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- 22justin, on 03/18/2008, -5/+69ill dig this just cause i hate that assclown p diddy
- jehanr, on 03/18/2008, -7/+46That's why I ***** your bitch, you fat *****
- sny1120, on 03/18/2008, -4/+27there is obviously police cover up in both murders....somebody got well PAID
- cheese06, on 03/18/2008, -2/+25Hopefully this gets more coverage so P. Diddy gets subpoenaed, gets convicted, and Making the Band goes off the airwaves for good as well as his other crap clothing/perfume line goes out too. I mean, this guy looks up to Donald Trump, a self-absorbed prick who comes nowhere compared to the likes of Mittal or Carlos Slim.
- fearlessfx, on 03/18/2008, -9/+30For some reason the words, 'Hip-hop war' immediately bring to mind that break dance fighting scene from Zoolander.
- pukiman, on 03/18/2008, -1/+21Who, Pee Daddy? And I know you're not talking about Tupac, because he's releasing at least four albums a year.
- chase001, on 03/18/2008, -2/+22Street cred, bra. They have to have a cool origin story like Batman.
- dshey, on 03/18/2008, -4/+24in other news, Shakur just released his 12th album since his mysterious death.
- jthei, on 03/18/2008, -2/+18What people fail to realize is that hip hop died with Wallace and Shakur, all we've had since is profanity laden bubblegum pop produced on a $10 casio keyboard someone's mom won at an office christmas party. I swear to god if I see one more person do the 'soulja boy' or whatever, I'm going to eat their face. Only the prestigious Humpty Hump was worthy of having a dance named for him. 'First i limp to the side like my leg was broken . . . '
- Sharky35, on 03/18/2008, -1/+17Rapper Scot Sterling (aka Scot La Rock), whose debut album was titled “Criminal Minded,” died in August 1987 at age 25 of a gunshot wound.
King Tubby, who invented the dubbing process that was popularized by rappers, was murdered in 1989 when he was 58 years old.
Rapper Michael Menson, of the group Double Trouble died in 1989 at age 29 when a gang soaked him in gasoline and set him afire. Double Trouble had a hit that same year titled “Street Tuff.”
MC Rock, rapper with The Almighty RSO, was stabbed to death in 1990 at roughly age 28.
Brandon Mitchell, rapper with Wreckx-N-Effect, was shot to death in 1990 at about age 20 during an argument over a woman.
Rapper Michael Robinson (a.k.a. The Mac) was shot dead in Vallejo, California, in about 1990 while sitting in his car with his pregnant girlfriend. He was about 20 years old.
Charizma, rapper with Peanut Butter Wolf, was shot to death in 1993 at age 20.
Mr. Cee, rapper with R.B.L. Posse (Ruthless By Law), died after being shot nine times on New Year’s morning of 1996 at about age 30.
Rapper Hitman (Ricky Herd), was shot to death in 1995 at age 24.
Randy Walker (aka Stretch), of Live Squad, died of unknown cause in 1995 at age 27.
Tupac Shakur (aka 2Pac, Makaveli), a gangsta rap superstar who founded the Outlawz Immortalz after he was released from prison in 1995, was shot to death a year later at age 25. Time Warner Music helped pay Shakur’s $1.4 million bail. Outlaw is an acronym for Operating Under Thug Laws as Warriors. The members of the group took the names of various tyrants, brutal dictators, and enemies of America such as Fidel Castro, Idi Amin, and Saddam Hussein.
Yafeu Fula (aka Yaki Kadafi, Young Hollywood), of the Outlawz Immortalz, was shot to death in 1996 two months after the group’s founder Tupac Shakur. He was shot by a cousin of Napoleon, another member of Outlawz.
Rapper Seagram Miller was shot to death in Oakland, California, in August 1996 at age 26.
Rappin’ Ron of Oakland, California, who recorded with Cell Block Records, died of a car crash in January 1997.
Rapper Young Lay of Vallejo, California, barely survived a gunshot wound to the head in 1997, but his baby was kidnapped and his live-in girlfriend died in an arson house fire.
Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls) (real name Christopher Wallace), gangsta rapper, was shot to death in 1997 at age 24. This was only three years after the release of his successful album “Ready to Die.” This album was filled with cursing, violence, and immorality. One cut was titled “Suicidal Thoughts,” and Notorious B.I.G. sang, “When I die, -----, I wanna go to hell.”
San Francisco Rapper JoJo White of Bored Stiff was shot to death in 1997.
Rapper DJ Caravan of FunkSoulJaz died in 1997 of unknown cause.
Gangsta Rapper Dion Stewart (aka The True Lesson Giver) of the duo Black Dynasty was shot to death while trying to rob a convenience store in 1997 at about age 30.
Fat Pat (Patrick Hawkins), was shot to death in 1998 at age 26.
Malcolm Howard, rapper with 4 Black Faces, was shot to death execution style in 1999 at roughly age 30.
MC Big L (Lamont Coleman), rapper with Diggin’ In the Crates Crew, was shot to death outside his home in 1999 at age 23.
Rapper MC Ant was shot to death in 1999 at roughly age 35.
Karnail Pitts (aka Bugz), of D12, died after he was shot three times and run over with a car in an altercation in 1999. He was about 30 years old.
Freaky Tah (Raymond Rogers), member of Lost Boyz, was shot to death while leaving a nightclub in New York City at 4 a.m. on Sunday morning in March 1999 at age 27.
Q-Don (Raeneal Quann), rapper, was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub in April 2000 at roughly age 30.
Yusef Afloat Muhammad, rapper with The Nonce, was found dead alongside a Los Angeles freeway in May 2000 at roughly age 28.
Johnny Burns (aka Mausburg) was robbed and shot to death in his hometown of Compton, California, in 2000 at age 21.
Bruce Mayfield (aka Chip Banks and Bankie), rapper with The American Cream Team, was shot to death over a money dispute in November 2000 at age 30.
Erik Carson (aka Eclipse) was shot to death at 1:30 a.m. on November 14, 2000, in Oakland, California, at age 23.
Bruce Washington (aka Hussein Fatal), of the Outlawz, was imprisoned in 2000 for slashing a person’s face and stomach and another person’s arm and chest with a box cutter.
Lloyd “Mooseman” Roberts, rapper who worked with Iggy Pop, Ice-T, and Body Count, died in a drive by shooting in February 2001 at roughly age 28.
Tonnie Sheppard, rapper and cousin of rapper Haf-A-Mil, was stabbed to death in a recording studio during a fight with studio executives in May 2001 at age 38 or 39.
Coughnut, rapper with Ill Mannered Posse, died in a car crash in September 2001 at age 33. The California Highway Patrol report said that alcohol was probably a factor in the crash that killed two other people, including rapper D Mac.
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, singer with rap group TLC, died in a car crash in April 2002 at age 30. A few days before her own death, Lisa had hit and killed a 10-year-old boy with her car in Honduras.
Jam Master Jay, rapper with the popular group Run-DMC, was shot to death in his recording studio in October 2002 at age 37 by an unknown assailant. This is the latest in a long string of violence associated with rappers, who produce a style of music that is infamously violent in nature (though Jam Master Jay himself was more positive than most).
San Francisco rapper Double D (Darrel Anderson) was killed in August 2003. He was about 30.
Rapper Lil Bo was killed in 2003 at about age 25.
In November 2003, Anthony “Wolf” Jones,” 38-year-old former bodyguard for “P. Diddy” Combs, was shot to death in a gunfight outside an Atlanta nightclub. $7,000 was found on Jones’ body. Jones and Combs had been acquitted of gun possession and bribery charges stemming from a 1999 shooting inside a New York nightclub.
In December 2003, federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna was gunned down during the trial of rapper Deon Lionnel Smith, who was accused of running a violent drug ring.
Rapper Freako of Ghetto Stars was shot to death in February 2004 at about age 25.
Rapper Juston Potts (aka Kanyva) murdered his promoter on June 7, 2004, because “she told him he didn’t have the talent to sell records” (“Aspiring rapper arrested in killing,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 2004).
Rapper Holy Quran was shot and killed in 2004. He was about 25.
Rapper Andre Hicks (aka Mac Dre or Dr. Dre) was shot to death in 2004 at age 34. A news report said, “His death was as violent as the lyrics to some of his most popular songs.” Police say that Hicks was part of a gang that robbed banks and pizza parlors, and in 1992 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Rapper Anthony Watkins (aka Fat Tone) of Kansas City was shot to death in 2005 at age 24. He was murdered by rapper Mac Minister because he was suspected to have murdered Andrew Hicks (Mac Dre) the previous year.
Deshaun Holton (aka Proof), of D12, was shot to death at a bar in Detroit in April 2006 at age 32. He was the best man at rapper Eminem’s wedding to his former wife Kim four months earlier. Proof first shot 35-year-old Keith Bender in the head and then was shot by an unknown third party.
Rapper Big Hawk (John Edward Hawkins) of Houston, Texas, of DJ Screw’s Screwed up Click, was shot to death in May 2006 at age 36. His brother, Patrick Hawkins (aka Fat Pat), was shot to death in 1998 when he was in his 20s.
In January 2007 rapper Busta Rhymes (Trevor Smith) was arrested and charged with punching and kicking a man. He was also charged with assault in August 2006. In February 2006 his bodyguard Israel Ramirez was shot to death.
Stack Bundles (Rayquon Elliot), “an up-and-coming New York rapper” affiliated with Byrd Gang Records, was shot to death in June 2007 at 5 a.m. in the morning outside his home after partying all night with friends. He was 24.
Rapper Skee 64 (Toby Rios) died in March 2007 at about age 28.
Rapper Woodie of San Francisco died in March 2007 of unknown cause at about age 35.
Two members of the rap group Damu Ridaz, with ties to the Bloods, were shot and killed in 2007 while in their 20s. B-Brazy and G Spider were both shot and killed at different times by Mexican gangs. Lil Hawk of Damu Ridaz is in prison serving a life sentence. - themodder, on 03/18/2008, -5/+20"The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared." - dwninjungleland, on 03/18/2008, -5/+19You are dumb. You may not like the music style, and may not have the context to understand their 'most ridiculous names', but artists like Tupac were legitimate , talented artists. Soulja boy, on the other hand... we can probably agree on.
- waspbr, on 03/18/2008, -1/+14I blame scientology
- beefchi, on 03/18/2008, -13/+26the rose that grew from the concrete is one of my favorite poems by tupac, rest in peace
- oveedrx, on 03/18/2008, -10/+23im going to say this stunt is just PR for another 20 albums on the way
- JohnboiWaltune, on 03/18/2008, -1/+13One time he made me get him a sugar cookie from Harlem, and then he wanted a bottle of breast milk from a Cambodian. What a jerk.
- chaseywacy, on 03/18/2008, -21/+33Why do rappers need to shoot each other when they're rich? This kind of ghetto tribalism is ridiculous!
- blasian, on 03/18/2008, -5/+16God, someone needs to slip something in P.Diddy's proactive. "Oh no, my sexy!"
- Sharky35, on 03/18/2008, -0/+11You are correct!
- mastameezy, on 03/18/2008, -0/+11Puffy is a snake, and he's the worst kind because he's so good at it. Look at everyone around him 2pac = dead, B.I.G. = dead, Mase = minister, Shyne = 10 years in jail, Black Rob = jail.
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -1/+12Really? That's the only incidence you can think of where rappers shot at each other? Busta Rhymes having a shootout on a video set or 50 Cent's place getting all shot up or Puffy or Pimp C or The Game or Young Buck or Jam Master Jay...none of these rappers have been shot by or been arrested for shooting at other rappers? And yet you just never hear stories about Dave Matthews bustin' a cap in Chris Robinson. Hard to understand, really...
- jrbrewin, on 03/18/2008, -3/+13maybe because some people are fed up of the media's continued interest in a second-rate rapper that died 14 years ago, who's memory is raped by the continued releases digitally re-***** up ***** in to the chart, and we don't really want to see re-hashing of this non-news on digg?
i mean, come on. it's getting almost as bad as elvisisms. - midbc, on 03/18/2008, -5/+15Tupac is like the JFK of hip hop
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -8/+18Isn't it odd that during all their years of disagreement John Lennon and Paul McCartney never shot each other? They really talked ***** about each other, too. Lennon even wrote stuff like this in his songs:
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
And no gunfire. It's odd, really. Almost like there's some cultural difference or something that prevented white British men from thinking it was OK to gun each other down over some petty *****. - bosssmiley, on 03/18/2008, -2/+12Why are people burying what's probably the most perceptive comment to this story?
- pault107, on 03/18/2008, -2/+11Guns don't kill people, rappers do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv-2XYOtgCg - biotch, on 03/18/2008, -2/+11Seriously... its sad to read a lot of these comments. Tupac had an amazing message and apparently its fading off into history. He basically begged god for forgiveness for being what he had become and spoke out about the injustices he witnessed within a poverty strucken culture America should be ashamed of allowing to continue. And the really sad thing is now you have people still imitating him thinking that attitude is some kind of badass badge of honor. People dont realize that a ton of mannerisms and common phrases heard and seen today coinciding with hip hop culture, came from what Tupac saw as failures within himself and the society that surrounded him. It was no badge of honor.
- Karmavs, on 03/18/2008, -1/+9rick-rollin'? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
- evaDlivE, on 03/18/2008, -0/+8Do wah Diddy Diddy dum Diddy do?
This was all predicted back in 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30p0PJrHrgE - evaDlivE, on 03/18/2008, -3/+11Because they is dissin him yo! Dissin rap and dissin da ghetto.
Or something. Come on, you know how digg works by now, those with the most zealous following dictate what gets buried and what doesn't. And the sheep blindly follow by clicking on thumbs up or thumbs down depending on whether or not there is a + or - next to the number of comments. That's why posts with 0 diggs stay where they are - the sheep cannot make the decision as to whether or not to digg up or down, so do neither. - silvanov2002, on 03/18/2008, -5/+13Dugg, because I remember being stuck in front of the TV the day Tupac was murdered, glued to MTV news, and buying into the "Faking his own death" and Biggie killing him conspiracies for long after. I've also submitted this article to http://www.rap-it-up.net where it should fall on a more sympathetic and pertinent crowd.
- evaDlivE, on 03/18/2008, -4/+11Ok, I can see there is limited intellect here, so I'll try and explain as gently as possible. Heath Ledger died last week - it was kind of a shock, Tupac died 14 years ago - most people had already said all they had to say about it 13 years ago. Unfortunately, when you die, the people who didn't really give a ***** before are suddenly your biggest fans, but this declines over time as another worthless bag of skin comes along to fill their lives. Had they both died last week things would have been different, except in the eyes of the racists here who would call foul if the dead white boy got more attention.
- mrjit, on 03/18/2008, -2/+9Justice would be great.
- evaDlivE, on 03/18/2008, -1/+8I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at here...
Are you saying that Rap is somehow a violent version of the "Spot the Dog" childrens stories?
See Spot, see Spot run.
Run Spot run
The parallels are astounding and it really does give an excellent insight into the minds of rappers and their acolytes. - inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+7Diddy's fifteen minutes is so ***** up, really really want to see that tacky piece of ***** fall, and fall hard. how i would love to see a picture of that cretin in prison orange, boo ***** hoo. and Tupac and Biggie never got a drip of sympathy from me, sell all that vicious hypocritical *****, make the beast grow, and then susprise it eats you? idiots.
- trenchfever, on 03/18/2008, -2/+9dayum *****.. wacchoo sayin?
- mashedup, on 03/18/2008, -1/+8Calm down Aitese. I can accept your anti establishment, no value approach to human life but there is no need relinquish your responsibilities to grammar and spelling. Surely you jest? You're serious aren't you? My God you are one bad MOFO! - RESPECT - frrom a skinny white guy who wears glasses.
- mashedup, on 03/18/2008, -3/+9Well It comes down to this my little hip-hop wannabe: More people are moved by Heath Ledger's death than they are for 'hip-hop' toss pots trying to kill each other for 'respect'. Thank God too. For if the other way, I would have to give up on man kind.
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+6BTW, from what I understand a lot of people have felt like busting a cap in Chris Robinson. ;-)
- theclansman, on 03/18/2008, -0/+6"In a bizarre twist, Shakur, bleeding badly, sat on a couch and rolled a joint"
Thats why Shakur is the only rapper worth talking about - mashedup, on 03/18/2008, -3/+9This is a worthy war. let's hope it lasts long enough so there are no 'hip-hop' survivors. No more shouting in my ear about 'the streets' - What a lovely pleasant day that would be. Make the dream real.
- evaDlivE, on 03/18/2008, -1/+7"Rappin’ Ron" - Classic. Almost as good as Disco Stu.
- Sokkratez, on 03/18/2008, -0/+6I laughed.
- peestandingup, on 03/18/2008, -0/+6That's 100% real Cambodian, yo.
*clink-clink-clink-clink*
“breeeaaaassssttttt miiiilllkkkk…you made my daaayyyaaayyyy!!!” - Mikey9oo, on 03/18/2008, -7/+13Tupac went by his own real name. Tupac never wore platinum on his teeth. Tupac was real. Go eat a dick.
- donutwant, on 03/18/2008, -1/+7Respek
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+6Heh...I recently met up with someone I knew from school. He went into music production after college. It was funny because when I knew him he was documenting street rap in south central LA as kind of a sociology thing in the early 80's, but he apparently eventually started producing. Anyway, he's a nerdy white guy and I asked him how he liked the kind of people he had to deal with in that business. He said he doesn't do any of the PR anymore because he's nearly been shot several times at awards shows and industry functions. Now he just sticks to the studio.
- waspbr, on 03/18/2008, -1/+7I would have thought that changing your name to puffy daddy and then P diddy would have given that away
- evaDlivE, on 03/18/2008, -1/+7Um, yes, that would be correct. Or are you somehow reading some sort of discriminatory slight into the correct grammatical usage of English. Perhaps you think that any negative remark levelled at the sexism, violence, misogynistic and anti-social culture of mainstream rap is somehow an anti-black slur? Rappers make THEIR music, rap is therefore THEIR music and because it is popular it is everywhere meaning that WE have to hear THEIR music, whether we like it or not.
- inactive, on 03/18/2008, -0/+6BTW, I still have a few friends that I grew up with and none of them have ever tried to shoot me. Maybe I'm an anomaly. Now, I had a long-time girlfriend who waved a gun around in my face once, but women, man...who knows?
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