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    Rapper Slim Dunkin slain in Atlanta music studio

    By The Associated Press | AP – Sat, Dec 17, 2011

    ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police say the rapper Slim Dunkin was gunned down Friday evening in a 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. local time, 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!"

     
    • REDSMOKE
      REDSMOKE  •  3 mths ago
      JUST ANOTHER BLACK THING!?
    • triathlon0
      triathlon0  •  Milford, Massachusetts  •  3 mths ago
      Geez!! Murdered, not slain!! JFK, MLK, Malcolm X were slain.
    • michaels
      michaels  •  Pleasanton, California  •  4 mths ago
      sorry to hear this is happining
    • John
      John  •  4 mths ago
      Over 6 thousand comments listed here...any sorrow expressed for another human being losing his life re: ignorance, anger, hate, guns, drugs in "music" celebrating that dark, angry side of life?

      "As ye soweth so shall ye reap?"
    • MAXINE
      MAXINE  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      Black, white, brown, red what difference does the color of the skin mean, nothing. It is the mentality of the idiot rapper. All rappers need to be taken out. It is noise, it is NOT MUSIC.
      • LaCosaNostra
        LaCosaNostra 4 mths ago
        You obviously dont see the dumbness of that comment. So because you dont like art we should kill Andy Warhal or you dont like Saga so you kill Hedgehogs. Really condoning murder only makes you look stupid FYI Bestie Boys & Run DMC were the sh t!
    • john
      john  •  Wallingford, Connecticut  •  4 mths ago
      World news. Great.
    • Napoleon
      Napoleon  •  Lewisville, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      I hate rap and I hate when it is called music. Noise and talentless troll garbage.
    • MAXINE
      MAXINE  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      Ya, another gangsta off the street and off the air. Hip Hip horay. Keep it going and they will get rid of all of their own and we won't need to worry.
      • Jim Crow
        Jim Crow 4 mths ago
        You're just mad that you did not get a chance to feel his pleasure.
    • Janice
      Janice  •  Charlotte, United States  •  5 mths ago
      WHO? Never heard of him...
      • Little Jim
        Little Jim 5 mths ago
        you know ... that guy on the window from that Slim Dunkin Donuts commercial.
      • Former Many Things
        Former Many Things 5 mths ago
        Maybe you would have, if his life had not been cut short. Hence the phrase "up and coming". It indicates people in the industry possibly had an eye out for him, appreciated his talent or gave him a contract.

        He was a person, who is now tragically dead. Your response makes it seem that it is not important or touching.
      • Me
        Me 5 mths ago
        Waka Flocka Flame's back up singer - Baby!!
    • Just Go
      Just Go  •  5 mths ago
      If they were actually judged by the content of their character, then they would be begging to be judged by the color of their skin.
    • Rob
      Rob  •  5 mths ago
      Anybody who reads Yahoo comments knows the racial divide is wide as ever. But the comments are always better than the stories.
    • TruthSeeker
      TruthSeeker  •  Lebanon, United States  •  5 mths ago
      " A unique lyrical ability and style all his own " I guess this means he rhymed words and grabbed his crotch different then all the other crotch grabbing gangsta rappers.
    • Christopher
      Christopher  •  5 mths ago
      This is so typical of the RANT rap mentality and the violence the culture embraces. The manifest to promote the street creed and false bravado of the hood..the colors the respect one gets by everything wrong. sad....that emotions of real manhood and self-actualization, caring and owning your own stuff to be a better person...is totally taken out by the RAP mentality....How many more will die before Rap gets a real soul! not the crap and lies that are there today....bogus rants
    • Daniel Karnak
      Daniel Karnak  •  Chicago, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Don't worry. There's still plenty of crack dealers, pimps and washed up basketball players for the young black man to look up to.
    • copperjohn
      copperjohn  •  Spencerport, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Country music singers don't seem to have this problem!
    • Bubba
      Bubba  •  Augusta, Georgia  •  5 mths ago
      Yep country music does suck...and it really brings people down to the lowest level, causing violence and depression and drug use.... Remember that Willie Nelson concert where 27 people were trampled and 12 were shot, 3 were caught having sex underage behind the stage etc?...Yeah, Me Neither.
    • Nicole
      Nicole  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      I am so confused by most of the comments, why in the heck do you think we are all alike? Robert didn't say anything new believe it or not most of us feel the same way as Robert. When the story is about some white woman killing her kids and herself, I don’t see most of you on here speaking ill about how another white person (lack of a better term) committed suicide (the ultimate sin) and took his/her kids with them. Or how white folks go on to campus and shoot up everybody, but let a black person kill another black person and our whole race is messed up. I see a lot of stupidity in the white world, please believe and a lot of white kids attending the rap concerts. Don’t be mistaken, it is not just the black community, it is all races in the United States, fighting ignorance and from what I can see there is a lot of ignorance on this blog. It is a shame when anyone decides to take the life of another person, no matter what race and it just leaves me to believe that the majority of you on here can not be Christians, but you must be atheist because there is no compassion in your angry little hearts. God is Love, find him. Happy New Year!
    • J
      J  •  5 mths ago
      This whole gangster lifestyle is a mystery to me.
      Having kids out of wedlock, shooting each other, spending all of your money will not make you tough.
      But It will make you stupid.
    • Earl
      Earl  •  5 mths ago
      It really makes me wonder why rappers are the most gunned-down singers/performers.
    • ROBERT Y
      ROBERT Y  •  Irvine, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Gang related crime again in the Rap world .Old News .You never hear about this in top forty or country ,or Latin music Hmm I wonder why.Someone please explains this
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