A shooting inside a Houston restaurant on April 8 left rapper NBA Ben10 fighting for his life but it was the raw family responses that lit up social media in the days that followed.
According to authorities, a fight erupted at the Confessions club in the Upper Kirby District of Houston on Kirby Drive near its 3200 block around 11:30 p.m. on April 8. The incident was reportedly instigated by what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. A victim who was under attack produced a gun and shot two individuals.
Ben Anthony Fields, age 26, a well-known Baton Rouge-based rapper and member of NBA YoungBoy’s Never Broke Again group, was one of the shooting victims. Known for his stage name NBA Ben10, he sustained gunshot wounds. Another man was hospitalized but no arrests were made.
A tweet from X.
As news spread, Ben10’s mother posted on social media thanking God that her son had survived. The message was straightforward and emotional. But some online critics called it tone-deaf, questioning why she would express gratitude amid the violence and the injuries to others.
The pushback quickly turned personal, with comments accusing her of enabling a dangerous lifestyle tied to hip-hop street culture.
That criticism did not sit well with Sherhonda Gaulden, NBA YoungBoy’s mother. In a widely shared video posted around April 12–13, she directly addressed the critics while sitting in her car.
“Y’all some mrs. Stupid dumbass people. How the fuck y’all get mad cuz Being mama said thank God her son alive. How the fuck y’all get mad cuz somebody say thank God they son alive. You fucking right. Thank God your son alive,”
she said.
She continued:
“Bitch, if it was y’all son, y’all would say the same thing. Bitch don’t ever come for mine. Don’t play with mine cuz guess what? I don’t know what go on bitch. They mad. They not never gonna be no embarrassments. They’re not gonna never have me thinking no type of way whatever the fuck they choose to do.”
Gaulden stressed family loyalty and a mother’s role:
“Mamas is the ones who push their motherfucking asses out and the mamas is the ones they got to set up there with them and the mamas is the ones that pray for them and that’s they damn children that God gave them. So guess what? Don’t worry about me and mine baby. Cuz see me me. I don’t give a fuck what mine do. … They mine. Sure do. And that’s what I had to say to them.”
Posts on X and Instagram turned the story into a nationwide conversation within hours. Death rumors spread first, followed by clips of the mothers’ statements. Verified updates from family and Houston news outlets, including KPRC 2 and FOX 26, helped correct the record and slow the misinformation.
This episode shows the tight line between private family relief after real trauma and instant public judgment in the digital age. In hip-hop circles, where loyalty runs deep, mothers often become the loudest defenders. Yet online speed means every raw emotion gets dissected in real time. The facts remain simple: two men were shot, one survived, and families spoke from the heart. The rest is conversation.
