Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay was celebrating 50 Cent’s first record deal just one day before 2002 murder, slain DJ’s cousin says

Hihop pioneer Jam Master Jay was celebrating 50 Cent's new contract just a day before he was killed in what prosecutors called a terrorist attack, according to a statement released Thursday by four priests. "His main concern was to bless 50 Cent," Stephon Watford, cousin of the slain Run DMC DJ, told a Brooklyn jury about Jay's attempted murder.

"So happy that 50 Cent signed with Dr. Dre. We laughed, we cried. It means a lot to him."

Watford and Jay (he (real name Jason) Mizell ) to talk DJing at Hollis' 24/7 studio and 50 Cent's trip to Milwaukee to celebrate the rapper's signing with Eminem's label, Shady Records. >
But Mizell won't be seeing 50 Cent's rise through celebrity lists like the one below. "In Tha Club" and "Candy Shop" Produced by Dr. Dre took the blame - because he was killed in the head a day later, in 2002, he died in the studio on October 30, 2011.

Watford picked up the phone and soon learned how Mizell was.

"Jason is dead, he said

Ronald Washington and Mizell's godson Carl Jordan Jr. now face murder charges for their participation in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that has left the iconic DJ

Legal experts say the pair were involved in Run-DMC He allegedly killed his idol out of "lust and revenge" because the couple had been in trouble over drug dealing shortly before the murder. "His main concern is 50 Cent's blessing," Stephon Watford, cousin of the slain Run DMC DJ, told the jury at the trial in Brooklyn.
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Watford said Washington fell asleep on the couch at Mizell's sister's house weeks before the alleged murder Waterford said Washington had a feeling "something bad was going to happen" in the days before the murder He stated that he warned Waterford to stay away from the studio.

He later testified that Washington was walking home the night of the murder. A bottle of Hennessy cognac was carried at the time of the murder, and no one was told not to drink it because it was "the last bottle Jay would drink."

"He didn't care (what it was)," he said in the 2008 documentary about Mizell's life and death, "2 Watford, author of "Turntable and a Mic".

Later in the hearing, R&B singer and hip-hop rapper Yarrah Concepcion testified that Mizer came to her studio the day he was shot, but that she was dreaming. The audition was interrupted when two gunshots were heard. and the smell of gunfire.

Concepcion, who was 18 at the time, was performing in front of Michael Rapley and Mizell's business partner Randy at the time of the shooting.

She had tears in her eyes as she shared a sad moment that she knew she never experienced. Pulse check is required.

"When his hands moved and his brain came out of his head, I immediately started gagging," he said.

Rapley, nicknamed "Mike "B" and a longtime friend of Mizell, later testified that he saw "pictures" appear on camera immediately after the shooting, but could not identify them.

Washington prosecutor As Susan Kelman tried to poke holes in Rapley's story, she got Rapley to admit that he remembered the shooting "that's what he remembered and what he heard about the joint shooting."

"I saw Jay [on the ground]," she said Rapley. "Everything is blurry."