Born In 1971. The study noted that this figure refers primarily to premature deaths as most hip hop musicians have not yet lived long enough to fall into the highest-risk ages for heart- and liver-related illnesses. It just fucked us up."\"I was dropping somebody home right after we just left the party we was all attending that night [at] the Sheraton Hotel up in 151 Street off the Conduit [in Queens]. Freaky Tah Is A Member Of .
The party cleared out as the evening stretched into the early morning of March 28, and Jones, wearing a ski mask, left the van and walked into a crowd outside the hotel, police said. MTV and all related titles and logos are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.All three suspects were charged with second-degree murder and illegal possession of a weapon, police said.Lost Boyz rapper was targeted because he was believed to be a relative of shooter in another killing, source says.Patrick Timlin, a commanding officer who supervised the investigation, said at a press conference Thursday that all three suspects in Freaky Tah's killing have criminal records.Kelvin Jones, 29 of Albany, N.Y., is accused of being the gunman, and a source close to the investigation said he has confessed to the crime. Rapper Freaky Tah, member of the hip-hop group Lost Boyz, was shot and killed by a ski-masked assailant as he was leaving a party in Queens early Sunday morning.Not surprisingly, Rodgers' murder is already being tied--at least, in terms of trends--to the execution-style killings of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., both of whom had their share of run-ins with the law and various dangerous citizens, and both of whom seemed to predict their own violent ends through their music.Says Lost Boyz member Mr. Cheeks: "This black on black crime needs to stop. The two-year saga surrounding the murder of supreme hip-hop hype man Raymond "Freaky Tah" Rogers came closer to an end Monday at New York's Queens County … Not a word was said.As for Rodgers, he and the three other Lost Boyz admitted to being small-time drug dealers at one time, but that was supposedly well before more light-spirited tunes such as "Love, Peace & Nappiness" and "Music Makes Me High" put them on the hip-hop map.Police are still searching for the killer--robbery has been ruled out as a motive. On the night of March 28, 1999, after leaving Mr. Cheeks birthday party at a Sheraton Hotel with friends William Brown and Thomas Roman of Boston Massachusetts, Rogers was fatally shot by Kelvin Jones while he was going towards the exit of Sheraton Hotel in Queens, New York.