A shocking video has surfaced online, showing Tee Grizzley’s brother, Baby Grizzley, in the back of a police car, attempting to convince a friend to take the fall for illegal gun charges in exchange for $20,000. The footage, which has sparked widespread attention on social media, captures a tense conversation that sheds light on a 2020 arrest with serious legal consequences.
The incident took place on December 8, 2020, during a traffic stop in Royal Oak, Michigan. Police pulled over a car for driving without headlights and found open alcohol, marijuana, and four illegal semiautomatic pistols inside. Baby Grizzley, whose real name is Marcellus Wallace, was a passenger in the vehicle, along with another individual, Nolan Dasgupta-Francis, and the driver. Both Baby Grizzley and Dasgupta-Francis, as convicted felons, faced federal charges for possessing firearms.
In the leaked video, Baby Grizzley is heard calling his brother, rapper Tee Grizzley, from the police car. He explains that the police found “everything” and suggests that someone could claim ownership of the guns to let the others go free.
“Somebody might have to say that was theirs,”
he says, later offering $20,000 to the driver, noting it’s the
“only thing that can happen.”
He reassures the friend that, as a first-time offender, they might only face a few months in jail, unlike the five years he and Dasgupta-Francis could receive due to their prior convictions.
The video corroborates court records, which show Baby Grizzley offering a bribe to the driver using money from a recent $300,000 record contract with 300 Entertainment. The move, desperate as it was, was made just months after his parole from a five-year state jail term over robbery, a celebration Tee Grizzley marked by a Bentley and a cash bag. But his new beginning was ruined by a 2020 arrest, prompting a federal indictment in 2021.
Baby Grizzley’s run-ins with the law came to a head in April 2023, when he was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison on charges of carrying a weapon illegally. The case was notable not only because of its seriousness but also because of its personal toll on Tee Grizzley, who even rapped about his brother’s 2023 arrest when he released his 2021 track “Late Night Calls.” There, he rapped about being called by his brother at 3 a.m. and being relieved that his brother was alive, even if his actions were bringing on trouble with the law.
The leaked video has sparked renewed interest as people and critics go abuzz on platforms such as X, where viral posts about said video have been trending. The clip gives a raw insight into the split-second choices in high-stakes situations that were made in high-pressure conditions, laying emphasis on Baby Grizzley struggling to survive life after incarceration.
It shows where fame, legal issues, and loyalty intersect in hip-hop culture. For Baby Grizzley, what happened that evening in 2020 still defines his life, but the leaked video keeps his tale in the limelight.
