Youngboy Never Broke Again is currently taking a much-deserved break after working to become one of the most consistent rappers in the game. If it felt like he was releasing new music every other week, that’s probably because he literally was. His fans were spoiled and now, he’s laying low and letting all of that material marinate.

It’s no secret that there are people who really do not like the 20-year-old. He’s got a large number of opps who constantly come after him. This week, it appears as though he narrowly missed a fatal encounter with one of them.

In a video shared by DJ Akademiks, the rapper incoherently speaks about an alleged drive-by shooting that he seeming escaped. At least, that’s what people are deciphering from the short clip.

“I could have died from a drive-by yesterday,” says NBA Youngboy in the clip. Although his speech is not entirely clear, that’s what his fans are making out. 

The troubled star has been popping up periodically on one of his motherly figure’s live-streams, previewing new music and speaking about his day-to-day activities, which supposedly include nearly dying in alleged shootings.

Thankfully, NBA Youngboy is safe and sound. He’s one of the most popular rappers in the game and it’s probably not too safe for him in the streets anymore.

This is precisely the reason why people around the world are protesting. Racism must be stopped and the police force needs to be reformed.

A new video has been catching the attention of people on social media who are outraged to even be witnessing such an apparent misuse of power. While the circumstances surrounding the video's origins are unclear, the conclusion is seriously shocking.

The clip shows a group of approximately five or six black teenagers gathered on a street corner before a cop car pulls up on them as they run away. The officers then begin firing rounds of rubber bullets in their direction.

The young kids were not in the middle of a protest -- in fact, many of them are carrying backpacks and skateboards. 

Up-and-coming Brooklyn rapper Kennedy Joseph Noel, known as KJ Balla, was murdered in a drive-by shooting in New York, Friday.

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“He’s never coming home,” Noel’s mother Valencia Smith cried to the New York Daily News. “He was my only son!”

“Jealousy and envy overtook your hearts and took a very important piece of my heart,” she continued. “I’m so heartbroken. It’ll never be the same for me.”

“He used to dance on the trains when he was little,” she added. “Then he started rapping. He was very charismatic. He was really into his rap career, waiting for it to take off.”

Noel was only a mile from his home where he was shot.

“Somebody had called my niece and told her check on KJ, they said he got shot,” his aunt Jacqueline Smith said. “As soon as we heard everybody just ran to the hospital.”

A 26-year-old man was also shot in the back, stomach, and arm. The man survived and checked himself into Brookdale Hospital Medical Center.

Noel co-founded his label Nothing Records.

No arrests have been made in connection to the shooting.

“They’re going to be found out,” Noel’s aunt said about his killer. “Witnesses say they saw someone in a dark hoodie fleeing.”

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