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Five years ago this very day I personally lost on of my favorite rappers, the world lost a great rapper with a lot of ambition. He was gunned down in front of his apartment building in the Red Fern projects in Far Rockaway Queens. He was at the time signed to Jim Jones Byrd Gang and had a very bright future ahead of him.
His name was RayQuan Elliott aka Stack Bundles
I know a lot of you probably don't know who Stack Bundles is so let me give a quick run down on his history. Stack started his rap career in the early 2000's and was featured on several DJ Clue mixtapes. He had a strong following on the mixtape circuit and was all over the streets of New York City. He was apart of the Desert Storm family which feat at the time Fabolous, Joe Budden, The A-Team, and Paul Cain. They all flooded the streets with songs together and also with several solo mixtapes of their own. Stack formed the group "Roit Squad" which had friends he grew up with and started rapping. Stack then signed to Jim Jones and Byrd Gang where he helped write the song we all once loved "We Fly High (Ballin)" (He's also in the video go check it out) He was on the verge of dropping his first solo album titled "Rock Star" until he was murdered on the morning of June 11, 2007.
Stack was one of the "I really live what I rap about rappers" in which that's the very thing that took his life. He was a very flamboyant person and rapper. He owned several luxury cars, wore minks, and still lived in the projects. He wasn't a rapper that was staving he was actually singed to a very hot Jim Jones at the time and still went home and layed his head in the projects. Coming from Far Rockaway Queens the ghost town where practically no one makes it out, Stack was the one to change that and help himself and the people he grew up with get out the projects. He was honestly one summer away from leaving that life behind him until someone took his life.
Now the story I heard which may be true and maybe not but I'll still going to tell it. The morning of June 11, 2007 around 3-4am EST Stack was coming from a club in New York when he was walking from his car to his apartment building. Someone then attempted to rob him for his jewelry and Stack refused to give anything up. He was one of those "My image is I don't have an image" type of rappers I'm really a nigga in the streets and I'm not with the games. Once Stack refused to hand over his chain he was then shot in the head and then shot in the neck where he then died in front of his building.
Now if you listen to his music one of his lines was "I never been robbed in my life/the only thing a nigga ever took from me was advice." Now do I think Stack should have gave his chain up, yes and no at the same time. Yes because he would have possibly still been here today but from what I know about him he probably would have tried to kill the person who robbed him which in then would have him back in the streets. And no because he was a man with pride and died for something he really believed in (not the chain) but his pride and dignity. It's a rough decision esp for a rapper because their "image" is all they have, its a lose/lose situation for a rapper. Either you get robbed and lose your image or you not get robbed and risk your life. Catch 22 huh?
But I wanted to dedicate this blog to one of my favorite rappers to this day Stack Bundles. Here is a song from Joe Budden that he dedicated to Stack Bundles its titled "Send Him My Love"
We miss you homie!! Sk sk sk sk sk SQUAD UP!!!
Written by Rell Mac (@Rell_Mac)
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