Troy Ave has opened up to share graphic details regarding the 2016 shooting with Taxstone that resulted in the death of his bodyguard, Ronald “Banga” McPhatter.
The Brooklyn rapper joined Nick Cannon’sThe Daily Cannon on Monday (May 1) where he gave fans essentially a play-by-play of what really went down at NYC’s Irving Plaza on that fateful day.
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“If I’ma die, I’ma die fighting,” Troy began. “I’m not just gon’ be on the floor like, ‘Oh, I’m hit.’ And let the person that shot me and my man get away. Like fuck it, we all gon’ die in this bitch then.
“Now we fighting for the gun and shit, he start squeezing those shots. I’m biting the n-gga on his neck, he’s biting my forearm. I managed to get more control of the gun than him, I just start pistol-whipping him.
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“I turn around to make sure everyone I came in with is good… We leave out the room, and this is the part they showed on the media. This is the part that made it look like Troy Ave came into a club recklessly and started shooting.”
He continued: “What people don’t realize is I was coming out of a VIP room where I was attacked and I was shot. When I’m shooting, is when I see him.”
Ahead of Monday’s pre-sentencing hearing, Troy Ave reflected on the years-long whirlwind of a trial, which saw him charged with attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
“And would you believe after all the evidence I still gotta go to jail,” he wrote. “Even tho I feel like ‘it’s self defense’ even tho I feel like ‘my friends shoulda took some of the weight off my shoulders’ that ain’t the reality, the reality is in NY we don’t have traditional self defense, the reality is I’m charged with attempted murder on the person that Shot a bunch of innocent people attempted to murder Me & killed a Real one #RIPBANGA.
“I’m charged with possession of his weapon, the reality is that my ‘friends’ who were in the car were only down for the good times , they weren’t down for the bad times. They weren’t down to take a gun charges while I took the attempted murder and weapons possession. That’s when the concept of Team became of myth, that’s when I realized THE STREETS IS A MYTH. but regardless of all that ima take whatever comes with this, with my chin up and 10 toes down.
“I hope y’all use me as an example and learn from my mistakes. So you or ya peoples don’t make the same ones. Everybody claims they real until they get put in a real situation. Dont ride for people that’s just riding with u and not willing to ride for u! #RIPBANGA real one lives 4ever MY sons won’t make my mistakes.”
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As for Taxstone, he was arrested in January 2017 in connection to the incident and charged with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of receipt of a firearm in interstate commerce.
The former podcast host was found guilty of manslaughter in March and is slated to be finally sentenced on May 25.
