Diddy was accused by his former body guard for âputting handsâ on Kim Porter and Misa Hylton. Nasir was accused by ex-wife Kelis of blacking out and fighting her. Rick Ross was popped for âkidnapping and assaultâ after he insinuated date rapping a woman on a song âUOENOâ.
In 2016, Trouble appeared on rapper YFN Lucci's single "Key to the Streets," which peaked at number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 He's considered one of grittiest and realest rappers to come out of Atlanta since TI. Trouble was last arrested in 2017 in DeKalb County Jail in Georgia on four separate drug charges.
The detective cited one lyric, âchopper makes you go ughâ (chopper is slang for rifle), and added that a district attorney could prosecute the rapper by playing that line âover and over againâ: âIâm not a giant rap fan, just so you know,â Hardiman added.
1 Jay-Z. Hip-hop icon Jay-Z has not kept his actual name a secret. 2 Drake. Arguably the most popular rapper on the planet today, Drake had a different career in ... 3 Eminem. Another rapper who didnât exactly keep his real name hidden is Eminem. 4 Migos. Weâre going to give you three ...
The Case: In January 2005, Snoop Lionâthen going by the name Snoop Doggâwas slapped with a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, accusing him of sexual assault. According to the plaintiff, an Emmy award-winning makeup artist, Snoop and several associates raped her in the rapper's dressing room following a taping of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! in January 2003. Weeks prior, Snoop had sent out a preemptive lawsuit against the woman claiming that she had targeted him for an extortion scheme. The plaintiff sought $25 million dollars in damages from Snoop in her lawsuit.
The Aftermath: Tupac Shakur and his road manager, Charles Fuller, were convicted of first degree sexual abuse on December 1, 1994. Although, 'Pac was acquitted of weapons and sodomy charges alleged against him, Shakur was sentenced 1.5 to 4.5 years for sexually abusing the fan. Jacques Agnant, who was also charged in the case, ...
The Aftermath: Judge Peter Foor initially set bail for PSD Da Drivah at $100,000 but after complaints from the prosecuting attorney, it was raised to a $500,000 bond.
The charges stemmed from a July 3, 2002, incident where Mystikal and the two other men allegedly forced a female hairstylist to perform oral sex on them and accused her of stealing $80,000 in checks from the rapper. A videotape of the incident was later found at Mystikal's home shortly after the charges were made.
The Case: While on tour with Wiz Khalifa in Lewiston, NY, on August 4, 2011, Big Sean and his friend Willie Antonio "Sayitainttone" Hansbro were charged with forcible touching, unlawful imprisonment in the second degree and sex abuse in the third degree after a woman made accusations of a sexual assault during the concert.
In recent months, rape and hip-hop have come to the forefront due to Rick Ross' controversial lyrics on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." when he rapped, "put Molly all in her champagne, she ainât even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it," a lyric that critics have alleged describes a date rape.
The Case: Houston rapper South Park Mexicanâreal name Carlos Coyâwas arrested on September 25, 2001, for aggravated sexual assault of a 9-year-old child. On December 10, 2001, SPM was indicted on the molestation charge and subsequently charged with another sexual assault charge after he allegedly impregnated a 13-year-old girl in 1993. Two more charges were later added on for sexual assault of two 14-year-old girls in March 2002.
The case moving forward this week marks the third time Drakeo, whose legal name is Darrell Caldwell, is facing charges stemming from the 2016 murder of 24-year-old Davion Gregory. After Drakeo beat a murder charge this summer, prosecutors are launching a new trial against the 25-year-old rapper, arguing he is the leader ...
A month later, police raided Drakeoâs apartment, found guns and arrested him. During questioning, a Los Angeles sheriffâs department (LASD) detective, Francis Hardiman, told the rapper his music would be the âsoundtrackâ in a trial.
In July, a jury acquitted Drakeo of all murder and attempted murder offenses. The jury convicted the rapper of a single firearms possession charge and was deadlocked on two counts â criminal gang conspiracy and shooting from a vehicle.
In September 2018, Drakeo was indicted on a wide range of felonies related to the December 2016 incident, including murder, conspiracy murder, criminal gang conspiracy, shooting from a vehicle, illegal possession of a firearm and a number of attempted murder charges for other victims.
For the gang conspiracy charge Drakeo is still facing, LA prosecutors are relying on an opaque California penal code called 182.5 , a number that now sparks fear in some rap communities. It allows DAs to prosecute people who allegedly âbenefitâ from criminal gang activity.
Drakeo was born in 1993 in South-Central LA and started a dance crew with his brother when he was a teenager. He got into rapping early and formed a group with friends called Too Greedy, a name they adopted in middle school. They later called themselves the Stinc Team.
The detective cited one lyric, âchopper makes you go ughâ (chopper is slang for rifle), and added that a district attorney could prosecute the rapper by playing that line âover and over againâ: âIâm not a giant rap fan, just so you know,â Hardiman added.
Lil Mosey 's in big trouble in the state of Washington ... he's been charged with rape, and there's a warrant out for his arrest after failing to appear for a court hearing.
Weâre told Mosey never showed up ... so now he's a wanted man. This all stems from an alleged incident back in January after a woman says she and a girlfriend went to a cabin to see Mosey but claims they ended up getting raped by him and another man.
Another rapper who didnât exactly keep his real name hidden is Eminem. The hip-hop icon used his birth name in the title of his most popular album, 2000âs âThe Marshall Mathers LP,â and used it again for the 2013 record, âThe Marshall Mathers LP 2.â His stage name came, in a roundabout way, from his actual initials, because when he first started rapping as a teen in Detroit, it was under the name M&M, before he changed it to the more memorable Eminem in 1995.
Real Name: Khalif Brown (Swae Lee), Aaquil Brown (Slim Jxmmi) It might sound like one personâs name but Rae Sremmurd is the name of a popular hip-hop duo thatâs made up of real-life brothers Khalif and Aaquil Brown, also known as Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi.
Migos. Real Names: Kiari Cephus (Offset), Qavious Marshall (Quavo), Kirsnick Ball (Takeoff) Weâre going to give you three for the price of one here. Migos is arguably the most popular hip-hop group of the past decade, and the trio raps under the stage names Offset, Quavo and Takeoff.
Born Belcalis AlmĂĄnzar, this lifelong New Yorker exploded onto the hip-hop scene in 2017 with the smash âBodak Yellowâ and has been a consistent hitmaker ever since. She came up with the name Cardi B as a spin on a nickname friends gave her growing up.
Nas is simply a shortened version of his own first name, Nasir. At first, he used the stage name âNasty Nas,â a nickname he still uses, but simply went by Nas for his 1994 debut album, âIllmatic.â
Real Name: Christopher Wallace. One of rapâs most legendary figures, The Notorious B.I.G. actually had to change his original stage name after a lawsuit. Christopher Wallace first rapped under the name Biggie Smalls, which was the name of a character in the 1975 movie, âLetâs Do It Again.â.
OâShea Jackson got his iconic name, Ice Cube, from his older brother â and it wasnât meant as a term of endearment. The rapper told Stephen Colbert in 2017 that, when he was 13, he used to try to talk to his brotherâs girlfriends, which made his brother threaten him with a unique act of violence.
But there are other artists who are critical of their work because they're ashamed of a past lyric or don't like a certain project they released for various reasons. It often happens with songwriters, rappers included, because after getting older and having enough space from a song, some rappers said they felt differently about what they said ...
But many years and millions of albums later, Eminem showed that he'd changed some because he was regretful about a lyric that he aimed at California rapper Tyler, the Creator on his 2018 song " Fall .". It was after Tyler implied that he's gay and that he hated Eminem's 2014 compilation album "Shady XV.".
The only way out is in." Basically, Diaz is saying although confronting a problem head-on is daunting, it's what you have to do to conquer it, so you can move forward. Now, whether North Carolina rapper J. Cole read DĂaz's book is unclear, but he sure seemed to use his reasoning to address some backlash he received after delivering an offensive line on Drake's 2013 song " Jodeci Freestyle ."
Presumably to the shock of many, Miller died on September 7, 2018, at 26 after accidentally overdosing on cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol. And although the rapper was only famous for only a handful of years, he left a giant-sized mark on music that'll probably never be rubbed out.
One of the things that late Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller was known for was his work ethic because there are stories of him being holed up in his home studio for incredibly long periods of time with little to no breaks in between. For example, in 2013, Miller told Complex that while working on his 2012 jazz EP " You ," he spent two straight weeks in the studio without showering. And in that same interview, he talked about his debut album "Blue Slide Park," released in 2011, and said he didn't care for the lyrics in the songs" "Up All Night " and " Party on Fifth Ave ," which both have words dedicated to having wild, careless fun.
So it seemed like a shock to many after Lil Wayne used Till's tragedy to describe what he would do during sex on Future's 2013 song "Karate Chop. ". Then after heavy backlash, Wayne's label Epic Records issued an apology to Till's family and so did Wayne, saying he regrets the hurt he caused.
But that changed on July 8, 2020, after Rivera died by drowning in California's Lake Piru because many brought up her past relationship with Sean, as well as "IDFWU.".