Blueface

CTL-E-5745 · Person · musician · 1997–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07011 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5745.

Blueface, born Johnathan Porter on 20 January 1997 in Los Angeles, California, is an American rapper. A former high-school and college football player, he turned to rap in 2017 and broke virally with the "Respect My Cryppin'" video in October 2018, noted for his offbeat flow. He signed to Cash Money West in November 2018, and "Thotiana" (2018) became his signature hit, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 after Cardi B and YG remixes. His mixtape Famous Cryp (2018) preceded the debut studio album Find the Beat (2020), and he was named to the 2019 XXL Freshman Class. He pleaded guilty in the October 2022 Las Vegas shooting case and received three years' probation in October 2023; a probation violation brought a four-year sentence in August 2024, and he was released from prison in November 2025.

The record

• Also known as: Johnathan Porter, Johnathan Michael Porter

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Blueface entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5745 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 222 (R&B Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure. Vital status: LIVING — released from prison in November 2025 (release date reported as 2 and 3 November; the variance is documented). CONFLICTS CARRIED: His middle name is given as Michael (Wikipedia main profile) versus Jamall (Simple Wikipedia and KTNV court reporting); neither is asserted as settled. Release-date reporting varies by one day (2 vs 3 November 2025). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Thotiana" peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 (2019, after the Cardi B and YG remixes) — song profile via Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5745-blueface.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Referenced by

• Chrisean Rock — collaborated with → this record

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Blueface" — born 20 January 1997, Los Angeles; Cash Money West signing; "Thotiana" No. 8; legal timeline — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueface (build store)
• Corrections1, LA Times report — three years' probation for the 2022 Las Vegas shooting (October 2023) — https://www.corrections1.com/probation-and-parole/articles/rapper-blueface-gets-3-years-probation-for-2022-las-vegas-shooting-TzuSffABASoFVgDV/ (primary source · build store)
• iHeart (3 November 2025) — release from prison and same-day livestream; vital-status evidence — https://www.iheart.com/content/2025-11-03-blueface-breaks-silence-after-hes-released-from-prison/ (build store)

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