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Detroit MC Bugz Slain
On Friday, May 28, funeral services were held for Karnail Pitts,
b.k.a. Bugz of the Dirty Dozen|. The previous Friday night, May 21,
Bugz was expected to perform at a show in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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part of the Eminem tour, but he never showed up. “Saturday morning,
everybody got the news,” says Rico Shelton of Detroit-based
Federation Records. “I got the phone call saying Bugz was dead. It
was like, ‘What?’ Hearts were dropping.
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I’ve never seen so many sad
faces. Everybody knew him; he was part of Detroit.”
The day of the show, Bugz, a friend, and his friend’s cousin
werespending the afternoon at Detroit’s Belle Isle Park.
An
altercation arose when a man sprayed Bugz’ friend’s cousin with a
high-powered water gun and she took offense. A heated argument
ensued which escalated into a fistfight, and Bugz intervened on his
friend’s behalf.
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