Best known for his collaborations with the likes of Future, Gucci Mane, and Young Thug, Atlanta rapper Young Scooter has passed away. He was just 39 years old.
According to an Atlanta police homicide commander Lt. Andrew Smith on Friday (3.28,) the musician (born Kenneth Bailey,) died while feeling a house in Atlanta after police were called to the residence on a report of shots fired.
In a statement following the incident, when authorities arrived at the house, two men fled the residence; an unnamed man ultimately returned to the house, while the other (later identified as Bailey) ”jumped two fences while he was fleeing,” Smith said. “When officers located him on the other side of the fence, he appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg.”
After the rapper was treated for his injuries at the scene he was subsequently transported to an area hospital where he died on his 39th birthday. “The injury that was sustained was not via the officers on scene,” Smith said. “It was when the male was fleeing.”
The incident remains an active investigation, and the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said that an autopsy will take place on Saturday (3.29,) the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
One of the first rappers signed to Freebandz, the record label founded by Future, a childhood friend of Bailey’s, as Young Scooter, the artist released dozens of mixtapes, and was also featured on such Future tracks like “Birds Take a Bath,” “Doh Doh,” “Stayed Down” of 2022’s I Never Liked You, and the 2018 hit “Jet Lag” alongside Future and Juice WRLD.ADVERTISEMENT
Bailey frequently recorded alongside Gucci Mane, appearing on their 2013 collaborative mixtape Free Bricks 2, as well as a handful of songs off Mane’s albums Trap God and Trap God 2, the latter featuring “Bullet Wound” that paired the rappers with Lil Wayne. Young Scooter also guested on songs by Young Thug (including Jeffrey’s “Guwop”), Migos (“Holmes”), Zaytoven, and Waka Flocka Flame.
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Author: Al Denté
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