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Rapper Blade Icewood killed in Detroit drive-by shooting
ap ^ | 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.


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KEYWORDS: bladeicewood; rap
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To: detroitgangstas666

You sure run your mouth a lot, son. It's not a very smart thing to do.


63 posted on 04/22/2005 12:15:04 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan (They call me the breeze)
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To: Dan from Michigan

The only branch of entertainment that's self-criticing.


64 posted on 04/22/2005 12:19:53 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: MisterRepublican

Oh hell yeah, just watch all his "albums" go platinum now! There will be specials on MTV/BET, he'll be featured at the next "fill in the blank" awards show...and his family will be fighting over the royalties for the next ten years.


65 posted on 04/22/2005 12:24:23 PM PDT by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: Dan from Michigan

The real tragedy is that soon many will have no room left for subsequent tattoos of fallen rap heroes. ;^)


66 posted on 04/22/2005 12:58:48 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Dan from Michigan

When at first you don't succeed . . . . . .


69 posted on 04/23/2005 6:15:59 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: Dan from Michigan
OMG! Blade Icewood is gone! I'll always remember this momment, when I learned of his death...where I was...what I was doing...

...now where's that remote?...and hmmm...fingernails need clipping...

72 posted on 04/23/2005 6:20:46 PM PDT by dagnabbit (Vincente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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To: Dan from Michigan

what on earth was this dood rappin?


73 posted on 04/23/2005 6:21:24 PM PDT by drlevy88
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To: reagan_fanatic

Add your own..."


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74 posted on 04/23/2005 6:22:05 PM PDT by Hand em their arse
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To: Dan from Michigan
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.

Mr. Lyndsey's rap handle has since posthumously been changed to "Mr. Lucky".

75 posted on 04/23/2005 6:23:25 PM PDT by RichInOC (...somebody had to say it...why not me?)
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To: stupidpeopledrivemecrazy

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to FR stupidpeopledrivemecrazy.


79 posted on 04/26/2005 10:54:48 AM PDT by Darksheare (You too can own your very own Bad Idea by Darksheare! Inquire within!)
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To: Darksheare

His illiterate little sister's been sending freepmails with the screenname "blade_lilsis"


80 posted on 07/18/2005 10:31:57 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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