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Kenneth Edward Rashaad Bailey was born on March 28, 1986.
He died on March 28, 2025.
He was signed to Black Migos Gang Music, Freebandz and 1017 Icy Records.
The incident involving him and the Atlanta Police.
The rapper was 39 years old.
He first gained regional recognition for his collaborations with the rappers, as well as his mixtape Street Lottery (2012) and its lead single, "Colombia". His guest appearance on Future and Juice Wrld's 2018 song, "Jet Lag" marked his sole entry on the Billboard Hot 100.
Scooter was born in Walterboro, South Carolina. When he was nine, his family moved to the Kirkwood Community (also known as "Lil Mexico") of Atlanta, Georgia. In 2008, after he was charged with drug trafficking, he decided to start pursuing a career in music. Scooter was a childhood friend with fellow Atlanta rapper Future.
While his first mixtape Plug Talkin didn't receive much attention, with his second release Finessin and Flexin' he made a name for himself, already collaborating with Future.
Scooter's real breakthrough came in January 2013, when he released his mixtape Street Lottery. SPIN named it "Rap release of the week" and XXL featured it on its "Best mixtapes of January" list. Eric Diep of XXL called Scooter "one of the hottest street rappers coming out of Atlanta" and wrote that tracks like the single "Colombia" and "Street Lottery" (featuring Bun B) are "proof of his undeniable talent". The tape was also a viral success gaining over 100,000 downloads on DatPiff.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office told Atlanta outlet 11 Alive and entertainment magazine Variety that Kenneth Bailey, 39, died after an incident in Atlanta on Friday night.
In a press conference Friday, Atlanta Police Department homicide commander Lt. Andrew Smith said that officers responded to a dispute with a weapon Friday, which was Young Scooter's 39th birthday. He said initial reports indicated that shots were fired.
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USA TODAY has reached out to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office for comment.
"Once officers arrived they knocked on the door. A male opened the door and immediately shut the door on the officers," Smith said. Then, APD set up a perimeter at the scene, Smith said.
"During the process of establishing the perimeter, two males fled out of the rear of the house," Smith said. "One male returned back into the house. The other male jumped two fences as he was fleeing. When officers located him on the other side of the fence, he appeared to have suffered an injury to his leg."
"Officers rendered aid and he was transported to Grady Hospital where he was pronounced deceased," Smith told reporters, adding that "that male is going to be a 39-year-old male out of Atlanta," which matches Bailey's description.
Atlanta police clarified that the Young Scooter incident was not an officer-involved shooting.
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"Just to be very clear, the injury that was sustained was not via the officers on scene. It was when the male was fleeing," Smith continued.
Scooter was known for his freestyle type of rapping, without writing down his lyrics, similarly to Gucci Mane. He defined his style as "count music", and explained it in an interview with Complex: "I don't really care what I say on a beat as long as it's about some money. When you try to think hard and write it out, that's when it's gonna be fucked up."
Scooter's lyrical themes are largely about money and drugs. David Drake of Complex compared his "populist, kingpin rapping" to that of Young Jeezy, although he noted that Scooter doesn't have the "all-encompassing grandiosity" of his fellow Atlanta rapper.
Scooter listed his influences as Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Sean "Puffy" Combs aka Diddy.
Gucci Mane has saw people who he mentored throughout his career die. Young Dolph, Takeoff, Slim Dunkin, Big Scarr, Enchanted and Young Scooter have passed away.
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