Tha Jacka died last night. RIP

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Updated at 12:22 PM PST on Tuesday, Feb 3, 2015

Rapper "The Jacka" Shot Dead in Oakland While Making Music With Friends

An East Bay rapper known by the stage name "The Jacka" was shot dead in East Oakland while rapping with friends in a van and enjoying the evening, according to a friend.

"He was just making music," Reggie Grant, who described himself as Jacka's "godbrother," told NBC Bay Area on Tuesday morning, adding that from his perspective his longtime friend could not have been the intended target.

"Bullets don't have no name. I don't know who did it," the 51-year-old said. "He had problems with nobody. He'd give you his shoes off his feet. He gave jobs to lots of people."

Oakland police officer Johnna Watson confirmed that the victim of the Monday night shooting was 37-year old rapper Dominic Newton also known as “The Jacka,” whose latest release is called "What Happened to the World."

Newton converted to Islam as a youth and also went by Shaheed Akbar before getting his rapping nickname that he earned during a one-year prison stint for carjacking.

The fatal shooting was reported at 8:15 p.m. at 94th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard by a U-Save power equipment shot and Clark's Home and Garden landscape supply center.

As Grant told it, there were about seven or eight people rapping in a van Monday evening, and the Jacka was outside on the sidewalk when the bullets flew.

"Everyone was enjoying the night, just enjoying life," he said.

Grant, who lives across the street, heard the gunshots in the middle of the impromptu jam session, and saw that "The Jacka" got hit with a bullet wound to the head. A neighbor held a towel to his head.

"I could see him take his last breath," Grant said, adding that his friend leaves behind a wife and children.

Grant said that "The Jacka" had no criminal background that he knew of and did not do or sell drugs.

However in a 2005 Bay Area News Group article, the up-and-coming rapper said he was trying to overcome a rough life; his mother had him when she was 14, his father was in prison for 15 years and he himself served a prison stint after being convicted in 2000 for grand theft and armed robbery. At 18, the young rapper said he was the youngest inmate being held in the Martinez Detention Facility. It was there, he told the newspaper, that he earned his nickname, "The Jacka" referring to his charges of carjacking and stealing.

And two weeks ago on Instagram, someone posted from his account, Jacakmobfigaz, a photo of him carrying bags of marijuana that he said he bought at a medical cannabis club in San Francisco, urging his friends to buy "some tree."

Social media lit up with the hashtag #RIPJacka, with fans mourning his death. "They took a cool dude from us last night! #RIPJacka," Chris Riggins tweeted. NBA All-Star Damian Lillard called him an "Oakland legend."

Newton is originally from Pittsburg and began his rap career in the late 1990s as a member of Mob Figaz. He also owned his own label, The Artist Records.
The killing was the 11th in the city of 400,000 so far this year.
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Rapper "The Jacka" Shot Dead in Oakland While Making Music With Friends | NBC Bay Area

RIP JACK :siccness:
 
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Mr Vandal said:
Just hear say but my town niggas told me he was just at wronplace wrong time. Some other n**** got beat from another neighborhood and his family came back gunning for some nigga that Jack was with and he caught stray. Them niggas remorseful but 50k were the of packers fans if u get my anolgy
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I am a town nigga and I heard its this white nigga named j kush from livermore,..where's my 50k nigga
 
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rip to the jacka,,,he was a good dude every time I seen him he kept it real and got at everyone and remembered them too when he saw them again and im sure all the fans that took pics with him in the past will cherish those pic with a real one,.,.,.,.,,.,.another bay legend gone but not forgotten that's for damn sure......
 
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RIP The Jacka

I first got into his music around 2006 with one of those Demolition Men mixtapes, then I had to go back and listen to all his shit. He quickly became one of my favorite artists, bro had soul in his music. I'm from Michigan and nobody heard of him out here but when I put other people on to his music, they were feeling it.
 
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Mr Vandal said:
RIP Jacka I know it hurts everyone that means you touched them in someway, but Pittsburg niggas really hurting I remember watching you spit in highschool u were so fucking dope! I told everyone about you. Then PK gave me a burnt copy of your 1st shit b4 it came out CLASSIC! And then the Jack Artist 1st version leaked all thru Pittsburg that cd held me down in Vegas damn! So what I'm saying is a huge piece of my past I'd gone, and our walking soundtrack to our life got snatched from us!!!!
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I remember when that leaked version of the jack artist came out haha, my bro in law still has my original burnt copy of the leaked version. R.I.p jacka man your music held a lotta folks down out here. Gone but never forgotten.
 
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