Brooklyn rapper and Roc-A-Fella artist Uncle Murda was involved in a shooting that he thinks was intended to end his life Tuesday (Jan. 22) night in Brooklyn.

Murda was shot while sitting in a parked car in Brooklyn. The rapper, whose latest release is titled “Respect the Shooter,” checked himself out of the hospital the next day and headed into the studio with the bullet still in his head.”The shooter got shot, but I’m good,” Uncle Murda said, making light of the graze he suffered in an apparent attempt on his life.

Murda (born Leonard Grant) admitted the incident was “a little bit scary,” but said he’s used to it. “It ain’t the first time,” he said. “I’ve always gone through
situations where people try to take my life. I’ve probably been shot at
about five thousand times.” He said he knows he’s not bullet proof, “just hard to kill, like Steven Seagal,” the rapper joked.

“It was a cheap bullet,” Murda said. “It didn’t penetrate like it was supposed to.” The bullet did lodge itself beneath the skin, though. Doctors told
him it would fall out in about two to three weeks. When that happens,
Murda plans to memorialize the metal. “I might make it my album cover,” he said.

According to New York’s Daily News, Uncle Murda has a criminal record dating back to 1997, which includes an arrest for attempted murder of a cop and drug charges,

He thinks this time it may have been the other way around though,
and was uncooperative with police who he said were on the scene not
even minutes after the shot rang out. “I think they was checking for me,” he said. “I think it was the
police that shot me this time. I don’t know, I just got a feeling.”

Regardless, he’s not saying much else.  “We doin our own investigation, GMG/Roc-a-Fella/Man Hood/ Team
Invasion/Violator investigations,” Murda said. “We take care of
business. We make them suffer.”

Murda said he feels safe, but he knows this probably won’t be the last shot taken at him. “What comes around goes around,” he admitted. “It sounds fucked up,
but it woulda been what I deserved. Everything I did before in the past
might have not been right but it just happened to go down how it went
down. I don’t want that to happen, but it woudn’t be surprising being
that’s the life I live.”

Murda has two Green Lantern mix tapes out, 2 Hard for Hip Hop and Respect the Shooter. His 2008 Roc-A-Fella release is almost complete and will feature Jay-Z and Nicole Ray on the mic with production by Green Lantern, Toonheads, Roc Wilder, The Winnerz Circle’s Steve O, Stylez and Bryan Stanley of Team B Music.