Waka Flocka Flame is taking the Friday shooting death of his friend and rap cohort Slim Dunkin very hard. "WISH IT WAS ME ... MY F---ING RIGHT HAND IS GONE," Flocka tweeted the day after the murder.
The "O Let's Do It" MC continued to vent over Twitter, writing, "damn I feel dead" and "IM LOST" in reaction to the tragic news.
Dunkin, who was born Mario Hamilton, was fatally shot once in the chest after an altercation with another man inside an Atlanta recording studio. Slim was an up-and-coming rapper in Waka's Brick Squad Monopoly crew and had collaborated heavily with both Flocka and BSM-affiliate Gucci Mane. Atlanta police have interviewed a number of witnesses who were on or around the scene at the time of the shooting, but police have been unable to identify the gunman.
"Right now we're just trying to ... identify who may have seen what, really just trying to put the pieces together," Atlanta Police Major Keith Meadows told The Associated Press. "It seems everybody witnessed something very different. We're just trying to go back and make sense of everything."
Despite their musical beef, rival rapper Kebo Gotti explained that he was in no way involved in the murder of his onetime friend. "I just don't know what to say rite now," Kebo said in a statement issued to MTV News. "What can u say u know when people are pointing the finger at you saying you killed someone you cared about just [because] you just had a fight, what can you say, what are you supposed to say about something like that. He was my brother."
Kebo, who was an original member of Brick Squad, split from the crew and has been involved in a beef with both Dunkin and Waka for some time now. The drama has even gotten physical. In an edited viral video that surfaced on World Star Hip-Hop in October, Gotti spews numerous insults at Flocka and is seen having a street fight with Dunkin.
On Halloween, Slim released Menace II Society, a 20-track mixtape featuring Gucci Mane, Roscoe Dash and Pastor Troy.
Rest in peace, Slim Dunkin. Leave your condolences in the comments below.