For many, the only image of George Floyd they have is of the man who pleaded “I can’t breathe” as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck until he died.
But Houston rapper OMB Bloodbath knew the man before he became a fatal victim of police brutality. In a solemn essay for Billboard, the 26-year-old MC, whose real name is Alexandra Nicks, reflected on her friendship with Floyd. “He was everyone’s uncle and godfather,” said OMB Bloodbath, who knew Floyd since she was a child, growing up in the same Third Ward neighborhood of Houston as him. “If you came up in that area, you knew who he was.
He was just a very warm-hearted, nurturing dude. Anybody who was young and coming up, doing something with their lives, he made it a
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