Super Cat Nitty Gritty New York Incident 

My dad was Sluggy Ranks & I used to hear about this story a lot growing up. I don't think this is how things went down exactly. However, its in the past. May my father & Nitty rest in peace.

I miss my friend nitty gritty he spent sometime here in London we used to rave at Chesters in Stoke Newington and I'd always gave him a lift home

would be nice to see a Documentary and/or something nice about about Nitty Gritty other than this same old story. People are obsessed with drama, gossip and folly. This Great man has been making music since the 60's with The Silvertones and has an incredible catalog and backstory. bless

Nuff respect for covering this!

After all these years this is the most thorough account of what transpired. Thank you!

Nitty Gritty killed my cousin in Jamaica… You reap what you sow

Supercat was already a superstar...when Nitty was killed

Super Cat was famous way before this. I remember watching him as a child with Vital Bally's and Mini mart. Love them all Cat Jr and Nitty

The Wild Apache might be the only reggae dancehall artist that would defend all of his rudeboy lyrics in real life. It is unfortunate what happened to gritty, but you don't pull a gun on someone and don't expect any repercussions. Indian = GOAT.

I recall the day it happened- had hoped it was only rumor… R.I.P Nitty Gritty 🙏🏽

nitty gritty was a wanted man when he left jamaica for england using someone else's passport with his picture placed inside.gritty was involved in multiple armed robberies and shootings in jamaica before he left.spent a little time in england before obtaining false british documents and going to new york.him and sluggy start to spar and the dance they kept was in philly...gritty asked supercat to perform but cat told him he couldn't go and to use his brother junior cat instead.dance keep,junior cat perform and wasn't paid...him and gritty end up inna big argument and fight,gritty gunbutt him and buss him head...obviously supercat was vex.he told gritty him have to pay his brother,gritty tell cat to suck him mumma,dem buck roun a supa power and we know the rest.no rental car business.by the way cat never had no licensed gun but he got off on self defense based on witness statements,security footage and the fact that gritty was an illegal alien criminal fugitive from jamaica

I was there. I was a small child. We lived at 5314 Church ave. That Saturday my older brother who was 16 ran into the house and told us what happened. We ran down the street and saw him dead. That was the first dead person I ever saw. I was nervous because it was so many people there. It took over an hour for the ambulance to arrive. But he was already gone. That was a chilling day. You could have smelled the electricity in the air.

I was just a few blocks away when it happened at my Aunt Lu Lu’s Jamaican Restaurant on Church Ave & 55th Street, Super Powers was on Church Ave between 49th street & Utica Ave. Robert came there right after he did it & told my Aunt what happened. Super Cat (Robert), stayed out of the spotlight in Brooklyn for a couple of years after that in fear of Nitty Gritty people was looking for him. Rest Eazy Nitty mi General.

I was living in New York at the time, it was shocking, Cat had just released “Nuff man a dead “

Super cat also had a licensed gun in NY..a couple years ago they did a drive by after him at his house and he returned fire..he even talked about it in interviews.

Both men drew their guns, but Cat was quicker than nitty. Eeka mouse spoke clearly on this story already.

They need to do a movie on Jamaicans in NY in the 1980s. I remember all the Rastas when I was a little kid. They just disappeared probably due to deportation etc. It’s almost like it never happened…

SUPERCAT WAS BIG BEFORE THAT AND NOT MANY PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT THIS SITUATION UNLESS YOU HAD YOUR EAR TO THE STREET

Jamaicans hot up Brooklyn,Harlem,Jersey back in the days

His tune 'Creator' will always be the heaviest and all time best song from King Nitty! This man passed the year I was born.... Wow.

So many different stories but sadly for nitty gritty he dies at the end in every version of the incident

Thanks for this Brother. All the very best frm England

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work still can’t believe that he’s gone they were like two brothers wishing they could of solve the problem they both had my stills break when I listen to all of his music 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Good account of the story. I was wit supercat in Brooklyn house when he came through there for that case...and yes the case was definately thrown out...he stayed in Brooklyn house for about and week and then was discharged...good job

Sammy dread was my dad og in Brooklyn… they use to tell me this story all the time .

Sir being a license gun owner in Jamaica does not mean you're license to carry legally in the USA especially not in NYC...also cat career started to slow down after the shooting..he caught a lot of backlash from fans who didn't know the whole story..cat was one of the biggest dance hall artist way before the shooting happened..cat music helped me survive NYC during that time..

Finally I get to hear the TRUTH on this urban legend tale!!

Cat and gritty did ah par whole week after the show with sluggy junior never get pay and that is also part of the friction

I remember when Super Cat & Mad Lion had songs that merged with hip hop & rap they Kiiiiilllled and introduced many black Americans to dancehall and found that most of the best rap artists were actually Caribbean, first born in the US. Also the most popular rap artists would always add Dancehall elements to their album making ppl interested in the culture, even when they sample the riddims and slang of the time.

I never knew this story, thanks for the history lesson!

Super Cat still handsome as ever. Ppl told rumors thinking Super Cat had died.

Jah jah always here the talk as a youth coming up, good to know the true story 👍

Respect youth ,awesome material

i tried searching old news archives online..I never saw a mention of this incident. However, it was a common thing in new york in early 90s.

Supercat will bust his gun I believe, he said himself he got into a few shootouts in some Long Island hoods after this, unknown people following him trying to do drive bys,walk bys to take him out

I was in Tilden H S at the time and remember this well. We all walked over there to see it after the fact.

Don't forget that Sluggy Ranks R.I.P was involved too...

Lol my youth cat was already a superstar since the late 80s in 93 when he redo dolly my baby with biggie he was the reason there is a biggie smalls today

Story is about accurate enough. Good job.

7:00 😭😭😭 I hate to laugh, but Super Cat was moving crazy in that clash with Ninja Man 😭

Junior Cat had a Isuzu Trooper don't why him wudda need Nitty Gritty car. Nitty Gritty also had run from 🇯🇲 after a shooting

I was supposed to go to the show at windsor cricket club on talbot ave in boston where early b got shot and killed on stage soon after this. Im glad i didn't.

Super Cat is my entertainer for life

Interesting to see that the story I heard so many years ago was actually true. All I heard was 'Nitty backed his gun first and it jammed then cat shot him'. Funny enough I was never bothered about why the argument happened, That one sentence was all I needed to know.

Rest In Peace Nitty Gritty

Good work brother 👏🏿

I remember seeing super cat and junior cat at Tunda parties back in 91

The loss of a Legend over a little bit of money! So sad

I never forget that day ,I was a few blocks away , jr cat yuh ah still me general 🙏🏽

If not for Super Cat we may have never seen the Notorious B.I.G.

"I would like to know who killed tenor saw" - nitty gritty

But this is what I believe and it make better sense Gritty and Apache are both born Jamaicans good Artist whatever it was that led up to the shooting one man dead so it wouldn't make sense for any of the witnesses to point the finger at Apache unless you are a friend of Nitty gritty because as a jamaican born we deal with our shit in our own way no need for authorities to get involved because its not going to bring back the dead So obviously the witnesses came to an agreement to say it was self defense

i was in superpower records 1 week after...i lived one block away on linden

Remember the legend nitty but love the great supercat 💕💕💪

Yo I HEARD that story for years how he threatened to shoot anyone who threw a next bottle at him while he performed holy shit its TRUE!!! 😂😂😂 WILD APACHE 💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥 7:06

i remember this on church ave in front of super power record shop

I used to pass by that store where it happened, on Church Ave when I lived in Brooklyn. The last I remember it was turned into a boutique. I’m sure it’s something else now. I told my friend one day walking by this is where Supa Cat kill Nitty, and he had no clue he lived right around the corner on Utica Ave.

Wow never knew this till today the Nitty made the 1st move and Supercat was acting in self defence.Wish this went different as Nitty is still loved and Missed till this day. Supercat live on the same avenue as my Grandmother and my Family have pics and I met his close friends in Jamaica smoked his GUNGA WHICH WAS🔥🔥

I was 2 blocks away when it happened. I heard the gun shot.

Rest in power the great NITTY GRITTY HIM TUNE DEM CANT DEAD JAH NO STAR

Please can u do hugh mundell and the shooting with junior reid

Super cat had his license hun ,I use to hang out couples doors down in the pizza shop on Utica Ave ,but wasn’t around when this happened,but was sad for Nitty Gritty because he was a rising star also ,but you can’t threaten a man life and pull gun and nah shoot first,if is so it happened,Super was well known well known at the record shop also ,so some cover up could ah gwon

Salute to Supercat for handling his business.

Not really related to main content but just a side point - looks like you show picture of Yabby You when you mention Roman Stewart [1:38]. ..? Instructive video though - give thanks!

There has to be more to the story, how does a person who wasn’t even a citizen of this country get away with such a crime of this nature and how the hell did he get a gun from Jamaica into this country? Also, in New York City, it’s a mandatory jail sentence for carrying and having possession of a gun from another jurisdiction into New York City without proper credentials, as Plaxico Burres found out the hard way. I still have a feeling it wasn’t super cat who actually did the shooting.

I boil all of this down to, Super Cat had to make a sacrifice. You have to do this to move up in the industry. This is what the entertainment business is all about. Two examples that comes to mind is: (1) Snoop Dogg murder case; (2) Jay-Z stabbing Lance “Un” Rivera. It’s Hollywood. This is how they build these characters/actors image and make money off of these things.

Rip nitty n tenor

I worked at a meat shop Across the next side of Utica Avenue on Church Avenue Across from super power records… I was out there that day and trust me it was a 🎥

How you never mention sluggy ranks in thr story..

I seen this happened with my own eyes

time Will tell it just a matter of time before history make it mark the book 📖 of truth shall stand Rip nitty gritty good morning teacher big tune 🆗🙏☝️🎩🦁🎤🎧🎙️🎼🎵🦁🦁

World a cold place enuh!! Everybody mus stay safe

During that time a lot of Jamaican was into a lot of things in Brooklyn nuff back stabbing between certain people and things was due to happen

I never knew about the shooting incident while I was growing up

I remember hearing about this when I was a youngin'. Some of my day ones are Jamaican so I knew some of the things that happened in that scene.

Give me some of your something and me give you some of my thing, alright then. Wicked Nitty

I don’t believe Cat’s record company capitalized on the incident….the vast majority of Cat’s American fans had no idea about this incident back in the 90’s.

Wild Apache! GOAT!

I would love to know the first few Jamaican artists to have their style of music to be featured world wide. Whether ska or mento or an earlier style.

Umm should talk to Sluggy. Heard it was over a show he put on from a friend who was in NY at the time. He actually did an interview around the time, explaining.

It doesn’t matter if he was licensed in Jamaica for gun.It doesn’t count in NYC.Don’t understand how Cat even got to stay in the US after this.He wasn’t dipped or nothing.I’m speaking from COUNTLESS situations with my own people from Haiti and Jamaica.Family and other Bad Man Gangsters as people say I ran with.Anyway REST IN POWER to the GREAT Nitty Gritty!!!

I seen it happened, it happened @a record store in between church Ave & linden blvd on utica ave, next door 2a sneaker store near Bobby's dept store,ill never 4get that day🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

Why you digging up this story if you don't know the full facts 100% leave it alone it's in the past so leave it there

I was in a king original promotion show n dance in Northampton standing in the passage way reasoning with a couple idrins ... all of a sudden i felt somethin poking my back / i looked around and it was Gritty passin and using his bloodcart finger and sayin " man a pass ".. i frowned and looked at him coz i didn't like that action .. he continued on his way . What i remember seeing was a sly lookin egoistic so an so.. and i said to my bredrin " da bwoy deh ago dead yu know ..memba me tell yu dat .. " my bredrin gave a smirked smile cos he could clearly see i was upset bout it. Why didn't he just say " yes i.. excuse me Rasta " .... respectfully and decently ? But instead usin his friggin finger like a knife / he was lucky that night seh madness wasnt summoned . Som of these guys feel like they have to show some type of badman presentation jus coz they come from wherever and they make some released songs . He never knew th mindset of the black Englsh yut an crew them days who his duppy fingure was proddin..... bout man a pass . Fk him . Wen i heard he got shot by super cat i didnt even hafi ask wht happen. I just knew that it was his attitude .... it was gonna happen sooner or later. Some great songs still.. but jah no partial , if yu a ramp yu will get cramp . May he rest in peace still. Selassie i

Nitty, Jr Cat & Sluggy did a show the promoter gave Nitty the money & Nitty never paid Jr Cat. Jr Cat got mad & fuked up his rental, so Nitty was mad. Nitty bumped into Super Cat at the record shop in Flatbush & they got into it Nitty said he was gonna kill Jr cat & that’s when the guns came out & cat had his on him. Jr Cat wasn’t even there when it happened

I know Nitty family personally and the story is true.

Back in the day, I was a big Nitty Gritty fan. I don't know what happened between him and Super Cat. After Nitty's death, I disliked Super Cat for a couple of years. Over the years, I have heard many things about what happened. And I still don't know what really went down. So i gave up my dislike for Super Cat and enjoy his music now.

My cousin took 5 bullets some place in America in 1985 and at his funeral back in Jamaica two factions drew guns on each other each blaming the other for his death so there is a lot more going on behind the scenes that we don't know about its not just about what took place at the murder scene And to this day no one has been charged with his murder

Did any of the jamaican newspapers or us newspapers wrote about htis incident?

If you shoot somebody in self defense you should not leave the scene

Can you do a video on early b pls he was shoot would like to no why

I grew uo in east flatbush i heard the stiry but didn’t know it was true respect for this video

Good stuff…however this incident had nothing to do with Cat continuing to get bigger. He was going to rise because of his popularity with the major players on the hip hop scene Puff Daddy’s, Heavy D, Jermaine Dupri And Kross Kross…one of whom was his cousins.

Who kill Tena Saw, people need to know that?

80% of this is fiction

I Remember seeing his body in front of Super Power Records, church Ave and E49 st

Nitty Gritty gi weh him life…

Super had to it was him or nitty I heard nitty tried to shoot super but super was quicker

My pops told me this story as a kid

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