In an interview on Wallo and Gillie Da Kid’s Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast, Taxstone alleges that Ebro Darden refused to help him because of his friendship with Charlamagne Tha God.
“Ebro from Hot 97 hit me like, ‘What you tryna do? Because you got a voice out here’… Ebro said he was gon’ help me. Everyday I would speak to Ebro he would tell me how he’s gon’ help me and it didn’t happen,” Tax told the hosts.
Taxstone is behind bars waiting to go on trial.
In a 2019 interview with AllHipHop, Troy Ave spoke about the upcoming Taxstone trial:
“S##t, everybody knows what happened. It ain’t even nothing to argue. It’s right there, the proof is in the pudding. The proof is in black and white paperwork, in the FBI paperwork. I don’t even have to argue anything, it’s there. They see that it’s not my gun, I never brought no gun in the club. DNA evidence proves that, so where’d I get it from?,” he said.
“I got it from the assailant [Taxstone]. I didn’t make this up, we didn’t splice the genetics on the one gun. They should just free Troy Ave. If this were to happen somewhere else, I would have been a hero. Because if you look at it, I saved mad people from getting shot. There’s three other victims, more people could have died. If I didn’t do what I did, fought the gun away and wrestled — it’s fight or flight. I chose to fight.”
He continued, “I went head-on with a gunman and by the grace of God, took the gun out his hand. So why am I not looked at as a hero? Why am I not praised like “wow this guy did something heroic.”
