DJ Akademiks Would Snitch On Lil Baby If He Was Ever Hit With RICO Charges
Written by djfrosty on October 19, 2022
DJ Akademiks has threatened to take his ongoing feud with Lil Baby to the courtroom, should the rapper end up in legal trouble with authorities in Atlanta.
While streaming to his Twitch channel on Friday (October 14), Akademiks said that he would not only be willing to testify against Baby in court if the rapper wound up indicted, but that he would show up with evidence.
“Real talk, I’m showing up to the court with a Walkman,” he says in a clip from his Twitch stream. “That n-gga said ‘Akademik could get touched,’ I’m in fear for my life. Judge, you know what to do. Bond denied.”
The controversial social media personality then played a soundbite in which Lil Baby is seemingly being asked about his issues with Akademiks. At that point, the conversation shifted from Ak’s willingness to testify, to his potentially alerting authorities to the threats he believes are being made against him.
“You’re scared of Fani Willis,” he said, referring to the Fulton County District Attorney behind YFN Lucci‘s arrest and the YSL Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organization (RICO) indictment under which Young Thug and Gunna are being held. “Don’t make me Charleston White you n-ggas. Fani this is enough to get a warrant. Grab them computers and them iPhones he got.”
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The comments come just days after Akademiks alerted fans to the fact that he was mentioned on two songs on Lil Baby’s latest album, It’s Only Me, which was released Friday (October 14). The lines Ak referred to in this latest Twitch stream were taken from the track “Top Priority,” which includes the line” “Akademik’s n-ggas think they can’t get touch.”
The idea that the Fulton County DA’s office might have its sights on Baby and his 4PF crew started circulating in July. At the time Willis, who was less than two months removed from the sweeping 88-count indictment that led to Thug and Gunna’s arrest, revealed that two more high-profile RICO arrests would be made in the “next 60 days”.
At the time, Akademiks added fuel to the fire by suggesting Baby was in Willis’ crosshairs in a recent livestream, a claim he later admitted was simply speculative.
As promised, Willis did hand down another large indictment just a month later, bringing charges against 26 suspected members of Drug Rich Gang. According to the 220-count indictment, the gang targeted celebrities such as Mariah Carey, Atlanta Falcons star Calvin Ridley and Future’s baby mother, Brittni Mealy. They allegedly monitored their victims’ social media accounts to scope out items and plan heists.
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Investigators used rap lyrics, music videos and social media posts to build the RICO case and tie the alleged gang members to the indictment.
“I think if you decide to admit your crimes over a beat, I’m gonna use it,” she said. “You do not get to commit crimes in my county and then decide to brag on it, which you do that for a form of intimidation and to further the gang, and not be held responsible.
She added: “I’m going to continue to do that, people can continue to be angry about it. I have some legal advice: don’t confess to crimes on rap lyrics if you do not want them used — or at least get out of my county.”