Although Waka Flocka may be making headlines for getting shot at, shootings in the Hip-Hop game are not uncommon.
Even if we have unfortunately lost two of the most arguably best rappers because of these pointless acts of violent, many rappers have somehow bodied the shootings and have lived to tell about it.
Although there are obvious ones like 50 cent, many on the list will surprise you, especially a certain Young Money rapper who shot himself.
Peep the page #’s below to see if your favorite rapper has taken a bullet.
The Game
On October 1, 2001 while at the apartment alone, Game heard a knock on the door at 2 a.m. Wanting to make a late night sale, he opened the door to see a regular customer. His regular however brought two others with him.
He and another man fought. Reaching for his pistol, he was shot execution style by one of the assailants five times. After laying still for several minutes, Game used his cell phone and called the ambulance. Effected by his wounds, he went into a three-day coma as a result
Cam’ron
On October 23, 2005, Cam’ron was leaving a nightclub in Washington D.C., having performed the day before at Howard University.
Whilst and stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of New York and New Jersey Avenue shortly after midnight, a passenger of a nearby car threatened Cam’ron to “give up” his 2006 Lamborghini.
Cam’ron resisted, and the man then shot him. Cam’ron was struck at least once as he was holding the steering wheel, but he was able to drive, going the wrong way on streets and flashing his lights, until a fan drove him to Howard University Hospital.
Obie Trice
On December 31, 2005, Trice was shot twice while driving on the Lodge Expressway by Wyoming Avenue in Detroit.
One of the bullets entered his head. Trice was able to drive off the expressway, where his girlfriend waved down the police. He was taken to Providence Hospital and released later that day.
Doctors are still contemplating whether or not to remove the bullet, as it may be too dangerous to operate.
Timbaland
When he was 15 in 1986, he was shot during a robbery and was partially paralyzed for nine months. He was doing work as a DJ, and held a series of menial jobs, including washing dishes at a Red Lobster, where he was constantly bumping heads with a local thug.
One night, Tim’s tormentor wandered into the kitchen as he was punching the clock to leave. “I got somethin’ for ya,” the guy said. “Oh yeah?” Tim retorted.
“What you got?” His nemesis then pumped off a gunshot from a weapon hidden inside a bag; the bullet passed through Tim’s neck and lodged in his right shoulder. (fragments remain to this day)
Young Dro
At the age of 16, he was shot in the stomach and the back and required almost a year to recover.
Dro says of the incident,
“I had to wear a bag for like a year…I was traumatized from that. I couldn’t laugh. I couldn’t walk or nothing”.
Fabolous
Fabolous was shot in his right leg on the morning of October 17, 2006 in Manhattan after exiting Justin’s, a restaurant owned by Diddy.
The police saw the rapper and three other men accompanying him rushing through a red light and found unlicensed, loaded guns in their car leading to their arrest.
After they found the weapons, Fabolous was treated at a local hospital.
Lil Wayne
At age 13, he accidentally shot himself with a .44 caliber gun, with the bullet missing his heart by two inches. Dwayne Carter was bleeding out quickly. He managed to dial 911.
Here’s the Lil’ Wayne attitude from an early age; when the operator pressed for details on the injury, Dwayne responded, “You’ll find out when you get here.”
In 2001, Lil Wayne was shot in the chest in Florida after “some groupies” fired two shots through his tour bus window. He recalled the incident in 2008 interview: ‘It [the bullet] ‘didn’t go all the way in, ’cause the window slowed it down
OJ Da Juiceman
Although me may joke about it, OJ Da Juiceman being shot 8 times was no laughing matter.
Being shot 8 times all in the lower half of his body, OJ Da Juiceman calls himself Wolverine after entering the hospital on a Sunday and being released on a Wednesday.
“I was Fawked up. They asked for a comment right after I got shot. So I made a joke about ‘I’m like Wolverine’. Shot on Sunday. Out the hospital on Wednesday. Show on Sunday.I just get stronger. It was a joke. I got shot on Sunday. Got out the hospital on Wednesday. Did a show on Saturday in Cincinnati.”
Lloyd Banks
Lloyd Banks may rarely speak on it, but in an interview Banks recalls his un-movie like experience:
“In my stomach, my back, grazed a couple times. I had to run to the hospital. It wasn’t like the movies where you’re like ‘Uggh”. I had to like ‘oh Shyte, i’m Fawked up’ and I had to run all the way from Jamaica Avenue to Mary Immaculate Hospital.”
50 Cent
On May 24, 2000, Jackson was attacked by a gunman, alleged to be Darryl “Hommo” Baum, outside his grandmother’s former home in South Jamaica, Queens.
He went into a friend’s car, but was asked to return to the house to get jewelry. Upon returning to the back seat of the car, another car pulled up nearby. An assailant then walked up to Jackson’s left side with a 9mm handgun and fired nine shots at close range.
He was shot nine times: in the hand (a round hit his right thumb and came out of his little finger), arm, hip, both legs, chest, and left cheek. The face wound resulted in a swollen tongue, the loss of a wisdom tooth, and a small slur in his voice.
