In New Orleans rap circles, nobody was more real than Soulja Slim. Those who knew him best say that every line of Slim’s razor-edged lyrics was pulled from his own life: heroin and cocaine abuse ...

Rapper Soulja Slim (real name: James Tapp) was shot and killed last week on the front lawn of the two-story duplex he'd bought for his mother in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood. The Nov. 26 ...

(AllHipHop News) While Louisiana prison officials continue an investigation into whether or not C-Murder recorded new music while incarcerated at Angola Prison, Lil Soulja Slim has confirmed in an ...

Nearly two decades later, the mom and sister of Soulja Slim said it still feels like yesterday when they found out the well known rapper had been shot and killed in Gentilly.Linda Tapp Porter said ...

In August 2004, nine months after Slim was murdered, he became only the sixth artist ever to score a posthumous No. 1 hit. The song was credited to Juvenile featuring Soulja Slim, but Juvenile was ...

The TRU group member heaps high praise on his Louisiana brethren. Soulja Slim died on November 26, 2003 at the age of 26. According to fellow No Limit Records alumnus C-Murder, 23-year-old NBA ...

James "Soulja Slim" Tapp was killed on November 26, 2003. (CHRIS GRANGER/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE) His legend has grown to epic proportions in death, but even in life, Soulja Slim was a force to be ...

James Adarryl Tapp Jr., aka Soulja Slim, was shot and killed in front of his mother’s house in the Gentilly neighborhood in New Orleans in 2004. It was later reported that the gunman was hired ...

"I ain’t gonna be no rapper that get killed,” Soulja Slim said in August of 2001. “I’ma hit this nigga up with something. I ain’t gonna get caught slipping. I done got shot two times ...

On this day in 2003, James Tapp Jr., who is better known to the Hip Hop community as Soulja Slim, was shot and killed in front of his mother’s residence the night before Thanksgiving in his ...

The “Slow Motion” video is about women’t butts, and it’s also about Soulja Slim, the Juvenile collaborator who was shot dead nine months before the song topped the Billboard Hot 100.

Today (Nov. 26) marks the tenth anniversary of the day that Soulja Slim was shot to death in the front lawn of his mother's house in New Orleans, one of hip-hop's most tragic unsolved murders.