LOS ANGELES – Silento, the rapper known for “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," was charged Thursday with trying to hit two people with a hatchet in their home.Prosecutors allege that Silento, whose legal name is Richard Lamar Hawk, walked into an unlocked stranger's home in the Valley Village area of Los Angeles and swung a hatchet at the two people inside before one of them disarmed him.
The rapper is charged with assault with a deadly weapon and is being held in jail on $105,000 jail, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.The alleged attack occurred while he was out on bail for another arrest in Orange County, authorities said.