Posted on 12/05/2014 7:35:24 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Philadelphia rap artist Beanie Sigel was shot Friday morning in Pleasantville, New Jersey, but he was not the intended victim, according to an attorney for Sigel's family. The shooting happened around 9 a.m. in the 800 block of Spruce Avenue. Police say the victim, whose real name is Dwight Grant, was shot in the abdomen. He was admitted to the hospital with a life-threatening injury and was in critical condition. A second person was also injured after what appeared to be a scuffle. That person has refused treatment and, police say, has not been cooperating with the investigation. There was no word on a suspect or motive in this shooting. Attorney Fortunato Perri, Jr. told ABC affiliate WPVI-TV that Sigel had just come back home after dropping his kids off at school when he was shot twice in the stomach. Beanie Sigel is no stranger to trouble. He had been in prison since 2012 on charges of failing to file tax returns and drug possession. He was moved to a halfway house in August of this year.
Bump
Aspiring rapper?
Here’s one Al and Jesse can jump on. /s
No need to look up his pic.
I looked in my anatomy book and can’t find a plesantville NJ..... Is that a part only rappers have ?
Silly. It's not a part of his body.
You know how I know? Cause the can't say what part of his body was shot, due to HIPAA regulations.
What rapper in his right mind is on the streets at 9 in the morning? He was asking for it.
The riots will start any minute now.
... There was no word on a suspect or motive in this shooting ....
A) racist
B) racism
/modern journalism
My bad.....:o)
I guess Pleasantville is not so Pleasant a Ville? Maybe they should drop the “l”.
Back in the old MTV days, when RAP was first on the scene, it urked me that they would foist this off on kids. The subject matter was disgusting. And for a while there, Blacks ruled the roost in this genre. Heck, they still do.
Around that time I noticed an interesting dynamic with young girls, specifically young White girls.
Blacks being very popular in that genre, these young girls were trying to be hip by copying the styles of the Black rappers.
You would see some very strange shades of lip-stick that would only look good on a Black person, showing up on young girls. It just didn’t have the same effect against White skin.
Nails were another area where styles didn’t necessarily transfer across racial lines.
And then hair styles also came into play.
Some of the strange staged cow-lick type hairstyles where the hair stood on end in front, were directly related to what was viewed on these shows.
After observing all this, I’ve still had some interesting conversations with people who said that none of the bad lyrics or behaviors in these videos would be emulated by young kids.
Ahh... wanna bet.
It’s tragic what the Rap industry foisted off on the Black and White cultures. How many kids have died while some gangsta acted out? But hey, there was money to be made.
Us suppose their will be marches for beanie?
Modern Journalism=Racism.
prayers up
I don’t know if you are serious or not, but Plesantville is inland from Atlantic City.
I have all his CDs....
On the bright side, if he survives he’ll have more “street cred” and will therefore sell more records.
/s
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