Uncle Murda has added to the recent string of confessions about authenticity in Hip Hop, admitting to fabricating a claim he made during his come-up.
During an interview with The Danza Project in early January, the G-Unit affiliate talked about the image rappers portray and how truthful he has been over the years in cultivating his own.
“All rappers lie,” he began. “I remember I lied about getting shot in the head. That was early on in my career — I lied about getting shot in the head because I wanted to like, ‘Aight, shit, maybe I could get this whole 2Pac–50 Cent wave going on right now, n-gga.’
“I just had the song with JAY-Z and Fab[olous] — the ‘Brooklyn’ record — and it was good momentum […] there really was a shooting that took place, and I’m like, let me act like I got shot in the head for real, and then it’s going to be like, ‘Oh shit! Murda got shot in the head! The next day he back like ain’t shit happen.’”
Adding more context to how he pulled it off, the 43-year-old said: “I was actually in a car that did get shot up, so it was a piece of glass from when the bullets hit the window — a piece of glass from the window actually cut my head and it was a little blood on my face, so it looked like it was a believable story at the time.”
