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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: Hittman on August 26, 2001, 06:28:26 AM
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Source : Made Niggaz
A rapper known as E-Money Bags was gunned down inside his luxury sport utility vehicle by white-gloved gunmen who sped off in a Mercedes after a hit in Queens on Monday night.
Eric Smith, 29, of Brooklyn, was riddled with more than 10 bullets as he sat in his 1999 Lincoln Navigator near Witthoff Street and 111th Road in Queens Village.
Witnesses told police that either three or four men approached Smith's vehicle about 9:45 p.m. Monday. At least two of them fired 9-mm handguns at the rapper from such a close range that many of the shell casings ejected from their guns landed inside his SUV, police sources said.
Police sources said it appears that Smith, a fringe-rapper who recorded with some of the up-and-coming names in the business, may have been going for his own gun when he was shot because a .380-caliber handgun was found on the front floor of the vehicle.
Smith, who lives in the Glenwood Houses in East Flatbush, never had a breakthrough hit of his own but appeared on records with such notable rappers as Prodigy, Mussolini and Noreaga. And like many rappers, his lyrics make reference to a violent lifestyle.
Police said Smith had attended a barbecue and party at a friend's home on 111th Road just before he was killed. Throughout the evening, Smith repeatedly left the party to go to his SUV, police said. He was ambushed during one of those trips, police said.
A neighbor, who asked not to be named, said the attack "sounded like firecrackers" at first but she knew it was more serious when someone started screaming, "Oh my God, oh my God." A police source said there was no clear motive in the slaying.
The gunmen left a diamond-studded Rolex watch on Smith's wrist, $40 in cash in his pocket and his wallet - making robbery seem an unlikely motive, police sources said.
Detectives are looking into the possibility that the killing was drug-related. Smith had a criminal record that included drug charges and a bag of marijuana was found in his pocket, police sources said.
However, investigators' efforts have been hampered by party-goers, who "haven't been the most cooperative people in the world," one police source said.
Smith's family couldn't be reached for comment.
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i dunno who he is
but r.i.p
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Hes worked with Noreaga before. It says in the article (if you had been bothred to read it).
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now is the time of suge knight!
die slow mothapucka! ;D
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R.I.P........Shit 2 many ppl dying as of lately. Shit is fucked up to the brain. I wouldent wish death on n e 1.
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now is the time of suge knight!
die slow mothapucka! ;D
Man youre a dumb fucktard.
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just cuz some mothafucca did a track wit noreaga, it doesn't mean i should know him or hav heard him rap.. b-i-itch
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just cuz some mothafucca did a track wit noreaga, it doesn't mean i should know him or hav heard him rap.. b-i-itch
Chill.
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lol, im chill
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i did read it and i still don't know who he is ....
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Wasn't he on Power 106 like 2 or 3 weeks ago...His song was like a girl singing "E Money Money Money, E Money Money"...Or some shit like that...
And damn, I thought he was next to blow up 9like Nelly and shit) when i heard thet song...It was really commercial...
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E Money Bags Was Actually A Big Time Hustler In Queens Who Took Rappin' As A Hobby...He Did Tracks With Nore, Nas, And A Lot Of The QB Fam...I'm Sure The Shooting Was Drug Related!
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REST IN PEACE
He worked with alot of QB people & I heard that he & Prodigy did a diss song to Roc-A-Fella
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R.I.P.
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Thats fucked...
R.I.P