From car accident and shooting to tragic death: Big Scarr lived a life on the edge
Famous rapper Big Scarr is reportedly dead at the young age of 22. The Memphis rapper, originally known as Alexander Woods, became a sensation after the release of his track 'SoIcyBoyz', which features Pooh Shiesty, Foogiano, and Tay Keith.
However, his life had a lot of tragic events within 22 years. Scarr was engaged in an automobile accident when he was 16 and was thrown through a friend's vehicle window. Later, in 2020, he was shot in the hip. After he was shot, the bullet went up to his spine. This caused an appendix injury, leading the rapper to take his appendix out. He also had to put his right leg back into alignment, reported Revolt.
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He began his career with the 2019 single 'Make a Play'. The video gathered over a million views on the streaming channel reported Deezer. Scarr’s last project came back in April 2021, his 'Big Grim Reaper: The Return' mixtape. Meanwhile, the project contained 30 tracks, including collaborations with Offset, Gucci Mane, Pooh Shiesty, and more, reported MSN. It peaked at number 25 on the Billboard 200, selling 22,000 copies in its first week. This album earned Big Scarr his first charting project. The 22-year-old began his career with Gucci Mane’s 1017 Records and quickly gained a huge music fan following. Mane posted on Instagram confirming his death, "This hurt 😢 I’m a miss you @bigscarr 💔."
Meanwhile, The rapper has more than 460K subscribers on YouTube. The total views of his channel are more than 327,000,000 views since his debut video in December 2019. His songs 'SoIcyBoyz 2', 'I Would Keep Goin', and 'SoIcyBoyz' have 46 million, 24 million, and 24 million views each. With over 35 million streams on his Spotify's biggest hit, Scarr had a comfortable 1.3 million listeners. Per his last Instagram post, he was preparing for a tour with another Memphis rapper, Key Glock, called 'Glockoma Tour 2023'. However, in June, he made it to the Rolling Loud fest performing in the same line-up as Nicki Minaj, A$ap Rocky, Future, Lil Baby, and 21 Savage.
The news of his death comes after the death of two other Memphis rappers, including Young Dolph and Snootie Wild. Young Dolph was killed in November 2021, whereas Snootie Wild was shot in February while in Houston. When he was selected to XXL Freshman class of 2022, he said “Myself and whoever on trap music. You know, the culture of whatever I’m on. I’m really influenced by myself. I be in my own lane." He also stated, "Who can rap to be like me? If you ask me, nobody. Anybody can sound alike or anything voice-wise, but when it comes to tempo or random beats, it goes.[Being a Freshman became a dream of mine] when it happened. When I dropped my first video. Actually, when I first did my first song is when I seen I could be able to do this. It was never a thing I wanted to do."
Further he claimed, "I just tried the shit one time and it went. Just like my partner was saying, you ever had some shit going and you never paid attention to the other shit you were doing because this shit was bringing you in so much good shit? It’s a thing like that. If you ask me, it’s been my time, but I ain’t rushing. I ain’t forcing nothing. I’m in my own lane. I feel like whatever comes my way is a blessing. [When my fans find out I’m on the XXL Freshman cover], they’re gonna go crazy. ’Cause like, this early in the year in my career, like for me, it’s big, if you ask me. For the city, it’s gon’ be big.”