Early this 12 months, rapper and recording govt Gucci Mane was reportedly held at gunpoint and robbed at a music studio in Dallas, Texas. Now, a motive for the crime (and the alleged culprits) have been revealed: A rapper signed to Gucci Mane’s label needed out of his contract.
Rapper Pooh Shiesty, whose actual identify is Lontrell Williams Jr., has been signed to Gucci Mane’s document label 1017 Data since 2020. In line with a criminal affidavit written by FBI agent Brittany Garcia, Williams was sad along with his document deal and invited Gucci Mane, authorized identify Radric Davis, to a gathering to debate the phrases of his contract.
The not-so-perfect crime
In line with the affidavit, Williams arrived on the assembly location, a recording studio in Dallas, with eight accomplices, together with his father Lontrell Williams Sr. and fellow rapper Rodney Wright Jr., aka Big30. There, he offered Davis with paperwork that might launch him from his contract. When Davis refused to signal it, Williams produced “a black AK-style pistol” from his bag and pointed it at Davis, demanding that he signal the discharge paperwork. Davis did so, whereas Wright filmed him with a cellphone.
As soon as the paperwork was signed, Williams took Davis’ wedding ceremony ring, watch, earrings, and money. Two of Davis’ associates had been reportedly additionally held at gunpoint and robbed by Williams’ accomplices, with one particular person, recognized within the affidavit as “M.M.”, being “choked from behind to the purpose of practically dropping consciousness.”
The affidavit claims Wright then blocked the door to the studio foyer, stopping Davis and the opposite victims from leaving. They had been then pressured to go away the constructing by way of a facet entrance and escorted to their car.
Williams and the eight different suspects are actually going through federal fees in relation to kidnapping and theft at gunpoint. They face life in jail if convicted.
The longer term for Pooh Shiesty’s contract with Gucci Mane’s label
Williams’ scheme to get out of his recording contract apparently didn’t go in keeping with plan, with the victims’ reviews, safety digital camera footage, and the truth that he was sporting an ankle monitor through the crime resulting in his arrest. However whether or not or not Williams lands in jail, what’s going to occur to his recording contract?
Below contract regulation, paperwork signed underneath duress, together with underneath risk of violence, are usually rendered invalid. Meaning the paperwork Williams pressured Davis to signal possible wouldn’t maintain as much as authorized scrutiny, holding Williams signed to 1017 Data in the intervening time.
Whether or not Davis would nonetheless need Williams working underneath his label is one other story. Loads of artists have discovered success throughout and after incarceration, with Davis himself having served time in jail from 2014 to 2016 after being charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Different rappers have seen huge business success after going through authorized bother, like A$AP Rocky: Don’t Be Dumb, his first album since being convicted of assault in Sweden and going through trial on potential assault fees in Los Angeles, topped the Billboard 200 chart and noticed the most important streaming debut of 2026 to date, with 35.4 million first-day streams on Spotify.
In Williams’ case, whether or not the elevated media consideration from his kidnapping and theft fees might drive listeners to stream his music stays to be seen. On condition that Williams continues to be underneath Davis’ label, any additional earnings will go, partially, to him.
As one social media user put it, Williams might have been higher off recruiting an leisure lawyer to assist get out of his document deal, however as an alternative, he’s studying the exhausting manner that contract regulation and threats of violence at gunpoint usually don’t combine.
