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Published on Friday, October 03, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
The unlikely stars of Ice Cube's new video are the grieving relatives of Jamiel Shaw Jr., a 17-year-old high school football star with a promising future who was shot to death outside his home.
The song "Why Me?" speaks out against senseless violence and gun crime devastating communities. Ice Cube says the Shaws are a powerful illustration of the pain that remains after a murder.
"It just was a tragic, tragic story of why," the rapper says. "Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere."
The rap video begins with the tightly framed, sorrow-filled faces of Jamiel's parents and aunt. His dad recounts a final conversation with his son.
"To drive this home, it was only right to use real family and not use a bunch of actors," Ice Cube says.
Jamiel Shaw was on track for a college sports scholarship, and his mother was serving in the Army in Iraq at the time of the shooting last March
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