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12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:30pm On Jan 22, 2015
The culture surrounding Hip-Hop is a dangerous and violent
one. Most of the biggest rappers in rap music grew up in inner-
city neighborhoods infested with crime and characterized by
illegal drug activity. Because of this, even when most rappers
blow up and become successful, they are not able to separate
themselves from the negative and illicit elements they were
surrounded by in their earlier years. Some of the most
legendary rappers in Hip-Hop ( TuPac, Biggie, Big L and Jam
Master Jay) had their lives ended by senseless gun violence.
It’s such a shame because these rappers had so much potential
that wasn’t completely fulfilled. In the following article, we
profile 12 rappers who sustained gunshot wounds but are still
alive to this day. We’re pretty sure that the emcees listed below
are extremely grateful for their second chances at life. Read on
below:

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:31pm On Jan 22, 2015
12. Lil Wayne
The famous rapper Lil’ Wayne has been in the news a lot
lately. Most of it has been due to the label drama he’s been
having with his mentor Bryan “Baby” Williams about the
release of his upcoming album. He’s certainly one of the
biggest rappers in the world, but he had to overcome a self-
inflicted gunshot wound when he was just a young boy. At the
age of 13, while he was still living in New Orleans, he
accidentally shot himself with a .44 caliber pistol. The bullet
missed his heart by only a few inches and he was able to call
911 and receive medical attention. As many would assume the
reason for his life being spared – fate knew that he was
destined to grow up and become a huge star.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:35pm On Jan 22, 2015
11. Beanie Sigel
It’s truly sad but the fact is some rappers really can’t seem to
get their lives together. A perfect example of that is the case of
Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel. He was just released from
jail late last year and he ended up getting into trouble yet
again. On December 5 of 2014, he was shot in Pleasantville,
NJ – the bullet entered through his stomach and exited through
his back. It was reported in early January that he was recently
released from the hospital and one of his lungs had to be taken
out because it was riddled with bullet fragments.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by Wizdray: 11:36pm On Jan 22, 2015
Just in case
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:36pm On Jan 22, 2015
10. Cam’ron
Harlem rapper Cam’ron is no stranger to drama in his career.
He has had beefs with other NYC rappers like 50 Cent, Jay-Z
and Nas, and he has also been shot before in the past. In
October of 2005, he was leaving a nightclub in Washington DC
after performing at Howard’s University Homecoming the
night before. He was driving his flashy Lamborghini when
another car pulled up next to him at an intersection. The driver
of this car asked the rapper to give up his expensive
automobile. Cam’ron said no, and this assailant proceeded to
shoot at the Lamborghini. A few bullets struck him but he was
able to flee the scene and get himself to Howard University
Hospital.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:37pm On Jan 22, 2015
9. The Game
One of the most popular West Coast rappers is The Game and
it’s a well-known fact that he had a heavy drug-dealing past
before being successful in the rap industry. In 2001, while he
was selling drugs from his stash house, someone knocked on
his door around 2am. Not wanting to miss out on a late night
drug sale, he opened the door to see one of his regular
customers. However something was amiss. This customer
brought two other men with him and they had come to hurt the
rapper. A tussle occurred and The Game was shot 5 times. He
lay motionless for several minutes but was somehow able to
reach for his cellphone and call an ambulance. He was in a
coma for 3 days but soon after made a full recovery.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:38pm On Jan 22, 2015
8. Young Dro
The 35-yr-old Atlanta rapper Young Dro has been active on the
Hip-Hop scene for many years now. He is a good friend of T.I.
and he’s part of the successful rapper’s Grand Hustle/Hustle
Gang crew. However before he became a recognizable face in
rap music, he was shot at the age of 16. His shooter hit him in
both the stomach and the back, and he needed about a year of
recovery before he was fully functional again. The rapper has
often stated how he’s still traumatized by the scary experience.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:39pm On Jan 22, 2015
7. Gravy
People may not be too familiar with the rapper Gravy. His real
name is Jamal Woolard and he’s the actor who played the
starring role of Biggie Smalls in the biopic movie Notorious.
The movie was released in 2009, but Gravy was involved in
one of the most incredulous shootings a few years earlier. The
year was 2006, and he was apparently trying to create some
buzz about his rap career. So Gravy decided to set up a fake
shooting outside of Hot 97 radio station by having one of his
boys shoot him in the buttocks. Somehow he was able to do an
interview with radio host Funk Master Flex the same evening
after the shooting occurred. Overall the publicity stunt
backfired and his rap career never fully materialized.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:40pm On Jan 22, 2015
6. Timbaland
Producer and rapper Timbaland is a Grammy-winning artist
and is one of the most talented musicians on the scene.
Currently, he is the music director of the new FOX show
Empire, and it’s a gig that’s going to take his visibility to an
entirely new level. However when he was just 15-yrs-old, he
went through a really harrowing situation. At that time, he was
working as a DJ and washing dishes at Red Lobster to pay his
bills. One night while he was doing his job, a local thug who’d
been tormenting him wandered into the kitchen and ended up
shooting him. The bullet went through Timbaland’s neck and
lodged in his shoulder. He ended up needing several months of
treatment, but thankfully, he made a full recovery.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:41pm On Jan 22, 2015
5. Honey Cocaine
First off, even before we tell you about this shooting, it has to
be noted that if you have a name like Honey Cocaine, chances
are you are going to run into some problems in life. In 2012,
the Canadian rapper Honey Cocaine was performing with West
Coast rapper Tyga in Omaha when concertgoers started
throwing items on stage. Tyga told the hecklers to meet him
outside after the show and the troublemakers took him up on
the offer. Honey Cocaine and Tyga left in a van after the show
and their vehicle was pursued by a black sedan. The passengers
in the sedan fired at the van and Honey Cocaine was grazed in
the arm and had to be sent to Creighton University Medical
Center for treatment. She has been relatively quiet on the music
scene ever since that incident.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:42pm On Jan 22, 2015
4. Lloyd Banks
2014 was a big year for Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent and the rest of
the G-Unit crew. Lloyd Banks is often looked at as the most
lyrical member of the rap crew, but his solo albums have never
been as successful as the group albums he’s been a part of.
He’s also another rapper who has survived a shooting in the
past. In 2001, Banks was exiting a club in Jamaica, Queens
when he was randomly shot twice in the back and in his
stomach. He was able to run to the nearest hospital for
treatment, and there is even another bizarre twist to the story.
He woke up in the hospital the next day to see news of the Twin
Towers 9/11 terror attack in NYC.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:43pm On Jan 22, 2015
3. 50 Cent
Of all the well-known shootings that have occurred in the hip
hop game, the shooting of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is
perhaps the most documented. This is how it went down. In
May of 2000, Jackson was approached by a shooter outside of
his grandma’s former home in South Jamaica, Queens. He was
apparently walking to a friend’s car and then back into the
house to retrieve some jewelry when the gunman approached
him from his left blind side. The attacker pumped nine shots
into 50 Cent, all at close range, and he was hit in chest, hands,
cheek, legs and arm. He miraculously survived and that was the
main inspiration he needed to record and release his platinum
selling album Get Rich Or Die Trying.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:46pm On Jan 22, 2015
2. Fabolous
The rapper Fabolous just released a new album in late 2014
called The Young OG Project. It’s his latest album in a long,
successful career that first took flight in the mid 1990’s.
However he has also had some drama in his career as well. In
2006, he was leaving Justin’s, a restaurant owned by Puff
Daddy, with an entourage of three men. On his way out, his
crew was attacked by some thugs and Fabolous got shot in his
right leg. Luckily the bullet wound wasn’t too serious and he
made a quick recovery.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 11:47pm On Jan 22, 2015
1. Tupac Shakur
Even though the great Tupac Shakur was ultimately killed by
bullet wounds in 1996, he was involved in a shooting incident
two years earlier in 1994. The exact date was November 30 ,
and Tupac was recording at Quad studios in Manhattan when
he was robbed and shot five times by three armed assailants in
the lobby. Biggie’s entourage was apparently recording in the
same location and they allegedly came downstairs to witness
Shakur being carried out in a stretcher. Tupac was taken to
Bellevue Hospital and he checked himself out three hours after
having surgery. He believed that Puffy and Biggie had set him
up for the shooting and he even rapped about it later in the
song “Hit Em Up”; “5 Shots couldn’t drop me / I took it and
smiled/Now I’m back to set the record straight/With my A-K,
I’m still the thug that you love to hate.
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by sinaj(f): 11:52pm On Jan 22, 2015
where iz jay z dere...coz he has also recieved bullet, he said it in 'I just died in ur arms' lyric
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by Nobody: 12:39am On Jan 23, 2015
See as they dey collect bullet dey survive like say na toy gun. That's because they have a very good health system. Down here even bottle dey kill person. You go bleed to death b4 dockeetah go look ur face. Pity.

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by lozairio(m): 12:40am On Jan 23, 2015
No10:
See as they dey collect bullet dey survive like say na toy gun. That's because they have a very good health system. Down here even bottle dey kill person. You go bleed to death b4 dockeetah go look ur face. Pity.
True talk

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by StarFist(m): 1:53am On Jan 23, 2015
Nice piece! I love it
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by Scarpon(m): 3:12am On Jan 23, 2015
No10:
See as they dey collect bullet dey survive like say na toy gun. That's because they have a very good health system. Down here even bottle dey kill person. You go bleed to death b4 dockeetah go look ur face. Pity.
dude u made me laugh @op what about 2face
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by illicit(m): 4:06am On Jan 23, 2015
So dos naija rappers forming baddo aint even got a bullet to their name, anyway tuface got shot by robbers sumtyms bk, he dnt rap tho, american rap is too violent, naija rappers making mouth since almagamation.

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by iamrealdeji(m): 6:53am On Jan 23, 2015
What about French Montana who got shot on the head
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by iamrealdeji(m): 6:55am On Jan 23, 2015
illicit:
So dos naija rappers forming baddo aint even got a bullet to their name, anyway tuface got shot by robbers sumtyms bk, he dnt rap tho, american rap is too violent, naija rappers making mouth since almagamation.
That's why I don't listen to Naija rap,they're too fake and lack lyrical prowess,they write simple lyrics that anybody can write

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by iamrealdeji(m): 6:57am On Jan 23, 2015
sinaj:
where iz jay z dere...coz he has also recieved bullet, he said it in 'I just died in ur arms' lyric
Tell us the lyrics in particular,i don't think Jay Z ever received any bullet,i have all his albums,maybe he was referring to someone else or a "what if" statement

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by illicit(m): 7:31am On Jan 23, 2015
iamrealdeji:

That's why I don't listen to Naija rap,they're too fake and lack lyrical prowess,they write simple lyrics that anybody can write
wagbayi, dats d issue i av with olamide and even dagrin, they spit d same tins a kid wud do, no depth in their lyrics, nt thought provoking at all.

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by ramdris(m): 8:02am On Jan 23, 2015
My advice for our own copy copy Artist is dat they should not copy dis gun shooting thingz o cos if dem try am ehn, na die o as our medical facilities can't even save person wey dem use catapult fire o.

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by carik(m): 8:36am On Jan 23, 2015
sinaj:
where iz jay z dere...coz he has also recieved bullet, he said it in 'I just died in ur arms' lyric

Maybe that was a rubber bullet
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by twerkjack: 9:08am On Jan 23, 2015
IN BEYONCE'S VOICE.....I WAS HERE
I CAME
I SAW
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by Deejavuu(f): 9:24am On Jan 23, 2015
ramdris:
My advice for our own copy copy Artist is dat they should not copy dis gun shooting thingz o cos if dem try am ehn, na die o as our medical facilities can't even save person wey dem use catapult fire o.

Hahahahahahaha....

Chaiiii some people mouth sha cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by naijaboiy: 9:41am On Jan 23, 2015
ramdris:
My advice for our own copy copy Artist is dat they should not copy dis gun shooting thingz o cos if dem try am ehn, na die o as our medical facilities can't even save person wey dem use catapult fire o.
Guy you funny sha! gringringrin
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by naijaboiy: 9:44am On Jan 23, 2015
Interesting piece..

The hip hop world in the US is a really rough game I tell ya! Forget all these show off they do on tv.

Many of them are really protecting themselves because no one knows who the bullet will hit next.

Our naija rappers never reach grin

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Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by Ahmed0336(m): 9:44am On Jan 23, 2015
sinaj:
where iz jay z dere...coz he has also recieved bullet, he said it in 'I just died in ur arms' lyric
none of the bullets touched him eventhough he was shot at
Re: 12 Rappers Who Got Shot And Lived by Smartsyn(m): 9:50am On Jan 23, 2015
I ve been shot once, and i survived, the same cannot be said of my shotters...

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