Crooked I Opens Up About Shooting

[IM SO HOOOOOOOD]

Crooked I is changing up some of his music, as well as how he navigates in the streets. The apparent target of an attempted murder on Friday (February 27) in Long Beach, California, the MC wants to let all his fans know that despite rumors to the contrary, he's "good."

"Just reliving for the past couple of days, it's just been flashing in my mind over and over," Crooked revealed to MTV News, speaking in detail for the first time about the incident. "I don't know if it was somebody trying to get at me personally, or somebody was ... I don't wanna say ... set me up."

The former Death Row Records artist said he was trying to do what he normally does — grant the request of a fan — when he almost lost his life.

"Say you're walking down the street. Some dude comes up to you with a camera phone and he's like, 'Can you give a shout-out?'" Crooked explained. "You're like, 'OK,' and you're shouting the dude out. Three seconds later, somebody is shooting at you. Was dude [with the camera phone] trying to get me to stand still? Was he in on it? Was it a coincidence? I don't know. Mentally I had to fall back for a couple of days. I've been in those situations where people take shots or whatever. I'm relaxed around the hip-hop fans. I'm a very accessible dude. When dude came up and was like, 'Can you give me a shout out?' I'm like, 'Cool, what do you want me to say?' Three seconds later, I hear a noise. I [was] so far removed from the fact it can be gunshots. Then I turn around and see sparks. That's strange."

That's where Crooked stops detailing the story — he refuses to elaborate on whether the assailants' bullets actually struck him. "Where I'm from, certain things you can't talk about. It's illegal to our code and how we live."

Crooked did say that he's definitely looking forward to expressing himself through his craft, making more of what he calls "life music" — meaning everyone from all walks of life will relate to it.

"I'm gonna say real things today," he declared. "That's where my focus is. I wanna leave a body of work behind, man, that matches a Biggie, that matches a Pac. God is good. I need that body of work that has the potential to change — not the world, but a couple of people. Two, three, four million. One million. I don't care if it's only one person."

Outside the booth, though, there's a distinct chance that Crooked won't be touching as many people as he did before. At least for now.

"It just really opens your eyes, man that I'm too accessible," he said about how the shooting incident has changed him. "I'm not this rap star walking around with 30 bodyguards. I gotta really reevaluate the way I move around. I have to reevaluate that. They caught me slippin'. The first shot I didn't even think it was a gunshot. That's how relaxed I was. I thought, 'What was that?' Somebody blew a horn, that's the only reason I turned around. You have to change your life. I gotta change my movement. They're not gonna see so much of Crooked I in the hood by himself. That right there is out the door, period. Some people may not like it. At this point, I don't give a damn, because it's my life."

Crooked is currently working on a solo album, as well as group LP with a collective called Slaughterhouse. That group also consists of Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden and Royce Da 5'9". The album in the works with Bishop Lamont and Glasses Malone, No Country for Old Men, has been put on hold for now.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1606233/20090303/story.jhtml

[Teddy Roosevelt]

The album in the works with Bishop Lamont and Glasses Malone, No Country for Old Men, has been put on hold for now.

[OchoCinco]

damn, thank god dudes alive.

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

DAMN HE SOUNDS SCARED AND SHOOK UP REAL TALK
i mean aite sounds like he dont roll wit security but was he alone or some shit takin a walk?

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

yeah shit dont sound right what daz or snoop send one of their homies...

wow man this is fucked up good thing crooked i is good

why the fuck would someone wanna harm a humble dude like crooked

thats fucked

[OchoCinco]

I cant see that shit bein a set up, what kind of homie would stand close to the mark when the dude obviously aint got no aim. But who knows.

[Mr. VIP]

I cant see that shit bein a set up, what kind of homie would stand close to the mark when the dude obviously aint got no aim. But who knows.

suge knight.

 

[OchoCinco]

I cant see that shit bein a set up, what kind of homie would stand close to the mark when the dude obviously aint got no aim. But who knows.

suge knight.

 

touche

[AnybodyKilla]

wow man this is fucked up good thing crooked i is good

why the fuck would someone wanna harm a humble dude like crooked

thats fucked

[EFFeX]

Shit is deep man... I'm just happy that he can walk away from this situation with a second chance and the ability to re-evaluate his life.

[BIGWORM]

lol he wont admit if he got shot wtf is that. sound like a publicity stunt to me.

[Zeus]

dude needs to get the fuck out of long beach

[you gon always be my latin queen bitch]

HAS HE SAID WHERE THIS HAPPENED?

[AnybodyKilla]

HAS HE SAID WHERE THIS HAPPENED?

WHY ARE YOU TALKING IN CAPS?

[papa-smurf]

He dont sound shook,he sound suprised.But the nigga dont sound shook or scared.Now he more aware.
Now people could see why ice cube.50 cent and jay-z and them niggas dont be hanging out and being accessible.I agree crooked i was hell of accessible.we seen the nigga at a gas station in lakewood by himself.he was hell of cool.he acted like he was fans of us,he gave us major love.seen him again at  the grocery store by his self with a female.He gave my cousin his number to give to me when my cousin seen him and my cousin was like u my cousin favorite rapper,he was like tell your cousin to holla at me.

So yea crooked i was hell of accessible.fucked up how some idiots gonna try to kill the nigga before alot of fans got the oppotunity to see how cool the nigga really is.