Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda hopped on social media to fire off a series of Instagram posts, accusing Jay-Z’s Roc Nation attorney Alex Spiro of playing a role in the prison sentence Shmurda received after his 2016 plea deal in connection with his 2014 gun case.
Shmurda, who pleaded guilty in September 2016 to third-degree conspiracy and weapons possession, was sentenced to seven years in prison and was eventually released in February 2021 after serving six years.
“Now This is a billionaire 40 years old man at the time. I was a 19 year old less fortunate youth from the hood trying to make it out and this what they was doing at the top,” Shmurda wrote, according to the post excerpt.
He also claimed he told the court he felt pressured into taking the plea. “I told him I was forced. The judge said he didn’t care he was sending me and all my friends upstate and we can get it on appeal,” he wrote.
Shmurda went on to say that after his release, he believed Roc Nation could help him leave his Epic Records deal, writing, “I knew they were the only one that can give me out of the Epic deal I was held on for six years in prison.”
The posts came after Shmurda criticized Jay-Z’s appearance at the 2026 Roots Picnic, taking aim at the rapper’s freestyle and writing, “N—as be 56 years old going through identity christ [sic].”
