Taxstone Arrested
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what did he do to her?
I want to know too.
He prolly might be singing
Taxstone, a popular and controversial pocast host, was arrested on Monday in connection to the May 25 shooting at Irving Plaza that killed one and wounded three others.
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MANHATTAN — A hip-hop podcast host known for his beef with rapper Troy Ave was linked to the gun used in a fatal shooting at Irving Plaza, according to a complaint filed against him on Tuesday.
Daryl Campbell, 31, also known as Taxstone, was tied to the gun that killed Ronald McPhatter, 33, and wounded Troy Ave and two bystanders in a backstage area of a T.I. concert on May 25, 2016, prosecutors said.
No one has yet been charged with the murder of McPhatter, but Assistant District Attorney Hagan Scotten repeatedly referred to Campbell pulling the trigger first.
"He had a gun in his hand and he murdered someone," Scotten said in court on Tuesday, arguing against releasing Campbell on bail.
Campbell, who is known for his prolific and profane Twitter presence and his kingmaking — and feud stoking — podcast Tax Season, was arrested Monday and was arraigned in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday afternoon.
He was held on $500,000 bail with a number of restrictions on his movement.
Campbell, who has previously been convicted of armed robbery, was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon and receiving a firearm by interstate commerce after investigators tracked the handgun used in the shooting to a man in Florida, who told police he had sold the gun to an associate of Campbell.
The handgun — a semiautomatic, 9-mm Kel-Tec pistol — was found on the night of the shooting in a hidden compartment in the van used to take Troy Ave to the hospital.
Investigators found traces of Campbell’s DNA on the base of the magazine, indicating that he had likely been the one to load it, according to the complaint.
Prosecutors used statements that Campbell made on his podcast, including times he repeatedly mocked Troy Ave, whose real name is Roland Collins. In one, he doubted Troy Ave's willingness to open fire on a rival.
“I can protect myself as a man, so I’m not thinking about rolling with six goons,” prosecutors quoted Campbell in the statements made prior to the shooting.
“When I see you walking up with six dudes, bang-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba...I want to embarrass somebody, and that’s why I started bullying Troy Ave, you know what I mean?”
Prosecutors asked for Campbell to be held without bail, citing his felony record, his self-proclaimed past as a member of the Bloods street gang and difficulty investigators have had getting witness testimony from the Irving Plaza shooting.
Campbell has been aware of the looming charges since at least Jan. 3 when, according to his lawyer Kenneth Montgomery, a tactical NYPD team showed up at the door of his aunt's East New York home but declined to arrest him.
"He's been in Philly, he's been in Atlanta, he's been in Los Angeles, he flew to Jamaica and to Europe, but he always came back to his aunt's home in East New York," Montgomery said. "He didn't flee then and he won't now."
Judge Andrew Peck set bail at $500,000, but Campbell will be confined to his home except to record his podcast and meet with attorneys and will have to wear an ankle monitor.
Speaking with reporters after the hearing, Montgomery estimated Campbell would be bailed out within a week. His next court date was set for Feb. 16.
According to investigators, Campbell was seen on surveillance video entering the green room on May 25 prior to the incident and fleeing shortly after shots were fired, with a wounded Troy Ave in hot pursuit.
Footage released to the public shows McPhatter dashing out of the VIP room, followed by Troy Ave, hobbling with bloodstains blooming on his pants, who squeezed off at least one shot in the direction that investigators said Campbell had fled moments before.
Troy Ave was arrested the next day and charged with attempted murder and weapons possession. He is currently free on $500,000 bail.
He and his lawyers have repeatedly spoken of another shooter in the room and argued that Collins wrestled the gun away from somebody else and fired in self defense.
In a statement on Tuesday, his lawyer John Stella said the charges against Campbell will help illuminate what led to the violence that night.
“As we have said since May 25, 2016, Roland Collins (“Troy Ave”) did not enter Irving Plaza with a handgun the night of the TI concert,” he said.
“I view the charges brought today before the (federal court) as a positive step in the direction of true justice for what occurred at Irving Plaza that night.”
Did he make bail?
A hip-hop podcast host who feuded for years with the Brooklyn rapper Troy Ave was arrested on Monday on a federal weapons possession charge in connection with a shooting last year in which the rapper’s bodyguard was killed.
DNA believed to belong to the podcast host, Daryl Campbell, 31, who is known as Taxstone, was found on the trigger, hand grip and magazine of the 9-millimeter Kel-Tec semiautomatic handgun that was used in the shooting in the V.I.P. green room of a crowded Manhattan concert venue, a federal complaint says.
Mr. Campbell had the gun before the shooting, and videos show him coming into the green room before the gunfire and then fleeing, the complaint says. In front of him was the bodyguard, Ronald McPhatter. Behind Mr. Campbell was a person who is not named in the complaint, but who appears to be Troy Ave — whose real name is Roland Collins — based on earlier police accounts. Wounded in the legs, Mr. Collins was holding the Kel-Tec gun and firing it toward a fleeing Mr. Campbell.
Mr. McPhatter was fatally shot in the chest at close range. The gun also had his and Mr. Collins’s D.N.A., and it was later found in a van that transported Mr. Collins to the hospital. Two bystanders were also wounded at the venue, Irving Plaza, where the rapper T.I. was set to perform. Mr. Collins pleaded not guilty in June to attempted second-degree murder and other charges.
Mr. Campbell gained a following for his provocative hip-hop commentary on the podcast Tax Season, which was at the leading edge of a migration of hip-hop talk shows from the radio to the internet. In a 2015 interview, he said he thought his growing fame had drawn the attention of Mr. Collins, whom he had publicly criticized for years on Twitter.
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Daryl Campbell, known as Taxstone, faces a federal weapons charge in connection with a melee in which the rapper Troy Ave, with whom he has feuded, was shot and a bodyguard killed.CreditJohnny Nunez/WireImage, via Getty Images
“I think his music is mediocre, and he, like, tried to portray this image that he was making greater music than everybody in the city when he wasn’t,” Mr. Campbell said in the interview. He said that Mr. Collins was trying to take the spotlight from another Brooklyn rapper, Bobby Shmurda, and that in response: “I had to, like, be the person to interrupt that. I just feel he’s, like, a fraud rapper, like he never was a drug dealer.”
The complaint, sworn out by Detective Jose Flores of the New York Police Department, quotes a public threat, which it says Mr. Campbell made before the shooting, that he would open fire on Mr. Collins: “When I see you walking up with six dudes, bang-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.” Mr. Campbell repeatedly adds, “Try me.”
Mr. Collins released a "diss track" in which he made fun of Mr. Campbell’s social media barbs. “Twitter fingers, how many times ya gonna tweet me?” he raps. “I’m always on the flier, guess you too scared to meet me.”
Mr. Collins was shot and wounded in Brooklyn last month while in a red Maserati. The police said they still had not made any arrests. His lawyer, Scott Leemon, said in a statement on Monday about the Irving Plaza shooting, “Troy was a victim.”
Mr. Campbell went blind in his left eye after being shot when he was younger; the gun had been so close to him that gunpowder burned his retina. The federal complaint says he spoke publicly of belonging to the Bloods gang. After spending time in state prison on convictions of attempted weapons possession and attempted robbery, he described in interviews being on a mission never to be locked up again.
He was asked in June about rumors that he had been involved in the shooting at Irving Plaza. “Man, I don’t know what happened with that situation,” he said.
Mr. Campbell’s lawyer, Kenneth Montgomery, said he could not discuss the case before learning more about the accusations.“He’s doing as best he can for anybody charged with a federal crime,” Mr. Montgomery said of Mr. Campbell. “He’s a smart young man, and he’s concerned about his family, like anyone would be.”
DNA believed to belong to the podcast host, Daryl Campbell, 31, who is known as Taxstone, was found on the trigger, hand grip and magazine of the 9-millimeter Kel-Tec semiautomatic handgun that was used in the shooting in the V.I.P. green room of a crowded Manhattan concert venue, a federal complaint says.
Mr. Campbell had the gun before the shooting, and videos show him coming into the green room before the gunfire and then fleeing, the complaint says. In front of him was the bodyguard, Ronald McPhatter. Behind Mr. Campbell was a person who is not named in the complaint, but who appears to be Troy Ave — whose real name is Roland Collins — based on earlier police accounts. Wounded in the legs, Mr. Collins was holding the Kel-Tec gun and firing it toward a fleeing Mr. Campbell.
Mr. McPhatter was fatally shot in the chest at close range. The gun also had his and Mr. Collins’s D.N.A., and it was later found in a van that transported Mr. Collins to the hospital. Two bystanders were also wounded at the venue, Irving Plaza, where the rapper T.I. was set to perform. Mr. Collins pleaded not guilty in June to attempted second-degree murder and other charges.
Mr. Campbell gained a following for his provocative hip-hop commentary on the podcast Tax Season, which was at the leading edge of a migration of hip-hop talk shows from the radio to the internet. In a 2015 interview, he said he thought his growing fame had drawn the attention of Mr. Collins, whom he had publicly criticized for years on Twitter.
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Daryl Campbell, known as Taxstone, faces a federal weapons charge in connection with a melee in which the rapper Troy Ave, with whom he has feuded, was shot and a bodyguard killed.CreditJohnny Nunez/WireImage, via Getty Images
“I think his music is mediocre, and he, like, tried to portray this image that he was making greater music than everybody in the city when he wasn’t,” Mr. Campbell said in the interview. He said that Mr. Collins was trying to take the spotlight from another Brooklyn rapper, Bobby Shmurda, and that in response: “I had to, like, be the person to interrupt that. I just feel he’s, like, a fraud rapper, like he never was a drug dealer.”
The complaint, sworn out by Detective Jose Flores of the New York Police Department, quotes a public threat, which it says Mr. Campbell made before the shooting, that he would open fire on Mr. Collins: “When I see you walking up with six dudes, bang-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.” Mr. Campbell repeatedly adds, “Try me.”
Mr. Collins released a "diss track" in which he made fun of Mr. Campbell’s social media barbs. “Twitter fingers, how many times ya gonna tweet me?” he raps. “I’m always on the flier, guess you too scared to meet me.”
Mr. Collins was shot and wounded in Brooklyn last month while in a red Maserati. The police said they still had not made any arrests. His lawyer, Scott Leemon, said in a statement on Monday about the Irving Plaza shooting, “Troy was a victim.”
Mr. Campbell went blind in his left eye after being shot when he was younger; the gun had been so close to him that gunpowder burned his retina. The federal complaint says he spoke publicly of belonging to the Bloods gang. After spending time in state prison on convictions of attempted weapons possession and attempted robbery, he described in interviews being on a mission never to be locked up again.
He was asked in June about rumors that he had been involved in the shooting at Irving Plaza. “Man, I don’t know what happened with that situation,” he said.
Mr. Campbell’s lawyer, Kenneth Montgomery, said he could not discuss the case before learning more about the accusations.“He’s doing as best he can for anybody charged with a federal crime,” Mr. Montgomery said of Mr. Campbell. “He’s a smart young man, and he’s concerned about his family, like anyone would be.”
I think he still has to see another judge to find out NYC is trying to hit him with
A hip-hop podcast host who feuded for years with the Brooklyn rapper Troy Ave was arrested on Monday on a federal weapons possession charge in connection with a shooting last year in which the rapper’s bodyguard was killed.
DNA believed to belong to the podcast host, Daryl Campbell, 31, who is known as Taxstone, was found on the trigger, hand grip and magazine of the 9-millimeter Kel-Tec semiautomatic handgun that was used in the shooting in the V.I.P. green room of a crowded Manhattan concert venue, a federal complaint says.
Mr. Campbell had the gun before the shooting, and videos show him coming into the green room before the gunfire and then fleeing, the complaint says. In front of him was the bodyguard, Ronald McPhatter. Behind Mr. Campbell was a person who is not named in the complaint, but who appears to be Troy Ave — whose real name is Roland Collins — based on earlier police accounts. Wounded in the legs, Mr. Collins was holding the Kel-Tec gun and firing it toward a fleeing Mr. Campbell.
Mr. McPhatter was fatally shot in the chest at close range. The gun also had his and Mr. Collins’s D.N.A., and it was later found in a van that transported Mr. Collins to the hospital. Two bystanders were also wounded at the venue, Irving Plaza, where the rapper T.I. was set to perform. Mr. Collins pleaded not guilty in June to attempted second-degree murder and other charges.
Mr. Campbell gained a following for his provocative hip-hop commentary on the podcast Tax Season, which was at the leading edge of a migration of hip-hop talk shows from the radio to the internet. In a 2015 interview, he said he thought his growing fame had drawn the attention of Mr. Collins, whom he had publicly criticized for years on Twitter.
Photo
Daryl Campbell, known as Taxstone, faces a federal weapons charge in connection with a melee in which the rapper Troy Ave, with whom he has feuded, was shot and a bodyguard killed.CreditJohnny Nunez/WireImage, via Getty Images
“I think his music is mediocre, and he, like, tried to portray this image that he was making greater music than everybody in the city when he wasn’t,” Mr. Campbell said in the interview. He said that Mr. Collins was trying to take the spotlight from another Brooklyn rapper, Bobby Shmurda, and that in response: “I had to, like, be the person to interrupt that. I just feel he’s, like, a fraud rapper, like he never was a drug dealer.”
The complaint, sworn out by Detective Jose Flores of the New York Police Department, quotes a public threat, which it says Mr. Campbell made before the shooting, that he would open fire on Mr. Collins: “When I see you walking up with six dudes, bang-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.” Mr. Campbell repeatedly adds, “Try me.”
Mr. Collins released a "diss track" in which he made fun of Mr. Campbell’s social media barbs. “Twitter fingers, how many times ya gonna tweet me?” he raps. “I’m always on the flier, guess you too scared to meet me.”
Mr. Collins was shot and wounded in Brooklyn last month while in a red Maserati. The police said they still had not made any arrests. His lawyer, Scott Leemon, said in a statement on Monday about the Irving Plaza shooting, “Troy was a victim.”
Mr. Campbell went blind in his left eye after being shot when he was younger; the gun had been so close to him that gunpowder burned his retina. The federal complaint says he spoke publicly of belonging to the Bloods gang. After spending time in state prison on convictions of attempted weapons possession and attempted robbery, he described in interviews being on a mission never to be locked up again.
He was asked in June about rumors that he had been involved in the shooting at Irving Plaza. “Man, I don’t know what happened with that situation,” he said.
Mr. Campbell’s lawyer, Kenneth Montgomery, said he could not discuss the case before learning more about the accusations.“He’s doing as best he can for anybody charged with a federal crime,” Mr. Montgomery said of Mr. Campbell. “He’s a smart young man, and he’s concerned about his family, like anyone would be.”
damn.
so far do you think Tax is gonna be locked up for a SERIOUS bid?
Naw her ugly ass was just on a couple of podcast with him. She did one a couple of weeks ago.
Dude he still lives with his Aunt, I doubt his podcast is profitable enough for him to come up with what he needs (I'm assuming like 50,000) or for someone to front it though I could be wrong on all accounts.
But then again maybe his aunt will put up her house as collateral
Dude he still lives with his Aunt, I doubt his podcast is profitable enough for him to come up with what he needs (I'm assuming like 50,000) or for someone to front it though I could be wrong on all accounts.
But then again maybe his aunt will put up her house as collateral
Word?
but he had got in to managing and working with artist.
He isn't going to do a bid with his record.
A bid has an end date. If he is convicted of murder hes done for good.
Not his co host she appeared on his podcast twice, the bitch was like Orlando Brown on the show.
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See this is the shit i be talking about,dudes who like to play with the streets as if it's something you do casually and ditch when you feel like it.He's 31 so he's an 80's baby and he knows better to be doing new nigga shit like talking about certain things on the internet/his podcast and with other people.You don't do that.
When keeping it real goes wrong,when Combat Jack distance himself from Tax that should of told us something.
Tax is going to talk,so whoever he was hanging around put your shoes on and lace em up tight...be prepared to run.He's going to accidently talk himself out of getting out when he's 50 plus let him tell it.
Well well another one bites the dust,who's going to step up and take his place?that spot is wide open.
When keeping it real goes wrong,when Combat Jack distance himself from Tax that should of told us something.
Tax is going to talk,so whoever he was hanging around put your shoes on and lace em up tight...be prepared to run.He's going to accidently talk himself out of getting out when he's 50 plus let him tell it.
Well well another one bites the dust,who's going to step up and take his place?that spot is wide open.
I'm really surprised by the support he has here and on twitter. Not so much that ppl like his podcast, iget that. ive heard a couple episodes, its cool, not my cup of tea. But this is a dude who was extremely reckless, extremely negative, always posturing on some gangster shit, threatening mad motherfuckers and didn't seem to slow down one bit. Where did he think it would all end up?
He put so much negativ energy and bad blood out there, this is 1000% his fault. SO why again do ppl have so much sympathy for him? His recklessness led to the taking of a life. Troy was shot in the leg, and Maino's girl was shot also. OVER WHAT?!?!?!
This is a dude who told many men to suck his dick, told a dude he wants to rape and face fuck his 4 year old daughter, and other ridiculous shit. I'm neither surprised nor saddened by this development. He was on a path to success, but not necessarily the right path.
He put so much negativ energy and bad blood out there, this is 1000% his fault. SO why again do ppl have so much sympathy for him? His recklessness led to the taking of a life. Troy was shot in the leg, and Maino's girl was shot also. OVER WHAT?!?!?!
This is a dude who told many men to suck his dick, told a dude he wants to rape and face fuck his 4 year old daughter, and other ridiculous shit. I'm neither surprised nor saddened by this development. He was on a path to success, but not necessarily the right path.
Nice to hear Charlemagne say he gonna support Tax through whatever
including paying bail and legal fees.
including paying bail and legal fees.
damn...
at leas I'll give him this
he loyal, and while it does suit his BUSINESS, he could EASILY have said f*ck him.
You think this is more for Charlemagne's IMAGE?
Hilarious considering you're one of the dummies who wanted him to say MORE. lol
Ive listened to many of his episodes and some cool but he is def on some jerk shit most of the times.
Tax should have sang or shut his mouth -
no one real believes in half measures- move in silence or be chatty patty - dry snitching is a myth
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