Posted on 04/21/2005 10:45:28 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Rapper Blade Icewood killed in Detroit drive-by shooting
4/20/2005, 11:41 p.m. ET
The Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Rap performer Blade Icewood has been killed in a drive-by shooting, seven months after another gun attack left him paralyzed from the chest down.
Icewood, 27, whose legal name was Darnell Lyndsey, was in a wheelchair inside his Range Rover on Tuesday night when a shooter pulled along side in a vehicle and fired, Detroit police say. Icewood was dead at the scene.
Police have no suspects, the Detroit Free Press said Thursday.
The shooting was within a mile of the site where Icewood hosted a nonviolence rally last year.
The subjects of Icewood's hard-core raps include drugs, money, sex, guns, gangsters and premature death.
On one number, he raps about picking out a casket. On another, he talks about his possible death: "You'll never catch me. And if a hater just happen to stretch me, my funeral line, two miles long, all stretchies."
Icewood was nominated in three categories in this Saturday's third annual Detroit Hip Hop awards, including album of the year.
This month, Icewood had planned to release his third CD, titled "Blood, Sweat and Tears." Part of it was going to deal with the September shooting, said Nicole Shakoor, a manager at Platinum Records in Detroit.
In September, gunmen forced their way into an Oak Park apartment and opened fire. Icewood was critically hurt with multiple wounds. Oak Park police Sgt. Mike Pinkerton said Wednesday that no one was ever arrested for that shooting and said Icewood had refused to help investigators.
Must not have rapped hard enough.
And this is important to humanity how?
"Nope, I don't care if that m------ f----- be paralyzed in a wheelchair! I said I wanted that m----- f--- dead!. So go make him dead."
You really gotta hate someone real bad to do that.
I guess someone wanted him iced permanently.
Friends in "strechies" may call...
Probably not a good idea to post that.
A rapper. Killed in a shooting. I just can't believe it.
Let's see; hosting a non-violence rally and meanwhile composing hard-core raps about drugs, money, sex, guns, gangsters and premature death. Is this what they mean by "keeping it real"?
Defies logic, doesn't it?
I'm stuned.....
Number one with a bullet (or hail of bullets).
I suspect right-wing religious fanatics did this.
On GW's orders, of course.
Never heard of him.
Another reason to take my gun away from me?
Who be getting his disability check now?
paging Black leaders......paging Black leaders.....
supporting this evil crap is killing your own.....
Icewood? Bush has a lumber company. It's Bush's fault.
We have a case in Pittsburgh of a high school student being killed in a drive-by in Carrick, a South Hills suburb. The witness recently recanted and said his testimony was "a dream". Fear rules.
I am sad for his family, assuming he has some that are not criminals.
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