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This I know if y'all had proof of me robbing somebody, we wouldn't even be talking.
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Y'all would have cuffed me, I would be charged with it. That's what I know, bro.
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In January of 2020, DaBaby, aka Jonathan Kirk, was supposed to be playing a show
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at a nightclub in Miami. But when the owner paid him only 20 out of the $30,000 he owed him, things got out of
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hand fast. The victim alleged that Kirk punched him in the face multiple times before he was attacked by more of Kirk's
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crew. He was beaten up and knocked to the ground before being robbed for his phone, his credit card, and $80 cash.
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The only footage of the event was this piece of obscured CCTV footage. Kirk fled the scene in a blank SUV before
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returning to the hotel a few hours later, only to be met by both of the victims and a team of police waiting to
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arrest him. He was escorted to the police station and told he was only there as part of an investigation.
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Sir, we just got to do our investigation, and that's it. But as it would turn out, the investigation
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wouldn't be that simple. And unfortunately for the cops, Kirk spent his hour in the interrogation room
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displaying exactly what to do in this situation and making the cops' lives as difficult as he possibly could. What's
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your full name? Come on. Come on. So, what do you want What do you want to get from you? I mean, this is just a
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formality. Just to get your name, your date of birth, and all that stuff from This is a formality. This is all capital
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letters. Immediately, it's obvious that this isn't going to be an easy one for the
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detectives. Kirk starts off by refusing to answer any of the officers' questions, even just regarding his own
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name. He's already been read his Miranda rights, informing him that he has the right to remain silent, so it seems as
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though he's choosing to do just that. Interestingly, however, he is choosing to waive his right to a lawyer. And
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let's be honest here, it's not because he can't afford it. The best course of action if you're ever put in this
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scenario is to stay silent and ask for a lawyer. But this time, Kirk is confident
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that he'll be able to wriggle out of this himself, as long as he chooses his words carefully. An incident occurred
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at the hotel, 1500 Southwest First Avenue. That you were there for. Correct? What incident? An incident you you had
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an altercation with somebody. No. You didn't. Did you have any dealings with you and somebody?
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No. You didn't. No. So, somebody didn't bring you $20,000 in front of the hotel in your SUV?
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No. Somebody had somebody bring $20,000 that would have paid and lied to them and told them that it was going to be on
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the 31st. And lied to them, that person, once he realized they were doing bad business,
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said nah and left with his $20,000. Okay, so you didn't and got my contact information to do business the right
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way. That's what happened. Well, what time was this at? I don't know. Whatever time they told y'all. Whatever time
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Whatever time the cameras show me not robbing nobody, that time. Kirk is claiming that he had nothing to do with
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anything that happened outside. His story is somewhat unclear, but he's essentially saying that his manager was
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talking with an event promoter about playing at a nightclub called Cafe Iguana Pines. But it turns out the money
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that they were offering was stolen, and the promoter was acting strange during the deal. So, instead of taking it and
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going through with it anyway, he told them to get their act together and left without an argument. This, of course,
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does not explain the altercation outside that was clearly caught on camera, but with the footage unclear and no
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witnesses nearby to identify the assailants, as long as Kirk sticks to his story, theoretically, things should
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be perfectly fine. Common sense. Common sense. You know what I mean to even be down here? If a promoter booked
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me at that hotel, I didn't pay to be at that hotel. It was paid for. You would have let me in my room, you
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would have saw close to a quarter million dollars cash, legally hard-earned money.
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I don't have to take nothing from nobody, bro. So, let me ask you this. I will go outside here right now and throw
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$10,000 in the air. Like, I do not care about no money. I don't, bro. Was there an argument? No, it wasn't an
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argument. I didn't argue with a soul. I didn't argue with a soul. Voice was never raised. It was never aggressive.
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None of this from me. None of that. Was there a fight? None of it. No, I didn't see no fight.
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And nothing was taken. We shouldn't be in no robbery unit, bro. So, when y'all get done with what y'all
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doing, y'all need to do y'all job. Y'all need to file y'all process. Y'all need to arrest whoever gave y'all these false
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allegations, bro. This While it may just look like Kirk is flexing his rapper money here, this is actually
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a very good point for him to bring up in this situation. If he's doing random $30,000 deals on a weekday and paying
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for hundreds of thousands of people per month, what does he need $80 and an iPhone for? The further he can place
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himself from this event, both literally and figuratively, the better. From Kirk's point of view, he was nowhere
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near that crime. He had no reason to commit that crime, and he has sound and reasonable explanation for his
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whereabouts at the time. However, from the detective's side, a crime was committed, and Kirk's vehicle was right
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there as it happened. So, they need to try and extract the information needed to piece his day together to come up
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with a story that Kirk cannot argue with. That forces him into a confession. When I got you in the hotel, you came
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back to the the concierge counter. Where were you coming from at that point? From Whatever
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Whatever I I went to get some food. Where is that? I don't know the name of the place. You
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don't know? No. How'd you get there? In a car. What kind of car was it? Was it a car you drove or somebody else
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drove? Uber. An Uber? Yeah. What kind of car was it? Small car, SUV, truck? I don't know. Let's talk about what
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matters. That's why we're That's why we're here. Talk about what y'all need to get me out
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of this stuff. What I'm driving in, the car what I went to go eat, what time I went, that don't
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have nothing to do with the fact I ain't robbed a damn soul. Me, nobody around me, ain't nobody
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robbing nobody. Let's take the word robbery out of the picture. So, why are we here? We taking the word out robbery
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out of the picture. Y'all too. Y'all are robbery detectives. This is robbery unit. That's That's the second word you
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said. That's the second word he said when he came in here, robbery. Come on, bro.
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Okay, listen. He told me he he has to question me about a robbery when I walk in my hotel. Robbery?
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I had every answer to the question you needed right there. Well, that ain't it. That's false. I can throw that out the
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window. We talking about robbery, bro. It's nothing for me to talk about. I didn't rob nobody.
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you think that we we just woke up this morning and decided to just I think y'all got a phone call from somebody
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that that's already a liar. I know they're lying. Got a phone call from somebody that's a liar, and y'all bought
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it. Y'all believe it. Y'all got me in here and here Y'all put me in handcuffs. Brought me outside hotel in handcuffs.
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Cameras and all on me. Come on, bro. This is bad for what I got going on. And I ain't even do to that man.
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Even without a lawyer present, Kirk knows exactly what to do. He currently has the upper hand in this interrogation
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and needs to keep it that way. The cops are searching for anything that puts Kirk at the scene of the crime, but by
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redirecting the conversation away from that, back to what he thinks is actually important, there's no realistic way that
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they'll be able to get what they need. But even though he's winning, it's still worth noting how strange it is that he's
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not asking for a lawyer. Kirk obviously knows exactly what to do in an interrogation and has clearly spent time
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learning what to do. If that's true, he should also know that there's next to no
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scenarios where lawyering up will harm his case. But whether it's an ego thing or just a lapse in his thinking, Kirk is
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definitely still winning this interrogation. But he's about to start absolutely dominating. We talking about
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criminals. When I do business, it's legally it's legally it's legally binding. It's legally binding. Everything I do,
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you have to sign a contract. You got to sign a contract. That contract right now. Well, incident
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happened. Nothing Nothing went wrong. Nothing Nothing happened. There was no None None of that happened.
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There was no fight. There was no scuffle. There was no I ain't fight nobody. I ain't fight nobody. What y'all know is
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too much Y'all know too many lies. You get what I'm saying? That's why y'all got to move backwards like that, bro.
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Like You're saying You're saying You're saying that they're lying, but you don't
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You don't know what we what we have or don't have. Okay. That's why I know I know if y'all I know
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if y'all had proof of me robbing somebody, we wouldn't even be talking. Y'all would have cuffed me, I would be
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charged with it. That's what I know, bro. That's what I know. Now, while this isn't necessarily true in every case, it
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is absolutely true here. If you're in an interrogation room and the cops are trying to find out details of the case
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and accusing you of a crime instead of charging you immediately, it very likely means that they're missing the details
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needed to charge you. In the vast majority of cases, an interrogation is only done to extract a confession when
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they don't have enough evidence to easily convict you otherwise. There are a few other niche scenarios, such as
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trying to figure out why you committed a crime, but it's often very easy to distinguish why exactly you're there
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based on what you know about the event and what questions they're asking. If the cops know that you're guilty and
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have irrefutable evidence, cooperation has a lot of merit. But if they can't prove you did what they say you did,
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stay silent and ask for for lawyer, especially if you're innocent. I ain't no fool. That's the other side of the
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story. My side of the story is I ain't I ain't done nothing I don't have a side of the story cuz I ain't done nothing to
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nobody. So, that's what I was saying. And and before something could be done to me and before something could be done
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to me, I realized I was dealing with with uh uh bad business. And I rewind the stuff from the tape.
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What? Why do you say it was bad business? I already told y'all that you want to rewind this?
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You want to rewind it, bro? I already told y'all, bro. My story not going to come out different no matter how many
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times I say it, bro. It's not, bro. It's right here. So, you press stop and rewind and play, you're
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going to hear why I said it was bad business, bro. Come on, bro. This blowing my phone up all day all night.
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He needed my help. But, here's the thing. He already was in in deep water cuz he's
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already doing and I see why. He's already doing bad business. You see what I'm saying? He has an event
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that wasn't going to go as planned. He needed me to make up for that. He needed me to cover his ass. So, he
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brought in another person right here. Hansel went to him. He thinking he coming to book me for a whole different
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event and they tricking him, got him paying me to come do a walk through tonight.
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Come on, bro. He full of As a matter of fact, check them cameras. Y'all got crime scene investigation unit
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out there. Check the cameras. You see him meet up with somebody else in the lobby. Ask them hey, who's that? Ask
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them. Follow up on what I'm telling y'all. That's what we're trying to get to. I mean, It At the end of the day
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at the end of the day I would expect people to act on common sense anyway. The cops have realized that they're
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definitely not getting anything out of him for now. He's told his side of the story and made it clear that it won't be
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changing, no matter what they say. So, as is the protocol here, the detectives decide to leave the room and spend some
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time outside trying to come up with their next move. This is also often done as it gives the suspect time alone in
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the room to sit and build up anxiety. In many cases, they could actually be the difference between breaking through a
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suspect or not. But, in this case, Kirk literally just shut his eyes and went to
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sleep. This dude really does not care. However, it seems as though the detectives couldn't come up with their
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next step and decided that nothing was going to make this guy budge. The next time a detective returned, it was
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regarding the security of Kirk's belongings that had been left in his hotel room. Even though he hasn't been
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convicted yet, he was still the prime suspect of this investigation. So, he'd be spending some time in jail while they
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figured out what to do and gathered all the evidence they could. So, they just had to figure out what to do with his
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stuff while he was locked up. But, obviously, Kirk refused to let them touch his stuff and just let the hotel
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deal with it. Kirk was facing a possible sentence of up to 15 years in prison plus a $10,000 fine plus any charges
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they could slap him with for the battery. That's only if they could gather enough evidence though. Evidence
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they absolutely were not getting from Kirk or the blocked security footage that was the only evidence the crime
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even took place. So, just after 48 hours in jail, DaBaby was released and sent on
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his way. Just 2 months later, all charges were dropped and he remained a free man.