Dave East was pepper sprayed in the face by police following a performance north of the border in Montreal, Canada.
Footage emerged early Tuesday (December 19), shortly after the Harlem native performed at Le Rouge nightclub, that showed him involved in a stand-off with police in the pouring rain outside the venue.
Per Complex, the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) informed Dave East and his entourage that everyone would need to be searched, which Dave and co. didn’t agree with, causing tensions to rise.
The confrontation reached a point where the police had enough of the back-and-forth and appeared to pepper-spray Dave East in the eyes, with the rapper seen trying to cover his face and avoid the toxins.
“Oh, they’re pepper spraying!” a person can be heard saying in the clip. It’s unclear if East and his crew escaped the altercation unscathed or were apprehended by police.
Neither Dave East nor the SPVM have addressed the incident. Watch the footage below.
Dave East has had an eventful time traveling the globe this year. Back in July, he revealed that he recorded the majority of his Fortune Favors the Bold album at one of Pablo Escobar’s stash houses in Medellin, Colombia.
“I’ve always been a fan of Pablo Escobar, and I mean, not the destruction and all that or whatever, but just his mindset as far as hustling. I’m a big fan of Pablo,” he said in an interview with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden.
“So me going out there, I felt like, ‘Bro, why we don’t just do some music out here? This is a different environment, different everything. It’s not New York, it’s not L.A., it’s not Miami, it’s just different.’”
He continued: “We had the studio set up right in the crib. We actually stayed in one of Pablo’s stash houses. Pool inside the crib, some flavor, flavor, flavor crib. In Medellín. I did maybe 12, 13 records off the album in that house, right in the crib.
“They had the chefs in there making breakfast, wake up, Mike [of the production duo Mike & Keys] already be in there making beats. We’d get to that pool in the crib, jump in the pool.”
Dave East’s Fortune Favors the Bold arrived in July via Def Jam and featured assists from G-Eazy, Tyga, Kid Capri, Ty Dolla $ign, Cordae, Coi Leray, Ghostface Killah and more.
if you are doing interviews saying you recorded at a drug lord’s manor because you “admire” his flex then you should be prepared to be treated as though you are a perp everywhere you go. He brought in on himself trying to act like some gangsta when we all know he’s KD’s boy from back in the day. Dude is an underwear model in real life lol. So accept the search if that’s want you want for your life.
Who gives a fuck if this corny fake ny crip is pepper sprayed. Imagine being a 35yo wannabe crip and glorifying Escobar who murdered thousands of innocents including children. Grow the fuck up loser.
The most disappointing rapper in the history of rap.
At some point the black community is going to have to hold their men aka the “leaders” accountable..yall bums havnt mentally matured since you hit 14. Bros almost 40 still being pepper sprayed ..entire community of “men” w a boys mentality is what holds you race back
Yall hate and criticize everything black people do but yall cant help but follow and keep up with it. If yall are so superior and blacks are so negative etc why do you all follow hiphop and other black trends? Just keep to your white selves then
If you really believe there isnt a huge section of the black community who are ashamed of trash like this then you ignorant as hell. You can follow hiphop and not have accept ignorance like this clown or dudes like Boosie. I’d rather listen to J.Cole or Rakim any day over some manchild who promotes trash behaviour
taking it too far with the nonsense and also moderating comments for no reason. nobody’s “ashamed” of Dave East. this is the problem with the online nonsense. can’t discuss anything with any nuance at all clowns always muscling in and moderators playing along for the narrative
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