Maino Recalls His Ex-Girlfriend Getting Shot During Taxstone Shooting

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Maino expressed that he's already said everything that he could say about what he witnessed during the Taxstone shooting.

Maino recently told his side of the story of Taxstone's shooting, an incident amid a Troy Ave beef which hit the podcaster with a 35-year prison sentence for his role in the incident. During his latest appearance on VladTV with DJ Vlad, the host first clarified some false reports about the New York City rapper playing a role in the shooting. They posited that he actually had nothing to do with it at all, although the MC and Vlad revealed that he does have a personal connection to it. Apparently, his ex-girlfriend was also shot during this incident, and while he didn't speak on what he saw as a witness to the shooting, he did contextualize his thoughts on the matter.

"I said exactly everything that I said about it already, I don't want to keep harping on that," Maino began. "And I don't want to keep giving life to n***as that I don't believe even deserve life, you know? Once you work out a deal with the prosecution and get on the stand for your own wrong deeds, to work out a deal with the prosecution and go get on the stand and point your finger at another n***a, it ain't no me and you. We ain't into nothing.

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"S**t happens, though, Vlad," Maino continued. "That's the thing, like... You know, I come from a world where we've had gunplay accidents, right? 'Cause I see things on the Internet. 'N***as shot your girl!' I'm like, 'What?' She got hit by mistake, right? When I was 14 years old, I shot my friend in the stomach by mistake. We was playing with the gun, some s**t happened, and then I shot him in the stomach by mistake. I didn't mean to shoot him.

"We still friends to this day," Maino explained. "I've had a lot of gun accidents. That's not the only [one]. S**t happens. When you playing in some type of life and you a young n***a, things can happen. When you outside and you involved in back-and-forths with other Black males, and you playing with guns and s**t like that, s**t can happen. Everybody knows that. Friendly fire is a thing, right? I've watched that happen many times. [...] When you understand the context of that, then you can understand who I am and the way I deal with things. So when you talk about her getting hit, she wasn't hit on purpose."

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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