#RIP Lor Scoota, Baltimore Rapper Who Tried to Stop Violence (ABC)

Wednesday Jun 29th, 2016

The news tore across Twitter: A beloved Baltimore rapper was gunned down in broad daylight, moments after promoting peace on the streets at a charity fundraiser.

Hundreds of inner-city youths — the people most exposed to Baltimore's pernicious gun violence — have mourned Tyriece "Lor Scoota" Watson as one of their heroes since his untimely death on Saturday.

Scoota was a local radio star poised for bigger things. The original mix of his biggest hit, "Bird Flu," boasts of drug dealing, hooking desperate addicts on his brands of "scramble, coke and smack."

 

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