Days after Howard Greenberg, lawyer to rapper Bobby Shmurda, shared his belief that “the government hates rap” and rappers, Jimmy Henchman has come forward to offer a similar opinion. While speaking exclusively with AllHipHop.com about Shmurda’s arrest, Henchman stated that Hip Hop “is under attack.”
The former music executive also referenced his own ordeal with the legal system while addressing Shmurda’s recent arrest.
“With everything happening with Bobby Shmurda there’s a need for a rap expert on deck, because the culture is under attack,” Henchman said while speaking with AllHipHop.com. “If they can use 50’s lyrics against me as an executive to prove murder then we all in trouble.”
Last week, the Brooklyn, New York rapper and members of his GS9 crew were arrested while at Quad City Studios in New York City.
As a result of the arrest, the rapper faces a number of charges including conspiracy to commit murder, assault in the first degree, possession of weapons, intent to sell and possession of narcotics, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree on two counts.
Among those to address Shmurda’s arrest was his lawyer, Howard Greenberg. While speaking on the arrest with XXLMag.com, Greenberg commented on Shmurda and others in Hip Hop being targeted by authorities.
“Let me give you some context,” Greenberg said last week. “The government hates rap and the government hates rappers. They target these guys and construct a narrative around them and then they rationalize the narrative in order to get an indictment. I had said previously, it’s a bunch of bullshit. What they do is they recruit guiltless, loveless people who are truthless that are jealous of brothers on the way up and they get them to implicate them.”
Earlier this month, the currently-incarcerated Jimmy Henchman was found guilty of murder-for-hire in the 2009 murder of G-Unit affiliate, Lowell “Lodi Mack” Fletcher. Henchman is already serving a life sentence on drug charges.
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GTFOH W/ this hoe shit. I don’t see Killer Mike or Big KRIT getting federal cases thrown at them. And it ain’t because they shuckin and jivin either, both them brothers are openly critical of America. They just don’t live their lives like clowns. You sitting there knowing damn well you probably got more bodies then Ted Bundy really trying to convince yourself the world is against you. The world is against you because your a low life loser who still ran the streets for decades AFTER you made it into the entertainment business. If ever a human being existed that earned the death row needle the hard way, it’s yo ass. I can almost understand where Shmurda coming from, he’s young and stupid. You was out here killing people over street BS in your 40’s while you were cashing checks as the manager of a platinum rapper. Get this dude All the way the FOH.
Amen.
Word!
This Shmurda dude is not a victim of the problems plaguing black society today, He IS one of the problems plaguing black society today.
I have no sympathy at all for any nigga that made it out and wanna still do dumbshit And stay taking penitentiary chances…. C Murder Bobby Shmurda Max B Jimmy Henchman and a endless list of other black entertainers wanna blame the hip hop police But can only blame them self for the way the move and carry their selves..
100% true
“the culture is under attack”….. WHAT CULTURE? The culture of selling dealing crack and having 25 guns in the recording studio? The culture of shooting guns into crowds in public place? The culture of telling on your whole hood in your lyrics? And they never used 50’s lyrics in court to convict him for murder…his whole crew snitched on him because he was clearly a piece of shit.
i guess ol jimmy aint heard hot nigga yet and how bobby dropped dimes on his whole team in that 1 song alone. get real the kid calls himself bobby SHMURDA and now he facing attempted murder, jimmy calls himself THE HENCHMAN and he doing back to back life sentences one for murder. dont blame the system blame yourself.
amen
You know black folk gonna find an excuse to play the victim. 0 accountability for their actions.
j cole is not under attack. childish gambino is not under attack. common is not under attack. jay-z is not under attack. wiz khalifa is not under attack (ok maybe in states where weed is illegal). oh wait they aren’t trying live a criminal life while simultaneously being part of the music industry which only draws more attention to anything criminal involved in.
At least bobby can rap about being a “real nigga” from his jail cell. lol. He caught that Shyne Syndrome, come out in 10 years and nobodys gon give a fuck about him.
Is he really trying to blame his murder conviction on some non existent 50 cent lyrics instead of his team all testifying against him?
love it when career criminals try to blame the system or the government
These dudes had crazy guns in the studio when they were arrested and have been involved in criminal activity prior to entering the rap game, and they are under attack? Isn’t the whole point of the criminal justice system to fight crime? Sadly, for some black people, being black means never being guilty or responsible for anything.
You just don’t get it mane. The evil government made them keep those illegal guns and gave them 50gs worth of crack to sell.
why are they even listening to him period about the system he tried to take out Tupac he should just go away and die slwoly
they didn’t need his lyrics he had enough co defenders testimony against him this nigga and I do mean nigga lying trying to hurt fif from the cell do your time and go away
cant believe allhiphop is still taking collect calls from this bum in prison!
Sorry but I’m not sorry for that nigga. He made c00n music, danced like a c00n for white folks at Epic, and got dealt with like a c00n.
Schmurda aint Hip Hop fuck is Jimmy talkin bout SMH
Well this is a new event. Of coarse people are gonna search for it. People already know what they need to know about eric garner. The cop is an ass hole, eric didn’t deserve to die. We know all of that. Not to belittle it, but in regards to a new situation emerging, it’s gonna take a back seat. Garbage, This whole thing is garbage.
Do you like having your shit pushed in Jimmy?
These NY niggaz still on that “ima hard ass gangsta” shit. I swear to jah its only these NY niggaz stuck in a 1990s time warp.
The kid is a ghetto punk giving bad names to the urban community. Don’t drop the soap loser!
Nigga Snitchman, dont blame 50 you pussy boy. We all read how you ratted on your niggas. That shit is public. “If they could use 50s lyrics against me”. Nigga 50 didnt talk about you in court, he had no interest in that bullshit. Even if 50 didnt exist you still would rot away behind bars Snitchboy
Hip Hop is not under attack Just idiots Like Bobby shmurda are. He does shit like that he’s ass deserves to be locked up I’m sick of losers like him and his crew giving Black youths and Black ppl a bad name. Good I hope they rot in jail. Life gave his a once in a lifetime opportunity and he spit in its face.
Shmurda’s just driven further underground. So much for the pigs and snitches making him seem irrelevant; no victory there.
Justin Hunt is a riveting journalist, regardless of the subject. He is just brilliant.
yoo… THE WORD HENCHMAN IS IN YOUR NAME… DON’T BE SO COY
hip-hop is been under attack for as long as it has been a million dollar industry. america doesn’t want black people to reap the benefits of the culture that they create. these so called industry thugs who can’t leave their streets ways fast enough are just casualties of the game. and they are the ones who give law enforcement an excuse to execute these public slave huntings (ei the whole gs9 getting arrested)
Am I missing something here? He calls himself Bobby “Shmurda” (clearly a silly, lighthearted take on the word “Murder”) , raps about how “everybodies catchin bulletholes” and about how he “just caught a body ’bout a week ago”. Then they catch him with a bunch of guns. But you think he shouldn’t be arrested? Do you think ANYBODY should be arrested? This guy is flaunting how he either kills people or wants to kill people, and has a bunch of guns, but he should be exempt from the law because he’s a rapper? You can’t say “hiphop is under attack” or “the government hates hiphop”, he’s a criminal and they caught him. If you think crime should be legal for rappers you’re an idiot. My man Kevin Gates raps about plenty of shit hes done but hes also willing to do the time for it if he gets caught. Going to jail is just part of the game if you’re living a life of crime. “Hiphop is under attack”…yeah, its under attack by fools like “Bobby Shmurda” who get a beat off youtube, make a wack song, and then become some global phenomenon who people are defending from going to jail like anyone else would if they got caught.
people will get arrested if they break the law. but you can’t tell me that hip-hop as a whole hasn’t been under surveillance since the 90ies. task forces were created to follow rappers around. even the ones who don’t commit crimes. same thing they did with the panthers they do with hip-hop. most rappers aren’t criminals but they do attract that element. but i bet if you would monitor the rock dudes the same way you would find all kind of biker gangs hanging around them.
So Al Pacino and Robert DeNero should get arrested if they wrote, directed and starred in gangster movies.
Sometimes the post on DX are just so ignorant I can’t even read them.. but reading the comments on THIS particular post… I see ya’ll GET IT!
Like EVERYONE that commented got it.
There’s hope for us yet.