Rapper Johnathan Jamall Porter, known to the charts as Blueface, kicked his visibly pregnant girlfriend Nevaeh Akira into a backyard swimming pool during an Instagram Live broadcast Thursday night, and the video made its way across X within hours. The 29-year-old “Thotiana” artist appeared to laugh as Akira surfaced and shouted at him, according to the clip first surfaced by TMZ and reshared by outlets including HottraxInc, cryptocurrency commentator Irene, and journalist Brad Porcellato. Officers responded for a welfare check. Akira declined to pursue charges, and no arrest was made on the pool incident itself.
That detail is the one thing keeping Blueface out of immediate custody over the pool video. The pool happened in the Canyon Country area of Santa Clarita. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department runs the other thread of this story, and it has been moving on its own clock.
Separately, Blueface remains entangled in an open Las Vegas warrant for attempted murder that pre-dates Thursday by years. The warrant is tied to a 2022 firearm-discharge case in which Blueface was captured on video shooting a gun outside a Las Vegas venue. Investigators later upgraded the charge to attempted murder and secured the warrant. Blueface was arrested on the warrant earlier in an undercover operation and was released after posting bond, according to people familiar with the case. Bond terms have circulated online but were not independently verified by the time of this writing.
Akira is pregnant with what reports describe as the couple’s third child together, a relationship marked by public on-again-off-again stretches that play out on social media as often as off it. She is recognizable from Blueface’s frequent posts, and the livestream was held from his personal account. After the clip went viral, the responses on X skew harshly critical, with users resurfacing older video and alleging a pattern of domestic abuse. Blueface has not publicly addressed the livestream.
For now the legal math is simple. The pool incident is not a case because Akira declined to cooperate. The Las Vegas warrant is a case that has not finished resolving itself. Both threads will move on their own schedules, and either one could land him back in a courtroom before the year is out. The livestream is the new thing. The warrant is the old thing. Neither has gone away.
