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.
INteresting.
Hopefully she's been banned recently.
Drats, just checked, no she hasn't been banned yet.
She just signed up today. Mods must be on a bathroom break.
Shall we play with her for a bit?
Nah. Gauging from her home page, she doesn't speak English.
And I can't figure out why she freepmailed me, I didn't even comment on this thread before.
That's beautiful.
Hip Hop Homie-cide!
Weird!
Kinda like 'youdontknowme' and 'tulareman'..
Weird.
Damn, yo, she be wiggety wiggety whack!
I guess all us freepers look alike.
Well, dirtboy got FReepmailed by "blade_lilsis" and 'she' claims to be Blade Icewood's little sister.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~bladelilsis/
Looks like I missed a wierd one.
OUCH!
LOL.
Check out homepage link in post 92.
'She' FReepmailed dirtboy about this thread.
Currently my area is being stomped by a lightning storm, so I have to shutdown for a bit.
*GAAAAH!*
"I am sad for his family, assuming he has some that are not criminals."
His family may have had him "iced" because his sales were slumping and they knew sales would go up if he was killed. Then the family wouldn't have to share the proceeds with him.
Boss up yo. :)
Tagline material
I assume he is named Blade because he likes to take the family to the park to roller blade.
Another scumbag POS rapper bites the dust.
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