RAP'S DUMBEST CRIMINAL, How Philly's Top Goon Caught Bodies, Beefed With Meek, And Told On Himself

welcome back to another episode of swamp stories for this video we cover a story that will probably blow your mind it's the tale of a man who struck it rich out of the mud and manag to throw it all away in the strangest way possible trust me this one is good but before we get into it let me run the [Music] intro [Music] Philadelphia Pennsylvania a city that no one thinks of unless we're talking about cheese steaks or football all we know is that it's freezing cold the people are extremely rude and the sports teams always come upshore but in all seriousness Philly's biggest problem is the out ofcontrol crime most American cities are bad in one category but Philly sits near the bottom in every single one 10 carjackings and just over 24 hours across the city tonight Philadelphia has set a new Grim record for homicides in a single year there have now been 51 homicides in the city 3 days at least eight businesses hit and police they are on the hunt for the person responsible large unruly crowds took over this intersection right here behind me very early this morning those same crowds also quickly swarmed police who were on scene yes Philadelphia is a wild wild place and has been for a long time it's exponentially worse than New York City in every single category but for whatever reason gets none of the attention however that ends today as you'll be able to see the nonsense that takes place in the streets of Philly so let's Dive Right In The Story begins in the trenches of North Philadelphia specifically 75th Avenue this is where a man named Barry Reese also known as Cassidy was born and raised Cassidy grew up extremely rough and used wrapping as his way to make it out of the hood in the early 2000s he performed a rap B all over the East Coast until he was noticed by a young producer named Swiss beats Swiss saw potential in Cassidy and decided to sign him to a three album deal in 2002 right off the bat his career was a success with hit songs like hotel and get no better he was already performing at award shows and his debut album went gold in 2004 Cassidy was the man but behind closed doors was living his street life in North Philadelphia in a place like North Philly a famous rapper could not operate alone so in order to protect himself Cassidy always rolled with a young goon that he grew up with this would be one of his childhood best friends named Abdul West Abdul was raised in a good two parent home that ate together prayed together five times a day and always made sure his homework was done because of this Abdul was a good student and actually graduated high school at 16 with a trade in plumbing despite being on a good path Abdul had a strange love for the streets that always caught his attention although home life was good North Philly was always hectic and abor D wanted to be a part of it so when his homie Cassidy's career blew up he volunteered to be his street enforcer so in the streets of Philly Cassidy was at the helm and by his side was Abdul his brother Lee moss and another friend named pretty flock together they were the guys in Philly they had all the money and of course they had all of the girls as well but with this kind of Fame came a whole lot of Envy many people they grew up with were jealous and were looking for any reason to try them and that takes us to April 15th 2005 five it's a huge day for Cassidy as he's releasing his highly anticipated song I'm a hustler so of course he's in great spirits and Tilly receives an alarming phone call from Abdul Abdul tells him that pretty flock was jumped by a group of guys they grew up with The Story Goes that they caught him out doing errands and they jumped him for absolutely zero reason so directly after flock called Abdul and told him to pull up ASAP from there Abdul hopped in his car and called Cassidy to let him know that he might need to bail him out of jail so Abdul drove to pretty flock picked him up and they went around looking for the group of guys The Story Goes that Abdul caught one of the guys outside of rid and put his paw on him from all accounts Abdul handled him like Tyron Woodley or Jon Jones and just like that there was a potential beef stewing in the streets of Philly but the guys who started this quickly came to a realization do we really want to beef with Abdul West probably not so in order to prevent a beef one of the guys calls Abdul and sees if they can make peace at 6 p.m. a man named Desmond Hawkins calls Abdul's phone he apologizes for what happened to pretty flock and he asks him if they can be cool Abdul tells him to swing by Cassidy's house at 9:00 p.m. so they can talk it out Desmond agrees and that's the plans for the night so you're probably thinking wow Abdul is so mature and levelheaded but you'll see Abdul drives to his house grabs a blower and heads over to Cassidy's when he arrives he gives him a rundown of the situation and Cassidy thinks it's a good idea idea but then Abdul tells him that he stashed a blower in the bushes next to his house and that makes him skeptical if they're coming over to make peace why are you putting a blower in the bushes it doesn't make any sense but Abdul isn't the kind of guy you questions so Cassidy just leaves it alone 9:30 p.m. Desmond Hawkins and his two friends arrive at Cassidy's house looking to make peace when they arrive Desmond honks his horn and Abdul walks outside he walks up to Desmond's driver side window and they begin having a conversation somehow it turns into an argument and ABD walks over to the bushes from there he grabs his piece and allegedly makes a terrible decision Abdul and Cassidy instantly vacate the area and decide to go out of town sadly Desmond didn't deserve this in a million years but this was Philadelphia's introduction to Abdul West Abdul ruined a potentially great day for Cassidy as IMA husa was Major on the charts so at the height of his career Cassidy was paranoid about the event that happened right outside of his house he knew that even Philadelphia police would eventually figure it out and that it was a matter of time that time would come June 17th 2005 Philadelphia police announced that Cassidy and abdulah West are both wanted for the passing of Desmond Hawkins this shocked the hip-hop world as Cassidy was becoming a major artist he smartly turned himself in the same day and instantly his life Came Crashing Down the Superstar rapper at the height of his career was now facing 25 to Life well on the other hand Abdul would go on the run but would eventually be found 2 weeks later in [Music] Ohio now we talk about the court cases which are actually pretty interesting this is because Cassidy and Abdul took two completely different routes on fighting them the men in the car with Desmond told police that they didn't see Cassidy but instead saw Abdul do it and the only reason Cassidy was arrested is because it happened in front of his house so police thought that he called a shot the prosecutors had a weak case against Cassidy so he could have easily taken it to trial and beaten it in the end however trials can take years and Cassidy was eager to get back to his career so he ended up pleading to involuntary manslaughter and taking an 11-month sentence how this qualifies as involuntary manslaughter is beyond me but he figured that it was his best option this way his music career was guaranteed to return in under a year on the other hand Abdul decided to take his case to trial and test his luck this was extremely risky especially as there was two eyewitnesses but Abdul knew something that the rest of the world didn't and that would be that the two eyewitnesses would not testify in his trial that's how feared he was in the streets no one would dare testify against him in court and because of this he was able to beat his trial in 2007 and be released with zero charges so now Cassidy was a convicted felon and Abdul had no record of course this isn't fair but it also goes to show that you need to be careful who you hang around it can ruin your career or possibly even end your life Cassidy was lucky that it was only a year but it still had some serious consequences when Cassidy got home in 2006 his buzz just simply wasn't what it used to be however he still had a decent following and one album left with Swiss beats so on November 6th 2007 his final album under Swiss was released and it didn't do quite as well as expected because of this he and swiss went their separate ways and he started his own label called the leny family in 2008 he funded it himself and of course made himself the main artist but if you have a label you probably need more than just yourself well coincidentally the start of Larsen family was the same time that AB came home so Cassidy convinced him to become a rapper and to sign to his label he promised him that he'd make him a star and that together they'd get to the millions so abdulah agreed and signed on the dotted lines his rap name would be ar ab and the larssen family was was Off to the Races or not Cassidy underestimated the cost of starting a label and jump starting a new career and as a result he prioritized his own career and AR AB was kicked to the curb during this process AB began getting frustrated and finally decided to go a separate ways he felt like Cassidy got his hopes up for no reason and was wasting his time because of this their relationship went sour and the former best friends were now at odds beef with Abdul was the last thing that Cassidy needed in his life but thank ful by this time he had already moved out of Philly he was living in New York focused on getting his career back to the mainstream stage on the other hand AB now had a major chip on his shoulder and wanted to prove to Cassidy that he could make it himself he now understood that running a career took a lot of money and that became his main focus he used to be the bully tough guy but now he was only focused on stacking money and hustling but he didn't have any money to start with so we began by finessing and robbing plugs a very dangerous game in Philly this would eventually catch up to him but in the meantime this is how he got his start he flipped his work in the streets over and over until he was dealing with some serious Pape and from there he wanted to turn it into a whole operation in 2009 AB started a gang called the original block hustlas also known as obh obh started as a family as everyone who joined was already an Ab Circle you have his brother leak Moss dark low and Cass who are known as the original members well right off off the bat obh hit the streets hard moving weight finessing plugs and eliminating any competition ab's goal was to take over Philadelphia's Underground Market and achiev this by any means and after stacking enough cash he decided to start his own music label a label called the original block hustlas also known as obh now why would you name your label the same as your gang but whatever he wasn't thinking it through but on the bright side the music started to pick up he dropped backtack mixtap apes and singles that did pretty well in the streets of Philly but his ways of finessing plugs would eventually catch up to him September 27th 2010 it's another Monday afternoon in Philly and Arab is outside on the Block getting money at 400 p.m. he gets a call from a plug that he met a couple weeks ago the plug tells him he has a play for him and to come pick him up and take him down to Kensington if you're unfamiliar Kensington is pretty much skid row on steroids so you know there's money to be made so AB hopson's car ghost to pick up his new connect and heads over to Kensington during the car ride ab and the man get to know each other and they realize that AB grew up with his baby mom so they're laughing when AB stops at his stop sign just a block away from the designated location as he's talking all he hears is he quickly realizes he's hit up and he looks over to see if his new friend is okay but the man had already exited the car and was nowhere to be found so AB quickly speeds off to the nearest hospital while he's speeding through traffic he calls his cousin and tells him to meet him at the emergency room so he pulls up to the hospital parking lot and tells his cousin to come pick up his car he then tells him to throw away his phone so his girlfriend can't see his messages from there he hobbles to the emergency room where thankfully they save his life it turns out that he was hit 10 times which is a miracle that he made it and the craziest part is that he says his biggest concern was his girl going through his phone this guy is something else wow and believe it or not the story gets even better once once his cousin returned with his phone he posted a picture on Twitter letting the world know that he's still alive while recovering in the hospital AB gets a call from Swiss beats Swiss remembered him from Studio sessions with Cassidy and he wanted to send him his best wishes on top of this he tells him that he wants to work with him and bring him together with his new artist Meek Mill AB is excited as this could be huge for his career but he's also not fully trusting his word regardless on the day he's released from the hospital he decides to give Swiss beats a call surprisingly Swiss picks up the phone and even drives to Philly the same day and on this same night he goes to the studio with Meek Mill and AR AB this just goes to show the character of Swiss beats a true man of his word and even though ab and meek knew each other from the streets bringing them together in the studio was a big deal from this session they released their first song together on November 11th 2010 so after nearly dying ab's life trajectory was on the up and up so much so that after this song Birdman actually wanted to sign him to cash money he even flew to Philadelphia and handed AB $200,000 as a bribe to sign however after his experience with Cassidy AB had no intentions of ever signing with a label so he said no to Birdman but kept the 200,000 in retrospect this was an idiotic move as AB could have been the final piece to Cash Money Records but not only did he fumble this opportunity but he also kept the cash and ruined the relationship with Birdman to some people he was too real for the industry but in my mind he was just showing his dumb Street ways on the other hand Meek Mill took the complete opposite route shortly after this he signed with Rick Ross's MMG and got straight to the millions so now while Arab could have easily been the face of Philly it was now Meek male so Abdul chose to keep living his life in the Streets of Philadelphia for the next couple of years he released independent mixtapes and songs and hustled in the streets with ohb and although it wasn't mainstream success his songs did make waves on the East Coast but then in 2012 things would come crashing down Abdul lost his mother grandmother and was arrested in the same month after accidentally selling to an undercover cop his house was raided and they found all kinds of substances this ultimately landed him a 3-year prison sentence on April 13th 2013 and although he was always cool common collected this right here made him Panic he had seen what a prison sentence Did to Cassidy's career and he didn't want this for himself so he pleaded for the judge to give him an opportunity to shave off some time so in exchange for a year off his sentence he agreed to speak at schools and do community service you know we want to go talk to the kids and you know go to The Vision Quest talk to the the trouble Youth and I just I I just left talking to a a middle school and Elementary School you know I cleaned a couple playgrounds up and all that you know we just doing everything we can man help the community out man you know show the people down over ass on the streets and in jail you know what I'm saying look I find these let turn myself in probably do a couple more songs I did some things in my past wish you know I can turn it back turn back the end of time but I can't feel what I'm saying you know you know just CAU up to me so now things were looking better he only had to do a year and a half plus he had a bunch of unreleased music a couple of these songs like Riviera riding and all I got is me became East Coast hits so when AB was released in October of 2014 he came home to a bigger fan base than ever before and in the summer of 2015 things would be taken to the next level for an unexpected reason if you can remember this is when Meek Mill dissed Drake on Twitter because he didn't promote his album in the Tweet he said that Drake didn't write his verse on Rico and ended up posting the original track Drake was obviously upset so a week later he released his Meek Mill disc song called back to back in the song Drake says I drove here in The Wraith playing AR ad oo this was major for ab is it led to many people looking him up on Google but it also put him in a strange position he just got shouted out by the biggest rapper in the world but he also has to side with his friend Meek right a week later he made an appearance on Vlad TV where he stated that Drake went harder and that he was disappointed in Meek's response after I heard I'm thinking like this can't be it you know what I'm saying I I you know you know Meek come from Philly streets I'm thinking like you know what I mean there was going to be some more sh than that you know what I mean I was was kind of you know kind of a little disappointed you know what I'm saying that was corny a lot of people thought it was corny lot of people thought it was trash a lot of people thought like meat loss so back to back you thought it was a crazy dis s yeah when Meek saw the interview he was pissed AB was just keeping it real but in Meek's mind he should have had its back no matter what so the next day at his show he yelled AR at i d a [ __ ] B of course AB felt disrespected and he dropped his own back to back just a couple days later in the song he says that Meek Mill is too scared to diss him on a song and that his artist Elli is the softest one on Dreamchasers oh and he also opens the song with this and you guys know what he's talking about I a body for I you rather hold a m i rather hold a after this Meek would leave it alone but Arab would milk the situation till the dawn of time every time he was in front of a camera he would begin talking about it Nock they could be the king of the radio and rapit you get your love from i r the mud man know me beef man like beef man I kill people for real is he dead is he dead is heally dead no he's not ain't no beef then got real kill despite saying there's no beef AB would later admit that things got bloody behind closed doors they got bloody behind the scenes man you know what I'm saying got shot behind the scenes they got rolling the streets with us behind the scenes you dig what I'm saying thankfully though in the same interview AB said that he got on the phone with meek for 4 hours to squash the beef after all that we still managed to squash it though like on the T cuz me it was never me and him we talked on the phone for like 4 hours and [ __ ] I said D I asked him I said man did I ever disrespect you he was like no overall all this drama brought a ton of attention to Arab especially after the vlat interviews and for whatever reason he got addicted to the attention and began telling everything in all kinds of interviews while he and his obh gang are committing serious crimes in the streets he began telling it all to the world he told the world what he does what his obh associates do and where you can find them no like I've never seen anything like this before we got we got AR we got 18th Street we got like from the 20th Street all the way to Broad Street it's an epidemic I I want to start branching off on the other side we might we might take a block on the other side of over there I might put some work out there I'm thinking about taking CLE over I'm thinking about taking Clearfield over and I might C we we already crossed Pike Street already we already down the B Street Pike Street we all down the pike street now so we on 20th Street I'm thinking about going to 10th Street we already 20th AB BR we thinking about going all way to 10th Street now we think about Crossing Playfield cuz it's nobody going to do nothing about it anyway once we get over there I put work out there anybody want to put work out they going to do they going to call everybody phone and cop out ask why we doing it I allow my man I allow my man BR to quit rap and come a shooter BR I don't want to R look at big Brock back there BR why you don't r no more you just want to be a shooter man smoke I Ain going lie you smell blood my man BR C his first shooting like all right when he C his first shooting he said he put down the [ __ ] notepad and it said app I love the way this [ __ ] feel I just want you smoke as you can tell he had an obsession with telling the world what he was doing in the streets why he was doing this I really can't figure it out but if there's any psychologist in the comments please let me know so now let's jump into the crazy story of obh while AB was at the height of his rap career he was 100% focused on the expansion of obh in the streets he wanted to be the new BMF except without hiding anything they're doing his philosophy was that the more people that join along long the better which really wasn't smart instead of hiring Specialists like BMF AB was willing to take anyone off the streets and I mean literally anyone you'll see what I'm talking about the first person he recruited is a truck driver named Richard Hoover also known as boogie boogie was kind of like the milk 74 of the north Philly trenches but instead of sitting on his balcony he started a trucking company in Las Vegas called team Transportation LLC this is what enticed AB Boogie could move weight from the West Coast back to Philly so by 2017 Boogie was working full-time for ab moving weight between California and Philly this quickly became a major operation racking in hundreds of thousands of dollars with all this weight AR AB needed somewhere to stash it AB purchased four stash houses in Philly all under his name oh boy but the main Stash House was called The Mansion and this is where all of the obh members met up and discussed business how I know this well AB took a picture in front of the house and posted it on Instagram with the caption trap house this dude was clearly not scared of Rivals or police but the Mansion wasn't his only spot as he had three other luxury apartments located in the Philly area for example you have the treaty pen houses where AB stayed himself all of the members were in and out of the four properties moving weight on a daily basis at any given moment there was at least half a million dollars at each property and with all of this wealth AB knew that he couldn't be the only one to protect it so that's when he recruited a new member that he knew would put in work this would be a man named a boss Parker also known as skinny me skinny didn't grow up with any ohb members however his brother was cellmates with AB in prison so while AB was in prison his cellmate told him to get in touch with his brother once he was released this is because skinny was a talented rapper and his brother wanted him to get signed but AB heard about his stories in the streets and he knew that he was a certified stepper all of this made him a top candidate for an obh member he was was a rapper and a stepper at the same time skinny was a wild dude in the streets and his actions would be super unpredictable and that takes us to September 11th 2017 it's another Monday in North Philly and skinny is hanging out on 22nd in Lehigh at 2 pm he set to meet with a business associate named Sherman Williams allegedly Sherman is owed money by skinny and is going over to collect it little does Sherman know skinny me is not the kind of guy you do fair business with well after paying a traffic ticket Downtown Sherman heads to North Philly to meet with him at 2:30 he arrives on the corner and removes his helmet to talk somehow the conversation turns into an argument and skinny Me loses his cool skinny instantly runs to his white Jeep and drops his phone in the process he then hops in the car and speeds off to the obb mansion Wonder Brown says her son Sherman Williams was finally on the right track in life he was turning himself completely around and he wasn't dealing with the same people that he was dealing with Brown says on Monday September 11th Williams was on his way back from paying his parking tickets she says he called her at about 5:00 p.m. to check in we had a conversation for about 10 minutes that was the last time she talked to him about 30 minutes later the 29-year-old was shot multiple times along 22nd Street between Somerset and Lehigh streets in North Philadelphia from what I can understand him and some guy had some words but I don't know what words was so powerful for this person to my son in the back twice Williams died less than two hours later the city of Philadelphia is offering up to $20,000 in reward money for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible all you have to do is call the Citizens crime commission at 25546 tips all calls will remain anonymous when he arrives he realizes he doesn't have his phone phone so he searches the car but can't find anything skinny knew that he messed up and he was hoping that police would not find the phone but what he failed to realizes that Philly has cameras everywhere and the car's plates were on because of this police found that the car was registered to Abdul West at the ohb Mansion address police were excited and they figured that they had finally got him so just the next day the OMB Mansion was raided but when police arrived no one was home which was very unusual for the Mansion during the raid they found 87,000 in cash and all kinds of illicit items however in Pennsylvania you can't raid someone for one crime and then use the findings to charge them with something else so no one was charged for anything and police were unsure of who did this to Sherman Williams however Skinny's decision still had some serious implications as the police now knew what Arab had going on so after the raid they began following him and tracking his every move even allowing him to commit crimes The Raid should have been a huge wakeup call for ab but he was either slow or he didn't even care about the consequences it's almost like he took Philadelphia police as a joke especially after this next move after Skinny's incident AB decided to reward him by introducing him to the world on a major hip-hop Channel y'all know who he is this is my little brother skinny notorious the notorious skinny me that boy bought 130 lbs of horror I know this for a fact guess what this what I like about skinny this what I like about skinny me music man it's just raw and it's like reality rap Mafia skinny Mia go through a situation and guess what it's going to be in his song he going to make a song about the same day so I know that's why I feel it so much I know it reck when he said I killed the and I did that I seen him do it I seen him do it I've seen him do it when he say somebody try TR to try to drop on me not rust mad man and I seen him do it I know he did it for a fact I believe we going to make millions of dollars off [ __ ] money original original black Hustlers and one of the newest m going to die cop the most vital member mean key member he's from Ohio this was not a smart move but skinny me was eating it all up although he wasn't originally from Philly he was becoming a star in their streets his rap career was also taking off because people now knew that he was living his raps but on the other hand Philadelphia police were all over him as he became their new Target OMB had the streets on loock and Arab would keep making boneheaded decisions instead of focusing on covering his tracks his main concern was eliminating competition in the streets in particular he was upset with a former friend who was now selling in the same North Philly Market this would be a man named Robert Johnson a Young Homie of ab who used to hustle for him back in 2011 during this time Robert was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison all allegedly behind obh once he was released he wanted no parts of the streets so he took a completely different route he was taking classes to become a personal trainer and was trying his best to stay out of trouble however Life as a convicted fell in his heart and it's believed that he began hustling again in North Philly but this time without AR ad once Abdul found out he was pissed as he was self- reclaimed extortionist he needed to be in control of everyone and he used fear to get his way however Robert Johnson was no longer going for this and AR AB was livid no one had ever stood up to him like this like who would go against Philly's top goon in the old days AB would have handled this himself but now he had guys to call on skinny was laying low after his recent incident so AB called on a brand new member this would be a man named dantez Stewart also known as Taz Taz was a hustler for another gang in Philly but he had recently fallen out with him and after the Fallout he befriended op dark low and inquired on being an OP Hustler himself he told him that he's down bad and willing to do anything to get money with obh low knew that AB was willing to accept any new members so he brought him to his [Music] house there Taz and ab discussed potentially joining obh and what that would entail he pretty much said you have to do anything I tell you whether that's stepping on rivals or selling whatever Taz agreed and told him he do anything for him so AB shook his hand and told him that in order to become a member you must stay at the oph Mansion for 2 weeks there you'll meet members and learn the ins and outs of the operation letting someone you just met into your illegal operation might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard Taz could be relaying information to his former gang he could be plotting to Rob or he could be an undercover officer Arab was not thinking it through but after 2 weeks at the Mansion Taz officially became an obb member he immediately hit the streets and began hustling like never before he was so geeked that after Just 4 weeks of being a member he got an obh tattoo on his neck this was to show his fellow members his loyalty and to let them know he'll never snitch on them H Dante Stewart was a wild card to say the least well this is the guy that AB called to eliminate Robert Johnson and that takes us to October 12th 2017 ooh hey it's a month after the raid and AR AB is back at the mansion with some fellow members at 12:30 p.m. he calls Taz and tells him to come to the mansion ASAP so Taz immediately pulls up and sits down with ab ab shows him a picture of Robert Johnson and tells him to follow instructions he tells him to go on Instagram and to DM Robert to make a deal he then tells him that when they meet up he needs to eliminate him Taz only joined obh for money so he really doesn't want to do this so he makes up an excuse and tells AB that he doesn't have an Instagram AB believes he's being honest so he comes up with the solution he tells him to call his baby mama and have her come over to the mansion when she arrives he ask for her phone and hands it over to Taz from his baby Mama's account he tells him to DM Robert and tell him who he is he tells him to tell Robert that he heard he moves weight and he wants to buy some once Robert responds he tells him to exchange phone numbers and now they're locked in at this point Taz has no excuses and he has to do it so Taz and Robert agree to meet up later in the day Taz real doesn't want to do this regardless at 8:00 p.m. Taz meets up with Robert to complete the job so Taz gets out of his car and walks up to Robert's window he reaches for his waistband but he can't get himself to do it so instead he simply makes the transaction and shakes Robert's hand he then returns to the obh mansion not sure what to expect he tells AB that he simply couldn't get himself to do it AB is pissed so he slaps the table and says what why so Taz tells him that he simply has no idea why he's doing it AB responds by saying that Robert is playing both sides of the fence and it can't continue this response doesn't satisfy Taz so AB decides to throw in a perk he tells him that if you do this I'll make sure you're straight no further details are discussed as this was all Taz needed to hear attempt Number Two October 14th 2017 Taz texts Robert and tells him that he needs to reup Robert responds and tells him that he's busy at the club and he can't meet up until after 2:00 a.m. so the two agree to meet up in the parking lot outside the club after he's done in the meantime Taz begins to ponder his decision so he calls up a fellow member for reassurance the member whose name is obh Berto is ecstatic and he actually volunteers to go with him so at 2: a.m. Taz hops in his car picks up Berto and they head to the club parking lot that's where they wait until 3:30 a.m. when Robert finally leaves the club they text him to meet them in the parking lot and that they'll get out of the car when he arrives so Robert walks towards their car and that's when Taz hops out he hops back in his car speeds away and heads directly to Berto when he arrives he hands his blower to Berto and tells him to put it in a shoe box in his closet berto's confused and says why don't you just go throw it away Taz responds by saying I'm going to come back to pick it up in 2 weeks don't even worry about it hm this doesn't make any sense but I'll continue when Taz gets home he texts ab and says touchdown he then puts his phone away and goes to sleep when Taz wakes up he notices that AB liked the message and is directing him to go to brz's house BRZ is an OGB member who's in charge of one of the stash houses so Taz goes to his house excited to receive a huge cash reward or at least that's what what he was expecting when he arrives to br's house he's handed a duffel bag full of product to sell as he's driving away he realizes that there's no cash in the bag this can't possibly be it right but no there was no reward at all just a bunch of new products for Taz to go sell Taz wasn't happy to say the least but there's nothing you can do when you're dealing with a guy like AR AB well 2 weeks go by and Taz returns to Berto to pick up his gun like he promised he didn't feel safe on the streets without it and AB didn't Supply him with a new one so Taz was now riding around with evidence of a first-degree homicide on his waistband as you would expect this would not go well November 11th 2017 while speeding through North Philly Taz is pulled over by Philadelphia police for whatever reason Taz consents to a search and police look through his car they find his blower under the seat which is a misdemeanor in the state of Pennsylvania in taz's mind he might have to do a couple months but it's not that serious however after searching the serial number police find out that it's stolen and they also match it to the incident of Robert Johnson and just like that Taz is arrested for first-degree homicide once AB gets the news he shrugs his shoulders and pretty much accepts that Taz is gone for life and because the evidence is overwhelming he figures that paying for his lawyer is a waste of money this was a cold move by ab and also a dumb one as well as you would expect Taz felt bet trade like I put my freedom on the line for you and you didn't even pay me nor pay for my lawyer the street codes are one thing but you can't betray somebody like this and expect them to be in your good graces so from behind bars Taz would get his revenge but we're not quite there yet after this obh moved on like nothing had happened they kept getting money and Arab kept incriminating them on social media in fact one of his viral videos would finally catch up to him I seen him do it I seen him do it yep after this video skinny me became Philadelphia police's number one target prior to the video they didn't even know who he was given that he was originally from Ohio so the investigation went like this they went through the phone that was left on the scene and all they saw was a bunch of selfies of skinny me but they didn't recognize the man in the picture and on top of this the phone was a prepaid that wasn't registered to anyone but once they saw the video on YouTube they put the faces together I seen him do it I seen him do it and that was all it took to get him indicted on September 13th 2018 police issued an arrest warrant for a boss Parker also known as skinny me and once the news broke skinny me responded in the most OMB way possible listen I'm want I'm one of them stes right now for like a murder you know what I'm saying like for a murder when they hate you frame you see what I'm saying so it just like in due time like I'm still giving Rec I'm still put on for cool kids cuz I ain't going to start recording innocent I'm just going to run cuz I'm scared to death police tell what they do I'm scared to death for court system tell what they do inoc they sto it just to B you out they hate you they frame you when they hate you they frame you remember that man listen hi this [ __ ] matrious skinny me B with the weight off two weeks after the viral clip skinny me was arrested during a raid and during the arrest he kept the same energy that he had in the video and in the streets and this account and I'm going and I'm going 50 Grand strong hey yo um everybody huh let everybody know I got you bro everybody all right bro I'm the really Liv I just Happ to Rap Man That's it man my listen man I'm a mil man and I was growing dreads on don't mind my hair I wanted everybody to see me come out and swag hey yo you let anybody know huh skinny me was truly something else well this was a major blow to obh because their two biggest steppers were now gone and this also meant that there was a huge liability for obh to get told on so you'd imagine that AB would be in panic mode but this wasn't the case at all in fact during this period Boogie made six trips from LA to Philly as ordered by AB little did Abdul know his phone was being tapped by the feds and finally they had everything they needed to take down obh in Philly's top goon on October 19th 2018 nine obh members were arrested for Distributing everything under the sun all four of Abdul's properties were raided team Transportation LLC was seized and this was the end of obh for a long time every single member in the indictment was facing up to 15 years however neither of the violent incidents were tied to AR AB or obh at all and this was a major blessing for ab his maximum sentence was 12 years and thank goodness he duck the big ones or at least for the meantime police knew that AB was tied to the skinny me and Taz incidents however they couldn't prove it so they decided to approach the two members and offer them reduced time if they could give up information first they approached skinny and offered to reduce his charge to manslaughter but he decided to not give up information all he had to say was that AB had something to do with it and then his charges would pretty much vanish but skinny me was loyal to the Bone and because of this he was sentenced to 25 years to life however his case is currently up for appeal due to police misconduct according to lawyers police completely disregarded a witness who gave a description that looked nothing like skinny me and to be fair skinny me said that he was being framed from the jump they hate you they frame you when they hate you they frame remember that only time will tell do you guys think that skinny me will return to the streets well after skinny refused to cooperate police went to their second best option little did they know this guy was willing to tell everything since day one when Taz was arrested Ed he knew that he stood no chance with the public defender so he simply decided to plead guilty however while he was awaiting sentencing he was also indicted in the obh takedown due to phone records he was accused of Simply selling for Arab this was a federal RICO case and had nothing to do with his State case so when the feds approached Taz there really wasn't anything they could offer him yes they could drop his Rico but he's already being sentenced to life for homicide in another case however he was so angry at AB for not paying him or supplying him with a lawyer that he was willing to take him down for nothing so on October 17th 2019 Taz began telling prosecutors everything no like literally the second they sat down he began telling them everything from the start like he was even giving them information that they didn't even ask for for example he gave them the addresses of all of ab's stash houses which they had already raided he then told them about all of the obh members who had already been arrested and after 2 and 1/2 hours of yapping he finally gave them the the information they needed he told them that on October 12th AB had ordered him to take out Robert Johnson wow this was a cold move but it gets even colder for whatever reason he told them that obh Berto volunteered to go on the hit and that he stashed his blower at his house for 2 weeks this was a sorry move especially because Berto had done nothing wrong to him he was lucky to be one of the only members to duck the indictment but now he was wanted for accessory to murder an taz's snitching would not end here he told the prosecutors that obh BRZ was the one who handed him the duffel bag as a reward for his actions again another member who did absolutely nothing wrong to him now obh bras was added to the indictment as well this is what you call Next Level snitching so because of tas9 AR AB was now facing murder and conspiracy to murder as well he pretty much told on everyone in OMB except for one member if you can remember dark low was his original friend and the one who brought him to the crew and I think this is the reason he spared him from his Ratatouille so while all of his friends and family were facing decades dark low was at home trying to lay low while once the news broke that Taz was snitching dark low was sick he couldn't fathom why he would do this but he also felt kind of guilty as he was the one who brought him around so dark low was pissed and he decided to send a letter to Taz in jail in the letter he asked him why he snitched and if he was an informant from the jump this is all good and dandy but the second half of the letter would be another dumb obh decision low tells him to recant his statements and to take his time like a man he then threatens him by saying that if you testify in ab's case your life in prison will be hell writing this on paper to a guy who just snitched on all of your friends is not the smartest thing to do as you would expect Taz 9 turned this into prosecutors and dark low was now wanted for felony witness intimidation in the end darklo was sentenced to 7 and 1/2 years in federal prison because of this one little letter and even for a very little award Taz decided to testify against AB in his case this resulted in a sentence of 45 years to life pretty much guaranteeing AR AB will never be back home even though he was snitched on he can really only blame himself for this situation he decided to have a man that he just met go step for him and then he didn't pay for his lawyer or compensate him oh and all of the self snitching is something that I don't think we've ever seen on this channel the fact that it took Philadelphia all these years to take him down is really disappointing also get this Taz is currently serving 25 years to life so all that snitching did nothing for him he got the same exact sentence as skinny me who decided not to testify ha overall Abdul West has to be one of the dumbest criminals in American history right he had so many opportunities to become a millionaire through music and threw it away at every chance so if you needed any more proof the legal route is always better in the end than taking the fast route he could have signed with Swiss beats Birdman or grinded out his independent catalog but no instead he was too concerned with being the man in the Philadelphia street and that's going to do it for this episode of swamp stories if you enjoyed the video please make sure to leave a like And subscribe also let me know on Instagram what kind of video you want to see next peace

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Length: 45min 9sec (2709 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 01 2023