But he started to feel better around the time he realized everyone else was crazy and he was perfectly sane.Īnd so, thanks to his freight-train delivery, compellingly profane rhymes, and borderline sociopathic refusal to compromise, R.A. Eventually deal-less, show-less, and homeless, his self-esteem was in the dumps. I’d be like, ‘Homegirl, go take homeboy in the back room, have sex with him and a couple of his friends.’ All of a sudden, it’s like, ‘What beats do you need, R.A.?’ “Īfter the Jive incident, he says he was blackballed from venues around the country. “Say I wanted to negotiate beat prices with a known producer. “I used to have a little stable of women back in the day,” he says. Like this one, most of the Long Island–bred rapper’s stories feature comedy, tragedy, debauchery, obscenity, and self-sabotage. “But it backfired on me because they held a grudge.” Instead of dropping him, Jive wouldn’t let him out of his contract for years, he says, despite other labels’ interest. tells me recently over a turkey club and cheese fries at a diner near his Harlem apartment. “I figured, let me do whatever the fuck I want to do and go nuts,” R.A. Things got even more out of control when R.A.’s pals began taunting Murray’s crew and throwing speakers at the crowd, eventually inciting a mini-riot. took to the stage and performed songs called “Every Record Label Sucks Dick” and “Cunt Renaissance.”Īs MTV’s cameras rolled, he brought out a duct-taped, handcuffed streetwalker he’d just picked up outside to carouse with him onstage, whereupon attendees became visibly unsettled. At a 1994 showcase for such labelmates as Keith Murray and Fu-Schnickens, R.A. (Jive had no comment.) So he decided to take matters into his own hands. says they paid her off out of his budget.
An employee of the label had sued him for sexual harassment, for one thing R.A. the Rugged Man really wanted to get dropped from Jive Records. The man who was found at the creek claimed to have been at the Tomorrow World Music Festival days beforehand.More dirty laundry than you can imagine Calvin GodfreyĪs the story goes, R.A. And at least for a little while, he will be bringing someone with him when he goes. However, Sanders admits, not all hunters are as diligent about that procedure as he is.Īnd while he was too shaken up to continue his hunt that day, he will be back out there again soon. He says, there is little chance he would have shot the man because he would have waited to identify the source of the noise before preparing the fire. His bow was several feet away when the encounter began. Sanders was armed with a knife at the time. I want to assess the situation for my safety and for his because if he would have just started running at me, just needing help, I wouldn’t have known what to do. “I’m not just going to run up and approach, no questions asked. Why wouldn’t you just run up and help him,'” said Sanders. “A lot of people were saying, ‘You’ve got a weapon. In just a few days, it has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times on YouTube. Little did he know, the video would spread like wildfire. “I had told it 10 times in two days and I was just like, ‘I’ll just put it on Facebook, everybody will see it, and it is a cool story,'” said Sanders. It was the end of his strange encounter, but only the beginning of a wild tale. “I got something to eat for you, just don’t do nothing stupid right now,” said Sanders.įor the next hour, Sanders helped the man out of the woods. He then asked the hunter if he had anything to drink.Īt this point in the video, Sanders is somewhat satisfied that the man isn’t going to attack him and does need help. Not sure if the man was alone or if he was a threat, Sanders began recording the encounter with his cell phone.Īfter a couple of minutes questioning the man, trying to determine if his mental state was stable enough to approach, the man told Sanders he had been drinking creek water and eating rotten crab apples. He’s not wearing anything at all,” said Sanders. “I hear, ‘I’m naked,’ and I looked down and he’s standing there in the middle of the creek. Sanders’ shock turned to confusion when he realized where the voice was coming from. “Of course, me being by myself in the woods not thinking anybody else is anywhere around, it startled me, shocked me.”
“On the way to the game camera, I hear a, ‘hey’,” said Sanders. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ĭarrollton, GA ( WGCL) - A Georgia hunter had a bizarre encounter in the woods in south Fulton County and caught it all on camera.Ĭasey Sanders had just arrived at his hunting stand and set down his gear when he heard a sound nearby. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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