Super Cat Nitty Gritty New York Incident

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  • This is the Definitive Story of the Life and Events leading to the death of Nitty Gritty who died in a shooting incident with Super Cat in New York
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  • @janeilsley7702
    @janeilsley7702 Рік тому +117

    I miss my friend nitty gritty he spent sometime here in London we used to rave at Chesters in Stoke Newington and I'd always gave him a lift home

  • @teekolinski491
    @teekolinski491 Рік тому +71

    My dad was Sluggy Ranks & I used to hear about this story a lot growing up. I don't think this is how things went down exactly. However, its in the past. May my father & Nitty rest in peace.

    • @waynehalliburton5030
      @waynehalliburton5030 Рік тому +11

      Blessings 💝. Your dad was a G🙏🏿

    • @junior8563
      @junior8563 Рік тому +7

      Really??wow! i wish you would share! Because if the great sluggy is your dad i am almost positive you have the correct version..we used to do business with super power and a day or two after we went there and nitty gun got stuck in his shirt then cat pulled his is the way we heard it.

    • @winstonsanderson4865
      @winstonsanderson4865 Рік тому +5

      If sluggy is your father then you must know the truth

    • @teekolinski491
      @teekolinski491 Рік тому +1

      @@waynehalliburton5030 thanks love. Manners & Respect. 🙏

    • @KingSimonPresents
      @KingSimonPresents Рік тому +4

      Your dad (Sluggy) told me his version of the story. Him and I were friends...I guess no one will truly know the whole story...May Sluggy Ranks and Nitty Gritty travel with their ancestors in peace. Asé

  • @ameswael9677
    @ameswael9677 Рік тому +16

    Nuff respect for covering this!

  • @herbnerd7
    @herbnerd7 Рік тому +75

    would be nice to see a Documentary and/or something nice about about Nitty Gritty other than this same old story. People are obsessed with drama, gossip and folly. This Great man has been making music since the 60's with The Silvertones and has an incredible catalog and backstory. bless

    • @ruthsterling-blair1500
      @ruthsterling-blair1500 Рік тому +4

      I would want to get more information around the death of saw

    • @brownhornet1975
      @brownhornet1975 Рік тому

      I never knew Nitty Gritty did music with The Silvertones

    • @akil333
      @akil333 6 місяців тому

      Nitty wasn't a part of the Silvertones, but the Soulites.

    • @Mr-DowNBeat
      @Mr-DowNBeat 4 місяці тому

      @@akil333rise and shine???

  • @mannyrasco6007
    @mannyrasco6007 Рік тому +12

    After all these years this is the most thorough account of what transpired. Thank you!

  • @mebeforeeveryoneelse9900
    @mebeforeeveryoneelse9900 Рік тому +52

    Super Cat was famous way before this. I remember watching him as a child with Vital Bally's and Mini mart. Love them all Cat Jr and Nitty

    • @denniseubanks-go6bh
      @denniseubanks-go6bh Рік тому +4

      Mini mart from ruthland rd. 90s. Sleepy wonda bobo general and Tarzan.

    • @rgw1380rw
      @rgw1380rw Рік тому +3

      I ran into Super Cat a couple times in Jamaica Queens.

    • @IslandmonGanjamon
      @IslandmonGanjamon Рік тому +2

      @@rgw1380rw wat year was dat?

  • @dappadon1974
    @dappadon1974 Рік тому +47

    Supercat was already a superstar...when Nitty was killed

    • @1974tical
      @1974tical Рік тому +14

      Exactly, remember it like it was yesterday...Brooklyn was on fire back then.

    • @lovebird9980
      @lovebird9980 Рік тому

      Exactly

    • @jahleft7403
      @jahleft7403 Рік тому +5

      Nitty was murder and y'all worrying about who's "supercat" first.. wow

    • @dappadon1974
      @dappadon1974 Рік тому +4

      You can't work an artiste and don't pay the man...and play ganster....not murder bro self defense...

    • @nonethelessbysignificantvi197
      @nonethelessbysignificantvi197 Рік тому

      True that, nuff people done know Super cat already before the shooting!
      I remember hearing about it at the time and this was in New York, one of my older cousins was there...

  • @shortythepresident3913
    @shortythepresident3913 Рік тому +35

    I was there. I was a small child. We lived at 5314 Church ave. That Saturday my older brother who was 16 ran into the house and told us what happened. We ran down the street and saw him dead. That was the first dead person I ever saw. I was nervous because it was so many people there. It took over an hour for the ambulance to arrive. But he was already gone. That was a chilling day. You could have smelled the electricity in the air.

    • @lesterthms2975
      @lesterthms2975 Рік тому +6

      That's how it was in Flatbush bk in the crack era..u cld smell the energy of trouble in the air..Bob Nesta Marley's song " ...mystic in the air". Sad what Super Cat did to him & others

    • @sugarhillromelo1569
      @sugarhillromelo1569 Рік тому +20

      ​@@lesterthms2975 mystic in the air isn't the same a violent energy sir ..a mystic is calming and spiritual..

    • @elleanon2576
      @elleanon2576 Рік тому +1

      ​@@lesterthms2975so what he should have done! Sit n wait for nitty to shoot him. Shame on nitty's bad choices

    • @brownhornet1975
      @brownhornet1975 Рік тому

      Wow!! Thanks for sharing that memory. I lived way over on Nostrand and Church. That year 1990 I knew nothing of Nitty Gritty. Only Super Cat, Capleton, Shabba, Ninja, ect. Wasn’t until 1993 when I started listening to sound clash. Addies vs. Saxon. In Tilden Ballroom was I first learned of Nitty. Such a tragic loss

    • @Sunshann
      @Sunshann Рік тому +1

      Omg 😱

  • @StarrNikole72
    @StarrNikole72 10 місяців тому +3

    I was just a few blocks away when it happened at my Aunt Lu Lu’s Jamaican Restaurant on Church Ave & 55th Street, Super Powers was on Church Ave between 49th street & Utica Ave. Robert came there right after he did it & told my Aunt what happened. Super Cat (Robert), stayed out of the spotlight in Brooklyn for a couple of years after that in fear of Nitty Gritty people was looking for him. Rest Eazy Nitty mi General.

  • @TheDaquaan
    @TheDaquaan Рік тому +9

    Nitty Gritty killed my cousin in Jamaica… You reap what you sow

  • @eileen2906
    @eileen2906 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for this Brother. All the very best frm England

  • @lowKut
    @lowKut Рік тому +50

    The Wild Apache might be the only reggae dancehall artist that would defend all of his rudeboy lyrics in real life.
    It is unfortunate what happened to gritty, but you don't pull a gun on someone and don't expect any repercussions.
    Indian = GOAT.

    • @rockneybastard
      @rockneybastard Рік тому

      Mate that is not true about cat at all. He will try get bad if there's an audience or summink in his hand but he is not that much cop on his own you mark my words son

    • @keanubelle1157
      @keanubelle1157 Рік тому +12

      Super Cat is mixed race bredda

    • @BrownsvilleBaby_Est
      @BrownsvilleBaby_Est Рік тому +1

      Nuff Man A Dead..

    • @BrownsvilleBaby_Est
      @BrownsvilleBaby_Est Рік тому +20

      ​@@keanubelle1157 Still a Blacc Man

    • @BrownsvilleBaby_Est
      @BrownsvilleBaby_Est Рік тому +5

      ​@@keanubelle1157 We all Mixed if you ask me.I know I am.Im Native American RedSkin Cherokee

  • @garyn9279
    @garyn9279 Рік тому +103

    nitty gritty was a wanted man when he left jamaica for england using someone else's passport with his picture placed inside.gritty was involved in multiple armed robberies and shootings in jamaica before he left.spent a little time in england before obtaining false british documents and going to new york.him and sluggy start to spar and the dance they kept was in philly...gritty asked supercat to perform but cat told him he couldn't go and to use his brother junior cat instead.dance keep,junior cat perform and wasn't paid...him and gritty end up inna big argument and fight,gritty gunbutt him and buss him head...obviously supercat was vex.he told gritty him have to pay his brother,gritty tell cat to suck him mumma,dem buck roun a supa power and we know the rest.no rental car business.by the way cat never had no licensed gun but he got off on self defense based on witness statements,security footage and the fact that gritty was an illegal alien criminal fugitive from jamaica

    • @christopherdaley753
      @christopherdaley753 Рік тому +24

      Nitty pulled his trigger, the gun jammed, so cat shooting was justified

    • @rockneybastard
      @rockneybastard Рік тому +3

      Bloody nora! You must have known Glenn an all to know all that I tell ya. Now I remember him leaving out of nowhere, weren't privy to the false British passports and that. But I do know he was a wanted man back Jamaica and he had gotten in some filth in london too. By the time I got out of lock up he was already gone.
      Ended up getting banged up again and then thats how I heard what happened. Nitty was my friend but clumping junior cat for owed money is defo right up there if you saw what I've seen him get up to.

    • @yanmck-sam5472
      @yanmck-sam5472 Рік тому +17

      Seet deh! That’s closer to what I’ve heard as well.

    • @rockneybastard
      @rockneybastard Рік тому +3

      I'd be interested to ask junior cat about all this an all mate. I know him a bit but not seen him in decades. Never heard him speak on it either as it happens

    • @randommodnar79
      @randommodnar79 Рік тому +14

      This is how I heard it from the same week it happened.

  • @dexburwell
    @dexburwell Рік тому +44

    I recall the day it happened- had hoped it was only rumor… R.I.P Nitty Gritty 🙏🏽

    • @quicktokill9021
      @quicktokill9021 Рік тому +3

      Tru..Was On Church Av…’40’s When It Happened.

    • @chiefdonreed6353
      @chiefdonreed6353 Рік тому +2

      @@quicktokill9021 I was on the corner in Harlem but the word was Super Cat killed somebody because the person didn't know Nitty Gritty.

  • @philliplyn2692
    @philliplyn2692 Рік тому +9

    Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work still can’t believe that he’s gone they were like two brothers wishing they could of solve the problem they both had my stills break when I listen to all of his music 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

    • @urviscox8009
      @urviscox8009 Рік тому +2

      Yep I would never forget it either it was during the summer time I can not recall the year but it happened in the early 90s I was on Lenox rd

  • @sugarhillromelo1569
    @sugarhillromelo1569 Рік тому +22

    Sir being a license gun owner in Jamaica does not mean you're license to carry legally in the USA especially not in NYC...also cat career started to slow down after the shooting..he caught a lot of backlash from fans who didn't know the whole story..cat was one of the biggest dance hall artist way before the shooting happened..cat music helped me survive NYC during that time..

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому +8

      Oh. What I meant was that since he is licensed here he sees it necessary so he may have sought and got licensed there. I didn’t mean his license here works over there.

    • @chiefdonreed6353
      @chiefdonreed6353 Рік тому +7

      He didn't have a NYC permit. Witness statements and the fact Nitty Gritty was illegally in the U.S and Cat was legal he got off on self-defense. Nitty was also wanted in Jamaica at the time.

    • @AS-wj1du
      @AS-wj1du Рік тому +2

      ​@@chiefdonreed6353did they say nitty killed his girlfriend in Jamaica? Shame

    • @chiefdonreed6353
      @chiefdonreed6353 Рік тому +1

      @AS-wj1du I heard that in the 80's. I never heard about it again after he was killed and I lived in Jamaica several years still have my house in St Ann's.

    • @AS-wj1du
      @AS-wj1du Рік тому

      ​@@chiefdonreed6353okay. I wonder if it was true

  • @junior8563
    @junior8563 Рік тому +9

    Super cat also had a licensed gun in NY..a couple years ago they did a drive by after him at his house and he returned fire..he even talked about it in interviews.

    • @BrownsvilleBaby_Est
      @BrownsvilleBaby_Est Рік тому +3

      Facts.White man was tryna take him out.I heard the interview

  • @jermainfoster9979
    @jermainfoster9979 Рік тому +23

    Both men drew their guns, but Cat was quicker than nitty. Eeka mouse spoke clearly on this story already.

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому +10

      I was also told that cat saw his reflection in the glass that he had pulled his weapon. Many versions of that part alone.

    • @waldagarnett3032
      @waldagarnett3032 Рік тому +1

      That sounds like the correct account.

    • @donutube83
      @donutube83 Рік тому

      The one version I heard was that Cat and Gritty were clashing on stage (likely at Sting, but then that would be the undisputed all-time top moment at Sting, if it was), and Gritty THREATENED to pull out a gun and shoot Cat… Cat promptly responded by ACTUALLY pulling out a gun and ‘bloop-bloop’, killing Gritty on the spot… Cat’s self-defence claim was justified by Gritty saying, out loud, that he had a gun on him!!
      I was unaware of how Nitty Gritty died until I heard that!!!

    • @bowlerfamily
      @bowlerfamily Рік тому

      ​@UA-camrD-Man2015 I heard the same. I heard Nitty actual made a gesture like he was pulling out but it was only his two fingers that he aimed at Cat. Cat reacted, drew and fired.

    • @RoomAtTheTopStudio
      @RoomAtTheTopStudio Рік тому

      @@jamaicaworldwide you getting warm

  • @Number1ReggaeHunter
    @Number1ReggaeHunter Рік тому +1

    His tune 'Creator' will always be the heaviest and all time best song from King Nitty! This man passed the year I was born.... Wow.

  • @maurrice1
    @maurrice1 Рік тому +5

    Good account of the story. I was wit supercat in Brooklyn house when he came through there for that case...and yes the case was definately thrown out...he stayed in Brooklyn house for about and week and then was discharged...good job

  • @antoinegaston7244
    @antoinegaston7244 Рік тому +14

    I was living in New York at the time, it was shocking, Cat had just released “Nuff man a dead “

  • @michaelnelson7438
    @michaelnelson7438 Рік тому +14

    So many different stories but sadly for nitty gritty he dies at the end in every version of the incident

  • @davidscott3726
    @davidscott3726 Рік тому +35

    Jamaicans hot up Brooklyn,Harlem,Jersey back in the days

    • @BrownsvilleBaby_Est
      @BrownsvilleBaby_Est Рік тому +2

      ​@Rotweiler Scholar talk ya shit Rasta

    • @BrownsvilleBaby_Est
      @BrownsvilleBaby_Est Рік тому +1

      @Rotweiler Scholar Facts..Me personally I could be Carribean.My grandparents was from Alabama a small country Indian Town called Loachapoka.Grandmother was a Redskin Cherokee .

    • @NobleGlobalTraveller
      @NobleGlobalTraveller Рік тому

      ​@Rotweiler Scholar Plus Mike Tyson via his biological father!!!

    • @oneilrobinson236
      @oneilrobinson236 Рік тому +1

      Dem set a jancros should carry Dem wings,, di recordings got nutting to do with the NYC incident.. day was sting 92

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Рік тому +5

      @rotweilerscholar1181 you know di ting.... Gun Hill Rd in the Bronx - straight up to Mt. Vernon .... Yardies all bout...

  • @TakePrayersSayVitamins
    @TakePrayersSayVitamins Рік тому +68

    I remember when Super Cat & Mad Lion had songs that merged with hip hop & rap they Kiiiiilllled and introduced many black Americans to dancehall and found that most of the best rap artists were actually Caribbean, first born in the US. Also the most popular rap artists would always add Dancehall elements to their album making ppl interested in the culture, even when they sample the riddims and slang of the time.

    • @marlmarl8030
      @marlmarl8030 Рік тому +24

      Dont forget Shinehead basically started it all

    • @fiyahriddims
      @fiyahriddims Рік тому +3

      💐

    • @1974tical
      @1974tical Рік тому +8

      @@marlmarl8030 Facts, I was little thinking Shinehead was a Brooklyn rapper when I heard "Who The Cap Fits", it was in heavy rotation every weekend on 98.7 Kiss and WBLS in 1986, 1987.

    • @marlmarl8030
      @marlmarl8030 Рік тому +4

      @@1974tical That was the first album I ever bought when I was around 10 years old, bumping that in Montego Bay as a kid. Then running into him 3 years later in Super Power Records in Brooklyn

    • @1974tical
      @1974tical Рік тому +6

      @marlmarl8030 Church Ave was the place to be back then, much celebrities pass through.

  • @blazayblazay8888
    @blazayblazay8888 Рік тому +10

    SUPERCAT WAS BIG BEFORE THAT AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT THIS SITUATION UNLESS YOU HAD YOUR EAR TO THE STREET

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому +3

      Super Cats 2 biggest albums were released the year after the incident

  • @marzz1management
    @marzz1management Рік тому +5

    Sammy dread was my dad og in Brooklyn… they use to tell me this story all the time .

  • @simpdown1404
    @simpdown1404 Рік тому +11

    They need to do a movie on Jamaicans in NY in the 1980s. I remember all the Rastas when I was a little kid. They just disappeared probably due to deportation etc. It’s almost like it never happened…

    • @Jackgritty28
      @Jackgritty28 Рік тому

      An argument about a vehicle turned nasty,supercat was defending Junior cat,and claimed self defence because gritty was the instigator 🎶❌🚩🆘🚘🚔🚖🚆🚓🚕🛺

  • @thealgorithm9910
    @thealgorithm9910 Рік тому +5

    I never knew this story, thanks for the history lesson!

    • @bbennyj
      @bbennyj Рік тому

      I had no idea either. I heard that he died in an accident but I guess that was incorrect.

    • @bbennyj
      @bbennyj Рік тому +1

      Oh, that actually was Tenor Saw

    • @k1assic
      @k1assic Рік тому +1

      ​@@bbennyjtenor saw was shot dead in Texas. Unsolved with all type of speculation (drug deal, owed money etc)

    • @neilnelmar8007
      @neilnelmar8007 Рік тому +2

      ​@@bbennyjyou are right it was a hit and run ..he wasn't shot

  • @higherregion
    @higherregion Рік тому +26

    i tried searching old news archives online..I never saw a mention of this incident. However, it was a common thing in new york in early 90s.

    • @OG.FactsMachine
      @OG.FactsMachine Рік тому +3

      This is only 2 the 60 different versions of this story.. At this point no one will ever know exactly what the issue was.

    • @prfu1222
      @prfu1222 Рік тому +3

      It did make the news. I think Channel 11 and print media. Possibly Daily News. If you are in NYC. The best place would be The Brooklyn Public Library. I didn't find out about this from the streets because I lived in a different part of Brooklyn.

    • @marleyite
      @marleyite Рік тому

      I used to visit the record shop where the killing apparently took place.

    • @MentalPistol
      @MentalPistol Рік тому +3

      @@marleyite ever man fram caribbean been there at some point

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Рік тому +1

      it was on news.... there was also one time the NY news said he Super Cat was killed too... I think it was around 95.

  • @ChocolateDon929
    @ChocolateDon929 Рік тому +6

    Finally I get to hear the TRUTH on this urban legend tale!!

  • @denniseubanks-go6bh
    @denniseubanks-go6bh Рік тому +3

    Story is about accurate enough. Good job.

  • @djgenius626
    @djgenius626 Рік тому +2

    Respect youth ,awesome material

  • @TakePrayersSayVitamins
    @TakePrayersSayVitamins Рік тому +10

    Super Cat still handsome as ever. Ppl told rumors thinking Super Cat had died.

  • @dwightfrancis2117
    @dwightfrancis2117 Рік тому +1

    Jah jah always here the talk as a youth coming up, good to know the true story 👍

  • @smhunney8266
    @smhunney8266 Рік тому +17

    If not for Super Cat we may have never seen the Notorious B.I.G.

  • @1dappageneral
    @1dappageneral Рік тому +16

    Cat and gritty did ah par whole week after the show with sluggy junior never get pay and that is also part of the friction

    • @olivermcdonald7046
      @olivermcdonald7046 Рік тому +3

      this is the story i know from ever since and me live ah trinidad

  • @DANBOY89GYM
    @DANBOY89GYM Рік тому +5

    I was in Tilden H S at the time and remember this well. We all walked over there to see it after the fact.

    • @AFCGooner87
      @AFCGooner87 Рік тому +1

      My School!!

    • @DANBOY89GYM
      @DANBOY89GYM Рік тому

      @@AFCGooner87 what years? It's now a mixed use school I heard.

  • @bangmateo7481
    @bangmateo7481 11 місяців тому +3

    Salute to Supercat for handling his business.

  • @Ringolero
    @Ringolero 10 місяців тому +1

    Interesting to see that the story I heard so many years ago was actually true.
    All I heard was 'Nitty backed his gun first and it jammed then cat shot him'.
    Funny enough I was never bothered about why the argument happened, That one sentence was all I needed to know.

  • @kevonrose4455
    @kevonrose4455 Рік тому +1

    Good work brother 👏🏿

  • @ysuplex
    @ysuplex Рік тому +19

    Lol my youth cat was already a superstar since the late 80s in 93 when he redo dolly my baby with biggie he was the reason there is a biggie smalls today

  • @BrownsvilleBaby_Est
    @BrownsvilleBaby_Est Рік тому +26

    Rest In Peace Nitty Gritty

  • @anthonyswaby7332
    @anthonyswaby7332 Рік тому +3

    Don't forget that Sluggy Ranks R.I.P was involved too...

  • @Wilcoranking
    @Wilcoranking Рік тому +7

    Junior Cat had a Isuzu Trooper don't why him wudda need Nitty Gritty car. Nitty Gritty also had run from 🇯🇲 after a shooting

  • @mosesisraelites2598
    @mosesisraelites2598 Рік тому +8

    Supercat will bust his gun I believe, he said himself he got into a few shootouts in some Long Island hoods after this, unknown people following him trying to do drive bys,walk bys to take him out

    • @rgw1380rw
      @rgw1380rw Рік тому +1

      While I was hustling around town, I first ran into him in the store around my old neighborhood. I never asked if he was himself, but knew who he was already. I'd see Louie Rankin in Queens as well. Super Cat definitely always appeared to be a live dude in the flesh.

  • @seanbobby1524
    @seanbobby1524 Рік тому +3

    I remember seeing super cat and junior cat at Tunda parties back in 91

  • @madedigital
    @madedigital Рік тому +1

    i was in superpower records 1 week after...i lived one block away on linden

  • @classyapartmentsNY
    @classyapartmentsNY Рік тому +3

    I was 2 blocks away when it happened. I heard the gun shot.

  • @morakant7864
    @morakant7864 Рік тому +3

    Remember the legend nitty but love the great supercat 💕💕💪

  • @hhamk3656
    @hhamk3656 Рік тому +3

    7:00 😭😭😭 I hate to laugh, but Super Cat was moving crazy in that clash with Ninja Man 😭

  • @AfroTrendTV
    @AfroTrendTV Рік тому +3

    World a cold place enuh!! Everybody mus stay safe

  • @originalmangoose8189
    @originalmangoose8189 Рік тому +3

    But this is what I believe and it make better sense Gritty and Apache are both born Jamaicans good Artist whatever it was that led up to the shooting one man dead so it wouldn't make sense for any of the witnesses to point the finger at Apache unless you are a friend of Nitty gritty because as a jamaican born we deal with our shit in our own way no need for authorities to get involved because its not going to bring back the dead
    So obviously the witnesses came to an agreement to say it was self defense

  • @eastonedwards4556
    @eastonedwards4556 Рік тому +1

    I never forget that day ,I was a few blocks away , jr cat yuh ah still me general 🙏🏽

  • @Brooklynny718
    @Brooklynny718 Рік тому +2

    i remember this on church ave in front of super power record shop

  • @aaaaaaaaaaaahwahwahwah
    @aaaaaaaaaaaahwahwahwah Рік тому +4

    "I would like to know who killed tenor saw" - nitty gritty

    • @vale-y1i
      @vale-y1i Рік тому +1

      Seems like Tenor Saw was killed in a straightforward hit and run whilst walking along a motorway in Texas.

  • @dtruth9054
    @dtruth9054 Рік тому +4

    The loss of a Legend over a little bit of money! So sad

    • @GhostSTpatrick479
      @GhostSTpatrick479 Рік тому +3

      He was a theif not a legend

    • @AS-wj1du
      @AS-wj1du Рік тому

      ​@@GhostSTpatrick479the record companies thief too so

  • @maces4106
    @maces4106 Рік тому +11

    I used to pass by that store where it happened, on Church Ave when I lived in Brooklyn. The last I remember it was turned into a boutique. I’m sure it’s something else now. I told my friend one day walking by this is where Supa Cat kill Nitty, and he had no clue he lived right around the corner on Utica Ave.

    • @denniseubanks-go6bh
      @denniseubanks-go6bh Рік тому +2

      Was a record store on church and E48 st.

    • @politicstalkpodcast6425
      @politicstalkpodcast6425 Рік тому +5

      You meant superpower records. I saw everything when I was a kid. I just came out the barbershop. To be honest I didn’t know who none of them were until A few days late. My older brother said don’t say anything to know body.. I saw Nitty had junior cat in corners with his gun out. I just thought it was a robbery. while super cat was walking around the same corner. Nitty turn around aim his gun at super cat and it did stick. Super Cat already had a gun on him. I saw him shoot think about 4 times, but didn’t know if if actually hit nitty, because nitty was still standing. Everything was moving in slow motion. I ran my black ass home so fast. I saw it on the news within the hour, but they got it wrong. One thing I found out about Super cat he was a licensed gun owner in New York as well.

    • @IslandmonGanjamon
      @IslandmonGanjamon Рік тому +2

      @@politicstalkpodcast6425 wow..crazy u actually seen dat shit..wat year was dat

    • @chefhenry7419
      @chefhenry7419 Рік тому +2

      Am St lucian. I didn't know the details, but knew super cat killed Nitty-gritty

    • @Trudy-x2u
      @Trudy-x2u Рік тому

      ​@@denniseubanks-go6bh super power record shop

  • @keronlittle4685
    @keronlittle4685 Рік тому +4

    Super Cat is my entertainer for life

  • @overpaidmusicent1
    @overpaidmusicent1 Рік тому +3

    Rest in power the great NITTY GRITTY HIM TUNE DEM CANT DEAD JAH NO STAR

  • @maitlandsebro283
    @maitlandsebro283 Рік тому +3

    Super cat had his license hun ,I use to hang out couples doors down in the pizza shop on Utica Ave ,but wasn’t around when this happened,but was sad for Nitty Gritty because he was a rising star also ,but you can’t threaten a man life and pull gun and nah shoot first,if is so it happened,Super was well known well known at the record shop also ,so some cover up could ah gwon

  • @keejones872
    @keejones872 Рік тому +4

    Please can u do hugh mundell and the shooting with junior reid

  • @bugbkvlog
    @bugbkvlog Рік тому +3

    I seen this happened with my own eyes

  • @MrSniperific13
    @MrSniperific13 Рік тому +4

    I know Nitty family personally and the story is true.

    • @rocklynclarke4490
      @rocklynclarke4490 Рік тому +1

      Did you also know Nitty personally as well? If not, who do you know from his family? I wonder if any of them would be willing to share personal stories about Nitty. There's such little coverage of him and yet his music touched so many people!

    • @neilnelmar8007
      @neilnelmar8007 Рік тому +1

      ​@@rocklynclarke4490😅😅he is lying ,this is nothing but gossip

  • @KingShango6
    @KingShango6 Рік тому +12

    It doesn’t matter if he was licensed in Jamaica for gun.It doesn’t count in NYC.Don’t understand how Cat even got to stay in the US after this.He wasn’t dipped or nothing.I’m speaking from COUNTLESS situations with my own people from Haiti and Jamaica.Family and other Bad Man Gangsters as people say I ran with.Anyway REST IN POWER to the GREAT Nitty Gritty!!!

    • @rockneybastard
      @rockneybastard Рік тому

      I thought the same bloody thing. I reckon I've worked out why that is. Summink in the back of my head tells me it weren't him that capped him. Someone else did me thinks only because him being who he is would have been deported and locked up before you can so who goes there

    • @KingShango6
      @KingShango6 Рік тому

      @@rockneybastard You could be right.None of it was making sense.When he went and turned himself in with Lawyer no ICE Detainer or anything.🤔I’ve been heard all these stories since when it happened back then. I also heard a ALLEGED rumor that Nitty joint jammed because Cat had a Guard(Ring)on.Supposedly stated by people close to him.My Jamaican People comment on it.

    • @rockneybastard
      @rockneybastard Рік тому

      @@KingShango6 yeah a bit suspect innit. A geezer in the comments reckons security done him in possibly as self defense. Guess that's a bit like snoop doggy doggs kind of story as well I reckon. Not impossible mean never really heard cat ever talk on it

    • @KingShango6
      @KingShango6 Рік тому

      @@rockneybastard Yeah I wouldn’t talk about it as well if I was him.Nitty was a WICKED Artist!!🔥It’s a sore spot still for a lot of people with what happened.Great One lost with that one.

    • @rockneybastard
      @rockneybastard Рік тому +1

      @@KingShango6 your telling me mate he was my friend back in the days when he was living in London. Always had a drink up and got into some crazy mischief. I didn get along with cat really and trying not to hate the geezer. If I ever bump into him again i would ask him what happened but might just let sleeping dogs lie ya know

  • @bizaster20biggzwayne43
    @bizaster20biggzwayne43 Рік тому +2

    Wow never knew this till today the Nitty made the 1st move and Supercat was acting in self defence.Wish this went different as Nitty is still loved and Missed till this day. Supercat live on the same avenue as my Grandmother and my Family have pics and I met his close friends in Jamaica smoked his GUNGA WHICH WAS🔥🔥

  • @dkstrucking2369
    @dkstrucking2369 Рік тому

    I seen it happened, it happened @a record store in between church Ave & linden blvd on utica ave, next door 2a sneaker store near Bobby's dept store,ill never 4get that day🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

  • @rogermoore27
    @rogermoore27 Рік тому +1

    I never knew about the shooting incident while I was growing up

  • @juniorbingham7039
    @juniorbingham7039 Рік тому +1

    Can you do a video on early b pls he was shoot would like to no why

  • @strobeiw
    @strobeiw Рік тому +1

    I was supposed to go to the show at windsor cricket club on talbot ave in boston where early b got shot and killed on stage soon after this. Im glad i didn't.

  • @xandermarley8552
    @xandermarley8552 5 місяців тому

    I don’t believe Cat’s record company capitalized on the incident….the vast majority of Cat’s American fans had no idea about this incident back in the 90’s.

  • @rickwalters5066
    @rickwalters5066 Рік тому +2

    During that time a lot of Jamaican was into a lot of things in Brooklyn nuff back stabbing between certain people and things was due to happen

  • @clarencewright9841
    @clarencewright9841 Рік тому +11

    Give me some of your something and me give you some of my thing, alright then. Wicked Nitty

  • @hoseamiller6189
    @hoseamiller6189 4 місяці тому

    time Will tell it just a matter of time before history make it mark the book 📖 of truth shall stand Rip nitty gritty good morning teacher big tune 🆗🙏☝️🎩🦁🎤🎧🎙️🎼🎵🦁🦁

  • @BronxBomber1105
    @BronxBomber1105 Рік тому +2

    Wild Apache! GOAT!

  • @winstonsanderson4865
    @winstonsanderson4865 Рік тому +2

    If you shoot somebody in self defense you should not leave the scene

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому

      I agree. His lawyer would have given reasons for that still. Him being who he is. And threat level

  • @TakePrayersSayVitamins
    @TakePrayersSayVitamins Рік тому +16

    I would love to know the first few Jamaican artists to have their style of music to be featured world wide. Whether ska or mento or an earlier style.

    • @hungchung2726
      @hungchung2726 Рік тому +2

      Interesting Topic.

    • @WORLDMUSICVIEWS
      @WORLDMUSICVIEWS Рік тому +11

      Harry Belafonte was the first person on the world to sell 1 million albums. He was born to Jamaican parents.
      Millie Small sold 7 million units on “My Boy Lollipop,” as it relates to Jamaican music, Bob Marley was Jamaica’s first superstar with music from Jamaica. Jimmy Cliff helped and preceded him but Bob is first global superstar.

    • @trangman5996
      @trangman5996 Рік тому +9

      Sid and the slickers
      Prince buster
      Jimmy cliff
      Desmond decker and the aces

    • @hungchung2726
      @hungchung2726 Рік тому +8

      @@trangman5996 Dont forget about the Great Toots & the Maytals, Also Derrick Morgan.

    • @davidscott3726
      @davidscott3726 Рік тому +6

      The first Artist to chart was Millie Small ,Ska

  • @yell0wberry
    @yell0wberry Рік тому +1

    There has to be more to the story, how does a person who wasn’t even a citizen of this country get away with such a crime of this nature and how the hell did he get a gun from Jamaica into this country? Also, in New York City, it’s a mandatory jail sentence for carrying and having possession of a gun from another jurisdiction into New York City without proper credentials, as Plaxico Burres found out the hard way. I still have a feeling it wasn’t super cat who actually did the shooting.

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому +1

      Supercat was a resident and the whole situation would be ruled as self-defense. Nitty drew a weapon as well. He did not bring the weapon from Jamaica he would have had a licensed firearm there as well.

  • @Kelli-sf9wy
    @Kelli-sf9wy 3 місяці тому

    In NYC he wasn’t licensed to have a gun. As a New Yorker we know the state don’t give out those licenses so easily.

  • @mr6ft544
    @mr6ft544 Рік тому +1

    I grew uo in east flatbush i heard the stiry but didn’t know it was true respect for this video

  • @studioseventeen7000
    @studioseventeen7000 Рік тому +1

    Not really related to main content but just a side point - looks like you show picture of Yabby You when you mention Roman Stewart [1:38]. ..? Instructive video though - give thanks!

  • @mr.turner178
    @mr.turner178 Рік тому +12

    Nitty, Jr Cat & Sluggy did a show the promoter gave Nitty the money & Nitty never paid Jr Cat. Jr Cat got mad & fuked up his rental, so Nitty was mad. Nitty bumped into Super Cat at the record shop in Flatbush & they got into it Nitty said he was gonna kill Jr cat & that’s when the guns came out & cat had his on him. Jr Cat wasn’t even there when it happened

    • @dexyoung882
      @dexyoung882 Рік тому +2

      Str8 up

    • @teekolinski491
      @teekolinski491 Рік тому +1

      Sluggy was my dad. I remember always hearing about this story growing up

    • @brownhornet1975
      @brownhornet1975 Рік тому

      @@teekolinski491🙏🏾🙏🏾 Sluggy was a great Artist

    • @brownhornet1975
      @brownhornet1975 Рік тому

      Wow! Sounds like someone close to this story. Thank you

    • @teekolinski491
      @teekolinski491 Рік тому +1

      @@brownhornet1975 🥰

  • @ssliburd1
    @ssliburd1 Рік тому +2

    I boil all of this down to, Super Cat had to make a sacrifice. You have to do this to move up in the industry. This is what the entertainment business is all about.
    Two examples that comes to mind is: (1) Snoop Dogg murder case; (2) Jay-Z stabbing Lance “Un” Rivera. It’s Hollywood. This is how they build these characters/actors image and make money off of these things.

  • @mynokia1052
    @mynokia1052 Рік тому

    I Remember seeing his body in front of Super Power Records, church Ave and E49 st

  • @abovetheclout
    @abovetheclout Рік тому +5

    My pops told me this story as a kid

    • @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect
      @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect Рік тому +1

      Mine too! To this day he tells me about this incident and this is the first time on the internet hearing about what might have caused it.

  • @Tonipete199
    @Tonipete199 Рік тому +3

    Who kill Tena Saw, people need to know that?

    • @vale-y1i
      @vale-y1i Рік тому +2

      Nobody. Unfortunately, he was hit by a car crossing a motorway. All the rumours of him being purposely killed (by drug dealers etc) are false.

    • @MisterElement
      @MisterElement Рік тому

      Yup!

  • @higherregion
    @higherregion Рік тому +2

    Did any of the jamaican newspapers or us newspapers wrote about htis incident?

  • @neildeonarine6854
    @neildeonarine6854 Рік тому +4

    Rip nitty n tenor

  • @markwallace6176
    @markwallace6176 Рік тому +3

    Umm should talk to Sluggy. Heard it was over a show he put on from a friend who was in NY at the time. He actually did an interview around the time, explaining.

    • @adrianhowell2376
      @adrianhowell2376 Рік тому +2

      Sluggy is dead

    • @RoomAtTheTopStudio
      @RoomAtTheTopStudio Рік тому

      You a the only man weh bring up the reality. Nobody mention Sluggy and if they didn't then they wasn't there and didn't know what happened. Story them a mek up. I ain't talking the ting. Gritty gone, Sluggy gone, Gritty have youths that are big now. Respect to his family and let sleeping dogs lye.

    • @teekolinski491
      @teekolinski491 Рік тому +1

      My father died in 2012 in Jamaica. There were silly rumors of obeah between my dad & nitty gritty.

  • @AdrianJr
    @AdrianJr Рік тому +6

    Yo I HEARD that story for years how he threatened to shoot anyone who threw a next bottle at him while he performed holy shit its TRUE!!! 😂😂😂 WILD APACHE 💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥 7:06

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому +3

      Yea man real thing. Super Cat don’t play. Lol

    • @AdrianJr
      @AdrianJr Рік тому

      @Jamaica Worldwide Bless the channel family. And shout out to my my homey SPLAGGA DON on that story. I swore he made it up you get a stipe on this for life 👌🏾🤣💯

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому +2

      @@AdrianJr lol. Jamaicans be telling some crazy stories tho. Lol

    • @AdrianJr
      @AdrianJr Рік тому

      @Jamaica Worldwide FACTS!!! I thought it was pureeeee 🧢 when my boy was telling me for years...over n over.. but when I seen the vid my jaw dropped 🤣🤣
      ...he did spice it up a bit but it's generally TRUE 😆😆💯

  • @nakill
    @nakill Рік тому +5

    How you never mention sluggy ranks in thr story..

  • @marcspecial
    @marcspecial Рік тому +3

    Good stuff…however this incident had nothing to do with Cat continuing to get bigger. He was going to rise because of his popularity with the major players on the hip hop scene Puff Daddy’s, Heavy D, Jermaine Dupri And Kross Kross…one of whom was his cousins.

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  Рік тому +2

      I don’t know. Not saying he wouldn’t but the record label definitely capitalized on the attention at the time

    • @lilhypez97
      @lilhypez97 Рік тому +2

      Kriss kross n cat were families??

    • @marcspecial
      @marcspecial Рік тому

      @@lilhypez97 one of them is yes

  • @courtneylove9403
    @courtneylove9403 Рік тому +7

    Super had to it was him or nitty I heard nitty tried to shoot super but super was quicker

    • @cherinohjalloh2379
      @cherinohjalloh2379 Рік тому +5

      That how CAT get off... self defense

    • @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect
      @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect Рік тому

      This sounds more like it

    • @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect
      @Ms_T_Perfectly_Imperfect Рік тому

      @@barringtonedwards7008 And you're the main demon. Tell us what happened since you were there jackass

    • @neilnelmar8007
      @neilnelmar8007 Рік тому

      Who you heard it from. 😅😅people who desperately want to believe that cat is a badman ?

    • @courtneylove9403
      @courtneylove9403 Рік тому

      @@neilnelmar8007 lol well no matter how u look at it super still here

  • @TeamHypeTV
    @TeamHypeTV Рік тому +5

    I worked at a meat shop Across the next side of Utica Avenue on Church Avenue Across from super power records… I was out there that day and trust me it was a 🎥

    • @errolljones5334
      @errolljones5334 10 місяців тому

      I use to work at the meat shop they called me English was not at work that day heard about it next day at work.

  • @sajicann8930
    @sajicann8930 Рік тому +1

    Don’t assume or follow hear seh , Early b and. Jah life told me the whole story

    • @brownhornet1975
      @brownhornet1975 Рік тому

      Wow. Yeah I bought records from Jah Life on Utica by Avenue D nuff times. Back in 1994-1996. I remember the girl behind the register named Tasha

  • @claytonhall4501
    @claytonhall4501 Рік тому +3

    Nitty Gritty gi weh him life…

  • @AzucaNegra16
    @AzucaNegra16 Рік тому +1

    Back in the day, I was a big Nitty Gritty fan. I don't know what happened between him and Super Cat. After Nitty's death, I disliked Super Cat for a couple of years. Over the years, I have heard many things about what happened. And I still don't know what really went down. So i gave up my dislike for Super Cat and enjoy his music now.

  • @brigidgilhooly3492
    @brigidgilhooly3492 Рік тому

    And they say Jamaica is dangerous. This all happened in the US 🤷‍♀️

  • @antonyford6225
    @antonyford6225 Рік тому +2

    I was in a king original promotion show n dance in Northampton standing in the passage way reasoning with a couple idrins ... all of a sudden i felt somethin poking my back / i looked around and it was Gritty passin and using his bloodcart finger and sayin " man a pass ".. i frowned and looked at him coz i didn't like that action .. he continued on his way . What i remember seeing was a sly lookin egoistic so an so.. and i said to my bredrin " da bwoy deh ago dead yu know ..memba me tell yu dat .. " my bredrin gave a smirked smile cos he could clearly see i was upset bout it. Why didn't he just say " yes i.. excuse me Rasta " .... respectfully and decently ? But instead usin his friggin finger like a knife / he was lucky that night seh madness wasnt summoned . Som of these guys feel like they have to show some type of badman presentation jus coz they come from wherever and they make some released songs . He never knew th mindset of the black Englsh yut an crew them days who his duppy fingure was proddin..... bout man a pass . Fk him . Wen i heard he got shot by super cat i didnt even hafi ask wht happen. I just knew that it was his attitude .... it was gonna happen sooner or later. Some great songs still.. but jah no partial , if yu a ramp yu will get cramp . May he rest in peace still. Selassie i

    • @jamaicaworldwide
      @jamaicaworldwide  11 місяців тому

      Interesting. Sometimes a moment can tell you a lot about a person.

  • @caliclassicstv2024
    @caliclassicstv2024 Рік тому +1

    I never knew this. Interesting

  • @yanmck-sam5472
    @yanmck-sam5472 Рік тому +1

    Those 90’s street of Brooklyn could tell the tale!! If it nuh go suh it go near suh

    • @mosesisraelites2598
      @mosesisraelites2598 Рік тому +4

      Brooklyn was a war zone 80s early 90s, you come from Jamaica just to end up in the hood again in NYC

    • @yanmck-sam5472
      @yanmck-sam5472 Рік тому

      @@mosesisraelites2598 FACTS!

    • @christinefindlay6338
      @christinefindlay6338 Рік тому

      Talk truth! Everybody from ja ghetto you could find there.