Rapper, 2 in taxi meet violent end in Vegas crash ( Shootout on the Vegas Strip)

Sfgate ^ | Updated 9:04 am, Saturday, February 23, 2013 | KEN RITTER, Associated Press, By KEN RITTER and MICHELLE RINDELS, Associated Press

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LAS VEGAS (AP)

[NoGrayZone]

I’m now seeing them more often here in my Long Island suburb. Every time I see one I always think “I can run you over and squish you like a bug”.

Then I giggle (sorry Lord).

[Revolting cat!]

Rapping is an excellent career choice. But, like with everything, there are some on-the-job risks.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

"One mistake change lives all in one night"

His words not mine. I guess he was psychic.

[a fool in paradise]

Alleged aspirant.

[a fool in paradise]

Getting shot is a necessity for a career as a crapper I mean rapper.

They boast in their bios about how many times they “got shot”. Sometimes they even embellish that number. Same with lockup arrests.

[winodog]

Cameras are everywhere in Vegas. I think they have pics already of the culprits

[NoGrayZone]

True dat. Weirdos.

[Lazamataz]

Let's see.

He's a rapper, who is unsuccessful at it, yet who owns a 120,000 Maserati.

coughcoughcoughdrugdealercoughcough

[Texan5]

My parents told me vehicular shootouts like that used to happen all the time in cities where the mafia was really active-they said it was in the news often when they were kids.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Wonder if they thought about dragging Lake Meade. That Rover is long gone.

Maybe, but how many black RR's with custom rims and a blank out of state dealer tags have been sold lately?

There won't be any problems finding out who has bought what in in the last 30 days.

Shouldn't be hard to locate this guy at all.

[Revolting cat!]

Actually, a plump pimp!

[Bullish]

Since rappers live on the jagged edge of stupid, well....

[Bullish]

LOL!

Great game.

[NormsRevenge]

This went down not too far from where Tupac was expired. something about Vegas and gangs and rappers.. and innocent folks die by happenstance .. sounds like the 20s and 30s in Chicago and NYC

[Revolting cat!]

Who remembers when music was uplifting, sophisticated, and harmonically complex?

[Lockbar]

Rap has changed alot since the “Suger HIll Gang”. In their 1977 hit “Rapper’s Delight” they ever sang the line “hey America, we love thee”.

[Carriage Hill]

RIP, Maserati.
Rot in Hell, cRapper.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Las Vegas can reduce its crime rate by 80% by closing down all of these nightclubs and replacing them with lounges playing Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin music.

But the unspoken truth is - L.A. drug profits keep the Las Vegas economy going, and the gangsters who collect those profits aren't going to spend them freely in a cultural environment that mirrors broader tastes. Thus we get loud, obnoxious hip-hop at every single venue on the entire Strip, and though the crowds these venues attract might help pay the casinos' gigantic mortgages, they lead to the kind of collateral damage described in the article.