Watch Me Whip rapper Silento charged with attacking two strangers with a hatchet

Rapper Silento, known for the viral song Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), has been charged with assault after allegedly threatening two strangers with a hatchet (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Rapper Silento, known for the viral song Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking two strangers with a hatchet, prosecutors in Los Angeles said.

The 22-year-old, whose real name is Richard Lamar Hawk, is alleged to have walked into a stranger’s unlocked home and attacked two people before one of them disarmed him, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.