Cyrus Langhorne
Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne‘s alleged tour bus shooter Jimmy Winfrey is blasting the idea he would try to kill the hip-hop star.
According to reports this week, Winfrey’s legal team acknowledged his ties to Wayne’s rival Young Thug but dismissed the harm motive.
The lawyers acknowledge there’s rivalry in the rap game, but that doesn’t mean rappers automatically want to kill each other. Winfrey’s lawyers say, “Clearly, the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons are rivals because they are fighting every year to win the same division: the NFC South. Yet, this does not provide a motive for Drew Brees to kill or maim Matt Ryan.” (TMZ)
Last month, reports claimed Winfrey tried to single out Cash Money Records boss Birdman a.k.a. Baby in the case.
Jimmy Winfrey claims in new court docs he shouldn’t be singled out for the crime, when “[Birdman’s] financial dispute with [Lil Wayne] is what ultimately led to the shooting.” So, Winfrey argues, “[Birdman] should be held liable as a party to the crime.” He’s not specifically saying Birdman ordered the hit, but essentially that’s what he’s saying. (TMZ)
Earlier this year, rap star 50 Cent killed the idea of Baby wanting to take out his protégé.
“It just got crazier than I ever imagined it could be between the two of them,” Fif said referring to the Baby and Lil Wayne situation. “It was like father and son relationship and you see them and I look at it because I understand it. The passion you have for your son right now, you’d kiss him in the mouth, like, ‘Come here, smooch.’ But as you get bigger it starts looking like, ‘Is that still gonna be your baby?’ It’s still your baby, you still look at him like that but there’s a point you stop kissing his mouth. They didn’t have that line or anything that was there and I thought it was their relationship, they see things. I couldn’t see them actually trying to actually kill him. I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that. To be honest – I can’t believe he would actually want to kill him.” (Hot FM 104.1)
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Earlier this year, Birdman talked about his relationship with Wayne.
“I think media makes it worst than it really is,” Birdman said after revealing he still keeps in contact with Wayne. “We don’t scream at each other, I’m a man. … That’s my son, I respect him as my son. There’s no day where he’s speaking to me in a disrespectful manner. I don’t come from that cloth and I’m not going to speak to him in that cloth. That’s why I say he’s a man. He’s 30-plus. I swear on my kids – I’ll give them anything they think they might want. Cars. Jewelry. Houses. … I’m not going to let him go [off Cash Money] but if he wants to go, I’m going to respect his call. If he says he wants to go, I’m not going to stand in his way.” (Power 105.1)
