Desiigner’s arrest in South Carolina is now coming into sharper focus after audio from a frantic 911 call surfaced online.
TMZ published the call on Wednesday, and the recording is as chaotic as the allegations that followed. The rapper, born Sidney Royel Selby III, appears to be the one on the line, though TMZ noted it cannot confirm that with certainty. At first, he does not seem to realize the dispatcher has answered. Instead, he can be heard in the background yelling at a woman and accusing her of trying to steal his car.
Once he addresses the operator directly, Desiigner says, “This girl trying to steal my car. She’s trying to do grand theft auto on my car.” Throughout the call, he sounds out of breath and repeatedly asks for help. At one point, he says, “She has my son, I need my son.”
The audio only gets more disturbing from there. According to TMZ, Desiigner is heard telling the woman to “kill herself” before later telling the dispatcher that he himself is suicidal. He also claims he grabbed an Airsoft gun “just to have one” after the argument escalated. In the same call, he allegedly says that “somebody put something bad in my weed,” complains that the woman “bothers him every day,” and insists he has “receipts” on his home surveillance cameras.
When the dispatcher asks for his location, Desiigner says he had already “drove off” to get away from the woman. He describes the vehicle he is in as a black SUV and says he is heading to Las Vegas, but TMZ reports that he stops responding when the operator tells him to pull over and asks where exactly he is.
The newly released call adds another layer to the domestic violence case that led to his arrest last month in South Carolina. According to the police report, the mother of his child told officers Desiigner came home angry and yelling before the situation turned physical. She claimed he ripped car keys from her hand, tearing her sweatpants in the process. That detail lines up with what can be heard in the 911 audio, where the argument appears to center partly around car keys.
The woman also told police that Desiigner grabbed their child and put him into a car seat, and that he threw her to the ground when she tried to intervene. Officers reportedly observed minor scratches on her arm and lower back. Desiigner was later arrested on suspicion of third-degree domestic violence and was eventually released on a $1,500 bond.
For now, the 911 call does not close the gap between accusation and proof, but it does show how volatile the situation had become in real time.