Who the hell is Shawty Lo? That's the response I get every time I mention or publish a blog about the Atlanta rapper known best as T.I's nemesis. Aside from the crazy rumor that this Southern rapper was spreading the deadly bug (he claims he has diabetes), Shawty Lo (founder of D4L) hasn't gotten much play in the press until he attempted to make a spectacle of T.I. through a series of YouTube videos earlier this year.
Unfortunately, it all came back around to haunt him as earlier this week, news broke that Shawty Lo was hanging out in T.I.'s club and was given a brutal beatdown while T.I.'s new song "What Up"(which ironically is a Shawty Lo Diss) played in the background. The attacker was rumored to be a childhood friend of the rapper, but things went south which led to the nightclub attack and Shawty Lo getting his chain snatched.
In a story grinded by Drew Reports, Shawty Lo is denying he was involved in the altercation at the club pegging it some "Bowens Home sh*t":
“A couple of dudes from my Bowen Homes hood got into it with some other dudes from Bowen Homes. It really wasn’t nothing, just some Bowen Homes sh*t. It wasn’t an altercation with me at all. I didn’t get touched, period. And this had nothing to do with T.I.”
It must be three sides…..Unfortunately, where there is a club, there is surrvelience, on-lookers and camera phones and while Shawty Lo took a suspect vacation to Florida "to be with his family", his attacker Meatball has released audio of himself talking about the incident and what led up to the attack. Meatball in his native Bankhead tongue (which is hardly understandable) says that he did beat Shawty Lo to the ground, but he didn't have to snatch his chain because it was given to him. Meanwhile he claims Shawty Lo repeatedly begged for his chain back and he has audio to prove it. They are also threatening to release the club footage of the attack via World Star Hip Hop later in the week. Ironically the same method, Shawty Lo used to release videos of T.I's high school yearbook picture discrediting T.I.'s claim that he's from Bankhead.
Whew, the heat is on in Atlanta! They say you "start trouble, you get trouble,"so it will be definitely interesting to see how this plays out.
Still asking " Shawty Lo who"? Well Ozone Magazine knows as they just nominated him for five Ozone Awards for the release of his LP Units in the City…
I guess nowadays if you ain't beefing, you ain't relevant. Shame!
-Necole Bitchie