The rapper NBA YoungBoy, whose hits include "Nevada," has recently moved to this upscale Salt Lake City enclave as part of his effort to re-enter society post-incarceration. But while YoungBoy himself has remained low-profile, his security team is turning heads and raising eyebrows.
As KUTV2 Utah News reported, neighbors are blasting the rapper's squad of armed guards now patrolling the gated community's entrance. These aren't your average neighborhood watch recruits, either. Witnesses say the guards are dressed in ski masks and openly exert automatic weapons slung around their chests. Imagine going out to walk the dog and walking past a little fortification; instead, that's the new normal for some Olympus Cove residents.
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Things boiled over earlier this month when what was meant to be a simple act of kindness became something out of an action film. Some of the rapper's guards, residents say, allegedly held at gunpoint local neighbors, whom they say were trying to deliver cookies. Although cookie diplomacy may seem like a plot line from a sitcom, the response was anything but humorous.
"There was a guy at the gate, and he was really young," Suman Singh, a resident, told KUTV2. "There were four or five cops in cars." Officers arrived to respond to the incident, but no arrests or charges have been reported.
It's a culture clash that's impossible to overlook: one side trying to maintain the safety of their homes and their families in a traditionally sleepy locale, the other
depending on who you ask doing the same, but in a way that feels excessive to its neighbors. Regardless of whether the guards' actions were officially approved by YoungBoy or an overreaction on the part of a frightened security detail, the optics have already raised many red flags.
YoungBoy or his camp have not spoken out yet. But with his neighbors increasingly on edge and more accounts emerging about the altercation on the block, it may simply be a matter of time before this suburban drama either intensifies or is smoothed over, maybe with another round of cookies.
Olympus Cove residents, meanwhile, are left to ponder whether they're living beside a National solo artist or in a low-key thriller. Either way, it's clear that life in this quiet corner of Utah just got a whole lot louder.
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