She hoped to sing for a rap icon. Instead, she was there the night Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay died
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Yarrah Concepcion was a teenaged aspiring R&B singer and rapper when she got an appointment with Jam Master Jay at his New York City recording studio
NEW YORK -- She was a teenaged aspiring R&B singer and rapper who had gotten an appointment at Jam Master Jay's recording studio.
But just minutes after Yarrah Concepcion met the Run-DMC star, he was shot dead.
Concepcion was brought to tears as she testified Thursday in the trial of two men charged in the 2002 killing. One of several people in various parts of the studio on the night of one of the hip hop world’s most infamous slayings, she recalled seeing the slain DJ on the studio floor.
“I knew he was gone," she said. “But I just had to try to see if he was alive.”
Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell, was one in a series of high-profile hip hop figures whose killings in the late 1990s and early 2000s stymied investigators for decades. Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington were charged only in 2020 with killing Mizell.
