On a day intended to celebrate freedom, the family and friends of Tray Savage are mourning a loss. According to TMZ, the 26-year-old rapper was shot and killed on the South Side of Chicago on Friday (June 19) around 11 a.m. local time after he’d just dropped off his girlfriend.
Savage, who was signed to Fredo Santana and Chief Keef’s label Glory Boyz Entertainment, was reportedly driving through the Chatham neighborhood when someone opened fire, striking him in the shoulder and neck. Police say Savage’s car then slammed into three other vehicles after he was hit.
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Although Savage was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Canter, he later died from his injuries. Witnesses at the scene noted a white SUV was spotted around the time of the incident, but law enforcement has yet to track down any suspects.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Savage as Kentray Young, his birth name. He lived in the same neighborhood where he was shot.
Savage is widely known for a 2013 collaboration with Keef called “Chiefin’ Keef.” He’s dropped a handful of solo albums as well, including 2019’s MHGS and 2013’s Braindead.
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In one of Savage’s last Instagram posts, he reflected on the May 25 police killing of George Floyd and noted the violence he’d often witness in his hometown.
“#MrFloyd they treat us by color not by name,” he wrote in the caption. “I been living in Chicago my whole life it’s always been police brutality on African Americans I don’t condone this but they gotta hear us or feel some how some way.”
BLACK LIVES MATTER!! DID SOME RACIST WHITE PPL DO THIS OR WAS IT BLACK ON BLACK HOMICIDE?!! LOLLL . KEEP PLAYING THE VICTIM MINDSET!!
How do you generalize an entire race and btw BLM is not a centralized organization at all so hollering it like it applies to all blacks, speaks for all blacks, or that we somehow have to answer for every act of violence because it involves a black person is a little ridiculous. Does David dukes speak for every white person in the country?
Lmao folks will generalize then feel some type of way when they get bunched up when someone else mentions a stereotype.
UR CLEARLY RACIST
Chicago got one of the highest murder rates in the country, why isnt anyone protesting that? Way more people get killed by gang bangers in a year in Chiraq than innocent people killed by cops in the whole country.
Bum we don’t paid gangs to protect and served
You do have people protesting against black on black crimes. There are organizations that you can look up (people shouldn’t have to do your homework for you, question keeps coming up yet the ones that ask it never use google searches to find these organizations/clubs). And the thing is when these criminals get caught they’re usually put away, with justice being served. Not (always) the same case when it comes to officers who’re in the wrong.
Well, something else to rap about I guess…sad as fuck, not only his death, but the fact we won’t stop killing one another in the projects built for us back in the 1950’s.
This is tragic news! R.I.P. Tray Savage. Overnight, we also learned that Hurricane Chris got locked up for the murder of another black man who allegedly tried to rob him. That’s 2 young black man dead and one in jail over the course of 24 hours. As we celebrate being freed from the chains of slavery, let us reflect on the other chains holding us back. We need to join hands and invite movements like Black Lives Matter to take our communities and politicians to task over gun and gang culture as black on black crime so that we can ease the blood letting among our young black brothers. If we don’t, we’ll all be dead before we know it.
SLAVERY BEEN OVER 100+ YRS. JIM CROW OVER TOO. BLACKS BEEN KILLING ONE ANOTHER SINCE REAGAN. MOVEMENTS LIKE THE BLACK LIVES MATTER?? THAT’S A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION MARK MY WORDS.
If you think they’re terrorist organizations that’s fair enough. How else do you propose we mobilize the masses then?
Christians were slaves. Joos were slaves. The Japanese enslaved the Chinese. Rome, Egypt, Athens… all built by slaves. Saying someone’s ancestors weren’t slaves is ridiculous. Almost every culture was enslaved at some point. Should we tear down the pyramids and the Sphinx? LOL. They were both built by jooish slaves for black slave masters (the Pharos). Those are legacies of hate and need to come down immediately. I also suggest we all head back to the countries out ancestors came from and give ALL of the US back to the native Americans. That sounds fair, right?
NotAnotherOne, my question to you all is why do you run into the arms of politicians and organized militia cults like BLM? That’s your problem. You’re claiming you’re celebrating being freed as slaves, but is your culture of gang shootings, baby mamas, drugs, stripper worship, Crip/Blood praise really free? You all locked yourselves in cages on your own, and run into the arms of politicians to “protect you” by disarming you. The way to true freedom rests on your own people to free your minds. You need to stop depending so much on the nanny state and have some serious talks with your folks about curbing your gang affiliations and need to tell criminals to get the F out of your hoods. Change begins when you look in the mirror. You wanna mobilize the masses for what exactly? What are you trying to accomplish here? Education, drug free and crime free lifestyles is what you all need to start promoting instead of hate. BLM are Marxist trash run by white liberals and fronted by some black women. Push them away. They’re anti-family and want their followers dependent on them.
Well spoken I’m a blackman well said
That’s a blackman NOT a BLACK MAN so get lost.
Listen Second Opinion, your “that’s your problem attitude” is precisely why Black people haven’t progressed and they are still facing structural racism through police killings, high incarceration rates, lack of economic opportunities but to name a few. You say “you locked yourselves in cages in your own” because you yourself aren’t black and your ancestors weren’t slaves so what basis do you have to speaking about the topic here! If you were actually literate, you would have realised that my call for people to “join hands with movements like Black Lives Matter to our communities and politicians to task over gun and gang culture as black on black crime” is a people driven process within the tenets of constitutionalism, a process that’s unrelated to a nanny state. Instead you advocate for a segregated community like a true racist. All your talk about education, drug free and crime free lifestyles is a foregone issue because the communities know what they want. You speak about the BLM movement being “anti family” but you contradict your stance by holding back black people from uniting and using all the means available to them and deal with the problems affecting their families. So listen here my friend, why don’t you take your own advice and take a long look in the mirror and fix yourself.
I need more black folks like you on here speaking up man because there are a lot of non-blacks on here sneering facts and giving opinions based on pro-white interpretations and it’s all just b.s. thanks for being here on a site about hip hop, that most of us hip hop lovers are trying to preserve. This site has been a place for culture vultures and white supremists, and just people who are not black, who don’t want to believe there’s a problem with racism and oppression in the US. Thanks Second opinion.
I’m with you brother. United we stand, divide we fall.
Was the suspect wearing a MAGA hat? Those goshdarnit whtie supremacists at it again!!!!
So uhh.. when’s the BLM protesting this? *crickets..crickets..*
When you actually become funny.
It was actually very real. I’m
Glad you find your hypocrisy an attempt at a joke.
Yawn, what is there to protest, when the suspect is found, will that person not most likely see jail/prison time? Or will the authorities let them off the hook? There are organizations all over google that you can look up and see who fights against gang violence, black on black crimes, and pushes for education, etc. It’s like you expect the homework to be done for you. You expect the media to cater to these groups for coverage, more so than the drama that comes from idiots. BLM is focused on police/big boys not being held responsible when they step outside of their boundaries. Because as we’ve seen time and time again, more than quite a few receive the benefit of the doubt. Criminals (of all colors and backgrounds) that are caught are more likely than not receive jail/prison time.
r.i.p…………………………………………………………………….?
Haha
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