Maine Musik was becoming one of the hottest new rappers out of Baton Rouge
before he got locked up on a gun case.
He might be coming home soon though
and there’s no telling what will happen when he does.
From getting shot and robbing dice games,
to sending death threats at Donald Trump
and getting interrogated by the secret service
- this is the wild story of Maine Musik.
Let’s get right into it.
Maine Musik came up in Baton Rouge
and started rapping at a young age.
But even though he knew he wanted to be a rapper,
the dream didn’t keep him out of the streets
and he ended up with both feet in the trenches.
A lot of rappers end up dropping out of high school eventually,
but Maine was getting into so much trouble as a kid
that he was expelled in the eighth grade from all the local schools.
But before he got kicked out,
Maine met his homie Tec in middle school
and the two of them have been close as brothers ever since.
Maine could have gone to school in a different county
even after he got kicked out,
but his mom couldn’t afford to drive him there every day
so he ended up just chilling on the block with all the older dudes
and getting deeper in the streets.
In an interview with Saycheese TV,
Maine said he had a lot of fun running around with two guns
at 14 years old and selling weed to bring money in.
Maine spent a lot of time just writing bars
and rapping on the block too,
and when they were still teenagers
Tec and him started putting on shows in the local scene.
They were inspired by dudes like Boosie Badazz
who came from the streets
and used everything he experienced to make raw southern classics.
Maine and Tec wanted to do the same thing in their own lane.
They were both active in the streets,
but at the same time they were always working on their music too.
It took a while for them to pick up any attention outside of Baton Rouge though,
and the money was never good enough for them to take it full time.
Maine actually tried to work a legit job once,
but it almost ended up getting him sent to prison.
Maine’s uncle ran a company that did flooring work in people’s houses,
and he hired Maine and one of his homies to help him out.
They were going into houses people were still living,
but Maine thought they were abandoned
and started stealing anything valuable while they were working.
One day when Maine and his homie jacked some stuff out of a house
and put it in the work van,
the people who lived there called up his uncle tripping over the situation.
They had to turn around and give everything back,
and Maine’s uncle actually came close to calling the cops on him.
Maine’s uncle decided not to press the issue,
but he ended up in prison anyways.
Besides selling weed,
Maine also got money from shooting dice.
You can’t win every game though,
and one time some dudes broke him for ever dollar he had.
Maine wasn’t gonna just let them walk away with his money like that though,
and he rolled back up to the spot and robbed everyone there.
One of the dudes ended up snitching on Maine
and got him locked up for two years,
but at the same time
Tec was making moves in the industry.
He linked up with Master P from No Limit
and started learning how the game worked -
and when Maine came back home
they went to California together to try and get the music popping for real.
Maine says he learned a lot from watching how Master P moved,
but the No Limit situation didn’t end up working out for them.
For a while it seemed like Maine and Tec
would never blow up like they wanted to,
but in 2016
everything changed overnight.
Tec and Maine dropped the track Ain’t No Comin’ Down in 2016,
but the song wasn’t what put them in the headlines.
At the beginning of the track Maine sent shots at Donald Trump,
and in another clip
he threatened to go to war with him
after Trump criticized people on food stamps.
But I really wanna go to war with Donald Trump
cuz Donald Trump tryna take food stamps from my mama
and that's all the f*** she got
b**** ass n***a
so you n****s better stay the f*** out.
Look as long as the motherf*****' government let us keep food stamps
in Sherwood
we gonna be good.
but the first time this n****a pass a law
talking about he taking Louisiana perks
s*** gonna get ugly.
but sending death threats at Donald Trump wasn’t the best move.
At the end of the video
Maine also said
We want war, we gone declare war.
and I ain't worried about ISIS cus um-
they just called they want me to f*** with them now.
It was pretty clear that he was just joking
but sending threats at Trump and saying he was cool with Isis
had the cops knocking at his door the next day.
They came through and checked to see
if anyone in the Ain’t No Comin’ Down video had warrants out for them,
but had to leave when everyone involved with the situation was good.
That wasn’t the end of it for Maine Musik though.
That same week the secret service brought him in for an interrogation
over the shots he sent at Trump.
According to Tec
I mean with a $23,000 bond they weren't serious.
No, they just-
they really just wanted-
they really wanted to just get him
and let him know like
don't say nothing else
like they said this specifically
don't say Donald Trump name
and war in the same sentence.
Luckily Maine didn’t get taken down by the feds
over the Trump situation,
but that wasn’t all of the trouble that Ain’t No Comin’ Down caused for him.
In June 2016
he was booked on weapons charges
over a robbery at a gun shop called Meaux Guns & Ammo in 2015.
Around 50 guns were stolen from the store,
and the police said a bunch of the straps showed up
in the Ain’t No Comin’ Down video.
The gun store owner allegedly recognized some of the weapons in the video,
and according to the police
they could even see the serial number on one of the pistols.
Maine bonded out on the charge and got back to the music grind,
and by that point
Tec and him were getting some serious momentum in the industry.
All of the drama helped put them in the spotlight
and their new tracks were racking up millions of views on YouTube.
It looked like all the work was finally going to pay off
and launch them into the mainstream,
but then Maine Musik got caught up in a situation
that almost left him dead.
Maine was beefing with another Baton Rouge rapper
named Sherwood Marty at the time,
and at one point the opps caught him lacking
and shot up his whip 37 times.
Maine caught three bullets
but came out of the situation without any serious injuries.
Nobody was ever booked for the shooting,
but pretty much everyone believes Sherwood Marty was involved somehow.
Maine took shots at the opps for not killing him
on the track Insurance and said
“Caught me off it, beat me in the ass?
They hit me in the leg
In the arm, in the thigh,
but it could’ve been the head
But instead they had they eyes closed,
they thought I was dead.”
“B**** ass n**** I’m 6 foot 6
and a n**** miss 37 shots,
b**** ass n**** how you hit 3 out of 37
Now either god was by my side or them shootas was blind.”
Maine said he would eventually leave Baton Rouge
after he got big enough,
but the streets almost caught up to him before he had the chance.
He made it out of the situation alive
and had his name buzzing,
but then Maine went down for the case that he’s still serving time for today.
In August 2018,
Maine was pulled over after the cops noticed him swerving all over the road.
According to police,
Maine’s hands were shaking and he was talking nonsense
when they asked where he was going.
That’s when they spotted a bottle of Fanta with lean in it
and decided to search his whip.
Maine was already on probation for lean
and was driving without a license.
He probably would have gotten off easy if that’s all the cops found,
but when they went through his car
they found a loaded pistol hidden inside the middle console.
He was already a felon
and Louisiana doesn’t play when it comes to gun laws,
so Maine ended up getting hit with a wild 75 month sentence
when he pleaded guilty in 2019.
Tec said a couple of years ago
If he get all these classes
and s*** like he tryna do
like you know.
He got, he gone have two more years
he'll be home 2022.
but obviously it didn’t work out like that for Maine.
It’s not clear when Maine will actually get to come home,
but some sources report that
he’s scheduled to get out in June 2024.
Tec has been trying to hold it down in the rap game since Maine got locked up,
but unfortunately their Spider Gang crew
lost a lot of momentum after Maine was booked.
But while a lot of fans might have forgotten about him since the arrest,
it won’t matter at all for Maine
because another one of his homies became one of the biggest rappers in the world.
Youngboy Never Broke Again
took over the entire rap game
and has been putting on for Baton Rouge the whole time,
and he has ties with Maine Musik from way back in the day.
It’s kind of complicated
because Tec is cool with Youngboy’s opp Fredo Bang,
but a few months ago Youngboy made it clear
that he’s still rocking with Maine.
He posted Maine on IG
and said that he’s got racks for him when he gets out,
so at least Maine knows he won’t have to go back to shooting dice
and selling weed while he gets his music popping again.
Having one of the biggest artists in the world behind him
is huge for Maine Musik.
He’s still dropping a few things from prison,
but if he gets out next year and links up with Youngboy in the booth
it’ll put him on an even bigger level than he was before he got booked.