"Everything."īut as Shmurda's wildest dreams were coming true, the New York Police Department was closing in on him. "Everything felt like the best moment of my life," Shmurda says. The same month, "Hot Boy" reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. With him were lifelong GS9 friends, beaming, and two female dancers in "Shmoney Team" crop tops. "When I look at them, it looks like a bunch of haters."įour months ago, Shmurda was racing around a Midtown soundstage, sunglasses and gold chains glinting, as he performed "Hot Boy" (the "Hot N-a" radio edit) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "When I see the judge and the DA, I just see a bunch of people trying to take my life away for being blessed," says Shmurda, who talked with Billboard from the Manhattan Detention Complex, where he has been held since December. Today he was just another young man before the judge, one of 13 reputed members of the East Flatbush, Brooklyn, alleged gang GS9 ("God's Sons") to have his case called. Shmurda sat very still at the defense table, showing none of the viral persona that was responsible for 102 million YouTube views, a $2 million record deal and the international "Shmoney Dance" craze. When Bobby Shmurda, the charismatic star of the surprise 2014 hit "Hot N-a," emerged from the back of a New York County Supreme Court room in January, the 20-year-old looked sad and serious.
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