Making it in the rap game can be great,
but it also puts a target on your back.
And when everybody knows your face,
the opps can catch you anywhere if you’re not movin right.
Today we’re breaking down the biggest rappers who got ran up on and attacked.
Before he was tragically murdered in 2018,
XXXTentacion was one of the hottest rappers in the game.
He also had a crazy come up and was never afraid of the smoke,
but one time somebody caught him off guard in the middle of a show
and X got knocked out in front of his fans.
X was performing at a theater in San Diego
back in 2017 when a dude ran up on stage and knocked him out.
His security team jumped in immediately and started beating the dude up,
and then the fight got out of control and spilled out to the street.
A massive group of cops came in to try and break it up,
and one person ended up getting stabbed and rushed to the hospital.
After the show, X hopped on Twitter and said
“security and venue set me up,
I got sucker punched and knocked out,
it is what it is.”
“next time make sure you kill me so I can’t talk s***.”
It’s not clear why the dude even attacked him,
but he definitely regretted it after X’s crew put hands on him.
Young Chop is a rapper and producer from Chicago
who’s known for producing some of Chief Keef’s biggest hits
like Love Sosa and Don't Like.
But besides making beats, he also rocks the stage himself
and back in 2015 Chop got attacked by the security at his own show.
According to Chop,
one of the security guards was acting like a hater all night.
So when Chop hit the stage, he called the dude out and said
“Y’all b****-ass security
need to stop it.”
That’s when the guard lunged straight at Chop and started swinging.
But the one-on-one fade didn’t last long
because Chop’s whole team was onstage with him and jumped in on the action too.
After it went down,
Chop hopped on IG and said
“As you can see in the video people,
the security ran up on me.
I didn’t run up on the security,
I just called him a b****.
Cause you wanna know why I called him a b****?
He disrespected me as a man,
and you know,
I tend to take that offensive.”
It turns out, the security guard actually ripped Chop’s dreads out,
and Chop said “Man, as I sit here and look at this s*** man,
this b***** n**** done pulled my motherf***** dread out.
The b**** n**** grabbed my hair y’all.
Y’all thought he beat my ass, but the n**** really grabbed my hair.”
Attacking someone you’re supposed to be protecting is already a weak move,
but the guard hit a new low when he started pulling hair instead of throwing punches.
Plus it’s never a good idea to go after someone who with over of his 30 homies.
6ix9ine became one of the most hated rappers in the game
after he snitched on his own crew to get less time in jail.
Back in September he tried to go after a DJ in a Dubai nightclub,
but then club security stepped up for the dude and attacked 6ix9ine.
According to witnesses,
it all started when 6ix9ine asked the DJ to play one of his songs
and the DJ refused.
And after the fight, the DJ got on the mic and said
“We don’t like snitches.
No way am I playing a snitch’s song.”
Rumors started flying that 6ix9ine’s chain got snatched,
but he hopped on social media and wrote
“Stop lying and spreading fake news!!!
The DJ was talking shit on the mic and got handled. STOP fake news.”
This isn’t the only issue 6ix9ine’s had in the club this year.
In August his girlfriend Rachel Wattley aka Jade
was booked on domestic violence battery charges for punching him in the face.
According to sources,
they got into a fight in the club and security escorted them outside
and that’s when she allegedly punched him.
6ix9ine defended her and said
“I’m gonna get her out jail - she attacked me in front of the police.
I told them ‘you have to evaluate her she’s obviously under the influence.’
I don’t plan to press charges… I’m the one trying to bail her out.”
6ix9ine might want to stay out of the club for a while
because it's obvious most people don’t want him there.
But if he stops getting negative attention,
he won’t be getting any attention at all.
– Chance the Rapper is one of the most positive rappers in the game.
He doesn’t rap about shooting people and moving weight,
instead he writes rhymes about his family
and is always giving back to his community.
But when a fan got past his security and ran onstage,
Chance proved that he knows how to handle himself.
In 2016, Chance was performing a set in Miami
when someone rushed up from the side of the stage.
It looked like the guy was just a fan who wanted some attention,
but when he put his hands on Chance -
Chance turned around and body slammed the dude before his security could even jump in.
Luckily nobody got seriously hurt,
but Chance showed everyone that even though he’s a nice dude,
he’s still ready for whatever.
A$AP Rocky is currently facing charges
for allegedly shooting one of his old homies,
but back in 2016 some dudes in New Zealand caught him lacking
and attacked him at his hotel.
A$AP was at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland at around three in the morning with some girls.
They went to get on an elevator,
then three dudes walked up and wanted to ride too.
A$AP told them there wasn’t any room left,
and that’s when they started swinging.
According to witnesses, the dudes knew who Rocky was and one of them yelled
“F*** ASAP” while they were attacking him.
Hotel security rushed in to break it up,
and later the cops showed up and arrested one of the attackers.
After the news broke, rumors were flying that Rocky was seriously hurt.
But Rocky let everyone know it wasn’t that serious and tweeted
“ASSAULTED? N****S GET SHOT EVERY DAY B, HA.”
But this wasn’t the only time Rocky had issues overseas.
Back in 2019 he got locked up in Sweden
after him and his crew attacked a dude and left him knocked out in the street.
TMZ released a video showing Rocky throwing the dude on the ground,
then him and his team started punching and kicking him while he's down.
When he went to court, A$AP tried to get out of it by saying he was scared.
He told the court “It got a little scary for us.
I couldn’t help but assume that these guys were under the influence of some type of drugs.”
The court wasn’t buying it though.
They found him guilty of assault and said
he “assaulted the victim by hitting and kicking him as he lay on the ground.
The artist has also thrown the victim to the ground and stepped on his arm.”
Even though he was found guilty,
Rocky got off easy with a suspended sentence
and came back to the states.
But now he might be dealing with a more serious case related to a shooting last year,
so tap in for updates as more details come out.
Lil Tjay just bounced back from a shooting
that almost left him dead,
but he had some other problems going on before getting shot.
Last year while he was touring in the UK,
some dudes jumped him after a show in Southampton.
For some reason he cut his set early after performing a couple of songs,
and while he was chilling outside the venue afterwards -
a bunch of dudes ran up on him and started swinging.
Police and security had to step in to break it up,
but luckily no one was seriously hurt.
After it was all over,
there was rumors Tjay got his chain snatched.
But he squashed them by posting a video on social media
showing off all his jewlery.
Then a cop car drove by with it’s sirens on and Tjay said
“if a n**** try to really take my chain, it would have been a lot of those
right there."
There was also a time Tjay supposedly got jumped in America too.
He got pressed by like 10 or 15 dudes while he was walking down the street.
Tjay says they jumped him and snatched his chain,
but he didn’t seem like he was really tripping over it.
A lot of rappers wouldn’t admit to getting robbed like that,
but Tjay says he wasn’t moving right and that’s why it happened.
Getting jumped ain't nearly as serious as getting shot,
but Tjay survived both.
Hopefully he’ll start moving around with security now
and avoid getting into more sketchy situations.
Waka Flocka helped change the entire game in the early 2010s.
His album Flockaveli inspired a whole new wave,
and back in the day
you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing someone bumping Hard in da Paint or No Hands.
He took a step back from the spotlight in the late 2010s,
but he was still recording music sometimes -
and in 2019 he almost died when three dudes started shooting at the studio he was in.
According to witnesses, there were over a dozen people in the studio,
and at some point shots started going off all over the place.
Luckily Waka didn’t get hit,
but someone else got shot in the arm and had to be taken to the hospital.
It’s not clear what went down and Waka never talked about the situation,
but that wasn’t the first time someone took shots at him.
Back in 2010, Waka was washing his car
when a dude walked up and tried to snatch his jewelry.
When Waka fought back, the dude let off a shot and hit him in the shoulder.
Luckily he survived,
but it was a close call.
The bullet went into the shoulder,
punctured his lungs, and broke some ribs too.
After it happened, Waka told MTV News
“I felt it in my arm but I looked down
and felt it in my chest, my back, everything.
It felt like stop, drop, and roll.
I’m leaking, my arm squirting…
I was like, ‘F*** it, I’mma give up.
This s*** hurt so bad. I’m gonna give up.’”
Waka’s tour bus also got shot up back in 2011,
but he made it out of the situation and didn’t get hit.
Luckily nobody’s tried to take him out since the studio shooting
so it sounds like he's been moving right.
Freddie Gibbs and Benny the Butcher
used to be tight and collabed on a bunch of tracks together.
But after they had a falling out,
Freddie got ran up on before his show in Benny’s hometown of Buffalo, New York.
Gibbs was eating at a restaurant before his show,
and a video shows him getting jumped by a bunch of dudes.
It hasn’t been confirmed,
but it's rumored they were sent by Benny to run Freddie out of town.
Freddie still performed his set later that night,
but photos from the concert show his eyes and face swollen up from the brawl.
Rumors were flying that he had his chain snatched during all the chaos,
but later a screenshot came out with Freddie proving he still had it.
He wrote “20 n****z deep this all they did,
couldn’t even take my shit.
Tell them n****z come harder next time.”
Benny and Freddie are still beefing,
but both of them been clowned online for acting like kids.
They’re both middle-aged men,
so getting messy like this over some petty drama ain't a good look for either one of them.
Hopefully they squash it and move on,
because getting into fights at that age could easily lead to more serious damage.