It is perhaps a brand new yr, however this is identical ‘ol Waka Flocka Flame. Whereas the remainder of the world was bringing in 2025 in celebration, it appears Waka, actual title Juaquin James Malphurs, had a surprisingly totally different night time. He took to his social media on Jan. 1 claiming he was assaulted by 10 totally different individuals. Within the now-deleted put up, Waka wrote “Can’t imagine no person helped me combat ten nixxas off however I’m nonetheless standing ten toes.”
If that wasn’t trigger for concern sufficient, the Atlanta rapper even included graphic photographs of his closely bruised face with two black eyes.
The web, to be anticipated, had lots to say in response to Waka’s leaping. On X, @evildarkskinn wrote “This ain’t the Wacka I grew up on. Anybody can get jumped. Posting a pic for sympathy is totally different tho.”
One other consumer, @AntiSocialite81, jokingly stated “Welp I suppose Trump didn’t invite him to Mar a lago for the NYE actions.” Waka has remained adamant about his assist for MAGA and President-elect Donald Trump over time.
However though many of the web continued to clown Waka nicely into the New 12 months, a number of individuals started elevating their eyebrows at the entire thing. @Kinnzayyy wrote “Nowadays you don’t know if it’s actual or not?” in regards to the rapper’s bruised face.
And perhaps this consumer had the proper thought as a result of that is the place the story takes an unbelievable flip…
Simply two hours after Waka introduced his beating, he posted a video of his face and not using a scratch on Instagram. Apparently the entire thing was a prank, however no person aside from the “No Palms” rapper gave the impression to be laughing.
“Loopy y’all ni**as imagine that sh*t,” Waka stated on Instagram, clearly amused by the joke. However although Waka was all smiles, the web didn’t hesitate to let him have it. On X, @nv00006 wrote “Waka Flocka beginning off 2025 cosplaying as [Jussie] Smollet is diabolical.”
One other consumer, @budd_rosel, referred to as the rapper “a one hit surprise” earlier than saying he’s “too rattling outdated to be searching for consideration from the web.”
Though Waka hasn’t defined why he tried to prank the world into believing he was jumped, we’ve to offer props to the make-up artist answerable for Waka’s stage make-up!