Desiigner Defends Goonew's Controversial Nightclub Funeral: "New Flavor To The Game"

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Desiigner defended the controversial memorial service held for Goonew.

Desiigner says that Goonew's controversial memorial service, which included propping up his corpse at a nightclub in D.C., was a good sendoff for the Maryland rapper. Speaking with TMZ at LAX, Desiigner told critics to mind their own business.

"The haters gonna hate but if that's what he wanted, and his family felt that was the right energy for him, let him and his family celebrate it," the rapper said. "If he wanted to go out like that, that's a beautiful way to go out."

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He went on to call traditional funerals "old-fashioned" praising Goonew's family's approach for adding "new flavor to the game."

Goonew was shot and killed, last month, during what his family believes to have been an armed robbery. His death remains an open homicide investigation.

Goonew's mother, Patrice Parker Morrow, defended the family's decision to honor Goonew's request during an interview with Fox5 News shortly after they begun receiving backlash by users on social media who had seen a clip from the event circulating online.

"That's how Markell wanted me to do it," she said. "He wanted to celebrate his life, turnin' up, having a party. He didn't want people to be sad and crying. He always wanted people to be happy having fun."


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Cole Blake is a current staff writer at HotNewHipHop based out of New York City. He began writing for the site as an intern back in 2018 while finishing his B.A. in Journalism at St. John’s University. In the time since, he’s covered a number of breaking stories for HNHH. These include the ongoing YSL RICO trial, the allegations surrounding Diddy, and much more. His work also extends outside of hip-hop, having written extensively about a myriad of topics including politics, sports, and pop culture. He’s attended several music festivals to provide coverage for the site as well, such as Rolling Loud and Governors Ball.
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