Oakland rapper TanDaGod was allegedly shot and killed in broad daylight earlier this month after she allegedly shot and killed her boyfriend.
Friends of the rapper, whose real name is Alliauna Green, identified her as the person who was shot outside of Glamor Beauty Supply on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland on July 13, KTUV reports. She was well known in the community for supporting Black-owned businesses, which is why the new owners of the beauty supply shop invited her to the store's reopening celebration.
TanDaGod was taken to the hospital where she was declared dead. The outlet reports a second person was shot, but survived.
Newsweek has contacted the Oakland Police Department for comment.
TanDaGod teased her appearance at the beauty shop in a July 11 Instagram post, saying she would host a meet and greet for fans at the location from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on the day of the event.
Witnesses told KTUV that the meet-and-greet was underway when a verbal altercation broke out.
"She was performing there, and this guy with a hood just walked in through that gate and started shooting," Sul Cho, who works at a Korean BBQ restaurant nearby, said.
TanDaGod's friends, who wanted to remain anonymous while talking to local media, believe their friend was the victim of a targeted shooting
"He was targeting her only, cause I saw it," Cho agreed. "He wasn't shooting at everybody, he was just shooting at her."
Another witness who worked at a nearby donut shop also told the outlet, "I think the rapper was screaming, 'I'm hit, I'm hit,' and she was just laying on the ground until medics came."
Who Was TanDaGod?
TanDaGod was an Oakland-based female rapper. In August 2021, she released her album The Called, followed by Unprecedented and Unprecedented Vol. 2 in March 2023.
At the time of publication, TanDaGod had over 24,000 Instagram followers and more than 2,000 YouTube subscribers, as well as monthly listeners on Spotify.
Prior to her death, TanDaGod allegedly "smoked" – or killed – her boyfriend, which she alluded to on Kid L's podcast in August 2023. Although it is not clear when his alleged incident took place, the rapper claimed it was an act of self-defense since her boyfriend had threatened her family.
"You gotta take him out. And it just is what it is," she said. "... I gotta move on you before you move on me."
The cover of her September 2023 EP, Ex Wood Pack, features a photo of her and her ex, but his face is replaced by a blunt, she confirmed in an Off the Porch interview with DGB Media in September 2023.
TanDaGod completed that interview with a mock tombstone for her ex sitting behind her.
"I got this to be extra f–king childish. Make your families mad," she said about the prop. "Oh, well, because they ain't gonna do s–t about it."
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