The rapper of Atlanta Young Scooter died on Friday March 28 in his hometown of Georgia, Variety Reports. While a formal cause of death for the musician, who was 39 years old on Friday, was not announced, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Reports that the young scooter died of injuries suffered as he was trying to flee from the police.
At a press conference last night, an Atlanta police commander, Lieutenant Andrew Smith, discussed a 39 -year -old incident that took place earlier in the evening. (Smith refused to identify the 39 -year -old man.) According to Smith, and a statement published by the Atlanta police service, police arrived in an Atlanta house in response to an apparent dispute involving gunshots. The police tried to contact the people inside the residence, said Smith, and two men fled the house. The 39 -year -old jumped two fences by fleeing, according to Smith, and seemed to injure his leg. The 39 -year -old man died quickly in an Atlanta hospital and, while an autopsy is pending, the police think he died of the injuries he suffered. Smith argued that no shot had been dismissed during the incident involving the police, and said the police had not caused injuries.
The young scooter was born Kenneth Edward Bailey in Walterboro, in South Carolina. As a child, he and his family moved to Atlanta, the city where he made his name. He started his musical career in Earnest, around the early 2010s, linking Childhood Friend Future and his Freebandz label.
As a rapper, Young Scooter was known for his voices and his frank and frank words, a style that Jayson Greene once called “categorically declarative”. The young scooter was also often gathered with traps rappers of his time, but he preferred to call his genre “Count Music”. “I call that it counts music because everything I talk about is money, to shake up and trap and do different street stuff,” he said. “So I call it music because everything I will remember, it will relate to money.”
After having released a handful of mixtapes, the young scooter really caught the attention of the world of hip-hop with Street lotteryReleased the day of the New Year in 2013. The mixtape, hosted by DJ Swamp Izzo and DJ Scream, presented collaborations with Future, Bun B, Gucci Mane, Chef Keef, Oj da Juiceman, Mase and others. He also included one of his first signature songs, “Colombia”.
Young Scooter continued its regular production throughout the 2010s, releasing mixtapes and making songs with future, Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Migos, Waka Fancka Flame, Young Thug, Zaytoven and many others. He published the final project of his life, Streetz KrazyIn October 2023. “I have the impression that it will be one of my classics,” Young Scooter told Allhop.com around the release of his project. “It’s a lot of good songs on Streetz Krazy. “”
