One of the most infamous instances of where Rap music lead to violence was when Atlanta based rappers Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy. This feud turned to have deadly consequences where one artist was put on trail and the other lost a friend
This started when the two artist collaborated for a very popular song called “So Icy”. The two artist would began to fall out due to the rights of the song and it lead to both parties making songs disrespecting each other.
Things will turn deadly when one of Jezzy’s artist named Henry Lee Clark more commonly know as Pookie Loc and four other associates will break in to one Gucci Mane’s houses attempting to take out the rapper.
Both parties will start to have a altercation and gun shots will ensue. Pookie Loc will not make it out of the house with his life. Rapper Gucci Mane will be charged with murder. Gucci turned himself in but never went to trail, claiming self defense. In January 2006, prosecutors will drop the charges against him.
Gucci Mane will later record a song aimed at Young Jeezy named “Truth”. One line that stood out was, “ Go dig your partner up, n***a, bet he can’t say s**t” referring the the killing of Pookie Loc.
