Wild, Wild Mess

On the previous episodes of the ASMFAFBI, we discussed a shooting with some of Jeezy folks in Miami that resulted in an arrest, Corporate Thug member Slick Pulla getting popped at Slice in the ATL, and a Beef between Busta Rhymes' producer Swizz Beatz and G-Unit rap-group members Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks that resulted in the shooting death of a Body Guard. Today, we have two more incidents, unproductive that have resulted in two more unnecessary Deaths.

Last night in Cin – OH-Ten (Cincinnati, Oh), a member of T.I.’s entourage was killed and three others were wounded in a gun battle at a night club. Before the shooting, it is alleged according to eye-witnesses that it started as a fight in an after-hours club during a party for T.I. (Clifford Harris) and fellow College Park rapper Yung Joc after a show by the University of Cincinnati.

At Club Ritz, a group of men confronted T.I. and his entourage. Belive it or not I have been to the Club before back in the day when I did some consulting for a clinic up that camp. My boys, one of which was a mortgage broker and the other a Sports Management head, would take me there to get some relief outside of the Vernon Manor and its happy hours. It was wild back then as I recall with folks fighting and all. And I a certain that this has not changed and is likely not the first time someone has been shot or killed there nor will it be the last. From what I have heard so far, T.I.'s folk started making it rain money and some of then OH-10 wanna be gangasters tookit as an insult when the money landed on them, thus starting a fight. Twelve (police) say that T.I.’s folk were followed by men in two sport utility vehicles. They say T.I. and his folk tried to leave (good for them) but were followed onto the highway when their vans were shot –up, leaving his personal assistant and spokesman for T.I.'s Grand Hustle record label, Philant Johnson, dead.

Meanwhile in Houston, a few days before on May 1, 2006, rapper Big Hawk (born John Edward Hawkins) was shot multiple times and died. According to reports, he had gone to one of his folk’s house play dominos. They also think that he was shot by more than one person. Big Hawk was the brother of legendary Houston MC Fat Pat (born Patrick Hawkins) who was also shot and killed back in 1998. He was a member of the Screwed Up Click. DJ Screw died in 2000 and folks still have not resolved the cause of his death.

Somebody needs to get the message across that something is wrong. How many folks have to die because of greed, jealousy and personal insecurity? This is truly a wild, wild, mess.