US rapper Sheck Wes has been accused of stalking and domestic abuse by his former partner, the singer Justine Skye. He has denied the accusation.
Sheck Wes, 20, whose real name is Khadimou Fall, became a major star in the US rap scene in 2018 after his cult hit song Mo Bamba made the US Top 10 and accrued hundreds of millions of streams. His debut album, Mudboy, reached the US Top 20 in October.
Skye tweeted: “Taking a walk with my friends and my man and Sheck Wes (my abuser) and his friends decide to STALK US and attack my friends … You’re pathetic sheck and you beat women. You hit your girl before me and you’ll do it again … if you never put your hands on me you wouldn’t be in this situation and you just keep making it worse.”
Fall denied the accusations, writing on Twitter: “I’ve chosen to remain silent until now out of respect for actual victims of abuse. But I cannot stand by while lies are repeatedly told about me. I never hit or beat any women and I did not beat up or jump anybody.”
In November, Skye alleged she had been the victim of domestic abuse, but didn’t name Fall. “Trying to figure out how someone who claimed they loved me so much could find such evil within themselves to hurt me mentally and physically,” she wrote on Instagram, alongside the music video for her song Build, which features a domestic abuse storyline. She later wrote on Twitter: “I never said who it was because I knew it wouldn’t matter to a lot of you. It’s just something for you to talk about today. That’s just the reality of it. But I made a video about it in hopes that it can inspire someone else get away for their abusive partner. That was my goal.”
