TrifeGod
Chasing The Dragon
I'm not directing anything at you, just all free thought homie
Bay Area pimp/rapper Kenny Clutch, shot and killed on tha Vegas strip
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I'm not directing anything at you, just all free thought homie
Exactly. I be trying to tell people all the time. Literally everyday, if you wanna talk that sh!t expect to get tested in every hood you go to. Because the people there aren't going to care about your stripes. You're talking that gun stuff they're gonna wanna see that you're about that stuff. That's why rappers be getting robbed
You won't believe how many grown ass men don't understand that shyt.
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pimp that white bytch
wit a dirty hooker baby?
............. impregnating your merchandise is a violation of the
pimp handbook chapter1 page3
Just terrible really feel bad for the fams especially the people killed in the cab. Was reading the newspaper they specifically mentioned this users page 745Dolla - YouTube
sayin he made threatening comments to ken
sayin he made threatening comments to ken
kermit da hustla
Banned
i feel that. but if your mind isn't right, you will get caught slipping.
Suspect Named: Another well known PIMP/GANGSTA
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Zombi_Jeezus
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Dude shoulda been quicker to clutch the cal.
Even in a Masarati, he couldn't ecsape the grim reapers clutch.
Even in a Masarati, he couldn't ecsape the grim reapers clutch.
Xtraz2
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The father of "Kenny Clutch," the Oakland rapper killed in a shooting and crash on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, defended his son at a news conference as police named Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, 26, as a suspect in the shooting.
Fighting back tears, Kenneth Cherry Sr., said Saturday that his son was a good person and was not responsible for what happened on the Strip. Even though his son, whose real name was Kenneth Cherry, performed some gangsta-style rap, he was not a thug, his father said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Cherry was killed early Thursday when bullets fired from a black Range Rover peppered his Maserati, authorities said.
Cherry's father and his attorney said Saturday that the rapper was unarmed.
"He was a victim just like any other victim," Cherry's father said, according to a video on the newspaper's website. "He was no different than any of you guys."
The elder Cherry was in Las Vegas to claim his son's body.
Family members in Oakland have also spoken out.
"Right now my heart is breaking," said Pat Sims, Cherry's aunt. "This has really been a tragedy. Kenny was just a delightful kid."
PHOTOS: Shots fired on the Las Vegas strip
"I can tell you this ... the world has lost a good man," Sims said. "I'm not saying he didn't have his faults, but he was very kind, especially to older people. Whatever happened in Vegas, I don't know about, but he was a very kind soul."
The younger Cherry's attorney, Vicki Greco, told the San Jose Mercury News that her client "was into gangsta rap, but that's not who he was."
"In my interaction with him, I can tell you that by the way he looked and what he put out there on his videos, he fit a certain stereotype," Greco said. "But I also can tell you that away from that, he was anything but that kind of stereotype. He was honest. He was loyal. He was very dependable. Sometimes he'd drop by my office just to say hello. He was a nice, nice kid."
INTERACTIVE MAP: Shooting in Las Vegas
Authorities said Cherry and the Range Rover had left the Aria resort hotel and were heading north on Las Vegas Boulevard at 4:20 a.m., a time when the casino marquees shine bright but the gambling thoroughfare is largely empty. At Harmon Avenue, people in the Range Rover opened fire on Cherry's Maserati, police said.
The silver-gray sports car, which was struck several times, sped into the intersection at Flamingo Road, ramming a taxi, officials said. The taxi exploded, killing the driver and a passenger. Four other vehicles in the intersection were also involved in the crash and explosion, but police offered no details about them.
Cherry died later at a hospital.
No arrests have been made.
"This is something you never want to go through," Cherry's father told KNTV. "This is the hardest thing in my life right now, because you never want your children to leave before you leave."
Fighting back tears, Kenneth Cherry Sr., said Saturday that his son was a good person and was not responsible for what happened on the Strip. Even though his son, whose real name was Kenneth Cherry, performed some gangsta-style rap, he was not a thug, his father said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Cherry was killed early Thursday when bullets fired from a black Range Rover peppered his Maserati, authorities said.
Cherry's father and his attorney said Saturday that the rapper was unarmed.
"He was a victim just like any other victim," Cherry's father said, according to a video on the newspaper's website. "He was no different than any of you guys."
The elder Cherry was in Las Vegas to claim his son's body.
Family members in Oakland have also spoken out.
"Right now my heart is breaking," said Pat Sims, Cherry's aunt. "This has really been a tragedy. Kenny was just a delightful kid."
PHOTOS: Shots fired on the Las Vegas strip
"I can tell you this ... the world has lost a good man," Sims said. "I'm not saying he didn't have his faults, but he was very kind, especially to older people. Whatever happened in Vegas, I don't know about, but he was a very kind soul."
The younger Cherry's attorney, Vicki Greco, told the San Jose Mercury News that her client "was into gangsta rap, but that's not who he was."
"In my interaction with him, I can tell you that by the way he looked and what he put out there on his videos, he fit a certain stereotype," Greco said. "But I also can tell you that away from that, he was anything but that kind of stereotype. He was honest. He was loyal. He was very dependable. Sometimes he'd drop by my office just to say hello. He was a nice, nice kid."
INTERACTIVE MAP: Shooting in Las Vegas
Authorities said Cherry and the Range Rover had left the Aria resort hotel and were heading north on Las Vegas Boulevard at 4:20 a.m., a time when the casino marquees shine bright but the gambling thoroughfare is largely empty. At Harmon Avenue, people in the Range Rover opened fire on Cherry's Maserati, police said.
The silver-gray sports car, which was struck several times, sped into the intersection at Flamingo Road, ramming a taxi, officials said. The taxi exploded, killing the driver and a passenger. Four other vehicles in the intersection were also involved in the crash and explosion, but police offered no details about them.
Cherry died later at a hospital.
No arrests have been made.
"This is something you never want to go through," Cherry's father told KNTV. "This is the hardest thing in my life right now, because you never want your children to leave before you leave."
Xtraz2
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Prime suspect named in Las Vegas shooting, crash 02/24/2013 9:09 AM
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 26-year-old man was being sought Sunday as the prime suspect in a pre-dawn shooting on the Las Vegas Strip last week which led to a fiery crash that left three people dead and several others injured.
Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones said Sunday that investigators are working around the clock to sort through evidence and find Ammar Harris following the discovery Saturday of a black SUV used as a getaway car in the shooting and six-vehicle chain-reaction carnage on the neon-lit boulevard near the Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Bally's and Flamingo resorts.
Jones cited "lots of information coming at us all at once, especially on the Range Rover." He wasn't specific.
An aspiring rapper driving a Maserati was shot to death Thursday, and two people in a taxi died in a crash and fireball when the Maserati hit their vehicle.
Harris, who police said was arrested last year on allegations that he was a pimp, was named Saturday as the prime suspect in the triple homicide. Jones said police didn't know where he was.
Police released a jail photo of Harris taken following his arrest in Las Vegas last year on pandering, kidnapping, sexual assault and coercion charges. The disposition of that case was not immediately known.
Harris sometimes goes by the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, police said. The photo shows him with tattoos on his right cheek and words on his neck above an image that appeared to depict an owl with blackened eyes. Jones warned that Harris should be considered armed and dangerous.
Police had been searching for the black Range Rover, with blackout windows and distinctive black rims, since it was last seen speeding away from the shooting. It was located at a gated apartment complex a couple of blocks east of the Strip, and was impounded as evidence.
Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., was mortally wounded when the dark gray Maserati he was driving was peppered by gunfire from the SUV. Taxi driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, of Maple Valley, Wash., died in the taxi.
Boldon, 62, was a family man who moved from Michigan to Las Vegas. Sutton-Wasmund, 48, was a businesswoman and mother of three.
A passenger in the Maserati was wounded in the arm and four people from four other vehicles were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The Maserati passenger has not been identified, and police said he was cooperating with investigators.
The blink-of-an-eye chain of events had family members and friends in Las Vegas, California, Michigan and Washington mourning the dead this weekend.
"My son was a good boy," Kenneth Cherry Sr. told reporters in a Saturday news conference convened by Las Vegas lawyers Vicki Greco and Robert Beckett.
Beckett said they wanted to respond to rumors that the 27-year-old son — who produced a rap video using the name Kenny Clutch — was a gangster and a troublemaker. The attorneys had represented his son, an unmarried father of three, and now represent his estate and family.
"My son was a victim just like the two people in that taxi," Cherry Sr. said. "Trouble found him. The people in the taxicab, trouble found them."
Court records show Cherry had no criminal cases or convictions in Las Vegas, and police said there was no record of arrests
The Clark County coroner determined that Kenny Cherry died Thursday of at least one gunshot to the chest. The deaths of Cherry, Boldon and Sutton-Wasmund were ruled homicides.
Police say the shooting appeared to stem from an argument at the valet area of the upscale Aria resort-casino about a block south of the crash scene. The shooting happened after a night featuring Morocco-born rapper French Montana at Aria nightclub Haze.
Cherry's parents live in Emeryville, Calif., and the father said his son's body would be taken back to Oakland. He said his son started a music career there and was recognized by other rappers within a West Coast hip-hop strain called hyphy.
But Chuck Creekmur, chief executive of AllHipHop.com, said Cherry wasn't well-known in wider music circles.
Kenny Clutch's YouTube music video, "Stay Schemin," shows scenes of Las Vegas Strip hotels as he sings about paying $120,000 for his Maserati.
"One mistake change lives all in one night," he raps in one verse.
Kenneth Cherry Sr., who said he runs a cellphone business, said he helped his son make payments on the Maserati. He said he last spoke with his son on Wednesday, when they talked about the high cost of the son's cellphone use.
Cherry Sr. described his son as an entrepreneur but didn't say how he made money or if he had jobs other than his music production.
Boldon's family in Las Vegas was struggling to cope with his death, said Tehran Boldon, the taxi driver's younger brother.
Boldon's sister, Carolyn Jean Trimble, said Boldon was a father, a grandfather and a car race enthusiast who drove a Mercedes when he wasn't in a cab. He owned a clothing store in Detroit and worked at a car dealership, his sister said, and drove taxis after moving to Las Vegas about 1½ years ago.
The irony that a man with a taste for beautiful cars was killed by a sports car wasn't lost on Trimble.
"He would be tickled to death: 'Damn, of all things, a Maserati hit me, took me out like that,'" she said. "I'm happy he didn't suffer."
In Washington, Sutton-Wasmund co-owned a dress shop, said Debbie Tvedt, the office manager for a Maple Valley plumbing company that Sutton-Wasmund started with her husband, James Wasmund. Sutton-Wasmund was in Las Vegas attending a trade show with her business partner.
"It's a big loss," Tvedt said in a telephone interview with AP.
The Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce website said Sutton-Wasmund was a board member from 2004 to 2011 before becoming a marketing representative.
A phone message left for James Wasmund was not immediately returned.
The famously glowing, always-open Las Vegas Strip was closed for some 15 hours after the crash. Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. Eric Kemmer recalled a similarly long closure after the 1996 drive-by slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur.
That shooting — involving assailants opening fire on Shakur's luxury sedan from a vehicle on Flamingo Road — happened about a block away from Thursday's crash.
The Shakur killing has never been solved.
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Associated Press writers Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas, Garance Burke in San Francisco, Kathy McCarthy in Seattle and AP Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu in New York contributed to this report.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 26-year-old man was being sought Sunday as the prime suspect in a pre-dawn shooting on the Las Vegas Strip last week which led to a fiery crash that left three people dead and several others injured.
Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones said Sunday that investigators are working around the clock to sort through evidence and find Ammar Harris following the discovery Saturday of a black SUV used as a getaway car in the shooting and six-vehicle chain-reaction carnage on the neon-lit boulevard near the Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Bally's and Flamingo resorts.
Jones cited "lots of information coming at us all at once, especially on the Range Rover." He wasn't specific.
An aspiring rapper driving a Maserati was shot to death Thursday, and two people in a taxi died in a crash and fireball when the Maserati hit their vehicle.
Harris, who police said was arrested last year on allegations that he was a pimp, was named Saturday as the prime suspect in the triple homicide. Jones said police didn't know where he was.
Police released a jail photo of Harris taken following his arrest in Las Vegas last year on pandering, kidnapping, sexual assault and coercion charges. The disposition of that case was not immediately known.
Harris sometimes goes by the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, police said. The photo shows him with tattoos on his right cheek and words on his neck above an image that appeared to depict an owl with blackened eyes. Jones warned that Harris should be considered armed and dangerous.
Police had been searching for the black Range Rover, with blackout windows and distinctive black rims, since it was last seen speeding away from the shooting. It was located at a gated apartment complex a couple of blocks east of the Strip, and was impounded as evidence.
Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., was mortally wounded when the dark gray Maserati he was driving was peppered by gunfire from the SUV. Taxi driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, of Maple Valley, Wash., died in the taxi.
Boldon, 62, was a family man who moved from Michigan to Las Vegas. Sutton-Wasmund, 48, was a businesswoman and mother of three.
A passenger in the Maserati was wounded in the arm and four people from four other vehicles were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The Maserati passenger has not been identified, and police said he was cooperating with investigators.
The blink-of-an-eye chain of events had family members and friends in Las Vegas, California, Michigan and Washington mourning the dead this weekend.
"My son was a good boy," Kenneth Cherry Sr. told reporters in a Saturday news conference convened by Las Vegas lawyers Vicki Greco and Robert Beckett.
Beckett said they wanted to respond to rumors that the 27-year-old son — who produced a rap video using the name Kenny Clutch — was a gangster and a troublemaker. The attorneys had represented his son, an unmarried father of three, and now represent his estate and family.
"My son was a victim just like the two people in that taxi," Cherry Sr. said. "Trouble found him. The people in the taxicab, trouble found them."
Court records show Cherry had no criminal cases or convictions in Las Vegas, and police said there was no record of arrests
The Clark County coroner determined that Kenny Cherry died Thursday of at least one gunshot to the chest. The deaths of Cherry, Boldon and Sutton-Wasmund were ruled homicides.
Police say the shooting appeared to stem from an argument at the valet area of the upscale Aria resort-casino about a block south of the crash scene. The shooting happened after a night featuring Morocco-born rapper French Montana at Aria nightclub Haze.
Cherry's parents live in Emeryville, Calif., and the father said his son's body would be taken back to Oakland. He said his son started a music career there and was recognized by other rappers within a West Coast hip-hop strain called hyphy.
But Chuck Creekmur, chief executive of AllHipHop.com, said Cherry wasn't well-known in wider music circles.
Kenny Clutch's YouTube music video, "Stay Schemin," shows scenes of Las Vegas Strip hotels as he sings about paying $120,000 for his Maserati.
"One mistake change lives all in one night," he raps in one verse.
Kenneth Cherry Sr., who said he runs a cellphone business, said he helped his son make payments on the Maserati. He said he last spoke with his son on Wednesday, when they talked about the high cost of the son's cellphone use.
Cherry Sr. described his son as an entrepreneur but didn't say how he made money or if he had jobs other than his music production.
Boldon's family in Las Vegas was struggling to cope with his death, said Tehran Boldon, the taxi driver's younger brother.
Boldon's sister, Carolyn Jean Trimble, said Boldon was a father, a grandfather and a car race enthusiast who drove a Mercedes when he wasn't in a cab. He owned a clothing store in Detroit and worked at a car dealership, his sister said, and drove taxis after moving to Las Vegas about 1½ years ago.
The irony that a man with a taste for beautiful cars was killed by a sports car wasn't lost on Trimble.
"He would be tickled to death: 'Damn, of all things, a Maserati hit me, took me out like that,'" she said. "I'm happy he didn't suffer."
In Washington, Sutton-Wasmund co-owned a dress shop, said Debbie Tvedt, the office manager for a Maple Valley plumbing company that Sutton-Wasmund started with her husband, James Wasmund. Sutton-Wasmund was in Las Vegas attending a trade show with her business partner.
"It's a big loss," Tvedt said in a telephone interview with AP.
The Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce website said Sutton-Wasmund was a board member from 2004 to 2011 before becoming a marketing representative.
A phone message left for James Wasmund was not immediately returned.
The famously glowing, always-open Las Vegas Strip was closed for some 15 hours after the crash. Nevada Highway Patrol Sgt. Eric Kemmer recalled a similarly long closure after the 1996 drive-by slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur.
That shooting — involving assailants opening fire on Shakur's luxury sedan from a vehicle on Flamingo Road — happened about a block away from Thursday's crash.
The Shakur killing has never been solved.
___
Associated Press writers Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas, Garance Burke in San Francisco, Kathy McCarthy in Seattle and AP Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu in New York contributed to this report.
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I wear a crown of curls.
A gorgeous friend is living in Las Vegas and about to marry a news reporter person there.
Friend says the economic downturn hit Vegas HARD. A string of violent incidents have occurred on the strip recently; cops are frustrated cuz gun violence is out of control; neighborhoods that had booming real estate BEFORE 2007 are like ground zero now.
Sad.
I thought ppl went to Vegas when flush with cash in order to lose their money? Folk constantly bring money TO that city! It should be the last adult playground in the USA to hit hard times.
Friend says the economic downturn hit Vegas HARD. A string of violent incidents have occurred on the strip recently; cops are frustrated cuz gun violence is out of control; neighborhoods that had booming real estate BEFORE 2007 are like ground zero now.
Sad.
I thought ppl went to Vegas when flush with cash in order to lose their money? Folk constantly bring money TO that city! It should be the last adult playground in the USA to hit hard times.
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1. Your font color is fukking horrible.A gorgeous friend is living in Las Vegas and about to marry a news reporter person there.
Friend says the economic downturn hit Vegas HARD. A string of violent incidents have occurred on the strip recently; cops are frustrated cuz gun violence is out of control; neighborhoods that had booming real estate BEFORE 2007 are like ground zero now.
Sad.
I thought ppl went to Vegas when flush with cash in order to lose their money? Folk constantly bring money TO that city! It should be the last adult playground in the USA to hit hard times.
2. The corporations who own/run the casinos don't put a lot of money back into the city outside of the strip. So Billions come in but don't necessarily circulate.
