Papoose recently released "50 Shots," a response to
the five officers who recently gunned down 23-year-old Sean Bell on his wedding
day.

Five NYPD police officers were put on administrative leave (November 26) after
firing 50 shots at Bell and his friends, 31-year-old Joseph Guzman and 23-year-old
Trent Benefield in Queens, NY. Bell was fatally struck while Guzman and Benefield
remain hospitalized. One officer, Mike Oliver, fired his gun 31 times, reloading
after running out of ammunition.

Papoose addresses it all in "50 Shots." DJ Kay Slay
premiered the song during "The Drama Hour," his radio show on New
York’s Hot 97 station. Using a sped up sample of Sam Cooke‘s
"A Change Is Gonna Come," the song not only details the recent New
York scandal but also revisits a history of cops shooting blacks including Amadou
Diallo and Kathryn Johnston, an 88-year-old grandmother killed by Atlanta cops
last week.

Serving as Pap’s own probe, "50 Shots" offers harsh criticism for
Officer Oliver: "Mike Oliver said his gun jammed, he the main one / 12-year
veteran and don’t know how to use a gun/think we’re dumb / if your clips was
loaded to the top/and your gun jammed, how you fired 31 shots? / Said you shot
at the man cause you thought he was strapped / but you killed a man cause you
thought he was shooting back." The song ends with a barrage of 50 shots
being fired over the instrumental.

"The reason why I did that, more or less I just wanted people to hear
what it sounds like to have that many shots fired at a person that doesn’t even
have a pistol," Pap told skinnydipp.com during an interview. "The
only intent was to kill. What else could you be trying to do?"

Papoose wasn’t the only rapper compelled by Bell’s murder. According to the
New York Post Queens bred rapper Nas along with Chris
Webber of the Philidephia 76ers donated an undisclosed amount to the
victim’s family. Originally the two were going to pay for the funeral but according
to Webber’s publicist the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People had already made arrangements.

In related news, witnesses of the shooting spoke with the District Attorney
today (December 4). While cops claim they heard Guzman tell Bell and Benefield
to go get his gun, witnesses told the DA the only mention of a gun they heard
was from a man that was arguing with Bell outside of the club. "This confrontation
of words was witnessed by the undercover officers who then allowed that individual
who had his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun to drive off in his car unimpeded
by these undercover police officers," Charlie King, attorney to 11 witnesses,
told the news cameras.