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He was an aspiring rapper just getting his life together …

Inside the deadly cycle of gun violence that’s devastating Toronto’s rap scene: ‘The goal is always to make it out’

Two men cross paths inside a Toronto restaurant. Both are armed. Both are with friends.

Within minutes, the encounter escalates. Bullets fly inside the eatery on St. Clair Avenue West. A 23-year-old named Nakhari Henry-Robinson is killed.

Months later, Regent Park rapper Ridge “Biiig Rax” Kazumba is found guilty of second-degree murder in the August 2023 shooting. The now 29-year-old had just left a session at a nearby recording studio when he encountered Henry-Robinson at the restaurant.

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