Following the arrest of Brooklyn, New York rapper Bobby Shmurda and 14 other members of GS9, a lawyer for the Epic Records artist has spoken out against the musician’s arrest. Shmurda’s lawyer, Howard Greenberg spoke exclusively with XXLMag.com this week and shared his belief that “the government hates rap” and rappers.
Greenberg then called the indictment “bullshit” and suggested that authorities have recruited others to implicate artists like Shmurda.
“Let me give you some context,” Greenberg said while speaking with XXLMag.com. “The government hates rap and the government hates rappers. They target these guys and construct a narrative around them and then they rationalize the narrative in order to get an indictment. I had said previously, it’s a bunch of bullshit. What they do is they recruit guiltless, loveless people who are truthless that are jealous of brothers on the way up and they get them to implicate them.”
Greenberg, who later stated that Shmurda is “legit” and “doesn’t have time for this bullshit,” says he had the opportunity to read the indictment. He revealed that the first 41 pages of the indictment are “susceptible to interpretation.”
“I gave the indictment a close read and the first 41 pages [are] just talk,” he said “It’s street lingo that isn’t even English, which is susceptible to interpretation that’s so broad, it’s unduly vague. In the argument yesterday they said that there were guns in his car; what they didn’t say is that two guns were in a closed container in the possession of somebody else, not Bobby. They misspoke about that to the Supreme Court. In the defense bar we style conspiracy charges as one of the darlings of the prosecutor’s nursery. People of color should be very afraid of these kind of prosecutions. They are selective. They start by aiming at a guy’s lyrics to begin.”
Earlier this week on December 17, Shmurda and members of his GS9 crew were arrested while at Quad City Studios in New York City. The rapper faces a number of charges including conspiracy to commit murder, assault in the first degree, possession of weapons, intent to sell and possession of narcotics, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree on two counts.
In addition to facing up to 25 years on the conspiracy charges, Shmurda also faces up to 15 years on each of the weapons charges.
It’s been reported that Epic Records will pay Shmurda’s $2 million dollar bail.
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Bobby Shmurda’s lawyer is apparently Captain Obvious…
take rap out of the equation. the government hates young men selling crack to their communites and committing murders. his team has like 16 counts of attempted murder!!! why wont the government stop oppressing these young entrepreneurs!
Don’t tell em that. They might get offended!
Question is: Does the government really care, or is it a ploy by the court system to get more money threw cases. Who really owns the boats and plane’s? Who is the one bringing drugs into the community. How much money does wall street make annually from the drug trade?
That “who brings guns and drugs and owns the boats and planes” shit is outdated and not a valid argument anymore. They import a lot of things to America, is doesn’t mean you have to use it. “Hey, how did this German pistol get here? I don’t know, but it must be for me to shoot someone in the head with it”. Using that as an excuse is setting such a low bar for black people that it’s insulting. Those guns are available to every race. How come you or I never shot someone? We could have gotten those guns too. I grew up in a grimy ass hood, with a single mother, salvation army clothes, corn flakes for dinner, all the stereotypical poor kid shit, but I never shot anyone or sold crack. This idea that rap or selling crack is the only way out of the hood is a poisonous belief that is being sold to the kids. Stop perpetuating that shit my G. Peace.
sounds like he needs to hire a better lawyer. its always the governments fault these guys had 50 grand worth of crack and enough guns for a small army… dont even mention the fact they he told on his whole hood in his first and only song
I heard he snitched on everybody
Of course the lawyer is gonna say that, he’s getting billed out at $1200 an hour on Epic’s tab lol I bet he goes home and laughs with his family about it “This stupid kid is on his way up the road but I’m a drag it out as long as possible to get that money!!!!”
I really hope that fellow hip hop heads are smart enough to see this for what it really is…..the fact that a lawyer is using he word ‘bullshit’ is hilarious simce all lawyers do is bullshit….half of them are worse than the system itslef….that aside, he’s trying to rally this as a war on hip hop….and such a war by the govenrment may very well exist, however in this particular situation it is not the case…..this has nothing to do with targeting…..when you carry that many guns with you and try these street antics then this is the outcome you get…..shmurda is not the victim here, this is the very image he tried so hard to portray…..him and his crew of aspiring thugs wanted to be REAL….welll this is the REALITY of it…..its NOT cause hes black…..Its NOT cause hes a rapper……its cause him and his buddies were runnin around wanting to be gangsters……well gangsters do time…….and anyone trying to tie this BS with the police brutality protests in anyway trukly sickens me…..those protests are about cops targeting and using exessive force against minorities……NOT about protecting criminals…..dont the the real struggle and fightfor justice confused with this clown an his posse of morons
1. It’s odd that you would assume what’s in the indictment is correct and honest. When you saw the same police department and grand jury justify a kill that was visibly extremely questionable.
2. It’s odd to assume the guns were illegally possessed when Jeezy was arrested in Cali for guns that were legally registered and held for a million dollar bond that in every other scenario calls for $20,000 bond. Huh? Please comment on that Mister.
3. Why were they investigating him/them in the first place? And conspiracy of what, where were the heaps of drug to distribute?
When you don’t like the conversation (police brutality) can it. That’s out the playbook for any governing system. Duh?!
—– Y’all the type of niggas that would turn on yo own brother in this situation. It’s called slave mentality, go back to yo cubicle and wait for a 5% raise in the next 10 years fucking low lifes.——-
You answers….
1) not the same police department….it was a court so educate yourself a bit….but part of the same bulshit system, ill give you that, however that doesnt mean that no one can ever be guilty just because the system is flawed…..criminals are still criminals
2) if all those guns are registered, then there isnt an indictment you moron….whether you like it they have evidence on your boy….the guns, the video surveillance, the wire taps…..there is evidence, you can argue his level of involvement but his crew was involved in criminal acts…..you CANNOT be naive enough to be
believ that the government went so out of their way to make all of this up and set up Little Bobby with all these guns and fake evidence…..are you really that gullible??? That they didnt like his song so they decided to lock him up on all these ‘false’ charges? Which brings me to your 3rd point……
3) are you serious???? Theres evidence linking his boys to a murder…..dudes wearin the same clothes at a shootout as at a show later on…..youre willing to overlook that???? The cops followed the clues that these morons left behind…..not to mention that bobby’s only hit single basically snitched on his entire crew…..this a group of kids who made it really easy for the system to make them into a stereo type and thats whats dissappinting….just as dissapointing as it is to see some wannabe internet thugs try to tie this in with the real fight for justice and peace
I respect both of your takes on it, being that you’re both at least thoughtful and educated. I agree with the original post though. Listen, there are plenty of cases where a minority is unfairly targeted by police. I’m not ‘gangster’, I’m just a regular dude and I been roughed up and arrested for nothing before, so I know first hand that exists. But son, this is not some local cop in a bad mood, this is a broad investigation, that takes a lot of money and manpower. I’m not saying they would never try to set up a famous rapper and catch a big fish to make an example of, but Bobby Schmurda is not that dude. Fam, his name is BOBBY SCHMURDA. If my name is ROBBIE WRAYPIST and I rap about raping women and then I get investigated for rape, who’s fault is that? How can you defend someone like this, when dudes like him make it so much harder for good black kids to succeed? Just because you look at the government and the police as an enemy doesn’t mean that everyone the government or police go after is your ally. We need people on the side of the regular good people. Fuck the police department, fuck Bobby Schmurda and his crew or Scmurdarers, they are both the enemy of the good people. They both make the neighborhood less comfortable for the people actually working hard and carrying their weight in society. Watch his video, listen to his lyrics, it is nothing more than shallow glorification of the same negative heartless lifestyle that is being soaked desperately by kids in the hood that need more than ever for their brothers to LEAD them and not deter them even further. I also hope people don’t tie this to the injustices we’ve seen recently. You can’t stick up for the ones don’t deserve it because then it weakens the credibility of the protests for the ones who deserve it and need it. This kid has been whistling past the graveyard since he came out, every lyric he has is either about selling crack or killing someone. To defend that is as blind as the people defending the cop who strangled Eric Garner to death. If you were the father or brother of someone he or his crew schmurdered, then you would say this was justice. But this adoration of a cold blooded gangster lifestyle that is being fed to the young generation in the hood IS murder, it’s a genocide that some people seem to be defending and agreeing with. There are so many people to feel bad for on this planet, and you’re pitying a 20 year old kid with a million dollar record deal who STILL decided he wanted to surround himself with guns and crack? If you hang out with gangsters you’re eventually gonna get caught up in some gangster shit. Peace.
ignorance should be nipped at the bud
Just Like I Said In My Comments In The Editorial…
“Conspiracy” charges?! Really?!
For y’all never been arrested keep the door closed to your bedroom for privacy never been through anything remotely bias towards you ass muhafuckas, conspiracy is one of the most generic haul a person in lock up charges that prosecutors can dream of…
But I understand. People jealous of the opportunity he attracted. That’s right, He attracted the opportunity.
So they wanna see he fail without seeing themselves in him.
And because that is the psychology, that’s why we are losing.
Fuck if he guilty or not, WHY WERE THEY INVESTIGATING HIM? No good reason what so ever.
First of all, no one read your editorial so by referencing it you’re a dumbass already. Conspiracy may be a BS charge but in this case it’s not the only one so what’s your point? And lastly, they investigated him because he publicly spoke on crimes his boys committed and they had artillery of weapons on them for some reason. I’m sure they were delivering those to the poor right? You know, the guns on wheels program? Damn man, how stupid are you?
Co-sign the second comment. Dumb asses get up on here screaming about that ash-looking fag as if he were the second coming of Malcolm X or somebody. These gender confused fucks need to stop defending people like Girly Schmurda or whatever the fuck his name is (well, I guess birds of a feather doflock together). It is 2014 almost 2015, our community and culture do not need these parasites.
Fuck I wish I was black sometimes. I could do whatever I wanted, break all the laws in the world and just blame it on the government or the white man hating on me.
failed my math class last week. i didnt study but i only failed because that fucking teacher hates me.
Fucking wish I was white sometimes. I could do whatever I wanted. Break every law on the planet an get the support of my fellow white-man because I would always be right.
I fuckin’ WISH I lived in America in the year 2014. Yo, I’d have as much clean running water as I could handle. I got turn these little knobs and make them hot or cold. I heard they got these things that you piss and shit in all you want, and it just makes it disappear for you, that shit is ill. You can go to these places called stores, and just pick any kind of fruit, vegetable, or beast you want to eat, and you just walk out with that shit son. I heard you only have to work for like 40 hours a week, and you can live in your own PERSONAL palace, that has ALL that shit. Yo, the food you don’t want, you can put that shit in a electric ice box, and it preserves it FOR you, then you put it in this electric over and it cooks it for you in like 2 minutes. Yo, you can have sex with as many women as you want, and as long as you put latex over your cock you will never get any of them pregnant. You can say whatever the fuck you want about anything and nobody will burn you to death. That shit sounds fun as a mothafucka son!
sounds like he hired Max B’s lawyer LOL
pretty much. too bad son just jumped out there tho. his song is still dope tho.
dude you just had one of the 10 hottest rap songs of the year take your cash and get out of the hood dammit. You’re a horrible rapper but make even worse decisions. Don’t put yourself in the situations with those people and they wouldn’t be able to target you as much.
Shmurda going to jail for murda, sounds about right for a dummy. C-murda is in jail for committing d-murda. Ok, now this all makes sense.
who cares boring……..
Now he from the BX but he really soft
And he from BK but his guns don’t go off
He from cop killer Queens but he still getting robbed
And he from money making but he ain’t on his job
Now he from LA but he’s scared to bang
And he from Texas but he will do the damn thing
He’d stay in VA but he is scared of the streets
And he’s from Chi-a but he’s sweet as a peach
I can tell you ’bout the dope fiends and all of that
But I let them tell it ’cause they sell their moms crack
And that ain’t gangsta that is wanksta
Went to jail and the homo shanked ya
Don’t get caught between my city and the moon
You’ll be screaming at night, you loose your life at me to doom
I really hung with BIG, squared off with Pac
Shook hands in the House of Blues before the shit popped
First fought niggaz in the industry and kept it cool
You ain’t see me running my mouth in no interviews
And you fools on them DVD’s waving tools
No that ain’t something that a gangsta do. KM
Fist-fought (pasting et al…is a motherfucker on this weak ass site)
wtf does this gotta do with this crack dealing shmurderer
Yeah, doesn’t matter what he did, the important thing is that we play the race card as quick as possible.
Here’s something to think about: if your lawyer is giving an interview in XXL and using the word “bullshit,” you’re going to use your fucking case.
Shmurda was the case dat dey gave me
No you f*ckin’ WACK ATTORNEY “The Government Hates cRAP!” We The People are BOYCOTTING this meek, fake C.O., phony rolex, nursey rhymin’, ‘Don’t Care Bout Nuthin’ CoCo EXCUSE for REAL MUSIC! Only reason You’re defendended tha twit that Shmurdered Rap is that you’re GETTIN’ PAID! He DESERVES Life for ‘impersonating talent’ with his fairy dance & ‘not sayin’ nuthin’ garbage! YOU attorneys are the WORST!
haha I like you dude
Now we got Jimmy fucking Henchman, convicted drug trafficker and murderer making statements from his prison cell about how the this arrest is an attack on rap culture. Never mind the crack dealing and killing GS9 was involved with for years….
you a fed? how you know gs9 was involved wit killings?
ummmm, maybe the shmurda charges against them and the 63 page indictment that says so. innocent until provent guilty tho.
Guess New York is back to being irrelevant.