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.
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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.”
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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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