Which rappers do you think may have actually killed someone in the past?

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J-Dee from Ice Cube's Lench Mob crew did time for murder (and thus did not appear on their second album)

assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link

RL Burnside used to claim he killed a dude. but, y'know, blues mythology...

assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link

RL Burnside, the blues guy?

oh, I get it: any black musician who commits murder (or any violent crime, really) is automatically elevated to gangsta rapper status, regardless of whether they ever actually rapped. I always forget that little rule. hollaz hollaz @ my Leadbelly, amirite?

i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link

noted gangsta rappers Vince Neil, Burzum, and Keith Moon

assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link

huh? Vince and Keith aren't even black. now I'm all confused.

i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

i didnt want to start a new thread

Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link

let's recap: Whiney posted a short list of performers who have been confirmed to have killed somebody, NOT JUST RAPPERS. I suggested two additional people, one of whom I already cited on this thread before, and another who was not cited before because he was not a rapper.

assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link

oh, I get it: any black musician who commits murder (or any violent crime, really) is automatically elevated to gangsta rapper status, regardless of whether they ever actually rapped.

thought this was going to be a grime zing

deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link

equating vehicular manslaughter with actual murder is a bit much too imo

some dude, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link

i remember some old post where ethan said kind of off-handedly that he believed biggie was a killer -- not that he killed pac but that i guess when he did dirt pre-stardom

some dude, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link

equating vehicular manslaughter with actual murder is a bit much too imo

thread title says KILLED not murdered

assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link

what drink is that on richy rich's tombstone?

Philip Nunez, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link

lucozade

caek, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link

u just jealous caek

deejeuner sur l'herb (nakhchivan), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Um, Phil Spector

the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Monday, 10 January 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link

J-Dee from Ice Cube's Lench Mob crew did time for murder (and thus did not appear on their second album)

Isn't J-Dee still in jail?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link

Anyway, if we're talking about musicians who killed someone, wasn't there some relatively well known rock drummer who killed his mother? I can't remember the name right now.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link

And of course there's this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_vicious

Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Sid was never confirmed as having killed Nancy Spungen (died too soon to get a sentence), but I guess it seems likely he did.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link

Jimmy Snuka killed a bitch. And he could rap too.

"jobs" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link

Ozzy Osbourne allegedly indirectly killed a kid by writing "Suicide Solution" and causing that kid to commit suicide.

You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link

Maybe youse should do a "Death Pool" and list 15 rappers, singers, people on wikip. And the person that gets the most murderers by the end of the year, wins.

Mark G, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link

"Anyway, if we're talking about musicians who killed someone, wasn't there some relatively well known rock drummer who killed his mother? I can't remember the name right now."

The guy from Traffic?

Randy Moss' dog's personal chef (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, I think he was the one I was thinking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gordon_%28musician%29

Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Hmm, I didn't know it, but apparently Jim Gordon was the drummer for Incredible Bongo Band, and he played drums on "Apache".

Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^^know the ledge

"jobs" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link

it seems like Gordon played on every great album of the time. Pet Sounds, The Notorious Byrd Brothers, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Nilsson Schmilsson, Pretzel Logic...

gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link

Lil Boosie is suspected of up to five murders

mavisbeacon666 (San Te), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Hammer did time as a teenager for shooting a convenience store clerk.

no way! he seems so nice


My, my, my music hits me so hard
Makes me say "Oh, my Lord"
Thank you for blessing me
With a mind to rhyme and two hype feet

It feels good, when you know you're down
A super dope homeboy from the Oak town
And I'm known as such
And this is a beat, uh, you can't touch

I tell you, homeboy

Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link

lol I love how long it took for someone to respond to that.

mavisbeacon666 (San Te), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link

as far as I know I think Hammer's (aka STANLEY BURRELL lol) claim to thug life was scalping a football ticket when he was a kid

mavisbeacon666 (San Te), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link

though he really shoulda been arrested for his performance at Universal back in 2009 cuz that shit was criminal

mavisbeacon666 (San Te), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Jim Gordon wrote the "Layla" coda, which is the best part of that song, and not even the Goodfellas montage can erase from my brain what that guy did to his poor mama (with a HAMMER, no less) - I hear the "Layla" coda, and I instantly think "murder by hammer."

and pre-empting obvious "Can't Touch This" joke

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link

updated list

1. G-Dep
2. Vince Neil
3. Keith Moon
4. Burzum
5. Cool C
6. C-Murder
7. Big Lurch
8. Grime artist Crazy Titch
9. J-Dee of the Lench Mob
10. Phil Spector
11. Zappa/Traffic drummer Jim Gordon

Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link

claudine longet

buzza, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8IOKKG_PAQ

buzza, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link

joe meek

nakhchivan, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link

boosie

*gets the power* (deej), Saturday, 15 January 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link

he allegedly put money on some dude's head, anyway

*gets the power* (deej), Saturday, 15 January 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link

lol not ilx's some dude, afaik

*gets the power* (deej), Saturday, 15 January 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I played Team Fortress 2 with a "SomeDude" last night.

flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Saturday, 15 January 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link

oo ooo oooo gimme ur steam id's. i despise the game but log on occasionally.

heh (kelpolaris), Sunday, 16 January 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link

gucci killed a dude iirc

fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Sunday, 16 January 2011 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link

kel: reverenddollars

flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Sunday, 16 January 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link

awsum, maybe seen u doods sometime.

heh (kelpolaris), Sunday, 16 January 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link

I've only been playing since xmas.

flutes & fucking mexican death horns (The Reverend), Sunday, 16 January 2011 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link

gucci killed a dude iirc

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, January 15, 2011 7:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yep

J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 January 2011 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link

self-defense tho right?

domo genesis p-orridge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 16 January 2011 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah but still

J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 January 2011 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link


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