Blueface may only be 23 years old,
but he's had more than enough success in the hip hop world.
He first broke out with the viral "Thotiana" and "Respect My Crypn"
in 2018, grabbing millions of views and streams.
His sudden internet fame caught him the attention of Cash Money West,
the LA location of the East Coast-based record label, Cash Money.
and was on his way to legit stardom.
Most recently, Blueface has made headlines for sharing some questionable content
on his BlueGC 2020 reality series available on OnlyFans.
If you've followed the rapper's life and career at all so far
or seen any of his music videos
you know what you can probably expect to see if you subscribe.
Before Blueface organized a subscription-based, underground, ladies-only fight club,
he was setting up a pretty healthy criminal record,
so let's get right into it and take a look at the criminal history of Blueface.
Jonathan Michael Porter was born in Los Angeles in 1997.
He grew up in the Mid-City neighborhood of central LA until he was in elementary school.
When his parents split,
he moved with his mother to Santa Clarita Valley
before moving to live with his dad in Oakland.
The hoods he lived in weren't known for being the safest places,
especially as far as gang activity goes.
Despite his older brother being involved with the street life,
Porter himself cared more about school stuff than crime.
While in high school,
he played the saxophone in the marching band,
but his real love was football.
Jonathan was always on the school team,
where he played as the starting quarterback his senior year,
taking his team to the championships.
He was so good that he was getting offers from several universities to play college football.
He had his pick
and ended up at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina,
where he played for a season.
However, after falling into a depression and being homesick,
he decided to drop out and move back home in 2016.
With no other prospects for a promising future
now that he wasn't going to school anymore,
Jonathan started hanging with the Schoolyard Crips.
He'd known them since childhood,
but it wasn't until now that he was looking to join up and become a member.
At this point,
Jonathan was trying to balance his street life with professional life
and worked a few odd jobs here and there.
His last regular job, at a Home Depot,
ended when he got caught selling kush out the back.
Once he was fired,
he was free to pursue dealing full-time,
and you don't deal full-time for very long without getting into a bit of trouble.
There aren't many records about his dealing days,
but rumor has it that he got picked up more than once.
Whether anything came of those arrests or charges isn't widely known,
so all we have are rumors.
Specifically, he was arrested at some point in 2016
in Santa Clarita, but no details are available.
This means that either the record was expunged or sealed.
Basically, it's like whatever that crime was didn't happen.
After a while of dealing,
a fellow Schoolyard Crip member, who was also an aspiring rapper,
brought the soon-to-be Blueface along to the studio to check out his recording session.
After the session, the pair were messing around,
and Porter recorded himself rapping to see what it was like.
He was apparently pretty impressed by himself
because he decided that rapping would be his career from that day on.
He gave up most of the street activity, especially dealing, and focused on making music,
sending out demos, and doing some online self-marketing.
Of course, his ties to the Crips were still pretty strong.
His new stage name, Blueface, is an obvious tribute to the gang.
All that focus kept him out of trouble for a while, but in an unfortunate event,
Blueface was roped into another mark on his record.
Just a month after being dubbed "LA's most controversial rapper" by Pitchfork Magazine,
Blueface got arrested.
That day in November 2018,
as Blueface was at a Chevron gas station in Newhall, California,
a stranger approached him.
As he got closer, it was clear that he had bad intentions
he was armed and robbed Blueface right there where he was parked.
The robber fled in a gray Dodge pickup, heading to the highway.
Blueface wasn't going to put up with someone just coming over and stealing his stuff,
so he hopped into his own car and took off after the robber.
He caught up quickly, and they drove side by side on the highway.
Shots were fired, and both drivers lost control of their vehicles,
crashing along the highway outside Newhall.
When the cops got there, they arrested both men.
Even though Blueface was the victim of a robbery, he was still holding a weapon.
He was arrested and received a charge of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
That charge is a felony in California.
The rapper had avoided felony charges up to this point,
so he did not want to go down for this.
Blueface had to spend the weekend in the county jail but was released on Monday on a $50,000 bond.
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station spokesperson made it clear
that "under the course of the investigation,
detectives found evidence of a robbery prior to the shooting incident."
Because the evidence matched Blueface's story, it was clear he had been a victim
and wasn't a danger on being released.
The rapper was quick to get on social media,
filming a video as he walked out of the police station, saying,
"Y'all already know I'm out on bail. Stop asking if they freed me. I freed me."
Common man, y'all know I'm out on bail don't ask me
If I- if they freed me
N*** I freed me
After some time with the lawyers,
the charges were ultimately lowered to a misdemeanor weapons possession charge,
which is still not a charge he was interested in.
On December 27, 2019,
he pled no contest.
A no-contest plea means he wasn't actually admitting to committing the crime,
but he also wasn't going to fight the charge at all.
In the end, he was sentenced to 36 months summary probation,
eight days of community service, and several fines and fees.
After that arrest in 2018,
Blueface stayed under the police radar
for a full two-and-a-half months before he saw the inside of a jail cell again.
On February 1, 2019,
Blueface and a few of his friends were loitering in a neighborhood near downtown LA
around 7pm, causing a scene on the street.
They were wearing expensive jewelry and flashing stacks of cash around,
taking photos and videos on their phones.
Residents nearby weren't happy about all this activity,
especially since the neighborhood had been the target of several robberies in the previous month.
The neighbors called the cops, saying they wanted to protect the men from getting robbed
and that they were pretty easy targets flashing all of their valuables in the open.
Of course, the group of men didn't see a cop car come over and think it was for their protection,
so Blueface and the others took off running.
One of them ditched a gun as they spread out,
which was easily found by the cops as they chased them.
The police caught up to Blueface and two of the men in the group,
and the men were arrested.
Cuz the weapon was loaded when it was found,
Blueface caught a felony possession charge of carrying a loaded firearm.
To make matters worse, the gun was unregistered,
which is not a good look if you're trying to stay out of trouble.
The rapper was sent to jail but was later released on a $35,000 bail a couple days later.
The felony charge carries a maximum of three years locked up.
All that time away from the studio and his music career is not what Blueface wanted.
After the news broke of Blueface's brand new charge, his manager, Wack 100,
went public to say that the rapper was innocent in the whole situation,
and that evidence will prove that.
Apparently,
there was a surveillance camera at the location that caught the incident on film.
fingerprinting would show just who had their hands on the weapon in the first place.
And it turns out, Wack 100 was 100% correct.
According to Blueface's attorney, Alex Kessel,
"video evidence demonstrated the police misidentified Blueface possessing a gun.
Justice prevails through video evidence, a fair judge, and a bulldog attorney.
A rapper prevails on the merits of the case, not his celebrity status."
After this vindication, Wack took to Instagram to show off his and Blueface's success:
"Double dismissal – my lawyer threw them gloves on and beat another case #AlexKessel."
Once the evidence showed Blueface was an innocent man, the charges were dropped,
the case was thrown out, and Blueface was free from another felony scare.
After these charges, Blueface has seemed more motivated to stay in the clear,
legally speaking, so he has tried to avoid any sketchy activity.
But trouble just kept looking for him.
Back in June 2019,
Blueface was driving his black Porsche through a residential neighborhood.
He was pulled over and accused of speeding through the area.
He was removed from the car
and cuffed as the officers tried to determine if that was actually true.
Turns out, no laws were broken, and Blueface was let go with a warning.
It must have been nerve-wracking waiting there with cuffs on,
especially because if you're arrested while you have a pending case
like Blueface did at this time
you'll see a lot of legal complications and harsher charges.
Interestingly, just a month later,
the rapper would share a video to his Instagram Stories
showing the remains of the same black Porsche
being taken away by a tow truck with the caption
"another one" after wrecking it on the road.
It looks like Blueface has stayed in the clear since then – if you discount the fight-club
and he's avoided any further arrests or legal trouble.
For now, this rapper looks like he will keep heading further into hip hop stardom,
with only a little bit of controversy here and there.
And with his debut studio album's release in March 2020,
he's looking at even more mainstream success.
Here's hoping this self-proclaimed genius can keep up the good work and stay out of trouble.
Well, that's all for today!
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