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DMV Rapper Goonew's Dead Body Propped Up Onstage At Nightclub Memorial Service

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Washington, D.C. – DMV rapper Goonew cheated death when he miraculously survived a 2019 shooting, but the Big 64 rhymer was tragically gunned down in Prince George’s County, Maryland on March 18 at the age of 24.

Two weeks after his death, Goonew’s family celebrated his life with a memorial service at Bliss nightclub in Washington, D.C. on Sunday (April 3), where the Maryland spitter’s body was dressed in an AMIRI hoodie and crown and displayed for the entire club’s viewing as he was propped up on stage.

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Footage emerged from the club’s scene, which quickly went viral featuring Goonew’s motionless corpse with bottle sparklers flying nearby and partygoers packing the venue with their phones out to pay homage to the late rapper on what they deemed to be his “last show.”

Debates quickly ensued online about whether displaying the body was insensitive and if they should’ve let him rest while others left it up to the family’s discretion when it came to how his loved ones should be mourning the loss of Goonew.

“This is so wild and disrespectful. Some must not understand how death work,” one person wrote. “The soul is no longer in the body. So the body is literally just a corpse. This is so pointless but to each it’s own. I hope he rests in peace bc THIS isn’t peace.”

According to The Shade Room, tickets for entry into the celebration of life cost $40. An alleged worker took to Twitter claiming that Bliss had no idea about the body being on display when they rented out the space and another employee said she was traumatized by the entire experience.

The wildfire of commentary even reached 50 Cent who replied to one of the viral clips on Twitter Sunday night.

“Oh shit! I just realized what this is,” he wrote in shock.

Goonew’s assailant has yet to be arrested after being gunned down in the 3400 block of Walters Lane in District Heights. His most recent single to hit streaming services arrived in February with “Back Inna Mix” while he’s better known for his collaborations with Lil Dude on projects such as 2020’s Homicide Boyz 2.

“I don’t believe this,” Goonew’s mother, Patrice Parker Morrow told WUSA9. “All he wanted to do is try to get his family out the hood. He had a heart bigger than his body, when they took him, they took me.”