Bobby Shmurda Speaks Out From Jail
by Staff Editor
Bobby Shmurda is starting to feel like the cards are stacked against him after his application for his $2 million bond was withdrawn by the city of New York. The Brooklyn rapper was arrested on Dec. 17 and could be facing up to 25 years in prison for conspiracy charges tied to his involvement with Gs9.
He recently spoke to Billboard about his stay in jail so far and his optimism about getting out any time soon.
How is it in there?
It’s survival, survival. Survival of the fittest.
Has it been hard on you?
Not that hard. I get a lot of love in here.
People in there know who you are and know “Hot Boy”?
Yeah, everybody. Every time I walk the halls, I see people and they yell out “Ah Ah!” or something.
There are so many rumors, like, that you got stabbed.
It’s nothing but rumors, man. I’m good. Everybody knows I’m good. I’m chilling. We over here — we over here thugging it out, man. [Laughs.]
Your mother and your lawyer are working hard to get you out on bail. Are you hopeful about that?
Uhhh… We’re trying, but right now I think the DA and the judge and everyone in the court is being biased. It’s so crazy. The favoritism, yeah. They don’t have no evidence, no nothing on me for the bill to be so high. I haven’t been out for a year, I haven’t been around for a year. So I didn’t make two million dollars! [Laughs] They gave me a bill they know I can’t pay. We can pay the 10 percent. And we tried to pay the 10 percent and they told us collateral. And every time we go for bail, it’s something new.
Read more of the interview here.