NBA Youngboy ain’t just one of the hottest rappers in the game,
he’s also one of the most savage.
But that ain’t happen out of nowhere.
Come to find out his pops is certified in the streets too
and he been locked up since Youngboy was a kid.
Let’s get into the true story of how Youngboy’s dad got snitched on by his own brother
and sentenced to 55 years in prison.
On December 1st, 2009,
Youngboy’s pops Jeffery Staden and 2 dudes
walked into Alby’s Market & Deli in Baton Rouge around 9 a.m.
Court documents say, Jeffery approached an employee named Sam Tran
who was at a check-cashing station in the shop and pulled a gun on him.
He told Tran to get down on the ground, "but the dude ain’t listen fast enough
so Jeffrey hopped over the counter and pistol whipped him in the head.
Then one of the dudes working with Jeffrey put zip ties on his wrists and a bag over his head.
They cleared out the cash registers, but they ain’t stop there.
Jeffrey went back to the dude he pistol whipped and demanded more money.
Tran told him that the store had a safe with more cash inside of it,
but it would take ten minutes to open it up.
Unfortunately for him, Jeffery wasn’t trying to hear that and just kept demanding more bread.
At this point Tran was still tied up with a bag over his head so there wasn’t much he could do anyways,
then Jeffrey shot him in the leg and he and both dudes ran out of the shop.
Even though the lick went sour,
it should’ve been easy for Youngboy’s dad to get away.
Baton Rouge is a wild city where the robbery rate is over double the national average,
and most crimes like this don’t get solved unless the cops see who did it right after they commit it.
Back in 2016, Youngboy dropped the track Cross Me,
where he raps “On my heart, that’s on my soul.
I won’t tell no lies
Uncle told, now my daddy doing 55.”
Turns out that wasn’t just a random line in a song,
but the truth behind how his dad ended up serving 55 years in prison.
The cops brought in Jeffery’s brother Dallas Staden for questioning,
and it took less than an hour for him to start singing and tell them everything.
According to Dallas, he went to the store to ask about cashing a check that belonged to his friend.
While he was at the counter, he told the cops that “a guy”
came up with a gun and made him help out with the robbery.
The cops pressed him about who the guy was, and Dallas admitted that it was his brother Jeffery.
Dallas told the cops that Jeffery talked about robbing the store “on several occasions,”
but Dallas told him not to.
He also said he got into a fight with Jeffery a few days before the robbery went down
because Dallas ain’t want to hit the lick with him.
Jeffery wanted Dallas to wear a mask and help him shake down the store
and “use his apartment to facilitate the robbery.”
Dallas told the cops he refused to help out and ain’t want his brother to use his apartment to plan the hit,
but their sister Jayda Staden gave Jeffery permission to do so.
According to Dallas, he went to the store early that day because he thought Jeffery would rob it at night.
During the police interview, he said that it was just a coincidence he was there when the robbery went down
and that he “had nothing to do with this.”
In the middle of his trial, Dallas told the court he was having money issues with his brother before the robbery.
Jeffery had asked him for a loan and Dallas told him no at first,
but later said he’d try to get him some cash.
Dallas ain’t have no spare cash,
but he told Jeffery that he had a check he was supposed to cash for one of his homies that was locked up.
Here’s how Dallas said everything went down.
His cousin Franklin drove him to Alby’s that morning so he could ask about cashing the check.
Then while he was talking to Tran, Jeffery walked in and pulled the burner out.
Dallas said he was “initially in disbelief” about what was happening.
Even though Jeffery was talking about hitting the store,
Dallas said he had no idea it was actually going down.
Dallas testified that Jeffery “started yelling and acting strangely.”
He tossed a bag full of zip ties to Dallas,
who put them on Tran and another employee named Thanh Nguyen while a third suspect held them at gunpoint.
Tran told the court that when Jeffery started yelling at him to get on the floor,
Dallas tried to act like he was just an innocent bystander and said “I’m just a customer, don’t - I mean, don’t hurt me.”
When Jeffery hopped over the counter and pistol whipped tran, Dallas asked him why he did it.
Then Jeffery shot Tran in the leg and Dallas asked him again what he was doing.
When Jeffery and the third dude ran out of the store,
Nguyen loosened the ties on his wrists and grabbed a gun behind the counter.
Dallas stayed behind to untie Tran and say sorry,
then he ran out of the store and warned Jeffery that Nguyen had a gun.
Nguyen ran outside and tried to shoot them, but his gun jammed after letting off two shots.
Nguyen saw Dallas leave in a red Mazda,
which is how the police tracked him down.
When they searched his apartment they found zip ties like the ones used during the robbery,
which was all they needed to arrest him and bring him in for questioning.
Dallas told the court that he only ran away because he ain’t think the police would believe his story.
But this is where his side of the situation starts getting strange.
During the trial, he testified that he was hoping Nguyen would break free of the zip ties and shoot one of the other dudes
- but it’s a known fact that he yelled at Jeffery to warn him about the gun.
He was also caught lying about other details,
and then the story took a weird twist.
In December ‘07, two grad students at Louisiana University
was shot and killed inside their campus apartment.
There was no leads at first,
but a month later the police received a call from a man who claimed he was a suspect in the case.
The caller listed his friends’ names and told the cops
they knew about the murders and who drove the car.
He told them he had “direct knowledge” about the murders
and named a few people he thought might have committed the crime, including himself.
Sergeant Don Kelly with the Baton Rouge Police Department put out a statement saying
“thousands of man hours were spent over the next week by detectives, analysts, crime lab technicians, patrol officers,
tactical teams, administrators and others from multiple law enforcement agencies
attempting to verify this information.”
It seemed like there was finally a break in the case,
but it all turned out to be a lie.
The police tracked the call back and found out it came from Dallas Staden.
He ain’t admit to being the caller,
but the police held him on outstanding warrants while they looked into it.
The cops brought in the friends that Dallas said knew about the murders,
and none of them knew what was going on.
Kelly said “I feel very sorry for them.
They were victims in this thing, too.
They were absolutely caught up in this thing, just as much as we were and everybody.
We were all duped by this one individual.”
Then they used Dallas’ phone records and his own mama to prove it was him.
They played back the original call for his mom and she immediately recognized her son’s voice on the line.
No one knows why he made the call,
but it does make his testimony in the robbery case kind of shaky.
If he’s willing to lie about being the lead suspect in a double homicide for no reason,
it makes it hard to trust anything he says.
Regardless of how it all actually went down,
the end result was NBA Youngboy’s dad getting a 55 year sentence
because his own brother snitched on him.
Having his pops locked up since he was a little kid had a massive impact on Youngboy.
His mom couldn’t take care of him so he lived with his grandma.
And without someone there to guide him,
he jumped off the porch at a young age and dropped out of school in 9th grade.
He ended up getting arrested for robbery right after dropping out,
and he spent his time in juvie writing songs for his first project.
Youngboy talked about his dad in an interview and said
“My daddy in jail. I talk to him everyday,
he just be wanting money and shit though.
I still call him daddy to make him feel like somebody…
I send him money just (so) he feel like he got somebody there,
‘cause I know how it is when you in jail.
I barely know him though.”
When Jeffery’s sentence was handed down he tried to have it reconsidered and reduced,
but the court denied the motion.
Then he filed an appeal saying that his constitutional right against double jeopardy was violated.
The Double Jeopardy Clause means you can’t be tried multiple times for the same offense,
and you also can’t be punished multiple times for one offense.
Jeffery tried to argue that the court was punishing him twice for the same crime so his sentence should be reduced,
but they denied his appeal and stated “Rather than being punished twice for the same offense,
the evidence showed that two separate crimes occurred which were independently proven.”
Jeffery been locked up since 2009,
but he ain’t gave up on an early release.
A rapper named Young Pokey been keeping in contact with him while he’s inside.
He’s released a few videos of Jeffery on his YouTube channel,
and in one of them Jeffery says
“Got some stuff going on in the courts. I’ll be out there pretty soon.”
Getting snitched on by your own brother would make a lot of dudes angry for life,
but Jeffery seems like he’s used his time in prison to mellow out and forgive people.
He said in another video “forgiveness is a big part of life bruh.
You know we can’t hold bitterness in our heart and expect good things to happen.
To all those who’ve hurt me and abandoned me and did me wrong, I forgive you and I love you and it’s all good.”
“Forgiveness is a big thing bruh, forgiveness is a big part of life bruh.
You know we can’t hold bitterness in our heart you know, and expect good things to happen.
To all those who’ve hurt me and abandoned me and did me wrong, I forgive you and I love you
and it’s all good.”
Hopefully he can get his legal situation sorted out and reunite with his son,
but Youngboy got issues of his own right now.
On Thursday May 19th,
an artist named Khris James shared an iMessage conversation between him and Youngboy on Instagram.
In the texts, Youngboy revealed that he don’t think he’ll be free or alive for much longer.
He said “Lol ***** I’m headed to a cell or the grave very soon
I wouldn’t give a fuck what her or who thought.
“Murder me” I wish the best for all y’all **** and ******.”
A few days before that post, DJ Akademiks broke the news on Youngboy
allegedly turning down a $25 million deal with Atlantic.
He’s had issues with the label for a minute, and back in February
he said they was the reason he ain’t go number one with his album Colors.
But even though the situation ain’t been perfect, fans was shocked that he’d turn down that kind of money.
Youngboy obviously got a lot going on right now,
but hopefully he can duck off and stay out of any more legal trouble.
He got seven kids of his own to take care of,
and he don’t want them to end up in the same situation as him with their dad locked up their entire lives.