But that was Fat Tone: always the storyteller, always the exaggerator, always the braggart. He wasn't going to kill you with one bullet. He was going to cut you in half with a hail of gunfire. He didn't drink the cheap stuff. Only cognac would do. He was large, but he lived large. And it was hard to tell how much of his boasting was based on truth and how much was pure bullshit.
At least the stories were generally consistent -- the Kansas City rapper was rolling in dough in Las Vegas.
"He went out balling like a boss," says Priceless, whose cherubic looks belie her to-the-point attitude. She called herself Tone's "boss bitch," and she had planned to fly to Vegas to join him on his May excursion.
Tone told Priceless he was staying at the MGM Grand, the hotel where his idol Tupac Shakur had attended a boxing match the night he was shot in 1996. And Tone had taken with him a pretty young thing who was supposed to be turning tricks. Even if it was small-time, Fat Tone had started pimpin'.
He was up -- way up -- at the craps table, the only gambling he ever did, just like Tupac. Tone told Priceless he'd taken $17,000 off the craps table in one session, and then, later, another $3,000.
He told his mother a different amount: $7,000. "He was very happy, very happy," Wright says.
Spencer, his girlfriend, heard another figure. Tone told her he'd turned the $4,000 he took with him into $13,000. "He said he was going to wire me some money, but he never did," she says.
He also told her he was hoping to meet rappers Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent. To his mother, he said he'd actually be opening for Snoop's Vegas concert.
But Spencer says the boasting and balling were only cover for a more serious quest that had taken Fat Tone to Nevada.
"Half of it was related to music, because this guy Mac Minister was supposedly hooking him up with a lot of different rappers," she says.
The other half of the real mission?
"I can't really be specific," she says. "All I know is, he went out and he was going to handle some business out in Vegas."
But he was having second thoughts, she remembers. Sometime after 2 a.m. on Monday, May 23 -- after midnight in Las Vegas -- he called her.
"He told me he wasn't going to do the particular thing he went down there for. 'I'm not going through with it. I'm going to come home,'" Spencer recalls. "I was still kind of asleep. He was like, 'I'm sitting here waiting on this guy. I'm going to call you as soon as I get to the hotel.'"
Shortly after the call, Fat Tone and a Kansas City companion, 22-year-old Jermaine Akins, were shot multiple times and killed. Tone's body was found inside a car by a security guard who noticed that the car's lights were on. The car was parked in a deserted housing subdivision still under construction. Akins' body was on the ground a few feet away.
Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Tone's escort was asleep in the doorway outside his room, apparently finished with her night's work.
Las Vegas police soon announced that they wanted to speak to three people in connection with the crime but stressed that none of them were suspects. Police also were on the lookout for a 2000 Pontiac Sunbird convertible.
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mac dre was tite fat tones alwas lyin about shit fat retard i heard he got smashed in the county in kc
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much love to the loved 1s R.I.P to the fallen. Remember it all comes down to just 1 thing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
MUCH LOVE MAC DRE!
We love you and 5-6 years later were still mournin, we will be forever.
If fat tone didnt do it who did?
KCPD didnt charge him cuz they dont give a fuck about the rappers
MAC MINNISTER we love u too cutty we need to bust your ass out
Whos talking about mac minnister gettin 'justified' fuck you!
you must not know shit about the bay
MUCH LOVE MAC DRE! We love you and 5-6 years later were still mournin, we will be forever. If fat tone didnt do it who did? KCPD didnt charge him cuz they dont give a fuck about the rappers MAC MINNISTER we love u too cutty we need to bust your ass out Whos talking about mac minnister gettin 'justified' fuck you! you must not know shit about the bay
TONE DIDNT KILL MAC DRE...I GOT LOVE FOR MAC DRE DAT WAS MY NIGGA....
BUT HOW CAN YAA TALK SHIT ON KILLA CITY MESSY MARV DEDICATED LIKE 7 SONGS TO KANSAS CITY N RICH THE FACTOR N J DIGGS IS COMIN WIT A NEW CD TOGETHER N THIZZ ENT SIGNED LIL JOE HE FROM KANSAS CITY YAA IS ALL GROUPIES YAA ON A NIGGA DICK SO JUST GET UR SHIT STRAIGHT BEFORE U GO RUNNIN YO MOUTH...U COULD END UP DEAD
TONE DIDNT KILL MAC DRE...I GOT LOVE FOR MAC DRE DAT WAS MY NIGGA.... BUT HOW CAN YAA TALK SHIT ON KILLA CITY MESSY MARV DEDICATED LIKE 7 SONGS TO KANSAS CITY N RICH THE FACTOR N J DIGGS IS COMIN WIT A NEW CD TOGETHER N THIZZ ENT SIGNED LIL JOE HE FROM KANSAS CITY YAA IS ALL GROUPIES YAA ON A NIGGA DICK SO JUST GET UR SHIT STRAIGHT BEFORE U GO RUNNIN YO MOUTH...U COULD END UP DEAD
man fat tone shit hella weak. and we sounds like a A-1 bitch aka weak sauce. TiP MAC DRE
man fat tone shit hella weak. and we sounds like a A-1 bitch aka weak sauce. TiP MAC DRE
The death of any of our black men is unfortunate. Someone lost a father, a son, a brother. That goes for both Mac Dre and Fat Tone's death. Nobody wins. In the end we all lose. The White folks are laughing at us killing eachother for nothin. They dont have to kill us, we're killing ourselve. Its all senseless violence. On Fat tone's part though, its unfortunate that people are sensationalized enough to buy music solely based on violence and "street cred." All rappers are guilty of that. Its not right. But that is the music industry of today. Anyway, I hope that we could all learn from this. I hope that the Bay Area and Kansas city can one day patch up their relationship like LA and New York had to.
The death of any of our black men is unfortunate. Someone lost a father, a son, a brother. That goes for both Mac Dre and Fat Tone's death. Nobody wins. In the end we all lose. The White folks are laughing at us killing eachother for nothin. They dont have to kill us, we're killing ourselve. Its all senseless violence. On Fat tone's part though, its unfortunate that people are sensationalized enough to buy music solely based on violence and "street cred." All rappers are guilty of that. Its not right. But that is the music industry of today. Anyway, I hope that we could all learn from this. I hope that the Bay Area and Kansas city can one day patch up their relationship like LA and New York had to.
It's unfortunate what happened to Fat Tone but if he was involved with murdering our beloved Mac Dre then all I can say is what goes around comes around, Dre's family/ friends cried, now his family/ friends cry. End of story
It's unfortunate what happened to Fat Tone but if he was involved with murdering our beloved Mac Dre then all I can say is what goes around comes around, Dre's family/ friends cried, now his family/ friends cry. End of story
Well im a real hip hop fan and got love for all my brothas. The death of Mac Dre touched me because he was out here helping many local artist out. He started a movement and could be seen in the streets signing & giving cds to the youth. People talk about hate but your a real hater when you take out a person doing things like that. That song "Drummed down" by Fat Tone if you read between the lines Fat Tone is talking about murdering Dre. I don't wish death on anyone but us in the black community need to stop the ignorance and make a change for the better. Skip all that Blood & Crip shit that the man started to turn us away from the real problems. Get education it's never to late Im from the Bay and never fell victim to that gang shit it up to us to make a change. Peace out!
Well im a real hip hop fan and got love for all my brothas. The death of Mac Dre touched me because he was out here helping many local artist out. He started a movement and could be seen in the streets signing & giving cds to the youth. People talk about hate but your a real hater when you take out a person doing things like that. That song "Drummed down" by Fat Tone if you read between the lines Fat Tone is talking about murdering Dre. I don't wish death on anyone but us in the black community need to stop the ignorance and make a change for the better. Skip all that Blood & Crip shit that the man started to turn us away from the real problems. Get education it's never to late Im from the Bay and never fell victim to that gang shit it up to us to make a change. Peace out!
Its Real Ya Know aint nothing ya know OK CUZZ R.I.P FATTONE one of our premiere rappers in KC.These niggas make allegations in the street on shit they dont know about.Niggas need 2 get they shit right before they just go blapping on VETS.We keep it one huned in the town.Respect the letters on the hat 816 2 the 913 KC they took one of our VETS but they can not take away the movement LETS Get MONEY Its OUR TURN KC!
Its Real Ya Know aint nothing ya know OK CUZZ R.I.P FATTONE one of our premiere rappers in KC.These niggas make allegations in the street on shit they dont know about.Niggas need 2 get they shit right before they just go blapping on VETS.We keep it one huned in the town.Respect the letters on the hat 816 2 the 913 KC they took one of our VETS but they can not take away the movement LETS Get MONEY Its OUR TURN KC!
good article. its too bad all that shit had to happen. I hope Mac Minister was justified in his killing. it sounds like tone was a sucka anyways. Thizz in Peace-Dre
good article. its too bad all that shit had to happen. I hope Mac Minister was justified in his killing. it sounds like tone was a sucka anyways. Thizz in Peace-Dre
My big cuzzin was the hardest nigga in the world why ya hatin step ya city up he would kill a nigga with fully clips like 50 fluids in a clip and them all loose
My big cuzzin was the hardest nigga in the world why ya hatin step ya city up he would kill a nigga with fully clips like 50 fluids in a clip and them all loose
My big cuzzin was the hardest nigga in the world why ya hatin step ya city up he would kill a nigga with fully clips like 50 fluids in a clip and them all loose
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