Rapper Camoflauge Killed

MSN Entertainment News ^ | 5/21/03 | AP

[Alberta's Child]

I think it's about time the job title of "rapper" knocks "New York City cab driver" off the top of the list of most dangerous occupations in America.

[FourtySeven]

LOL.......or at least be a close second.

[Abe Froman]

Universal Records signed Camoflauge for his follow-up album, "Strictly 4 Da Streets: Sex, Drugs and Violence, Vol. 1."

Touche'.

Is all hope for America lost?

[steveo]

...was fatally shot while walking with his toddler son outside his recording studio.

How did the killer see him?

[sirshackleton]

He was often seen hanging out near the recording studio, flashing gold teeth and wads of money, and driving around town in a Ford Expedition with his face and name painted on the side.

Whoa, thought I was reading my autobiography for a second there.

[FourtySeven]

How did the killer see him?

Maybe he had all his Camo at the dry cleaners that day.

[FourtySeven]

Whoa, thought I was reading my autobiography for a second there.

LOL

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I always wondered about this:

Rappers/Hip Hoppers and Country Music have a lot of people who own guns.

Yet, Country fans and artists arent killing each other.

I dont see Toby Keith trying to gun down Tim McGraw ("...SOB knocked me out of #1".... LOL).....I dont see Kenny Chesney emptying his Uzi on Billy Ray Cyrus.....it just doesnt happen in country

Yet....these Hip Hoppers are killing each other left and right.

I guess add another name to the Rapper Body Count

[50sDad]

Live by 'da Hood, die by 'da Hood.

I could just be me, but if I had made a gazillion dollars pouring woman-hating rhymes into the ears of American youth made too stupid by public education to turn the damn radio off, I would move the hell out of the hood, maybe to somewhere quiet in Ohio. These rapping pinheads make me think that there should be something to Darwin's theories, except that they seem to be managing to breed several times before their dangerous, self-risking behavior manages to remove them from the gene pool.

[sirshackleton]

I dont see Kenny Chesney emptying his Uzi on Billy Ray Cyrus.....it just doesnt happen in country

Yet in this case I strangely wish it would.....

[50sDad]

Time was, RAP was recognised to be self-hating, self-destructing, woman-slapping, gay-bashing, badly rhymed, self-important trash talk, designed to improve the self-image of people who can't do anything but pollute themselves and those around them with something that imagines itself as music, but isn't. NOW and the Regular Suspects ignored it, because being "culturally sensitive" was more important than calling the woman-hating stuff what it was...hate speech. Finally, we moved into an age of enlightenment, and rap actually became recognised as bad, vulger, class-less, cruel gutterspeak.

And then one day, some bright wag renamed the exact same thing as "hip-hop", and everthing was alright again. Same old Liberal ploy...rename the sin and it goes away. (I can remember when a "life choice" was really a "sin"! Honestly!)

[LibWhacker]

Just proves that when you're in the city you should wear your urban camo, and leave that moose hunting crap at home.

[Richard Kimball]

Beat me to it.

[Abe Froman]

Yeah it's funny how the primarily legal gun owners (country music stars and fans) are so restrained concerning gunplay yet the primarily illegal gun owners and users (hip-hop musicians & followers) are so quick to draw and fire.

Furthermore, I think the only reason more rappers don't die is because they're all such bad shots.

[Kenton]

Camoflauge's background formed the perfect "gangsta rap" resume. He grew up in Savannah's public housing projects, had a record of arrests on drug possession charges and suffered minor injuries in a shooting last year. He also spent three months in jail in 2000 charged with murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Kenneth Capers.

"He's the first person from Savannah to make it big. Not MTV big, but big for Savannah," said 16-year-old fan Sierra McCoy, who lives in one of the housing projects where Camoflauge grew up and considers the rapper an inspiration.

Wow. This is so pathetic I can't even come up with a smart-ass comment...

[No Truce With Kings]

"I dont see Toby Keith trying to gun down Tim McGraw"

Yeah. But I could *just* about see Natalie Maines gunning for Toby. Especially when she's feeling a tad more PMSish than is usual for her.

[eyespysomething]

Many considered the rapper a role model despite his violent, profanity-laced lyrics and brushes with the law.

And what would be wrong with that sentence?

[Gritty]

The rapper Camoflauge,... was fatally shot while walking with his toddler son outside his recording studio.

I won't be so tasteless as to ask the question if this toddler's mother and Camoflauge were married.

I fear I know the answer.

[BossLady]

My thoughts exactly! Ironic isn't it....Camoflauge..Camouflage..shot in the open....hmmmmmm......