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Rapper Blade Icewood killed in Detroit drive-by shooting
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| 4-20-05
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.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bladeicewood; rap
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To: Dan from Michigan
Gee, now he can be voted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame.
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:46:26 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
To: Dan from Michigan
Evidently this guy had enemies who hated his guts and wanted him dead. Gangsta rap, go figure.
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:46:35 AM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(Let there be no mistake. Let me be very clear: I HATE DEMOCRATS! Enemies of the Republic.)
To: Dan from Michigan
We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:46:45 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: RexBeach
To: Dan from Michigan
Live like a thug, die like a thug.
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:47:34 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drooling moron since 1998...)
To: Dan from Michigan
Is live so cheap?
What a sad commentary on our communities.
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:47:54 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
To: Dan from Michigan
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:48:06 AM PDT
by
TBall
To: Dan from Michigan
"Darnell Lyndsey, was in a wheelchair inside his Range Rover on Tuesday night when a shooter pulled along side in a vehicle and fired"
There is so much wrong with this scenario....not sure where to begin.......
RIP Blade....er....Darnell...
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:48:10 AM PDT
by
BossLady
("Don't call me Babe......" ~~ Barb Wire)
To: Dan from Michigan
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:48:11 AM PDT
by
spiffy
To: Dan from Michigan
Another glimpse of life in the post apoplectic waste land that is Detroit
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:48:11 AM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: Dan from Michigan
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:48:50 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Dan from Michigan
To: Eric in the Ozarks
How about "Shootee of the Year"?
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:50:06 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("I can see it now. You and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you." -Groucho Marx)
To: Dan from Michigan
And this is news because??? LOL!
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:50:30 AM PDT
by
rockabyebaby
(If you're not part of the solution, YOU ARE the problem.)
To: Dan from Michigan
Who?
Another grease-spot on the moving window of history.
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:51:13 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
... breaking news?
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:51:23 AM PDT
by
evets
(God bless President Bush and VP Cheney)
To: RexBeach
The last BET Hip Hop Awards had more guns in the building then the NRA convention.
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:51:30 AM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: RexBeach
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posted on
04/21/2005 10:51:39 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Dan from Michigan
Oh, no. Another rapper gone to Thug "heaven". I wonder if he'll receive his due adulation from the hip-hop "community" a la Thug saints Biggie and Tupac.
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