2 Chainz’s Security Talks Robbery, Says It Was a Set Up

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

The 2 Chainz robbery drama continues. As we reported recently, rapper 2 Chainz was robbed and even reportedly shot at last weekend in San Francisco. According to reports, the artist was walking on a street with friends when he was approached by a robber, and even though he and his crew took off running, he slipped and fell and his wallet and cell phone were snatched. Although the police confirmed the crime had taken place, 2 Chainz still took to his Twitter account to deny he had been robbed. Unfortunately for the “I’m Different” star, it didn’t take too long for TMZ to obtain footage of the whole incident going down via a surveillance camera.

2 Chainz’s security, Hammer Strength, recently called in to Power 107.5 to discuss the incident and he says they believe the whole thing was a setup. He also defended the fact he and the rest of the crew took off running when everything popped off.

On how everything went down:

“We went downtown to San Francisco — it’s broad daylight, like 4:30 in the afternoon. People were walking around and everything — all of a sudden three dudes just jumped out with huge guns, .357 Magnums. They pointed the guns at us and we was like ‘Whoa!’ We thought it was a joke for a minute. We looked at them, we stopped, kinda paused. We thought it was a joke. Then all we heard was, ‘2 Chainz give it up.’ So we like stood there and didn’t do anything, and we kinda like froze, ’cause we wanted to see if this was real. All of a sudden, the next thing you know, 2 Chainz kinda like backed up a little bit. And then he said, ‘Give it up. Give it up.’ And then all of a sudden he took off. He took off running first. When he took off running, we took off running. Then all of a sudden these dudes, they just start shooting. I don’t know where they shot at.”

On why they ran, he says:

“TMZ got it all like we just left and left him standing there, and we just took off. But he started running first, and we took off after he took off. So I don’t know what they trying to make it seem like. The bottom line is he just fell, the dude he grabbed his wallet from him, and his cell phone from him, and that’s all they took. He has his chains on him, his bracelet and all that, and all his jewelry with him and they ain’t touch none of that. All they did is they got his wallet, and like I said, he ain’t got no money in his wallet. The bottom line is, man, it was a setup. We know it was a setup so, that’s why he told the police we will handle it.”