After news of the charges broke, the rapper posted footage that appears to show the alleged victim using a racial slur.
Y’all keep beliving these type of people & helping em assassinate my character y’all might as well get a rope & help him hang my black ass on a tree. ?? pic.twitter.com/miO6daOyQZ
— DaBaby (@DaBabyDaBaby) April 30, 2022
DaBaby is facing both a criminal charge and a civil lawsuit over a 2020 incident in which he allegedly attacked a property manager during a music video shoot at a Los Angeles mansion, prompting the rapper to release a video in which the alleged victim appears to use a racial slur during the encounter.
DaBaby, whose real name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, is also facing a civil lawsuit filed by the alleged victim Gary Pagar, who claims the rapper and his entourage “beat, punched, spat on, threatened, shoved, and robbed” him after he confronted them for breaking rental rules at his Hollywood Hills mansion.
A rep for DaBaby did not immediately return a request for comment from Billboard.
Hours after news of the charges broke, DaBaby released purported footage of the incident in which a man identified as Pagar appears to use the N-word. In his Saturday (April 30) tweet sharing the clip, the rapper accused Pagar of lying to law enforcement and the media “not knowing that he’s caught on camera.” An attorney for Pagar did not return a request for comment.
There’s little detail available on the criminal charges against DaBaby and Awute. Court records show they were first filed in September, and both men faced arraignments in April; they face a preliminary hearing on June 1.
But the civil lawsuit, filed in February in Los Angeles Superior Court, came with extensively detailed allegations. In the court document reviewed by Billboard, Pagar, 64, claims DaBaby and his associates rented the house for “a private vacation with no more than nine people,” and swore to him that there would be “no crowds, no parties, and no filming.”
“In fact, the purpose of defendants’ trip to Los Angeles was to gather 40 people and a commercial film crew at Mr. Pagar’s house to film a music video,” he wrote. “When Mr. Pagar asked them to stop, they beat and battered him, stole his phone by force so he couldn’t call the police, and threatened him. Then they vandalized his house and left, after stealing various valuable items.”
