SPECIAL REPORT--BLOODSHED IN TORONTO: WHO'S KILLING TORONTO RAPPERS AND WHAT MAKES YOU A RAPPER IN CANADA?

Snapshot of Canada's national paper The National Post (Toronto Edition) on the arrest of Rapper Preszidenteeh

When you have a story like alleged serial killer Mark Garfield Moore flashing cash and walking around a very expensive house shouting out his pals including Rapper/Producer Mayhem Morearty (Kevin Williams), one of Toronto's finest that even worked with Drake and Kardinal Offishall in their aspiring days, it amazes you that Williams is now an alleged armed robber per the police. In this piece, I am writing about a little known tragedy that keeps getting worse in the largest city in Canada and the music hub of the north. It's the MURDERS of aspiring rappers in Toronto. Ask any news Assignment Editor and the next black male gunned down was an aspiring rapper. Behind that title are young black dudes, homies, fathers, brothers, sons and grandsons. That bullet often goes very far. It hits the whole community. We are all torn apart!

Rapper deaths in Toronto:

-Tony Trapz, also known as Anthony Spencer, January 21, 2012 shot
-Wizzle, also known as Jamahl Franklin, January 2, 2012 shot
-KD, also known as Andrew Stewart, June 16, 2011 shot
-DJ Platnum, also known as Shane Williams, March 2, 2011 shot
-Kartel, also known as Donald Richard Grant, November 7, 2010 shot
-Philly Blunts, also known as Andrew Dowden, July 30, 2010 shot
-Splitz or Codeine, also known as Chris Tshilombo, July 23, 2010 shot
-Yung Mecca, also known as Ludlow Gillespie, stabbed in a domestic dispute. May 29, 2010.
-Meyend Tricks, also known as Michael George, July 29, 2007 shot
-Blits, also known as Kareme Parks, October 9, 2006 shot

There has been a lot of anger in the hip-hop community of Toronto, Canada lately but I'm not hearing the voices of our mainstream rappers go after this EVIL. MURDERS! When Drake's album came out in 2011, I read the Los Angeles Times quoting Canada as not having any good MC's anyway, basically dissing Canadian rappers. "First off, he’s from Canada, just like Justin Bieber, and the country is hardly known for producing great MCs."

I have lived here for almost 5 years and America 29. One thing I can tell you is that it is not really lack of talent but mostly plenty of hating. It is particularly bad within Toronto rappers. This "hating" behaviour stems deep from the street rappers also known as "aspiring" rappers. They tend to make and sell more mixtapes, record mostly "gangsta" type rap music glorifying guns, gangs, drugs and anti-police sentiments.

With the freedom of speech act, anyone can really sing what they want but most of these rappers don't seem to notice that to be like Drake or any other mainstream rapper out there getting TV airplay, reality shows and endorsements, they have to mainstream their music and take out the "parental advisory" content. Advertisers and even several music networks are not interested in marketing these concepts of rapping about your life history on the streets anymore.

I however separate Canadian rappers as they all have their different personalities. The "902" rappers are mostly white, they don't kill each other and produce a lot of award winners. 902 is the area code for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Yes they have lots of ghettos in Scotia but with Rappers and DJ's Classified, Ghetto Child, Kayo, DJ Scratch Bastid and even R&B singer JRDN (who btw grew up in a tough section of Toronto called Jane and Finch before moving to Halifax as a child) all keep the good name of Halifax. Toronto rappers are more consumed in jealousy that one prominent mainstream rapper/singer Ferreira, a Portuguese Canadian rapper/singer labeled the word "Hater" H.A.T.E.R.S=Having Anger Towards Everyone Reaching Success!

Toronto Rappers Accused of Murder/ Gun crimes

Capitol P-Pierre Oliver Ellis (Accused of killing 16y/o Keyon Campbell)
Prezidenteeh- Mark Garfield Moore (Accused of 4 murders)
Heartless G-Chael Mills (Accused of killing 17 y/o Mitchell Celise)
Mayhem Morearty- Kevin Williams (Alleged armed robbery accomplice with accused serial killer rapper Mark G Moore. Worked with Drake and Kardinal Offishall in their aspiring days and several other big rapper careers. Excellent talented Producer.
Murkz-(Talented True Family Records rapper) Gun charges (in prison 5 years, now year #3)
P.Reign-Raynford Humphrey (Drake's Best Friend) Gun Charges (Acquitted) A music award winning excellent role model! KJ's pal Turned his life around away from that negative stuff. Always there for the kids and learned a lesson. Twitter @PReign
Strizzy Kastro-Gun Charges (Acquitted) Strizzy is very hardworking and humble. Twitter
@StrizzyKastro
Rene Velez Lau- "Bake the 38" (Sentenced to 5 years for rapping about his guns-Historical ruling some say kills free speech)
(New) Ammo aka Lamar Skeete-A wannabe rapper sentenced to life for killing anti-gang activist Kenneth Mark.

The younger artists end up wanting to mimick what the aspiring gangsta rappers spit. Have we not learned any lessons from ATL Rapper Ludacris' performance in Ethiopia when opening for Beyonce about 5 years ago? They booed Luda off stage as they don't like hearing rappers sing about their life histories and all that "ghetto" life in that African country.

Look at the seizure above as I sit on the floor at a recent news conference. Full coverage in my HOMICIDE FACEBOOK PAGE. I have seen Toronto rappers as young as 14 rapping about violence and even with the latest police gang sweep netting 67 mostly young people, there were 10 young offenders in that sweep (not listed) as anyone under 18 is not named in Canada. Can u imagine your kid's name released to the media and public like this. Try getting a job when some employer has seen your name on the list of doom!! 27 guns, $110,000 in cash and a lot of drugs. The youngest gang member was 14 and the oldest 94, a great grandma who said she had no knowledge of her great grandson stashing weapons in the house. Many were released on bail while police is desperately trying to reconnect with many young people in the community.

Yes, rap music is fueling gun violence in Toronto, Canada, but explaining it further: Are the activities of rappers causing the motives? Not necessarily. I had an unplanned twitter session with Grammy winning Producer to Drake and several other artists Boi1da real name Matthew Samuels. He is a very humble person and to see his displeasure at Toronto's CP24 breaking news channel caught my attention. Responding to the tweet above to Boi1da, I told him that these kids are technically "rappers." They have YouTube videos netting 8000-12,000 hits full of gangsta rap.

Eventually our twitter back and forth conversation ended up with the tweet below which it's retweets has since increased. One of those RT's was from a familiar source, Toronto Crime Stoppers who follows me @HipHossip after KJ's hit Crime Stopper's hip-hop song and the PSA's I help organize with police with some aspiring rappers hooking them with Toronto's leading Urban Top 40 radio stations Flow 93.5FM and Z103.5FM.


Another familiar person was Officer Scott Mills who is the Social Media officer for Toronto Police. He saw my tweet to Boi1da and saw the link to the Global News interview I did last week on why rappers in Toronto never talk after a murder leaving homicide officers stuck and a killer walking free. That tweet from Samuels was VERY powerful and sent a big message from a powerful global figure in the music business.

Below is the video of the press conference that Det/Sgt Gary Giroux had detailing the crime and appeal from Susan Spencer the rapper's sister. Her appeal to the so called friends who took him to the hospital really baffles me. They see him killed and just "dropped him" off at the ER! It took surveillance outside that hospital to actually get those "friends" to come forward but the detective says they were all lying to him and "far from truthful." When the shooting happened, cops did not know the crime scene till later and it took a couple of more days to secure a warrant. Evidence could have been damaged already and now all Dungeon Studio's videos on YouTube are marked "private."

MY TWITTER TRANSCRIPTS LIVE FROM TODAY'S PRESS CONFERENCE AT TORONTO POLICE HEADQUARTERS 1/31/12 10.30AM:

THIS IS HIGHLY DISTURBING ON THE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE GOING ON IN TORONTO RIGHT NOW! A RAPPER'S MURDER LINKED TO THE 3 DRIVE BY SHOOTINGS THIS PAST WEEKEND JAN 27-29TH 2012. SO MUCH GANG BANGING, NOW A PHOTO OF SUSPECTS AND PERSONS OF INTEREST RELEASED. PLS CALL THIS YOUNG WOMAN IF YOU KNOW HER!!! SHE NEEDS TO SECURE A LAWYER. THIS IS TOO SCARY. DID U HEAR THAT GRANDMA'S VOICE IN THE WEEKEND DRIVE BYS? PARENTS PLEASE TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN. KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHO THEY ARE WITH.

Start with the bottom tweet first.

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To see my complete tweets on the UPDATE of the murder of Rapper @TonyTrapz Anthony Spencer, pls go to my Crime Reporting page @Snitchlady.
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Rapper murder "Attractive" woman in murder tape asked to get legal counsel as police say she knows info about the murder-left with suspects
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2nd call woman makes is to a cab company while you can hear fatal gunshot in the background. Calls her name Ashley and leaves with suspects.
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CONCLUSION: 2 men and a woman entered the studio. She makes 2 calls. She made the calls as reception is bad in the basement recording studio
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Now the BARBER SHOP HOMICIDE: Det Mary Vruna is taking media questions. They have some theories but not been confirmed. Targeted murder.15 minutes ago

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The individuals that have info to the lyrics motive are not cooperating on Spencer's murder.
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The witness participation are directed towards friends in the studio that took Spencer to the hospital. The dudes in custody are dangerous
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Det/Sgt Giroux says the young lady may not even be aware of the gunshot as if she ignored it or something.
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Det/Sgt Gary Giroux says he heard the name "Ashley" in the cab call. She may not have known of the shooting or KNOWN!
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One very loud shot was heard on the #Toronto Police audio of the execution of Anthony Spencer. Here's a young lady who was with assassins
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"She has a difficult decision to make. She is a witness to the offence or a party to the offence." Sgt Gary Giroux to the young lady on vid
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Police are now playing her cab call voice. You can hear a big gunshot blast at the start of the cab call. She sounds very nervous.
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"We've done our part and you do your part" Sgt Gary Giroux urging the female to come forward. Her face is CLEAR! She should be arrested 2day
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The female with the offenders is asked to come forward. Two persons of interest have been arrested for other offences by Guns and Gangs.
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The phone call to the cab company was made at 4.32am in the morning. She is a black female bi-racial 5ft 100 Ibs attractive, dark hair.
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The female comes out again at 2.35am to make a call and also looks around like a lookout? She calls for a cab and you can hear the gunshots.
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Two Males and females exit a cab and walked into the Dungeon studios. The female is leaving the recording studio to use her cell.
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Supt Martin of 42 Division in Malvern. "I urge you to help us STOP this cycle of violence."
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The 3 drive by shootings in Malvern has one house shot at TWICE and another house shot at once. This looks like the Supt of 42 Div
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The detective on the podium is NOW saying the 3 drivebys in Malvern and the murder of Spencer were LINKED and will not discuss the links.
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The police is updating us about all the connections on the Malvern shootings. The barber, the 3 drive bys and Spencer murder. NO LINKS!
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Standby, my TWEETS are going LIVE on this murder case. Anthony Spencer "@Tony Trapz" Rapper killed in recording studio.
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Homicide will be releasing an audio of what may have been the MURDER in progress and also a video of what could be the killers leaving.
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Spencer's lyrics were direct, coarse and he wore RED gang colors in many of his vids. Survived by a 3 y/o daughter and family members.
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Lead Det/Sgt Gary Giroux is citing some of his LYRICS as the motive saying he may have allegedly "dissed" some GANG MEMBERS
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Anthony Spencer rapped under the name "Tony Trapz" and most of his music was the genre of "gangsta rap" Police will be updating us in 5 mins
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Anthony Spencer, 23 was recording in the Dungeon Studios at 799 Brimley rd when some dudes burst in and shot him point blank killing him
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An update from Toronto Police today 1/31/12 confirms that the three drive by shootings last weekend in Malvern is directly related to the murder of Rapper Tony Trapz, Anthony Spencer. They also released an audio call from a female subject calling for a cab and a video of 2 males and that female who called herself "Ashley" to the cab company she ordered from.

To me personally, those two males who are now in custody on an unrelated Toronto Police Guns and Gangs unit charge are "presumed" to be the alleged killers of Rapper Anthony Spencer but cops need the young lady to come forward as a witness. “She’s got a difficult choice to make,” he said. “She’s either a witness” or part of the murder, Det/Sgt Giroux said.



I'm thinking these homies did those drive bys but police are NOT commenting on that since it will compromise their investigation. One reporter even asked at the news conference. Sadly I can't show you any of Spencer's videos. They are now marked "private" on YouTube on Dungeon Studio's page where most of them were promoted. Why hide free speech?
KJ met one of his rap Idols "L'il Jon" backstage at a concert last Summer and they did dinner together. They should be seeing good things their mentors are doing. The first thing he asked the ATL rapper was about the $$$ Apprentice episodes..lol. Violence is not the way. Is this what we want the younger rappers of the future to keep seeing? It's giving rap music a bad name! Remember Nov 2010, when KJ spoke to the Toronto media about rappers taking guns off their music? All these youngsters want to rap be it a hobby or a career. You have to lead by example.Can we all learn from KJ's diss video dedication to me?? Pls watch "My Mom's a Snitch" At 9, my son wrote and rapped his own song about Crime Stoppers after he learned that my name was @Snitchlady on Twitter.This video was featured and tweeted on Toronto Police's 3 Facebook pages including the TAVIS page above. KJ is gonna be 12 and he will be auditioning for the "X -Factor" when we go down to his country (USA) this summer. He will be "rapping" like Astro did. You can lift up your talent in this genre without violent lyrics. KJ was also featured in the BIG upcoming video of the #3 rapper in Canada in a major role. He rapped 2 verses. Stay tuned for that on MuchMusic and MTV Canada. This rapper is always on those channels and you know him.



My advice to all young rappers is to STOP this culture of rapping about GUNS, GANGS and DRUGS! Pls SHARE this story on all your social networks. --Written by MsKemi Jan 31st 2012. Follow me @Snitchlady @HipHossip @MyYoungToronto