How Ralo Became ATL’s Biggest Dr.uglord

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And in the days that follow, Ralo would show off another huge pile of money on Instagram.

Okay.

Okay.

Straight up ass.

Straight up ass.

Cuz I’mma need y’all help to tell me what color I should wear on the shoes.

The I I really like the blue on the pink, OG.

I like the blue on the pink.

[ __ ] kind of look good.

But then, I look at the pink on the pink.

The pink on the pink kind of look ugly.

These going to be some $300,000 shoes now.

And I needs y’all to tell me what color I should wear them with.

Okay.

Y’all see the the pink on the pink, then y’all see the blue on the blue.

And I think that we could possibly add a little green to this [ __ ] Here go another 50,000.

Here go another 50,000.

Which one look the best, OG? His stacks were getting bigger and bigger with every social media post.

But, in keeping with his efforts to always give back, Mr.

Dog Food was seen on social media giving real food, McDonald’s, to the homeless people around his area.

In July, he would be more active on Instagram throwing more money on the floor.

I don’t even worry.

I just bought these [ __ ] getting rained out there.

It’s raining out there, so I bought some drivers.

It’s raining out there, this what I bought.

I don’t even worry.

I just bought them cuz it’s raining.

Dog, what you It’s dripping on the on the drivers.

Let’s look at that head.

Oh, yeah.

It’s raining out here, that’s why I bought them, doggy.

I bought them cuz it’s raining.

And then we going to go out here and let them get wet.

Woo! First pair No, [ __ ] it, put these joints Is this what you [ __ ] for, or a pair of these? I know you ain’t [ __ ] for a pair of these.

How much is that on the shoe, hoe? Get yourself together.

Then he sweeps it all up / has a shower in said money.

All right.

So, listen.

Listen.

You going to have to leave for that that 10 minutes.

Okay, cool.

What you want me to do? I’m going to take me a shower.

You got to leave.

All right.

You got to leave.

Take me a shower.

All right.

I’m gone.

Take me a shower.

You got to leave.

Got me a bar of soap.

A couple bars of soap.

Yeah.

A couple bars of soap.

Make sure Oh.

Oh, you got to take Should I make woodoo in this [ __ ] Should I make woodoo in it? Make Gucci in it.

Make Gucci in it.

Yeah.

I’m trying to tell him.

[ __ ] I ain’t cleaning up.

I don’t feel like I’m cleaning up, K ass.

You feel like I’m cleaning up? K ass.

[ __ ] Don’t forget to get behind your ears.

My mama always told me that.

Don’t forget behind your ears.

>> [laughter] >> Fam, goon.

In a July the 6th, 2017 My Mixtape interview, Ralo refers to his apartment complex that the Fam Goons run their operation from by the nickname Pakistan, with Ralo promising that they don’t sell drugs from those apartments, as well as revealing that in this complex he provides everything for his Fam Goons.

>> We got a lot of money.

We sit up here and we pray.

We ain’t doing no [ __ ] [ __ ] We ain’t selling no dope over here in the apartments.

I’m Mr.

Dog Food.

I’ve been did that.

Ain’t got to do that again in my life.

You could done near call this a homeless shelter if you want to, cuz all my [ __ ] ain’t got [ __ ] but me.

All the clothes they wear, I buy their clothes.

All the cars they drive, my cars.

Then, in July 2017, Ralo would drop a joint mixtape with his new label boss Gucci Mane, a tape called Ralo La Flare, where he appears on the cover with Gucci Mane’s iconic ice cream cone face tattoo.

And he really channeled his inner Gucci Mane by getting a feature from none other than Atlanta legend OJ da Juiceman.

Hey! He also had the likes of Fetty Wap, Young Thug, and Lil Durk on the album.

And clearly, the project was a big financial success, because the day after its release, Ralo would take to Instagram to flex yet another enormous bankroll and a video of him showing off all his jewelry and yet more pictures posing with money.

In July, Ralo is rubbing shoulders with Travis Scott, who apparently promises to pull up to Pakistan with Quavo.

Then, on the 25th of July, Ralo posts a clip of him driving his new camouflage Lamborghini, along with an explanation of why he still lives in the hood even though he’s rich, saying this is where he wants to be.

This is interesting because it seems to suggest that at this point, Ralo has indeed moved back to the Bluff.

And despite telling Future and others in interviews that he was truly done selling drugs, the Fam America’s operation in his compound at Pakistan didn’t seem to be stopping one bit.

On August the 4th, Ralo continues flexing his Lambo on Instagram, talking about how he used to struggle with rent, but now he owns every house that he stays in, and he continued pushing his music throughout this period.

On August the 15th, dropping the song Never Going Broke with Young Dolph.

And all through the end of August, Ralo continued brazenly flexing his wealth on Instagram.

On August the 30th, posting his crew shopping in the mall saying that he bought something for everyone, as well as showing off much more money.

On September the 5th, he drops a music video for Ralo Back with OJ da Juiceman.

Hey! Unfortunately, it didn’t sound like paradise in Pakistan.

And on September the 8th, Ralo would make a post on social media complaining that the Feds are following him everywhere he goes.

And clearly, Ralo decided then to put on a show for those watching him, because the following week, he returned to social media with a message for Google regarding his net worth, which he said is listed on Google way lower than it is in reality.

Hey.

I just looked on Google.

They stated that my net worth is $500,000.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Listen here.

The apartments cost 2 million dollars, [ __ ] That car cost half a million dollars, [ __ ] That hair academy a vet, [ __ ] I paid $100,000 a piece for them [ __ ] out of funny in the city with them [ __ ] So, you need to go and tell Google stop lying on me.

This [ __ ] everywhere, [ __ ] I [ __ ] pop [ __ ] Fam, goon.

Ralo would go on to show off his six luxury cars in a convoy, along with a new caption where he declares himself to be the new Big Meech like it’s 2004.

A couple of days later, Ralo would go live on Instagram counting $500,000 in a sink.

>> My money I like my money neat, you know what I’m saying? I like my money.

25,000s, you know what I’m saying? That’s how I like my money, you know what I’m saying? But, these ain’t nothing but hundreds.

This [ __ ] $100 right here.

This ain’t nothing but hundreds, you know what I’m saying? You know what I’m saying? You dig that? What you doing? And soon, he would even abandon the alibi that his piles of cash were from the music game, later showing off a huge bag of cash and telling his followers that the money was made in 20 minutes on the block, as well as showing off the machine gun-toting Fam Goons that protect him.

Yeah, [ __ ] 20 minutes.

We made this in 20 minutes, [ __ ] Big old bag.

I [ __ ] pop [ __ ] [ __ ] Fam Goon [ __ ] [ __ ] What going on out here? A whole lot of oxy, bro.

[ __ ] you talking about, [ __ ] I’m about to shoot everything back at this [ __ ] bro.

Yeah.

Then we going to put some money on you, [ __ ] A whole lot of whole whole lot of a whole lot of gang [ __ ] Goon gang goon gang.

I [ __ ] pop [ __ ] Fam Goon.

Perhaps the pressure was getting to Ralo, because on the 28th of September, Ralo would post on Instagram suggesting that he’s stressed, while surrounded by money, of course.

The following month, the music video for his track Shy Glizzy Racks a Stand with Lil Durk releases.

But, even with new music dropping, the facade that Ralo was making his money from music rather than the streets was evaporating by the second.

And soon, Ralo would be expressing his frustrations towards the cops on social media, being seen in an October the 9th, 2017 social media clip after being pulled over in his Lambo, dissing Atlanta cops to their faces and saying that they’re so broke they should come and work for him selling dog food.

I be at home like, “Damn, I ain’t going to do nothing in life.

” Like Like how you going to make something when I leave? But, you got me.

I think if you arrest somebody, that [ __ ] like murder.

You killing somebody.

[ __ ] here [ __ ] ass, you know what I’m This this ball man This ball man probably make 45 to 48,000 a year.

He got to say, “Yes, sir.

” and “No, sir.

” to him.

Yeah, [ __ ] He might as well come to come work for me.

We got the dog food.

>> [laughter] >> 97 applications officers.

Yeah, 97 applications.

So, we tell them our [ __ ] pop [ __ ] >> 12K stop [ __ ] >> Cleaning one [ __ ] I cannot hear.

Every day of my life I wake up 12 on the [ __ ] million dollar [ __ ] Y’all What you What you wake up to? What you got? 10,000? 20,000? Can you count? Even if you saved up that within a 5-year span? I got it.

Broke ass [ __ ] person I hate I literally hate [ __ ] ass police.

I hate when [ __ ] look past.

[ __ ] I know you see this car on my Instagram.

Like, you know that my car.

It ain’t in your name.

Man, I wish you knew how much money I got.

I got a whole bunch of god damn money.

You never in your life will touch no money like that.

[ __ ] you going to always be a [ __ ] 9-to-5 [ __ ] Broke ass [ __ ] You going to be broke for the rest of your life.

The day after this unfortunate run-in with the cops, seemingly showing zero self-awareness, Ralo would show off half a million dollars in a trap house, once again taunting the cops saying 12 can’t stop [ __ ] Fam, go.

Y’all see fam? Y’all see fam? Y’all will see the million dollar.

Damn, look.

This half million dollar, little [ __ ] 12K stop [ __ ] Man, god damn you did it.

You did that.

And on that very same day, Ralo would post an image of himself on a private jet with a huge pile of money.

And later a video would surface where Ralo tells the camera that the pilot has told him there are too many pounds of money on the plane and they’re all going to die.

I just got word from the pilot that we have too many pounds of money on this plane.

And there’s a strong possibility our ass going down.

We finna die.

Just Just I’m just thanking God that I did not fly light.

And I And I flew god damn big weight.

Cuz other than that, our ass was going downtown.

I believe I can fly.

Hey.

Hey.

Too much money on board this [ __ ] See, I was going to go by boat.

But the boat go go down or burn in the water.

So, I said if I got damn fly, at least I die fly [ __ ] You know what I’m saying? Cuz Cuz I wouldn’t put it on the boat.

It was just I hate water, god damn.

So, just take me out the long way.

At this point, trips on private jets are becoming a common occurrence on Ralo’s timeline, no doubt raising a few eyebrows at the local police station.

And then on October the 13th, only a few days after being pulled over in his Lambo, Ralo is back on a private jet clowning around with his goons on the runway.

Hey, man.

We out here.

We live.

We lit.

Private jet.

Let’s turn up a little bit.

We running the world around the [ __ ] I see pop [ __ ] He’s calling the [ __ ] [ __ ] Oh, [ __ ] Won’t get no service up here.

Hello.

I can’t I can’t call my [ __ ] I might as well just look out the window and talk to God.

Won’t get no service up here.

Oh, [ __ ] I think I got a signal.

Yo, [ __ ] let call me.

During one of these trips, Ralo takes a picture on a plane reading Gucci Mane’s biography that would later become one of his most famous album covers.

However, unfortunately for Ralo, these private jet trips wouldn’t stay private for very long.

And the cops would eventually catch wind of his interstate trafficking operation and moving in to shut down the Fam Goons operation.

On November the 24th, 2017, Ralo dropped his Plugged In With The Cartel mixtape with DJ Cutthroat.

A mixtape title which may or may not have been low-key self-snitching, but anyway.

It featured a track with a Young Thug called Red Dot, as well as the track I Made Myself a Boss, which came with a music video where Ralo shows off a whole lot of money on a private jet.

Then on December the 3rd, 2017, Ralo would post one of the biggest piles of cash yet, along with a bold caption where he claims to pay his taxes so that he can post this kind of picture.

Oh, Ralo, if only it was that easy.

On December the 5th, 2017, Ralo would drop one of the biggest songs of his career, a track with Lil Baby called Lil Cali and Pakistan, named after the apartment complex he runs his drug empire out of.

This would go on to be one of his most popular songs ever, racking up a whopping 23 million views on YouTube.

And the music video featured Ralo and Baby posing next to another enormous pile of cash.

Ralo would be seen on his social media hanging out with Lil Baby’s 4PF crew while the shoot was going on, but little did Ralo know that his good times would soon be coming to an end.

Of course, he would obliviously or recklessly continue posting images on private jets with huge amounts of money and posing in front of exotic cars with huge loads of money and on the phone with huge piles of money.

But little did Ralo know, however, that during this time he was slipping up on numerous fronts.

Because on December the 18th, 2017, Ralo and a group of 10 Fam Goons boarded a flight from Fulton County Airport to Sacramento, California.

However, what they didn’t realize was that the Feds had been watching Fam Erica this whole time.

And a subsequent indictment would reveal that surveillance teams made up of the ATF, FBI, and Georgia State Patrol would be tracking Ralo and waiting for his jet to return.

And then on December the 22nd, 2017, apparently after returning to Fulton County Airport on a private jet, Ralo’s team would be spotted unloading 37 packages from the plane after insisting that the flight crew do not help move them.

The cops would then let Ralo and Fam Erica leave the airport, but soon after that van containing the 37 packages is stopped by authorities after driving a significant distance in the dark with no lights on.

Turns out that van was registered to Ralo’s address.

And when the cops approached the van, they noted a strong odor of marijuana.

Looking inside, they would find 520 pounds of weed worth an alleged million dollars.

Ralo himself isn’t actually there at this point, but all of his goons are caught in possession of drugs and matching Fam Erica merch in nearly every bag in the vehicle.

Oh, and just for good measure, Ralo’s personal ID was also found in a bag next to all of the bags full of weed.

The bust in itself is insane, but what’s more crazy is what happened next.

Because Ralo wasn’t in the van that got pulled over, and for the time being, he would get away.

But instead of lay low and keep his big mouth shut, just the very next day, Ralo would post an image to Instagram along with a caption saying that he just lost a million dollars in one go, referring directly to the million dollars in weed that the Feds had just seized from the Fam Goons van.

I mean, how how dumb can you get, really? This post would of course be seen by the cops who would later quote it in an indictment as proof that Ralo had been the beneficiary of the one million dollars in smuggled kush that had been seized.

But to make matters worse, cops also claimed to have found a clip on Ralo’s Instagram from the day before the bust showing him getting onto the private jet surrounded by his Fam Erica clad goons wearing the merch that was found in the bags in the van.

With this being a reference to a promo video for his trending freestyle filmed on the plane runway only days before.

But clearly not discouraged by the heat of the authorities’ attention, Ralo would immediately go back to Atlanta splashing out on luxury vehicles as gifts for his friends and family.

>> [screaming] >> With this followed by another Instagram post where Ralo would brag about owning every house on his street.

Ralo would also take to the internet to prove that his hundred thousand dollar diamond grill is real diamonds.

>> What up, homeboy? Hold on.

Hey, man, this [ __ ] real, [ __ ] We ain’t faking on y’all [ __ ] Guinness Book of World Records, [ __ ] Pick any diamond in my [ __ ] Ralo mouth, [ __ ] This [ __ ] certified cartel [ __ ] Plugged in with the cartel.

You goes from the left side to the right side.

However, on December the 30th, 2017, Ralo would post an old picture of himself on a plane with a table full of money again.

But this time, something’s different.

Because this post came with a caption where Ralo says that he’s done with all of this flashy stuff and asks, “What’s next?” Perhaps Ralo knew that his days on the streets were numbered.

And this post was a last-minute attempt to change direction and protect himself from an eventual downfall.

Or perhaps he truly had made so much money and bought everything he could possibly want, he was truly looking for a new challenge.

Or perhaps he knew that deep down the jewelry, cars, money, and planes were over.

Because the unfortunate answer to the question, “What’s next for Ralo?” would end up being, rather predictably, prison.

>> >> Despite having already had a taste of police attention after his million dollar dope seizure, Ralo would spend his final months of freedom flexing his drug money for all to see.

On January the 3rd, 2018, he would post to Instagram telling his followers that his mood all 2018 is going to be prayer, grind, and forcing his team to look like money.

But 10 days later, Ralo’s mood seemed to change.

As he would take to social media to call people around him out for begging him for money.

Ralo tired of people begging him for money.

Perhaps if he didn’t want people begging him for money, he shouldn’t keep posting pictures on Instagram flexing millions of dollars.

But by God, even with the knowledge that the Feds were only a few steps behind him, Ralo would continue all through January posting incriminating pictures to Instagram.

Like this January the 20th, 2018 photo of Ralo showing off a suitcase full of cash along with the caption reading, “Only a stupid man would think he could sell dope forever without going to prison forever.

The man that wins the game is the man that runs his money up and run away from that [ __ ] And that’s the reason they call me #MrDogFood.

I won.

” Clearly he thought he had gotten away with it and he was just taunting the police at this point.

I mean, he’s still calling himself Mr.

Dog Food for God’s sake.

And Ralo would continue flexing, posting more and more brazen pictures on private jets with ungodly amounts of money.

Here he is in his bathroom with bundles.

And then on January the 22nd, he would release a music video for his new track A Thousand Dollars, where he would appear in that video on a private jet flexing a few thousand thousand dollars.

He would then go on tour being seen on Instagram as his tour bus arrives telling fans that he went from a prison bus to a tour bus.

Yeah, man.

We went from a [ __ ] prison bus to a tour bus, [ __ ] From a cop car to a Lamborghini, [ __ ] From the big house to a big house, [ __ ] Ah, [ __ ] Part [ __ ] Diary of the Streets 3.

Go get that, fam.

Ralo’s tour would be to promote his new mixtape Diary of the Streets 3, releasing on February the 9th, 2018.

With the cover up for this project being that picture of Ralo sat with a pile of money whilst reading his mentor Gucci Mane’s biography on the jet.

An infamous picture taken just before his crew got busted back in December.

The album itself would feature collabs from big hitters like Young Thug, YFN Lucci, Key Glock, Lil Baby, Young Dolph, Boosie, Gucci Mane, and Future.

And for the outro of the album, there was a track called 12 Can’t Stop [ __ ] where Ralo essentially says that he’s the new Big Meech of Atlanta and saying that he made a whopping 20 million dollars from drug dealing.

Another reference to the BMF or Black Mafia Family drug kingpin Big Meech, who ran the drug game in Atlanta in the early 2000s.

Perhaps after releasing more music, Ralo was feeling invincible once again.

Because only a week after that project dropped, on February the 16th, 2018, Ralo would post a fresh picture on Instagram standing in front of a fresh yellow Lamborghini.

Along with a caption suggesting that he had gone back to the same gas station where he had been arrested in this Lamborghini.

And then a couple of days later, footage emerges of Ralo picking up his Lamborghini from the police impound lot, where he complains that the cops damaged his car in the process.

I’m going to go ahead and get my [ __ ] Lamborghini.

Now, that’s the story, [ __ ] I came to pick up the Lamborghini.

They say Ralo.

I’m Ralo.

I deserve to have what belong to me.

Y’all know what I did.

Tore all my [ __ ] up, man.

From here, Ralo would continue to associate himself with private jets.

On February the 23rd, releasing a video for the song Swear to God, with a whole lot of the video recorded in an aircraft hangar depicting Ralo getting off of private jets.

Clearly the cops would be looking at him closely during this period as only the following day, on February the 24th, a clip would be posted to his Instagram which showed the cops searching his tour bus.

[ __ ] 12.

[ __ ] them.

[ __ ] 12.

And this would be followed by more brazen clips where Ralo shows off a whole bunch of guns on the bus after the raid.

And we still love you, [ __ ] Still loaded with the dracos.

Everybody else doing that doing it apparently.

We still loaded.

Still putting one in a [ __ ] [ __ ] Ah, [ __ ] Part [ __ ] Still hands on [ __ ] Still loaded.

Still armed and dangerous.

Riding out with them, [ __ ] We riding out with the dracos.

Another clip would later be posted to Instagram where Ralo shows himself getting searched by airport TSA.

Along with a caption where he says that he is now flagged at every airport.

Man, I never been searched so much in my [ __ ] whole life of living.

Not even in prison.

[ __ ] ain’t doing no cavity check over here.

They still searching my bag.

They done [ __ ] up my little book bag.

Going up stairs.

TSA can’t stop [ __ ] 12 can’t stop [ __ ] TSA can’t stop [ __ ] Can’t nobody stop greatness, [ __ ] And I broke my cameraman camera.

Got off the escalator station.

They pulled up on us.

And a day later, he would have posted another video to social media showing just how much trouble he was getting in at the airport.

Along with a spectacular caption that read, “Today I’mma pay every lawyer I know.

I’m checking every person that come around me.

I don’t want no illegal guns, drugs, or criminal activity near me.

I’m telling my accountant to pay taxes on every dollar I made.

Every beef I ever got into, y’all won.

I don’t want no smoke.

All my goons got license to carry and secure me.

I will be protected and respected forever.

The [ __ ] they’re doing to me is on a whole ‘nother level.

Y’all won’t Big Meech me.

[ __ ] all that.

#FreeRalo [ __ ] I’mma be here.

Dear Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security, Dr.ug Task Force, Gang Task Force, GBI, #MrDogFood is retired.

I pray y’all understand that Islam doesn’t make me a terrorist.

It made me a better man.

I’m no threat to the American soil.

I love my country, my community.

I pay my taxes.

And when I say 12 can’t stop [ __ ] I mean that with all my heart cuz no human being can stop God’s work.

As-salamu alaykum.

” They waiting on me over here, TSA.

I’m waiting on you, little boy.

Y’all know the roadblock.

All right.

All right.

We almost through it.

Here you go.

Hey, got it.

Thank you.

They got a roadblock waiting on me.

Oh, [ __ ] Let’s go dollars, man.

Keep that dog food like I’m Ralo.

I ain’t scared.

There you go.

They let me leave again? No, y’all are good.

Oh, yeah? Have a good night.

Y’all are the best, man.

I need y’all to keep seeing part [ __ ] Tell them that 12 can’t stop [ __ ] Considering all the problems Ralo was having around this time, you would really think that he would lay low and stop doing things to get under the authority’s skin.

But let’s not forget, Ralo really wanted to be Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family.

And what he does next is truly crazy.

Because Ralo wanted to be Big Meech so bad that he rented the same billboard that BMF took out at the height of their trafficking operations to market the record label that they were using to launder their drug money.

With Ralo doing the very same thing, proudly displaying his Diary of the Streets mixtape on the very same billboard for the whole world to see.

And he would post a clip of this billboard along with a caption that read, “I heard this was the billboard the government got mad at Big Meech about.

Guess who the [ __ ] got it now, right on 285.

#Ralo.

Respect the hustle.

Respect a man that’s out here making a difference and taking care of his community.

I brought love and loyalty to the game.

It’s not another artist in the industry promoting Islam more than me.

I put that act [ __ ] pop [ __ ] on the map.

Thank God, not Ralo.

” Now, he knows this is going to make the government mad and he’s doing it anyway.

From here, Ralo would continue to post clips complaining about getting searched by TSA at the airport.

I see what I’m doing now.

I need you.

Another day at the [ __ ] airport.

They harassing me.

I don’t feel like I’m a first citizen of this country.

I don’t feel like I was born in America.

Is it a red flag or something on my name? I don’t feel on that.

I can’t answer cuz I really don’t know.

She was the nicest person I ever did it.

Restaurant treat a [ __ ] like drug dealer kingpin.

Got the red dogs over there waiting on me.

Got them red clips over there.

They waiting on me to come down there.

They took me off the plane.

I can’t get on the plane.

And now I’m off the plane.

They kicked me off the plane.

They still won’t let them people fly.

And interestingly, that clip would come along with a caption that was kind of illuminating when it comes to working out how Ralo thinks.

With Ralo sarcastically saying, “Like I’m really flying bricks of dog food through TSA.

Whatever y’all looking for, y’all ain’t going to find it cuz it no longer exists.

” And after this, on March the 5th, 2018, Ralo does a promotional interview for Vibe magazine, where he appears sat next to an enormous pile of cash as he does.

With the article explaining how Ralo transitioned from a local heroin dealer to a self-made millionaire of the rap game.

But elsewhere in the interview, Ralo was also putting on display just how ignorant and reckless he was being with his life at this point.

Claiming elsewhere to have briefly followed Young Thug’s advice and move out of the hood.

But ultimately saying he didn’t even finish his lease in the suburbs before moving back to the bluff to be with his people.

Even going as far as to say that he tried to buy back his entire project building, but he didn’t want to spend the $2 million that they quoted him for the sale.

Ralo was not only recklessly showing off his ill-gotten wealth on social media, but he was also doing detailed interviews on the inner workings of his massive financial empire that he built off the back of slinging dog food.

And all while the cops are watching his every move.

Having just seized a million dollars of drugs from him only 3 months before.

I mean, it’s just wild that Ralo would behave this way.

And he would go on to do an extensive VladTV interview where he would reveal that he owns four houses and 26 apartment units on his block.

>> I own five houses and I own 26 apartment units.

[ __ ] you can call it what you want to call it.

We call it Pakistan.

Ralo would also reveal to Vlad that he thought the cops were going to put him in prison and that the FBI follow him wherever he goes.

I said these [ __ ] finna send me to prison for the rest of my life.

I got to leave this [ __ ] alone.

It weren’t no [ __ ] rap [ __ ] Hell no, Vlad.

Continue with criminal enterprise and all this [ __ ] Big Meech knows about.

Like, I was like, hell no.

Soon as you get off the plane, they tell you the FBI just was there.

You’d be like, goddamn, dog.

Yeah, even though he knew the feds were trailing him, Ralo would continue to shoot music videos on a bunch of private planes.

With this last one being for his song Dr.eam Last Night, a track that came along with several prophetic lyrics where Ralo says that he’s rich off dog food, but he won’t get locked up like Big Meech from BMF.

Throughout April 2018, Ralo would repeatedly diss the police on social media.

On April the 6th, Ralo posts “F the police” on his Instagram timeline.

Then a few days later on April the 8th, Ralo posts a caption on his IG claiming once again to have made $20 million in his 20s.

Then on April the 13th, he would post on Instagram with an angry caption telling all policemen to suck each other’s thing-a-lings.

Then on April the 14th, he would post a bizarre video showing a comedy sketch where a little person fights a little policeman.

However strange it was, sadly that would be one of the last things that Ralo would post on social media personally.

Perhaps he should have spent his final days of freedom ducking the police rather than taunting them on Instagram because the very same day of that post, his whole operation would come crashing down.

>> >> On April the 14th, 2018, the ATF and FBI received information that Ralo was repeating his trafficking routine, flying by private jet to Sacramento, California and back in a matter of days.

With cops naturally deciding to surveil him.

Tracking his cell phone to the infamous Murder Mountain in Humboldt County, the California cannabis growing hotspot made famous by the Netflix documentary of the same name.

Clearly this is where Ralo and his Fam Goons were sourcing their packages.

And when Ralo is leaving Sacramento on the 14th, he’s seen on the tarmac with five men and a woman wearing Fam America clothing and loading 17 packages onto the jet.

With the wrapping and the size of these packages being suspiciously familiar to the ones that the Fam Goons were busted with in December 2017.

The cops would wait for Ralo’s entourage to arrive back in Atlanta on April the 15th.

Apparently overhearing communications between the plane and the runway requesting that no staff touch packages coming off of the plane.

And when that plane does touch down, the cops move in and take eight passengers into custody.

With Ralo swinging the jet door shut when he saw the cops and holing himself up inside.

And it turns out apparently the Fam Goons couldn’t even wait to touch down to start smoking.

With pilots later reporting that Mary Jane was being smoked mid-flight.

And the cops on the runway claimed that they could smell marijuana coming from the plane when it landed.

At this point, Ralo refused to comply with the cops’ orders, forcing the cops to force entry onto the plane where Ralo was holed up.

With the cops even sending in a K9 unit to secure Ralo who surrendered upon being face-to-face with an angry police dog.

Once inside, the cops would find 17 packages, each containing 25 pounds of ganja, a total of 444 pounds of weed with an estimated street value of $840,000.

Now, nine individuals were arrested at the scene and a full indictment was handed down on April the 17th, 2018.

The criminal complaint would outline the case against Ralo and it wasn’t looking good.

The indictment implicated Ralo alongside his co-defendants in the December 22nd, 2017 million-dollar marijuana drug bust.

With the affidavit accusing Ralo of being the leader of Fam America, a criminal street gang.

And concluding that Ralo and the Fam Goons knowingly participated in a conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.

And then the following day, the news of Ralo’s arrest would break in numerous media outlets.

And soon after the raid of the private jet on the runway, footage would emerge showing police raiding Ralo’s compound known as Pakistan.

Tonight, a major raid on a Southwest Atlanta home.

And we now know that house belongs to an Atlanta rapper named Ralo.

A witness did say the feds had that house surrounded.

>> Now, I do know that Ralo was not here at the time of the raid because he’s already in jail.

The FBI, Homeland Security, Atlanta police surrounded this brick apartment complex on Lucille Avenue in Southwest Atlanta.

Fox 5 has learned the complex belongs to Terrell Davis, also known as Ralo, an Atlanta rapper.

Neighbors say several cars were hauled off including a yellow Lamborghini.

Ralo wasn’t here at the time of the raid.

He’s been in the DeKalb County jail since Sunday when police arrested him on a criminal conspiracy charge.

Wednesday night, DeKalb police told us their narcotics unit says the charges against Ralo are now being handled by the ATF because it’s a federal case.

Making matters much worse, a gun would then be found in Ralo’s home.

The news would continue reporting the details that Ralo has been named as the leader of the Fam America gang.

>> An Atlanta rapper accused tonight of leading a gang that was allegedly caught trying to move nearly $2 million worth of pot through metro Atlanta.

>> And now, criminal complaint alleges the rapper who’s called this apartment complex in Atlanta home, a complex just raided yesterday, is the leader of a gang referred to as Fam America, a name Ralo regularly uses to refer to his music team.

And at this point, things were not looking good for Ralo and the other Fam Goons.

Yet only the day after this bust, Ralo would release the recklessly titled compilation album 12 Can’t Stop [ __ ] The project came with a cover art featuring Ralo quite literally giving the middle finger to the cops.

And the project itself had a selection of some of Ralo’s biggest songs and features of his career.

Clearly while Ralo was in jail, his team were on the outside getting busy and trying to keep things moving.

Following the raid on Pakistan, Ralo’s manager Queen would come out to suggest that she believes Ralo was being targeted simply due to his lyrics and that he plans to plead not guilty.

Ralo’s manager Queen is brought to tears.

She says sometime next week, 23-year-old Ralo will plead not guilty to the charges brought against him.

He’s facing several allegations and was arrested last weekend at PDK after police found marijuana in the cargo area.

The criminal complaint says he’s the leader of a gang called Fam America.

His manager wants to clear that up.

>> And what is Fam America? >> Fam America is the record label that Ralo started.

Uh he started that so that he’ll be able to sign artists.

He signed himself.

The sad part is that I don’t understand why when black people come together, it can be considered a gang.

Just because I love my brother and I want to be around my brother, why is that a gang? He has been targeted because of his song, because of his lyrics, because of his face.

His Instagram is also mentioned in the complaint documents.

Um what was your reaction when you saw that they actually quoted an Instagram caption? I mean, everybody knows that Instagram is for entertainment.

I mean, how many people that you know put on a show for Instagram? Everyone.

>> Ralo would initially attempt to get bailed, but he would be denied when the cops accused him of continuing to run his drug empire from behind bars.

It’s real-life crime drama.

Famous Atlanta rapper Ralo is just minutes from being released on bail when shocking new evidence keeps him behind bars.

Evidence that prosecutors say shows the rapper is still running a drug empire from behind bars.

Prosecutors read a series of cryptic handwritten notes that they say they found in a purse that belonged to Ralo’s girlfriend.

In those notes, prosecutors say were instructions from the rapper Ralo telling others how to run his business while he’s locked up.

>> So, Ralo would remain stuck in jail.

But at least he would continue to release music and videos from inside.

For example, on June the 7th, 2018, Ralo would drop a music video for his cop-hating anthem 12 Can’t Stop [ __ ] And this would come along with an intro featuring earlier footage of Ralo abusing Atlanta cops for not having as much money as him after he was pulled over in his Lambo that time.

It also featured lots of B-roll of him performing in an aircraft hangar surrounded by private planes.

You know, the things he uses to smuggle packs.

And the music video also featured an outro where Ralo is taken away in a cop car.

You know, that thing that happened as a result of his crimes.

On May the 9th, 2018, Ralo would appear in a phone-in interview with 11Alive News.

Where he explains he believes he was wrongfully targeted.

>> A chance to share his side of the story.

I feel like they kind of wrongfully targeted me.

It let me know that social media is probably one of the strongest things in our lives right now.

Prosecutors are using his social media posts and captions against him, something his attorneys argue is just for entertainment.

>> And I realized how big I was and how powerful I was.

And like I had to know whatever I say, they’re going to follow me and people going to take it in very hard.

So, we got to be careful what we say.

Cuz people going to follow whatever we say.

And if we say something wrong, then we’ll lead people in the wrong direction.

I mean, I’m very appreciative towards everything that everybody done for me.

Like, no drugs was ever sold at my apartment complex.

All the cars and stuff that I bought, like, none of them was for me.

That was for my family.

I save all my money.

I put my money into my property.

I put my money into my people.

>> But wrongfully accused or not, Ralo would be stuck in jail for quite some time, spending several years inside awaiting developments in his case with the outcome in the end ultimately being a significant L for Ralo.

>> >> Despite being locked up on serious charges, Ralo’s name was still ringing in the streets.

He dropped a music video for his new big collab with NBA YoungBoy “Rainstorm” whilst behind bars.

And in his absence, other big figures in the rap game were paying homage, like Yella the Kid, who would compare Ralo to BMS Big Meech, something that you know he would have loved.

>> Let’s keep it real.

Big Meech is a is a is a is a real [ __ ] He was doing the same [ __ ] You You got billboards in Atlanta.

You [ __ ] ain’t sold no records yet.

If Ralo and Meech and and [ __ ] like that could do that [ __ ] over, they would.

>> >> But, [ __ ] be doing [ __ ] for the gram.

You can’t be doing [ __ ] for the gram when you really moving grams.

On October the 12th, 2018, despite the ongoing legal struggles, Ralo releases more music, dropping his Conspiracy project along with a front cover art referencing his legal case.

And of course, with a large photo of him holding a big old bale of cash.

And whoever’s in control of Ralo’s social media definitely has a good sense of humor because on November the 2nd, 2018, they would continue posting pictures of Ralo with suitcases full of cash.

In February 2019, rumors would begin to circulate that Ralo had been offered a 5-year sentence as part of a plea deal.

However, Ralo would reportedly reject this, saying he doesn’t fold.

And apparently, as soon as he turned the deal down, he would go back to his cell and feed his old dog snacks.

2 months later, in April 2019, a petition for Joe Biden to pardon Ralo picks up steam and 50,000 signatures.

This was naturally unsuccessful.

On June the 29th, 2019, Ralo would drop his new project Free Ralo.

That was also not successful in securing Ralo’s release as month after month would go by and he would continue to rot in prison, seemingly forgotten by feds and fans alike with no sign of a trial or resolution in sight.

In October 2019, Ralo would appear on Instagram live from prison with him apparently claiming control of the prison along with his fam goons.

Yeah, [ __ ] Walked through this jail like I own something, [ __ ] I run this [ __ ] I rented it.

It’s mine, [ __ ] Free my [ __ ] bro, [ __ ] Fell.

Cool.

Wreck jail.

Wreck the whole jail.

We always wanted to know.

>> We always figured it’d be a way out of that [ __ ] troll.

Daddy, what We control the [ __ ] troll.

Control the [ __ ] We control the streets.

Control bull all that [ __ ] [ __ ] Fell.

Cool.

Then in February 2020, Ralo checks in from behind bars with DJ Scream, appearing to be in good spirits.

Ralo, what’s up, bro? Talk to us.

Man, you know what’s up.

All right, [ __ ] pop [ __ ] You know what I’m saying? So, I can’t stop [ __ ] dying.

>> Ralo would complain, saying if it wasn’t for people ratting, he would be a free man right now.

>> So, we’re here for the facts, man.

When you coming home, man? The streets miss you.

The facts is The facts is Ralo one of you rat ass [ __ ] I could have been out.

Ralo would also explain that he was debating whether or not to take a plea deal, suggesting that having already been in jail for 22 months means he’s already served a significant amount of time regardless of what his eventual sentence ends up being.

Mhm.

I’ve been locked up 22 months.

So, you add the 22 with the 13 months I’ll be out and 15 months if push come to shove, but >> if worst come to worst, if worst come to worst, you got 15 months.

If worst come to worst, I’mma take the plea.

But, right now, it’s socker.

>> [laughter] >> Ralo’s time being interviewed would be cut short, unfortunately, as other inmates behind him would continually fight over who gets to use the phone line.

My what? I don’t know how you going to let me do that.

Man, I can’t do [ __ ] like that.

I’m a I was in the middle for something.

I’m a celebrity.

>> [laughter] >> This [ __ ] is crazy.

No, man.

No.

What the hell is he hanging up? This [ __ ] Ralo calling.

On January the 6th, 2020, news would break that Ralo would be getting a quarter of a million dollar bond and he would be subject to strict conditions, including 24 hour a day lockdown at a designated property, an ankle monitor, and no outside communication by phone, email, or social media.

However, Ralo’s hopes of getting out would soon be dashed when reports surfaced of him still selling drugs from inside the jail with news coming out in December suggesting that Ralo had used an Apple Watch to slang dope from his cell with the feds reportedly seizing a million dollars worth from him amid these back and forths.

Then in March 2021, Ralo would make yet another attempt to get out of jail with another petition calling for Ralo’s freedom coming from an organization called Mission Green being sent to President Biden.

This petition received supporting signatures from many rap heavy hitters like Dr.ake, Lil Baby, and T.

I.

And of course, this naturally went nowhere.

As time went on, Ralo or his team would post written statements to his Instagram like this one where Ralo complains about fighting an inner battle after one of his friends turned on him, saying he just wants to put all of this behind him and move on in life.

He would speak out from jail again in a September the 9th, 2021 Off the Porch interview where he thanked his homies in Pakistan for holding it down for him whilst he’s in jail.

You know, my [ __ ] in Pakistan, they they holding it down for a partner since I’ve been incarcerated.

>> Whilst still in jail on September the 10th, 2021, Ralo would drop his latest project Political Prisoner.

And then the following month, Ralo would make a post on IG suggesting that his case would soon be coming to a close, followed by another of him praying and saying the moment he got the call that the feds were on the runway, he knew that it was all over.

Eventually announcing in January 2022 that he would finally be seeing his court case in March.

And in the end, Ralo would be sentenced to 8 years in federal prison.

Reacting to the news in a statement on Instagram which read, “The judge sentenced Ralo to 8 years in federal prison.

He was given over 4 years credit for time served and they also credited him with 1 and 1/2 years for good time.

He was recommended 1 year ankle monitor after the halfway house prove his home address, which will bring him home to us late next year.

But, our goal is for him to complete his GED or RDAP drug program so we can get another year off his sentence.

That will bring him home to us in less than a year.

We need prayer hands.

#freeralo.

” So, for being caught smuggling close to 2 million dollars of dope into Atlanta, Mr.

Dog Food would wind up getting 8 years in jail with rewards for time served and good behavior ultimately meaning that Ralo has an expected release date of 2023.

Basically, 5 years in jail from the date that he was caught on the runway with all of those packs.

And I really wish I could say that Ralo learned his lesson, but realistically, it’s hard to believe that he’s going to come out of this situation a changed man.

Making millions of legitimate dollars in the music industry wasn’t enough to keep him out of the bluff.

So, I’m kind of not convinced that 5 years behind bars still slinging dope off the Apple Watch is going to make him change his ways.

Ralo’s story is really the dope dealer speed run.

He became the new Big Meech of Atlanta in breakneck speed, using that money to buy his way to the top of the rap game and legitimize at least some of his income.

But, it’s really a tragedy that he still felt the need after all of this to return to his community and continue poisoning it with loads of drug.