HOOGEZAND - A sixth person was involved in the shooting in Hoogezand last Monday in which a 26-year-old Amsterdam rapper was shot to death. He is one of the men who visited the 26-year-old occupant of the apartment on the Annie M.G. Schmidthof. This person involved has yet to be apprehended. That is what a source for this newspaper reports and has been confirmed by the resident's lawyer. Police would not say anything about the sixth man. "We are not ruling out new arrests. The investigation is still ongoing. "Police have arrested four men for the shooting. Besides the occupant of the property in Hoogezand, they are two men from Amsterdam (ages 22 and 23) and a 22-year-old resident of Foxhol. Robbery seems to have been the motive of the robbers. Among other things, they were after a gold chain. The 26-year-old occupant of the property reportedly fired in self-defense. The robbers and the resident knew each other.
The Amsterdam man shot dead in the robbery with the stage name Rel is not the only rapper involved in the shooting incident. The arrested man from Foxhol is also a rapper. The two have known each other from the music world for quite some time. The resident's lawyer, Mr. Weening, criticized the police over matters the police brought out about the shooting. "My client is in restriction and also I am not allowed to say anything about the case, while the police have already brought out things about the shooting. I find that a very bad thing and have reported this to the justice department." The 26-year-old suspect from Hoogezand has been arraigned before the examining magistrate. He is suspected of murder, manslaughter or aggravated assault. The deceased man had fled in a car after the shooting. He was left at the Amsterdam Medical Center where he sought treatment. He died later that day.
Rappers more than shooting 'niggas'
The man shot Sunday night in a robbery at a home in Hoogezand was an Amsterdam rapper. Another person involved was a rapper from Foxhol. Has the violence in the Amsterdam rap world also reached Groningen?
by Mick van Wely and Bas van Sluis
GRONINGEN - Through the medium of Twitter, Amsterdam rapper and television presenter Rotjoch announced that his brother Rel had died Monday from the effects of the shooting in Hoogezand. One of the suspects arrested for the robbery is also a rapper. From Foxhol. Amsterdam's chief of police Bernard Welten recently warned against gun possession and glorification of violence in rap culture. In the capital at least five rappers were shot at in a short time. Do these musicians no longer know the difference between fiction in clips and lyrics and harsh reality? Groningen resident Sherlock Telgt is singer of the formation Zombi Squad and one of the people behind Bumrush The Building, a gathering place for artists from the hip-hop scene. Telgt emphatically cautions against generalizing incidents of violence in the hip-hop scene. "I compare it to soccer supporters. There is also a group there that commits violence, but it is only a small part." Many rappers sing about violence. 'Bitches' (whores), 'attrako' (robbery), 'dope' (too crazy) and 'pipa' (gun) are street slang words used frequently. "There is nothing strange about that. So many Dutch films use coarse language. It's just slang," Telgt says. Research on the Internet and in the hip-hop scene shows that this segment is gaining tremendous ground in the music world
Hip hop grows in City and Ommelanden
Telgt: "I think right now in the city alone about 150 young people are active in the hip-hop scene. In rural areas, there are as many more. They are very creative and know their way around the Internet." In primitive and professional studios, the young people make clips and tracks; videos and music tracks. Numerous clips made in the city can be seen on the Internet. Earlier this year, Amsterdam rapper Lexxxus was shot at a music festival. From his sick bed, he announced that a real "nigga just takes that shit. In other words, as a "rap nigga" who is fierce, you take some bullets for granted. What inspires these young people? "I have no idea. You had American artists like Tupac rapping about violence. Some young people look up to this and have adopted the behavior. But it's a fringe group. The vast majority of rappers are doing very well with music."
