the Murder Inc saga

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Investigation finds 50 Cent murder plot
08:27 AEST Thu Sep 8 2005
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AP - US federal investigators believed a drug lord and employees of rap label Murder Inc plotted to kill rapper 50 Cent as revenge for a song detailing crack kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff's criminal past, newly released law enforcement documents show.

Officials also investigated whether Run-DMC disc jockey Jam Master Jay was shot to death in 2002 for defying an unspoken recording industry blacklist of 50 Cent, the documents show.

The allegations are in a previously sealed search warrant affidavit contained in a routine motion filed last week by the defence lawyer for Murder Inc founder Irving "Irv Gotti" Lorenzo, who is charged in a racketeering case with using his chart-topping label to launder more than $US1 million ($1.31 million) in McGriff's drug money.

The affidavit was published on The Smoking Gun, a website that specialises in posting court and police documents.

Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator Francis Mace writes in the 2003 document, filed under an application to search Murder Inc's Manhattan offices, that investigators believed the shooting of 50 Cent in May 2000 was revenge for the song Ghetto Koran, which recounts some of the history of notorious drug kingpin Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff's reign as head of one of the city's most violent drug crews.

Investigators believe Murder Inc employees were involved in McGriff's continuing effort to kill 50 Cent, who survived the shooting.




Federal agents and police detectives also were looking into links between the McGriff-50 Cent rivalry and the killing of Jam Master Jay, who was a mentor to 50 Cent when he was starting out in the 1990s.

The shooting of the DJ, whose real name was Jason Mizell, in his New York recording studio remains unsolved.

"Agents are still trying to determine whether Mizell's homicide has any connection to the ongoing dispute between McGriff and 50 Cent," Mace wrote.

"Law enforcement agents are investigating the possibility that Mizell was murdered for defying the blacklist of 50 Cent."

A spokesman for the US attorney's office in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which is overseeing the investigation, had no comment on the document.

A lawyer for McGriff, Robert Simels, said that while he no longer represented McGriff in this case he was familiar with the document and it represented "much ado about nothing".

He said the allegations in the affidavit disappeared from later government filings, leading him to conclude that even the government no longer believed them.

McGriff's current trial lawyer and Lorenzo's lawyer did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment.

McGriff and some Murder Inc employees were continuing to plot the murder of 50 Cent, Mace wrote, citing text messages to McGriff from associates tracking the rapper's whereabouts.

Murder Inc changed its name to The Inc last year after executives said the label's image was hurt by court filings alleging that they had been laundering drug money from McGriff.

they should charge Irv Gotti with giving Ja Rule a record deal while they're at it.
 

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As I was saying to a mate today, 50 Cent getting shot was possibly the greatest thing to happen to him. Remember right before he got shot he actually got dropped from his record label contract......
 

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He was already going to be dropped....... the album wasn't going to be put out

Then he got shot, and hit the mix tape scene with a vengence and suddenly he was the no 1 priority in rap.

Unfortunately, the drama that 50 Cent created with this song caught up to him in May of 2000 when he was shot multiple times, including one bullet directly to the jaw. While the rumor bill buzzed with talk that this was a message to "keep his big mouth shut," the gunman obviously couldn't have been aware that Columbia Records had already planned to shelve 50's debut "Power of the Dollar" due to heavy bootlegging - a move that silenced him more effectively than his attacker did. In fact, being shot and dropped from his label at almost the same time did little to shut 50's trap. In some ways, it almost had the opposite effect. 50's name soon became synonymous with New York's hottest mixtape DJ's, who were each eager to capitalize on his infamy and street credibility - cred that ironically was only increased by his shooting.
http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2002_10_guesswho.html
 

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supreme is no joke.

Massive dealer. And actually rumoured to be 50 cent's father, who also had 50's mother knocked off.

Murder Inc are commercial losers, but they are seriously gangstas.
 
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