May 17, 2016 served as the one-year anniversary of the death of Lionel “Chinx” Pickens, the talented budding star within French Montana’s Coke Boys imprint who was gunned down in his own Queens neighborhood.
An understandably emotional Veronica Clinton – Chinx’s mom — spoke with the local news at his memorial and stopped dangerously close of blaming French (and Diddy) for putting her son in a position to be murdered.
HipHopDX subsequently spoke with French’s camp who ultimately decided to keep mum on the situation, solely out of respect for a mother who had lost her child. During his appearance on The Wendy Williams Show earlier today, June 7, the inquiry was raised that the Mac & Cheese 4 creator knew more of the situation than he cared to share and he had no choice but to speak up.
“I think that’s the police job,” French told Williams, speaking on any sort of investigation. “And I love Chinx mom but I think me and her never had a relationship. I never spoke to her when he was alive. I might have spoke to her one time. The second time I spoke to her was at the funeral and she just asked me, ‘What’s going on with my son?’ and I said I told him to stay out the streets, don’t be driving around four in the morning by yourself or with another person. And she said you’re not his father.”
“And I said okay…”
While speaking at her son’s vigil, Clinton told FOX 5, [P. Diddy & French] need to come out and see me.” More than a year later, no suspects have been charged with anything related to the murder. The way French sees it, he went the distance in his big brother role.
“As far as Chinx, all I did was give him the platform to feed his family. I never made a dollar off of him. All the money he made, I told him to go take care of your family; he was in the streets at the time selling drugs. I gave him a platform. By time last year came, he had his own house, his own car, his family was good, so I think I did my job. If I tell you what to do and you don’t want to listen to me, you know.”
Watch the full Wendy Williams interview below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_fHsvnpu-M
French got a point.
Her son was given to the satanic coven in change for some pushing into the media
Not a fan of French Montana but I have to agree with him. I’m not sure what Chinx mom wanted. He was a grown man who made grown man decisions. French or Diddy wasn’t his keeper or like she said, his father. I understand that she wants answers about her son’s murder (who wouldn’t) but I’m just not sure what she wanted French to do if he supposedly had no knowledge of the murder.
The streets is jealous, take responsibility, we aint kids anymore.
The streets is jealous, take responsibility, we aint kids anymore.
I really like this dudes music but I agree with him on this one. What does she want from him, he told her he tried to help him but he was out still slanging dope. She knows he’s right on this, she probably turned a blind eye on her son knowing damn well what he was doing . The money must’ve been good while he was alive. Rip tho
You like his music??? LMAOOOOO. Nigga, you have zero taste………queer.
You are a complete homo
F you, you French Montana fan, people like you are what ruin music today.
Chinx wasn’t currently selling Drugs when him and French originally linked up you are talking back in 2008-9 this 6 years prior. A lot of people don’t know the full history and figure what he’s speaking on is recent when it wasn’t. Ask anybody that actually knows Chinx he left the streets a long time ago. What happened to Stack had a lot to do with it.
Meant to say really don’t like..
Sure you did………queer
Sure you did………queer
Speaking on street politics, on national television. I don’t respect it.
I agree. French didn’t have to speak on Chinx’s hustle. That just makes it seem that it was okay that he got popped. He should’ve just stuck to the bad decisions explanation.
she asked him about it what he suppose to do not answer
french said chinx used sell drugs when he first met and thats was a long time ago plus chinx wen to jail back in 2007 for drugs charges and its publicly known
I’m surprised the mother isn’t saying the white police won’t solve the murder because they’re racist pigs.
Cmon Dawg. How did you even come to that statement? What has that got to do with anything? No mother, father or guardian wants to outlive their seed.
French is completely right. I probably wouldn’t of said the end part though, it kind of sounds a little less caring to me but i dont know.
“If I tell you what to do and you don’t want to listen to me, you know.”
Just think every morning you wake up your getting closer to death . And that’s a good thing . The sooner you die the better the world will be . I’m white by the way, but I genuinely hope you die a slow and painful death .
Nice of French to remind everybody that he sold drugs, on TV.
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Snitching on his dead homie, that’s cold. Chinx’s house was in the same neighborhood he grew up in, so French really ain’t help him too much with that. And won’t even talk to his homie’s Mom, even colder
When will black lives matter to black peoples???
RIP Chinx
Chinx either wrote or gave Fake Montana his hits. He has his own car- A leased Porchse
He had he own home- A rent modest one family house
His guy wasn’t killed because he was driving around. He wasn’t that famous. He was murdered with precision and zero sympathy he died a horrific death. If French cared about CHINX this guy would have had a major deal on Bad Boy/Coke Boy. NOPE French was greedy. This guy was coming home from a club apprearence its how he took care of his family. Walk in sing 3 songs collect 1500!dollars. French packed up his brand new home in NJ and ran to LA. He knows those bullets were meant for him. The shooting was professional. This case could have been solved the day Chinx died Fux You French Montana