Baton Rouge rapper shot and killed outside gym
Baton Rouge rapper Cleezy5 has been shot and killed.
The man, whose real name is West Clark, was associated with Fredo Bang and TBG, an acronym for the Top Boy Gorilla rap collective.
According to WBRZ, the incident took place outside of a gym on Woodcrest Drive, near Greenwell Springs Road, on April 29th.
The Baton Rouge Police Department stated that the shooting occurred at around 12:30pm, with one woman claiming she heard five gunshots. So far, no arrests have been made, and no additional details have been released about his death.
One local resident said, “It’s pretty much a quiet area and you don’t hear about much going on. There’s kids always playing around here. It seems pretty safe, but unfortunately, things like that happen in all communities.”
He added, “It just so happened to be our unlucky day. I don’t think it reflects negatively on this community at all.”
Cleezy5 has over 78,000 followers on Instagram, with fans taking to the comments to pay tribute to the rapper. “RIP 5 DAMN THUG YB MY FAVORITE ARTIST BUT I RESPECT GANGSTAS & YOU MOST DEFINITELY WAS 1 FASHOOO,” one person wrote.
Others said, “Long Live Da LandLord Cleezy mutha Fuccen 5 !!” and “Omg. Sleep easy mate. I’m your fan in Bermuda!”
One of his biggest songs, ‘Da Real Gee Money’, a collaboration with Da Real Gee Money, has over two million YouTube views and half a million Spotify streams.
In his verse, he raps, “What the fuck you sayin’? Play with me, I’ll kill your mans/ You a lil boy, you don’t really wanna dance,” and “We run the streets, the penitentiary and the heavens slim/ You don’t owe us nothing and we don’t want nothin’ from ya.”