Baby Blue’s Fraudulent Ways

The Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) loan should have never been devised. With that said, since it existed, for people to properly receive the funds from the government, that was okay in a sense of getting money that they would be able to pay back legitimately.

Fraudulent behavior was not part of the program. R&B singer and Pretty Ricky member Baby Blue didn’t get that memo. He bought a Ferrari, and gambled away cash intended to aid his companies: Throwbackjersey.com and Blue Star Records, LLC.

He faces over $2 million in restitution and forfeiture, and almost two years behind bars. Contrite, and wondering why he would falsify documents to present to the government that landed him in hot water, Baby Blue also has to contend with a bowling alley lawsuit.

He was shot at the entertainment venue and received injuries to his lungs. He claimed the building failed to provide adequate security.

Baby Blue has cheated and been shot. Already possibly trying to rekindle the flame for Pretty Ricky, he will have to sit in a cell and reorganize how he’s going to take his life back onto a rational course.

PPP loans could have been legitimate in his position. He could have produced actual expenses and a way to show he needed the extra money.

Instead, he will have to do time and pay for the crime. In his head, he must be asking how many lessons can one person take? If we add all of his strikes against him, the jail time, the forfeiture and restitution, and his shooting, his psychology must be ready to crumble.

The “On the Hotline” rapper may have a mentality which may not be able to withstand the hardships he caused against those others who perpetrated against him.

To lie and defraud is the worst thing you can do if you claim to be a man. Baby Blue ought to have had integrity and honesty. That’s the power of morality. Just to consider the idea is something interesting. He probably didn’t consider his plight while gripping the Ferrari steering wheel. In one way, he may have been smiling while switching lanes, knowing that the vehicle he drove was a sham in his hands.

His trips to the casino may have been marked by his psyche telling him he was spending money that he didn’t earn.

That’s the disgusting nature of not having personal scruples. Of course, Baby Blue should not have exploited the feds for his personal gain. This makes him even more evil because he perverted the idea that is conventional when the idea of selfishness surfaces.

In fact he was not self-interested. He was irrational in his actions and now he is paying for it in more ways than one. The selflessness and self-destruction of his actions appear to be more damaging than the time he must now serve and pay back all that money.

If he had a shred of ethics, he would have known that he would most certainly get caught. But it goes deeper and gets simpler. In his own mind, he should have held a court of weighing facts and understanding what he did was wrong.

Morals, ethics, and values continue to be a point of contention in hip hop and R&B. With Baby Blue’s latest acts of wickedness, this is just another example of how some, but not all, figures in the genres show their failure to recognize the ethics of selfishness.

Baby Blue will always have to drag this reality with him no matter what he did in the first place. It will be like a ball and chain in his mind, he’ll be forever confined, once physically free, just minus the bars.