Life in the Pop Lane
From rappers, only silence
Hip-hop world ignored ex-Crip founder's cause
Stanley ''Tookie" Williams, 51, a cofounder of the nefarious Crips street gang who later renounced and preached against the evils of gang life, was scheduled to die by lethal injection early this morning at California's San Quentin Prison. Williams was sentenced to death for the 1979 murders of four people. (Full article: 752 words)
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