Lil Baby
is one of the hottest artists in the game.
But before he hopped in the booth
he was really active in the streets of Atlanta,
and a lot of his homies still got both feet in the trenches.
Today we’re breaking down the wild story of his brother
Lil Steve, AKA G Five,
who went from breaking into over a hundred cars
to fighting a crazy murder case.
Let’s get right to it.
Lil Baby is one of the biggest rappers in the game right now,
but his brother Lil Steve was actually famous before him.
Baby blew up back in 2017
after his mixtape Perfect Timing dropped,
but Steve was making headlines three years before that in 2014.
In June 2014,
Lil Steve got out of jail
and was given twenty to thirty years of probation.
Releasing him turned out to be a bad idea for the Atlanta police though,
because Steve pretty much started a crime wave all by himself.
A month after he got out,
Steve made headlines
for breaking into over 100 cars in hotel parking lots.
When the news broke he already had 24 warrants out,
but the cops accused him of breaking into 118 whips.
According to them,
Steve was running around breaking into cars
stealing GPS devices, phones, and laptops.
But the biggest thing he was snatching was guns,
which made the cops and everyone else even more nervous.
People in the neighborhood was worried about getting robbed,
and the cops told them to stop leaving anything valuable in their whips
because they couldn’t catch Lil Steve.
They had surveillance photos of him robbing cars at a Motel 6,
but a local news station interviewed Steve’s grandma and she told them
“He might have done something, but no, not that many.”
Breaking into over a hundred cars in under a month is wild,
but in 2018
Steve got caught up in an even crazier case.
By 2018,
Lil Baby was already one of the hottest new rappers in the game.
His debut album dropped in May
and hit #3 on the Billboard 200,
and in October he released a collab tape with Gunna
and earned a Grammy nomination for the track Drip Harder.
But while he was popping off in the industry,
his little brother was getting wrapped up in murder cases.
On November 30th, 2018,
the police found two men who got robbed and shot
at a Waffle House parking lot in Brookhaven.
Nobody knew what went down,
but one of the dudes was pronounced dead at the scene
while the other was taken to the hospital for treatment.
A few days later,
the cops arrested a dude named Pierre Gregory Singletary for the shooting.
It looked like a simple case at first,
but come to find out -
Singletary was actually the victim!
On December 11th,
the cops booked Steve
and a dude named Quintez Griffin on Felony murder,
aggravated assault, armed robbery,
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
It turns out the shooting aint even go down at the Waffle House.
Roderick Francois survived the shooting,
and he told the cops it happened at an apartment complex down the road
where Pierre Singletary lived.
Francois said
he went to Pierre’s place with his homie Carthel Johnson to buy weed.
While they was there,
two dudes rushed in and tried to rob them.
That’s when shots started going off,
and Francois and Johnson both got hit.
Francois carried his homie to the whip
and drove to the Waffle House for help,
but unfortunately Johnson was already dead
by the time police got there.
Lil Steve and his homie Griffin
were charged for killing Johnson.
What’s wild about the situation
is that just a few months earlier,
Lil Baby posted a pic with Steve on Facebook
and captioned it with
“G5 out The Can Give Em A 100 Bands!”
Even if Baby didn’t really hand over a hundred racks,
he was already big enough to take care of his bro Steve
without having to crash out over little weed deals.
But You never know what’s really going on behind the scenes,
and obviously
the cops thought they had enough evidence to take him down
over the robbery and killing.
Steve and Griffin sat in jail while they waited for the trial to start,
but the situation with the state’s case against them
was a hot mess.
There were a lot of issues getting a trial date
that both sides could agree on,
and at one point
the state basically wanted to let Steve and Griffin go
until they could get more evidence to convict them.
But the judge wasn’t rocking with the idea.
By that point
they had been sitting in jail for over a year.
The trial was finally set to begin on January 7th, 2020.
But a few weeks before it was about to start,
the prosecution tried to delay it again
because they couldn’t find the two witnesses they wanted to bring in to testify.
The judge on the case aired out the prosecutors
and said the state “attempted to conceal its many failures”
by filing motions to delay the trial without evidence.
She blocked their attempts to stop the trial,
and it started on January 7th, 2020.
This is where the case got even weirder.
When the trial started,
the prosecution wouldn’t help pick the jury,
declare their opening argument,
or call any witnesses.
Instead they tried to convince the Judge
to dismiss the charges against Steve and Griffin
so they could try them again at a different time,
but the Judge denied the motion.
The defense picked the jury and everybody was ready to go,
but the prosecution
basically just refused to take part in the trial at all.
So Steve and Griffin’s lawyers asked the Judge to acquit them on the charges
since the state wouldn’t prosecute,
and the Judge agreed to let them go.
The Judge said
“The State takes the position
that these Defendants are dangerous to the community,
but if so, it was the State which failed the community
by failing to present any case at all for their conviction.”
Beating the murder charge was a huge win for Lil Steve,
and he celebrated with a first day out track where he rapped
“Caught you lackin’
Pulled up with that fuckin’ semi, made it happen
Five hundred just to prove I ain’t did it.”
and “N****, they was hatin’ on us
Baby came and scooped me in a f*****’ Rolls truck
Aventador behind me with the f*****’ doors up.”
The good times ain't last long though,
and Steve ended up getting booked again in 2020.
But somehow he got released again by mistake,
and Steve spent the next few months hiding out.
When the cops finally tracked him down
they found him in a penthouse apartment with drugs,
$20K in cash, and $11K in sneakers.
Steve was curled up under a bed,
but he came out and surrendered.
He’s back on the streets again,
but now the situation is getting even messier.
A few months ago,
Young Thug’s homie Ru accused Steve of snitching on him.
Ru even posted paperwork
that allegedly proves that Steve flipped on him,
and he claims that Steve changed his name to G5
to avoid being labeled as a rat.
Steve hasn’t commented on the situation,
but lately he hasn’t been seen with Lil Baby like he used to.
Everyone knows that Thug and Lil Baby are tight,
so Thug’s homie calling his bro a snitch is pretty serious.
Right now Thug is too busy dealing with his own RICO trial
to worry about Ru and Steve’s issues,
but Baby hasn’t said anything about it either.
Rumors say that Georgia
might be going after 4PF with RICO charges next,
so Baby might just be trying to keep his distance from a dude
who barely beat a murder charge.
There’s a lot going on with Atlanta right now.
YFN Lucci and his crew are tied up in a RICO case,
and Young Thug’s trial is set to begin next month.
If the rumors are true,
Baby and 4PF
might already be under investigation.
Nobody knows how all of this is gonna play out,
so tap in for updates while the stories develop.