Lyrics name names, vow killings of rivals; and then, deliver.
Jackie Chandler believes gang violence will grow. She sits near flowers for La’Quan Dunbar, who was best friends with her nephew. Both men were shot to death.
He never saw it coming.
By the time paramedics arrived, La’Quan Dunbar was dead.
A single gunshot wound in the back of the head.
Another casualty of the streets.
Another young black man dead, allegedly at the hands of another young black man.
And for what?
Police and gang sources said it was about a song. A 3-minute, 32-second gang song that Mr. Dunbar had nothing to do with.
Wooty woo la la la.
“I’ont understand how ah [expletive] ah kill somebody over ah song but they ah let ah [expletive] owe them some money!!!” one man posted on Twitter less than two hours after Mr. Dunbar was killed.
The song, uploaded nearly two months ago to SoundCloud.com, a Web site that allows artists to post and share original music, has more than 35,000 plays and more than 220 comments.
The song’s title, “Wooty Woo La La La,” has become a slogan, if not an anthem, for Bloods-affiliated gangs in Toledo.
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