Soulja Boy is one of the most influential rappers in hip hop history.
His song “Crank That” was the first ever song in history to sell over 3 million digital
copies and is also the 23rd most successful song of the 2000s.
With that success, Soulja Boy not only gained a massive fan base but also amassed an astonishing
$30 Million dollar net worth.
But with all that money, power, and fame, your bound to have some roadblocks along the
way and Soulja Boy just so happened to have a few.
Soulja Boy has been arrested multiple times throughout his career and has been sued multiple
times as well.
Want to learn more about Soulja Boy’s run ins with the law?
Then look no further.
Here is an exclusive inside look at the criminal history of Soulja Boy.
Soulja Boy’s first legal situation took place on December 9, 2007.
This wasn’t an arrest or a run in with the police but rather a situation that involved
Soulja Boy being sued by another Soulja Boy.
That's right, Soulja Boy was sued by William Lyons who is mostly known as Souljah Boy from
“Mo Thugs Family”.
According to multiple sources, William Lyons sued Soulja Boy for using the stage name that
he allegedly created back in 1996.
After going back and forth, media outlets reported that William Lyons eventually won
his case against Soulja Boy but it is unknown how much money he received.
Soulja Boy was only 17 at the time.
Soulja Boy’s next legal problem just so happens to be his first arrest.
On October 7, 2009, Soulja Boy was in Atlanta to record a music video for one of his songs
on his upcoming album.
The location of this music video shoot just so happened to be in an abandoned house that
they were not allowed to be in.
Somehow police were notified of this situation and ordered them to stop otherwise they would
be arrested for trespassing.
This must have startled Soulja Boy because before the police could even finish talking
to him, Soulja Boy sprinted away from the police.
After a quick little chase, the officer captured the fleeing Soulja Boy and booked him for
one count of obstruction, which is a misdemeanor in the state of Georgia.
Soulja Boy was released moments later on a $550 bond.
After Soulja Boy’s first arrest, he managed to stay out of trouble for almost two full
years but in May of 2011 all of that changed.
According to multiple reports, Soulja Boy had to cancel a performance that he was scheduled
to do in Pennsylvania.
The promoters were not happy about this since they already wired the money to big Soulja
and insisted that he sends the money back.
Soulja Boy allegedly refused to give the money back but rather promised the promoters that
they could reschedule the show for another time.
The promoters agreed to this but didn’t hear back from Soulja Boy for months.
Since Soulja Boy kept the money and didn’t reschedule the show, the promoters sued Soulja
Boy for $1,000,000 after failing to make promised payments for the rescheduled concert.
No other updates were made in the case.
Soulja Boy’s next run in with the law was an arrest that occurred on October 18, 2011.
While riding around with 4 of his friends in Carroll County, Georgia, Soulja Boy was
pulled over by police after they noticed that the vehicle had an equipment violation.
After being pulled over, the police officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming
from the car.
This led to the police searching the vehicle and finding over 5 ounces of Crank That OG
in the vehicle.
Police then arrested Soulja Boy who was later released on bond the same day.
Soulja Boy’s next arrest happened on January 22, 2014 in San Fernando Valley, California.
Sources say that Soulja Boy was a passenger in his own car when the driver of the vehicle
ran a stop sign.
After running the stop sign, Soulja Boy’s car was immediately pulled over.
Once pulled over, something odd must have happened because the police officer was able
to search the vehicle.
Upon searching the vehicle, the officer discovered a loaded handgun hidden under the seat.
Soulja Boy was then arrested and taken to jail on the spot.
Soulja Boy’s manager soon spoke out about Soulja’s arrest claiming that a neighbor
left the gun under his seat and that Soulja Boy was unaware that it was even there.
Soulja Boy also denied every accusation against him other than the fact that he owned the
vehicle.
Regardless, Soulja Boy was convicted and sentenced to two years of probation.
Soulja Boy stayed out of trouble for a good while after being sentenced to probation but
at the end of 2016, Soulja Boy started to go wild on social media.
Soulja would go back in fourth with other rappers on twitter and instagram and even
released diss tracks on other rappers as well.
Soulja Boy’s online antics were him just basically threatening anyone who talked about
him and his main threat was always involving something bad happening with his weapon of
choice “the draco” which ended up being the birth of Soulja Boy’s new nickname and
alter ego “Big Draco”.
This eventually all came to an end when the judge became aware of these threats and sent
police to do a check up on him.
During the check up, Police found multiple weapons at Soulja Boy’s home.
This was a clear violation of his probation but the judge was nice enough to extend his
probation time instead of putting Soulja Boy in jail.
After the extension of his probation, Soulja Boy soon began to take it easy and slowly
fade out of the limelight.
But this didn’t last too long because at the end of 2018, Soulja Boy began to make
headlines for his controversial “Soulja Game” consoles that he sold on his website.
With his name back in the headlines, Soulja Boy began to get a little wild on social media
again and eventually became pretty mainstream again after his viral interview on “The
Breakfast Club”.
This lasted for about 3 months before Soulja Boy had another visit from the police at his
Malibu mansion.
During the visit, police searched the home and found ammo in Soulja’s garage.
Soulja Boy was then arrested for another probation violation and was forced to stay in jail until
his bail hearing.
At his bail hearing on April 30, 2019, Soulja Boy was denied bond and sentenced to 240 days
in jail and is currently behind bars at the time of this recording.
Now I was going to call it a video but then I remembered the legendary DJ Vlad interview
where Soulja Boy talked about shooting at a group of guys who were robbing his home
and instantly knew that all the comments would be people telling me I forgot to mention it
so I figured I would just quickly break that situation down for you guys.
Also I want everyone to keep in mind that no police report was made about this incident
and there is little to no evidence to prove that this happened the way Soulja Boy claims
it did.
But anyways, on December 30, 2008, Soulja Boy and friends came home late that night
after an album release party.
Upon arriving home, Soulja Boy and his crew went into his home studio to start recording
when three masked men broke into Soulja Boy’s house.
These men allegedly had AK-47’s and pistols and were threatening everyone in the house.
Soulja Boy then quickly grabbed his own gun and shot one of the guys while the others
ran away.
Soulja Boy then allegedly went up to the guy he just shot and took off his mask.
Soulja then claimed to recognize the guy and shot him again.
Soulja Boy wouldn’t confirm or deny if the guy lived or not.
Once again, take this with a grain of salt, no real police report was ever found on this
situation and everyone that was involved seems to have different stories of what actually
happened that night.
Well there you have it, the entire criminal history of Soulja Boy.
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