Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi has been arrested in Miami on a misdemeanor battery charge, TMZ reports and Pitchfork can confirm. According to the police report, obtained by Pitchfork, Slim Jxmmi got into an argument with his girlfriend, “pulled [her] hair,” kicked down a door behind which she was hiding, took away her phone, and threw the phone outside over a balcony. A representative for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office told TMZ that the woman recanted her story on the record during a court appearance.
Online records, viewed by Pitchfork, indicate that Slim Jxmmi was booked into Miami’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center this morning at 11:27 a.m. He was released on $2,500 in the afternoon, according to TMZ.
Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Rae Sremmurd for comment and more information.
Rae Sremmurd released their third album, Sr3mm, in 2018. The three-part record included Slim Jxmmi’s solo debut Jxmtro.
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This article was originally published on Tuesday, January 25 at 2:25 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on Friday, January 28 at 9:58 a.m. Eastern.
