Being a famous rapper can make you a target.
When you're moving around with expensive jewelry, anything can happen.
Let's check out these rappers who got their chains snatched.
Shy Glizzy
Shy Glizzy is a rapper from southeast Washington DC. He grew up on 37th,
in one of DC’s most dangerous hoods.
His father was killed when he was less than a year old
and he was raised by his mother and grandmother.
Shy was in the streets at an early age.
At 9 years old, he got arrested for petty larceny.
Then at 16, he was arrested for robbery and spent 14 months in juvie.
While he was locked up, he started dabbling with music
and kept writing songs once he got out.
He started gaining a buzz in the early 2010s with tracks like White Girl and I’m Awwsome.
In 2015 he was featured on the XXL Freshman Class List.
But that same year, Shy Glizzy got his chain snatched at a show in Memphis.
Shy was out on tour when some Memphis goons pressed him and stole his chain.
A local rapper named Big Mota
went online to confirm the rumors and take credit for the robbery.
He said his crew asked Shy to do a feature and the rapper refused.
He said “We asked you nicely to do a song, you said get the **** out your face”.
We asked you nicely to do a song, you said get the **** out your face
So apparently Mota and his people felt disrespected and decided to teach Shy a lesson.
A few days later, Shy popped up on Instagram
to show that he got his chain back, and acted like nothing happened.
But according to the dudes who stole it, Shy had nothing to do with getting it back.
They was cool with Blac Youngsta, who Shy knew through Yo Gotti.
Blac Youngsta brokered a deal between Shy and Big Mota to get the chain back for 10 bands.
They originally wanted 50, but he agreed to let it go for 10
out of respect for Blac Youngsta.
But Shy really had nothing to do with it.
Shy later dropped a remix of the song Cut it By Young Dolph and OT Genesis.
On the track, he took shots at Big Mota and the dudes who jacked his chain.
On the track, he raps
“Boy how you want a feature
Ain’t got no cheese
I wasn’t bout to let your fat ass come Debo me
I’m just running through South Memphis
with my OGs.”
He also denied actually getting his chain snatched
and said it just fell to the floor.
He raps
“Chain hit the floor and broke boys had a f****** scrimmage
You say you robber I’m sayin
So why you ain’t got my bands?”
One of the dudes who allegedly snatched the chain went on social media
and said the song was all cap.
He claimed Big Mota punched him, but not hard enough to knock him out,
so the chain couldn’t have fallen to the floor.
***** this **** ain't hard Big Mota didn't knock your ass out
you know what I'm saying
***** snatch your chain of your neck
He also said Blac Youngsta was the only reason he got his chain back in the first place,
so he should be grateful.
Blac Youngsta here to come get your chain for you,
we sold it to him and it went straight to him ***** we **** with him
Big Mota later dropped his own diss track called Suspect,
where he banned Shy Glizzy from Memphis
and clowns him for his pose in a photo that went viral.
Shy still continued with his career and nothing really happened after that.
But it definitely had fans looking at his music in a different way.
If you thought that was wild,
this next rapper got his chain snatched after a big fight at his show in DC.
Quavo
The Migos are one of the biggest groups in hip hop.
After 10 years in the game, they’ve stayed relevant by dropping catchy hits and club bangers.
But even the Migos ain’t safe from chain snatchers and in 2014,
Quavo allegedly had his jewelry taken at a concert in DC.
Many fans forget, but early on in their career,
the Migos beefed with Chief Keef and GBE.
The beef started in 2013 after Keef thought he heard them sneak diss him in a song.
He tweeted about it and went back and forth with Offset and Takeoff. T
hey told Keef they would be in Chicago next week and that he should pull up.
But Keef just clowned them in response.
After that exchange, the Migos dropped a diss song called Jealousy,
which really started the beef.
Keef responded by dropping his own diss tracks called Mando and Pull Up
.The Migos then announced they were shooting a video with Lil Durk in O’Block.
Around that time Durk and Keef had problems, since Keef aint bail Durk out of jail in 2013.
So, it was a clear shot at Sosa.
Durk confirmed this
by tweeting that the Migos could come to O’Block and shoot the video.
The Migos replied to the tweet by asking ‘who said we can’t? '
and Durk responds with “a nobody”.
While in Chicago shooting the video, the Migos took a photo with Bosstop,
another rapper from O’Block who grew up with Keef.
Keef and Bosstop were also having problems at the time.
Bosstop had supposedly ran up in Sosa’s crib while he was in court
and stole a bunch of stuff, including his signature Johnny Dang chain.
So when he took a pic with the Migos, he was flexing that chain.
Not long after that,
there was a fight between the Migos and GBE Capo at a restaurant in Chicago.
The Migos posted a video after the fight
where they were screaming at Capo in the restaurant and said they caught him slippin.
Capo clapped back on social media, calling the Migos soft
because they had a crew of 20 dudes with them and he was by himself.
At that point, Fredo Santana, who was close friends with Capo,
stepped in and shut it down.
He told the Migos to stop playing with Capo or he’d have their whole camp killed.
He also made it clear that anyone still rocking with the Migos would be seen as an opp.
About a week later, the Migos were performing in DC
when a huge fight broke out.
It was allegedly started by GBE affiliates and somehow, one of them got away with Quavo’s chain.
Chief Keef even went on social media after to show off the chain
and confirm they was the ones behind it.
But instead of retaliating, the Migos played it smart and squashed the beef.
Later that year, they all posted a photo together to show that they were now cool.
According to rumors, OGs like Gucci Mane and Pee from QC
stepped in to help settle the beef.
They wanted to make sure the situation wouldn’t turn violent.
It turned out to be a good move.
Getting a chain snatched can be enough to destroy a rapper’s career,
especially if they come from the streets.
But after they settled the beef, fans moved on and forgot about it pretty quickly.
But if you thought that was crazy,
this next rapper got his chain snatched at a show in Greensboro
and not long after, the alleged thief ended up dead.
Jaydayoungan
Jaydayoungan is a rapper from Bogalusa, Louisiana,
best known for tracks like 23 Island, Elimination, and Opps.
He started dropping music in 2016 with the mixtapes Younganimal and Ruffway,
which gained him a buzz in his city.
His song Interstate quickly racked up over 4 million views on YouTube in under a month,
which started to attract attention as well.
In 2018, he dropped the track Elimination off his 23 project.
The video racked up millions of views and became his first major breakout hit.
Since then,
the rapper has established himself as one of the most promising
up-and-coming artists from the south. But his come-up aint been perfect
and he’s had plenty of beefs and problems with the law since blowing up.
He even got his chain snatched once at a performance back in 2019.
The rapper was doing a show in Greensboro, NC, when there was some kinda altercation.
A video of the fight leaked to the internet and showed the rapper about to exit the stage
before being pulled back toward the crowd.
It’s hard to tell exactly what happened from the video, cause it ain’t the best angle.
But, after the concert, rumors went around that Jay
got his ATK chain snatched.
Jay is cool with Yungeen Ace, the rapper from Jacksonville who started ATK.
The two have collaborated together several times
and even have a project together called Can’t Speak On It.
So, he Jaydayoungan an ATK chain to show that he was part of the crew.
After the robbery, a bunch of Greensboro dudes hopped on social media,
bragging about how they stole Jay’s chain.
Jay responded on his iG story, telling them,
“Y’all n****s so goofy. Stop capping for the net.
You n****s thief’s. Ain’t take s**t but the wrong choice.”
Yungeen Ace got on social media
and told them they had one hour to return the chain back to Jaydayoungin.
Not long after that,
Jay went back on social media to show everyone that the chain had been returned.
The next day, rumors started to go around that the dude who took Jay’s chain was murdered.
A 21-year-old man named Aaron Thomas was shot and killed in his home in Greensboro.
After Thomas was killed, Jay and other rappers from ATK
went on social media to mock his death,
making it seem like they were responsible.
But a dude who was close to Aaron Thomas
named Lil Murden did an interview where he said that they were all cappin for the internet.
He said that Aaron’s murder had nothing to do with him
and that Jay and Ace paid him 25 racks to get the chain back.
He said he wasn’t even going to speak about it, but the dude’s from ATK was doin too much
by making it seem like they caught a body.
He even went as far as Facetiming the dude who snatched the chain while on camera.
He confirmed they was cappin and that ATK never slid on anybody over that situation.
Man those ****** cap man Imma that internet **** man
they slid on nothing man
They may be lying. But Lil Murden makes a good point,
sayin if they really slid on his homie, they wouldn’t be talking about it on the internet.
So, it seems like Jay got caught slippin and tried to save face
by pretending he killed the dude who robbed him.
But it’s not just the up-and-coming rappers who have to deal with chain snatchers.
This hip-hop legend had his jewelery snatched on stage
during a performance in Africa back in 2008.
50 Cent
50 Cent is a hip-hop icon from South Jamaica, Queens.
He lit the industry on fire with his debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin,
which was considered an instant classic.
But just because you’re a respected rapper don’t mean you’re safe everywhere.
In 2008, the rapper had his chain snatched on stage during a concert in the African country of Angola.
50 was performing with Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo
at the International Peace Festival at the Cidadela Pavilion in Luanda, Angola.
There was limited security and fans were able to interact with the group on stage.
Most people were just chillin, having a good time.
But one dude had different plans.
In a video of the performance, a man can be seen jumping on stage,
and grabbing at 50’s neck.
50 shoves the guy off stage and then jumps into the crowd after him.
Someone close to G Unit says 50 caught up with the fan and punched him in the face.
The dude also wasn’t allowed to leave the venue until they found the chain
and 50 left the performance with the piece still around his neck.
A man named Bruno Carvahlo was later handed over to the police
after footage was leaked to the public.
Carvalo’s own parents turned in their son
after seeing the footage and he faced criminal charges for the incident.
The guy probably thought he could hit a quick lick on an American artist.
But what he probably ain’t realize
was that 50 Cent was a rapper that wouldn’t hesitate to follow him into the crowd,
punch him in the face and still have him arrested for the robbery.
But it goes to show
that if you’re going to take the risk of snatching a rapper’s chain,
you better be ready for the consequences.