They toured together and paired up on countless songs, including the recent “Off the Rip,” which has amassed more than 2.9 million YouTube views since late June. Johnny Nunez/WireImage Chinx and French Montana in 2013 in New York City.Ĭhinx was best known as the protégé of Karim “French Montana” Kharbouch, the Bronx rapper signed to Interscope Records. After years of pumping out mixtapes independently, Chinx’s debut solo album, Welcome to JFK, was released by eOne Music last Friday. He was neither a baroque wordsmith nor a flamboyant caterwauler instead, he had a yeoman’s approach that utilized his hoarse voice and a rhyming cadence with the rhythm of a meat cleaver hacking through gristle. While Chinx had yet to reach national prominence, he was established in New York, a regional figure in a SoundCloud era. “I think it was a setup,” an unnamed police official told Newsdayin May. But the crime is confounding and shocking to people who knew him: There is no known motive for the killing, and Chinx is universally described as a man who steered clear of the street-related trouble that plagued him in his youth.
After all, Pickens has a criminal history his crew is called the Coke Boys the dark shadows of violence and incarceration have followed those around him, even within the music industry. To cynics, the killing of Chinx is another predictable incident of a rapper cut down by the same sort of gun-related violence he described on his records. I had to literally go from planning an album to planning a funeral.” “It just put us all in a really, really crazy place of mourning and sorrow. “There’s no words for the loss, the emptiness that you feel,” Ellison said. Alziadi had been struck twice in the back but would live. Chinx had died outside the Dunkin’ Donuts at 31 years old. “The urgency in voice and the panic explained so much more than what he was actually saying.” Ellison and Chinx’s wife rushed to the hospital, where they received the tragic news. “It didn’t sound good from the time the phone rang,” Ellison said. There was an “accident,” the detective said. When the NYPD arrived at the crime scene, a detective scoured Chinx’s social media contacts and called his manager, Doug “Biggs” Ellison, in hopes of finding a number for the rapper’s mother. He managed to pull the car over near a Dunkin’ Donuts and a 99-cent store as the assailants’ vehicle ripped a U-turn and sped off. Chinx was hit at least eight times, as 9-millimeter bullet casings flew through the window and danced across the pavement. While the car idled at a red light near 84th Drive, another vehicle, later described by eyewitnesses as a black Mercedes-Benz, pulled up alongside the Porsche and someone inside the car opened fire. Chinx was going to drop Alziadi off at a subway stop before heading home to his family in Ozone Park. He and a passenger, Antar “Yemen Cheese” Alziadi, had considered hitting up a hookah bar after the show, but it was closed. He had just performed at Club Red Wolf, a Latin nightclub in Dyker Heights, a southwestern section of Brooklyn yet to be engulfed by $1,000 strollers. In the early hours of May 17, Lionel Pickens, better known as the rapper Chinx, was guiding his silver Porsche Panamera 4 down Queens Boulevard, a main commercial artery in his home borough.
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