Yo Gotti Birthday Party

Yo Gotti's Birthday Party and CD release was interrupted on Friday (May 19) morning by a shooting at a Beale Street nightclub. Police are investigating. Memphis Police say about 800 people were at the Plush Club.

Gotti's attorney, Arthur Horne, says the rapper had no involvement in the shooting. He said : "Yo Gotti's very dismayed at what happened the other night".

Plush employees say the shooting happened in the parking lot, police and the witness say it happened inside.

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Born Mario Mims, Yo Gotti grew up in Ridge Crest Apartments in a North Memphis neighborhood call Frazier. Yo Gotti released his own underground tape entitled, Youngster on the Come Up and placed it on consignment at local mom & pop record stores as well as hustling it out the trunk. The tape sold like hotcakes on the street and made Yo Gotti the hottest rapper on the streets of Memphis. After performing around Memphis in the '90s, Gotti started building a catalog in the early 2000's. His first album, From Da Dope Game 2 Da Rap Game, came out on the Inevitable label in 2000; 2001's Self Explanatory and 2002's Block Burnin', Vol. 1. After that, Gotti signed with TVT and recorded Life, which came out in 2003.