Native Tongues member Chi-Ali is currently serving a 14-year bid for second-degree murder at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York. But the rapper may be released sooner than expected.
According to court records, the 35-year-old, whose real name is Chi-Ali Griffith, is up for parole on February 28, 2013 following a parole hearing in October 2012. The minimum sentence he can serve is 12 years with a maximum of 14 years, which falls on February 28, 2015.
Before entering prison in 2004, the Bronx, New York native released one album in 1992, The Fabulous Chi-Ali, which was recorded at the age of 14. In 2000, he murdered a man named Sean Raymond, whose sister he was dating at the time. He was later charged with his murder.
loved his music but what am I supposed to say to this news.
He took a man’s life, is serving time,blablabla…he is just another criminal that is doing time.
NEVER HEARD OF HIM WAS HE DOWN WIT SOSO DEF
He had a video back then called the funky road runner or some shit..my fav shit from him was on the 1st blacksheep album I always thought he was dope.If your young and listen now you might not like it but he was nice
Heard the night life pop like chi-Ali
I’m young wild and strap like Chi-Ali Blah!!!
who spit that line again scratchin my head like hell tryin to member
ludacris wasnt it?
@Ghost Prosjects you’re right it’s off of his song Stand Up.
Funny that it was Kanye that wrote that punchline, cuz I gaurantee Luda aint know who Chi Ali was..
He was that nigga. He was the only nigga out there in our age group that was a solo MC, holdin it down with the style of the grown dudes.
If you don’t remember him for anything else, you might remember “Age Ain’t Nothin’ But A Number” that sampled KRS-One on the hook. That was his biggest single.
chi-ali was the man black then, should have make it big if he didnt screw up his life man, so to all the youngster reading this, time twice before you bust your gun man, he throwe it all away for nothing. bett you he is thinking he shouldnt have done it, should have think twice.
SO PASS THE 40 CUZ MY MOTHER AIN’T LOOKIN’!