Da Baby is quickly becoming one of the most controversial figures in rap.
From his comments at Rolling Loud to accidentally punching a female fan,
over the past years he’s gotten a lot of heat from the media.
Now he might be facing an assault with a deadly weapons charge
after getting into a wild fight with his baby mama’s brother at a bowling alley.
Here’s what happened.
On Wednesday, February 9th,
TMZ broke the story with a video showing Dababy
throwing a punch at DaniLeigh’s brother, Brandon Bills.
Then the fight crashed out onto the bowling lanes and Dababy’s crew surrounded Bills.
DaniLeigh is DaBaby’s ex-girlfriend and baby mama.
The two have been having issues over the past few months,
after a fight between them was captured on social media for the world to see.
Bills stepped in to defend his sister online,
which started a beef between him and DaBaby which eventually led to the fight.
Bills was outnumbered five to one and getting hit from all sides,
then someone grabbed him by the hair and slammed him to the ground.
Dababy left before the police arrived, and no charges have been filed yet.
Dani Leigh responded to the fight on Instagram with:
“Lame as hell! Running up on my brother on some slippery ass floors
with 5/6 of ya boys while he’s by himself and not even touching him!
Lame and so sad! I pray this stops now!
Because this is my family! And I got a daughter to raise. Sad.”
Bills posted a video afterwards calling out Dababy for jumping him with his crew
instead of fighting one-on-one.
In the clip, Bills complains about how slick the floor
was and says if he ain’t slip he would’ve won the fight even though he was outnumbered.
According to him, he tried to talk to Dababy man to man,
but Baby had something else in mind.
Grabbed me by my hair,
***** didn't catch no fair one **** came and jumped me my ***** once I slipped *****
I spoke to you like a man my *****, I said yo come-
lets talk one-on-one like some men my ***** me and you on the side my *****
A witness told TMZ
that Bills approached Dababy and told him he ain’t appreciate how the he treated his sister Dani.
According to an employee at the bowling alley,
they reviewed the security footage and decided to ban Dababy since he started the fight.
The drama all started back in November when Dababy and DaniLeigh got into it on Instagram Live.
Three months after their daughter was born,
Dababy was streaming live to his fans on social media
when he and Dani started yelling at each other.
You see what I'm saying like
this is not- you are not my girl like you gotta,
shut your face, crazy
posting **** listen *****,
its cool to post it
post it, post *****
Later that night, Dani posted a video showing that Dababy called the cops
and was trying to get her out of his house.
Where's he at? Where's he at?
Yeah whatever, he want to call the ******* cops on me
for whatever the **** reason, whatever
Dababy claimed Dani was hitting him so he started filming her for his own protection.
The cops left the house without making an arrest,
but the next day they came back and cited Dani for two misdemeanor assaults.
After it all went down, Dani’s brother got on social media
and called Dababy out for the fade.
In a video posted on Instagram,
Bills told Dababy that the next time he’s on the West Coast
he can “catch this one-on-one fade.”
When you come to the west coast bro,
which I know you be out here you gonna catch this one on one fade bro
and I'm saying
One on one fade to see what happens
between me and you, I wanna see how much of a gangsta you are,
how much of a real man you are
Then he told TMZ that if he and Dababy had a boxing match
he would knock him out without getting touched.
How does a charity boxing match end you know, between you and Da Baby?
Imma knock him out, that's it, plain and simple.
By the time Bills and Dababy ran into each other at the bowling alley,
tensions was already high.
Plus, Dababy and his crew got a long history of getting into fights,
so it ain’t a surprise the situation ended how it did.
Back in 2019, a fight at a nightclub ended with a rapper named Trag
allegedly being beaten into a coma by Dababy’s crew.
According to reports, Trag asked Dababy for a photo backstage,
then Baby’s security team jumped him.
Trag says the beating left him with injuries to his head, eyes, neck, and spine.
His injuries was so bad, that he went into a coma because of swelling in his brain and neck.
TMZ revealed legal documents that show Trag’s hospital bills were over $75,000
and he’s looking to get a settlement from Dababy to pay for it all.
Then, In 2020, the rapper got arrested in Miami
after getting into a fight with music promoters.
A promoter told police
he was supposed to pay Dababy $30,000 but he only had $20,000 after the show.
Obviously Dababy ain’t like being hustled, so he punched the promoter in the face.
If that wasn’t enough, in May 2020, a video popped up online
where another rapper named Cam Coldheart saw Dababy in the Louis Vuitton store
and started dissing him from far away.
Then the video cuts to Baby’s point of view and shows him getting closer to Cam.
A fight breaks out and then the video cuts to the dude laid out on the ground
bleeding from his nose with his pants around his ankles.
DaBaby got even more bad press in March 2020 after he hit a female fan in the face.
A video surfaced online showing a woman holding her phone up to Dababy’s eye
with the flash on while he’s walking through a crowd.
The phone accidently hit his face, so he reacted and hit her in the face.
Dababy claims he couldn’t tell it was a woman holding the flash up to his eye,
but he then said “I think by this time, you know it’s a well known fact that male or female,
I would’ve responded the same exact way.”
Lil female I would have responded the same exact way
You know what I mean, of course I had security with me in the club, they had they,
they security and **** but with me like
I make security treat fans with respect
I don't like all that rara ****
they coming through, move! Watch out, watch out, watch out! Knocking people off balance
Earlier that year,
Dababy assaulted a hotel worker
because he was allegedly harassing him while he was with his daughter.
He said the guy was filming him while he was holding his kid.
Dababy asked him to stop, but the dude ain’t listen and kept recording.
So Baby and his crew slammed him against the wall and then left the hotel.
Then in May 2021, Dababy’s crew beat up two fans at a strip club in L.A.
Dababy was outside the club with his entourage,
when a fan approached him and asked to shake his hand.
Security footage caught Dababy’s crew chasing the fan away,
then beating him up while the rapper got into an SUV.
Another fan tried to jump in and stop the fight, but then Dababy’s crew beat him up too.
While DaBaby wasn’t directly involved with the attacks,
a witness claims he knew exactly what his security was going to do.
Someone at the scene told TMZ
“Dababy said something and made gestures before he went inside the SUV
for his goons to handle the situation forcibly…
The fan was simply that, just a fan who wanted to shake his hand
and the situation was escalated because the guy was a little bit drunk and belligerent.”
One of the fans allegedly also got his chain snatched after the beatdown.
Dababy ain’t said nothin about the situation publicly,
but it’s clear that approaching him as a fan probably ain’t the best idea.
DaBaby been getting into these kinds of situations for his entire career.
Part of what helped him blow up in the first place, was a shooting that took place in his home state,
before he was even known like that...
Back in 2018 he was involved in a shooting
that left one man dead at a Walmart in North Carolina.
According to Dababy, two dudes tried to rob him while he was with his family.
The men was allegedly armed and threatened to kill him,
so he grabbed his pistol and started letting off shots.
He was charged with murder after it went down
but the charges aint stick after the judge agreed it was self-defense.
Dababy was still charged with a misdemeanor for carrying a concealed weapon,
but he walked out of the situation alive and free.
On top of all of the violence, Dababy also got the wrong kind of attention
for making homophobic comments during his set at Rolling Loud Miami in 2021.
During the set, he told the audience “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS,
or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, that’ll make you die in two to three weeks,
then put your cell phone lighter up…
“If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases,
that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cell phone lighter up…
Fellas, if you ain’t sucking dick in the parking lot, put your cell phone lighter up.”
Fellas, fellas if you ain't sucking dick in the parking lot put your cell phone lighter up
A clip of what he said went viral immediately and there was a huge backlash.
Dababy was pulled off the lineup for major festivals, including Lollapalooza.
At first he wasn’t tryna apologize.
He posted a video on his Instagram Story where he said
“What I do at a live show is for the live show.
It’ll never translate correctly to somebody looking at a little five-, six-second clip
from their crib on their phone.
It just don’t work like that, right?
Regardless of what y’all mother**** are talking about
and how the internet twisted up my motherfucking words,
me and all my fans at the show, the gay ones and the straight ones, we turned the **** up.”
But after he lost multiple festival slots,
Dababy posted an apology to try and end the controversy.
While some fans wanted him to be canceled,
he still has plenty of support and recently kicked off a new tour sponsored by Rolling Loud.
He also recently beat a battery case in Las Vegas after being accused of attacking a driver in 2020.
According to the driver, he picked up Dababy and some friends in his Mercedes van.
After riding for a while, they allegedly started smoking weed in the vehicle
and the driver told them to stop.
He said that the whole crew started cussing him out and threatening him.
Then when they got to the Hard Rock hotel,
Dababy punched him in the back of the head and said “You ain’t the boss.”
A source inside the Vegas police department told TMZ that one of the dudes told the driver
“You’re lucky you’re not in my city because I would have killed you cracker mother******.”
But after the driver agreed to settle for $7,500 in restitution, DaBabys case was dismissed.
Dababys managed to avoid any serious consequences
for all of the violence he’s been involved in up until now,
but that could change after this latest incident.
Law enforcement sources say he’s being investigated for assault with a deadly weapon
because Bills was kicked in the head while he was on the ground.
If this charge sticks and he gets convicted,
Dababy could be facing up to four years in prison.
And with his violent past there’s a chance the judge won’t be easy on him.
As of right now no charges have been officially filed,
but stay posted for updates as the story develops.