"Cuz the greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th"

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Rapper Cool C's Execution Warrant Signed by PA Governor Ed Rendell
By Seandra Sims
Date: 1/11/2006 4:15 pm

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed the execution warrant yesterday for former Philadelphia rapper Christopher "Cool C" Roney.

Roney, 36, is currently an inmate at Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Greene and is set to die by lethal injection on March 9.

In October 1996, Roney was found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Philadelphia police officer and nine-year veteran Lauretha Vaird during a botched January 1996 bank robbery that included rap partner Warren "Steady B" McGlone and a third man.

Vaird was Philadelphia's first female officer ever killed in the line of duty.

While McGlone was convicted as an accomplice and getaway driver, later receiving life in prison, prosecutors asserted that Roney was the triggerman and sentenced him to death.

The sentence was affirmed by the state's Supreme Court a year ago, and a subsequent plea to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied in October 2005.

Roney was a member of rap crew The Hilltop Hustlers in the late 1980s and helped put Philly rappers on the map with singles such as
"Juice Crew Dis" (which was later used by Philadephia rappers Beanie Sigel & Peedi Crack on 'When You Hear'), as well as 1989's hit single, "Glamorous Life."

As a rapper, Roney released two albums, 1989's I Gotta Habit and 1990’s Life in the Ghetto.

In 1993, he joined Steady B and Ultimate Eaze to form the group C.E.B. and released the album Countin' Endless Bank in 1993 on Ruffhouse Records.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:34 (twenty years ago)

i was listenin to the hilltop hustlers / while you was duckin the sounds from popped mufflers

― $!#$@!#@, Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

man...i was just going thru these old rap cassettes from my old room at home my mom finally cleared out my closet....cool c's was one of them...he was cool, awesome squeaky voice...there's a really cool philly rap comp i picked up at other music in NYC while i was there, juice crew dis was on it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

remind me again what this gotta do w/ canibus

― $!$@$!, Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Look at the date of his execution.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

CANIBUS: PROPHET?!

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

wierd...

...what happened to steady b, is he still in prison?

this rapper guy from minneapolis, called lil' buddy robbed a bank too...he had a sorta regional hit called "what what" or something.

the other day at lunch i was at the wendy's on broadway in north mpls where we go and I saw this big huge dude with a scarface movie leather jacket that said the world is yours...then i recognized him as top tone, this rapper from mpls that was big in town in the early 90s with a album called "what part of the game is this?"....he was just hanging around at wendy's, not even eating or anything...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:25 (twenty years ago)

what the 99 cent menu to fancy for him?

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

This is weird. I thought this would be a thread about Notorious BIG who died March 9th (which I've always remembered cuz that's my birthday).

― DDDD, Friday, 13 January 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

"Juice Crew Diss" is a great song.

I never heard of Top Tone before, but i like this article about him: "Tone recalls the time he won the state lottery and got shot the next day. It was May of 1997, a week before his first CD, What Part of the Game Is This?, was to be released."

Is his music any good, M@tt?

― one time, Friday, 13 January 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

I was quoting Canibus talking about the 'greatest rapper' (B.I.G.) because I thought it was a morbidly notable coincidence that Cool C is sentenced to death on that same date.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 13 January 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

March 9th Deaths

* 1202 - King Sverre of Norway
* 1440 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
* 1566 - David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (b. 1533)
* 1649 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
* 1649 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
* 1661 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
* 1709 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat
* 1808 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
* 1851 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)
* 1897 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
* 1937 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
* 1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
* 1954 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
* 1964 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
* 1974 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
* 1983 - Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
* 1983 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
* 1981 - Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
* 1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)
* 1992 - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
* 1993 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (b. 1909)
* 1994 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (b.1920)
* 1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
* 1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
* 2000 - Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b 1923)
* 2003 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
* 2003 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
* 2004 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b.1917)
* 2004 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
* 2005 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 January 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Is there room for Cool C as a (micro)footnote?
Fuck him, he killed someone.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Canibus was referring to Bukowski!

― That I Could Clamber to the Frozen Moon and Draw the Ladder (Freud Junior), Friday, 13 January 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

the waterproof MC, you aint wettin me
you need to stop rappin and start robbin banks like Steady B

― jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

isn't this a betty boo thread ?

― alisonboo, Friday, 13 January 2006 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Fucking hell. Can't March 9th just be my birthday? I never liked Biggie anyways. :(

― Candicissima (candicissima), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:13 (twenty years ago)

Steady B snitched on Cool C.

But then Steady B was the one getting charged with murder when Cool C was the one who shot the female cop.

"Down to the grissle" > "juice crew dis".

― ELLI$ HARVELL, Friday, 13 January 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

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