According to reports, rapper Hotboii was recently arrested on unspecified charges, just four months after being released from prison where he served two years on RICO charges.Â
He was initially arrested in July 2021 along with others in a large RICO sweep. He ultimately pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy charge and was released.Â
His RICO case was based on accusations of promoting gangs and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
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Just before his incarceration, Walker had begun to receive some attention locally for his song “Switcharoo”. After his release in 2018, he began further pursuing a recording career, publishing his first music video in September of that year for his song “Life of a Dog”.
In 2019, he released the single “YG’s”, a “detailed walk through [his] experiences and survival tactics in the street” that quickly gained traction. He began 2020 by securing features from Stunna 4 Vegas (“4PF Like Baby”) and Rylo Rodriguez (“Sick of Cell”) before releasing his breakout single “Don’t Need Time” on April 27.
Written in memory of his recently deceased friend Wolph, the piano-driven track was notably slower-paced and more self-reflective than his previous songs. In five months, it accumulated more than nine million streams on Spotify and 24 million YouTube views on its music video, which was shot at Wolph’s funeral.
On August 25, a remix featuring Lil Baby was released along with a new music video that addressed the theme of police brutality
