C-Murder has shared some big praise for fellow Louisiana rapper NBA YoungBoy, comparing the 23-year-old to one of his departed contemporaries.
On Sunday (August 20), the veteran MC expressed how he felt about artists from his generation dismissing those who came after them, writing: “I want to ask the older cats to stop hating on our new generation that rap. These dudes really eating and it’s all legal.”
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In emphasizing his support for younger members of the Hip Hop community, he singled out NBA YoungBoy and even referred to him as a modern version of a state legend.
“NBA Youngboy keeping it realer with me than any n-gga I know. However it go, I’m rolling with him in war or peace. He’s my Soulja Slim of the new generation.”
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Soulja Slim was shot and killed on November 6, 2003 on the front lawn of his mother’s home in New Orleans. The assailant shot him a total of four times — three times in the face and once in the chest. Roughly a month later, police arrested 22-year-old Garelle Smith in connection with the murder.
Officers discovered a stolen police pistol in Smith’s possession with a scratched-off serial number. A ballistics test matched bullets from the gun to the ones that killed Slim, but no witnesses would testify against him. By 2008, Smith had been arrested for three more murders, but all charges were dropped and he was released due to a lack of witnesses and New Orleans’ 60-day law.
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Smith’s murders then became cold cases, but he himself was found shot to death in August 2011.
Ten years later, Juvenile sat down for an interview with VladTV, during which he was asked about his song with Soulja Slim, “Slow Motion,” which went to No. 1 on Billboard.
“That’s Soulja Slim’s song,” he said. “I never took credit for that song because my dude created it and it was supposed to be on his album. He kinda like, he went to my brother and asked my brother to talk to me, like, ‘Talk your brother into putting it on his album. I think it would be a better look on Universal than the company he was signed to,’ so that’s how that went.”
He added: “That was pretty much Soulja Slim’s No. 1 single. So if you want to be technical, I never had a No. 1 single.”
The topic of Slim’s murder then came up. Referring to him as the “2Pac of New Orleans,” Juveline admitted that he felt like he lost his “little brother” before shutting down the conversation completely.
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Vlad said: “There was an investigation into his murder and someone named Garelle Smith—”
The Hot Boys rapper cut him off, saying: “We ain’t gonna do that one either. I’m still in the city, bro. I’m still riding through the city and I don’t like saying people’s names and putting people out. I don’t like doing that. That’s dangerous.”
