Musician 2Chainz (delivery title Tauheed Okay. Epps) may be recognized for his operatic contribution to the Quick and Livid franchise, nevertheless it would not seem that his driving was behind a Saturday morning crash that despatched him to a Miami hospital. As a substitute, TMZ reviews, the motive force of a Tesla struck Epps shortly after he left a well known native strip membership.
In an Instagram story revealed in Saturday’s pre-dawn hours, Epps shares a video that seems to be taken whereas on a paramedic’s stretcher. (HipHopDX has also uploaded the video to X, previously Twitter, when you’re studying this after the 24-hour Instagram story expiration interval.) Because the 46-year-old was loaded into the again of an ambulance, with emergency lights flashing all through the scene, Epps panned from his rescuer to a badly broken black Tesla. The automobile’s entrance left aspect was fully crumbled, and right-angled into the guardrail. No different automobiles had been seen within the temporary video clip.
That crunched EV was not the one Epps was piloting through the collision, it seems. As a substitute, he was “driving on I-95 and about to exit,” when the motive force of the Tesla struck Epps’s automobile. Particulars on that driver, together with their situation following the collision, are unknown, however “cops suspect the opposite driver might have been driving beneath the affect,” TMZ reviews. Self-importance Honest has reached out to Miami police and to Epps’s representatives for remark, however has not acquired a response as of publication time.
The Georgia-based rapper is in Florida for Artwork Basel Miami Seaside 2023, an artwork honest/advertising whirlwind/huge VIP occasion. Simply previous to the collision, he’d reportedly left a location of the Booby Lure, a Miami-area strip membership mini-chain that boasts “an ideal free lunch” and “a United Nations of essentially the most lovely girl [sic] on the earth gracing the poles.” (It is unclear if the Booby Lure is house to any official Artwork Basel occasions, however that probability appears slim.)
Based on TMZ, the Tesla driver struck Epps’s automobile from the rear, leaving the musician with accidents to his neck “and presumably different accidents as properly.” Epps is reportedly in secure situation at a Miami hospital, and is predicted to get well.
