Big Scarr was one of the hottest new rappers coming out of Memphis.
He linked up with Gucci Mane and was on his way to the top of the game,
but fans were shocked after Wop confirmed
he tragically passed away at just 22 years old.
Even though he was so young,
Scarr already lived a crazy life –
and today we’re breaking down the wild story of another Memphis rapper
who was taken too soon.
Let’s get right to it.
Scarr came up on the south side of Memphis
and was surrounded by crime and violence every day.
His parents weren’t really involved early on,
and he was raised by his grandma until he was around 13.
After she passed away,
Scarr moved in with his dad and that’s when he jumped off the porch
and got active in the streets.
He dropped out of school and joined the grape street cripps,
and Scarr says his pops is the one who taught him how to move.
In his interview with Dirty Glove Bastard on Off the Porch,
Scarr said he did everything you could do in the streets.
According to him,
the best thing I ever did was drop out of school
and went to the streets.
Cause it taught me a lot of life lessons that,
you know, school don't teach.
He said all he needed from school
Know how to read and count my money.
I mean, that's around it.
It wasn't nothing else they can tell me.
Eventually, Scarr and his homies got into stealing cars.
One day when he was 16,
he was driving a stolen whip with his friend and a couple girls.
He tried to beat a yellow light and smash through the intersection,
but another car was turning at the same time
and Scarr ran right into them.
The crash sent him flying through the windshield
and his face got sliced up from the impact.
That’s how he got the name Big Scarr.
He only spent a couple days in the hospital
then he was right back on the streets.
Back in the day,
Scarr never wanted to be a rapper.
He said he always knew he’d be rich some day,
but he never expected it to come from the rap game.
His homie Baby K was always rapping though,
and eventually he inspired Scarr to hop in the booth and test the waters.
Scarr spent $20 to record the track Make a Play,
then dropped another $200 to film the video.
It was his first time in the booth,
but the song was a hit.
It started popping off and racked up around fifty thousand views on YouTube,
but then a YouTuber named Tommy Craze reacted to it
and took the song to the next level!
Scarr hit a million views in no time
and got the attention of Gucci Mane!
His cousin Pooh Shiesty was already working with Wop,
and that’s how Scarr linked up with him at first.
Pooh put him on the phone with Gucci so they could chop it up,
and not long after
he was on his way to Atlanta to sign a deal with 1017 off just one track!
Linking up with Gucci was huge for Scarr.
He grew up listening to him,
and Scarr says Gucci was a lot of his family member’s favorite rapper.
Scarr told Dirty Glove Bastard
Like we was on a boat shooting a video
fool, I had to go to the bathroom and hold my breath to see if this s*** real.
Blowing up off of your first track and signing with a legend like Gucci is wild,
but Scarr almost died
before he could even take it all in.
In his Off the Porch interview,
he talked about how much hate there is in the hood for no reason.
That’s why dudes like Boosie always tells rappers
to leave their city after they blow up.
Scarr knew he shouldn’t be going back to Memphis,
but it’s tough to stay away from the place you’ve spent your whole life.
And in 2020,
Scarr went back to visit and ended up getting shot and almost dying.
It’s not clear exactly how it went down,
but the bullet went through his hip and traveled up into his spine.
It was so bad,
the doctors had to remove his appendix –
but Scarr only spent a few days in the hospital and bounced right back.
Instead of letting the shooting get in his way,
Scarr kept it pushing
and went even more viral last year with the track SoIcyBoyz
featuring Pooh Shiesty and Foogiano.
Then his debut mixtape dropped last April and hit #25 on the Billboard 200,
which was huge for somebody who just hopped in the game.
He had features from Gucci, Foogiano, Enchanting,
and his homie Baby K –
and Scarr proved to everyone that he had the skills to carry a full project.
Back in February
he released a deluxe edition of the tape
and even secured a feature with Offset.
Scarr was already popping off,
but he got even more shine back in June
when he was featured on XXL’s Freshman class of 2022
with Nardo Wick, KenTheMan,
and another Memphis rapper named Big30.
And just a couple of weeks ago
Key Glock announced that he was bringing Scarr with him on his Glockoma Tour
that’s starting in March.
The tour would have taken Scarr across the country
and exposed him to a whole new audience,
but unfortunately
he won’t have the opportunity.
On Thursday night, December 22,
the news broke that Scarr
had tragically passed away.
No details have been confirmed,
but the police say that foul play isn’t suspected.
His uncle told TMZ
that Scarr accidentally overdosed on prescription pills
while he was at his girlfriend’s house.
He also said Scarr was battling depression
and that his grandmother’s death had a major impact on him.
Scarr was only 22
but already went through a lot of trauma.
It seems like he turned to pills to cope with it all,
and it tragically ended up killing him.
Gucci confirmed the news on Instagram and wrote
“This hurt.
Im a miss you Bigscarr.”
Scarr’s friend and label mate Enchanting posted on IG too and said
she can’t even talk right now,
and Big30 hopped online to pay his respects too.
He posted a picture of him and Scarr together
and revealed that they just spent hours together the night before he died.
Scarr had enough talent and momentum
to carry him into the mainstream spotlight.
Everything he dropped
picked up more buzz than what came before it,
and it’s just wild how fast it all happened.
He went from hustling in the streets
and not even thinking about rapping,
to one of the hottest new artists in Memphis almost overnight.
You don’t see a lot of dudes signing major deals off just one track,
but Gucci saw his potential right away.
The rap game has been losing young artists at a rapid pace,
and unfortunately
Big Scarr is the latest.
Memphis just lost Young Dolph last year,
and now another star from the city is gone too soon.
Rest in peace to Big Scarr.