42 Dugg has definitely become one of hip hop’s biggest rising stars of 2020.
The 25 year-old rapper from Detroit, Michigan blasted onto the scene back in late 2018 after
his song “The Streets” featuring Babyface Ray garnered some attention from hip hop fans
online.
This ultimately caught the attention of Lil Baby and Yo Gotti which led to 42 Dugg signing
a collaborative record deal with both Lil Baby’s 4PF Records and Yo Gotti’s CMG
label in early 2019.
Ever since then, 42 Dugg has had just about back to back hits with the most notable being
the two features he had on Lil Baby’s “My Turn” album on the songs titled “Grace”
and “We Paid”.
Grace was the first song to reach the charts and peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100
charts back on March 13, 2020.
The song has over 57,000,000 views on YouTube at the time of this recording and has spent
a total of 15 weeks on the Billboard charts.
“We Paid”, the second smash hit by Lil Baby and 42 Dugg, also reached the Billboard
Hot 100 Charts and even peaked higher than “Grace”, reaching the #10 spot on July
10, 2020.
The music video for “We Paid” is absolutely crushing it on YouTube with almost 100,000,000
views at the time of this recording.
But even with all of this incredible success, 42 Dugg has faced several setbacks in life
with one of them requiring Dugg to spend 6 years in prison.
Curious on what 42 Dugg did to get himself in that situation?
Well then we’ve got you covered.
Here is an exclusive inside look at the Criminal History of 42 Dugg.
42 Dugg was born and raised in the dangerous east side of Detroit, Michigan.
Although 42 Dugg hasn’t really given anyone much information about his life growing up,
it was known that Dugg was extremely social and was very into partying.
But despite the most likely harmless partying, Dugg unfortunately got himself caught up with
the law back in 2010 after he was arrested for carjacking and felony firearms possession.
42 Dugg was only 15 years-old at the time of his arrest, but just because he was a minor,
doesn’t mean that the court system gave him any breaks, because just a few months
later, Dugg was found guilty of his charges and was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Now due to the fact he was only 15 years-old, I kind of doubt that he was sent to an adult
prison and was instead sent to some type of juvenile detention center until he turned
18, where he would then be sent to an adult prison for the remainder of his sentence.
That’s just my theory by the way and is not confirmed at all.
For all we know, he actually was just 15 years-old chilling with a bunch of grown men in prison.
Anyways, while Dugg was nearing the end of his sentence, he ended up getting into a physical
altercation with another inmate which led to 42 Dugg getting sent to the hole a.k.a
solitary confinement.
For those of you who are unaware of what solitary confinement is, it is where an inmate is sent
to a cell by themselves and is only allowed to leave for 1 hour of the day.
That means 42 Dugg spent 23 hours a day, completely alone, for 3 months straight.
While in solitary, Dugg obviously needed to find a way to entertain himself and he did
this by writing raps down in his notebook.
Dugg claimed that his raps weren’t any good but during the 1 hour out of his cell that
he had each day, he would rap to the other inmates who actually really liked his music.
42 Dugg would continue to work on his craft throughout his entire stay in solitary but
once the 3 months was up, Dugg found out that the altercation he had with the other inmate
added another 2 years to his prison sentence.
The 4 year sentence now turned into a 6 year sentence in the blink of an eye.
Now with nothing but time, Dugg continued writing more and more and had several raps
written by the time he was released in 2017.
Once 42 Dugg was released, he started to go to local recording studios around his area
and eventually started to get the hang of recording songs in that type of professional
environment.
Several months later, Dugg ended up dropping 2 mixtapes during the summer of 2018 titled
“11241 Wayburn” and “11241 Wayburn, Part.
2”.
Shortly after, his song “The Streets” featuring Babyface Ray started to gain some
attention online which landed him in California, where he just so happened to meet Lil Baby
while playing a dice game called “Cee-lo” together.
This simple game of dice ultimately led to a solid friendship between the two and Lil
Baby invited 42 Dugg to come work on some music with him back in Atlanta just a few
weeks later.
During Dugg’s time in Atlanta, he went to multiple studio sessions with Lil Baby with
one of them featuring a special and well known guest, Yo Gotti.
Gotti really liked what he heard and expressed interest in signing 42 Dugg to “CMG”.
Lil Baby also had the intention of signing Dugg to his own label “4PF” as well but
instead of going into one big bidding war over him, the 2 decided to make this a collaborative
deal which ended with 42 Dugg signing to both Yo Gotti’s CMG Label and Lil Baby’s 4PF
through Empire Records in March of 2019 and for the rest of that year, Dugg was putting
in a lot of work for both labels.
At this point, 42 Dugg had nothing but greatness in his future, that was until March 10, 2020,
just less then 2 weeks after Lil Baby’s highly anticipated album “My Turn” dropped
which had 2 viral songs featuring Dugg.
On that day, 42 Dugg was arrested in Michigan on Federal weapons charges.
According to Detroit News, back in November of 2019, federal agents received an anonymous
tip that Dugg went to Stoddard’s Range and Guns in Atlanta and allegedly fired a weapon.
Investigators ended up getting a hold of the surveillance footage from Stoddard's which
was enough evidence to arrest 42 Dugg.
For those of you who are unaware, Dugg’s previous convictions from back in 2010 when
he was just 15 years-old made it so he legally cannot possess a firearm.
It was also noted that once in custody, the authorities seized Dugg’s cell phone and
found multiple photos of firearms as well as large quantities of kush.
They also allegedly discovered threatening text messages to an unidentified individual
as well as details about a Dodge Challenger covered in bullet holes being towed from Dugg’s
house.
He was temporarily held in a Michigan jail without bond as he awaited extradition to
Atlanta, Georgia where the alleged crime took place.
Two days later, 42 Dugg had a court hearing where the judge granted him a $10,000 bond,
but federal prosecutors ended up appealing the judge’s decision and unfortunately won.
This caused Dugg to sit in jail for another 5 days until he was finally released on a
$10,000 bond without having to be extradited to Atlanta due to coronavirus.
As of today, This case is still ongoing but I have a solid feeling that the outcome will
be in 42 Dugg’s favor.
I think this because Dugg was convicted of his previous charges when he was pretty young,
and with his new successful career, the judge may just give him a little break.
I’m not saying he will get off completely, but maybe some supervised monitoring instead
of jail time.
But once again this is just my own personal theory.
Since his release on March 17, 2020, 42 Dugg’s career has not slowed down once so ever.
He has amassed hundreds of millions of streams on his music and was even trending on Twitter
just a few days ago.
Dugg is also free to travel despite being out on bond, and has posted multiple pictures
and videos of him on social media buying extremely lavish and expensive items such as jewelry
from Icebox in Atlanta and one of a kind shoes from Cool Kicks in Los Angeles.
Overall, things are looking extremely good for 42 Dugg and I can’t wait to see what
he does in the near future.
Hopefully his case gets put behind him as soon as possible so he can focus 100% on furthering
his career.
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