Bobby Shmurda was born in Miami, Florida.[2] His mother is African American and his father is Jamaican.[12] His mother moved to East Flatbush from Florida after his father's incarceration.[13] Shmurda had run-ins with the law while living in Brooklyn, including fifteen months spent in detention for probation violation and being arrested on gun charges that were later dropped. According to his 2014 indictment, Shmurda was the ringleader of a criminal enterprise called "GS9" that regularly entered into disputes with criminal gangs, was responsible for murders and non-fatal shootings, and engaged in drug trafficking[14] along Kings Highway to East Flatbush.[15]