The details of Shyne's 1999 birthday celebration at Club New York are still a bit up in the air, but several facts have been accepted about the night that ruined the singer's career, forced Puff Daddy to change his name and scarred Jennifer Lopez forever. Now, 15 years later, one of the victims is finally speaking out.
We tend to remember the famous people involved in an altercation that resulted in gunshots, while forgetting the three victims of the shooting. But one of them, an Instagram user named @ms_ebonay (aka Eboné The Truth), came out of the social media woodwork after @upnorthtrips posted a newspaper image commemorating the 15-year anniversary of the altercation (via Hip Hop DX).
Her first comment was as follows:
I AM THE WOMA[N] WHO WAS SHOT IN THE FACE THE MOST SERIOUSLY INJURED PERSON... I have suffered a great deal of PHYSICAL & EMOTIONAL PAIN behind this FOOLISH DISPLAY OF EGO AND INSECURITY ... God bless the others who shared in and survived this tragedy with me... I lay here in bed thanking God for sparing me in spite of all the tribulations... Feeling at PEACE... Only to see @upnorthtrips displaying sympathy for celebrities who played THE INSTRUMENTAL ROLL IN MY INJURY AND PAIN.
After some back and forth with other users, Eboné rolled some tide on someone named @iwritetimeless.
I am someone's Mother, Sister, Friend, and an ORIGINAL fan of Hip Hop... I remember walking to Strakers record store on Utica ave BROOKLYN in August 1979 with my allowance and my sister I was 9, and I bought a half green half white 45 called " King Tim The III" by the Fatback Band then about a week and a half later "Rappers Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang and I knew every WORD... So plz don't tell me about HIP HOP FIGURES .... Cause it's the little soldiers and supporters in the trenches that allow them to be who they are... I AM AN INNOCENT VICTIM and NO ONE will EVER take my voice.
If Eboné was indeed a victim from that night in '99, then these are some powerful words on America's celebrity culture and the wounds it tends to create, literally and figuratively. Here's the newspaper posting that started all of yesterday's hubbub:
A photo posted by upnorthtrips (@upnorthtrips) on Dec 12, 2014 at 6:04am PST
