The Post sure seems to get a kick out of this stuff:
PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA RAPPER'S MA FIRED BACK
The correction-officer mom of a G-Unit rapper whipped out her pistol and started shooting during a wild gunfight at a Queens barbecue that left an innocent bystander paralyzed, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
The officer wasn't charged in the frenzied fracas early Sunday outside a St. Albans home. Officials said she was using a licensed weapon to return fire at people who shot at guests at the party, among them G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks...
His father, Jesse Brown Sr., suspects that Sunday's shooting was related to the violence-plagued G-Unit. "People do a lot of things out of jealousy. There are a lot of people that used to be part of G-Unit and no longer are ... It may have been a retaliation," Brown Sr. said...
...The bash, being thrown in honor of Brown Jr.'s 22nd birthday, was originally supposed to be limited to relatives.
But "Lloyd Banks showed up . . . [and] as soon as people heard about that, the crowd started coming," said a woman who attended the party, which gradually grew to about 150 people. At one point, a group of bikini-clad women also showed up outside, followed by a group of men on motorcycles. Shortly after that, police said, someone fired a shot over the fence into the back yard, setting off a flurry of gunfire lasting several minutes...