RAP IS OUTTA CONTROL IN JERSEY:
Naughty by Nature front man Treach was detained and questioned by police yesterday (April 22), after multiple shootings broke out throughout the city, in a violent 24-hour period.
According to local police, the rapper was stopped after police heard gunshots ring out in Newark, after two men shot and killed each other, and five others were wounded in separate incidences.
When police pulled the rapper’s Hummer over for driving erratically, they found the rapper wearing a bulletproof vest, but no weapons in the car, although police did recover a gun nearby.
Over the past 24 hours, two teens shot and killed each other during a gun battle, a man and a woman were shot in the face, a third man was shot in the leg, one man was shot when bullets pierced his front door, while another man was shot in the foot.
Additionally, a 27-year-old man was arrested for shooting a police sergeant, as well as two other shootings that the man committed within a five minute time frame.
Newark’s Relative Calm Ends in Hail of Gunfire; 2 Dead and 5 Wounded
By NATE SCHWEBER
Published: April 23, 2008
NEWARK — Two young men killed each other and five other people were wounded here, the police said, in a spate of shootings that the authorities called the most violent 24-hour period of what has generally been a relatively calm year in New Jersey’s largest city.
A bloodied shirt, left, is collected by crime scene investigators, as police tape keeps bystanders away from Bloomfield Avenue, one of Newark’s busiest streets.
There have been 16 homicides in Newark so far this year, down from 26 by this time in 2007, a year that saw a total of 99 killings.
“We have more violent crime in the summer than we do in the winter,” the Newark police chief, Garry McCarthy, noted at a late-afternoon news conference outside Trinity Church in the city’s Ironbound section.
The police also questioned Anthony Criss, known as Treach from the rap group Naughty by Nature, after a report of gunshots on West Runyon Street Tuesday afternoon. Officers pulled over a dark Hummer being driven erratically and found Mr. Criss inside wearing a bulletproof vest. Mr. Criss told the officers that he was not being shot at, Chief McCarthy said. The chief added that there was no weapon found in the car, although a pistol was recovered nearby on the street.
The mayhem in Newark began with a shootout in the town’s Vailsburg section at 11 p.m. Monday. The police said that Markquez Brown, 18, was sitting on his front steps on Smith Street when Sharif Daniels, 18, shot him in the leg. Mr. Brown returned fire, the police said, and killed Mr. Daniels with a shot to the head. Mr. Brown ran a block away to Salem Street, where he bled to death from a severed femoral artery, officials said.
“It was a very unlucky circumstance,” Chief McCarthy said, adding that the police are not looking for any suspects because both men involved in the shooting are dead.
Twelve hours later, a middle-aged man and a woman were shot in the face and a third man was shot in the leg in broad daylight on a busy stretch of Bloomfield Avenue. Witnesses at a nearby Laundromat said they heard multiple shots and ducked. The police are searching for a dark Honda Accord in which suspects or possible witnesses fled the scene, officials said.
All three victims, whose names were not available, are in stable condition, the police said.
Hours later, a man was shot in the hand when bullets came through his front door on 181 Shepherd Street, and another man was shot in the foot on Irvine Turner Boulevard, said Todd McClendon, a Newark police detective. Both men have been released from the hospital, he said.
As detectives here tried to determine if the shootings were motivated by gangs, violence or retaliation, Essex County prosecutors announced additional charges stemming from a shooting spree in neighboring Irvington early Sunday.
Shaquan Johnson, who was arrested Sunday and charged with shooting a police sergeant, now faces charges for two other shootings that day, all of them within a five-minute span.
Mr. Johnson, 27, of Newark, was charged on Tuesday with the murder of 22-year-old Gary Farrar Jr.; the attempted murder of Mr. Farrar’s friend Bashir Pearson, 22; and the attempted kidnapping and aggravated assault of a 14-year-old boy.
He is being held in $1.5 million bail.
Investigators said that prior to the shootings, Mr. Johnson approached a woman and her 14-year-old son on the street and ordered the teenager to his car at gunpoint. When the boy refused, Mr. Johnson attempted to fire his weapon, but it did not go off, officials said.
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RAP IS OUTTA CONTROL IN JERSEY:
Naughty by Nature front man Treach was detained and questioned by police yesterday (April 22), after multiple shootings broke out throughout the city, in a violent 24-hour period.
According to local police, the rapper was stopped after police heard gunshots ring out in Newark, after two men shot and killed each other, and five others were wounded in separate incidences.
When police pulled the rapper’s Hummer over for driving erratically, they found the rapper wearing a bulletproof vest, but no weapons in the car, although police did recover a gun nearby.
Over the past 24 hours, two teens shot and killed each other during a gun battle, a man and a woman were shot in the face, a third man was shot in the leg, one man was shot when bullets pierced his front door, while another man was shot in the foot.
Additionally, a 27-year-old man was arrested for shooting a police sergeant, as well as two other shootings that the man committed within a five minute time frame.
Newark’s Relative Calm Ends in Hail of Gunfire; 2 Dead and 5 Wounded
By NATE SCHWEBER
Published: April 23, 2008
NEWARK — Two young men killed each other and five other people were wounded here, the police said, in a spate of shootings that the authorities called the most violent 24-hour period of what has generally been a relatively calm year in New Jersey’s largest city.
A bloodied shirt, left, is collected by crime scene investigators, as police tape keeps bystanders away from Bloomfield Avenue, one of Newark’s busiest streets.
There have been 16 homicides in Newark so far this year, down from 26 by this time in 2007, a year that saw a total of 99 killings.
“We have more violent crime in the summer than we do in the winter,” the Newark police chief, Garry McCarthy, noted at a late-afternoon news conference outside Trinity Church in the city’s Ironbound section.
The police also questioned Anthony Criss, known as Treach from the rap group Naughty by Nature, after a report of gunshots on West Runyon Street Tuesday afternoon. Officers pulled over a dark Hummer being driven erratically and found Mr. Criss inside wearing a bulletproof vest. Mr. Criss told the officers that he was not being shot at, Chief McCarthy said. The chief added that there was no weapon found in the car, although a pistol was recovered nearby on the street.
The mayhem in Newark began with a shootout in the town’s Vailsburg section at 11 p.m. Monday. The police said that Markquez Brown, 18, was sitting on his front steps on Smith Street when Sharif Daniels, 18, shot him in the leg. Mr. Brown returned fire, the police said, and killed Mr. Daniels with a shot to the head. Mr. Brown ran a block away to Salem Street, where he bled to death from a severed femoral artery, officials said.
“It was a very unlucky circumstance,” Chief McCarthy said, adding that the police are not looking for any suspects because both men involved in the shooting are dead.
Twelve hours later, a middle-aged man and a woman were shot in the face and a third man was shot in the leg in broad daylight on a busy stretch of Bloomfield Avenue. Witnesses at a nearby Laundromat said they heard multiple shots and ducked. The police are searching for a dark Honda Accord in which suspects or possible witnesses fled the scene, officials said.
All three victims, whose names were not available, are in stable condition, the police said.
Hours later, a man was shot in the hand when bullets came through his front door on 181 Shepherd Street, and another man was shot in the foot on Irvine Turner Boulevard, said Todd McClendon, a Newark police detective. Both men have been released from the hospital, he said.
As detectives here tried to determine if the shootings were motivated by gangs, violence or retaliation, Essex County prosecutors announced additional charges stemming from a shooting spree in neighboring Irvington early Sunday.
Shaquan Johnson, who was arrested Sunday and charged with shooting a police sergeant, now faces charges for two other shootings that day, all of them within a five-minute span.
Mr. Johnson, 27, of Newark, was charged on Tuesday with the murder of 22-year-old Gary Farrar Jr.; the attempted murder of Mr. Farrar’s friend Bashir Pearson, 22; and the attempted kidnapping and aggravated assault of a 14-year-old boy.
He is being held in $1.5 million bail.
Investigators said that prior to the shootings, Mr. Johnson approached a woman and her 14-year-old son on the street and ordered the teenager to his car at gunpoint. When the boy refused, Mr. Johnson attempted to fire his weapon, but it did not go off, officials said.
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PAID DUES: Murs, Supernatural, Dilated Peoples, Tek of Smif-n-Wessun & Boot Camp Clik, and Tajai, Phesto and Opio of the Souls of Mischief & Hieroglyphics!
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THE ROOTS: RISING DOWN, THE VIDEO
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PRODIGY GOT ON HIS GRIZZLY BEFORE HE SLID IN THE BING:
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YO! MTV RAPS, VINTAGE STEEZ:
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50 CENT COULD BE SMARTER...
When it comes to "Gangsta rap" 50 Cent doesn't play around.
He's not happy about comments Alicia Keys was quoted as making in a recent interview with Blender, even though the R&B songstress later said the quotes were "misrepresented" by the magazine.
"'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other," Keys was quoted as saying. "'Gangsta rap' didn't exist."
According to the Associated Press, Keys issued a statement later saying that her comments were "misrepresented" and that she isn't a "conspiracy theorist" or "a racist."
"We stand by our story," Blender spokeswoman Kate Cafaro told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Regardless of Keys' explanation, 50 Cent wasn't too thrilled with the comment.
"I don't like Alicia Keys no more though … the same reason why I said that I don't like Oprah Winfrey," 50 Cent toldTheShowBuzz.com. "I'm prejudice(d). I don't like people who don't like me. If you don't like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when I am writing it. I fall into that 'label' as far as you considering artists creating 'Gangsta music,' we fall into that.
"If she don't like that, (then) I don't like that classical music s--- she be doing. At some point she's playing some s--- that don't relate to me. … We listen to it and try to figure out why people actually enjoy it. I am trying to enjoy it. That statement changes my perception of Alicia Keys totally. But the magazine is standing behind it, which means they probably have a tape of her in conversation saying it. It's just not really a bright comment anyway."
A multiplatinum artist ("Get Rich or Die Tryin" and "The Massacre") and business mogul, 50 Cent made a fortune from using rap to share his story of growing up hustling in the streets since the age of twelve.
He believes that hip-hop as an art form is often misjudged.
"I think hip-hop is so competitive, that the competitive nature, the art form makes it a competition," 50 Cent said. "I don't think that a lot of people who judge hip-hop actually enjoy it as an art form. They aren't into it enough to understand what they are listening to and they just hear disrespectful lyrics going back and forth and just say 'oh they're fighting' … so it's got to be negative if it's fighting. To just make reference to what hip-hop was from the very beginning was just two artists battling. Battling turned into beefing after Biggie and Tupac passed because unfortunately that turned into real incidents in the street."
50 Cent, who knows this way of life firsthand, said his mother (who was a cocaine dealer) was killed when he was 8 years old.
"Those things happen in that kind of lifestyle," he said.
50 Cent said that his "reference of nice things died with her." His grandparents, who took him in, had nine children, which meant finances were strained and times were tough.
Although 50 Cent was successful, Columbia Records let him go after he was shot 9 times on May 24, 2000. The rapper was in his car outside of his grandmother's house in South Jamaica, Queens when a gunman pulled up and shot him at close range while he was sitting in the car. He was shot in the hands, legs, chest, hip and left cheek.
He managed to redeem himself in the music biz once he healed and stopped hustling. He may be scarred, but he seems unscathed by the incident today.
"When you get shot, you just get up and go back to doing what you were doing and music was what I was doing," 50 Cent said.
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/17/music/main4024186.shtml
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on that note: PEACE TO MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, WHO I WAS ENTHRALLED TO SEE AND MEET YESTERDAY... HE CALLED 50 CENT A MAN WITH "POISONED MASCULINITY"... WOW!
GOTTA GO TO WORK! (SHOULDN'T I HAVE LEARNED NOT TO SAY THIS BY NOW? LOL)
MINDBENDER LOES YOU
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