D-12 rapper killed in Detroit: Updated @ 17.00
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D-12 rapper Proof (pictured), otherwise known as 30-year-old DeShaun Holton (32 according to some reports), was shot and killed in Detroit this morning (April 11).
He was one of two men murdered at the CCC club on Eight Mile Road in the early hours. The second man's identity is not currently known, but AllHipHop.com is reporting that it may well be fellow D-12 member Bizarre*. The website D-12.com currently confirms that Proof is dead (update: as does sohh.com at 14.40 British time), and the band's official site, here, currently carries no news whatsoever. (update: MTV and Billboard confirm Proof's murder at 15.29 British time.)
(*The band's label, Interscope, has since countered this, telling the Detroit News that "He (Bizarre) was at home in Atlanta, Georgia" at the time of the incident.)
Both men - the other was 35 years old - suffered wounds to the head and were pronounced dead upon arrival at the nearest hospital, St John Holy Cross. The CCC club was holding an illegal after-hours party last night, known as a 'blind pig' (gambling, et cetera; click here if you wanna read about 'em). Homocide investigators arrived on the scene at 5.30am.
Witnesses are being questioned, and police are searching for suspects. DiS will update this page as and when additional news becomes public.
I bet it was Esham
He's a dodgy one.
Blimey.
That's intense.
.
(colon slash zero)
Bit full on. Bizarre was the one who wore a shower cap wasn't he?
Bizarre
He's the fat one! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Yeah.
Cue a tribute song from Eminem.
With 50 Cent, The Game, Akon
and whoever else is somehow affiliated with Eminem...Brian Warner maybe doing the chorus.
Wow that's quite intense. I really liked "Purple Pills/Hills" shockingly.
RIP.
man
why did all this happenn??
Actually...
This probably isn't true.
Shocking...
well no not really but still, RIP.
And...
Bizarre, I hadn't read that bit:(He made me laugh.
Is the 'most dangerous website in the world' a good source.
I now think it's crap. Didn't much to begin with mind...people do die all the time.
It's confirmed elsewhere, too...
...I'm guessing the original source is not allhiphop.com...
OK
Just looked on other places like CNN and sky news as i thought it might be in the US news sections. It wasn't.
America is just waking up.
Give it an hour.
Oh...yeh...i guess.
Ah well...still could care a bit more.
allhiphop.com is a good source
which is surprising, i know.
but they actually are.
.............
I liked Proof
Just like it happened
in the toy soldiers video
Live by the sword......
I have no sympathy apart from with their families.
It's not good that he's dead
but this will send his creadbility through the roof for the wrong reasons
I bet you anything
that there is someone out there, (probably on the Kerrang board), saying that they where good friends with Proof and had a row with him before he died...made me think of when Dave died and also the fella from Alice in Chains. I know I'm lame if I can't remember his name.
Which one is he?
They all look the same in that 'band'.
Sorry
Trying to quick type...the guy from Drowning Pool.
he
was the black one
Jordan*
Bizarre is not involved
So sayeth Interscope.
They
don't really look the same at all, maybe there are just no black people where you live.
seriously...
anyone in music must be in fear must have one of the highest deaths rate in the world for a job :|
oh my gosh psyche. just like it happened in toy soldiers.
proof was my fave. after em of course. but forgettin em for a mo, proof was the best one in there.
i wonder who the other person is...
r.i.p proof x
LMAO,
SC outs himself as a nazi.
I was talking about the band. They look the same. Not black people.
Ha.
I'm sorry,
but how do they all look the same?!?!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/urban/westwood/images/wallpaper/d12_1024.jpg
In the same way that the members of Franz Ferdinand do, perhaps...
Updated eh? I was about to leave this smug message
from my friend in Detroit:
Oh yeah, and the other guy was not Bizarre—Bizarre was on the radio this morning, talking about his friend. Bizarre is living in Atlanta right now.
The black guys
on the right. I bet you played the Generation game with them, bamos, you'd forget their names.
I was talking
about the band as well, but in case you hadn't noticed most of D12 are black.
it wouldn't be unprecidented:
I would like to draw the jury's attention to the following news article:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/1852
I quote:
"Esham's injuries were far more severe and he was taken to nearby West Jersey Hospital for multiple injuries caused by numerous kicks and blows to the head. A broken nose, ruptured eyeball, mild concussion and a loss of hearing in Esham's left eardrum that has many of his fans concerned about the artist's future career. To date there are no reports as to whether the 26-year-old Detroit rapper will fully recover.
In a message to fans on D-12's website, D-12 member Proof admits to the attack: "...at the show in philly. I hoped off [our bus] and D12 followed and we whooped him and TNT ass"
"
So yeah, sympathy ... probably not all things considered.
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