Saturday, December 17, 2011
Music news Waka Flocka's slain protégée Slim Dunkin, on the occupational hazards of street life
Posted by Rodney Carmichael @Rappin_Rodney on Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM
Slim Dunkin, "Man Down" feat. Lil Capp and Da Kid
Brick Squad affiliate and Waka Flocka Flame protégée Slim Dunkin was killed at an East Atlanta recording studio on the set of a video shoot Friday night when a verbal altercation turned violent, according to WSB-TV.
Atlanta Police believe someone arguing with the victim, whose real name is Mario Hamilton, produced a handgun and shot him in the chest.
The Clayton County rapper, who stood six feet eight inches tall, released his latest mixtape, Twin Towerz 2 (No Fly Zone), with Waka Flocka in August.
While Waka and his Brick Squad affiliates have been known to get into potentially violent altercations in the past, such as last year's Walter's shootout, they usually avoid tragedy. In a 2010 interview with Ozone magazine's Ms. Rivercity, Slim Dunkin addressed the perception that his crew has a tendency to attract trouble:
Ms. Rivercity: Sometimes trouble does seem to find you and your crew and all that. Is that something you think you bring on yourself or is that something, just ’cause people hating...?Slim Dunkin: If anybody know[s] me though, they know I'm quiet as hell. I don't really talk, so ... for me to do anything to somebody it's gotta be provoked. I don't say nothing to nobody. Before this rap shit I wasn't talking to nobody. I walk in the club, I ain't looking at you, I ain't talking to nobody, I ain't shaking no hands. But then I became more of a people person when I started rapping, like damn I gotta start fuckin' with these folks just so they don't think I'm being a dickhead.
But I don't talk to nobody. And yeah, I got an army around me, yeah, and I got a bunch of my ni$%as around me. And we don't take no shit, but we don't start no shit.... And then you gotta look at the crowd I'm in. Fighting gon' happen in the crowd I'm in, the air I'm in, ’cause everybody around me broke. Everybody in the same club I'm in, they come in that motherfucker, they just spent their last dollar ... they not finna let you bump them, they not finna let you step on their shoe. And I'm not gonna let you bump me, I'm not gonna let you do nothing out of the ordinary to me. So I just feel like the life you choose and who you be around.... If I was getting a job, I wouldn't be fighting everyday.
So could I say I provoke it? I don't provoke it, but I know it's going to come when you go to the club on the Southside, when you go to the club on the Westside, when you go to the club on the Eastside — big hole-in-the-wall ass club with nothing but young ni#$as that don't know nothing but fighting and shooting. What's going to happen? Either you built for it or you not. And I just feel like, I don't start no trouble, but I'll finish it.
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Why is this sort of ignorant crap glamorized in this city? Do these guys realize how pointless and stupid this sort of shit looks to people outside of this scene?
wise words to live by from slim dunkin...the language...of love...they not finna let you bump them, they not finna let you step on their shoe.
Just another example of why this city is in a perpetual state of decline.
@Johnny Coolbreeze: As ironic as this may sound now, I doubt that Slim Dunkin lost any sleep while he was alive waiting on you to validate the path he chose. Unfortunately, that doesn't make his death any less senseless.
@Amanda Tammy: Try using context clues.
Rodney, why the fuck should I care about this talentless product of "Da ATL's" most ignorant, embarrassing, and for some ungodly reason marketable subculture? This "clique, or whatever the fuck they call themselves, has produced nothing but absolute fucking garbage. Yes, it is senseless that the guy died. That's exactly my fucking point, numbnuts. Why the fuck do these fools have to prove "dey hard" all the fucking time. Music is about transcending your shitty existence, not wallowing in it.
Fucking ignorant.
I ain't disagreeing with you. I'm simply saying that everybody's reality (or fantasy, for that matter) doesn't have to make sense to you in order to be considered valid.
"Music is about transcending your shitty existence, not wallowing in it. "
While I strongly doubt you listened to the man's entire body of work, this is pretty narrow (and shitty) characterization of what music is/should be. If every song ever created was made for the sake of transcendence, it would pretty much blow as a form of art. Regurgitating half-baked ideals and polysyllabic words and does not make you less of a moron, unfortunately.
"finna" = "fixin' to", for all (most) intents and purposes.
Leaving aside the tea party patriot comments in this affair, I'll say only that the hood internet was all a *twitter* about how this was in all probability a score settled regarding some drug deal that turned into a robbery and theft of a client's car. This is apparently not too uncommon among 1017 and the thugs who hang around ESSO. Its all in the game, as they say.
lol, only now channel 2 is reporting that he got shot over some delicious chewy candy. IDK man. Sounds like some disrespecting the dead shit to me.
He was killed over candy: http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/vide…
sad. A cycle of destruction in the urban communities of America. J/s
Well, dude doesn't have to worry about bumps and shoes no more.
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