Dolph is perhaps best known for appearing on the OT Genasis hit Cut It, while his album Bulletproof – a reference to surviving the Charlotte attack – reached the US Top 40 in April. He and Yo Gotti are significant figures in the US rap scene. Young Dolph told XXL that he had “no clue” who shot at him. He maintains his innocence, saying a van involved in the shooting, hired under his name, was stolen. He later taunted his attackers on Twitter, writing “u loose”, and performed at a club the same night.īlac Youngsta, a rapper signed to Yo Gotti’s label who has had his own feud with Dolph, was charged along with two others, and is currently released on bail.
Less than a week after the release of the video, more than 100 shots were fired at Young Dolph’s bulletproof SUV in an incident in Charlotte, North Carolina, leaving the rapper unharmed.
The rappers, both from Memphis, have a longstanding feud, apparently begun in 2014 after Dolph refused to sign to Gotti’s label amid jabs on Twitter, Dolph’s track Play Wit Yo Bitch explicitly attacked Gotti, including with a video cast using a Gotti lookalike. TMZ reported that police have named Gotti a “person of interest” after witnesses said he was involved. Photograph: Startraks Photo/REX/ShutterstockĪccording to Associated Press, detectives are investigating whether the attack is part of a dispute between Young Dolph and fellow rapper Yo Gotti.
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