MC, signed to Memphis Bleek’s Get Low Records, was reportedly killed Saturday morning. By Shaheem Reid Spike Lee, Memphis Bleek and G Baby Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Images Details were scarce at press time, but New York rapper G Baby was killed in Queens, New York, early Saturday morning, according to multiple online reports and the rapper’s MySpace page . G Baby was signed to longtime Jay-Z associate Memphis Bleek’s Get Low Records; at press time, New York City police had not provided MTV News with further information or confirmation. Bleek tweeted about G Baby Saturday, writing, “I’m in a mood I can’t explain. I lost a real n—a 2day. R.I.P. to my n—a G Baby who was like a bro to me!! G. Baby …” Before performing with Jay-Z in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Saturday night, he tweeted again: “2nite goes out for the baby boy G. I got u my n—- see u on the other side! Thx to those who showed me love … Get Low we to strong to break!!” Other friends of the rapper’s tweeted about his death as well. “R.I.P G BABY,” Lloyd Banks wrote . “My boy*last time I seen u, we were mixing down [Banks’ track] ‘Beamer Benz or Bentley,’ and u know who paid for everyone’s food? Neva let me pay for sh–! That’s the kind of n—a we lost.” “RIP 2 G Baby,” Tony Yayo added. “A! 1st and foremost RIP to the HOMIE G-BABY,” Juelz Santana wrote . “We lost a good one. Everybody in Queens & Bklyn hold ya head. What up BAI!!!!” “Life is not Promised … Live Life to the fullest, & like there is no 2moro … Lost a soldier in the field this morning … R.I.P. G Baby,” Fabolous wrote . Sources close to the situation told MTV News that G Baby was killed at around 5 a.m. ET Saturday approximately one block away from Club Amazura in Queens. Fabolous headlined a concert at the venue Friday evening, which ended at around 4:30 a.m. G Baby’s official MySpace page says the rapper was from the Tompkins Houses projects in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. G Baby had been a close confidant of Bleek’s. Late in February, while speaking to MTV News , Memphis was very excited about jump-starting the careers of G Baby and other Get Low artists Calico and Proof. “I been focused on a lot of things before I got focused on [my new] album,” Bleek said. “I had to think of the release of when Jay [-Z] left Def Jam, ‘What I’mma do with my career? Do I wanna still be under the umbrella or do my own thing?’ So of course I came with the terms, I gotta do my own thing. “I gotta do my on thing because I got a bunch of people behind me that’s waiting for their shot,” he added. “I got G Baby, my artists Cali, Proof that’s been down with me for years. It’s time to step out.” Related Artists Memphis Bleek
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