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T.I.'s Lifelong Friend Philant Johnson's Murderers Found! Soulja Boy Reponds To Ice T + Chrisette Michelle's @ Artistry Tonight!!
Posted on June 20, 2008 10:02 AM
It looks like there's finally been a break in the case of T.I.'s lifelong friend Philant Johnson. According to new reports there's been some arrests made. Check it out below.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer two arrests have been made in the terrible murder of Philant. Earlier this year word had spread that the police were closing in on some suspects, although publicly they denied such claims.
Hosea Thomas, 34, of North College Hill, and Padron Thomas, 40, of East Price Hill, have been charged with murder and felonious assault for the death of Harris’ assistant and childhood friend. The two are reported to be brothers.
For those of you who may not know all the details of that horrific evening check this out:
“T.I. and his group were in the VIP area,†Gormly said. “The suspects wanted to get in the VIP area and weren’t allowed to.†At one point, he said, one of the brothers was struck in the head with a bottle.Shortly after the shooting, several witnesses told The Enquirer that anger also flared when some of those in the rapper’s entourage threw money from the stage. That event may have helped fuel the fire, Gormly said.
“It was just a total accumulation of everything that happened that night,†he said.
When Harris and his entourage left in two vans, they were followed by two SUVs. It wasn’t long before gunfire was exchanged from the moving vehicles on Seymour near I-75, killing Johnson and wounding the others. T.I. was slightly injured by flying glass.[Source]
These moments of justice are often times bittersweet because on one hand I want justice to be served, but on the other it's unfortunate that two black men are going to enter the prison system. Let's hope that this provides a sense of closure for T.I. and Philant's family.
Yesterday I told you all about Ice T going after Soulja Boy. Well it seems that Soulja Boy himself has a few choice words for the once notorious "cop killer". Check it out above.
Disrespectful? Or a just harmless response??
Oh, And Before I Forget..................
CHRISETTE MICHELE'S
OFFICIAL
BET Award Nomination Celebration
&
OFFICIAL After Party for
"Art of Music" Tour
WITH SEVERAL CONFIRMED
SPECIAL & SURPRISE GUEST'S
Major Music Network will be filming,
PLEASE dress accordingly
TONIGHT
At
ARTISTRY
942 Peachtree St, NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
On 9th and Peachtree
(formerly sweet low down)
Doors open at 10 p.m.
Talk to y'all lata,
--SOHH Gyant
Email:sohhgyant@gmail.com
He's frontin' on Ice-T for being from Jersey but this dude is from Chicago. Not Atlanta, Chicago. Stop claiming the south lame, go back home.
A celebration for a BET award nomination.....hahah she aint even gon win. SOulja Boy is, whether he deserve it or not. And I'm glad dat those dudes got arrested.
Im not sayen TI snitched or nuthn but i could see how people could think he did....kinda suspicious
Soulja Boy vs Ice T? What had hiphop come 2
Yoooouuuuuuuuuaaaa!!! haha
I'm glad they found those dudes, they look like some bitter old mothafuckas hatin on some younger cats getting that money.
I have to co-sign my white nigga Matt Herbz comments on Asher Roth. I feel homie for trying to get in the rap game and prop him for getting DJ Drama to co-sign his mixtape but shit....a white nigga just can't relate to the shit he's saying. He's a wanna be lyricist that has nothing to talk about. The suburbs? my white nigga John Brown made it cool to say you from the Burbs but that it still goes down in the burbs, Roth is rapping about nothing. The cd doesn't have an overall theme and it boils down to being silly rap.
Will the real slim shady please stand up??
-Illegal1
wnm08
Herbz wut it dew?
At first, i ready to tell Soulja Boy to sit down, but by the end of the video I felt him. Advantage, (as bad as I hate to say it) Soulja Boy
2 sides to this.....SOULJA BOY I THINK MORE THAN ANYBODYYYYY should be allowed to lash and fucking be MAD AS HELL....
WHEN 10 BILLION RAPPERS are hating you everyday on the radio on interviews and TV.....you automatically get a pass from me to lash out....
Soulja Boy spoke SUPER TRUTH AT THE END of the video...because truthfully niggas should be granting congrats to Soulja Boy for making it into one of the hardest industries and he is ENTERTAINING THE PEOPLE....he is NOT HURTING ANYBODY....but the bitter backlash of the emcee who misses the days of 'Stillmatic' and 'Paid In Full' cats is ridiculous.
THE GAME HAS CHANGED MY NIGGAS. It might not be the game me and YOU agree with.....but like he said. You don't like it.....do something about it.
Soulja Boy Tell' Em...indeed.
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E.clipz says...
He's frontin' on Ice-T for being from Jersey but this dude is from Chicago. Not Atlanta, Chicago. Stop claiming the south lame, go back home.
June 20, 2008 9:14 AM
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Wow you're REALLY exposing solja boy now!!!!!! You must be old too nigga.
Congratulations to any black man making money without have to do it the ski mask way, or selling drugs. A legal hustle that don't mean jail time.....or even having to flip burgers(not knockin those who do), but its good when a kid can go and make some money that can take his mama/family out the hood. Even if he loses it all 20 years later......he still got to live the good life for a little while. I'm proud of the lil nigga.
I tell all my lil cousins to find something you love to do, master it, find a lane and ride it out. Do something productive. If you can, make some money off of it. Ice t just mad his son doing the solja boy or something. Kids are going to have fun. Let them kids have fun. What icet fails to mention is that, he got enough money to listen to whatever he wanna listen to.
Last of all..........if I had ice t money i wouldn't know who solja boy was. Why? Kuz I would have a super duper deluxe cd changer with all the REAL HIPHOP in it. Ice t you eat a dick you old senile muhfucka. Let that man, excuse me that KID feed his family.
unfortunate that 2 black men enter the prison system??!!? R u serious gyant?!? Black, white, brown, yellow, it doesn't matter! If you commit a crime u have to pay the price. These guys killed somebody and u think its unfortunate that they have to go to jail. U r an idiot...
...bottom line....I have an opinion...and DICKS will hate....OLDHEADS will disagree...and BACKPACKERS will cry.....
SOULJA BOY SAVED HIP HOP.
At a time when EVERYONE was like "fuck....hip hop is dead"....nobody was really dancing...and the mainstream had truthfully grown tired and NOBODY was buying shit (so no one can really complain)......SOULJA BOY DID WHAT HIP HOP WAS ALL ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE......He moved the crowd.
What crowd......THE WORLD.
Everyone paid attention to Hip Hop again.....and even if it's not the Hip Hop me and you are USED TO....it's a PART OF HIP HOP REGARDLESS. You can fucking bitch and moan all you want...but if you want to make a change DO IT....CHANGE IT....DO YOU TO CHANGE THE GAME....
SOULJA BOY did and is doing what HE FEELS is HIP HOP.
Whatever the fuck YOU FEEL HIP HOP IS.....DO IT NIGGA....and change the game HOW YOU SEE FIT.
But this young man revived the fun spirit of hip hop in my eyes.....and I CAN SAY....that I BELIEVE...he may of single handedly revived hip hop.....
The lyrical cats are BACK in FULL EFFECT NOW....the snap sound and crank music is a new genre....people are talking....and the COMMUNITY IS ACTIVE.
....and it dates back to when "Crank Dat" took over the globe....
if you are hating the sound....then that's all gravy....but if you are saying FUCK SOULJA BOY YOU KILLED HIP HOP....you are flat out WRONG. Statistically speaking, Relevance speaking, Media speaking, and community speaking.
He made it possible now for a lyrical emcee to get EVEN MORE love now because everyone is on that dance shit...and it rules the day....so a guy like Kanye or Weezy (oh man) look like GENIUSES....but even BETTER emcees like Lupe will get their look....it's only a matter of time.
Let the man do his thing. I HEREBY CO-SIGN SOULJA BOY...and that's my 2 cents.
and Ice-T....let the young dude come up like you did when you was young.....ya'll in the same space.....ALL MY EMCEE FAM...STOP HATING!!!
Ultimately...it comes down to....What does HIP HOP mean to you????.
IT'S CULTURE CRAZY,
NOVA
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/NOVATRIBE
unfortunate that 2 black men enter the prison system??!!? R u serious gyant?!? Black, white, brown, yellow, it doesn't matter! If you commit a crime u have to pay the price. These guys killed somebody and u think its unfortunate that they have to go to jail. U r an idiot...
2 Observations:
1) Is the only word he knows in the english language NI$$A....or other 4 letter words
2) He 17 and talking like that....does parenting stop when kids start bringing home the money.......
By the way....besides that he makes some excellent points even though his music isn't real hip hop but it is for HIS fans.......
this new cats dont know any better...both are garbage....look at the two moolies on each side co-signing for him..soulja boy will be a true hollywood story in 5 years...watch....
so like the 1st half of the video was just soulja boy baggin on ice-t. just talking a lot of mess about him being old and what not. but i will give him a little credit for the second half ofthe video because he did make some good points.the game as changed and no one has the right to be talking down on anyone especially someone who is trying to come up from a rough background and instead of talking bad about the new kids in hip hop help them out. show them what they are doing wrong. since u is older and wiser ur suppose to be the mature one and show young dudes the way not bring them down. so with that soulja boyt was making sense.
The Jersey reference isn't major 4 me & I am from Jersey. I can respect Soulja Boy's response, underneath the laughter, he seemed genuinely hurt. 17 holding down his "mama" & siblings isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Lemonade needs 2 fall back & let's hear what his son is rapping about.
Hmmm....T.I. is expected to get 12 months & community service for two felonies that had him seeing 20+ years. Soon after, his friend's killers are caught. Sound suspect?
Soulja should of just held his tongue...da young boi doesn't understand...it's not like they gonna battle each other or something...just respect the pioneers & keep doing you...i respect ya hustle as well, just not ya lyrics
da Boycott!!!!
REAL MUSIC, NO BULLSH*T!!!
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GYANT - FUCK YOU...wow, you can't be serious saying that it's sad day when two black men go to jail...for KILLING SOMEONE in COLD BLOOD.
I'm still rolling with Ice -T on this one. Soulja Boy disses his own fans with that "yaah" song and i wonder if they are smart enough to understand that.
This snap music movement was somewhat cool in the beginning, but now it's damn near irritating. A lot of these artists owe their livelihood to dem franchize boys for creating this crap with these bell and whistle beats they making.
I think the next album is gonna flop...these ringtone rappers
hip-hop quote for the day:
NAS "MADE YOU LOOK"
THEY SHOOTING, AWW MADE YOU LOOK/YOU A SLAVE TO A PAGE IN MY RHYME BOOK
It makes since to think that tip gave up that information....But I'm not hating on the nigga really.The feds done took all this niggas protection away from him.You think he feel comfortable being unstrapped with these niggas roaming the streets leaving his family at home alone??.Plus..The niggas killed his best friend basically because they couldn't get in vip??Nigga...You 40 years old you shouldn't be in the club!!!!!And a sex offender??I won't even go there......
I'd tell on them niggas to to save my ass and keep my career.He got a family to take care of.And them niggas had to go one way or another......
God works in mysterious ways........
Now can we all move the fuck on and pick on somebody our own size!!!!Lol........
if snitching on some niggas you dont know who killed your lifelong best friend to get a reduced sentence is actually snitching then i'll be a snitch all muthafuckin day
I remember Ice- T on MTV "Cribs" and he talked about how he never imagined himself livin in the Hills and how people to this day hate to see him in his position as a black man. Just because Soulja Boy didn't go from hustling straight to stardom doesn't mean you should diss the kid just because he's deemed as a overnight success. As Soulja said, he should be praised by Ice- T because he chose music from the jump and became successful without dabbling in the streets. If Ice-T responds I'd go for the jugular and start talkin about the things I'd do to CoCo lol
Souljha boy???No comment....And yea..I know this is kinda off topic but what the hell happended to the ay bay bay guy...hurricane chris!!!!Where you at my nigga???
aint it funny how it's been two years since TI's boy died and then all of a sudden they have been found. And aint it even more funny how TI only got 12 month in jail and a 1000 community service just a few weeks ago. And whats even more funny is that TI was there when Phil died and I know he got a view of the shooters and could of possibly knew who they were. I think ya know where im trying to get, think about it
The game is changing, niggaz is scared and don't respect change. Soulja Boy is what give rap and hip hop more diversity, instead of these murder and pussy songs. You can't hate, hes making money as a young tycoon in the game and he is enjoying his life and blessings..Leave him alone.
i like ice-t...that nigga had some real shit...but truthfully speaking i think the nigga was wrong on talking all that mad shit on that kid soulja boy...i can't stand that lil nigga but i gotta take his side on this one...whether soulja boy makes the wackest music in the world or not he did single handedly do it all by himself, i still think soulja boy sucks but i can finally at least give him props for acknowledging some real hip hop history...ice-t is like a senile old man now! he gon' be 50 years old this year, or he might already be 50 by now and he's talkin' shit about "soulja boy can eat a dick" when he's old enough to be that niggas grandpa....sorry ice' but honestly that was kinda wack to go at this kid like that
according to an independent study conducted by scholars using 2007 crime data gathered by the FBI,Cincinnati is the 16th most dangerous city in america.
You cant go in to these small towns that you never heard of and disrespect people because you might get left there...
Im not sayin its right but if the guy got hit in the head with a bottle for no reason i understand why it went down like that...
First its good to see Philants killers caught that shit shouldn't have happened them cats look too old to be in the club jockin rappers anyway but all in all its good to see some justice
Second ice t was out of line with that shit against soulja boy that's a 17 year old kid he don't even make the kind of music ice t known for so how is he the reason hip hop hurtin be serious nigga
3rd Damn Chrissete Michelle got some pretty ass eyes I might have to check her out a artistry tonight
Soulja Boy is lame, and Ice-T did not have to get a gully as he did in his interview. Soulja Boy's career is over before the next album. Soulja Boy sounds dumb as hell in the video.
...he's fuckin 17 man...leave dat nigga alone...he makes party music...this nigga know he aint no nas, tupac or anything of that nature so why hate him so hard???...he knows his lane b! gotdamn ice t sound so ooollllld for dat shit. grumpy ass old man, cut it da fuck out...again he's 17, and he made HIMSELF hott...he put in work! ice t been rockn a perm to so whats dat hair shit about nigga...u know u was born nappy u old bastard...O N STOP WHORIN' YA WIFE NIGGA
jon says...
unfortunate that 2 black men enter the prison system??!!? R u serious gyant?!? Black, white, brown, yellow, it doesn't matter! If you commit a crime u have to pay the price. These guys killed somebody and u think its unfortunate that they have to go to jail. U r an idiot...
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I don't think Gyant is saying that black criminal behavior should go unpunished, but rather that its a overall shame that the prison count of black men just increased by 2. Sometimes we are our worst enemy.
That's a nice pic of TI and his friend. Looks like those two were up to no good (all in fun) when the pic was taken. Good that justice is finally served. Supposedly the oldest Thomas brother was a sexual offender anyway.
Quick note to TI: "Pleeze Stay Out of Trouble"
What is Ice-T's claim to hip hop fame..... Cop Killer ? That was a lifetime ago.
Soulja Boy didn't kill hip hop. He represents what's popular with a younger crowd.
Ice-T needs to get over it.
Man Hip Hop Is Dead!!!!!!!
4 one Ice T needs to sit his old ass down.Fuck that pioneer shit .If thats what yall call Hip Hop. To me Hip Hop Is Mos def And Common and shit like that.(not killing nobody trying uplift his people)Ice T started wit Rap(hardcore) bitch this bitch that suck my dick Shootem up) bull shit . Shit that make us look bad as Black people..Sometimes u get tired of listening to that bullshit.. I mean alot of us come from the ghetto and we see the shit that goes on ..But do u got to keep on talking about that shit..Thats why I like soujah boy shit was real different good club song SO FUCK ICE T BREAK DANCING BITCH ASS GROW THE FUCK UPPPP.......
Yep, providing information on two murderers would definitely move you way down on the sentencing guidelines and I gotta agree a N8gga kill your family or your best friend and you get popped getting ready to take them to war.....only Avon Barksdale ain't telling.
That Chunk Monkey cannot compare himself to Ice-T. Ice-T is a pimp, Soljah Boy is an internet kid.
soulja boy new mixtape is fire its called teen of the south yall should check it out
I can't believe cats really getting bent out of shape over soulja boy. Being criticized for killing hip hop is fucked due to the fact that soulja boy wouldn't even be where he is if it wasn't for the millions of people that were already checking for dude before he even had a deal. I guess it's this dude fault that people are all over myspace and youtube dicksuckin him. Its his fault he gets a deal off it that can provide him millions of dollars to assist him in giving his family a better situation. Blame television, internet, radio if you are looking for the murderer of hip hop one person shouldn't be held liable for the shit. I just hope the young dude manages his money wisely because this shit don't last forever.
lets also not forget the type of raps ice-t was doing before the movie COLORS..he was rappin' on electric funk dance beats in 1984 on the movies breakin' and breakin' 2...so what he was doing then is no different than what soulja boy is doing now, making people have fun and dance so honestly ice-t was out of line with this one...sounding like a hypocrite
Gyant, I usually try to give you the benefit of the doubt and have even stuck up for you on more than one occasion, but did you REALLY fix your fingers to type that shit!? WTF? They murdered a man in cold blood and they deserve to get locked under the jail for that shit! And @ Ant...on AllHipHop in the rumors section, Illseed said he heard from some folks that a drug dealer got roped up and started snitching about the Big Phil murder to get time shaved off of his sentence.
i dont like soulja boy music but i love to see a young dude get $$$. and he aint from ATL he from the CHI
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BLU right, dont blame that dude Soulja for killing music cause It's TV, and Radio that play him, they had the chance to say his shits trash but didnt, and repeatedly play him. Above all the fans killed Hip Hop, straight up, they the ones who listen to him, and some of yall the ones who say everything killin hip hop. I don't like Soulja Boy, but you cant hate the young'n for makin money, you wanna hate somebody hate the people who buy It, cause they the reason your hearing his music. And Gyant need to shut the fuck up about 2 Black Men going to jail, They fuckin killed somebody, So what If Blacks fuckin kill somebody they should be let go? Thats the biggest racist shit for real man. Racisim Is a 2 way street everyone equal these days, white, black, spanish, asian all will catch an ass whoppin by a cop, will all get put In Jail for shit, are all poor living In in poverty, all can be shot and killed.
But to Gyant and some black people that shit only happens to blacks, cause every other color other than black aint gotta go thru no ruff shit, you a piece of shit Gyant, and you know you wrong for that statement. You wanna really know why we cant get rid of Racisim? Cause of dumb fucks like Gyant who think everything happens to the BLACK MAN, Fuck off you bum ass bitch
I feel ice but he went buy it the wrong way.this new form of hip-hop is bullshit. If you wanna see what he was talking about when he said REAL HIO-HOP check out Kassius Kakes new video for Ghetto Glory/Thick as Thieves on youtube
So what if T.I. Told on the two murderers which nobody knows,and what the hell is wrong with that if someone kill someone close to you you should do whatever you can to bring them cats to justice yall act like yall feel bad for these two assholes they killed somebody son and daddy why cause they old ass couldn't get in vip people need to cut this fake hard gangsta shit out
And damn Chrissette Mechelle got some pretty eyes
First, I just came back and read the comments and I must apologize for my bluntness earlier (but only my bluntness). In a sense Ice-T is wrong because he is an adult bashing a child, but he's doing it for the same reason Soulja Boy makes music. Money. Someone paid him for that drop, probably asked him a question about Soulja Boy, and he gave an edited response that he knew would incite controversy and is seemingly the consensus among people not actually from here (which is that the South killed hip-hop). Second, to the person (way2real) who chose to respond to my comment, who I'm sure is in some way Soulja Boy affiliated, my aim was not to EXPOSE him. He stated himself and I quote "...once you tell me eat a D, and I hear it on the radio in MY CITY...", but you're not from the A. You just tried to call the man out for being a transplant, and your the same thing. You say you from the West side?...