Rappers drop music from behind bars all the time,
but FNF Chop took it to the next level.
According to reports, he snuck out of jail,
recorded a whole music video,
then snuck right back in without anyone even noticing.
Here’s what happened.
Last week, FNF Chop shocked fans
when he dropped a new track and video called Yea Yea Yea.
He’s allegedly locked up right now,
but that didn’t stop him from getting out for a night
and filming a video in the streets.
It’s not exactly clear what went down
or how he managed to get out and back in without getting caught,
but now he’s got the whole internet talking about him.
What makes the situation even crazier
is that this aint his first time going viral from behind bars.
Back in 2020 he was locked up on a parole violation,
and his track Walk Down started blowing up like crazy on TikTok.
He racked up millions of streams
and had major labels reaching out just off one hot track.
Chop signed a deal with RCA,
and overnight he turned to one of the hottest new artists in the game
with fans screaming for the courts to release him.
Chop was born in Baltimore
but grew up in the projects in Richmond, Virginia.
Growing up his family didn’t have much,
and he jumped off the porch at a young age to go and get what he wanted.
A few months ago he went on Off the Porch
and revealed he got hit with four felonies when he was just ten years old.
I mean,
I caught four felonies at the age of 10.
The age of 10?
Yeah.
He was breaking into houses and cars trying to get some money,
and one day the cops caught him
and hit him with four felonies instead of just calling his parents
and letting him go with a warning.
At just ten years old
he got put on house arrest for a whole year,
and after that he just got deeper into the streets.
Coming up as an outsider in Richmond
made it even harder for Chop.
He said he used to get in fights all the time,
and was crashing out because he was just mad at the world.
His dad was in and out of jail,
so Chop and his six siblings were mostly raised by his single mother.
He knew from a young age that he never wanted to work for someone else
and that he was gonna start his own business
or find a different way to make money.
Rapping wasn’t something he even thought about doing as a kid,
but one day when he was locked up
Chop started writing bars for fun.
At first he thought it was trash,
but he kept going since there wasn’t much to do in jail.
Eventually he started rapping for the other inmates
and they was feeling it,
so when he got out Chop hit the studio and started laying down tracks.
In 2019
he dropped the song Walk Down and
started performing at clubs around the city,
but before he could really take off
he got booked on a probation violation for smoking weed.
At this point Chop said he didn’t know if he was gonna be a rapper
or just stay in the streets,
but then Walk Down blew up and changed everything.
Chop didn’t even have TikTok,
but that’s where the track started going viral.
One day it had a couple hundred plays,
then a few thousand,
and now it’s racked up over seven million streams just on Spotify.
He couldn’t be there to film a video,
so instead a bunch of his homies and fans starred in it
with Chop calling the shots from behind bars
- and he even showed up in the final video on a jail call.
Blowing up while he was in jail actually made it harder for Chop.
He said he was already chilling and had everything he wanted,
but everyone started treating him differently after he got famous.
And by the time he got out, Chop’s whole life was different.
He got straight to work dropping new tracks
to keep the momentum going
and started working with established artists like YungManny and Stunna 4 Vegas.
He dropped a project called No Way Out back in April,
and last month he linked up with Fivio Foreign for the track Repeat.
None of his recent tracks have popped off like Walk Down,
but he’s still racking up hundreds of thousands of views
and leveling up his career.
It’s not clear why he’s back behind bars this time,
but hopefully he doesn’t stay there too long.
If he really snuck out of jail to shoot a video
it’ll give him a lot of clout and attention online,
but it will probably end up adding more time
to whatever sentence he’s serving right now.
Sneaking in and out of jail sounds like it would be almost impossible,
but if he’s locked up in Richmond then it makes more sense.
According to local news reports,
the Richmond Sheriff’s Deputies are down by 110 people,
and the Richmond jail
don’t have enough guards to even keep the full jail open.
While he was locked up the last time,
Chop even told reporters
he noticed that they didn’t have enough people working there
and that the whole place was overpopulated.
According to him,
there should’ve been more areas open to keep everyone separated -
but they all got crammed in one area
because the jail couldn’t even guard the place anymore.
A few days after the Shade Room broke the story,
Chop reposted their video about it on his IG and gave them a shoutout.
He also tweeted a video of him flexing racks in a strip club
and captioned it with
“everybody acting like me sneaking out of jail is so crazy”
with laughing emojis.
Sneaking in and out of jail isn’t normal for most places,
but apparently Richmond is just that wild.
Chop has a lot of buzz behind his name
for sneaking out and shooting the video,
and hopefully it’s worth whatever consequences he has to deal with.
He has the skills and momentum to really make it far in the industry,
but it’s not gonna be worth it
if he’s just watching his numbers go up from behind bars.
It’s not clear how it’s all gonna play out,
so tap in for updates while the story develops.