- Freaky Tah
Raymond Rogers (
May 14 ,1971 -March 28 ,1999 ), better known by his stage name, Freaky Tah, was ahip-hop artist fromSouth Jamaica ,Queens ,New York .Career
He was a member of the group
Lost Boyz , along withMr. Cheeks , Pretty Lou and DJ Spigg Nice. He appeared on all three Lost Boyz albums. Although he is mainly remembered Fact|date=July 2008 for being a promoter, he also rapped on several Lost Boyz tracks.Freaky Tah and the other Lost Boyz are featured on the track "Wanna Get Paid", a track fromLL Cool J 's Platinum-selling 1997 album "Phenomenon".Death
On the night of
March 28 ,1999 , at a birthday party for Mr. Cheeks, Freaky Tah was shot in the head while exiting theSheraton Hotel in Queens. Tah was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:20 am, at the age of 27. The getaway driver, Raheem Fletcher, was sentenced to 7 years in prison formanslaughter . In 2001, Kelvin Jones pleaded guilty to themurder .Inspiration
In an interview with Riotsound.com [http://www.riotsound.com] , Freaky Tah's cousin, the rapper Domination stated:
"Tah inspired me, man. Tah came from the same struggle I came from, so he showed me that I could really do it. Tah always used to tell me "Yo, go in the studio, get in the studio and let's do it." I used to freestyle on the block and Tah used to have me battling grown cats. I'm 23 now, so Tah woulda been about 34, 35 right now, he died when he was 28. So he was older than me and people who was his age that were his colleagues and his peers, he had me battling them in the Chinese restaurant and whatnot."
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