Posted on 10/08/2018 5:27:21 AM PDT by csvset
City police are investigating after they said a local rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a lounge in Queens on Sunday morning.
"I just see chairs all over the floor and then I just see him on the floor, and then I didn't see anything until he starting gasping and blood just was going everywhere," said bartender Tieshajah Reynolds, who witnessed the shooting.
Police said 35-year-old Frank Snyder, who goes by the stage name Hollywood Play, was shot in the neck and leg around 3:15 a.m. in front of the Tavern Bar and Lounge on Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Sources told NY1 that the Brooklyn resident exited the lounge, where he was hosting a party, when a dark-colored sedan rolled up and someone inside shot in his direction several times, striking him.
The city police department did not confirm if Hollywood Play was the intended target, but Reynolds said she thought the car must have been waiting for the rapper.
"I guess, like, once he went inside, shots went off and they targeted him for some reason, because there were a couple other people outside," she said. "I feel like they had to wait until the right moment to get him."
There are no arrests at this time.
Neighbors said the area is safe but the bar often makes them uneasy. "This bar is not safe at nighttime," one woman said. "Even in the daytime, crossing it, it's kind of scary. At nighttime, when I used to come home at 3 a.m., it was scary and I wasn't sure if I should go this way."
Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-8477, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com
>>Hos many fricken “rappers” are there? Dangerous occupation<<
Every single black kid in the inner city and every denizen of Jamaica and the Bahamas.
Think about it — you don’t need to know music at all. Just sync-speak and everyone will pay you tons of money. Easier than sinking a ball in a hoop, even.
Can see it now - flintlock pistols turned sideways.
Probably. Without the ease of a semi-auto, I’d imagine there would be quite a few misses.
“local rapper” = Idiot that hangs out at the Quik-Trip making everyone nervous and acting liike targets for the opposing “local rapper” team.
Sometimes we have “local rapper’ competitions. Its a real blast!
Why is this a big deal? RAP Music has always glorified the thug and gang banging criminal life, this is just making it real. They should be Proud that he died for the cause.
Had to have been a Tea Party malcontent. /s
God, the was an amazing performance.
“One gen-u-wine harry-carry knife. Pass it around, boys. See if anybody’s got use for it.”
1941 is terribly underrated.
I wonder why you never hear about crooners like Harry Connick or Michael Buble offing each other?
Maybe it’s a culture thing. I dunno
Can you imagine the brainpower pow wow of the people planning a local rapper’s killing? IQ’s of a dead armadillo.
Check out this list of “artists” killed by fellow “artists.” I don’t recall Count Basie and Duke Ellington killing anyone. And no BS about their “art” reflecting reality. These vermin create their own reality; i.e., violence and misogyny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murdered_hip_hop_musicians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Murdered_rappers
His next album will go to Number One with a bullet.
Rap rap rap rap rap rap...they call him “The Rapper”
Rap rap rap, you know what he’s after
The main question is did he achieve total rapperness or was he still aspiring?
The main question is did he achieve total rapperness or was he still aspiring?
Well done!
"...That’s when Paycheck — who, coincidentally enough, scored one of his earliest hits with a song called “Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone to Kill” — reached around his hip in search of his .22-caliber pistol...."
I did not know that was a song of his.
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