by ,-,'-{Bar}-',-, » Feb 13th, '07, 20:47
Rapper Busta Rhymes spoke candidly to MTV UK about the fatal shooting of his bodyguard Israel Ramirez on the set on the "Touch It" video shoot in Feb. 2006. Ramirez' family was quoted in the New York Post saying: "We really don't want anything to do with that man (Rhymes). He could stop breathing tomorrow, and I wouldn't care. Whatever happens to Busta Rhymes is not going to bring back my brother." In what appears to be a response, Rhymes told MTV: "I don't live with guilt. I didn't do nothing. I didn't contribute to that negative (in any) shape or form. What I did, I offered my man an opportunity to make money to provide food on the table for his family. We were in a work environment which was supposed to be a controlled environment, a place where we were supposed to be productive. We had children on the set. The environment was a completely positive environment." Police and Ramirez' family accuse Rhymes of failing to cooperate with police. Authorities say an argument between G-Unit's Tony Yayo and producer Swizz Beatz sparked the shooting, which took place on a videoset in Brooklyn. "As far as certain family members feeling a certain way about me, I can never hold that against them because everybody gotta deal with tragedy in their own way. Especially when it
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