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Tru Life Turns Himself in to Authorities, Faces Murder Charge

Posted Jun 25th 2009 10:30AM by Theo Bark
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New York rapper Tru Life turned himself in to authorities on June 23. He reportedly faces a first degree murder charge. While the early accounts are somewhat sketchy, the charge appears to be related to a stabbing that occurred in a Manhattan apartment building last week, leaving one man critically injured and an unnamed teen dead.

Police were allegedly investigating the infamous Lower East Side rapper's brother in regards to the stabbing, a retaliation for an earlier non-fatal shooting of an alleged drug dealer named Michael Slater, who was shot last week, outside of club Pacha in NYC.

Hours after the Slater shooting, five gang members attacked Jason Black, 30, and the unknown teen in the lobby of their building on East 26th St. Police claim that the attacks were instigated by a growing feud between Black and Tru Life's brother.

Both were stabbed in the chest and face and Black remains in critical condition following the assault.

Tru was a one time Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam artist, signed by Jay-Z. He is best known for his beef with the Cam'ron, Jim Jones and the Diplomats. There is no word yet as to Tru Life's role in the altercation.

Filed under: Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop News, Busted, What's Beef?
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harleydream19

MrRick:
I could care less what race someone is, Rap is Crap and is NOT music. Stop playing the race card. It would seem who hates who from your second post. Rap has NO socially redeeming qualities AT ALL. Rappers are muscians? No, musical artists? maybe. BIG difference.

June 26 2009 at 10:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bob elvidge

once again , this dude is not a musician. he makes lrritating noise.

June 26 2009 at 8:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MR.RICK

outlaw a music genre because you dont like it or accept it? woww. shows how far you americans havent come. what about heavy metal? is that music or noise and screaming/ i never heard a melody in heavy metal. you racist tools solidify my point. you lack cultural understanding. that led you into iraq, and its showing with the ignorance in iran. white people continue to think the world revolves around you. yet you keeping f***in the world up

June 25 2009 at 7:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MR.RICK

what instrument did barry whtie play? marvin gaye? what instrument did he play?

run dmc has at least 6 greatest hits albums.

all these people have a hidden agenda. all this is based on your opinion. nothing factual. just opinion. you are entitled to it. but your posts lack merit when the pre-conceived bias shows through

June 25 2009 at 7:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Uncla Al

I would never hear of most of these guys if it wasn't for their murder charges. What heros they are to the youth of today.

June 25 2009 at 6:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jpuzzlewhiz

Man, I must have learned to type at Rex Ryan University:

It should read, once and for all (I hope!):

"I have ABSOLUTELY NOT ON IOTA OF SYMPATHY...."

June 25 2009 at 6:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jpuzzlewhiz

Sorry, that 8th line of my post should read "I have ABSOLUTELY ONE IOTA OF SYMPATHY for those fools....."

June 25 2009 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jpuzzlewhiz

Oops again:

It should read "I have ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE IOTA OF SYMPHONY....."

June 25 2009 at 6:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jpuzzlewhiz

The first word of the link to this article was "singer". But in the article, I find that this NO-TALENT A-- HOLE is really nothing but a F--KING WORTHLESS RAPPER! Let me explain it to the S--THEADS at AOL one more time: RAPPERS DO NOT SING!
All they do is TALK! The words just happen to rhyme, THAT IS ALL! If I want to attend such a performance, I can go to a POETRY RECITAL, and I don't need to hear an accompanying beat with it, either! And, it's usually free! I have ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE IOTA for the fools who WASTE GOOD MONEY to watch these so-called "performers". It's high time those asinine fools who pay for the tickets to realize that EVERY LAST ONE OF THESE RAPPERS ARE NOTHING BUT RIP-OFF ARTISTS WHO ARE FLEECING THE AUDIENCE OF THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY TO TREAT THEM TO A PERFORMANCE THEY CAN CATCH ON ANY URBAN STREET CORNER FOR FREE !!!!! I long for the day when Rap is outlawed by the Government, and backed unanimously by the U. S. Supreme Court!

June 25 2009 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete

All I had to do was read "Musician turns himself into police" & I knew it was some no name rapper.

June 25 2009 at 6:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Patti

Good, one more down. Millions more to go.

June 25 2009 at 6:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply