9 Crazy Acts Of Studio Violence In Hip-Hop - Page 2

The Hip-Hop community is thanking every higher power that YG is recovering nicely after being shot three times outside a music studio in Los Angeles. Although rappers are expected to exercise their creative freedom inside the lab, sometimes it can be more dangerous than the streets.

Check out these unforgettable instances of studio violence in Hip-Hop starting with the West Coast.

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Tha Dogg Pound

On October 20, 1999, Dwayne Dupree, bodyguard for Tha Dogg Pound was shot and killed outside a Los Angeles studio. Both Kurupt and Daz Dillinger were present at the crime scene.

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Jam Master Jay

The Run-DMC legend was gunned down in a Merrick Boulevard recording studio in Jamaica, Queens on October 30, 2002. Although several suspects were investigated, the murder remains unsolved.

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Slim Dunkin

Waka Flocka Flame’s close friend and Brick Squad artist was shot to death in an Atlanta recording studio on December 16, 2011. The incident was said to be started over an argument over candy. Vinson Hardimon was later acquitted of the felony murder charge he caught.

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50 Cent Vs. Murder Inc. Goons

Three years before he became the biggest entity in rap music, The Hit Factory studio in New York became a WWE Royal Rumble battleground where 50 Cent was stabbed, allegedly by Murder Inc. rapper Black Child.

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Guru

The late Gang Starr MC saw one of his worst days on January 11, 1999 when he was pistol-whipped and robbed for thousands of dollars in jewelry as we was exiting a Queens, N.Y., recording studio in the early morning.

L’A Capone

Chicago rapper and Lil Durk affiliate Leonard “L’A Capone” Anderson was murdered on September 27, 2013 in the vicinity of a South Shore recording studio in Chicago. He was only 17-years-old.

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Foxy Brown Vs. Jacki-O

Fox Boogie thought her BK swagger would be the ex-factor when she faced off against Jacki-O in her own backyard at Miami’s Circle House Studios in April of 2005. It wasn’t.

Tony Trapz

The up-and-coming Canadian rapper lost his life in a shooting at a Toronto studio on January 21, 2012.

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Jim Jones Vs. Ronald “Ra Diggs” Herron

The Dipset kicked Ra Diggs out of a Bronx studio in 2010 only for the man to return with several goons who eventually chased him out of a nightclub later that evening. Herron is currently severing TWELVE life sentences for various thuggery.