To paraphrase a lousy film starring a bunch of idiots: Would all you rappers please stop getting shot?
Seriously, what with all the hip-hop gunplay blasting around at the moment, the world of rap seems to be turning into a dodgy shooting-stall from a travelling funfair. A travelling funfair with more bitches and hoes, of course. And more shouting in airports. And more weird, put-on macho posturing. Wait, we've lost our thread. Oh, that was it, rapper Beanie Sigel got shot in the shoulder yesterday.
The world of rap seems to be going through one of it's shooty phases again, with some results more tragic than others. Eminem's D-12 buddy Proof was recently shot and killed, as was a guard at a Busta Rhymes video-shoot. Then, less seriously, Suge Knight appeared to shoot himself in the leg at an MTV party, Cam'rom was shot in the arm trying to stop someone stealing his ludicrous blue Lamborghini, two fans were recently shot outside a Kanye West concert and Obie Trice was shot in the head but came out OK.
And now we can add the name Beanie Sigel to that list. Not that we really have too much of idea who he is, of course – we think he's got something to do with Jay-Z – but he's a rapper and he got shot, and that's good enough for us.
According to reports, Beanie Sigel was getting into his car in Philadelphia early on Thursday morning, when five men in two cars cornered him and apparently tried to rob. At that point, the police report states, one of the robbers fired two shots, one of them hitting Sigel in his left shoulder. Beanie Sigel then managed to escape in his car and check himself into hospital.
It's not thought that the robbers knew who Beanie Sigel – who has, in the past, been in jail on drug and gun charges and was acquitted of shooting and killing a man outside a strip club two years ago – was, but the investigation continues.
The last word should go to Beanie Sigel himself, who gave the following quote while showing his wound off to journalists after leaving hospital yesterday.
"I'm shot. I got shot. I'm cool."
Read more:
Beanie Shot By Robbers – E! Online
[story by Stuart Heritage]
nunya goddamn busniess. says
“Not that we really have too much of idea who he is, of course