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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Juvenile’s “Slow Motion” featuring Soulja Slim jumps into the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 this week. In its 15th week on the chart, the rapper’s single trades positions with last ...

One of them is Soulja Slim. The New Orleans native, who grew up in the Magnolia Projects, would've turned 38 years old today (Sept. 9). Soulja Slim has been in the game since the mid-'90s ...