Memphis police have yet to identify Dolph’s suspected killers. A Gotti associate was even cuffed in connection to Dolph’s 2017 shooting in Hollywood, but was ultimately let go due to a lack of evidence. In the years since, the pair have exchanged barbs on social media, in song lyrics, and in interviews. However, the Memphis Police Department has since refuted those claims, telling local press on Wednesday that Gotti’s restaurant and Blac Youngsta’s grandmother were safe at the moment.Īs fans know, the beef between Dolph and Gotti goes back to 2014, when Dolph allegedly rejected Gotti’s record deal offer. “Blac Youngsta grandma house just got shot up, They just shot Yo Gotti mama restaurant Privé up, Students at a school just got shot.” Rumors that Prive was shot at following Dolph’s shooting, as well as reports of a shooting at Blac Youngsta’s grandmother’s house, also started to circulate on Twitter at the time. The charges against Blac Youngsta were dropped in May of 2019 because there was no scientific evidence linking him to the shooting.Related: Video Shows LA Model & Friend At Party Before She Was Allegedly ‘Drugged’ & Sexually Abused In October of 2018, an executive with CMG named Howard “Keon” Wright was sentenced to 10 to 14 years in prison after he admitted to shooting at Young Dolph during CIAA weekend. Young Dolph was critically wounded, but he eventually recovered. An arrest was never made in the shooting. However, McClendon was released the next day without being charged. In September of 2017, a gunman opened fire on Young Dolph outside the Loew’s Hotel near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue.Ī 43-year-old suspect named Corey McClendon was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and was held on $1 million bail. Yo Gotti’s artist, Blac Youngsta, and two other men were arrested and charged with six felony counts of discharging a weapon into occupied property and one count of conspiracy. Young Dolph addressed the shooting in his second studio album, which was titled Bulletproof. Over 100 shots were fired at the rapper, but he escaped injury because he was in a bulletproof SUV. Not long after the release of the diss track, in February of 2017, men associated with Yo Gotti opened fire on Young Dolph and Charlotte, North Carolina, during CIAA weekend. After several subliminal disses back and forth, Young Dolph dissed Yo Gotti on the song “Play Wit Yo B#.”

Unfortunately, violence played Young Dolph throughout his career, primarily due to a feud with fellow Memphis rapper Yo Gotti.Īccording to Dolph, the root of their dispute was Young Dolph’s refusal to sign with Yo Gotti’s CMG Records. He was the CEO of his record label, Paper Route Empire, which included artists like Key Glock, Jay Fizzle, Big Moochie Grape, Kenny Muney, SnupenBandz, PaperRouteWoo, and Joddy Badass.

Young Dolph was also a shrewd businessman. Young Dolph jumped into the music business with his 2008 mixtape Paper Route Campaign.Īs a solo artist, he dropped 19 critically acclaimed mixtapes. Dolph also dropped seven studio albums, including his most recent release Dumb and Dumber 2 with Key Glock. Today, hundreds of people gathered at Makeda’s Butter Cookies to witness the tragic scene. So far, the police have yet to identify suspects in the shooting as of press time.

Police are still attempting to figure out a motive for the deadly encounter. He was inside of the bakery buying cookies when an unknown gunman drove up and shot the rap star, killing him instantly. The rapper pulled up to Makeda’s Butter Cookies in his Lamborghini with an unidentified associate. Rap star Young Dolph was killed today (November 17th) in Memphis, Tennessee.

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