Rapper Slim Dunkin Reportedly Murdered

Slim Dunkin, 20-year-old up and coming rapper whose real name was "Mario Hamilton", gunned down Friday evening in a city music studio, in Atlanta, where he was preparing to record a video. According to Atlanta police, the rapper was fatally shot in the chest after getting into an altercation prior to a video shoot.

Slim Dunkin was on of the most talented emerging rappers and was the newest member of 1017 Brick Squad, a hip hop group led by Gucci Mane that also includes Waka Flocka Flame, OJ Da Juiceman, Frenchie, YG Hootie, P Smurf and Ice Burgandy.

Aside from key appearances alongside Flocka on his 2010 debut album, Flockaveli, and on Gucci Mane and V-Nasty's BAYTL LP, Slim was also beginning to make waves as a soloist. This past Halloween the street-bred MC released Menace II Society, a 20-track mixtape that featured Gucci Mane, Roscoe Dash and Pastor Troy.

His death has sent waves through the rap community; his close collaborators were undoubtedly hit hard. The day after he was murdered Waka took to Twitter to express his grief. "WISH IT WAS ME ... MY F---ING RIGHT HAND IS GONE," Flocka wrote the day after the murder.