Fabolous Shot and Arrested In New York

 •  XXL Magazine  •  by XXL Staff  •  61 Comments

fabolous.jpgEarly this morning, Brooklyn rapper Fabolous was shot in the right thigh and arrested after an altercation between his entourage and another group of men escalated outside of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ restaurant Justin’s in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. According to the Associated Press, a male assailant in a parking lot outside the restaurant fired shots, and when the men Fabolous was with tried to drive him to the hospital, police stopped the vehicle and found two unlicensed weapons. The rapper was taken to nearby Bellevue Hospital and was places under arrest on weapons charges, along with the three other men in the vehicle. Fabolous, whose real name is John Jackson, is reportedly in stable condition. Police are still searching for the shooter. Fabolous recently signed with to Def Jam Records after a stint with Atlantic Records and is reportedly working on his first album for the label, which is due out early next year.

  • REAL TALK

    First..im glad im first cuz dats ma nigga fab..dats bullshit..stay up Loso..da streets got u..bitch ass niggas

  • da boy

    first.

  • tiggz

    When Will It Stop………

  • http://www.myspace.com/binobrown BINO

    HATERS!!!!!!!!!!!

    MAN PEOPLE NEED TO GET A PLAN TOGETHER TO MAKE SOME MONEY AND STOP HATIN ON THA NICCAS WHO MADE A WAY FO THEYSELVES AND WHO GOT DOUGH ALREADY! IF FAB WAS A REGULAR JOE BLOW, IM PRETTY SURE HE WOULDNT BE SHOT RIGHT NOW.

  • http://hood Ctownrepresent

    Classic crooked ass bitch ass cops. Dude gets shot and they more worried about getting weapons charges on ‘em instead of getting dude to a hospital. fuck da police.

  • 11KAP

    STAY STRONG, FABOLOUS!! THOSE SORRY ASS COPS CAN’T FIND THE SHOOTER, SO THEY ARREST THE SHOT. ASSHOLES, MAN.

  • http://XXL SEYMOUR

    YOU BIG UP TO THE F-A-B-O-L-O-U-S ONE. NIGGA IS COOL BUT THEM HATING ASS PUSSIES WHO SHOT HIM JUST MAD CUZ THEY PAPER AINT RIGHT. KEEP YO HEAD UP SON.

  • fla all day

    duh duh duh, duh duh damn! that must of hurt

  • memorilife

    listen! listen!listen!

    DON’T THAT SOUND LIKE THE SAME OH SONG ON THESE NY STREETS.

    THAT A DUDE! GET’S INTO SOME BULLSHIT! THEN GETS POPED AND HE’S STILL ALIVE THEY SAY LETS LOCK HIS ASS UP AT THE SAME TIME CAUSE HE AIN’T DEAD SOOO!

    THAT WHAT THESE FREAKEN COPS DOO!
    LOCK PEOPLE UP CAUSE HE’S OK HE AINT DEAD LETS CASE HIM.

    REMEBER THAT THEY JOB. YEAH RITE!
    SAME OH! FREAKEN SONG! NYC FOR YA’LL

  • Enlightened

    Now this sounds different that what was first reported. First they (allhiphop) said a nigga just walked up on him and shot him in the thigh. I was saying that’s a publicity stunt – like who walks up on a nigga and just shoots him in the thigh.
    Now, this sounds more realistic. But you never know these days I guess.

  • Were Read 2 Def

    worried to death about Fabolous getting shot.

  • 420PURP

    WHO KNOWS THIS PROLY A PUB STUNT!!!

  • http://www.cedartreeinstitute.com GregPeterson

    BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE MUST STOP!
    What does it say about today’s society that young black men are killing fellow blacks males at such an alarming rate it far exceeds the most violent days of the klan.
    Ministers need to get out of their studies, bit the street corners and rescue our urban black youth.
    In my day, our parents brought us to church – at least one day a week – even if we did not want to go.
    Thankfully, the teachings of the rhuch have a way of seeping into even the hardest of hearts.
    We can blame the failure of the father, or many other root causes like drugs, but today’s clergy need to get up out of the comfort of their churches and hit the streets.
    If you rescue one youth at a time, before you know it , 100 children have been rescued, then 1,000, and so on.
    Parents – especially the mothers who care – need to bring God back into the lives of our children.
    My message to today’s youth is: PLEASE CARE ABOUT YOUR FELLOW TEEN – Everybody is important especially you.

  • http://www.cedartreeinstitute.com GregPeterson

    HERE IS THE VERSION WITH TYPOS CORRECTED.
    BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE MUST STOP!
    What does it say about today’s society that young black men are killing fellow blacks males at such an alarming rate it far exceeds the most violent days of the klan.
    Ministers need to get out of their studies, hit the street corners and rescue our urban black youth.
    In my day, our parents brought us to church – at least one day a week – even if we did not want to go.
    Thankfully, the teachings of the church have a way of seeping into even the hardest of hearts.
    We can blame the failure of the father, or many other root causes like drugs, but today’s clergy need to get up out of the comfort of their churches and hit the streets.
    If you rescue one youth at a time, before you know it , 100 children have been rescued, then 1,000, and so on.
    Parents – especially the mothers who care – need to bring God back into the lives of our children.
    My message to today’s youth is: PLEASE CARE ABOUT YOUR FELLOW TEEN – Everybody is important especially you.

  • Proffessor J

    THE REPORT SEEMS A BIT VAGUE DOESN’T IT? WHERE IS THE STORY ABOUT THE ALLEGED ASSAILANT? WHY WEREN’T THEY STOPPED?

  • Fuck life

    Fuck the cops, and haters alike. niggas need to boss up and get on they paper-relli, ya dig!! Stay up fab and make a classic.

  • Gone with the west

    Well this is something.I am from the bay and i met a homie of the pack. I checked that dude for talking about vans FUCK VANS

  • http://xxl.com joe

    i hope fabolous dies bitch ass nigga. he is a wack ass rapper. jibbs is better than him. fabolous should just die and end his pathetic miserable life. he is a fuckin faggot.

  • jon-jon 23

    They were probably too concerned about finding drugs on him and didn’t even care that he was shot. It’s incredible how these police “serve and protect”.

  • Harlem G

    i guess Fab will consider himself to be “harder” now, might make for a better album! lol :-)

  • iame247

    I dont think anyone will stage a shooting for publicity. I bet you the hip hop cops are behind this. They could have set that shit up. Police stage shit all the time. Remember training day, when they hit that dudes stash in the floor. I dont know if yall seen The Departed yet, but there was some crazy set up shit on that movie.

    That story is missing something.

    If this guy was waiting for Fabolous, and he walked up on him, the hiphop cops were probably following Fabolous already. They should have been on his ass as soon as he pulled out his gun.

    They pulled the car over, instead of chasing the guy who WAS SHOOTING IN A PUBLIC AREA in front of Justins in Chelsea/Manhattan? I know Diddy aint open a restuarant in the hood, so this has to be a upper class neighborhood.

    Then instead of tending to a shooting victim, they search the car fot weapons. See how them cops is? Man, they trying to take these young rich niggas out.
    The Hip Hop community is gaining to much power so now they want to lock us up. Then I find it funny that Jadakiss is always getting caught on gun charges. That shit looks suspect to me.

  • Three4

    Who´s next?…this shit gotta stop!

  • Godson12

    Rappers need to learn to distance themselves from those that aren’t rich. Once you get more money you are a target period. And one last thing when you are a rapper, once you leave the hood, you are gone for good, why get out just to go back to the same bullshit. Nothing wrong with helping the hood though. Oh yeah, word to Fab, stay up son.

  • Mister B

    My Dude always getting violated, lets see if he gets of this time..and who wanna fuck wit Fab anyway….Crime is on the rise people, u know what time it is..

  • Dre Boogie

    damn man, y u gatta fuck wit Fab..wat he do except be a fly ass nigga all da time…yal niggas need ta do yall own thang and let other folks do theirs..im out this bitch.

  • 110 street

    i heard bout this on miss jones this morning. its an every day thing. breath nigga breath. Harlemm..

  • Nasty-Nati

    that’s some fucked up shit right therr. niggas was probley enjoyin they meal and got mad at LOSO cuz he wouldn’t sign them bitch ass niggas fitted cap. on top of being shot, he gotta deal wit police brutality. its brutal if a man is shot, and instead of taking him to the hospital or lookin for the shooter, they wanna take him to jail. fuck the cops.

  • 110 street

    Promotion?

  • Nasty-Nati

    get well soon my nigga, hopefully them bitch ass cops find the shooter b4 you or yo niggas do. LOSO’S LAW coming soon, we still lookin out for you

  • H-MAN

    Who’s next???

  • http://verizon.net DA Kid

    Bamaz

  • KING OF DIEGO

    POP THE COPS NEXT TIME!!

    187 CUZ!, BK STYLE NIGGA

  • http://myspace.com Will

    cowards…get well Fab

  • http://myspace.com Will

    cowards…get well Fab

  • Gumer

    what kind of an idiot would think this shit is for promotion or a publicity stunt??? wat does fab has to prove?? hes one of the sickest rappers and most gangsta niggas out here. fuckin haters mann. the dude that shot fab is gonna catch it hard

  • Million$MotivatedMailiciousMonarchMoneyMakin’Marc. O!

    ^^^^^^^ A nigga that got something to prove to a new label he on. You think LA Reid give a fuck about what #s Fab did for Craig Kallman at Atlantic(nigga didn’t even do plat last time out, not his fault though, his label always pick the wrong 2nd single(see Holla Back Young’n, Baby, and they completely missed the boat on that banger he had wit’ Jeezy before niggas knew who he was…)?! Fuuuuck naw!!! Fab my nigga too but get off a nigga dick for a minute and step back from the situation and look at it for what it really is….We never heard of this nigga bustin’ a grape and now before his album is gon’ drop he gets shot…in the thigh . I’m tired of niggas gettin’ shot in the ass(Gravy), ankle or leg(Game homeboy), thigh(Fab), etc. Anybody notice how niggas ain’t gettin’ hit in any vital organs??? What, niggas don’t aim for the head or heart no more?! I’m mean that’s fucked up what happened to dude, but the timing too perfect for me…

  • http://catitopeteryahoo.com rezcuetheghost

    Damn that nega got shot

  • M Gotti

    And the fuckin cops wonder why niggaz gotta pack heat.

  • Knowledge Speaks

    Thats some punk ass shit for the pigs to do. Bet if it was some executive ass cracker shot, they would’ve escorted the muthafuckn’ vehicle to the hospital and wouldn’t even have searched him for weapons. Fuck this Justice System!

  • http://XXLmag.com Real

    wow yo this is going to far to many black rappers are either getting killed or shot. What would the rap game be if Fabolous hadd died that day.

  • jilla

    its always fuckin puffy, first shyne now fabulous, somebody gotta stop dat greasy ass nigga. get well fab

  • http://www.xxlmag.com Kareem

    What the fuck is happenin to this hip hop game

  • robbylakes

    maybe if loso LP dropped in dec as scheduled id consider this some pubstunt but his shit got pushed back to feb07.
    its usually interscope artists doin shit for pub to sell units.

    but def some nyc size potholes in this story

  • Anal Jeff

    i hate niggers is because they smell, have nappy hair with bugs in them, live in the projects on taxpayers money, they drag their knuckles like monkeys (because they are) as they walk in front of my car crossing the street to go fucking nowhere ,they don’t speak English (or any language for that matter) they think there “tough” because they can rhyme to music like my 2yr old kid, they breed like fucking animals (monkeys to be exact), they live in their own filth (like monkeys), they live in projects and drive 40,000$ cars, they let their kids roam the streets like rats, they cant read or write, they steal, they lie, they prejudge against their own race(who can blame them),they want handouts instead of working for something,they worship entertainment figures, they eat all the chicken and watermelon at cookouts, their women think the fatter and more obnoxious they are the more beautiful they look, and the men wear clothes that are too big and are fashioned for teens, all their mothers look like aunt Jamima, their dads look like…….

  • Anal Jeff

    What’s long and black and smells like shit?
    The welfare line.
    What do you call 50 niggers at the bottom of the ocean?
    Good start.
    What is the worst 3 years of a niggers life?
    First grade.
    What is a nigger?
    Proof that skunks fuck monkeys.
    Why are chimps always frowning?
    They know in a million years they are going to turn into niggers.
    A nigger and a spic jump off the Empire State Building, who hits the ground first?
    Who cares.
    When does a Black man turn into a nigger?
    As soon as he leaves the room.
    What do you call a nigger with a Harvard education?
    Nigger.
    Why are niggers like sperm?
    Only one in a million actually work.

  • Anal Jeff

    I’m sick of working with these monkeys every day with their disgusting monkey manners…….I mean, come on now! Learn how to carry on a conversation with a decent white person with some damn tact! Oh, or do you even know what ‘tact’ means?! It means “Acute sensitivity to what is proper and appropriate in dealing with others, including the ability to speak or act without offending.” OOps! Too many big words for you?!

    HOnestly, though, I was getting over my hate for black people until I began working with them every day! They’re constantly going around bitching about everything, calling in sick when they’re obviously not, being rude to decent white people for NO FUCKING REASON! I mean literally- for no reason at all! What is it? Jealousy? Well, that’s understandable. I’d be jealous, too. We are better-looking and smarter. We are not in the fucking ghetto, though, so learn some respect and social skills when you’re out in the real working world with decent white people, monkeys!!!!!! We don’t have time to figure out your ghetto slang and animal-like reactions to situations! When you’re working with someone who is nice to you, maybe you should use common everyday manners like…..hmmmm…maybe “be nice back?!” Is that so hard? If you want us to treat you like human beings, ACT LIKE HUMAN BEINGS! I’m getting sick of going out of my way to avoid hurting some rude black bitch’s feelings when I know the bitch doesn’t give a damn when she offends me. I don’t care anymore. Fuck all of you!

  • Vindi

    Fab gettin shot is deep – his brother got popped a few months ago (paul cain)

    http://www.myspace.com/vindiakaleon
    http://www.myspace.com/dacollectiveakase23sfinest

  • http://www.xxlmag.com Mav

    All I want to know is what’s wrong with THE CAT ON HERE NAME JOE! You want FAB a brotha dead, so you can dick-ride another brotha. That’s some gay-shit naw I’m wrong that some fag-shit. YOU A BITCH ASS NIGGA!

  • BIGSTEVE

    DATS FUCCED UP JOE…!!!
    THEY SHUD OF LET DAT NIGGA GO..BUT FUCC DA PO-PO…!!

  • http://ralphlaurenalumni11yahoo.com darjon

    fabolous got shot!!! who gives a fuck
    he needs to drop a hot album, that should make the headlines if he did that……that last album was trash he needs to step his game up or retire

  • 11kap

    y’all some bitter assholes in here. jeff needs to be hanged upside down, lil fagwhite piece of stinking trash. your people, the caucasoids, came from the monkeys mixed with the pigs and dogs, you cross-breeded fucker. They are the animals with white skin under their coats of hair, stupid shitface honky.
    you wish you were black, so you won’t get sunburned, whore. None of your people are civilized unless niggas teach them civilization, corny ass bitch. decent white people? maybe a few but most of you aint shit but greedy jerks.

  • Stax On Deck

    Damn Datz Fucked UP

  • wong pow

    BYRDGANG !!!! ONE EYED WILLIE HEAD OF THE GOONIE GOO GOOS

  • http://www.xxlmag.com Realtalk

    Dang he got shot

  • Anal Jeff’s mommas boyfriend uk

    yo anal jeff is a dickhead! simple as, not every white person is like him and not every black person is as he describe them but he is a straight racist bitch. fact of the matter is america would not be anything if it wasn’t for the black african people taken into slavery who made your punk ass parents, grand parents and great grand parents world go around while they sit on they lazy asses. do you wonder why people in the projects are poor cus they havent any money ass wipe! think about it as for the ignorant people you encounter thats their bad behaviour that you have been unfortunate to be a victim of not the rest of the black community in america or the around the world. people like you are whats wrong with the world, of all places to make such a racist comment you make it on a hip hop magazine website you prick! and if you are a hip hop lover which i doubt incredibly i think it would be an oppourtune time for you to get over your racial issues against my people or if not i think that country music is mainly dominated by white folk! maybe thats more up your street.
    Bitch Ass Wanker!
    Holla bak at me dick!

  • Big Chops

    Last again H-A H-A H-A!!!!!!!

  • http://xxlmag.com Tim

    Thatz what that bitch get.lucky it wont me

  • ANAL JEFF

    To: Anal Jeff’s mommas boyfriend uk

    YOU FUCKING STUPID NIGGER! I’M GONNA FIND YOUR BLACK NIGGER ASS AND LYNCH YOU BITCH! I’LL FUCKIN RAPE YOUR BLACK ASS JUST LIKE MY ANCISTORS DID HOE! I FUCKIN SHOVE MY THICK WHITE COCK SO FAR UP YOUR ASS CRACK & MAKE IT BLEED.. I’M TALKING ABOUT YOUR SHIT STAINED ASS CRACK NIGGER BACK THE FUCK UP BITCH

  • FaceTheTruth

    first and foremost let me address the discussion at hand……Fab to me is not the greatest rapper but no man shouild have to face looking down in the barrell of gun, and if you have ever had such an experience not one of you tough talk punk mutha freakin bitch ass niggas would be saying half the remarks that have been proclaimed, wishing such malice upon another human being. I am absolutley SICK of people as a whole, everyone is sooooo freaking ignorant. Especially my Black people, and even more so those that fall under the category of the Nigga. A Nigga is the derogitory term for one who is IGNANT. Ignorance is the lack knowledge (to those that feel offended by the word), knowledge is power, power is respect so pick up a book or two and learn to express yourselves with just a little more “POWER”. Its unfortunate that power is looked at in the one that posses a gun, or the longest money stack. If you read an amendment or two you would know that you CAN have the power of a gun in hand and gain a legal buck or two instead of hating on the next one. The unfortunate circumstances of events that happen to anyone in this world should slap some reality into the lives of those who walk on God’s green earth from this modern day Babylon. Instead we walk around, above and beyond the HIGH AND MIGHTY like we are “the high and mighty”. People act like getting robbed, shot, stabbed, isnt an everyday occurance and an impossible feat that could happen to them when the chances are just as likely to occur like the fact of you waking up the next day.

  • Big Chops

    LAST!!!!!!!!!!

  • me

    I’ve just read a few articles here and they all had grammatical errors.