Master P was on hand with New Orleans mayor, LaToya Cantrell, to reopen Bourbon Street for the first time since a terrorist attack killed at least 14 people.
In a video posted on Instagram on Thursday (January 2), the No Limit mogul walks down the iconic street and says: “I’m out here, standing up for our people on Bourbon Street and in New Orleans, we gonna bounce back. It’s nothing but love out here, showing that Bourbon Street is opening back up.”
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He adds: “The love that’s out here is incredible cause this evil act that happened, it can’t stop the Lord’s plan.”
Master P can then be seen meeting with residents and leading a procession of officials down the landmark street as music plays.
He captioned the post: “Built on Resilience. We Stronger Together. City Of New Orleans.”
So far, at least 14 people have been killed after a man driving a rented pickup truck rammed into a crowd of partygoers celebrating the New Year.
The perpetrator was identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was shot dead at the scene by police.
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Jabbar was a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan but later joined ISIS last year, with recordings uploaded to SoundCloud outlining his opposition to music, sex, drugs and other “evil” pleasures,
One such recording claims that rapping can lure people “into the things that God has made forbidden to us: the intoxicants like marijuana, alcohol, sedatives, opioids, stimulants and others.”
“Then there’s the way that music entices us to illicit sex, vulgarity, violence, betrayal, arrogance, burglary, cheating, ingratitude to our spouses or others in general,” Jabbar added.
In an address to the nation, President Joe Biden said: “I’ve directed my attorney general, the FBI director, the secretary of Homeland Security, the head of the National Counterintelligence and Terrorism Center, and the intelligence community to work on this intensively until we have a full and complete information. And once we have that information, I will share that information as soon as we can confirm it.”
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Biden added that he had “directed my team to make sure every resource, every resource is made available to federal, state and local law enforcement to complete the investigation in New Orleans quickly and to make sure there is no remaining threat to the American people.”
