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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

C-Dumbass
by Lee

What’s funnier than a raper named C-Murder going to prison for murder?  That same rapper subsequently changing his stage name because he feels that C-Murder is misrepresenting who he is as a person.

Rapper C-Murder, in jail after a murder conviction in the 2002 killing of a teenager, has changed his stage name because he thinks he’s been misunderstood.

“I am not a murderer,” the rapper, whose real name is Corey Miller, said in a statement released Tuesday.

He will now go by C Miller, said his publicist, Giovanni Melchiorre of New York-based Koch Records. Miller’s statement said people had misinterpreted the C-Murder name, which he intended as a reflection of his upbringing in one of New Orleans’ most violent housing projects.

“From the beginning, I have been a target because of who I am, my stage name and for my success as an entertainer and the success of my siblings,” said Miller, whose brothers Percy and Vyshonn are also rappers. “People hear the name C-Murder and they don’t realize that the name simply means that I have seen many murders in my native Calliope projects neighborhood.”

Miller was convicted of second-degree murder Sept. 30, 2003, in the death of Steve Thomas, 16, a fan of the rapper who was shot to death inside a nightclub in the New Orleans suburb of Harvey. He faces a mandatory life sentence without parole.

I think he should change his stage name to “Ass Rape.”

Posted by Lee on 04/06/05 at 03:25 PM in Celebrity Idiots  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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