A shut-down Funkmaster Flex show at a Staten Island restaurant culminated in a violent frenzy at another club last Sunday, when five people were shot. The Staten Island Advance spoke to a witness who said, "People started bum-rushing the door, I'm guessing because nobody wanted to pay. From when I went in there early on, the bouncers weren't checking anybody. There was no real security at all...There were people from all different neighborhoods there, and when everybody started leaving at 2:30, people started chanting the names of their neighborhoods. It all happened so fast -- the guy started shooting randomly around the room." The police still haven't made any arrests while Funkmaster Flex, whose show was closed due to overcrowding, vowed to return to Shaolin.
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