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Bobby Shmurda, real name Ackquille Pollard, has been behind bars for the past four months on gang conspiracy, drugs and weapons charges. The Brooklyn native has gone from promising young star to just another statistic in a roller coaster year that saw his breakout hit make the Top 10 on the Hot 100 and nab him a deal with Epic Records...

XXL Freshmen 2015 is coming and the freshman hopefuls are gearing up to possibly make this year’s class. With the 10th Spot voting happening now, we have to let the potentials tell us why they should appear on this year’s cover. Bobby S...

Bobby Shmurda got more bad news last week when it was announced that his $2 million bail application was withdrawn less than a week after his plea hearing in the Manhattan Supreme Court. Shmurda was hoping to be released late last week but remains in New York City's Rikers Island prison hoping to get out on bail soon...

This past summer the hip-hop world fell in love with 20-year-old Brooklyn sensation Bobby Shmurda. The fresh-faced MC from Flatbush, Brooklyn whose song "Hot Nigga" came out of nowhere to storm the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10. Everything about the track became infectious, from its instantly-recognizable production by Jahlil Beats (lifted from Lloyd Banks' "Jackpot") down to its tr

Bobby Shmurda could be out of jail next week. GS9's poster boy has filed bail paperwork with the Special Narcotics Prosecutor's office today, according to both the SNP and Shmurda's attorney. "Best case is that he’s out sometime next week, worst case is we do a hearing and the judge agrees with the Government and he stays in," Shmurda's new attorney Kenneth J. Montgomery tol...

Bobby Shmurda walked into the Manhattan Supreme Court this afternoon wearing a dark grey sweatshirt and matching sweatpants, hands cuffed in front of him, and expressionlessly looked at the 40-odd friends, family members and reporters assembled in the courtroom...

Since he, Bobby Shmurda, and the rest of the GS9 crew were indicted on a series of charges in New York earlier this month, Rowdy Rebel has been biding his time. Now, we have the first bit of communication from the other side of the partition...

Update (Jan. 6, 10:59 a.m.): Bobby Shmurda's attorney Howard Greenberg exclusively confirms to XXL that the Brooklyn MC is still in police custody. A weird Instagram popped up last night on Yung Relle's Instagram page, stating that the "Hot Nigga" spitta is back. But that's false. ...

Bobby Shmurda and 14 other members of GS9 were arrested Wednesday (Dec. 17) Outside at Quad Studios in New York City, while 21 weapons were found and seized. The arrests were part of a long-term investigation by the agency and the New York Police Department’s newly created Brooklyn South Violence Reduction Task Force that dates back at least to July, if not longer. Kati Cornell, director of pub...

Yesterday, news broke that Bobby Shmurda and various members of the GS9 crew were apprehended on counts of Attempted Murder, Drug Tracking and Weapon Possession. In response to the bomb dropped about one of 2014's most prominent rising MCs, Shmurda, news regarding the Brooklyn music movement broke Internet, not just with comments from fans but celebs too...

Bobby Shmurda and his GS9 crew were indicted in New York City today on charges ranging from murder to attempted murder to conspiracy to weapons possession to reckless endangerment (to be clear, Shmurda's individual charges do not include either murder or attempted murder)...

Bobby Shmurda and his GS9 crew were indicted by the NYPD and the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for 69 charges including murder, attempted murder, assault, attempted assault, weapons possession, criminal use of a firearm, reckless endangerment, narcotics sales and criminally using drug paraphernalia...