sad news

Jam Master Jay killed

Sad, sad news for anyone who ever liked hip hop, rap/rock, or music at all.

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That sucks....

The news was quite a while ago. He was shot at the studio :(
I wonder why he was shot, cause he isn't one of those gangsta kind sh*t

i heard on the radio it was gangster related..

I've never heard of him.

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very sad.


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who is/was he ?

You've heard of Run-DMC right ----- their DJ....

Hey, hundereds of Jewish and Pakistani kids are getting shot every week. Poor Jam Master Jay.

Murder of Jam Master Jay stuns music world

NEW YORK (AFP) - Jam Master Jay, one of the founders of rap music pioneers Run-DMC, was shot dead by two gunmen inside his New York City studio, police said.

The 37-year-old, whose group rocketed to fame with an innovative blend of rap and rock guitar, died instantly after being shot in the head late Wednesday in the latest of half-a-dozen killings to shake the turbulent world of hip-hop music since 1995.

Run DMC had often spoke out against the violence of gang culture.

There was no immediate word on the motive for the shooting of Jam Master Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell. He was in his studio in New York's Queens neighborhood with another man, who was wounded in the arm.

Two women recording in the studio were unharmed. The two gunmen fled the shooting just after 7:30pm (0030 GMT Thursday).

"I'm trying to tell myself this isn't true," rap executive Lyor Cohen, who gave the group one of its first big breaks, told reporters.

Chuck D, the influential founder of rap group Public Enemy, told The New York Times: "These are our Beatles."

Rap singer and New York radio DJ Doctor Dre, paid tribute to his friend Mizzel and decried the violence surrounding the hip-hop scene. "He was not just a rap pioneer, not just a legend of the game ... he was a father and a husband," Dre said.

As news of the murder spread, friends and fans began to gather outside Mizell's studio, lighting candles, leaving messages and playing the rapper's music.

"RIP Jam Master Jay. Gone but never forgotten," said one message pasted to a fence, while another simply read: "Stop the Killings."

"I was on the way to school this morning when I heard the news. I just came to pay my respects," said one teenaged fan.

Jam Master Jay was the DJ behind fellow group members Run (Joseph Simmons) and DMC (Darryl McDaniels) as the childhood friends catapulted to international fame in the 1980s, when rap and hip-hop first became mainstream.

Their minimalist look -- black fedoras, leather jackets and unlaced Adidas trainers -- and "street" style of rapping, which told often humorous tales about their Queens neighborhood and their mothers' cooking, caught on from the very first single released in 1983, "It's Like That."

Within five years, Run-DMC became the first rap act to make it into the Top 10 charts in the United States. Their 1986 remake of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" acheived worldwide success.

They starred in a 1998 film "Krush Groove" about the hip-hop phenomenon and screenings across the United States were marred by violence but the group rejected any responsibility.

"Kids beat each other's heads every day," Run told Rolling Stone magazine at the time. "They are fighting because they were fighting before I was born... we're role models."

They became the first rap group to appear on the cover of the influential Rolling Stone magazine.

But as newer rappers turned to vulgar and violent themes in their lyrics, Run-DMC's folksy and innocent charm started to lose its market appeal.

The group broke up in 1990, and Jay saw his bandmates fall on hard times. DMC reportedly suffered from alcoholism while Run was falsely accused of raping a student in Cleveland. Both later became born-again Christians.

An attempt at a comeback foundered when it emerged that DMC had lost much of his distinctive voice following years of his energetic stage performances.

Jay, however, continued to record and perform, and had been scheduled to appear at an NBA basketball game in Washington on Thursday night.

His murder was just the latest in a series of gangland-style killings that have robbed the rap music world of some of its brightest artists -- including hip-hop stars Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.

Shakur, 25, was shot four times as he rode down the Las Vegas strip after the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon boxing bout in October 1996. He died in hospital.

Rap superstar Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), 24, was shot dead along Museum Row in Los Angeles after leaving a music industry party in March 1997.

The mystery shrouding the two unsolved murders has served as fuel for conspiracy theorists and rap stars alike and spawned several books as well as a recently released full-length documentary "Biggie and Tupac."