21 Savage has shared the savage story behind how he got his infamous face scar, and the cause was a tragic accident that could have been a lot worse than what it was.
“When I was young, I had gotten into a fight, and I had gold teeth,” he explained in his Instagram Live on Tuesday (May 14). “N-gga hit me in my sh-t right here [points to the side of his face]. And my goddamn lip got caught on my teeth. I had a hole right here.”
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He continued: “That’s why I got this scar. That n-gga was way bigger than me. I was probably, like, 14.”
Check out the full Instagram Live below.
21 Savage explains gruesome backstory behind face scar
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In the same Instagram Live, 21 Savage made clear that he said all he needed to say about the controversy between himself and Soulja Boy.
Soulja launched into a vicious rant against the Slaughter Gang boss on Sunday (May 12) after he defended his close collaborator Metro Boomin from a similar online attack.
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In response to Big Draco calling out Metro over a shady tweet from over a decade ago and giving him 24 hours to delete it, Savage wrote in an Instagram comment: “Or what.”
That led to Soulja setting his sights on the Atlanta rap star on Instagram Live, during which he made violent threats and questioned his street credibility.
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“Set the fight up, bitch-ass n-gga! I will beat the fuck out you, 21!” he snarled. “You’s a bitch, n-gga. You want to take it to the streets? I will smoke you. Fuck you talking about, n-gga?
“I really was in the streets. You ain’t even from Atlanta. You think I’ma let a pussy-ass n-gga from Britain talk to me crazy? You lame as fuck, n-gga […] Take your pussy ass back to Britain, bitch.”
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21 Savage later hit back on X (formerly Twitter) and began by defending his transatlantic background.
“I been in Atlanta since 1st grade lost my virginity there got shot there in and out of juvenile there and I went from the hospital in London straight to the projects yall think London is rodeo dr lol,” he wrote.
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He then called Soulja Boy’s own ties to Atlanta into question and accused him of being a “crackhead.”
“Big Soulja from Mississippi nobody on Simpson know him. boy ain’t been to Atlanta since 2001,” he wrote. “Cocaine is a hell of a drug. crackhead ass n-gga went to jail for having bullets. I aint even know they had a bullet charge.”
21 also posted a screenshot of a news article suggesting that Soulja’s finances were in the red after he was forced to settle his debts by a judge.
“Yall j ass n-ggas better find somebody to play with air bnb living ass lil boy sit yo musty ass down somewhere don’t nobody buy ringtones no more,” he added.
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The Savage Mode star also took issue with Soulja Boy wishing Metro a happy Mother’s Day, which was an obvious taunt over the death of his mom.
“Speaking on a n-gga mama like shit a game you gone shit on yourself when I see you boy,” he concluded.
