Grandmaison—who recruited Shelmon in May 2025—said he learned of the news alongside cohosts Munchie B and Lush (real name Nicholas Hurok Hyams) during their podcast's May 19 episode, when the rapper didn't show up to set. 

"I would bet money that he got arrested or something," Grandmaison said on the episode. "I don't want to wish it on him, but him being three hours later, phone off, not responding to anybody?" 

Although his fellow cohosts initially speculated that Shelmon, 35, may have simply lost service or been dealing with a family emergency, the trio later pulled up his arrest record in the episode.

Shelmon hadn't shied away from his legal trouble, previously sharing insight into his past run-ins with the law, including multiple arrests as a teen.

"I was running with people who was five and 10 years older than me," he said on the No Jumper podcast in June 2025. "I really started at a young age. My peers, they started gangbanging three, four years down the line."

"My whole time as an adolescent was back and forth, in and out of jail, from gang banging and stuff," he shared, "catching cases, whether it was a gun case or a stolen car."

Eventually, he admitted that it "got tiresome" and decided to make different decisions in adulthood.

"Once I start gathering information and I start having a better understanding of life," he explained, "and I start having a better respect for life and s--t, wanting to travel and be cultural, that's when a motherf--ker starts respecting s--t more." 

As he put it, "Like, man, it's more to it than this gang s--t."