Rapper
Bobby Shmurda's arrest has an
odd, crazy connection to
Silicon Valley
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The ballad of Brooklyn-bred
Rapper Bobby Shmurda is a surreal tale of meteoric rise turned upside-down, nearly as fast as it started. One smash-mouth hit, one viral dance craze, and a newly-inked record deal were all whipped away by a prison sentence for
drug and gun charges.*
That alone is wild e**ugh for its own
full-length GQ feature. But Wednesday, the tale took a wild turn, with the revelation that Palantir, a big data software giant co-founded by
Silicon Valley villain Peter Thiel, essentially paved the way to put Shmurda behind bars, according to a feature
Buzzfeed *published Wednesday.
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