'Stay In The House': Bobby Shmurda (Pt 2)

Louder Than A Riot

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Music History, Music, Society & Culture, Music Interviews, True Crime

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Two young men grow up just blocks apart, each with aspirations to make it big. But while Bobby Shmurda sees his dreams come true, Bryan Antoine is killed by members of Bobby's crew. This is the story that lingers between the lyrics of Bobby's viral hit, "Hot N****." We talk to the family grieving Bryan's loss and review hours of incriminating GS9 phone calls. How does the true story behind the song complicate stereotypes about gang affiliation? And what does the pursuit of justice mean in a neighborhood where labels like "victim" and "perpetrator" can be interchangeable?

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0:00.0	A warning before we began.
0:02.0	This podcast is explicit and includes descriptions of violence.
0:09.0	Last time on Larger than a Riot.
0:11.0	When I seen Bobby, man, I was like,
0:13.0	That's New York right there.
0:14.0	That's this is what I'm looking for.
0:16.0	You know, the thing about what single mother's is,
0:18.0	When a father's absent, you tend to go extra.
0:20.0	And hip-hop, the batter, the better.
0:22.0	And I'm my friends, my brothers.
0:24.0	We had jumped the front and gun feet each other,
0:26.0	A tadish, they were coming for it.
0:28.0	Bobby, they wanted the whole crew.
0:30.0	And they got the whole crew.
0:36.0	The way Bobby Schmurder and his friends grew up in these flat bush,
0:39.0	It wasn't that unique.
0:41.0	They just happened to turn their lives into music.
0:43.0	Try not music into a career.
0:45.0	And those careers got turned into a moment of rap infamy.
0:59.0	But G.S. from a gun squad.
1:01.0	And which of his friends?
1:02.0	Hot boys sold the world on GS9.
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