New York Magazine chronicled the rise-and-fall of incarcerated Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda in a new profile piece dubbed “Hot Shmurda.”
Within the article, Shmurda (born Acquille Pollard) confesses his innocence, while his lawyer, Kenneth J. Montgomery, can’t figure out why Epic Records hasn’t come to his client’s defense. Shmurda and his GS9 crew have been behind bars since mid-December when a NYC judge slapped him with a $2 million bail amount.
“It is quite off to me why they aren’t helping him,” Montgomery says to NYMag. “But I guarantee once he’s out, they’ll be all over him, trying to make more money from him.”
The label apparently has given Shmurda the run-around, claiming its parent label Sony Music should be responsible for the tab.
During a video conference interview from behind bars at the Manhattan Detention Complex, Smurda tells the publication,“I’m innocent.”
“I’ll explain it to all of them,” he says. “I’m just a young Black kid coming from a nasty neighborhood. I made it out, and a lot of people don’t want to see that.”
Shmurda still believes things would be different if he didn’t sign the deal with Epic.
“I felt like if I’d have signed with Rick Ross or signed to 50 Cent, they’d have come and got me,” he said. “They’d understand me more.”
So far, Shmurda has revealed that he’s heard from Meek Mill, French Montana and Sup from Slowbucks while he’s been imprisoned. The 20-year-old Brooklyn rapper also says he gets mail with business opportunities offers.
“I get letters in here from people with clothing lines,” he says. “They telling me when I come out they’ve got a bunch of clothes for me. I got a letter from a movie director. He said he wanted to shoot a movie of my life.”
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50 knows what it’s like growing up in the hood doing dirt and Ricky knows what it’s like in the prison system and putting ya hands up young black boys bums
“putting ya hands up young black boys bums”……………….u sound like a british f@g with that “bum” gay fantasy shit. foh queer.
Officer Roberts put his hands up the bums of black, white, brown and yellow men, both young and old. Lets get that straight!
rick ross does understand what the daily inmate life is like.
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HELL YEAH BRUH
It’s NOT a ‘label’s responsibility to BAIL you out & handle your personal F*CKUPS! So now SONY/EPIC has invested all this money, time & talent into your career & you ‘hate’ them because thety didn’t waste another $2,000,000.00 in ‘bailing you out’ so you can go do 25-30 years in Prison?@!#! Nicca please!
But they get the money back
Ross let his biggest artist Meek rot in a cell (like the ones he worked at) for like 6 months over some parole/twitter shit. That wasnt very boss. He did get Gunplay off that case tho and we all saw him on camera with no mask robbin a nigga for a phone and a fake chain.
You don’t get a bail for a violation in PA.
he did all that shit before he signed the deal why should they foot the bill
But they’ll be ready to make money off of all the shit he did before he signed a deal tho
#show the pic to we belive that shit
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