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Young Scooter died Friday night (March 28) on the rapper’s 39th birthday, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and details from Atlanta Police.
Atlanta Police Lt. Andrew Smith led a news conference late Friday night to share details about what reportedly led to the death of Young Scooter (real name: Kenneth Edward Bailey). According to Smith, police responded to a call about a dispute with a weapon at a home and then set up a perimeter outside the house after a man shut the door on officers. Two men fled from the rear of the house, Smith said, with one returning to the home and the other jumping two fences as he was fleeing.
According to the AJC story, Young Scooter was the man who jumped the fences, and Smith said, “When officers located him on the other side of the fence, he appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg.”
Atlanta Police say the man was taken to Grady Marcus Trauma Center and died there.
During the news conference, Smith denied widespread reports spreading on social media that Scooter had been fatally shot by Atlanta PD officers. “Just to be very clear, the injury that was sustained was not via the officers on scene. It was when the male was fleeing.”
Young Scooter’s peers mourned the late rapper on social media, with Playboi Carti sharing the news on Instagram Stories with the caption “SMFH.” Quavo took to X with broken-heart and prayer-hands emojis, writing, “ion understand,” alongside a video of Scooter performing. The late rapper’s Instagram Stories shared dozens of posts wishing him a happy birthday throughout Friday.
While Scooter was born in South Carolina, his family moved to Atlanta when he was just 9 years old, and his music career has been based in the rap mecca ever since. He broke out locally with the song “Colombia” in 2012 before joining forces with hip-hop heavyweights Future, Juicy J and Young Thug for “DI$Function” in 2014. He hit the Billboard charts as a featured artist on Young Thug’s “Guwop,” also featuring Quavo & Offset of Migos, in 2016 (peaking at No. 45 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart) and on Future & Juice WRLD’s “Jet Lag” in 2018 (his only Billboard Hot 100 appearance, peaking at No. 72).
Billboard has reached out to the Atlanta Police and a rep for Young Scooter for further information.
Find Quavo’s X post about Scooter below:
Billboard Women in Music 2025 takes place Saturday, March 29, and Billboard’s staff is breaking down each of the honorees’ successes that earned them their awards, from JENNIE receiving the Global Force Award to Doechii being named Woman of the Year, to Gracie Abrams being honored as Songwriter of the Year, and more! Who are […]
The Breakfast Club co-hosts Jess Hilarious and Loren LoRosa addressed their recent drama in the best way possible — by joking about it. Earlier today, they posted a parody music video of Monica & Brandy‘s hit song “The Boy is Mine” and called it, “The Job is Mine.” And while they can’t sing as good […]
Sauce Walka has said that he doesn’t plan on avenging his artist’s Sayso P’s recent murder in Memphis. The Houston rapper sat down with Wikid Films to talk about the unfortunate situation he found himself in last weekend (Mar. 22), and while he feels like his people have his back, he doesn’t want to retaliate. […]
Rapper Yella Beezy was released on bond Friday morning (March 28). According to The Dallas Morning News, Beezy (born Markies Conway) posted a $750,000 bond to secure his release after being reduced by a judge from $2 million on Thursday. After being indicted by a Dallas County grand jury on March 18, Beezy was arrested […]
DDG is in the midst of his 24/7, weeklong Hit-A-Thon livestream, where he streams the process of creating his new album. We got to sit down in the middle of his stream to talk to him about why he decided to create an album during streaming, his top Billboard-charting songs, his eagerness for Blueface to be released, co-parenting Halo with Halle Bailey and more!
Are you watching DDG’s Hit-A-Thon? Let us know in the comments!
Tetris Kelly:
Yo, Billboard News hanging out with DDG, so bro, I’ve interviewed you like, I think this may be the third time, but nothing like this. So you gotta tell me, when did you decide you were gonna stream for seven days, man?
DDG:
I think I planned this probably, like, three weeks ago.
Oh, dang, not even that long ago.
Yeah, I know.
You said, I want to do this.
Yeah, I just been going every day, so I’m like, 36-37 days in a row.
That is wild, and how did your team feel about it?
Great. This is going amazing, actually. This is going much better than I actually thought. I thought it was gonna be, like, just something cool, but this is, like, my biggest project ever.
And I mean, it’s got to feel good, but at the same time, I know it can’t be just like easy to be 24/7 on the stream. So has it at any point yet, has it felt like this is overwhelming?
Nah, I ain’t gonna lie, it’s cool because, well, I got, like, my family and friends that pull up just to help entertain the audience, so it’s not too many dead moments. And that’s, that’s that’s what a lot of people scared of when they do like, 24/7 streaming, because it can be like moments where it’s like, super dead and you don’t know what to do, and you just don’t know how to entertain them. You run out of things to do. But since I got a lot of people here pulling up every day, it makes it easier for me to, like, you know, jump back and forth. Plus, I got a pool, basketball court and-
Stuff to do.
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Downtown Nashville is no stranger to musically-themed bars, and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg are bringing some hip-hop flair to 2nd Avenue. The Still G.I.N. Lounge is set to open on April 4 in the same four-story building that hosts Nashville Live! and will bring a “smooth sophistication of a top-tier cocktail lounge with the […]
Doechii banks her second No. 1 on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart as “Denial Is a River” storms to the summit of the list dated April 5. The new champ jumps from No. 5 to crown the list as the most-played song on U.S. panel-contributing rhythmic radio stations for the tracking week of March 21-27, according to Luminate, and improved 13% in plays for the latest tracking period compared to the week prior.
Before “Denial is a River,” released and promoted to radio through Top Dawg/Capitol Records/ICLG, Doechii ruled Rhythmic Airplay with “What It Is (Block Boy).” The single, which features Kodak Black, reigned for one week in June 2023.
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As “Denial” takes the throne, it ousts GELO’s “Tweaker” after a one-week stay in the penthouse. The former leader slips to No. 2 following a 7% decline in plays for the tracking week.
Doechii’s latest coronation arrives just one day before the Grammy Award-winning rapper/singer is set to receive another honor: officially accepting the coveted Woman of the Year title at Billboard’s 2025 Women in Music event. The ceremony will occur tomorrow night (March 29) in Los Angeles, with other honorees including Rising Star winner Muni Long and Icon Award recipient Erykah Badu.
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Beyond its Rhythmic Airplay crown, “Denial Is a River” continues to make waves across other radio formats. It repeats its No. 12 best on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, where, despite no change in rank, the song earned 6% more plays in the latest tracking week. Meanwhile, it pushes 26-23 on Pop Airplay thanks to a 4% boost in plays at mainstream top-40 radio stations. The concurrent improvements from different sectors spark its 28-27 gain on the all-genre, audience-based Radio Songs chart, where the single leaps 10% in weekly audience to 24.4 million.
While “Denial is a River” builds its radio results, Doechii’s latest single, “Anxiety,” is generating favorable momentum. The Gotye-sampling single, which had a nearly six-year journey from initial recording to release, drives 33-21 on Rhythmic Airplay in its second week on the chart from a 181% surge in plays, winning it the weekly Greatest Gainer honor for the largest increase in plays among all tracks. Similarly, “Anxiety” races 36-28 on Pop Airplay thanks to a 199% vault in plays (snagging another Greatest Gainer prize) and debuts at No. 32 on Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.
All charts dated April 5 will update on Billboard‘s website this Tuesday, April 1.
Tyler, the Creator and Nardwuar linked up at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, B.C., for their seventh interview in 14 years, and of course, Tyler had some things to say in the chat that dropped Thursday (March 27).
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Nardwuar asked him about how he felt about all the Hip-Hop 50 celebrations, and Tyler expressed gratitude for being able to make a living doing something he loves. “I’m so happy that in some timeline that I get to be apart of something so special,” he said. “Hip-hop has changed so many of our lives, kept so many of us out of trouble. I’m so grateful for it. I’ve had my criticisms of it and all types of s—t, but that’s out of love ’cause man, I love music and hip-hop specifically so much. I’m a true student, I’m a true nerd.”
He continued by bringing up how much the Black Eyed Peas‘ debut album, Behind the Front, and Dr. Dre‘s album 2001 helped shape his ear and inspired him to write his first raps. “I love hip-hop, I love rap. It’s one of the most beautiful things to exist on Earth,” he said before criticizing rappers who get into the game to make a quick buck.
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“We the coolest ever,” he began. “And all these motherf—kers want to copy us and do everything and some n—as be mimicking and mocking it and they just ain’t got the juice, ’cause they don’t really believe it [in their heart]. You can see it, man, some of these folks, man. They be like, ‘I fell in love with hip-hop on this day.’ I don’t know what that is because it’s been around me my whole life. I am rap. I am hip-hop. That’s all I know.”
He added: “Some of these folks, they look at this as a quick money-getting thing. They look at it as a commodity. They look at it just to criticize it, and, like, y’all ain’t grow up the same.”
Tyler has broached this subject before during an interview with Maverick Carter, during which he criticized Ian for biting flows and even rapped, “White boys mocking this s–t and y’all mad at me/ Y’all can suck my d–k” on the Chromakopia track “Thought I Was Dead.” Ian then addressed Tyler’s allegations in a Lyrical Lemonade freestyle earlier this month, rapping, “Back then, I really loved Odd Future/ I ain’t never sat down tryna mock Future/ I ain’t wanna show no disrespect, so I kept my mouth shut and that’s not human.”
Tyler then brought up some of the chatter he noticed online when he dropped his well-received “Hey Now” freestyle in December. “I saw someone say, ‘How Tyler just gonna take Kendrick’s song right after it comes out, and do the same flow over the same beat,’” he recalled. “And I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s somebody else who did not grow up listening to rap or hip-hop.’ ‘Cause if you grew up listening to rap or hip-hop, you know that’s f—king normal … You should have to do a survey and show your ID before you could say s—t on the internet ’cause folks be saying dumb s—t.”
Watch the full interview below.
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