Number 8 Jacquavius Smith
In December of 2021, Orlando rapper Jacquavius Smith, who performed under the name Glokk9 or
9lokkNine, was sentenced to more than 7 years in federal prison after being indicted on federal
firearms charges. Earlier, in July, he’d pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm,
using another person’s identity and committing a crime while on pretrial release. The penultimate
charge followed an investigation which revealed that he’d used another name
to fraudulently apply for and receive benefits through the Paycheck Protection Act. Smith,
who went viral on TikTok with the song 223’s on which he was featured alongside YNW Melly, was
also charged with attempted second-degree murder, in July of 2020. He’d opened fire on a house in
Orlando, which was also occupied by a woman and her three children, reportedly targeting a rival
rapper. No one was hurt and the testimony of a witness, who’d told the authorities “Glokk9 wants
to be Orlando’s only rapper”, offered detectives some insight into Smith’s murderous motivation.
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Number 7 Ishi Woney
Former high school cheerleader Corinna Slusser moved to New York City, from a small town in rural
Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2017. Less than two months since her arrival in the metropolis,
Slusser disappeared without a trace from a motel, in the Queens borough, where rooms were rented
by the hour. It later emerged that the young woman, then aged 19, had been ensnared in a
human trafficking ring offering escort services. Her first handler had been 32-year-old procurer
Yhovanny Peguero, who allegedly sold Slusser to various buyers with whom she was expected to
engage in intimate relations. They stopped working together after an incident in August of 2017,
when the young woman reportedly caught Peguero stealing $300 from her purse. Upon confronting
him about the theft, she was slammed against a wall and choked. Slusser was granted a temporary
restraining order against Peguero before, in early September, she became involved with
a new procurer. He was aspiring rapper Ishi Woney, a man in his early 20s, who’d already
been handling another woman when they met. He and Slusser exchanged roughly 800 messages,
from September the 10th to the 20th, and he’d posted an advertisement online offering a “two
girl special” providing photos of Slusser and the other victim. According to court records,
Woney and Slusser eventually fell out after one of the rapper’s other trafficking victims had
grown jealous of their relationship. Slusser was last seen on September the 20th of 2017,
when Woney left her at the Haven Motel, in Queens, in a room paid for by another man.
In spite of their previous altercation that had resulted in an assault charge,
Slusser sought Peguero’s help over social media, telling him that Woney had left her with “no money
and food”. They made plans to meet up but it’s unclear if they ever did and the teen was never
heard from again. The pending assault charges against Peguero were dismissed after Slusser
failed to show up for a court hearing but he adamantly denied having been the last person with
her. In November of 2019, in Manhattan federal court, Woney was sentenced to 15 years in prison
for human trafficking after he’d been arrested by the NYPD following an undercover operation.
He denied having passed Slusser off to another procurer and claimed that he had no idea what had
become of her or whether she was still alive. Number 6 Camrin Williams
Rapper Camrin Williams, better known by his stage name as C-Blu, got into a scuffle with
NYPD officers, in the Bronx, on January the 18th of 2022. As he was being searched by
27-year-old Officer Kaseem Pennant, Williams was reported to have accidentally discharged a firearm
after the two had become embroiled in a physical altercation. A single bullet struck and injured
Pennant while Williams himself was hit in the groin. Both subsequently recovered with
the rapper, then in his late teens, being taken to a juvenile detention center after receiving
treatment. As reported by a local media outlet, Pennant was subsequently released
from the hospital to the cheers of his fellow officers. Just nine days after he’d been arrested,
Williams walked free after posting his $250,000 bail using money from his record deal advance on
his contract with Interscope Records. The union representing NYPD officers was enraged by the
judge’s decision to grant the young offender bail, particularly since he’d already been on
probation for a 2020 gun possession arrest at the time of the shooting. Among those critical of the
outcome was also New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who claimed “It is further proof that our current
system is failing us.” According to updates on the case from mid-March of 2022, Bronx Supreme
Court Justice Naita Sema recommended Williams be tried in family court rather than adult court,
as she believed the NYPD had searched the teenage rapper without a providing a legitimate reason.
Number 5 Heather Morgan In 2022, multiple media
outlets revealed that an aspiring social media influencer and rapper had been officially charged
in connection to one of the largest cryptocurrency heists ever reported. 31-year-old Heather Morgan,
who performed as Razzlekhan, would often rap about her purported CEO lifestyle in her videos,
which amassed hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube alone. The self-dubbed Crocodile of Wall
Street performed a brand of hip hop that was meant to exaggerate and give a somewhat comedic twist
to various topics, including social distancing, fashion and her purported financial prowess.
She explained the name of her online rap persona, Razzlekhan, as inspired by Genghis Khan but with
“more pizzazz”. The case against Morgan originated in 2016, when the crypto currency exchange
Bitfinex was hacked, resulting in the theft of 119,754 Bitcoin. At the time it was worth an
estimated $71 million but, considering the massive growth that the cryptocurrency subsequently
experienced, the theft came to be valued at $4.5 billion. The money was siphoned out in more than
2,000 unauthorized transactions that funneled it into digital wallets, dispersing funds between
Morgan and her husband, fellow tech entrepreneur Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein. The authorities were
able to trace the money and, in what the DOJ reported as its largest financial seizure ever,
recovered 94,000 Bitcoin, estimated at $3.6 billion, from a wallet controlled by Lichtenstein.
Over a period of five years, the rest of the 25,000 Bitcoin had been transferred out of
the wallet through an intricate money laundering process and spent on NFTs, gold, hotels, gaming
consoles, Uber rides and Walmart vouchers, among other items and services. On February the 8th of
2022, Morgan was arrested in Manhattan and, if found guilty, she and Lichtenstein face up to
20 years in prison, on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering. As of the latest reports
on the matter, Netflix had initiated efforts towards getting the rights to Razzlekhan’s story.
Number 4 Dashawn Robertson
In November of 2020, an aspiring rapper from Dallas, Texas, surrendered to the authorities
after a warrant had been put out for his arrest in connection to the death of a young man. On October
the 25th, Dashawn Robertson, better known as Lil Loaded, shot 18-year-old Khalil Walker in
the Woods neighborhood. Robertson, who’d gone viral a year prior with the gold-certified song
6locc 6a6y, was recording a music video at the time. He and Walker, a fellow rapper,
were described as best friends but the latter’s sister reported hearing two gunshots
ring out during filming. She ran outside of the house and found her brother lying on the street
with a gunshot wound to his torso, as Robertson and another man were standing over his body.
According to the police, a video of the shooting was found on the victim’s phone.
Robertson drove Walker to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead two hours later. The rapper
fled in the immediate aftermath but eventually surrendered to the police and maintained
that the shooting, allegedly perpetrated with a rifle, had been an accident. In February of 2021,
he was indicted on the lesser charge of manslaughter after it was found that malice hadn’t
been a factor in the shooting. On May the 31st of that same year, leading up to his scheduled
court appearance, 20-year-old Robertson posted a heartfelt message to Instagram, asking God for
forgiveness. Hours later, the up-and-coming rapper was found dead by his mother after he’d suffered a
self-inflicted gunshot wound. Number 3 Jamell Maurice Demons
Shortly after he was charged with double homicide, in February of 2019, rapper Jamell Maurice Demons,
better known as YNW Melly, enjoyed mainstream success and rose to the top of several charts
with his song “Murder on My Mind”. He’d been charged alongside fellow rapper Cortlen Henry for
the murders of Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr. All four men were part of the same YNW
hip hop collective and the authorities reported that Demons and Henry had conspired to kill the
other two men and stage it to look like they’d fallen victims to a drive-by shooting. The double
murder occurred in October of 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Demons turned himself in,
on February the 13th of 2019, and announced on Instagram that “a lot of rumors and lies” were
being said regarding the double murder. He and Henry were also reported as suspects in the fatal
2017 shooting of off-duty Indian River County Sheriff's Department deputy Garry Chambliss,
in Gifford. Regarding the first-degree murder charges stemming from the deaths of Williams and
Thomas, who performed as YNW Sakchaser and YNW Juvy, Demons pleaded not guilty and his trial
date was scheduled for May the 23rd of 2022. The 22-year-old’s lawyers were concerned that lyrics
from “Murder on My Mind”, one of which read “I’m a murderer, yes, yes” might be used against him
in court. While rumors arose in the aftermath that the song was a confession to the double homicide,
with the controversy adding to its mainstream draw, it had actually been released a year prior
to the shooting. Today’s topic was requested by Clark Jay. If you have any other topics
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Number 2 Fontrell Antonio Baines 31-year-old rapper Nuke Bizzle, whose real
name is Fontrell Antonio Baines, was ordered to stand trial on December the 29th of 2020,
in downtown Los Angeles, after being charged with access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and
interstate transportation of stolen property. Through his music and social media accounts,
Baines openly bragged about getting rich by fraudulently obtaining jobless benefits
under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Baines
exploited the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance provision of the act,
designed to expand access to unemployment benefits to self-employed workers, independent contractors,
and others who would not otherwise be eligible. He uploaded a video to YouTube, which has been
viewed over 350,000 times, entitled EDD, which is short for the Employment Development Department,
the department that administered the benefits. In the shocking video, Baines basically gave up
his entire illegal operation and, while holding up several envelopes from the EDD, rapped that he was
getting rich by “going to the bank with a stack of these”, likely in reference to the debit cards
that came in the mail from the department. Another man featured on the song further expanded on the
delusional ingenuity of their money-making scheme by rapping "you gotta sell cocaine,
I just file a claim…" Baines also bragged about defrauding the EDD on his Instagram.
An investigation discovered at least 92 EDD debit cards preloaded with over $1.2
million in fraudulent obtained benefits mailed to addresses in Beverly Hills and Koreatown, to which
Baines had access. He and others involved in the operation had spent over $700,000 in cash from the
cards. The rapper pleaded not guilty to the felony charges leveled against him for which he faced a
maximum sentence of 22 years in federal prison. Number 1 Qaw'mane Wilson
In September of 2012, rapper Young QC, whose real name is Qaw'mane Wilson, was at the
funeral of his mother, Yolanda Holmes. Others in attendance remembered that Wilson, an only child,
seemed distant and unaffected by his mother’s passing. 45-year-old Holmes, who owned the
Nappy Headz Salon, in Uptown, Chicago, had been fatally stabbed and shot at her home,
in the 1000 block of West Montrose Avenue. While the incident, which occurred on September the 2nd,
was initially investigated as a robbery gone wrong, it soon emerged that Wilson had hired a
hitman to kill his mother. The reason, as reported by the authorities, had been financial gain and a
desire for fame. As claimed by friends of the victim, Holmes would always financially help
her son, spoiling him with expensive clothes and a Camaro, but he reportedly wanted more. Within
a week of the woman’s death, Wilson liquidated her bank accounts, which totaled over $90,000,
and he was also the beneficiary of her two life insurance policies. The wannabe rapper used the
money to fund and flaunt a lavish lifestyle across Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. His
displays of wealth included him being in expensive cars, wearing designer clothing or holding up
massive stacks of cash. In one clip he was seen "giving back to his fans" by launching
100$ bills in the air to a frantic gathering. The authorities soon identified him as the mastermind
of Holmes’ murder and he was arrested. Wilson was ultimately sentenced to 99 years in prison,
just one year less than the sentence handed down to Eugene Spencer, the
assassin he’d hired and whom he’d told in a phone conversation to make sure his mother was dead.
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