EPISODE · Jan 29, 2025 · 11 MIN
Young Dolph's Ki77er Arrested in Indiana | Straight Drop American Dope
from Al Profit Podcast · host Al Profit
So, Straight Drop might have trolled law enforcement by claiming he was going to turn himself in yesterday… and instead….dropping a music video that’s already pushing 300k views- which would actually be good numbers for even a major artist to hit in a single day..but the U.S. Marshalls took him into custody today in Indiana, along with the guy authorities feel is the 2nd shooter, a man named Cornelius Smith. Smith is much older- 32, and he was indicted on several charges including first-degree murder, Cornelius was also charged with attempted murder involving Young Dolph’s brother who was with him at the time of the shooting. What a confusing case- I didn’t even know Dolph’s brother got shot at the scene. Now, the internet is already full of theories and rumors, I’ll go easy on that, because just laying out the facts of the situation is disturbing enough. Let’s start with Straight Drop himself, and then review the 3 times when CMG affiliates have been either convicted or accused of going after Young Dolph. Which does not, of course, mean they had anything to do with his death. After all, Straight Drop was buddies with Paper Route Empire’s #2 artist- Key Glock. Which, if Drop is one of the shooters, would make it more of an inside job than a CMG hit.According to Shelby County court records, Johnson pleaded guilty to shooting three people at a bowling alley in 2017 when he was 18.Shelby County Judge Christopher Craft presided over that case. Craft said he remembered the court case well. "He had no record. He got in a fight with some people at a bowling alley, and they were all mad at each other. He went out to his car and got a gun and came back in and started shooting. He fired a bunch of shots and a man was hit in the arm and a lady was hit in the leg and another person was grazed," said Craft. This video was posted on Straight Drop’s Instagram… but what was the goal? Who posted it? It sure makes him sound like someone who did some serious telling. The description of the crime the judge gave sounds like a 20 year sentence- life in some places. He didn’t shoot 3 people in the “heat of the moment” - he went to his car, got the heater, and came back. In the State of Michigan, for example, the act of leaving the scene, even for a matter of seconds, and coming back- makes it first degree murder. Obviously, the victims in his case didn’t die… but Straight Drop took a 5 year prison term and, and after serving a mere 6 months for shooting 3 people that he had an argument with in a public place, he was let out of prison!! Exclamation point, all caps. And then you have this old white man judge in Memphis saying he had “such good behavior” they let him out with almost no punishment. Now, this definitely sounds like he could of cooperated… or it could just go back to the old practice in the Jim Crow Era south where if you only hurt other black people and didn’t raise a fuss for the Law-- you could get away with almost anything. After all, the white bosses needed you to come to work and not be in jail. Some social historians think this practice was the key factor in elevated levels of violence within the black population.. I’ll just leave you with the Judge’s final statement and move on. Quote “The first time he used a gun, we gave him some slack because of him immediately cooperating and doing everything," Ok, now as the drama with Dolph’s shooters being wanted was dominating the news…an actual CMG Records executive was being sentenced for possibly trying to kill Dolph several years back.
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