Kodak Black’s artist Syko Bob has gone viral while behind bars, and it’s all because of a “scary” photo he posted with fellow incarcerated rapper Foogiano.
Syko (real name Cambrel Smart) pleaded guilty to gun possession charges in December 2022. He was sentenced to five years in prison at the Greensboro, Georgia county jail, and now a particularly menacing picture of him is making the rounds online
In the photo, Syko is posted up in the prison yard with 1017 signee Foogiano, who was also sentenced to five years in prison in 2021 for cutting off his ankle monitor following a previous weapons arrest, as well as another inmate.
Fans had a lot to say about Syko in particular, who can be seen sporting an intense smile with his arms crossed.
“Syko Bob look scary as hell,” one fan wrote on Twitter in response to the viral photo, while another said: “That brotha needs an exorcism.”
Someone else likened the Sniper Gang rapper to a “demon,” while another claimed he “needs holy water.”
As previously reported by NBC 2, Syko Bob was pulled over on January 5, 2022 by a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper at around 3:00 a.m. after he was spotted driving at high speed on I-75 in Collier County, Florida.
The rapper’s vehicle was searched and troopers found a plastic bag of marijuana in the center console, as well as a loaded gun between the front and back passenger-side seats.
An alleged copy of the jail records discovered on Instagram by HipHopDX showed that the Sky the Snipe rapper was allegedly charged with a DUI, carrying a concealed firearm, possession of a weapon or ammo by a convicted felon, possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.
As for Foogiano, the 2021 HipHopDX Rising Star said in an interview with British filmmaker Louis Theroux last year that he doesn’t regret cutting off his ankle monitor and going on the run despite his incarceration.
“Shit was building up,” he said. “Everything was going good, and then boom, that happened. That’s a setback, ’cause I couldn’t do shows. I did some [shows under my own name]. I ain’t care. We smart. I play chess, not checkers.
“The crowd ain’t going to let [the police get me]. I used to ask the crowd every time, ‘The police come in, you gonna let them get me?’ As soon as I got on the stage, everybody would say, ‘No.’”
He added that the Greensboro county jail feels like home to him.
“This is where I grew up,” he said. “Like, these are all my people. These guards, I’ve been coming to this jail since I was a little boy. This the jail, this is where I’m from.”
