Proof fired the first shot
 

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^^^^^^Check it out.

damn...he was one of my favourite..r.i.p

stupid of him to pull out a gun and shoot the bouncer tho..he shud have known there was gonna be consiquences..he leaves behind 5 kids right? damn..

if you're threatened and gotta shoot first you gotta do what you gotta do =/

Again, my question is, why even be in that environment? Why is he carrying around a gun? Why do rappers feel like they have to prove their manhood/bravado through violence?

Of course, just like I stated yesterday, rappers/DJs/etc are defending hip hop by saying, "this doesn't mean it was rap related."

pssf...sure...My question to them is: "How many opera, country, pop, and jazz performers have been gunned down in the last 10 years"?

Rap breeds violence and Proof is its latest victim. RIP tho...

It's just sad man.

Another thing...I find it eerie that he depicted his death in Em's video for "Toy Soldiers." Like Pac and Big, I wonder if he had an obsession over death and became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Who knows...

The rap industry had better be careful though. If things like this continue to happen, then the government will become involved, spying on rappers even more than they already do and imposing regulations on music.

^^That's what I think.

"Another thing...I find it eerie that he depicted his death in Em's video for "Toy Soldiers." Like Pac and Big, I wonder if he had an obsession over death and became a self-fulfillinf prophecy."

word..i thought this was weird aswell...even listening to his album `searching for jerry garcia` with songs such as "kurt cobain", he seems to be obsessed with death and suicide...

i dont think the gov will do shit, how many white men over the age of 40 like rap? or even care about younger minorities in hip hop :-\ not many imo, and thats what the government is composed of, and just because proof had a gun doesnt mean he had it because it made him look cool or whatever, he had it for protection cuz he was in a bad area, i dont think the fact that he had a gun makes it seem like he had it cuz it was 'gangsta' type shit, and hes there cuz he prolly just like to hang out there =/ thats his choice, its not so smart to go back to a bad area when you're famous already but he did it anyway

This is the type of shit that happens when you pull a gun on somebody.

his album already came out???????????

yup..."Searching for Jerry Garcia"..some of the tracks is tight..

lol good point, a lot of jazz people are from ghettos though, atleast older jazz from the 20s im guessing since it was mainly in harlem and shit

i swear it wasnt suppose to come out until later this year........ did u buy it at a store or did u bootlegg it?

naa man, i bought it today in store...when did u think it would be out?

what is it with peeps n their guns these days man!!!