Pooh Shiesty came up out of nowhere
and started taking over the rap game.
But he got caught up in two wild shootouts
that got him sentenced to five years in prison.
From getting arrested at 11 years old,
to allegedly sending shooters to take out his opp during a show -
this is the crazy downfall of Pooh Shiesty.
Pooh Shiesty was raised on the South side of Memphis
which is one of the most violent cities in America.
The South side is where a lot of the beef goes down
and just one wrong move could get you killed.
But luckily for Shiesty his dad was an OG in the city.
Shiesty’s dad is a rapper named Mob Boss
who came up in the streets and started his own label called Mob Ties.
Mob Boss has had a wildlife catching charges related to guns,
drugs, and murder -
but when he wasn’t getting locked up
he'd teach Shiesty how the streets and the studio worked.
When he was around eight years old,
Shiesty would go on the road with his dad
and learn how tours and studio sessions were set up.
He was more into basketball than rapping
even though his dad was putting in work in the booth,
but Shiesty ended up following him into the trenches
and caught his first charge at just 11 years old.
Memphis was a tough place for Shiesty to be a kid.
He was surrounded by crime and violence every day,
and in an interview he said that everyone from his area
has already seen at least one friend get killed by the time they’re 15.
It’s not clear how he caught the robbery charge or what the details were,
but that same year Shiesty ended up getting kicked out of middle school
for allegedly bringing a gun with him.
Shiesty claims that he never had a gun on him at school,
but that wasn’t the only trouble he got into as a kid.
He was arrested again at 14
but nobody knows anything about the case
because he was still a minor when he got booked.
Shiesty was neck deep in the trenches since he was a little kid.
He could have ended up dead or locked up for decades as a teenager,
but luckily his mom took him out of Memphis
to live in Texas for a couple of years
and it helped Shiesty cool off a bit with the street activity.
They moved to a tiny city called Pflugerville,
and having a change of environment was huge for Shiesty.
When he came back to Memphis
he got on the grind and went to summer school
so he could get his high school diploma -
and at the same time he decided to go all on the music.
Growing up Shiesty would always freestyle for fun,
but it took him a long time to hop in the booth and start laying down tracks.
He also started a crew with his homies called Choppa Gang.
Shiesty says it’s just a collective for making music and getting bread,
but the police and others claim they’re a brutal street gang
involved in all kinds of violence in Memphis.
Shiesty ain't pop off until 2019,
but he started dropping verses on his homie’s tracks in 2018.
He’s tight with another rapper from the city named Big 30,
and they linked up for Shiesty’s first single Hell Night.
The track ran up crazy numbers for a new rapper out of Memphis,
and the video ended up hitting over 14 million views.
A lot of rappers speak about situations that never actually happened,
but Shiesty sounded like he was talking about the work he really put in.
On the track Choppa Talk he said
“I got some killers, you got some killers,
but mine be killin’ more
You shot my n****, we killt ya n****,
now we even score
And I don’t do no cappin’ this s*** is my soul
And I can’t go to sleep unless I got a pole.”
Fans knew that Shiesty came up in the wild streets of Memphis,
but it would still be a while before anyone knew how savage he really was.
Shiesty only had a few songs under his belt
but he already had a lot of buzz on his name.
And one day he got a text out of nowhere from a southern rap legend.
Memphis is a small city that don't even have a West side,
and for years the rap scene was basically split in two.
Before Young Dolph was tragically shot and killed in Memphis,
he had been locked into a wild beef with Yo Gotti and his CMG label.
If you were a street rapper coming up in the city
you had to choose between Dolph and his Paper Route crew,
or go with Gotti and his team.
Pooh Shiesty told the Breakfast Club
Like I ain't gone lie.
I ain't never wanted to sign to nobody.
That’s just my mentality,
and you know in the city it’s like
you gotta sign to either one of them
you gotta be Paper Route or CMG
so before WOP came out
I'm still Choppa Gang that's my label
so I wanted to be like why you can’t be
signed to Choppa Gang
CMG or Paper Route.
So when Gucci Mane hit him up one day and asked if he was signed,
Shiesty knew it was the perfect opportunity to avoid all the Memphis rap beef.
Gucci signed him to his New 1017 label
and got Shiesty a deal with Atlantic Records too.
Then a couple of months later
they collabed on the track Still Remember
and Shiesty was officially in the spotlight.
He kept the momentum up
and dropped a track with Lil Baby and Big 30 less than a week later.
Shiesty shouted out his dad Mob Boss on the song too and said
“See something, I got to have it,
tuck your chain before I grab it
Spin this block in the Caddy,
these F&N’s black plastic
Miss Gladys raised a savage,
they said I shoot like my daddy.”
A lot of rappers claim to have street ties that don’t actually exist,
but Shiesty and his family are about that life for real.
One of the biggest drug kingpins in the history of Memphis
is a dude named Ronnie Woods.
He was the head of a crew called the Memphis Mob,
and he basically ran the city’s drug game for three decades.
The Mob got hit with a huge indictment in 2019,
but back in the day Shiesty’s dad was allegedly tight with Woods
and had some deals with him in the street.
In 2020 Shiesty was becoming one of the hottest new artists in the industry,
but that’s when fans started to learn how deep in the streets he really was.
It’s not clear how everything started,
but at some point
Shiesty started beefing with another Memphis rapper named Big Boogie.
Shiesty aired him out on IG Live,
and there were even rumors that his Choppa Gang crew
were the ones who tried to kill Boogie during a show.
In July 2020,
Boogie was performing in Como, Mississippi
when shots started going off during the concert.
The shooters fired over 100 rounds but Boogie made it out alive.
(Gunshots)
Two other people were tragically killed though,
and at least four more were hit during the shooting.
There’s rumors that Choppa Gang and Shiesty were involved somehow,
but no evidence backs it up.
Big Boogie isn’t the only dude from Memphis
that Shiesty allegedly wanted taken out though.
While Shiesty was allegedly plotting to take out another opp,
his name was in the spotlight more and more.
2020 is when Shiesty really started taking over the game.
He had collabs with Lil Baby and Gucci Mane that blew up,
but when he linked up with Lil Durk everything changed.
They dropped the track Back in Blood,
which blew up immediately
and racked up almost 300 million plays just on Spotify.
Shiesty already had a multi platinum hit
and had only been in the game for a couple of years,
but at the same time it was clear that he hadn’t left the streets behind.
EBG is a gang from the North side of Memphis that has issues with Shiesty -
and a rapper from the crew named EBG EJizzle
dropped a Back in Blood remix and said
“Cross my heart, that’s on my soul
Lil Mister Pooh, you is a h**
Telling gang that 30 shot you
Now you rapping that’s yo bro.”
He took a shot at Durk too and said
“Durk you hoppin’ on this song
Don’t make me slide through O’Block
.556 with the stock
You know we love exotic Glocks.”
Taking shots at Durk and Shiesty was a risky move,
and Ejizzle got shot just a few weeks after the track dropped.
Rumors were flying that he had been paralyzed from the shooting,
so Shiesty hopped on IG to clown him for dissing and not being able to walk.
Luckily it turns out that Ejizzle just got shot in the arm
and wasn’t paralyzed though.
Nobody knows exactly where the beef started with him and Shiesty,
but rumors are that Shiesty and Choppa Gang robbed EBG back in the day.
Shiesty was never officially involved with Ejizzle’s shooting case,
but in 2020 he caught the charge that put him in prison for the next few years
and caused his downfall.
In October 2020,
Shiesty’s fans were shocked when the news broke
that he had been booked on armed robbery,
aggravated assault,
and theft charges over a shooting that went down in Florida.
He bonded out the same day they arrested him,
and one month later a lot of people forgot about the case
because he was going viral with Back in Blood.
The situation in Florida was crazy though.
According to the judge,
Shiesty had rented a McLaren from some dudes
and wanted to link up with them again to buy weed, lean, and sneakers.
Shiesty and his homies rolled up to the spot,
and at some point one of them upped a strap and shot one of the sellers.
Shiesty sped off from the scene,
but he dropped a Louis vuitton bag with $40K in cash on the ground.
The cops traced the money back to Pooh
and luckily he was able to bail out.
But it was hard for Shiesty to shake the street mentality -
and just a few months later
he got caught up in another shooting.
According to reports,
Shiesty was at a strip club in Miami
when he got into some kind of beef with security.
The situation got heated,
and that’s when Shiesty allegedly let off a shot and hit somebody in the ankle.
A federal judge decided he was too dangerous to walk around until his trial,
so he ordered Shiesty to sit in jail without bond.
It’s not clear what’s going on with his Miami case,
but last year Shiesty pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges
over the robbery and shooting from 2020
and got hit with a five year sentence.
Shiesty could end up coming home within a couple of years if he stays out of trouble,
but according to Gucci Mane
he’s being abused by the prison system right now.
Gucci hopped on IG and said that Pooh is being held on 23 hour lockdown
and is given food trays without any food on them.
Shiesty also said that the police don’t stop watching after you get locked up,
and that “you can go to jail inside of jail.”
Luckily it seems like his situation might be getting better on the inside now.
Back in February he went on IG to brag about having more
money than Jay Z did at his age and sent a warning to all of his opps too.
Shiesty is trying to keep his career going from behind bars,
but the rap game moves fast
and there’s no telling if his fans will stick around for when he comes out.
Luckily it seems like Gucci is still there for him,
so there’s a chance that Shiesty will come home and take over the game again.