Imagine waking up to learn you’d been robbed.
Not the “somebody broke into my house” robbed, but rather a “word on the street” robbed.
That’s what happened Monday to Atlanta hip-hop artist, Ca$h Out.
"I wake up this morning and they calling me talking 'bout I got robbed," the rapper tweeted around noon on Monday to set the record straight from his handle @TheRealCashOut. "The man's name is Vincent Lamar, aka CASH OUT, and my name is John-Michael Gibson."
Celebrity problems, perhaps?
As can be expected when someone uses a celebrity nickname, the widely known person gets the notoriety when news is made and the less famous person doesn't. Although the armed robbery didn't involve "the real" Ca$h Out, he made the news.
In the pre-dawn hours Monday, a group of gold- and diamond-adorned men entered a Waffle House on Piedmont Road in Buckhead, only to be strong-armed minutes later out of nearly $40,000 in cell phones and jewelry, Atlanta Police said.
No one was injured, authorities said.
Among the victims was Vincent Lamar “Cash Out” Robinson, police say.
Judging from what Robinson lost – a $20,000 diamond-covered Rolex watch and a $6,000 gold chain and medallion, maybe he could dispel all the confusion by changing his nick name to “Outta Cash.”
So where exactly was the real Ca$h Out during the stick up?
Was he ridin' 'round with that "nina (handgun)," as he boasts in his hit record, the somewhat eponymous "Cashin' Out?"
Or was he chillin' in one of the the condos his song metaphorically claims he has around his neck and on his wrist (in other words, he's rich, 'yall)?
“I was so wasted I fell asleep with … $100,000 in jewelry on,” Ca$h Out tweeted.
To be sure, his publicist C.J. Carter emailed a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
“In spite of what you may have heard or read online … regarding an alleged robbery that involved national recording artist Ca$h Out, we would like to inform fans, media, and the general public, that my client was not robbed,” Carter said. “The incident in question … pertains to another individual that is unfamiliar to us, and with whom we have no ties. Our prayers are with the young man, who was the victim of this horrific assault.”
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