COPS FOIL 'HIT' TRY ON FITTY'S LYRICAL RIVAL
By ERIKA MARTINEZ and ALY SUJO
March 11, 2005 -- Police may have foiled a late-night Chelsea hit on volatile hip-hop star Jadakiss yesterday — just hours after he released a new single targeting his bullet-prone rival 50 Cent, sources said.
Cops arrested four men with a loaded gun in a stolen black tow truck at around 3 a.m. at 21st Street and 10th Avenue.
They had been taunting Judakiss, a 29-year-old Yonkers-born rapper, who had just left a Hot 97 party at the Roxy with his bodyguards and a videographer.
"Jadakiss! This is for you!" Luis Roldan, 25, allegedly shouted at the rapper after waving a loaded semi-automatic handgun at him.
Roldan and the three others were busted as they tried to elude police and crashed into a squad car.
Cops found a .40-cal- iber pistol under the passenger seat and said Roldan had been "racking the slide," or preparing to fire.
A few hours earlier, Jadakiss had previewed a new insult single that took aim at 50 Cent, with whom he has had a well-publicized beef.
The song, titled "Checkmate," uses 50 Cent's own rhythm tracks to diss the top-selling rapper, calling him an "animal" whose songs are "100 percent pure garbage."
Cops did not know whether the four men under arrest had any links to the rap world.
Jadakiss, whose real name is Jason Phillips, had been a guest of honor at the Roxy bash, which was promoted by embattled radio station Hot 97 in honor of slain rapper Biggie Smalls on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Roldan, Lonnie Jennette, 28, Philip Gallegos, 28, and Tykey Davis, 17, all from Brooklyn, were charged with gun possession.
Jennette was charged with stealing the vehicle from a tow-truck company where he had worked last year.
Additional reporting by Jennifer Fermino
By ERIKA MARTINEZ and ALY SUJO
March 11, 2005 -- Police may have foiled a late-night Chelsea hit on volatile hip-hop star Jadakiss yesterday — just hours after he released a new single targeting his bullet-prone rival 50 Cent, sources said.
Cops arrested four men with a loaded gun in a stolen black tow truck at around 3 a.m. at 21st Street and 10th Avenue.
They had been taunting Judakiss, a 29-year-old Yonkers-born rapper, who had just left a Hot 97 party at the Roxy with his bodyguards and a videographer.
"Jadakiss! This is for you!" Luis Roldan, 25, allegedly shouted at the rapper after waving a loaded semi-automatic handgun at him.
Roldan and the three others were busted as they tried to elude police and crashed into a squad car.
Cops found a .40-cal- iber pistol under the passenger seat and said Roldan had been "racking the slide," or preparing to fire.
A few hours earlier, Jadakiss had previewed a new insult single that took aim at 50 Cent, with whom he has had a well-publicized beef.
The song, titled "Checkmate," uses 50 Cent's own rhythm tracks to diss the top-selling rapper, calling him an "animal" whose songs are "100 percent pure garbage."
Cops did not know whether the four men under arrest had any links to the rap world.
Jadakiss, whose real name is Jason Phillips, had been a guest of honor at the Roxy bash, which was promoted by embattled radio station Hot 97 in honor of slain rapper Biggie Smalls on the 10th anniversary of his death.
Roldan, Lonnie Jennette, 28, Philip Gallegos, 28, and Tykey Davis, 17, all from Brooklyn, were charged with gun possession.
Jennette was charged with stealing the vehicle from a tow-truck company where he had worked last year.
Additional reporting by Jennifer Fermino
