OMB Peezy was reportedly targeted at a shooting that went down outside of a club in North Carolina over the weekend.
According to a report from CBS 17, the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning (April 13) outside the StarBar in east Raleigh. Witnesses say that when the club let out, over 20 shots were fired at Peezy’s sprinter van as he attempted to leave the parking lot.
“I would say about 4am is when we heard shots fired outside the club and everybody pretty much ran outside,” one witness said. “We couldn’t really tell where the shots were coming from.”
In addition to the rapper’s sprinter van, four other cars were hit with gunfire – and additional cars were damaged when Peezy’s driver sped off and hit them. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.
Police are investigating the shooting as an aggravated assault.
Back in 2021, police showed up at OMB Peezy’s door and told him he was under arrest for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
Peezy, who’d just gotten off a seven-year probation stint, says he didn’t understand why cops were outside.
“I was just trying to figure out what the fuck was going on, why the police at my door for,” Peezy told HipHopDX. “Because if I done did anything, I would have been gone. If I was guilty of anything, you wouldn’t have caught me at my muthafuckin’ house, straight the fuck up.”
Despite Peezy’s protests, Atlanta police and U.S. Marshals took the Alabama rapper to the Fulton County Jail with bond set at $60,000. As Peezy was led away in handcuffs, he remembers saying one sentence over and over again: “Y’all got the wrong one, baby.”
Peezy’s arrest came off the heels of an incident on February 21 in a scrapyard at 598 Wells Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Roddy Ricch and 42 Dugg were shooting a music video for their new single “4 Da Gang” when gunshots broke out, leaving three men injured. Ricch and Dugg were not harmed.
Despite fans speculating about if Peezy had beef with Ricch or Dugg, he said people were jumping to conclusions without facts.
“I don’t have no smoke with Roddy Ricch,” he told DX. “I don’t have no smoke with 42 Dugg. Nobody from CMG [Collective Music Group], no none of that. They love me over there in Roddy Ricch hood; I love them back too.”
“But you know, the internet will try to run with it and try to make their own story and shit. But I don’t have no problem with them people and they don’t have no problem with me. Like real talk, it really isn’t no beef; never was no beef.”
He was acquitted on the charges just over a year later.
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A$AP Rocky has revealed that it took years of persistence before Tim Burton agreed to create the cover artwork for his upcoming album, Don’t Be Dumb. The rapper reflected on how the unlikely collaboration finally came together during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday.
Going into detail about the process, Rocky confessed that he “basically had to stalk and harass him for a few years” before things clicked. He explained, “I reached out and told him I would love to hang out, play him some vibes and just connect. I ended up going to Malibu while he was on a break, and he was feeling it. I played him an early version of the album and he really liked it. That’s when I asked, ‘Do you think you might want to do the illustration for this?’ He was open to it, but then suddenly he had Wednesday and Beetlejuice 2 going on. I realized this was going to take a lot longer than I thought.”
A$AP Rocky went on to describe a moment that really stuck with him during that visit. “While I was there, I noticed a sketch sitting on the table and asked if he drew it,” he said. “He told me that every morning he and his daughter work on drawings together. He starts one, then she comes in and finishes it or changes it. It’s something they practice daily. I saw it as their bond, and to me, that felt priceless.”
On Tuesday, A$AP Rocky also released a double music video for his tracks “WHISKEY” and “BLACK DEMARCO.” Tim Burton appears in the visual and contributed multiple illustrations that tie into the project.
Alongside the release of the “WHISKEY” and “BLACK DEMARCO” video, Rocky officially unveiled the Don’t Be Dumb World Tour. The run will include 42 dates across North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom, with shows scheduled throughout 2026.
