Nationally, hip-hop superstars Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G. Obie Trice was shot in the head on New Year’s Eve while driving on a freeway but has recovered. Proof was the second member of Eminem’s entourage to be shot in Detroit within four months. Police said Proof was shot after shooting a man at the club. Tuesday at the CCC nightclub on Eight Mile on Detroit’s east side. Proof, 32, whose real name was Deshaun Holton, was an integral member of Detroit’s hip-hop community and superstar rapper Eminem’s right-hand man. “For every rapper who gets shot and killed, there are 300 nameless young black men who die the same way.” “Proof’s death is an example of the violence claiming the lives of a lot of young black men all over America, not just rappers,” said Mister Mann Frisby, 31, a Philadelphia-based author, who wrote a book about young black men in America. DETROIT – The violent death of Detroit rapper Proof has hip-hop artists and fans asking whether rap produces violence or whether it’s simply a reflection of the dangers black men face in urban America.
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