Snootie Wild, the Memphis rapper who on Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group label scored several hits, including “Made Me” with K Camp and “Yayo” with Gotti, died on Saturday (February 26), one day after he was shot in the neck and left to die in a ditch.
According to ABC13, police arrived at the scene around 2 a.m. local time on Friday (February 25) and discovered Snootie fighting for his life after suffering a gunshot wound. He received CPR at the scene and was transported to a nearby hospital, where doctors gave him a 50/50 chance to live.
In a post shared to his official Instagram account, the rapper can be seen with his hands clasped together, his neck tattoo visible and the Team Yayo emblem proudly behind him.
“Gone in body, but your NAME & LEGACY will live forever!” the caption read. “#TeamYayo4Life.”
Numerous rappers from Memphis and Hip Hop had prayed for Snootie’s well-being and hoped he pulled through. DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia wrote a message for the rapper on Instagram, recalling their time crafting music together and their solid relationship.
“Dammm bro!!!! Pray for the M-Town brother @snootiewild Shot & In Critical,” he wrote. Mannn Snootie My Nikka, We Made Some Bump Together & He Always Kept It Real With Me… Even When He Wasn’t Suppose 2. #PrayforSnootieWild #memphis Legend.”
DJ Paul Supports Yo Gotti Artist Snootie Wild After He's Shot In The Neck + Found In A Ditch
Snootie’s death is the latest blow to a Memphis Hip Hop scene still reeling from the murder of Young Dolph last November.
Violence has plagued Houston throughout 2022. According to a report from KPRC2 earlier this month, the city was second in the nation in homicides with 57. The 57 deaths were up 54 percent from the same period in 2021 and only trail Chicago’s 61 for most in the country.
HipHopDX sends our condolences to Snootie Wild’s family, fans and friends during this difficult time.
Another senseless killing. Rip
Rest Up Legend !!!! watch somebody say something stupid about this it never fails
Legend? LOL
Man, rappers dropping like flies. Hating ass n***** are killing people quick like COVID. Sad that it had to happen like that, RIP to Snootie Wild. Messed up that they left him dying in a ditch like that tho. That’s pretty dirty.
RIP Snootie Wild. We gotta stop killing our own people now, c’mon.
Yes. Focus on killing other people and filling the prison systems. Blame others for it happening. You’re on the right track here genius. You should run for office.
How bout someone comes to your house and blasts you. Then would you feel empathy or sympathy? No cuz you’d be another dead idiot, now STFU.
He said stop killing your own kind. Implying it’s OK to kill other “kind.” Dumbass. Hence the response.
Y’all ain’t seen nothing yet. Many of your favorite rappers are going to die very soon.
And many non-rappers who talk trash like you fall into that category too.
I hope so. I want as many of them as dead as possible.
Same for you and your family
I’m asian, don’t be racist now.
No you’re not, stop lying. If you are. What ethnicity are you? What’s your second language? What country are you or your family originally from? If you can’t answer those questions truthfully then I don’t want to hear anything else from you.
That’s what we say about your little shit-smelling opioid junkie children. The more of your kids don’t grow, the better.
No telling what he did or didn’t do to cause that to happen. Once I hear the backdrop full scoop, I feel less sorry for rappers. Stop playing gangsta or you get gangsta results. Death and Jail. Not a rap career. Just because you have one or two that slide through cracks. Ask them how many people were sacrificed to build their rep…including the ones they lost. The aftermath is not good.
Young Dolph’s people hit him up. i mean he was Yo Gotti’s boy after all.
“oh laaaaaaaaaaaaawd nooooooooooo not snootie wild he a gud boi he din du nufin!!! we all know the killers were wyte supremayciss wit dem maga hats oh yessuh dey wuz i mean they musta been oh laaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd”
Shut up, we already know that you’re a racist white troll.
We all know? LOL. You had to make that post. SMH
“Why are we such little opioid-addicted cock-sucking pale-faced inbreeds who can’t keep our hands out of our own children’s pants while they sleep? Muuh! it must somehow be someone elses fault! Waaah Blacks!…waaaah immigrants!….waaaah democrats!…why are we such little whiny pink pussie who can’t handle life?… waaaah!
“We talk all that tough, patriotic bullshit when we’re bombing brown countries who we know can’t defend themselves…but when russia steps up, all the hillbilly tough-talk goes mute and we turn into little jelly-spined, coward, traitor little pussies who, all of a sudden’ ‘don’t want war'” lol
“why do we suck russian cock so much? Is it because putin’s our little midget white supremacist hero? And we’d be willing sell out our own stolen nation to please him, like the little coward, shit-smelling inbreeds us little pink euromericans were born to be?”
WTF is wrong with Houston?! Them fools just shooting at folks when they run off from the robbery. No sense in giving up the goods either because they’ll most likely still dump on you. It’s about to be a warzone in that town in a minute. We went from praying for y’all during the snow storm and all the hurricanes. But them prayers will be for your downfall next if you don’t clean up
I don’t think it’s really about Houston and more that he is from Memphis signed to CMG.
You don’t kill somebody in your back yard if you don’t have to.
Kill them in another city.
Snootie Wild? There is the distinct possibility he was murdered for being named Snootie Wild.
It’s actually Snootie Wild Jr. His dad was the original Snootie Wild.
Fun faxx *Snootie Wild is a more common name than Jim Smith in Houston.