Rapper Kevin "Young
City" Barnes was released from Baltimore County Detention Center on $75,000
bail last week, after being arrested on armed robbery charges stemming from an
incident in 2001. One
of the former stars of MTV’s#### reality series Making The Band, Barnes was arrested
July 31 in an Atlanta, GA. suburb, after being cited for speeding in Gwinnett
County. The
rapper was held for several days before being extradited to Baltimore, MD, where
he was originally charged with the robbery offenses.Barnes
was arrested as a result of several missed summons to appear in court to answer
robbery charges he incurred in Sept. 2001. Barnes is facing seven counts of robbery,
including two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon.
According to the rapper’s attorney Paul Gardner of the Baltimore-based Gardner
Law Group, Barnes actually robbed the two men at gunpoint with BB gun when he
was a juvenile. Barnes
will appear in court Dec. 4 to answer the charges."We
aren’t worried at all," Gardner told AllHipHop.com. "I know the outcome
of the trial will be acquittal."In
the meantime, the rapper is working on his latest album titled Fast Life. "I
did songs with Chingy, TI, Soulja Slim, Princess from Crime Mob," Young City
told AllHipHop.com. "I didn’t want to put just everybody on my album. So
I got people grinding like me on the album.” Young
City said he was no longer an artist on Bad Boy Entertainment, the label that
released Da Band’s debut release Too Hot For TV. "No
bad talk about Bad Boy," Young City said diplomatically. "I was doing
music I wasn’t really feeling, so I’m free now."The
first single from the album will be titled "Shut It Down." "Artists
money for the suckers," Young City said. "I’m not a rookie anymore,
I’m here now, I know how it go, so I’m waiting to shop it to people waiting."
