Rapper Gunned Down in Atlanta Music Studio as He Was Preparing for Video Shoot
- Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:33pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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An undated photo of rapper Slim Dunkin, who police say was shot and killed in an Atlanta studio Friday. (Facebook)
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police say the rapper Slim Dunkin was gunned down Friday evening in a city music studio as he was preparing to record a video.
Police Maj. Keith Meadows said the rapper, whose real name is Mario Hamilton, was fatally shot in the chest after getting into an argument with another individual.
He was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Meadows told The Associated Press late Friday that police have not been able to identify the shooter. He said investigators have been interviewing those who were inside the studio. He said as many as 20 people were inside the small office-type building at the time of the shooting, which took place around 5:30 p.m., but they were in different places.
Police have not recovered the handgun that was used. Investigators remained at the scene late Friday evening.
“Right now we’re just trying to….identify who may have seen what, really just trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together,” Meadows said. “It seems everybody witnessed something very different. We’re just trying to go back and make sense of everything.”
Slim Dunkin had appeared on a number of songs with the rapper Waka Flocka Flame. The website Mtv.com reported that the Brick Squad Monopoly rapper was on a solo track and had recently released a 20-track mix tape that featured Gucci Mane, Roscoe Dash and Pastor Troy.
“It appears the victim was scheduled to do a photo shoot,” Meadows said of Friday’s events. “Before the video shoot took place, it appears the victim and suspect got involved in a verbal altercation. We don’t know what that altercation was about.”
“The suspect produced a weapon, discharged that handgun one time, striking the victim in the chest,” Meadows said.
Meadows said the victim was in his early 20s and resided in the Atlanta area.
Many fans were posting messages late Friday night on a Facebook page for the rapper.
The website AllHipHop.com last February described Slim Dunkin, a Detroit native, as an up-and-coming talent with “a unique lyrical ability and style all his own.”
In an interview with the website, he described himself as someone “trying to provide for his family by making something out of nothing just trying to beat the odds.”
“I don’t have amazing lyrical ability I just know how to speak on what I been through and where I came from,” he said.
Asked what to expect from him in 2011, he responded: “Music, music, music!”
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Comments (163)
bjornskis
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:01pmwell when you want to live that tough gansta life
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:50amThat’s one gangsta out of the gene pool.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:28amtwo bad ain it
Report Post »FYOUROpinion
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 7:10pmI mean really? It some simple-minded people in this world. It doesnt matter your occupation nor your race don’t nobody deserve to be murdered. Thats whats wrong with the world today, it’s too many mean, evil hateful hearted people out here. It’s country singers, rock and roll, hip hop, actresses, actors, kids, women,men and officer etc… who lives have gotten cut short because of a evil spirited person who dont mind harming/killing others. Just because it’s not you, It’s still a family out here who is greiving for their lost. RIP TO EVERYONE WHO HAS LOST A LOVE ONE
Report Post »Tdevil_onethree
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:58pmdoes anyone even know who the hell this guy is?
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:15amI don’t know why people turn this tragic incident into an opportunity to diss rap music and a rapper who made more money than probably everyone posting on this board, doing legitimate work making legitimate music to earn legitimate money.
Pathetic.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:01amI do and his music is really really bad. I was hoping his music career would die but not in this way.
This what you get when you surround your self with fools and gangsters.
Sadly his death probably doesn’t effect society negatively.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:28pmNever heard of him before.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 7:04amWhy is this national news?
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:27amRapping is an art…You might not call it music…but rapping is a skill..The industry is what has ruined rap..They tried to make it music by adding back tracks…Had the pleasure of hearing the true rappers in the early 80′s on NY street corners..That was what it was about..True beatboxes and a chorus of rappers..Not this stolen samples from someone else who made it big…That was the greed aspect that took over rap..Ask Blondie,she wrote the song “Rapture” after hearing these same guys outside “CBGB’s”…and even rapped on the song herself…It wasn’t a “gangsta” thing or a “black” thing..It was poverty and boredom…You could find multi-raced rappers everywhere back than..I didn’t know this guy, but being from the Detroit rap scene, wouldn’t surprise me that he made some enemies along the way..I just don’t get the fact that rappers are pron to shoot each other…There’s enough fans out there, you have a good income…What gives?…Be happy, like a real successful person would be…Athletes too, you just don’t get any better doing what you love, and get paid doing it..I hate my job, and I don’t go shooting people..Thug Life is just that..Thug Life…Don’t ask for respect out there, because you don’t know what the word means…Hell, in Death metal they just go beat the other down..Anyways, enough on this life style…It wasn’t rap that killed him, it was Thug Life.
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:54pmHA HA Another one bites the dust..too many in my book..Keep shootin and sooner or later we as real people will reenhabit what the thugs desstroyed..HA HA HA HA…
Report Post »DREDGE
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:50pmExcellllent! I’m with you on that one! Screw those a-holes!
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:39pmtypical, and not necessariley bad.
Report Post »typical white person
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:55pmTypical. Where have I heard that before?
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:37pmtypical, and not necessarily bad.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:34pm…“a unique lyrical ability and style all his own.” The very definition of Rap music!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:29pmA better headline would be; “Slim shot while preparing PHAT shoot”.
Report Post »Mopar 1969
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:03pmWonder if his pants were pulled up.
Report Post »Mopar 1969
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:02pmI wonder if his pants were pulled up if he could have ran away.
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:29amWhy is everyone repeating themselves here?
Report Post »DLCraig
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:01pmI thought Rap was the voice of the oppressed and the Religion of Peace. Or am I thinking of something else?
Report Post »rlimike
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 5:53pmWho cares.
Report Post »BigSaltyCracker
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 5:50pmMaybe I will feel bad later.Who cares.Just another black racist bigot.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:11amYou sir seem to be a racist bigot. Although he probably is as well. Just because he is black and or a rapper doesn’t mean he is or was racist or a bigot.
But I do know his music and I believe he was. I think I’m defeating my point…
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 6:39amIt’s not very often I click on the Blaze and read something positive.
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 5:12pmDay’um and I was one of his biggest fans! Poor Slim… may the Pizza Hut tablecloth you are wearing in the above pic live on for ever!
Report Post »4X4in
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 5:07pmThis is so sad I could cry!
Report Post »OH OH, just gas never mind it passed!
MastrSSG
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:55pmWhat? A diet doughnut was shot and….I’m confused!
Report Post »cozmo fox
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:52pmAs dey sez in da basset-bah…….no harm, no foul.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:47pmThat‘s messed up that you clowns would mock this man’s life and career. He was making money, and probably more than all of you combined.
He got shot on his way to WORK.
Report Post »PassTheAmmo
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:13pmWork?? He made trash ‘music’ just like all of the other not talent bums in rap ‘music’
Report Post »ron2win
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 5:27amTwenty known associates around the vicinity of this guy and nobody saw nuthin,heard nuthin or no nuthin about what happened to the brotha.His own people obviously have no respect for him.Why should we?
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:37amIf he made that much money with “no talent” rapping, how much MORE money is Country making with ALL THAT TALENT??
AHAHAHA that was a joke…
You allow how others respect a person to determine how you respect that person? You are disgusting and a follower. Be your own man, don’t ride bandwagons. That makes you a GROUPIE.
Report Post »von der Recht
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:44pmI can’t think of a group that has coarsened society more than rappers and their “music”……maybe child pornographers…..
Excuse me for not feeling sorry for him or his ilk…….
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 2:38amI can think of one group that comes real close.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:31pm“I can think of one group that comes real close”
Democraps in general.
Report Post »PassTheAmmo
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:16pmRap ‘music’ is not music at all. The same goes for ‘hip-hop’.
Report Post »It’s all trash.
DAVIDTHETANK
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:38pmI wonder if he raps about violence.
Report Post »Square Dancer
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:18pmAnd this is considered news because…..?
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:23pmHAHAHHAHA ….not laughing at the situation……Just listen to the anchor say the names of these rappers in a serious tone….
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 6:50amGood for the economy, the funeral home will have to hire 6 people to carry his coffin.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:14pm‘Slim Dunkin’? Preparing for a shoot? Waka Flocka Flame, Gucci Mane, Roscoe Dash,Pastor Troy? Somehow sounds like SNL skit…, maybe Monty Python. Wasn’t that Flame character mixed up in another shooting?
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:13pm***.
Report Post »Need we say more?
BrerRabbit
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 3:59pmRap is NOT music!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 4:46pmStop hatin’.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:24pmBye Bye Miss American Pie.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:17amIt is. You may not like it but it is.
So in the same spirit whatever so called music of your preference is not music. See how that works. Music what sounds and rhythm that someone or peoples enjoy.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:32pmVery true.
Report Post »PassTheAmmo
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:20pm“So in the same spirit whatever so called music of your preference is not music. See how that works. Music what sounds and rhythm that someone or peoples enjoy”
Huh??
Report Post »WTF are you trying to say?
Rap Is Not Music!!
BlesstheJews
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 3:56pmA rapper shot dead. This is very upsetting….Pass the salt…..
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 9:08amyou are funny
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 3:47pmAnother wasted life.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:38pmWay too many,
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 6:56amWonder if Jesus likes gangsta rap?
Report Post »bhohater
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 7:27amYes, what a waste, just think of how many welfare babies will never be conceived.
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