Young Dolph was reportedly shot and killed in Memphis on Wednesday (November 17). According to a tweet from the Memphis Police Department, officers are on the scene of a shooting where one male victim was pronounced dead.
The victim was later identified as 36-year-old Young Dolph by eyewitnesses who were apparently in the area when the shooting took place.
“Bro they killed Young Dolph,” a man is heard in a video of the scene. “Bruh they done killed Young Dolph. What the fuck?”
FOX13 reporter Jeremy Pierre shared additional photos of the chaotic scene and was able to later confirm Young Dolph’s identity as well.
“On the scene of a shooting on Airways,” he tweeted. “I’m hearing Memphis rapper may be a victim in the shooting. “Shooting happened at Makeda’s Cookies.”
The owner of Makeda’s Cookies, Maurice Hill, said his employees told him Young Dolph walked into the store to buy cookies Wednesday afternoon. Someone pulled up in a vehicle and opened fire, killing him.
Young Dolph has been targeted by gun violence numerous times in the past. In 2017, he was shot and left in a critical but stable condition after an argument in Hollywood. That same year, over 100 shots were fired at Young Dolph‘s SUV in Charlotte, North Carolina where he was due to perform during the CIAA sports tournament.
Young Dolph Makes First Public Statement Since Shooting
“As many as 100 shots were reportedly fired late Saturday in uptown along the 600 block of North Caldwell Street,” the Charlotte Observer reported at the time “Police say the incident was not related to any CIAA sanctioned events, and there have been no reports of injuries.”
HipHopDX sends our condolences to Young Dolph’s family and loved ones. This is a developing story.
Yo Gotti finally got what he wanted. Rip Dolph
All that marching for justice and equality meant nothing. I don’t want to hear Black Lives Matter no more, black folks don’t mean it when they say it when I see stuff like this. He should have moved. That’s why no rappers today live in their hometown, nothing but jealousy. Why do you think Durk, Boosie, Ross, and Gucci Mane all live somewhere else?
I think this is the wrong take away. Every race kills mostly people of their own race out of proximity. The problem of community violence doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be speaking on police violence. I wish there was more unity amongst black folk too, but that doesn’t mean police violence isn’t still a crime.
You’re missing the point of BLM movement. It’s not a shock if a criminal kills someone, as they are a criminal. When a cop who’s paid to be the antithesis to a criminal kills someone for no reason, it’s just a tad different.
Dolph lived in the A buddy. Have you ever wanted to go home but was told you could not. We all get home sick if you live elsewhere but every time you go especially if your doing well the HATERS are going to come for you. It’s hard to say never go back but that what we do. We take that risk. We want to be known for being able to go back to the hood.
Damn. These damn white racists back at it…..
RIP
BLM
Damn. Never ending cycle. Good and a lot of bad in the music but duke had kids. This shit gotta stop mayne. RIP, Adolph Thornton
WHERE’S MY BLACK LICE MATTERS FOLKS?!!? We gotta organize a burn loot murder event to protest these racist white police shooting innocent he didnt do nothing Dolph was a good boy!!!!!
Fuck off bro
Where your spell check
You mothers a good boy too.
I’m just mad that my German shepherd is pregnant and I have to pay child support now. Should’ve stuck with just screwing my cousin in the woods while covered in a DJT flag like all us southern conservative do.
Pray to me…I hear it. I hear it from you. You’re bounty will come for your loyalty. Now pray…Death is God. I hear you my child…I hear you. Pray and suffer. Suffering is Joy. Patience child…patience.
Straight to trolling… yall white folk need to stop. Don’t know shit about black people but wanna comment on all of it. That’s what bitches do at a salon. RIP Dolph, all this shit need to stop.
Black people dont know anything about systemic waycism and like to commit burn loot murder and eat Bacon Lettuce Mayo sandwiches. Keep whining about your 400 years of bakery fairy tales!!
Fuck off bro
Calm that trolling shit down bitch you ain’t from my city take that shit out yo name. Mfs had a five hundred year start and on the internet trolling shit. Fuck yo family
Meant to goofball Derek my bad cuz.
do your history good than you will find out allot of Black people you know that white people are a fault of black people? Facts do your history
Don’t blame all white people for the actions of the same racist troll that’s been on this site for years doing the same shit. Please just ignore this fool as he craves promoting hatred and creating division.
I’m more confused about naming yourself “young” when your career didn’t start until you were in your 30’s.
Quit acting like a pussy
Just because you weren’t aware of him until his 30s doesn’t mean he wasn’t already on in his 20s. He has been out since 2010, look up Welcome To Dolph World. He was around 25/26. His earliest song that was hot in the streets and stripclubs was with Tity Boy (before he changed his name to 2 Chainz) called I’m Blessed. 2 Chainz confirmed that Dolph paid him $250,000 in cash for the feature.
Your more confused about your bitch ass life
Riding around in a flashy car everyone knows is yours in a city where people want you dead was not smart.
First thing i was thinking cuz.
Ridin that camo shit for years..
It’s not shocking anymore. Next week another rapper will probably be killed
Snickerdoodle, chocolate chippin,
Hit his noodle, caught him slippin
And you wonder why other races don’t want to live anywhere near you people.
Nah they want to live next to Irish and Italian mobs that give each other backrubs and flowers daily
Ay what do Italians have anything to do with this. I’m Italian and am deeply saddened by young Dolphs murder. I hope for quick Justice and my prayers are with his friends and family.
Stick all your bs comments where the sun don’t shine.
Dolph was a legend in the trap scene and one of the realest in the game.
Hating MFS killed a great , he was a father of 2
RIP DOLPH
Thoughts and prayers with this mans family.
Yeah he was i was blessed with meeting him and his cousin key glock in west memephis Ark Long Live Young Dolph (P.R.E ) ?
Yea bro frfr Dolph was that Dude ik Key Glock hurting???LL DOLPH
he’s not real i seen the read lazor in his eyes
Please ignore the racist troll, don’t give him the satisfaction of replying to him, that’s what he wants
Facts.
he’s not real and he owns me his entire network
this guy’s main claim to fame his involvment in street business since that’s what his entire career was based on- if he’s shot at people and killed people even if they were “opps” then this would be the end result whether or not he released records or had kids depending on him
net worth *
3 million
This shit never ends man. RIP Dolph
Memphis is a shit hole. Everybody knows that. You can’t eat where you shit. R.I.P to Dolph. Dump ass city with a bunch of broke ass n!ggas
some one put in your mind that you can preach negativity and get positive results who? I’m willing to bet out side of Dolph’s block 99% of his listeners were white kids who would rather believe this is how all black folks live. I don’t know any black folks who listen to music like this
I would drive around my city thru every hood bumping south memphis you the white kids your trying to bash in your comment but whatever helps you sleep at night
good for you – if you’re bumping ‘south memphis’ every night driving thru “every hood” you won’t be cruising long truss
Hate to say it, but all of this is true, and I love Memphis. However, it’s the epitome of fuck shit.
Are yts gonna hold an All Lies Matter protest next time there’s a massacre at a school, movie theater or church? No? Then fuck off.
Damn not dolph anybody with guns are cowards
Ohhh my God
R.I.P. Young Dolph .I loved your song “Preach”.Praying for your family ,kids ,and loved 1s.Praying for justice for your murder too .
so walks out of a bakery with some cookies with his assailants watching him then boom boom he’s dead when he leaves. someone out there thought he would be good cannon fodder. i don’t know what has happened i just know he had cookies and he got shot up for one reason or another. r.i.p…………………………………………………………………………………………………
He didn’t “walk out of a bakery”. He walked IN and never walked out. They shot at him through the glass doors and windows. One guy had a Draco. Pictures surfaced on social media. He went in the store, two guys (apparently) then started shooting. I live in Memphis. I even drove up to the scene of the crime.
I wonder if he got one last bite in?
This is sad….RIP
Damn I’m a white dude from Seattle and I gotta say Dolph’s music has changed my life. I heard him when he first came out and his music has always inspired me to get to a better spot in life. Like Glock said my family hustlers and some dope fiends. Dude inspired me to be something bigger than where Im from and what I experienced. He said you gotta say fuck what everybody else is saying/thinking and work on your own shit. RIP bro shedding tears for you
Damn I’m a white dude from Seattle and I gotta say Dolph’s music has changed my life. I heard him when he first came out and his music has always inspired me to get to a better spot in life. Like Glock said my family hustlers and some dope fiends. Dude inspired me to be something bigger than where Im from and what I experienced. He said you gotta say fuck what everybody else is saying/thinking and work on your own shit. RIP bro shedding tears for you
Can y’all at least put the man’s real name somewhere in the article. He was a person, not just a rapper named “young dolph”. R.I.P. Adolph Thornton Jr.
now watch the social media posting an article about him everyday pretending he was a goat and making him a hip hop martyr… when the truth is he was an average rapper like papoose and nipsey. FOH
This time they ain’t miss. In your next life, try sending someone To go get cookies, go fill up your tank whatever…ffs ..you a target. #Notasmartmove #$tillRIP
Barely a year after the twin murder of King Von and Moe3. The killers had it well planned out.
Gotta get that money and run to LA like Chief Keef did.
Definitely not a bad idea. Memphis is a terrible place full of crime. It’s definitely fun if you’re from there and don’t know any better because of all of the fuckness that goes on there, but dude just needed to leave it alone and live his life. I mean at 36, you don’t have any reason reaching back there anymore, period.
Straight up
Damn bra, not Dolph, what the hell happening out here… RIP to the fam
if you have unresolved beefs in the street that involve murders and unpaid drug debts it doesn’t matter how many white people want to call you a rapper on whatever platform they own -BEEF DONT END KEEP IT OUT OF MUSIC
All of you come together and pray to me. My children. I am here. I am the way. Suffering is Joy and Death is God. I hear you all. Pray!
Here’s yet another reason why hip hop needs to be taken in a different direction. It’s like a circle. The negative music is affecting the streets, the streets is influencing the negativity in the message of the music. Let’s break the cycle brothers. Because there are much bigger problems in this world if we can get out of the spiral and look up, weak white men wanting to continue to control the earth.
black people don’t want to hear about no damn “streets” – this is all internet bs white kid streams and straight fraud trying to destroy the culture. black people want to move out the hood to a nice area. only white kids and naive black suburbanites believe in these hood fairy tales. BUT if you gonna talk sht at least make it artistic and musical they fail at that as well.Black folks in rap music need to stop taking the blame for the internet
This is sad no matter what the reasoning was. His family has lost a loved one in a tragic manner. Another example of a talented young man with business intentions but street life mentality. When this happens a person unknowingly becomes a target for enemies known and unknown. Plain and simple, whats seen doesn’t need to be said.
Poor guy was there for a turkey drive as I understand it and they caught him slipping.
Yo go-to and black I hope they didn’t have nothing to do with did cause this bout to spark up a north Memphis vs South Memphis and az lot of bodies in between I plead for anybody in Memphis to stay in the house and stay safe cause I am say this I’m 38 and kids now days don’t care and got reckless so bullets have no eyes or no names just bodies and don’t care so stay safe
So uhh.. when’s the Black Lives Matter protest? *crickets..crickets..*
Talk about desperate.
BLM is a terrorist and racist organization. They only out against white people, not their own.
if he was such a great guy with noble intentions he wouldn’t have made the records he did and said the things he said. helived up to whatever stereotype to become known no matter what he true back story was so he paid the price for that. These guys are selfish bullies who represent the worst of a small part of our community no matter what the internet rap charts say
People fail to realize. Some dudes have past problems with guys from their old neighborhoods and continue to go back to these places where they have beef. He’s a street dude. This does not happen to common or andre 3000. It’s sad, but when i see someone got killed with 2 automatic machine guns…. he pissed someone off. RIP.
when you make it…get the fvck out the hood and stay out!
Blm nowhere to be seen again. It’s sad this keeps happening. Every year a new rapper. Could be another crab in the bucket situation. Success breeds hate in some people.
cuz aint no white people shot him…CHHUUCCHH!!
Blame it on Trump
Rest easy Dolph.