrespect
caught up to him last year.
In August 2021,
Edai was chilling with a girl
when two shooters pulled up and started letting off shots.
Edai pushed her out of the way,
but he couldn’t get to cover and ended up getting shot 22 times.
There are tons of rumors about who was behind the hit,
but right now the case is still open.
Edai and his homies have a lot of beef in the city though,
and there’s no telling how many people wanted to take him out.
Yung Mazi was a rapper from Atlanta
who survived getting shot at a Waffle House and tweeted
“God made me bulletproof.”
But just a few months later,
he was caught again and was shot and killed outside of a pizza shop.
It’s been five years and the cops never made any arrests,
but Mazi’s girlfriend Kat Stacks said
he got backdoored by his own people.
According to her, Mazi’s homies called her an hour after he died
and told her they were the ones who killed him.
There’s no evidence to prove her story though,
and it don't make any sense to call up the girlfriend of a dude you just murdered
and tell her what went down.
At this point it doesn’t seem like Mazi’s family and fans
will ever have a concrete answer about what happened to him,
but that can always change.
LA is one of the most dangerous cities to be a rapper in,
and in 2020
an artist named Mac P Dawg was shot to death in Koreatown.
Mac and a woman were chilling in the neighborhood around 8 PM,
when a shooter walked up and started letting off shots.
They both got hit, but unfortunately
Mac’s wounds were too severe
and he later passed away.
The shooter hopped in a vehicle and smashed off,
and the cops have never found the suspect in the case.
Mac was associated with the Shoreline Mafia
and had tracks with Fenix Flexin and Ohgeesy.
He was grinding hard in the rap game trying to blow up,
but he was taken out before he had the chance to really make it.
Nobody knows why Mac was killed,
but now he’s another LA artist who was taken too soon.
Bambino Gold and his cousin Kendrick Stokes
were seen at a county fair in Alabama together.
Gold was a rapper,
and Stokes was a promoter in the industry -
and they both disappeared at the same time.
After they were spotted at the fair, both of them just vanished.
Their friends, family, and the cops
all started searching immediately,
but they couldn’t find any traces of evidence.
Then two weeks later,
somebody walking on the road saw a body
that turned out to be Bambino Gold.
The cops knew his cousin was probably close,
and they ended up finding his body a few miles away.
The cops think they were killed somewhere else
and the bodies were dumped in the woods,
but they never found any good leads in the case.
It’s been five years since Gold and Stokes were murdered,
and the trail has gone totally cold.
Maybe one day there will be a break in the case,
but as of today the mystery is far from over.
Lor Scoota was an up and coming rapper from Baltimore
who was killed back in 2016.
He was leaving a charity basketball game promoting peace in the city,
when somebody pulled up next to him and started shooting.
It turns out that Scoota’s homie Fred Catchings
might have been the reason Scoota was killed.
Just a few hours before Scoota was shot,
Catchings allegedly crashed out and shot an opp named Davonte Robinson.
According to the cops,
Robinson survived
and his homies went out looking for payback.
And when they found Scoota on the road,
they ain't hesitate to take him out.
One of the main suspects was a dude named Cortez Mitchell,
but before he could be charged with Scoota’s death
he was shot and killed at a traffic light a few months later.
The cops never closed Scoota’s case,
but it seems like the streets caught the killer before they could.
ShootaShellz popped off in the Chicago drill scene
when he dropped an NLMB diss track called Death of 150.
But just three months later,
he was ambushed in broad daylight
and taken out by three shooters.
It’s not clear who was behind the hit,
but the shooters obviously wanted to send a message.
Shellz was reportedly shot 15 times in the face,
and a photo of the aftermath started going around online.
Shellz repped Black Mobb,
who had major beef with NLMB,
but there’s no evidence that NLMB was behind the hit.
The cops are still investigating the case five years later,
but at this point
it doesn’t seem like anyone will ever get book for the shooting.
All of these cases are crazy
and hopefully one day they will all be solved.
Rest in peace to everyone mentioned in this video.