Lil Tjay is reportedly cleared after over a month of being treated after being shot a total of seven times. It is certainly a near death experience for the rapper and his fans could not help but worry and rally for him in the whole month and so that he vanished from the limelight to recover from his injuries. A new photo now shows him smiling and certainly very out of the hospital he was taken.
On Wednesday, August 3, a snapshot of the Bronx-born rapper smiling in a car while on a group FaceTime conversation with friends emerged online. It is unknown exactly when he was released from the hospital, but fans just could not help but rejoice.
It is the first known photograph of Lil Tjay since he was shot multiple times outside a Chipotle restaurant in Edgewater, New Jersey shortly after midnight on June 22.
Mohamed Konate, 27, attempted to rob Tjay and his two companions, Antoine Boyd and Jeffrey Valdez, when they were seated in a Dodge Durango outside the Promenade retail area, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office.
Approximately one month after the incident on July 22, Konate was caught and is currently being imprisoned at Rikers Island for extradition to New Jersey.
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During the attempted heist, Konate allegedly fired near-fatal bullets at Tjay, wounding him in the chest cavity, while sustaining gunshot wounds himself. After undergoing emergency surgery, the "Zoo York" rapper was reportedly comatose for several days.
Konate has been charged with three counts of attempted murder in the first degree, while two other suspects have been charged with unauthorized possession of a weapon in the second degree.
"Destined 2 Win," the most current album by Lil Tjay, was released in April 2021.
The album, which includes the Billboard Hot 100 singles "Calling My Phone" starring 6LACK and "Headshot" featuring Polo G and Fivio Foreign, opened at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 62,000 album-equivalent units sold in its first week.
From his fans and the hip hop community, Tjay got an outpouring of love and support. Jim Jones prayed for the young rapper as he discussed the dangers of being a rapper.
Jones stated in a recent interview, "We have more rappers getting killed than we have weeks in the year. Shit, my prayers go out to Lil Tjay who just got shot up the other day and I don't even know his condition but, you know, it's terrible out there. Every day they talk about a different rapper that just got shot or was involved in a shooting or something like that."
The native of Harlem reiterated his statement: "Being a rapper in today's society is the most dangerous job in the world. You have a 50 percent chance of making it as a rapperand making it alive as a rapper is what it means. It's one for one, so you take that how you want to take it."
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