NBA DDawg is one of NBA Youngboy’s closest homies,
but he’s also a wild dude
who caught his first murder charge at just 14-years-old.
After he got out of prison
he had the chance to switch up how he moved
and start making legit money like Youngboy,
but then he crashed out again and got his own friend killed.
This is the sad story of NBA DDawg.
Ddawg didn’t come up in Baton Rouge like Youngboy.
He grew up in New Orleans,
but when Hurricane Katrina
destroyed the city back in 2005 his family moved to Baton Rouge.
Not much is known about his early life,
but he jumped off the porch at a young age
and it seems like his older brother Ben introduced him to the streets.
On November 6th, 2012,
Ddawg, Ben, and their cousin Juan
walked up to a dude named Derrick’s house
wearing ski masks and carrying guns.
Earlier that day,
Ben’s girlfriend Tameka drove them to Juan’s apartment
to pick up an AK-47, a sawed-off shotgun, and a pistol.
According to Juan’s testimony,
he kicked in Derrick’s door
and started letting off shots.
Derrick’s wife and daughter
ran out the back door to call 911 when they started shooting,
but Derrick tragically died later that night
after being rushed to a local Hospital in Baton Rouge.
During all the chaos,
Ddawg allegedly shot Juan four times on accident
so Ben and Ddawg had to help him limp back to the car.
They threw away the evidence in a gas station dumpster,
then Tameka drove them to the hospital so Juan wouldn’t bleed out.
The cops questioned Juan at the hospital,
but he told them he was chilling with his cousins
when he got shot in a drive-by.
But after the whole crew got arrested for the hit,
Juan flipped and agreed to testify
so he could plead guilty to manslaughter instead of murder.
Even if Juan stayed solid,
the prosecution probably would’ve still convicted everyone.
All kinds of evidence was found on scene,
plus their DNA was all over the masks in the trash.
DDawg’s brother Ben pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder,
but a jury convicted him
and he was sentenced to life without parole.
But the situation wasn’t so simple
when it was time for DDawg’s trial.
According to his mom,
DDawg got hit by a car while he was riding his bike as a kid -
and after the accident she says he started having behavior problems.
A juvenile court judge
ruled that DDawg had the mind of a 10-year-old kid
and that he shouldn’t be tried as an adult,
but the decision ended up getting reversed.
An appeals court said that DDawg’s prosecutors
found “clear and convincing evidence
that there is no substantial opportunity”
for him to be rehabilitated,
so DDawg was tried as an adult
and sentenced to ten years in prison.
An attorney for the parish said
“To adequately protect the public,
he needs to be tried as an adult.
It’s highly unusual to take this action,
but under the circumstances
I think I’d be remiss in not taking him over to state court
to seek an adequate resolution.”
The situation was tragic
because if he got sent to juvie instead,
DDawg would have been treated by a child psychiatrist
and could have gotten better.
But since the prosecutors pressed the court to try him as an adult,
he got thrown into prison
and was surrounded by hardcore criminals.
Getting locked up didn’t help DDawg calm down at all.
He got hit with more charges while inside
for battery on an officer and resisting with force or violence.
According to someone on Reddit,
they were locked up with DDawg
and saw him fighting guards while he was butt naked
and getting pepper sprayed.
DDawg’s wild behavior
made him fit right in with the NBA crew though.
Youngboy hasn’t had any issues in the streets for a minute
since he’s been fighting fed cases and focusing on his career,
but his come up was crazy
and turned Baton Rouge into a war zone.
After Youngboy split off from TBG and his old homies,
it started a beef that took lives from both sides.
Gee Money was allegedly killed by NBA Young Pap,
Youngboy’s cousin Boozila and his manager Dump were both murdered,
and Youngboy’s girlfriend caught a bullet in the shoulder
that was meant for him.
DDawg has always been loyal to Youngboy
and was really about that action.
In a viral clip from a Youngboy show in 2018,
Youngboy points out someone in the crowd
who was allegedly throwing stuff on stage -
then DDawg hops straight into the audience and starts throwing hands.
Being ready for whatever might scare the opps,
but it also gets the attention of the cops.
And back in September,
DDawg was hit with another attempted murder charge
for a shooting that allegedly went down
in 2018.
He was held on a $300,000 bond
and posted it a couple days after getting booked,
but the trouble wasn’t over yet.
After he posted bond,
DDawg got pranked by a comedian on the street
and the situation almost went left.
He was walking down the street with his homie
when the comedian came up to them and said
I’m a real street n****.
D Dawg and the other dude just looked confused,
and then the comedian said
I’m the original chain-
I’m the original chain snatcher.
D Dawg and his homie just kept walking and tried to ignore him,
but the comedian kept following them.
That’s when D Dawg turned around and told him
“You gon’ get yo ass painted.
Ay no, much love.
You gon’ get stuck.
Luckily the comedian realized
he picked the wrong dude to prank
and got out of there,
because there’s no telling what DDawg would’ve done.
Then in the same month he posted bond for the 2018 attempted murder case,
DDawg got into a high speed chase with the cops
and ended up crashing and killing his homie in the passenger seat!
It’s not clear why the cops were even after him this time,
but they ended up finding a ski mask and weapons in the whip.
DDawg got hit with a ton of new charges,
including first degree vehicular manslaughter,
resisting an officer,
and possession of a firearm.
Now his bond is set at $19.7 million!
Bonding out on $300K is one thing
if you’re homie is one of the biggest rappers in the game,
but with a bond that’s almost $20 mil
he’ll probably be sitting in jail until his trial starts.
The cops in Baton Rouge ain't happy that DDawg
was let out on bond
and ended up killing someone just a few days later.
The police chief said
“We’ve dealt with him before, the same individuals.
That is what I hear from my officers.
We arrest them and have to deal with them again, shooting incidents, murders.
What’s right about that?”
Baton Rouge is a wild city,
and apparently
DDawg’s family has caused a lot of chaos.
Back in January,
DDawg’s 35-year-old brother Cleveland
turned himself in for murdering a 14-year-old kid named Dion Williams.
Cleveland allegedly shot Dion multiple times
with an AK-47 in a grocery store parking lot,
and supposedly
it was because Dion was bullying one of Cleveland’s family members.
Cleveland admitted to the shooting,
but he told the police Dion had a gun too.
But when cops checked the surveillance footage,
they saw Dion was unarmed
and Cleveland also shot at three bystanders
before handing the AK to his homie and left the scene.
Dion was a seventh grader
and had just made the basketball team at his school.
His mother Miranda said
“I’m going to really miss that,
that I’m not going to be able to call him anymore.
Me being a parent of a 14 year old,
getting calls saying it’s your son being shot down,
it really hurts.
It hurts so bad.”
Dion was with his homie
Shawn George II when he was killed,
and just a couple of hours later
someone shot and killed Shawn too!
The police think the shootings are connected,
but DDawg’s brother has only been charged with Dion’s murder.
Cleveland already admitted to shooting Dion,
and now that the cops know he wasn’t armed
the situation isn’t looking good for him.
Cleveland probably won’t be coming home,
but DDawg might get out sooner than most people thought.
NBA Ben10 told Fuscious TV
“He ‘finna do some s***, he ‘finna be home.
He ‘finna violate himself and be home. Simple.
It’s not clear exactly what Ben10 means,
but rumors are flying that the guns and mask
belonged to DDawg’s homie who died in the crash.
But even if DDawg gets the weapons charge taken off his case,
he’s still facing first degree vehicular manslaughter.
Plus with the attempted murder charge hanging over his head,
it’s not looking like DDawg will be free anytime soon.
It’s possible that if DDawg got the help he needed back in the day,
all of this could have been avoided.
He was only 14 when he caught his first case,
and he probably never would’ve been there
if it wasn’t for his older brother and cousin.
And if he really had the mental capacity of a ten year old at the time,
getting professional help could have changed DDawg’s whole life.
But instead of getting treatment,
DDawg was locked up
and jumped even deeper into the streets.
Now someone else is dead
and DDawg might be facing life behind bars.
RIP to everyone in this video who lost their life.