In December 2016, he was arrested at his Hollywood Hills home after officers say they found a gun while he was on probation. He pleaded no contest to felony weapons possession and a misdemeanor charge in April 2017, receiving five years of probation and 240 days of community service, according to TMZ.
In April 2023, a jury ordered Soulja Boy to pay $235,900 in punitive damages to a woman who claimed he assaulted her at a party at his Malibu home in 2019, according to ABC Los Angeles affiliate station, KABC-TV. Soulja Boy denied the assault allegation. The amount matched the compensatory damages awarded to the woman a week earlier.