{"id":834,"date":"2026-09-21T22:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2026-09-21T22:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T22:50:44","slug":"in-2014-bobby-shmurda-became-one-of-raps-biggest-breakout-stars-almost-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"In 2014, Bobby Shmurda became one of rap\u2019s biggest breakout stars almost overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">His hit song <strong>\u201cHot N<\/strong>**\u201d** climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the accompanying <strong>Shmoney Dance<\/strong> became a viral sensation across the internet. The dance was so popular that even major celebrities, including Beyonc\u00e9, were seen joining in on the trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But just as quickly as his career was taking off, everything changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In December 2014, Shmurda was arrested and later accepted a plea deal in a case involving conspiracy and weapons charges. He ultimately spent roughly six years in prison before being released in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">When Bobby Shmurda returned, the music landscape had changed dramatically. The viral moment that had once made him one of the most recognizable young rappers was years in the past, and he faced the challenge of rebuilding his career in a very different hip-hop era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">His story became one of the most talked-about examples of a rapper whose breakthrough arrived suddenly, was interrupted at its peak, and was followed by an uncertain comeback.<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade after the Shmoney Dance took over the internet, one question remains: <strong>Can Bobby Shmurda recapture the attention he once had, or has hip-hop already moved on?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His hit song \u201cHot N**\u201d** climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the accompanying Shmoney Dance became a viral sensation across the internet. The dance was so popular that even major celebrities, including Beyonc\u00e9, were seen joining in on the trend. But just as quickly as his career was taking off, everything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}