Busta Rhymes, Meek Mill and Questlove have all weighed in on the execution of Marcellus Williams by the state of Missouri, they usually all have heavy hearts.
Williams was killed on Tuesday (September 24) after the Supreme Court docket declined to intervene. Williams was convicted of a 1998 homicide, however all the time maintained his innocence. Put up-conviction, each the prosecutor and the viMctim’s household gave their blessing to an settlement that will have spared Williams’ life — one which was overruled by the Missouri Supreme Court docket.
No DNA proof ever linked Williams to the homicide (the DNA on the homicide weapon was “spoiled“), and there was alleged bias in jury choice, with the prosecutor admitting that he eliminated one Black potential juror from the case as a result of, in response to the Related Press, the person “appeared an excessive amount of” like Williams.
Busta posted concerning the execution on Instagram, together with each a photograph of Williams and a replica of his final assertion (“All Reward Be To Allah In Each State of affairs!!!”)
“An Unfathomable Travesty has transpired in the present day with the Dying of an Harmless Man,” he captioned the submit. “You didn’t get your Justice right here so be sure to serve your Justice from the place you might be Almighty.”
Meek quoted a few of his personal lyrics, from his 2015 monitor “Ambitionz”: “Holding, by no means folding, we was on the highest tier/ Shackled to our ankles it was like a nightmare.”
Questlove identified that Missouri governor Mike Parson had pardoned a pair who pointed weapons at protestors again in 2021, however refused to do the identical for Williams.
“I wrote like 11 drafts & …….,” Quest added within the caption.
Meek has had a busy few days on social media, sending off a collection of posts the day earlier than Williams’ state execution the place he supplied $100,000 to any detective who can show that he was not concerned with Diddy‘s alleged “freak off” events.
Following rampant rumors that Meek had slept with the Unhealthy Boy boss, as claimed in producer Lil Rod’s sexual assault lawsuit towards the mogul, the Philadelphia rapper seems intent on clearing his identify.
In a few weird posts on X (previously Twitter), Meek supplied a big sum of cash to show he has nothing to do with Diddy’s intercourse trafficking and racketeering case.
He wrote: “I wanna rent an investigative crew 100k money to search out out each particular element involving meek mill identify to ‘Diddy’ Case…. I additionally need them to take a look at who’s powering the media involving ‘meek’ something to do with buddy! ‘One thing not proper.’”
Meek later added: “The streets know wassup with me thats not the case….We speaking about enterprise aspect ,any person powering these unhealthy campaigns [shrug emoji] with ‘meeek mill’ once more I acquired 100k for a radical investigation of who’s powering and the way precisely my identify hook up with this…”
